LURK IN THE SHADOWS

"MONA, what would you like as a birthday present for this year?"

Mona blinked in confusion, then she nodded her head as if she just remembered something. "That's right. It will be my birthday soon."

June 13th was her birthday, and it was approaching fast.

"I have something that I want, Nikolai."

She could freely call Nikolai by his name because only the two of them were in the greenhouse. The emperor built it for her last year. The plants, flowers, and trees planted there could only be found in her personal greenhouse.

After all, the seeds of those plants, flowers, and trees came from Elen– the home of the Cosmic Tree.

She was there because she had to send the different Spirit Clans a message regarding what happened to the Cosmic Tree. Only then did the Spirits and the other creatures stopped barging in and out of the empire. They had calmed down when she told them that the Cosmic Tree would awaken in ten years' time.