Exiled Prince: I'm the Unexpected Extra in the Novel-Chapter 150: Lilith’s Awakening

Exactly two hours had passed since Cassian entered the ancient and dark cave hidden inside the mountain.

Outside, the north’s never-ending, bone-chilling wind continued to howl.

After Eula and Olivia guided Cassian to the door, they had gone outside and were waiting at the entrance of the cave.

Olivia had clasped her hands cold-reddened hands in front of her, constantly fiddling with her fingers.

Her head was bowed; deep anxiety could be read in her gaze wandering over the snow.

Occasionally she stole furtive glances at the dark entrance of the cave, trying to hear the slightest sound, a footstep, or a scream coming from inside.

Eula, unlike her, looked motionless and calm.

She had crossed her arms over her chest and leaned her back against the cold rock.

Her red eyes were fixed on the horizon. However, this calmness was only on the surface.

Deep down, she was struggling with the doubt gnawing at her mind.

The sudden decision she made, sending Cassian into that cave... Was it really right?

"I was a fool," thought Eula, gritting her teeth.

"The hatred inside the boy was like a volcano. His eyes went wild even when he heard the word ’witch’. And I sent him to the source of that hatred with my own hands."

Cassian’s facial expression as he entered the cave did not leave her mind.

Determined, but equally destructive. If things didn’t go well inside...

Eula looked at her older sister Olivia out of the corner of her eye.

Olivia couldn’t stand still, constantly fidgeting with a tremor that could have been from the cold or from fear.

Eula couldn’t take it anymore. She straightened up from the rock she was leaning on, slowly approached Olivia, wrapped her arms around her, and hugged her tightly.

"You don’t need to worry this much, sister," she said, her voice soft and reassuring enough to suppress the howling of the wind.

"Everything will be fine."

Olivia flinched when she felt her sister’s warmth but immediately took refuge in her. She buried her head in Eula’s shoulder.

"What if..." she said, her voice muffled.

"What if something happens to him inside? What if they can’t agree with Lilith? What if they try to kill each other?"

"Such a thing won’t happen."

Olivia raised her head as if wanting to be sure and looked at Eula with innocent, teary eyes.

"Really?"

Eula didn’t actually believe what she said much herself.

But she had to comfort Olivia.

"Yes," she said, trying to smile.

"He is our prince. Even though he looks angry at us, acts rudely, and humiliates us... At his core, he is a good person."

Olivia, seeming to find some consolation in these words, snuggled deeper into Eula’s arms. She took a deep breath.

"I’m sorry..." she whispered.

Eula frowned.

While stroking Olivia’s white hair, she asked: "Why are you apologizing, idiot?"

"Even though I am your big sister..." Olivia’s voice trembled. "I am always a burden to you."

She sniffled.

"Even our prince... got angry at us because of me."

Eula grabbed Olivia’s cheeks with both hands and pulled them hard to the sides.

"Where did that come from now!" she scolded. "Stop talking nonsense!"

Olivia moaned "Awu..." as her cheeks stretched.

Eula rested her forehead against Olivia’s forehead.

"Listen to me," she said, her voice stern but full of love. "If it weren’t for you... None of us would be alive right now."

She fixed her eyes on Olivia’s eyes.

"You were the one who found us one by one when we were born, carried us on your back in snow and winter, and brought us together. You were the one who taught us to be a family. You were the one who raised us, taught us life, sister."

She let go of her cheeks and hugged her again.

"You are not a burden. You are the one and only big sister to us all. So if I hear you say such stupid things again, I’ll throw you in front of that prince, understand?"

Olivia’s eyes filled up. Her lips pursed and suddenly, shouting "Eulaaa!", she started crying. She hugged her sister tightly, burying her face in her coat.

"Thank you..." she sobbed. Her saliva and snot had mixed together.

Eula tried to pull back, grimacing. "Hey! Hey! Don’t wipe your snot on me! I just washed this coat!"

Just at that moment...

This emotional and slightly funny moment was interrupted by a cold and eerie voice.

"WHERE IS CASSIAN!"

All of Eula’s hairs stood on end. She quickly pushed Olivia behind her and took a defensive position.

She spread her hands to both sides, and with the red mana spreading from her fingertips, she instantly created a spherical mana shield encompassing both herself and Olivia.

Her eyes locked on the direction the voice came from.

A girl was standing on the snow, about ten meters away from them.

Her appearance was wretched.

Her whitish-purple hair was messy, plastered to her face by the wind. She had lips cracked from the cold and pale skin.

The clothes on her were thin enough to be considered suicide for this freezing cold; a tattered dress and a thin cloak.

But she seemed not to feel the cold.

There was neither a shiver nor a weakness in her stance.

On the contrary, her blue eyes shone with pure madness and anger inside.

Those eyes were piercing through Eula and Olivia, looking into the darkest corners of their souls.

The girl lifted her nose in the air and took a deep breath.

"YOU SMELL LIKE CASSIAN!"

Eula looked at the girl in panic.

The problem was... No mana, no life energy was radiating from the girl.

It was impossible to sense her presence as if she wasn’t there. But this body she saw with her eyes was radiating ominousness and danger with its entire being.

"Who are you?" Eula asked while examining the girl.

The girl didn’t answer. She narrowed her eyes.

And suddenly, she evaporated and disappeared where she stood.

Eula’s eyes couldn’t follow the movement.

"Behind us!" shouted Olivia, her voice trembling.

