Chapter 165 - Spirit Buoyed

Lady Devina recounted her life-journey to Chiji.

I was already ten years old when the elders realized my soul's color fit the Great King's requirement to become the Chief Guardian of the world called Chiji. My father didn't want to send me, but my mother, who was born from royalty, saw this as a chance to retain her royal status as a princess and they can return to Vethilles. So my brothers and sister can also receive the titles befitting our bloodline. 

I left my world Zeirean accompanied by a lady tutor named Elfinlei from Vethilles to teach me about my powers and other things. We settled in a rich country of Vernaboles because my tutor said its lifestyle was almost the same as her country's culture in Vethilles. 

My training started from the first month I set foot in Chiji. However, we were later to know that Lady Elfinlei only had limited knowledge of my clans's power combined with the new power from the Great King and Chiji's Kore. 

Her knowledge was all from the Vethilles' teachings alone and deemed useless to me in Chiji. She tried her best to help me, but her body couldn't cope up with the changing seasons of Vernaboles and died six years after. I was left on my own thereafter.

I encountered another thing of which I'm not sure yet unless my successor will test this theory of mine. I believe if they brought me here when I was one-year-old, I might have absorbed more power from the Kore before I reached twenty. 

This was because when I arrived here, I first experienced a potent power from the Kore permeating in my body. But as time passed, it slowed down. On my twentieth birthday, Lady Elfinlei handed to me the gifts given by the Great King. These were the ring, anklet, necklace, sceptre, and the crown. After I wore them, my power doubled and I could do what I couldn't do before, like pressing the hard-headed spirit guardians to bend on my will with ease. 

Sadly, my power stagnated from thereon. My body stopped absorbing power from the Kore. From there, I realized that my power should be at its utmost when I reached twenty. With this experience, this theory came forth. 

Somehow, it was all a theory. Looming over this idea won't help, but I hope my successor will grant my desire to prove this theory is right. With that set aside, I focused on studying on how to make this power of great use for the task given to me by the Great King.

I traveled alone, facing all kinds of opposition from other spirit guardians and from the greedy humans and Chiangdas. But through these fights, I've found the fighting art I needed. 

I hope this book can help my future successors so they won't experience the hardsh.i.p.s I went through. I call the fighting technique, The Colorful Stone Power of the Chief Guardian.

While Xinyi was reading the technique's title, unexpectedly, she felt a vigorous power blended in her body, but the people around didn't notice. 

Xinyi held her breath. "What was that?" Xinyi muttered to herself. The Godingans heard her and looked her way with facial expressions, asking what she meant.

She forced a smile and reminded herself to not speak her thoughts out loud. "Nothing. Just read something interesting. That's all." And returned her attention to the book, as if she was reading, but her mind wasn't there.

She felt the life essence of another person from that power she received now. It was from the first Sorceress. She didn't guess it at random, but there was no doubt in her. She could also differentiate from the feeling she had with the second Sorceress' essence from the apparition.

This one had this profound sense of solitude and deep tranquility, as if the first Sorceress was very lonely but at peace with her circ.u.mstance. Quite an odd feeling. Such opposite emotions, but that was the feeling she got, while the second Sorceress' essence had this sense of assurance with mild urgency. With this, Xinyi could partly guess their personal characteristics.

The first Sorceress most likely lived in isolation to study the unique stones, beasts and landforms. She probably time travelled too. As for the second Sorceress, she might have traveled far and wide, meeting people in distinct races and timeline while relentlessly planning for the future. But this was all just her presumptions based on what she sensed from the two essence. 

Study, study, study. She told herself and gradually opened the same page and slightly disappointed because there was no sign of the rigorous power. But suddenly, she heard a soft whisper, telling her to absorb the essence she received. 

Although this was the first she heard that voice but she knew deep down it was the first Sorceress' voice. 

With her eyes closed, she felt a ball of green-colored essence sitting in her nape. Using her mind, she let it move around her body. A tingling sensation went through her soft muscles, bones, and lastly her mind. After the tenth revolution of the essence, the sensation stopped. She opened her eyes, feeling refreshed.

"Thank you, Lady Devina." She said it in her heart, feeling connected to the first Sorceress. 

After receiving the life essences given by the two Sorceress, Xinyi felt closer to her two predecessors. As if they didn't die at all but with her the entire time, giving her courage to embark on this grand task with dauntless determination.

With this encouraging feeling, she went on with her study and arrived at what she aimed to find about her unique powers.

After I marked the spirit guardian in my domain and got the essence from the garden, my senses improved. I can hear farther, move faster, and see the powers inside me and the other beings' powers over them too. 

Xinyi smiled. She finally understood Alva planned the tours inside the domain, aside from her falling in the volcano. But about moving faster, she had to test that one later if she had it too.

I was ecstatic after I had a glimpsed of the powers inside me. I never heard of this from my family bloodline. It was only I who got it as a Chief Guardian of Chiji.

Inside me, I saw two types of seeds, fire, water, air, rock, a ball of light, a spear, a shield, and a multi-colored whirring circle. I will tackle the attributes of these essences in this book later on because without understanding the uniqueness of the power of Chiji, one cannot be able to grasp the full potential of these powers.

After reading that part, Xinyi glanced in the essences in her and her spirit buoyed to see the same images as the book stated.

Would she able to learn how to use those powers now?