93 Dead End 3

Faint noises glided across the air, carried to a current and drowned forever. Light touches swayed and a softness spread.

Lia opened her eyes and stared into Susa's, "How are you feeling?"

Lia wanted to get up but Susa lightly pressed Lia's head back onto her lap.

It was undeniable that Susa's lap was very comfortable and Lia felt like she was laying on clouds. Susa's head was above Lia's looking intensively at Lia as her hands trailed Lia's temples up and down.

"I hope this calms you. Do you still have any pain?" Susa's gentle smile made Lia feel at ease when she remembered what had happened.

"Yes, the pain's gone. Thank you," Lia turned her head to see that they were still at the place where the ghosts were sealed and her allies had surrounded her in a circle with worried faces.

"I'm fine, you don't have to worry, I just overexerted myself," Lia sighed seeing how they all wanted to talk at the same time. It was honestly embarrassing for Lia. She just laid there while Susa wasn't letting her go.

"Really?" Lily blurted out with tears in her eyes.

"There's nothing to cry about," Lia teased her, "I just overexerted myself."

"As if!" Xavi sat there cross-legged and refused to look at Lia.

"Young Master, don't be mad at Lia, it's not her fault."

"It's obvious, she's been keeping another secret."

Lia finally was able to sit up and patted Xavi's head, "I promised you, no? I also didn't know something like this would happen. By the way, where's Mika?"

Only now, Lia noticed that Mika wasn't present.

"Over there," Susa pointed at the back of the ghosts and Lia saw he was purging them.

"He's feeling bad and thought it's his fault, although he doesn't admit it."

"I see, I'll talk to him," Lia thought it was endearing that Mika did have some good feelings towards her, seeing how he was beaten himself up. Lia remained in front of the invisible wall until Mika stepped out giving her a glance before looking away. Lia's lips curved.

"Thank you."

Mika halted, "For what?"

"For worrying about me."

"I wasn't," this answer bolted out faster than lightning.

"Of course not," Lia smiled at him and raised her hand to pat his head but Mika evaded, "Don't feel bad, ok? It's not your fault."

"I wasn't!" Mika repeated and stepped away. Lia let him and returned to the others.

"We'll stay for the night here and depart tomorrow," Xavi told Lia, "We use the opportunity to train."

"Alright," Lia agreed, this was a good chance to let them develop their abilities to a higher level.

When Xavi and the others went back to the training, Lia sat on the grass and rubbed her chest. She still felt a bit uneasy, however, the pain has settled a lot.

Watching them train their powers made Lia feel proud yet also envious and even more so a burden. She was restless and also wanted to do something but Susa advised her to rest and Xavi told her to take some time to focus on her soul training.

Hopefully, it might help. Lia concentrated on strengthening her soul but in the end doubted how useful it'd be. She had no actual idea on how to make her soul stronger, it was basically just deluding herself into it.

A few hours later, the others took a break and rested on the ground. Despite their lifeforce being unlimited, it was still a hard and tiring process to turn the life force into actual power.

"How do you feel?''

Everyone once again assembled around Lia and she didn't know what to feel being treated like a precious jewel.

It was a nice experience, "I'm fine, don't worry about it."

"You always say that," Xavi responded but wasn't angry at Lia anymore. At least he gave off the impression.

Yet Lia wanted to tease him, "You surely aren't angry anymore?"

"Why would I be?" Xavi really wasn't, however, when he thought back on how helpless he was when Lia fainted, a slight sourness crept up. He was supposed to be the right hand of the Immortal King. He swore to help and protect her yet he failed to notice the condition she was in.

He was a failure as the Elder of the A family. He couldn't help but feel this way. There was nothing to be done about his thoughts running wild.

"She seems fine to me," Mika stood up and this time summoned a fan.

"Where are you heading?" Susa curiously looked at Mika and his fan.

"Back to training," he left and vanished into a square again.

"Typical," Lily also stood up, "Let's go back."

One after another one they went back to train. Soon, it was nighttime and everyone laid on the ground, quickly dozing off to sleep after a harsh day.

Everyone except for Lia. She sat amidst the lying people and watched the glistening veils dancing in the night breeze.

It was unclear what went through Lia's mind at that moment but the helplessness that threatened to completely swallow her was unbearable.

Lia wanted to do something. The realisation that she might lose her only ticket to take down Min, her only power to pave her way to the top glided like a feather in her body, viciously turning into heavy rocks pulling her entire being down.

She was afraid to lose her power, to lose her only hope to commit her revenge, to lose what she's been put through 10 000 years of torture to attain.

There was no way she could let go of this streak of fortune but it drifted further and further away. Maybe because she gathered allies, her power would start to disappear?

But it couldn't be, she was about to become the Immortal King and his power didn't come and leave because he had people around him. But then again, she wasn't the legitimate Immortal King, her power was only a fraction of his.

Lia couldn't just sit by and watch everyone overtaking her. She was supposed to lead them, become stronger, just do anything instead of sitting here feeling sorry for herself.

The wagons on her train of thoughts multiplied and raced towards a dead end until it head on crashed with a huge explosion

At once, Lia stood up and with one last look at the peaceful faces of the others sleeping, Lia came to a horrible decision she knew herself was stupid but she wanted to do something.

Do anything to get rid of those excruciating thoughts and panic that rose. Carving into a stone, Lia left the others a message behind, that she was going to first find the U family.

It was very stupid but if Lia didn't even succeed doing this alone, what could she do then without her powers?

The dead end she was approaching came closer and closer. And there were no brakes for her to hit, instead of crashing into it and dying, she'd break through it and create a new path.