Chapter 3 Time skip

10 years later

In these Ten years everything went same on how Amaris always torture Raizel and Raphael to the point of Death and when they were really about to die, she would give them the same red liquid which always heal them even with the life threatening injuries.

When the twins turned 10 years old, Amaris started teaching them, how to read and write, it was easy for Raizel but hard for Raphael.

Since Raizel has his previous life knowledge he was able to understand the basic. But even with the previous life knowledge he was not able to keep up with her lessons.

Amaris would always beat them up, if they were not up to her expectation.

Which happen very frequently.

Because of her beating the twins learned all the basic and advance knowledge in 8 months.

It not like they have a choice, if they didn't listen their mother, She was gonna do worst.

After that she would also teach them how to fight with swords and different kind of weapons.

She was always merciless in their training session, and sometime the twins would not even wake up for weeks or perhaps months.

But the twins were also getting stronger, faster and smarter too. 

Now they were able to keep up with their mother for 5 minutes, unlike in the beginning when they were beaten in seconds.

In these years Raizel and Raphael bond has gotten close to the point that they can even tell what the other one was thinking.

Their feeling grow stronger for one another, they always stay with each other no matter where they go.

They would sleep together, eat together and even bath together.

Over the years Raphael has developed an unhealthy amount of obsession for Raizel.

Their was an incident when a maid accidently pour tea on Raizel clothes.

Later that night her cold body was found in her room.

She was hanged naked in the ceiling, their were multiple cut and burn marks on her body, her hands were crushed, while her eyes were gorged out of socket.

Her face was burned to the point that it was hard to recognized.

The one who examined her body said that.

'She was tortured for several hours before bleeding to death.'

The condition her body was left in has put a deep fear in the guards and all the servant in the castle.

Their were only one thought in their mind.

The daughter of the Queen is a monster.

After that incident no one tried to look at the kids in the eye.

Much less be around them.

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Unknown(pov)

An imposing, Gothic-style castle situated on a misty, mountainous terrain. 

The castle, appearing ancient with its dark red walls and brown roof, is designed with sharp architectural spires and turrets which extend outward, adding a sense of eeriness to the structure. 

The surrounding landscape is barren and the sky overhead is filled with dark clouds. Several dark dragons can be seen flying around the castle and within the sky, the atmosphere of the castle is dark and filled with horror.

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Inside the Castel in one of the room.

A large circular library. Sunlight streams through three windows, adding natural light to the space. The walls of the library are densely packed with books, creating an atmosphere that feels both dramatic and cozy. 

The central feature of the library is a bridge-like structure that leads down into a lower area of the room. The architectural design, with bookshelves extending up to the high ceiling, enhances the verticality and spaciousness of the library. 

This structure creates an impressive sense of scale and grandeur. The lighting, predominantly from the sunlight filtering through the windows, casts an inviting glow onto a small section of the library floor, contributing to the room's mysterious ambiance.

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We could see two children who looks to be 13 or 14 years older.

Both of them has long beautiful purple hair reaching their back and big purple eyes with long eye lashes. Their skin was white as snow with pink lips.

Both of the children look extremely gorgeous to the point that anyone one could mistake them for beautiful porcelain doll.

The children right now were extremely focuses on reading the books in front of them.

Their were some dark circles under their eyes, which was from the lack of sleep.

But these dark circles only added a cham to them.

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Raizel (pov)

"sigh"

A sigh escape my mouth as i closed the book in front of me.

I leaned back on the chair and closed my eyes too.

'I still can't believe that i got reincarnated in the world of Shadow Slave.'

It was really hard to digest the truth, after all this is not your loving fantasy world.

'This world is Fucked up'

Shadow Slave a is novel about a guy named Sunny who lives in a dystopian future where some people are forced to periodically visit a magical world and battle terrible monsters. If they survive, they receive special powers. Sunny is a cynical, disillusioned young man with a bleak outlook on life. 

But that not the point, the gods of this world were not even able to save themselves, then how am i supposed to save my self.

Oh right my name is Raizel Dark Solomon, the Prince of the Royal Dark Solomon family. My family is the oldest and the most powerful family. Even before the nightmare my ancestors were one of the rulers of the world.

And that not all, the member of the my family believed in the purity of blood, they did not share their blood with any outsider which led to them have intermarriage.

'Pureblood ideology, huh'

Well i don't hate ideology, it a good thing they keep it at the family.

But

'Their were no family like this mention in the novel' if the family was so powerful then why was it not mention in the novel.

My grand father 'Azrael Dark Solomon' true name Twilight was the first Awakened in the Dark Solomon family. Together he and Immortal flame fought back against the tide of Nightmare Creatures, eventually establishing a new world order.

Which is still in used currently.

His daughter Amaris Dark Solomon true name Queen of Darkness.

'Our mother... sadly'

She was the first Master to clear the third nightmare. She also become the first Saint in the history of mankind.

'But wasn't Nephis father Broken Sword was the first Master to become a Saint'

I mean it didn't make any sense because Broken sword, Nephis father was the one who become the first Master and the first one to become the Saint in the history.

But in the books it is written that Amaris Dark Solomon was the first one to become the saint. 

And that too when she was young.

I even search it online and found out that it is true.

'The history has changed'

And the fact, that she is the first one to kill an unholy rank terror in the history, a feat which no one has ever achieved till now.