When the girl reappeared, she was right next to Eula’s shield. And in her hand... there was a massive, rusty, and black scythe, larger even than herself, appearing from who knows where.

The girl swung the scythe without any difficulty, with one hand.

BOOM!

The tip of the scythe hit Eula’s mana shield.

Sparks scattered around from the impact, the air trembled.

Eula gritted her teeth; the pressure on the barrier was even more than she expected.

"Crack... Crack..."

Thin cracks began to form on the shield.

Eula realized the barrier wouldn’t hold, that the scythe would slice them in two with the next blow.

"Fall back!"

Just as Eula grabbed Olivia by the arm, she threw both of them backward with a wind spell she detonated under her feet.

Just in time.

The scythe shattered the mana shield like glass, fell into the void, and plunged into the snowy ground. The ground shook, snow and soil were thrown into the air.

The girl pulled her scythe from the soil in one move.

She rested it on her shoulder and glared at Eula and Olivia, who had managed to escape at the last moment.

There was neither hatred nor anger on her face.

"WHERE IS CASSIAN!"

"Who are you?!" asked Eula, preparing new spells in her hands. "What business do you have with him?"

The girl tilted her head slightly to the side. When she said her name, there was a strange possessiveness in her voice.

"Cordelia!" she said simply.

And she lunged forward again with her scythe.

Massive, thorny vines shot up from the ground, under the snow.

But Cordelia didn’t stop. She didn’t even slow down.

She spun her scythe around herself like a propeller.

Before the vines could even touch her, they were shattered by the wind of the sharp steel, green and brown pieces scattering around.

Eula swore.

She leaped back again with Olivia using wind magic, climbing onto the rocks.

Cordelia pressed her legs to the ground, her muscles tensed. Taking power from the earth, she shot up like a bullet. She leaped into the air and swung her scythe from top to bottom at a vertical angle that would split them in two.

Olivia stepped forward. Her eyes were trembling with fear, but her hands were steady. 𝑓𝘳𝘦𝑒𝑤𝑒𝘣𝘯ℴ𝘷𝘦𝓁.𝑐𝑜𝑚

"Seal!"

She raised both hands in the air. A denser and more fluid mana barrier, different from Eula’s, formed in front of them.

At the same time, Eula clasped her hands together.

A dense stream of blue lightning emerging from Eula’s fingers gushed towards Cordelia in the air.

Cordelia used her scythe as a shield in front of her while in mid-air. The lightning bolts hit the metal of the scythe and scattered; they couldn’t stop her but slowed her down.

And the scythe hit Olivia’s barrier.

But this time the barrier didn’t break. At the moment of impact, it turned from solid to liquid. Melting like sticky, blue slime, it stuck first to Cordelia’s scythe, then to her hands and arms.

The liquid solidified again within seconds, sealing Cordelia’s arms and weapon.

Cordelia looked at this strange, frozen thing stuck on her with a bored, fed-up expression.

Black, toxic smoke started to rise from her body. The seal trying to suppress her rotted and turned to dust.

Cordelia, breaking free, took her scythe in her hand and gripped it firmly.

She changed her stance.

Eula felt the sweat dripping from her forehead.

"You asked for this," Eula said, gritting her teeth. "I won’t hold back, little lady!"

Eula’s red eyes shone. The color of her mana turned blood red.

Four red orbs appeared around her, floating in the air. The orbs vibrated with the intense energy inside them, emitting an ominous hum.

"Step aside, sister," said Eula, without taking her eyes off Cordelia.

Olivia began to move away quickly, her eyes trembling.

Eula’s red orbs grew even larger, began to creak and spin.

From Cordelia’s scythe rose an ominous, dense black smoke. The girl took an attack position.

Two powers were about to collide on the top of the snowy mountain. Tension had hit the ceiling.

Just at that moment...

With a muffled roar rising from the deepest layers of the earth, the mountains began to shake; the ancient stones groaned as if in pain. The ground trembled, rocks shifted. The air suddenly collapsed, pressing on the chest like an invisible weight; every breath turned into a struggle taken by will.

Then, a massive beam of light, where yellow and red intertwined, gushed out from the point where the cave was located towards the sky.

The light rose, tearing the darkness; it shattered the night and illuminated everywhere as if it were morning.

Even the sky seemed to withdraw as the light cut through the clouds. The world was witnessing the awakening of a disaster... or the birth of a divine miracle.

Eula and Olivia looked at the mountain, at where the cave entrance should be, holding their breath, their eyes trembling.

Even Cordelia stopped her attack. She turned her head in that direction.

She lowered her scythe. That empty expression on her face left its place to a familiar emotion.

The beam of light slowly faded.

From the dark mouth of the cave, amidst the dust and smoke, two pairs of red eyes shone.

The sound of steps starting to walk towards them from inside the darkness suppressed even the sound of the wind.

Tap... Tap... Tap...

Finally, the image became clear.

Wrapped in a thin cloth hastily trying to cover her naked body, a girl appearing to be fourteen or fifteen years old with white hair and red eyes was walking towards them.

And on her lips was a smile she wore as if challenging the world, teetering between arrogance and danger.

Eula and Olivia froze for a moment. They couldn’t believe what they were seeing.

Both whispered at the same time, with a voice mixed with fear and admiration:

"LILITH!?"

As for Cordelia, she didn’t even look at Lilith.

Her blue eyes were locked solely and only on Cassian. Her scythe fell from her hand. Her lips trembled.

"CASSIAN!"