
"Where is this?"
I could see nothing, there was only darkness as far as the eye could see, it seemed like it was a closed place, and also the low air circulation made it difficult to breathe.
"Elena!!"
Not long after I heard someone calling me, but this time it was like a woman's voice, and somehow I felt so familiar to me, whose voice was it?
"Elena!!!"
"Hey wake up, you bad girl!"
"Who is that?"
The voice continued to resonate very loudly trying to call me, I turned in all directions to look for the direction of the source of the sound, but unfortunately I could not find it, the voice seemed to come from all directions, suddenly a white light emanated in front of my face very brightly making both my eyes glare.
"Mmmmm....."
"Eh?
"Mother?"
When I opened my eyes, there was a blurry shadow before me, and then it started to show a real form, and when it surprised me, there was a woman looking at me sharply, and that person was no stranger to me, a woman wearing a fancy dress with a crown on her head, she was my mother.
Slowly a memory returned to my head, a memory that described my true life, and it was then that I realized that my true identity was a royal princess.
"What a pity....."
"We have high hopes for you!!"
"Mother, what is....."
"Eh?"
Suddenly mother spoke strangely, her face looked very angry and her eyes were very sharp, I could not understand what she said, but before I finished asking, I could not understand, as soon as my whole body became stiff, both of my hands stretched out as if something was pulling him very strongly.
"What's this?"
I panicked a little, and when I turned to the side, there were two large chains that tied my wrists very tightly, and I was, the chain was connected to the two pillars of enormous size beside me, slowly a fire was burning in front of me, the fire was spreading all around me, and in one blink of an eye, it continued, the dark place turned into an altar.
"We have raised you to be a perfect royal princess!!"
"For you to be the link between our kingdom and another kingdom!"
Slowly the mother walked around me, her way of walking was very graceful which reflected her as a queen, but her lips did not smile cheerfully, she even showed an expression more like people were upset.
"That's what we expected!!"
"But you refused a proposal from a prince of the kingdom of Beltharm!!"
"Because of that the political relationship between us and them becomes very chaotic!!"
Then mom cursed me so cruelly, she felt frustrated and took everything out on me, I didn't even understand why she could be like that.
"Beltharm Kingdom...."
"What does that mean?"
Although I do not remember it, but strangely I think I have experienced the exact same thing as my mother said, the memory just crossed my mind.
"Definitely disappointing!!"
"Is this the reward you give us, huh?"
Mother continued to walk until she was behind me, she was incessantly throwing words of mockery at me, I could only be silent listening to her words, she said, because until now I still do not remember clearly the events at that time.
"You deserve punishment!"
Prakk~
"Agghhh...."
Suddenly a loud voice sounded like a whip being swung, and at the same time I felt a great pain in my back, it surprised me and cried out in pain.
"Mother...."
"Ghhaa....."
"Please stop mother...."
He swung the whip so many times at me that it produced a deep cut, a great pain began to spread throughout my body, I screamed and felt the pain.
"Shut up!!!"
"This is the punishment you deserve!!!"
"Young....."
I tried to ask forgiveness from him, but it was not enough to make him stop, he continued to whip me very cruelly as a form of his frustration towards me.
"When only a little more we can control the Kingdom of Beltharm!!"
"But baby it was all destroyed instantly!!!"
"Khaha......"
I tried to endure all this immense pain, but my mother was endlessly torturing me so cruelly.
"Basic useless!!"
"Yeah...."
"Mother..... Why are you doing this?"
No matter how much I screamed and begged him for forgiveness, he still did not stop swinging his whip.
"Why did you say?"
"This is all because of your fault!!!"
"No....."
"Please forgive me......"
Then he began to whip me in the legs and hands, it made my legs become not strong to support my body to make me almost fall, but if I fall down then both my hands will be attracted very hard by the chains that bind it, I am also required to stand while receiving a very painful wound.
"It's too late!!!
"You don't deserve to be forgiven!!!"
Mother did not treat me like a daughter, she continued to torture me so cruelly like a slave.
I was tired of getting this torment, all my energy had drained away, even my voice could no longer be heard, after a long time finally my mother stopped tormenting me, then he stood in front of me, staring intently at me.
"Yeah... uhaaa... uhaaa..."
My entire body was numb, and my breathing became irregular, my consciousness slowly began to disappear making my vision a little blurry.
My body is now full of wounds, there are so many incisions ranging from hands to feet, from the scars that flow very much fresh blood to smear all parts of my skin.
"A-"
"Sad...."
"Stop looking at me like that!!"
"Agdhl...."
Mother was upset because I looked at her, she swung the blood-stained whip towards my face, as soon as the tail end of the whip scratched my cheek deeply creating a wound that stretched from the left eye temple to the tip of my lip, fresh blood began to flow from the incision.
The immense pain slowly spread all over my face, my eyeball was crushed by the whip, now I can only see using the left eye that still remains.
"Consider all your mistakes!!"
"And regret!!!"
Mother gripped my chin firmly and pulled it up, my face was raised so that I could stare at her face clearly, sweat and blood mixed into one filled my face, slowly my vision began to blur from the sweat covering it.
"Hmm... It's so sad!!!"
"But don't be sad!!"
"Blessed is Elena, for you will be sacrificed to the evil god!!"
Suddenly the mother again said something strange while showing a smile on her lips that looked very terrible.
"That is the path of redemption that deserves you!!"
"No, stump....."
"Hen-stop....."
"Goodbye Elena!!"
"Chiwuhi......"
