19. The light

I look at my hands in shock, the paper was back at it's original form, yet the red light wasn't going away from my palm. Even rubbing it on my night gown won't make any difference.

The more I panicked the brighter the color got. After a few minutes of trying different ways of making it disappear, I get reminded of all the web-novels I had read, some were in fantasy or Murim and cultivation styles.

'It's not like I have anything to lose by trying…'

I close my eyes and take a deep breath, strangely enough I feel warmth in my chest, like a flowing river, some kind of power which I assume to be mana travels around my veins, getting mixed with my blood and absorbing something from thin air.

I focus on my glowing hand, feeling my body getting hotter and the warmth getting stronger to the point of feeling pain. I open my eyes, the uncontrollable energy in my hand was still there but the color had changed. It had become a darker shade of red and perhaps a little smaller in size. Even though I opened my eyes and stopped cultivating, the heat only got stronger and the pain spread throughout my body.

'What's going on with my body?'

I grab a chair as I bend down in pain, but to my surprise the chair turns to dust with a single touch.

sweat spreads on my forehead and I fall down, even the place I put my hand on the floor was turning into dust.

'…is this Scarlet's power of destruction?!'

'Never before had I felt so defeated and helpless, not even in my nightmares, I try to gasp for air but that's useless as well…it's all helpless…I'm going to die here…'

I slowly lose all hope, all the encouraging words of motivational talkers and even my past self to "never give up", couldn't be any more useless right now.

Someone opens the door aggressively in a hurry.

I look up and our eyes meet. Theo panting in a casual outfit, with messy hair and sweat running down his face rushes to me. His shiny golden eyes looked deem, yet showed various emotions clearly.

They were gloomy, scared and angry all at the same time. He was nothing like Scarlet's memories.

He falls on his knees and holds me tightly while chanting something, as soon as our gaze met the pain became more bearable and it slowly disappeared whit him murmuring spells and me pressing my face against his chest, my hands unconsciously cling to his shirt like a child who had found her mother after getting lost in a mall.

Theo flinches for a second but doesn't stop chanting.

The room was now filled with sun light and a golden aura that protected everything, I don't know how but I knew that golden light was Theo's, which would protect everything, somehow at that moment that room felt like the safest place on this planet.