Tale of Authoria: Andromeda, The Shackled Maiden (002)
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Continuation...
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~~LORE:~~
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Cassiopeia agreed and to make sure it doesn't found out, they need to cover the deal as a betrothal. After that, she greets her goodbyes and leaves. The leader was covered by a shadow who was a man and he smirks maliciously.
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Perleus and Andromeda developed a mutual understanding and planted the seed of love for each other. Then, on the day of searching for the rightful husband of their beautiful daughter, Andromeda, Cassiopeia imprisoned her daughter in the dungeon where her mother revealed her terrible plan and she will be used as a sacrifice to get her unprecedented powers.
A black mist that came from afar slowly but constantly covering the whole territory of the Kingdom of Aerthop. The mist reached the coastal areas of the kingdom, then it rushed towards the location of the palace. The common folks run into panic and the situation becomes more chaotic, the guards guarding the gate have lost their lives, the vitality of their bodies turned dry, as if their life force has been devoured by a demon.
The black mist reached the palace and the mist took the form of a young and handsome man with a pale skin complexion. Cassiopeia was delighted to see the leader come personally. She greeted the leader and was told to prepare the sacrifice ritual.
Andromeda gazed blankly at the window and memories of happy childhood was played into her mind, she smiled a bit slightly, but her smile slowly faded when she heard the rustle of iron keys, the loud clang made by unlocking the door of the dungeon.
The door opened and it was her treacherous mother she standstill in front of her, showing her smile full of maliciousness, which shows a glimpse of her teeth that looks like the fangs of a vampire. Her mother told the guards to bring her to the abyssal stone altar and the guards silently obeyed.
An hour has passed away, a loud scratching noise can be heard nearby and a figure of a frail girl showed up with chains fastened in her arms. The girl was Andromeda, some of the empire folks that survived gasped in shock that made them cover their mouths with their hands.
The people saw that she was chained to an obsidian-like stone altar and was surrounded by acolytes chanting some gibberish words that sounds like an ancient prayer to summon a demon. The smoke that surrounds her makes her a little dazed and unable to stay focused.
In her dazed state, she saw far away in the crowds of people, the man that she spent time happily with. Her eyes, she did not realize that she was crying because of incomprehensible emotions that she felt.
Until a sudden pressure she felt in her heart, she saw a dagger with serrated edge that was sunk into her heart, the stabber, which is her mother, smiled sadistically and she twisted it that it makes Andromeda's face grimace in pain. Before she passed out from the pain, she saw that the crowd was suddenly in commotion.
After a decade has passed, the Kingdom of Aerthop suddenly falls into ruins and the people living there were made as sacrificial livestock by the acolytes it was then when an unfamiliar face come to the kingdom and annihilate all the acolytes, the Lord disappeared like a must and the treacherous queen of the kingdom also vanished like smoke. The dagger that was used in the ritual where they called it the Soulskewer was kept in the forbidden vault to avoid causing chaos in the upcoming future.
The soul of Andromeda was miraculously survived because it was suddenly absorbed by the altar unknowingly and there her soul was, continuously refined by the power of the void and molded into an unknown abyssal entity. She has now possessed a ghostly body, with the addition of chains that is still attached to her ghostly arms permanently.
Until one day, her slumbering soul was awakened and summoned by a wandering necromancer, which she unconsciously killed in the first second, slicing the necromancer's neck cleanly with her chains that somehow obeyed her every command.
She smelled the familiar smell out of the wandering necromancer that somehow makes her lash out madly at the necromancer's dead body. And then, suddenly, a surge of memories rushing through her mind—this was her memories, but sadly, it was only a fraction.
But a particular memory about a man flashed in her mind. She suddenly felt warmth and her pale face blushed extensively and she started to fidget her fingers, she doesn't know what happens to her.
And then a burst of murderous aura exuded around her that made her white eyes turn sharp with a fiery glow, her past may be forgotten, but she will not forget the anguish she suffered under the care of her so-called mother. There is only one way to satisfy her hunger for vengeance and that is to slay her treacherous mother. And find the man that she presumed to be her man when she was still alive.
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.....FIN...
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