Prologue

HELENA's POV

My tears kept falling as my legs began to weaken, the strings of life that were attatched to my family disappears. As i ran for my wretched life, the blood stained moon looked at me with pity, the tower of Goharith thrown into Chaos as knights of the Abuneian Empire was able to infiltrate us with a goal to kill a certain criminal.

To kill me.

"Over there!" A knight shouts from a distance.

My anxiety grew as i felt certain amounts of hostility aimed at me. I couldn't perform a spell nor escape with a magic circle because of a special artifact that was made just to bind my unique mana, i grew tired each step i took, coughing blood as the venom started to took its affect, destroying the 50 layers of body protection fluids that i accumulated for the past years.

'How could this happen?! who plotted long enough to kill me?!' i thought in pain.

As they come nearer, my steps began to slow down because of exhaustion. My legs gave in and i fell on the grass of the scarlet fields, the four knights circling me and a familiar figure standing behind them.

My eyes widened, Ophelia.

"O-Ophelia.." i reached out my hand. "Help me!"

The knights number grew as they surrounded me with their weapons aimed at me. The known Four knights comes forward. "Archmage of the Goharith tower, receive your punishment!" William, the first knight seethes in anger.

"I'm innocent!" i replied, clutching on to my chest as my breathing becomes harder. "Ophelia! grab the orb in my off-"

"No." Ophelia glares at me. "Atone for your sins, how could you kill the crown princess?" She uses a strong magic barrier to seal my movements, the circle beaming with light as i screamed in pain.

i gasped, realising the words that came from her mouth. The words of a traitor. "Y-You! did this?!"

she smiles at me, and i cough more blood.

As i felt dizzy and weaker with every second. A pair of feet stands infront of me while i kneeled, my face facing the ground in hatred.

'When did they plot against me?' i thought harder as my vision becomes blurry.

"The Greatest Archmage of the Goharith tower." the man says infront of me with voice full of hatred. "The royal decree states that you are sentenced to death for killing the crown princess of the Abuneian Empire."

My eyes widened in fear. With my powers binded, i stood like a rabbit infront of a lion.

For the first time in my life have i ever felt this hopeless, i lived my whole life as a genius and worked hard to achieve what i have now, but it quickly vanishes because of a certain traitor.

My whole family.. dead.

Even if i didn't look at the face of the grim reaper who was infront of me, i knew he was the Crown Prince, judging from the holy sword that he was aiming towards me. Thinking about it, does he really have to kill me with a holy sword? I can't fight back even if i wanted to, he knew yet he still aimed it towards me.

As my hand trembled in anger, I tried my best to looked calm even at the face of death. I sat slowly, using the last amount of strength I have left, my arms placed on my thighs, I looked straight ahead with a blank expression. "i receive- ugh." i cough more blood.

A sudden realization hit me. I suddenly felt a gush of mana flowing inside of me. Someone clearly lended me mana but i couldn't pinpoint the location since i lacked the requirement of mana to detect the source.

'This is the last chance of survival, i must use that forbidden spell i got from the mist territory.' i thought.

"i receive the royal decree!" i shouted.

My eyes glimmered with the slightest hope as i wielded my hand sidewards, a big mana circle quickly envelops around us. My eyes widened when i sensed a different aura coming from the magic circle.

'what did i just do?! i don't feel an ounce of spatial mana!' i worried as it quickly activates even without me casting it.

The crown prince uses that short amount of time to pierce the holy sword through me. Even as my injury worsens, the magic circle continued to activate.

i fell hopelessly on the ground, the magic circle encircles the crown prince and the four knights, including me. Before my vision betrays me, i took a last look on the Goharith tower.

The memories that i spent with my Father, mother and my brothers flashes right infront of me. I regretted a lot of things, and one of them was not being able to protect my family even as the most powerful mage in the empire. My heart was more in pain as i remembered the days i spent with them.

Even if i die, the thought of reuniting with my family enlightened me.

"I'm sorry." i closed my eyes.

It was the end of a long nightmare.