Listen While Reading: Pt-9 :Zai
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Teressa couldn’t help but feel utter disbelief and disgust as she saw the thing Helena had bee and the disgusting cursed powers c through her body, which didn’t belong to any Evil God at all.
“Helena… What have you done?!”
It was something pletely fn!
After having been almost pletely frozen and having her head destroyed, when Teressa aimed at Helena’s heart, she suddenly revealed a strange, dark power within it.
This dark power not only mao repel Teressa but also somehow kept Helena scious and alive despite her tremendous damage.
Her metal and her frozen body, nmented into pieces, fused together into a monstrosity of id liquid metal, releasing a pitch-bck aura.
“Ugh!”
Teressa wao assess things properly, but she couldn’t calm down, not when her whole arm was missing, calated into bck ashes, thanks to the strange bd purple fire released from Helena’s heart. The wou behind over her shoulder, bd purple-colored, wouldn’t regee.
“Such a strong curse…! Do I o y shoulder trow everything back?! But that’ll take a lot of Ara and my Stamina…!”
“Kill…! I’ll kill…. KILL YOUUUUU!!!” Helena screamed, her head fragments fusing back together to reveal a horrendous, disfigured face opening her jaws wide in fury. “THEN HE’LL BE MIHE EMPEROR’S LOVE… WILL ONLY BE FOR MEEEEE!”
“To think you would go so far for his false love…” sighed Teressa. “Helena, that man o longer love… He’s bitter aionless!”
Vd’s mother stood up, summoning her frozen aura as she couldn’t afford to damage the cursed area, which would only cause more harm to her, befeing a new arm and f a prosthetic arm made of her frozen blood instead.
“SHUT UP!”
Helena’s chest opeo reveal a mass of metal and flesh, shapeshifting into a monstrous jaw and gathering purple-colored electricity, before unleashing a massive thunderous on towards Teressa.
“Ahh!”
Teressa panicked, grittieeth as she summoned all her frost powers at once. Her frozen blood arm transformed into a huge dome of frost surrounding her pletely.
BOOOMMM!!!
The enormous beam hit her with immense force; the eleagic forces that Helena could manipute were heighteo the point where she didn’t evehe metal anymore, but just the innate magic powers of her bloodline.
Crack, crack…!
“N-No…!”
Teressa despaired as she saw tless cracks spread across her defensive barrier of ice. She tried to patch them, but her blood power and ara were running low already.
“My energies… Is it that curse?!”
She noticed that the curse on her shoulder, although it didn’t spread further, was slowly draining away her own energies, despite being Tier 8, which should make her have an incredibly rge pool of Ara and Blood Power; she barely had any now!
Crack… CRACK!
Teressa tinued gathering her powers into the barrier, strengthening it stantly; more and more cracks spread everywhere. If she stopped toug this ice, it would immediately break, meaning she couldn’t even escape if she wao.
“Vd… Camil…!”
Teressa started g—something even more odd for a heartless vampire. She wasn’t g because she was afraid of dying, though; she was g because if she died now, she wouldn’t get to see her children ever again.
“I’m sorry… for being so weak..”
CRACK… CRAAACK!
Teressa faced her death as she stood up. The blood ing from her wounds, which had yet tee, gathered around her, f hundreds of thousands of icicles.
“{Blood Frost Demon Arts}: {One Million Crimson Icicles}”
CRAAASH!
Her barrier shattered as the beam reached her, and at the same time, Teressa unleashed all her icicles, g against the massive beam as her entire body was beirocuted and fried alive.
“RAAAAHHH!”
Even as her entire body was being boiled alive and even her brain started leaking out of her nose, she kept pushing forward, her barrage of icicles barely beginning to push back the beam of thunder.
“Your mother… Is not so weak, no! If I die, even if I die, I’ll take her down!”
As Teressa roared, her Blood Core and her very Soul resoogether, shining brightly and unleashing an azure and crimson aura, enpassing her entirely.
Memories of her giving birth fshed through her mind. Of the cry of her son, of his little body in her arms. And of how the ess of her heart slowly faded away as she couldn’t help but love this little creature she gave birth to.
