Chapter 2: King Of The Beasts

Around the days that kept her alive, there was no day that it wasn't peaceful. It was too peaceful that it was so terrifying that she couldn't breathe. The castle━was built like a mansion, with a sculpture of the same as the temple in a place with a temperature as heavy as summer, the place only people considered miles away. A castle that has a beautiful terrain which surrounded with mountain, and a small town that lives within the walls. There lay's the forsaken land of Byrne, the territory of the known 'impossible duke' the dukedom of the fallen kingdom 'Narzasius'...

A beautiful etiquette woman, around the age of 16 to 17, with a bright silver eye that covers her dark enchanted lemon blonde hair, she who wears a commoners dress walks brightly on the silent forest by herself.

The lady was smiling, her blushes of spots appear on her cheeks, her pale skin grows and her eyes were screaming in a chaotic patient.

Since it was rather peaceful, she couldn't take the advantage of too much peace around her instead after going back to the past as the young Kiana, she was able to convince her loyal father by consulting a professional doctor who knew his illness better than her.

In her past, the duke who was known as 'impossible and untouchable' died at age of 30, because of the sickness he caught from overworking that caused his heart to glimpse into slow currency.

He was declared dead on the spot after a heart stroke, neither less the problem of this sickness he caught was due to fatigue and it cost several and hundreds of people from collapsing but it wasn't invisible.

Before her father's death, the sickness his father caught was found curable and they cure him. The cure may or can temporarily or permanently stop the sickness causes by his weak organs, but since it was strange happening and slowly her father broke through the ground, he coughed blood and died.

The doctors and even the holy palace maidens who cooperated on curing him discover the symptoms enough to trigger the temporary cure on his body and will affect his internal to kill him within the spot.

At first, it was hard to accomplish this discovery since there is no scientific research or pieces of information that is equivalent to find the truth of the existence of this disease but since the cooperation and teamwork of science and belief, it was taught that the sickness that killed her father was caused by a powder drugs he took every day.

Within the death of her father, she immediately suspected her uncle who miraculously awakens from his long silence and took the dukedom temporarily with the reason of saying that she cannot succeed and her nephew is too young to handle the affairs of both businesses, in and out of the dukedom.

In the end, she couldn't suspect her uncle, and instead, she was drowned by his sweet talks and approved of every action her uncle committed and she couldn't doubt him. The trust she taught backfire to her like an arrow, her uncle who's addicted to gambling took half of the dukedom's wealth and lost it in the casino.

The dukedom suffer a huge loss on the actions of her uncle, the dukedom was bankrupt from all of their invested business and the dukedom was slapped with many depths.

Before she could even know the happenings between her hometown, she didn't dare to say anything but her regret is killing her system. The fact that she trusted him so much caused all of her disappointment and she was kicked from her house.

The Byrne yearn no wealth, so the only thing she could do is to make sure to win the crown yet despite that she was defeated unfairly. Not only that, she was killed on the accusation of being a witch.

Now that Kiana was given her new life, a beginning to change her unspeakable ending, she had gained the power to know what will happen and what is the cost of her interference with the future itself but this time she wouldn't be as foolish as she did at the past.

The only way she can protect what was precious to her is to protect her father who was deemed innocent but was killed because of jealousy and to attain her true revenge upon the crown prince who brought her to ruins.

This time, however, the difficulty, she will need the power of a beast in this quest of hers that is why deep within the forest far from the Byrne's territorial castle, she paces through the place familiar with her footsteps.

She gazes upon the trees, leaves and deep down the caves through the sound of the river but she couldn't find what she was looking for... answers...

"Damn it! It should be here since it hasn't been discovered yet! "

She frustratedly exclaimed on the scene that left her gaze, then she once again chooses to walk forward deeper unto the forest passing the river that clutches of noise before she left the riverside where she saw something.

A ruin ritual chamber, with 5 stone shalf that supposed to support the roof but the roof has been broken and the ground was sculpted into a strange magic circle that has four dimensions each which contribute to a statue in the middle.

'This is? '

That's right, she founds it, the fallen temple of Narzasius, the former house of God's and the only place that hasn't been discovered by anyone even for the Byrne who have been residing for many generations.

The palace was often visited by the goddess Narzia, the first high priest who ascended to the goddess title.

However, looking at the facility, she already suspected that an earthquake broke the temple's roof which has broken the statue of the high priest.

She slowly paces her way on the temple without even flinching or hesitating for the moment and gaze upon the broken statue.

'Although it was broken, there are secrets that not even the current temple knew about this place. '

She starts looking everywhere inside the temple before. Looking at it looks like a normal temple of the fallen kingdom, but if you look closely upon the magical circle beneath your footstep, between the high priest half-body statue and the sculptures unto the veil written.

There is a line between the platform of the high priest and the ground beneath her. Then the lines on the circle which lead to a switch, below one of the torch handles.

She immediately turns the torch handle but since the handle was rusted by its old build, it can't bulge even if she tries to turn the switch once more but since it's a magical being created like other temples. There's no need for struggle, instead, she'll have to lit the torch to create a fire that will pressure the handle and it will eventually fall and turn the way she tried to turn.

'There's no lighter, then? Manual should do right?'

Manually creating fire through the pressure of both stone and steel. Steel can be found anywhere as well as stones. She'll need to make efforts for it, however, it wasn't also hard for her since she had trained herself in order to live indoor or outdoor to ensure she'll survive even without the help of her luxurious.

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*Click*

Finally the platform move after being lit up by a fire that she created 3 hours ago. Now that it was open, it's her time to get down from the hinder underneath the palace of the high priest, the true temple of the high priest.

There are plenty of stairs before it reaches the underneath platform and it was tiring but she was determined and now she'll able to see the next of her plan... 'Finding the mana stone left by the High Priest'... To summon the high spirit, a beast of the king, Heleiumus.

The king of spirit, he ascended as the high priest untouchable beast and had been living over a thousand of years even if the priest it uses to serve is no longer an existence of a flesh he continued living in order to find its new owner.

At Kiana's past, she once heard that the future current high priest had discovered this beast and he took him as his own. The beast and the priest live together, although it was said that the beast is a mere wild animal, it is still known capable of combat and analysis ability which makes him describe as untouchable.