Sacrifice: Time of Mine

Chapter 163: Princess Alisera's Enlightenment

Law, life, matter, energy, and soul. These five are the fundamentals of everything. They are what create something that exists in this world or in any world.

One of these five, life, what is it?

Life, energy, and soul coincide with each other. With life, the soul is created. Through this soul, energy can be manipulated.

Not everything has life though, what others have is only matter. So back to the question, what is it?

It has a complicated answer, but for the short answer, it is the force to continue. An entity that has life will continue to exist. A will shall be created once an entity received life.

To continue to exist, an entity will adapt to its surrounding, transforming into many forms. Generations to generation, it eventually was named as hereditary and genes.

Back to the topic, life is the force for an entity to exist. It is the stubbornness of existence. The Gods, the True Gods were the first existence of life. Thus, they spread it, creating life from their very being for it to spread and continue just like how mothers give birth.

The worlds began to flourish due to them. Along with them, the soul was created. Microorganisms have the weakest soul of all life. Plants were next, then insects, then animals, and finally, humans.

In this order, humans have the greatest soul. They have the strongest life force, thus, they have intelligence that will allow them to still exist ever since they first appeared.

So life is not the simple heartbeat or the consciousness. As long an entity has the force to continue, using many factors and elements to exist, it is living.

Princess Alisera shuddered when she looked around to see that both of her parents were headless.

"Ma..?" her shaky voice was filled with sadness and disbelief.

'Is this a nightmare?'

It's a very realistic nightmare...

She then looked her left and saw her father who has the same state as her mother.

While Princess Alisera's world was spinning, she was not able to hear the explosive sounds outside. The panic of the people and the tremble of the ground.

[What you're seeing is true.]

Her eyes traveled everywhere before she shouted, "Who are you!? Are you the one who had done this!?" she was filled with fear. Her knees bent as she crouched, holding her ears.

[No]

Tears incessantly flowing out of her eyes.

The naive princess was still in disbelief. No, rather, she didn't want to believe what she was seeing.

[It is not me who caused it, But your mother and father, they are dead.]

Her eyes were wide opened, jaw shuddering.

"... no..." she said but she began to accept reality. Her widened eyes slowly looked at her headless mother before turning to the decapitated head.

With no strength on her legs, she crawled and looked at the terrified face of her mother.

"Mama..." she hugged it even though it's disgusting, even though it's horrifying, even though it has a foul smell that was making her want to puke.

[Do you not want them dead?]

"... of course not... of course not..." she sobbed on the floor. The cold was painful than ever.

"Who...?" she was losing her energy to even ask who did this.

[Do you want to see them alive again?]

"... of course.... of course..." Alisera was too deep in the grievance to even question the voice in her head.

[You can make it come true.]

"Eh?" like the faintest light in the darkest night, Alisera found hope and clung to it, "I can?"

When a person is in their most vulnerable state, they will become desperate. She didn't question the voice and even put her faith on it.

[Will you?]

"YES! YES!!" she shouted out to the empty space, ignoring all the noises that were happening outside.

[Then follow my guidance.]

The princess desperately nodded.

[Focus or they will rot forever.]

She shuddered from that thought.

The air surrounding the princess turned reddish in color. In the whole area, this mysterious energy traveled onto her. They condensed and made their way into her body.

"... ah..." a drool dripped from her dainty lips.

[Ignore the pain, accept what is entering.]

[Plants grow and so does life.]

[Find the origin. Know your potential. Unlock your bloodline.]

[Fire destroys but it is not death. Earth is the end but it is not death. Water has endless forms, it cannot be death. What is death, it is void of life. Only life has death.]

[But death cannot become life again for it is permanent. That is the rule of existence.]

[Energy, matter, soul, and law are permanent. Nothing loss, nothing created. They only change form.]

[Only life continues but never endless for everything is balance.]

[Life is determined by their soul.]

[To revive what was once dead is to give them a second life, a second soul, a second chance. Let it be their second vessel for their original soul that is in the afterlife.]

[Use life... Control energy... Turn it into soul... Placed it to their entity... The law is what I will teach you.]

Princess Alisera felt she was drifting down the depth of an ocean. The profoundness of the words she was hearing was getting deeper and deeper. None of it did she not understand or did she misunderstand.

With the guidance of the voice in her head, her Plant Element slowly turned to the Life Element. Her foundation was being filled from the enlightenment. Her natal energy being filled with mysterious energy.

When her Plant Element turned to Life Element, it was Rank Eeh again. But over time, it reaches Rank Dih. Then Rank Cee...

This absurd ranking up was only due to the mysterious energy filling her natal energy, which should've been slowly converting from the elemental energy of the world.

The process was natural. There were no drawbacks. Eventually, her rank stopped with Rank Bih, enough to create a second soul.

She was given an elesp in her mind. The princess read it with full concentration.

If she was taught and not spoiled as a child, she might've been more terrifying than Kalin for her age. She has the bloodline of Haliviana, thus, having immense talent!

[The entity should be in its original form.]

The princess determinedly took her mother's head and placed it on the body.

[Put the soul in.]

She nodded and a light flickered into the queen's body. The line around the queen's neck slowly disappeared.

"Haaa--"