Teressa’s tears tinued freezing as she pushed forward; her arms were already disied, yet her aura was unstopable, pushing forward faster and faster.
Then memories of her daughter emerged in her mind—of her seiracle—a beautiful girl, more beautiful than anybody else. She remembers how she felt when she learhat even her sed child was a “dhampir”.
She couldn’t bme her; she couldn’t bme Camil for this.
She only bmed herself for being weak…
“You are not to bme… my children… Your mother will take responsibility, and I will love you… forever and ever.”
The lightning tinued burning through her entire body; her legs were slowly burning and disiing, and so was her skin, once beautiful and white, now burning to a crisp, charred bck.
Her face disfigured, yet her eyes remained looking at her oppo, the aberrant monstrosity that Helena had bee.
“Helena… You were always so jealous of me…”
She reached her, as her aura enpassed the monster.
“Despite being so miserable, you wanted me to be even worse, didn’t you?”
“DIE! DIE! DIE!!! THE EMPEROR IS MINE! MINE AND ONLY MINEEEEE!”
The monster unleashed a barrage of silver spears against Teressa, pierg her entire body with them. Even as her on of lightning had finally dissipated, Teressa was already toone.
CRASH! CRASH! CRASH! CRASH!
“Ungh…?!”
Teressa’s mind and body began tment and fall apart. Yet a hand made of ice mao slowly reach Helena, and at that very moment she started to fall into pieces.
“I’m sorry, Vd... Camil…”
She looked into the sky, the three moons above the sky.
“Please... Oh moon goddess... protect my children...”
“W-Wha…?! AAARRGH!”
At the same time, the scream of Helena reverberated across the ruined city as her entire body began freezing with the strength of Teressa’s very soul.
FLUOSH!
“Uuuaaaarrgghhh!”
Until she became aatue and no longer could move, colpsing on the ground into tless pieces, leaving behind a frozen ndscape.
The burorn-apart torso of Teressa remained over the ice, her eyes still open, her sciousness fading away. She looked ruined, so beautiful, yet now...
Covered by a deadly curse that didn’t let her regee, she was slowly deg.
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“Please, protect… my children…”
“Mamaaaa!”
The scream of Camil echoed behind Teressa as the girl went flying towards her mother, or what remained of her.
“Mama… MAMAAAA!”
She started g as she saw her mother’s body. She tried toug her, only to see the part she touched fall into ashes.
“No, no, no…! Mama…! Mamaaaa!”
“Ca… mil…”
“Don’t die! Don’t leave meeee!”
“Be… strong… my daughter…”
“Noooo! Mamaaaa!”
Camil tinued weeping as her mother tried to smile at her daughter; despite how disfigured she was, she wao calm her down.
It was the duty of a mother to calm their child, even if the situation was dire, even if they didn’t know if there was going to be a solution.
“Everything… is… okay…”
“Hahh… Mom…”
Camil looked at her mother in disbelief as her eyes closed, and she stopped breathing, moving, or anything.
“What happened here?!”
Suddenly, Camil was startled from her daze, seeing Alitheus above the skies.
“Big brother Alitheus! P-Please help… Help Mama! She ’t regee! Please help her! Please save mamaaaa!”
“T-That’s Teressa?!”
Chris gasped in horror at what he saw. What he thought was nothing but a bck piece of rubble was actually what remained of Vd’s mother, Teressa.
He ran towards her, sitting right o her and unleashing all her healing powers into her dying body, golden and white light enpassing her.
Yet…
SPARK!
“Ah! What the…?! This Curse is to…!” Alitheus muttered. “Ugh, it’s fighting back?! What in the world is this thing?!”
He kept trying to heal her as much as possible; the curse fought back stantly, yet it was being pushed back.
But it wasn’t enough.
“Please do something, mama. Mama will die!”
Camil kept g as she asked Alitheus to save her mother.
“I’m trying my best, okay? Please calm down- Ugh!”
Teressa’s sciousness was slowly drowning in an endless darkness.
The light of the outside world was fading away as her senses tio dull.
