Reincarnated into a Snow Griffin-Chapter 136

I do not find the fox in my flight, already dreading that he got there first and did whatever has a Demon Lord and an ancient being worried, but what I do see is the spectacular show of how Ethan, even with the woman on his back, manages to move around by jumping from stone to stone, a show of agility and balance that I did not know he was capable of, and it always amused me to see him in action like this, so akin to the rascal buffoon he played around me sometimes as he relaxed at my presence.

"There is something I have to tell you two first, before we get there." Says Natasha out of the blue. "Owl griffin, can you hear me from up there?"

I give her the best hoot hoot I can master, echoing beautifully inside these wall caves.

"Great, hear me out then... There are things that are very foggy in my mind, details that had been lost through the ages and the effect of my death and binding, but there are things that are very clear as if it was yesterday, and this is one of those things..."

"Especially the day that the fox betrayed me, and not only killed his mother, but me in the process, blinded by the power he has been seeking through all these years."

That was shocking news, we have only learned he is wicked but I did not think he would have still rotted.

"At times like this I think is best that some types of magic got lost with time, because the stronger the spell is, the stronger is the back fire." I agree, thinking of the normal average runes that would slowly deteriorate the material they were made at, to the blood runes that would suck you dry and eat at your flesh if you are not careful and yet pulsated with great power.

"To be consumed by the Demon’s Lord’s fame and power, too naïve to understand the consequences of my actions, the price for such a title, and too full of myself to even think that I was wrong I thought it would be a brilliant idea to simply create a city in my name, but not simply build it, you see, but to carve it fresh from other dimensions. Can you imagen? So many achievements in my name already, fighting humans, capturing and discovering the barrier weakness, this city would have been the cherry on top of the cake, red and bright and ripe, but..."

"Well, as you can see, things did not end well for any parties involved, and one of the effects of such magic is, the same that you cannot control the exact place you go to when teleporting yourself to the realm chosen, you cannot pin point what you want to bring in, and even if you are not exactly... stealing but copying this strange magic sometimes brings things that should not have been brought in, is more like unleashing a force of nature than controlling it, and as in most time it works just fine we did not worry about it then, minus the fungus accident in here, everything had been working just fine." The more she speaks the more she drags the R’s, clearly distressed.

"Everythin was fine until... until Kasumi’s mother ended up stolen from her world. You see, at first I felt very guilty and forbidden the use of that magic the same instant until this was resolved, and the guilty in my young mind was enough for me to go out of my way in searching for ways to send her back and fix my mistake, but as you may know already this magic is very friable, and the chance in a million of bringing someone alive was hardly going to repeat itself in reverse."

"To make matters worse, she was pregnant at the time, and thinking I’ve ruined this lady whole life, taken her away from her family and husband, I was just... so blinded with the need to make things right that I... that I did not see her for what she truly was."

"You see, elements are not just some tool and a magic preposition, they reflect the essence of what we are, explosive, calm, assertive, and the Abyss element... is the pure hunger, for power, for glory, never satisfied, always wanting more."

"So when I realized she was a powerful witch and she was stealing the life essence of my subjects to keep herself young and strong, stopping even new life to be born, taking away little by little, it was already too late to save the city, but at least I could confront her and put and end to this madness."

"Never thought, though, that after our intense fight, after finally making something right for a change and putting an end to her, as I was bringing her down to this special jail, that Kasumi would choose that moment to attack, such a kid still, but already lusting for power, and what better than a strong witch and a Demon Lord for him to absorb?"

"But things did not go as planned, and in a last attempt to finish all of us his mother used her remaining magic to create this fog, and before she could absorb me Kasumi bounded me as his demon and flee, but have always dreamed of coming back here to have his mother’s powers too, keeping me caged and quiet all this time by the constraints of the biding slave contract."

"Misaki was keeping an eye out for him since I had asked her many years before and I think she felt something odd about him, but still I did not believe that one should be judged by their parent’s mistakes or condemned ahead of time by their nature, but perhaps I was wrong in that regard too since because, in the end, he came back to the same place we tried so hard to keep him away from, thinking of power and greed through all these years..."

We stay a moment in silence, letting the words sink in, such an important big story told in so many few words and yet I could tell by how attached her words became at the end and for the efforts she put in getting them out just how much that still meant to her, how much it still affected her as she kept blaming herself.

"Why are you telling us all this?" Ethan asks as I hoot in agreement.

"Because in the next few seconds you may have asked about it yourselves." She says, and as if on cue we finally manage to see among the fog the rocky island in the center of the lake, and my owl eyes get to see its horror first.

And I cannot deny that it would have raised questions indeed.