TOFD 305

Chapter 305

"Antonio! You have to make sure that your siblings will be safe."

"I promise mother."

A teenage boy nodded, he was determined to protect his siblings.

"You elder brothers are in the frontline together with your father. Compared to Hulian, the frontline is better since your father and brothers can protect you."

Esmeralda hastily explained. She was sweating and she was anxious.

-- Baam!

Suddenly, a powerful tremor shook them and they almost lost their balance. 

"Uwaahh! Uwaahh!"

"Toshi, hush hush!"

Esmeralda rocked the baby girl in her arms. She was singing a lullaby despite her voice being hoarse. Then, Toshi slowly stopped crying and closed her eyes. 

"Take Toshi with you."

Esmeralda gave the baby to Antonio. His younger siblings behind him were determined to protect their youngest sibling, Toshi. 

"Don't worry mother, I will protect her."

"That's right, nothing will happen to Toshi!"

The siblings did their best to smile and assure each other. 

"Hm."

Esmeralda nodded and held her tears. 

-- Baam!

Another explosion and it was closer this time. 

"Go! You have to leave now!"

"Mother... Please be safe."

Esmeralda almost broke down when she saw their expressions. She hugged them again before turning around. Their warmth made her strong. 

Esmeralda closed the secret passage of the palace. This was an emergency passage in case the palace was broken by the siege. She heard the footsteps of her children and sighed in relief. She swallowed her sob and did not turn around. 

Using her power, she tore down the room to make sure that the secret passage would not be found. 

"Here she is! Dark High-Elf Esmeralda!"

The mortals found her and started firing spells over spells. Esmeralda used the darkness around her and created a barrier.  

"Use fire and light spells! She is weak against anything brighten the surrounding!"

"Tch!" 

The enemies knew her weakness. She did not have a choice but to fight them. 

"Aaahhhh!"

She roared and created dozens of black spears under their feet. She stabbed most of them but those who escaped used the momentum to reach her. 

"Ugh!"

A fierce man who was holding a deep blue longsword hit her. Esmeralda crashed into the wall and her vision trembled. 

"We know that your children are running away using the secret passage. It will not take a while before we can find them."

The man had a devilish grin as he raised his sword.

"You!"

Esmeralda tried to stand but the blade penetrated her chest and she screamed in pain. 

"Arrggg!"

Her mouth was filled with blood as she glared at the man who stabbed her. 

"Once we found them, we will kill your children. No one will survive."

He said, cackling like a bastard. 

"..."

Esmeralda wanted to speak but she was slowly losing consciousness. She regretted that she did not train and kept her strength at 3rd Advanced. She believed in love, believing that her husband would always be there to protect her. 

'If I was stronger, maybe this never happened.'

Elves took pride of their lineage. They know that the longer they live, the stronger they get. 

Esmeralda was a High-Elf and she thought reaching DemiGod would only take her a few decades which was not long in their dictionary. Because of being lazy and overconfident, she lost...

Esmeralda glanced at the man who stabbed him.

The man had grey hair and his eyes were pure black, no pupils could be seen. This man was the leader of the humans who overtook the kingdom. 

"Don't worry, unlike your children who are still not mature, we will keep you alive. You are a High-Elf and your body will be a useful tool."

That was the last thing she heard before closing her eyes. 

.........

......

...

"... What happened?"

Esmeralda asked herself. She woke up in an abandoned facility naked and cold. Dozens of tubes were stuck in her skin and her mind was groggy. 

"Kuh!"

She groaned as she squeezed her aching head. She was confused, lost, and mad. 

"... I have to find my children."

Esmeralda recalled that she stalled time so that her children would survive. She tore every tube in her skin and walked out of the room. 

The facility looked old and abandoned, she saw traces of battles. Burned and destroyed walls. 

"... Hehe, maybe I'm getting crazy."

A pathetic laugh came out of her mouth when she left the facility. 

She realized that she was in the middle of nowhere. The tall dark trees that loomed all over, the eerie sounds from the forest. 

Esmeralda had a clue where she was. 

"The Forest of Death."

An ancient forest where powerful Aberrants live. Before Esmeralda was even born, this forest already terrorized the Hulian kingdom. The Aberrants that came out of this forest were strong and powerful, not even a DemiGod could eradicate this place.

She started gasping. She did not know what was happening. Her head was aching. The cold breeze of wind grazed against her naked body as she kneeled down. 

Tears started falling down. This was making her crazy.

"Grrr..."

A devil wolf growled and was crouching a few feet away from her. The wolf was salivating as he found tasty prey in this forest. 

"..."

Esmeralda was just staring out of nowhere. Her mind was blank. Then, she started laughing like a maniac. 

The wolf dashed forward and showed its deadly fangs. However, before it could reach Esmeralda, tendrils grabbed its foot and slammed it to the ground. 

The creature whimpered but Esmeralda did not stop. She kept slamming the wolf until its body was torn apart. 

"Hehe-hahahaha!"

Was something funny? Perhaps for Esmeralda, everything was funny. 

Another set of monsters showed up and Esmeralda faced them with a crazy smile. Her tears blurred her vision but she did not stop fighting. She realized something important... She became a DemiGod. 

This simple fact explains that many decades already passed... 

"Graaaahhh!"

She was moving like a beast. She was tearing every Aberrant that she found. 

She kept moving forward and slashing her way out of the vast forest. 

When she came out of the forest, she confirmed that everything changed. 

[Arc 6]

[Rare steak is a raw steak Arc]

[This Arc is a bit short. It focuses mostly on Esmeralda. We met Laura too, Nikki's despicable mother. Overall, I'm satisfied with this Arc since this is the introduction to the other countries around Dellia. Now, we know the reason for the friction between the countries. Thank you for subscribing to my Patreon, hope you will keep supporting me. The next Arc will probably revolve around Junian, of course there are new Harem members too. This is a Harem with Smut tags and it's impossible to not expand the Harem...]