But she could still slightly hear their voices.
“Camil… I love you… my daughter…”
Images of Camil started appearing through her mind oer another as the darkness swallowed her more and more.
“Mamaa! Heheh!”
Of her first steps as she helped her move.
“Uwaah… I spilled…”
And sometimes, when she fed her blood into a bottle, she would sneeze and end up spilling it over her.
“Mama… The kids don’t like pying with me.
And of the other times when she had to fort her daughter because she would feel sad and helpless.
“Then those children are simply stupid! Don’t pay attention to them, dear… Let’s py together instead, hm? How about we lighten the day for your brother? He must be awake in bed by now.”
“O-okay!”
And then images of her son appeared, fshing through her st moments of sciousness.
“Vd, my boy… I love you too…”
Of how he was always bullied and looked down, and of how much of a crybaby he was, always g to her, for everything.
“Why ’t I walk, mom?”
“Why do they bully me so much…”
“None of my brothers like me…”
“They’re always saying you cursed me…”
She would always try to keep her cool and fort him, but sometimes she wouldn’t be able to hold on to it anymore and would start g too.
“I’m sorry… for everything… It’s my fault you were born like this…” she kept bming herself. “I’m so sorry…”
“Mom…” Vd would quickly calm down and hug her back, realizing how truly frail she was, deep down, below the cold surface she showed to everyone. “I-It’s ok… I didn’t mind being bedridden… The bed is fortable, and... you and Camil gave me pany…”
“Is that so…”
Teressa couldn’t help but feel so terrible for having given her son such a frail body.
She always bmed herself for everything…
“I’m so sorry, Vd… I wish things… could have been different…”
Memories of her childhood fshed—of her mother and her father living in the tryside.
Of her memories learning how to use ons and hus.
And of her memories of learning how to cook and use magic with her mother.
And memories of him.
The Emperor.
She was the first woman to ever make him feel emotions.
She was the first woman to truly capture his cold heart, even though he had already met a few before.
Her hoy, her stro, the meals she cooked, arength.
“Teressa… I love you; please marry me…”
“E-Eh?”
She couldn’t believe such memories would resurfaow, after so many years sihen.
Were all those just lies?
Love her?
As if…
If he truly loved her, he wouldn’t have let this happen to her.
“You deceived me… my dear husband…”
Alying in the hands of others.
ruly free.
Not even her children…
Always…
“This world… It’s so rotten…”
As her sciousness tio fade, she prayed again.
“Please… goddesses of the moon… keep my children… safe…”
And then she saw them, three beautiful moons above the night sky.
“e with us, Teressa.”
“Stay with us.”
“Watch the world in here.”
Their haeowards her.
She didn’t know if she was halluating or not.
Was this a calling to go to the afterlife?
For a moment, within the darkness, Teressa extended her hands, she wao grab the hands of the goddesses and go with them.
But at the same time, leaving everything behind…
“I’m sorry…”
She moved away, surprising the figures of the goddesses, resembling the bodies of beautiful women made of silver, red, and green light, whose heads were the moons themselves.
“I love my children too much to leave them alone…”
“I see…”
“You’re a good mother.”
“A rare sight in such a dark Realm as Obscuritas.”
The goddess pointed her fingers at her as light reached Teressa’s soul.
“Then go…”
“They’re waiting for you.”
“Never leave them alone anymore, Teressa.”
Red, green, and silver light engulfed her.
“We shall give you the power to protect your children and make up for the curses that those malefic evil gods have left on them.”
FLASH!
And then Teressa slowly opened her eyes again, breathing in and out, feeling her legs, arms, fingers, and all her senses.
Her skin was smooth; she even had her hair back.
“Mom!”
“Mother!”
And the screams of her children as they ran and hugged her.
“I-I… didn’t die?”
Teressa looked in front of her, notig Alitheus' angeli, exhausted, gasping for air.
“Hahhh… Hahhh… I did it… Agh, I did it…”
He colpsed on the ground, sighing and gasping for air.
And then she looked at the skies, at the three moons.
“Did the goddesses really talk to me?"
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