'Unholy Rank huh'

I don't know much about unholy rank since in the novel only the Cursed Rank creature information was provided.

But the Cursed Nightmare Creatures were terrifying and equal to what a Sacred being would have been. Since a sacred being was already a lesser deity, a Cursed Nightmare Creatures could be considered a profane deity of abyssal corruption.

'And if she manage to kill an Unholy Rank terror a level higher then a Cursed nightmare creature who could be compare to a god, then she must be powerful'

Just three years ago i was planning on killing her, but after learning about her, i can only pray that she can't read mind.

But their was always a question on my mind.

'How did she mange to kill an Unholy terror ?'

It is written that after she become the saint, a category 6 gate opened up, from which the Unholy rank Terror come out, in that battle thousand of awakened died and more then half of the continent was destroyed.

My grandfather and a lot of Awakend from the family died in that battle.

Not only the Awakend from our family but from other clans and government were dead too.

Their is only one theory i come up with on how she could have killed the Unholy terror.

'She must have killed the terror when it was wounded by the multiple attack from the powerful awaked like grandfather.'

This theory would make sense, it still has some flaws in but it is the only thing i could think of.

Then their another question in me mind.

'In the novel the highest rank of the gate was 5 but here it is 6 huh.'

So many changes has happen in the history.

'i wonder if the future is also going to be same'

If the history has changes then their is a possibility of the future changing too.

Then their my Father to.

'I wonder what happen to him.'

I mean i have never head of that man name, even after checking all the family recorded and photo albums, i wasn't able to find any information on him.

'It is as if he has disappeared or doesn't even exist'

Even when i asked my mother, she seems to be ignoring the question and some time she would beat the hell out of me.

'She knows something about him but she is hiding it'

....er-'

Because her reaction say it all.

...ther'

But the real question is why.

"BROTHER!!!" 

Suddenly the shout of my sister make me come out of my thought, i opened my eyes and look at front and saw a my sister staring at me blankly.

"Hm ?"

My sister narrow her eyes as she look at me.

'What were you thinking about ?, that you didn't even response to my calls' said my sister through our connection.

She sounded a bit angry, probably because she think that i was ignoring her.

'It seems i got lost in thought.'

'I was just thinking about what would be the challenges we need to face in our first nightmare' i lied after all i can't tell her that i am a reincarnate and this world is just a novel i read.

My sister eyes turned hollow, she said in a cold tone.

'Don't lie, tell me what were you really thinking about'

'It seems like she caught on it huh'.

I don't know what it is but their seems to be a connection between us, we can tell what the other is thinking and feeling, we don't even need to say the word out loud as we always used this connection to speak.

She was able to tell with this connection, that i was lying.

'Should i tell her the truth' i mean she is my sister, we both have gone though the same suffering and torture. In this world she is the only one who will not betrayed me.

'After all she is the only one i trust the most.'

But

I don't think it would be a wise choice to tell her the truth.

Their are many reasons. 

First, if i told her about my recantation, then she could start acting differently around me and the trust we have build up for years has some chances that it can be broken too, which i don't want to do honestly.

Second, If she start acting different around me, then mother would become suspicious of us and she may used some underhanded methods on her to find out what is going on.

Third, their are many powerhouse in this world that can control someone. So i don't want to share the information i have because i don't really want to imagine what would happen.

So i have decided to not tell my sister about my reincarnation.

'But what should i say to her'

I look at my sister, who was staring at me with such insanity. I then decided to speak up.

'It just that after mother has challenged the fourth nightmare and... sadly she has successfully manage to cleared it, their has been a slight changes in the power dynamic in the world and i am afraid something bad will happen in the future.'

That's right mother has already become a Sovereign, a rank above saint.

My sister looked at me for a second before nodding her head, she also agree with what i said.

'Yeah, you are right after mother cleared the fourth nightmare the clans and the government has become a lot wary of us.'

Now in this world their are 6 Sovereign instead of three like it was in the novel. Their is one in Valor clan, one in Song clan, one is Aster and the rest of the three belong to our family, their is no Sovereign in the government.

'One of them is our mother and the other two identity are unknown.'

The identities of the Sovereign is not publically mention. And the higher up are going to keep it that way.

But later in the novel their identity was revealed but that is after Sunny and his companies become saint.

'Their is a lot of time before that'

'That women must be busy with a lot of work, huh' said my sister.

Right it been three months, since we have heard anything from our mother.

From what i know from the novel that Sovereign can't come into walking world, i mean that what the Nephis said.

I then look at my sister who was looking at me with weird eyes.

'Enough talking about mother, did you found any information that could be useful.'

I asked as to switch the topic about mother, and focus on the task in our hand.

Right now me and my sister our trying to find more information about nightmare creature and their weak point, so that we can be fully prepared for our first nightmare.

Since we have started showing the symptoms of the nightmare 1 week ago.

We don't have much time.

My sister shook her head as she said.

'Their is nothing new, all the information about the creature i found is already read by us.'

'Do you find anything else ?'

My sister asked a question as she look at me.

'Nope, everything is already read by us' after all we spend most of our time in the Library if not in the library then in the torture house.

"Sigh"

A sigh escapes from her mouth.

'Well then lets get out of here' she said as she stood up from her chair.

I nodded at her words as i too stood up from my seat.

We both held our hands as we start walking out of the library.

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