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Chapter 210: Traumatic Experience Part One

Phantasia: The Princess Knight

Emperor Caspin's eyes went wide in disbelief. His all powerful wife was suddenly beheaded just like that. His eyes glazed over with tears as he yelled out. "Tehlarissa! Tehlarissa!" He ran forward towards his wife wanting to hold her in his arms only to suddenly have someone appear in front of him. The world suddenly spun in a circle before him. He had no idea what was going on until he saw his own body still running towards his wife. Only then he knew that he too met the same fate as his wife.

"Who said you were going to be able to live as well?" King Augustus's cold voice echoed throughout the hall. Dudley had relayed a message to him with everything that had happened up until this point. King Augustus was so angered that as soon as he was done in Mytheth Lenora he used translocation magic to appear here.

"Royal Father!" Alicia was surprised to see King Augustus so soon, she figured things would have taken a bit more time to settle.

"Everything is fine. The Elven King took his own life a little while ago, so I took a quick trip to the Beastmen Kingdom and removed the spirit that was possessing the Beastmen King. He is now back to normal. We can not find any fault with him since he was under the control of a wandering soul." King Augustus explained. He had decided it was not the right time to tell Alicia about certain things. This included his past.

'That quick?' Alicia thought to herself, she felt like something was off but she decided not to pry too much. Not thinking too much of it Alicia decided her job was now done. "Then Royal Father, I will be on my way. I will leave the rest for you. Blake and I both need a much needed rest."

"Mmm! Leave the rest to me. I will call you later for a full report." King Augustus watched as Alicia gave him a nod then disappeared with Blake. He knew things would take a bit of time to settle down. He had never expected such a large scale war would ever have taken place. He formed a ball of magicule in his hand and let out a sigh. "To think I am so weak!"

He had to rely on his youngest daughter to pull through. He only willingly sealed himself because he had faith she would get to him before the old monster figured out his trick. "There has to be a way to restore my Magi Points."

King Augustus started to form a plan in his head. "Once Alicia is old enough and ready, she can take the throne. When that time comes I can go out and search for a way to fix this body."

King Augustus did not want to leave everything to Alicia every time something happened. He wanted her to be able to grow up following her dreams. But he knew that the coming years were going to be a turning point for Alastine as they tried to incorporate the new countries into their own. That also meant fighting off uprisings as well. "It seems we still have a lot of work to do."

Back in the capital, Alicia towards Princess Catherine's room where she was recuperating to see Prince Nicholai and Princess Blanche standing at the door. "Third Brother? First Sister?"

"Third Sister, Second Sister has finally woken up." Prince Nicholai answered.

"Big Sister Catherine!" Alicia's body flashed into the room and appeared next to Princess Catherine's bed scaring the two doctors who were doing check ups on her. But Princess Catherine did not answer. She just sat there staring blankly. Seeing this, Alicia felt something was terribly wrong and asked: "Wh-What's wrong with her?"

"Shock… Not only was she beaten when she was captured but I am afraid..." The doctor's voice was grim. "I am afraid the trauma from the war was too much for her. She has gone into a state of living comatose. Unless she comes out of it herself she will be nothing more than a living doll right now."

Alicia looked at Princess Catherine her eyes welling up with tears, she sat down next to her and grabbed her hand. Prince Nicholai and Princess Blanche both walked into the room and sat next to Alicia. Princess Blanche took one look at her little sister and started to cry. Prince Nicholai sat there with a worried expression on his face.

As for Alicia, she wiped her eyes and then closed them before sending waves of holy magic into Princess Catherine's body. As the magic from her body flowed into Princess Catherine, Alicia's body began to faintly glow. The holy magic she was sending out became more refined and flowed straight towards Princess Catherine's brain.

"It's dark, it's cold. They won't stop beating me! I want to go home!" A young girl was curled up into a fetal position on the cold ground in the dark tent. Blood dripped from the corners of her mouth and the wounds on her body. She does not know how many days she had been captured for. All she knows is that every day that woman comes and beats her. She remembered that Starla and Annelia were doing their best to protect her but ended up being beaten and chained up so they could no longer move. Even her little brother jumped on top of her trying his best to ward off some of the attacks, he suffered an even harsher beating and ended up chained up like the other two.

The girl's tears rolled down her cheeks as she softly asked herself: "Is this what we get for trying to defend our homeland?"

