Silver Moon's Lament

On a particularly bloody battlefield on the borders of Samael, Selene watched as the onis secured an overwhelming victory against the humans. 

It was then that she saw her. 

Skin as dark as the void, long silver hair cascading down to her knees, and bright red eyes with black sclera. 

She was immediately captivated by her striking face, unlike any being she had ever seen, and by her body, which remained unscathed despite fighting on the front lines of war. 

Naturally, a dark elf on a battlefield between onis and humans stood out like a beacon in the darkness. 

She sensed her immediately and appeared before her like a mirage. 

Selene had renounced her identity as a princess; dressed in simple commoner's clothes and without a tiara, she did not resemble royalty. 

However, that did not mean her charm was any less powerful. 

Captivated by my mother's beauty, my mother introduced herself as Valeria, one of the seven oni lords and the Sin of Pride. 

Selene had fabricated a story about being a demi-human slave, and Valeria acted as her savior, keeping her by her side. 

A year after they met, they officially entered into a courtship. 

Normally, it wouldn't have taken so long, but Valeria wanted Selene to confess her feelings first and masterfully played the role of the aloof fool. 

Nine blissful years later, the pair woke up one morning to find that my mother had finally evolved. 

Selene's hair and the markings on her skin, which had once been a bright crimson, had changed into a luminous silver to match the hair of the one she loved more than anything. 

She had evolved into a long-extinct species of dark elf known as a "Silver Moon Elf." 

Known for their beauty and immense magical prowess, these elves were highly revered, and no one knows how they died out. 

Surprisingly, her final condition for evolution had nothing to do with battle. 

It was to carry the child of a primordial oni. 

The pair were overjoyed when Seraphina was conceived, and Selene finally decided to tell her wife the truth about her background and how they met. 

She expected her to be upset or feel betrayed, but to her surprise, she already knew. 

Phoebus had been searching for his daughter all over the world ever since she disappeared, and every continent under the sun and moon had heard of the missing dark elf princess. 

Normally, that wouldn't have been enough to suspect her, but Valeria had long noticed that Selene was far too refined to have been a slave. 

With that final burden lifted from her mind, Valeria and Selene prepared to return home, declare their marriage to Phoebus, and offer the necessary apologies. 

However, as they prepared to leave that night, Valeria's castle was ambushed. 

There was no army, no sneak attack, no grand entrance. Four humans clad in bone-white armor appeared at the front door and immediately began massacring all the onis under her command. 

Valeria asked Selene to flee, but she refused outright. 

They had fought many battles together, and she was certain the two of them could defend their home and defeat these invaders. 

Normally, Valeria would have agreed, but the power of these humans was something truly terrifying, and she did not want to take the risk. 

Faced with Selene's stubbornness, Valeria conjured a portal two thousand miles away and pushed her through it. 

The last words she heard were: "I love you, and I will find you both." 

Selene attempted to return to the castle to search for her wife, but all she found were the bodies of the onis slain in the initial attack and the ruins of the castle where they had lived. 

Eventually, she returned alone to Vegaon, carrying a daughter in her womb. 

Phoebus, though initially overjoyed, couldn't help but notice that, even though his little girl had evolved once more, the spark in her eyes seemed to have vanished long ago. 

And no matter how hard he tried, he could not seem to bring it back. 

Since returning home, Selene has never spoken to anyone about Valeria and has developed a deep hatred for humans. 

While most dark elves saw humans as nothing more than insects and ignored their existence, my mother slaughtered every one she saw without hesitation. 

Seraphina thought hearing that bit of information would bother her, but surprisingly, it didn't. 

It served as yet another reminder that she had become something different than she used to be. 

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