I thrashed around trying to get away from him, but there was no more energy left of me, my eyeballs kept crammed by the fingers until it protruded out, it felt like my eyeballs would explode, and then I could not get out, but I can only stand by all of that.
Suddenly my vision darkened, but it did not last long, after which a white light flashed so bright that it made me open my eyes.
"Ma.m....."
What I saw was that the clear blue sky was not a dark altar and it was very creepy, I started to feel strange, I should have lost my vision completely, but my eyes are still functioning normally, I tried to blink a few times to make sure but there was nothing wrong with that.
Then I lifted my body up to a sitting position, and then I stared at my palms, the skin that should have been full of wounds looked very clean, there were no scratches or blood on it.
"Is this a dream?"
I feel confused about all this, I still remember it, it should not have been long ago, even all the pain I can still feel at this time.
"It wasn't a dream!"
"Eh?"
"That's a shred of memory you lost!"
Suddenly someone's voice came from the side, it was not foreign to me, I felt surprised and immediately turned to that direction, at once there was a man sitting on a large rock with one leg raised, the dragon god.
"Remember me?"
"true."
I gripped my face with my right palm and pondered about all the memories that were inside my head, shadow after shadow kept popping up until slowly everything started to connect, the memory of who I really am and the reason why I can be here.
"What do you think?"
"Are you upset, Elena?"
"After getting such treatment by them!"
Suddenly the dragon god asked me about my feelings, he knew what was happening in my dream as if he had seen the contents of my head, but I could only be silent on hearing the question.
"I-I'm sorry, I can't answer that...."
"I don't understand what I'm feeling right now...."
Do I hate them? I don't know, it's hard to express it in words, even though the people's treatment is bad for me, but still they are my family, it feels like my chest is becoming more and more claustrophobic when I think about it.
"You're a really good girl!"
The dragon god praised me, but his face did not show any expression, then he got up from his seat and walked towards me.
"Now is the time for training!"
"Clean your body first!"
He stretched out his hand towards me, ashamedly reaching for it, slowly pulling me up until I stood up, as I stared at his face as I blushed.
"Thank you very much...."
In a slow voice I thanked him, as usual the dragon god only showed his flat face, even though his good looks were very charming.
"I'll be waiting for you!!"
"That's fine......"
Then the dragon god turned around and walked away to a place, with a shy expression I immediately walked towards the waterfall to clean my body, slowly I opened the red dress I was wearing and started soaking there.
While soaking, I again contemplated the incident, I stared at the red puddle of water, looking at the shadow of my face with a moody expression, accompanied by the sound of water screeching made me feel a little relaxed, the cool air enveloped me comfortably.
It was near noon, I seemed to have slept for too long, but the dragon god never woke me up, he was willing to wait until I woke up.
"Why is he so good to me?"
I am just a sacrificed girl, my destiny has been set since birth, but why did she not do the same to me?
I couldn't understand what he was thinking, even his facial expression was hard to guess, but it felt like he did all this sincerely.
Looking up at the cloudy sky, I thought of him, whenever I imagined his face somehow my chest was pounding, I had never felt this before.
Without realizing it, time passed quickly, I rushed out of the waterfall and back in my dress, I can not make him wait too long.
"Sorry to keep you waiting....."
"No problem!"
I walked up to him who was sitting, realizing my arrival he also turned towards me with his flat face.
"Get it!"
"Eh?"
Suddenly a blood clot appeared on the dragon god's palm, slowly forming a long red sword, he gave the sword to me.
When I held the sword, it felt very heavy at once, and I could not even hold it back until it fell on the ground.
"Agh....."
"Take off the sword!!"
"Ba-good...."
I tried to pull out the sword with all my might, even though I had used two hands but my strength was not enough to make the sword shift even a little.
"Yeahaaa....."
The dragon god was only watching me closely, he wanted me to successfully pull out the sword using my own power.
"In this world there is a power called the Incarnation!"
"The power born from one's determination and imagination!!"
He began to talk about something I could not understand, and I listened carefully to what he said.
"Feelings, sadness, anger, and hate!!"
"Even the instinct to survive!"
"That's all a form of incarnation!!"
"Imagine something in your head, and let that feeling flow within you by itself!"
I followed what he said, I closed my eyes and imagined the feeling I was experiencing right now.
I want to pull out the sword with this hand!
Slowly I felt a sensation flowing in my body, what I saw in my mind was a deep red color, then I heard the sound of a very melodious waterfall flow.
My soul seemed to dissolve in the flow of water, slowly I tried to pull out the sword using both hands, instantly my hands felt very light like they were not lifting weights at all.
Then I opened my eyes, what I saw was the dragon god standing before me, there was nothing strange about it, but slowly I felt a bright red light emanating from below, and I turned in that direction.
"Eh?"
The red sword that was previously stuck on the ground was now in my grasp, the blade of the sword gave off a bright red glow that was even more beautiful than a gemstone.
I was surprised by that, just a moment ago I could not pull it out, but right now the red sword felt very light like an ordinary wooden stick.
"You did well!"
"Thank you very much....."
"Well let's start training!"
The dragon god also formed a red sword like mine from the blood that flowed in his palm, then he put the sword in front of his face while looking at me seriously.
"I understand...."
I immediately took up the stance, grasping the red sword with both hands and placing it right in front of my face, I was terrified because I believed he was being serious, but I took a deep breath to reduce the fear.
"I'll teach you how to use the Incarnation!"
"Good....."
The dragon god started to give off an extremely terrifying killing aura, anyone would definitely be frightened after feeling it, even my body became trembling and my heart was beating extremely fast, he said, but I try to stay calm and continue to catch my breath regularly.