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Chapter 211: Traumatic Experience Part Two

Phantasia: The Princess Knight

She had gotten word that Fernilia was invading and at the same time Grogandon was also attacking. With her father dealing with the empire and her younger sister dealing with the demonic plague and the Beastmen Kingdom, her Fourth Brother sent her out with her younger brother to try to stop the enemies' advance.

What awaited her was death and bloodshed. She had thought she was prepared to witness such scenes but the truth was she was not. She was scared. She was scared of dying. But she knew if she did not stand and fight she would lose her homeland! She had no actual fighting skills so she was kept at the back of the line while the soldiers did the fighting for her but the slaughtering would always be ingrained into her mind forever.

When she saw her little sister show up and even built a wall to block off the enemies' advance, the girl was able to heave a sigh of relief. All the pressure that she was under flowed out of her and she began to cry in her sister's arms. It was not long after her sister had left that it all happened. There was a sudden loud explosion and a young woman with long golden hair and golden eyes had destroyed the wall. She did not stop there as she killed a wave of soldiers burning them into dust.

She watched in horror as the soldiers who she brought out died one after the other not even given a chance to scream out in pain. The Fernalia soldiers all charged through the gap in the wall and proceeded to slaughter everyone in sight. Due to the disorder the young woman in the air caused, made it so that they couldn't resist. Her little sister's friends pulled on her arm trying to flee. But it was already too late, the woman in the air casted a spell, blasting them all away. Her, her sisters two friends, and her little brother were all captured and beaten.

From there the living hell continued and got worse. The young woman would come into the tent every day and lash at them with a whip, cut them with knives, or just plain beat them until she was satisfied. Sometimes she even brought in a few soldiers to do the beatings while she just sat back and laughed.

It was as if time had stopped after a while. The girl stopped even yelling out in pain as she was stabbed with a sword, punched or kicked in the face. It was as if she was just an empty shell. She did not know when the days started repeating themselves. But as time went on those horrid days continued to replay over and over.

That was until she suddenly felt a warmth flow through her body. The once frozen eyes suddenly blinked and the dullness started to show a bit of life once more. The girl could feel warmth flowing throughout her entire body. She could feel a sense of security. The warmth brought her out of the nightmare that had been plaguing her for days on end.

She slowly opened her eyes to see a familiar little face holding her hand sending stream after stream of magic into her. Tears rained down her cheeks as she pulled the girl into a hug. "Thank you! Alicia thank you!"

"Big Sister Catherine!" Alicia also began crying as she hugged Princess Catherine tightly. The entire time she was sending Magic into Princess Catherine, Alicia was able to see what she had experienced that caused her to be left in such a state. Alicia was very glad that she killed that woman. She actually wished she could resurrect the woman just to kill her again!

"Alicia because of you I was able to escape the loop of that horrific experience. Everything just kept replaying over and over! If not for you..." Princess Catherine's tears flowed her sobbing making it hard for her to talk.

At the side, though she had tears in her eyes, Princess Blanche was feeling very down. There was nothing she could do this entire time. Throughout the whole process of this war. She couldn't help her sisters in any way. She wished she hadn't acted so spoiled and had actually put her mind to learning things that could benefit the kingdom. She reached out and pulled both sisters into a hug squeezing them tightly as she cried out: "I'm sorry I couldn't have been a better older sister! I wish I could have done anything to help the both of you! I'm so worthless!"

Prince Nicholai sat at the side with a smile on his face. He rubbed his eyes doing his best not to let his tears fall as he watched his sisters cry. He found that maybe even though they had lost a lot, these experiences will change them for the better. Maybe now they could all work together with their father to make Alastine into a Kingdom that everyone will love and can live peacefully and happily. Unfortunately, his wish was not about to come true any time soon.

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A shadow made its way down to the deepest part of the Alastine Kingdoms castle. It stood looking at the large magic circle that spun in the air. A sinister grin formed on their face as they waved their hand making a sword made of magic appear. "Just because you are a little special you think you can do anything? What will do you when the lives of Millions of Alastine citizens are dead because of your faulty magic! Making me lose my position, making father punish me! Ruining my reputation!? Since you took everything from me, let's see how you do when I take everything from you!"

The sword swung down slicing into the magic circle leaving a large crack in it. Once they saw the crack they quickly disappeared from the room. The crack slowly grew bigger causing the magic circle to flicker before it finally shattered dispersing into millions of tiny balls of light...

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