"How?" said Arabella.
(Are you asking why with Illios? Or how did it all happen?)
In the courtyard we were sitting at the tea tables, while Arabella held Lumine in her arms, and she asked me how my daughter was born.
I didn't tell anyone who knew me about Lumine's existence in my previous life. Well, all the people who had the courage to approach me had either passed away before I met Lumine or simply died soon after, like my father.
The question that maybe those people will have is very easy to guess: Why with Kylo?
Kylo and I are complete opposites. He was weak, very weak, almost talentless; on the other hand, I was a genius who was only surpassed by my daughter, as the hero rarely came close to matching me in dexterity or brute strength.
You could say that the only thing Kylo and I had in common was our intelligence.
The reason people did not consider Kylo intelligent is because, while he had knowledge and a great capacity for reasoning, he was not wise in using those qualities, indeed, they worked against him.
Valeria's behavior, the rumors and her apparent lack of interest in him were clear indications that something was going on, and of all the ways to deal with what was happening, Kylo chose the worst.
Ignoring reality.
I don't have a reason why I chose Kylo, I never thought about it in depth, I simply remembered what the queen told me when she saw me in the royal palace, years ago.
"You should smile, Luna, you don't know the joy parents feel when they see their children, smiling with joy is something that cleanses the soul and the weariness of life."
Those words stayed in my mind, because by that time, my whole life was very monotonous, everything was very easy.
There were many candidates to become the father of that child who would change my life, even the hero came on to me on many occasions, since my beauty was known all over the continent.
But the reason I chose Kylo was because, in my gray life, there was nothing that caught my attention, until his purple eyes filled my head.
Yes, that's a very silly reason, since in this world purple eyes are not very unusual.
But Kylo's were different. I can't explain it, but they really caught my attention, something very rare in my monotonous life. Besides, I wanted my son to be this passionate, something I lacked.
I didn't love him, or at least I couldn't identify the emotions Kylo caused me. I don't think it was love.
As for how it happened, it was very easy. Kylo's magical defenses were very low, so it only took an illusion for everything to work as I planned it.
He never knew that his dream, that dream where he fulfilled his destiny with Valeria in many ways, actually happened, but with someone else.
For some reason, I could never forget those sweet words he said to me that day.
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It was 10 years before something very out of the ordinary happened in the world.
I prepared myself for the arrival of the zergs and the apparent hostile forces that temporal entropy would bring to the world.
I even made some sacrifices, like my poor older brother, who died mysteriously, leaving me his position as heir to the Lestia duchy.
When the fake demons invaded, we were all prepared. The hero's wives did not underestimate these guys and many lives were saved. Thanks to my research, I learned where the zergs originated from.
A dimensional rift.
I don't know how to describe it in depth, just think of a tunnel connecting to another world, accidentally caused.
I shared that information with the hero's group and with their help set out to seal that rift. The hero's mistresses knew well how dangerous the zergs were, so there wasn't much trouble getting their help.
By the time we arrived on the scene, we could see that a moderate group had already arrived on our world. The battle lasted a few days, but we finally annihilated them and sealed the rift, with some very powerful spells and artifacts.
Needless to say, weapons made with Lumine's blood played a pivotal role in this battle.
In the end, it seemed that I had averted the end of the world and Lumine would live in a world without apocalyptic wars, a place where her children could grow up happily while I watched them.
As for the hero, he married Sarina Eldoria and the self-proclaimed "Lord of the Flames" ceded the throne to him, saying that the hero was stronger than he was and deserved the throne.
The hero took many concubines, among them many well-known beauties, such as Valeria, the saint and even Anabel Stromcrest.
It should be noted that at first Arabella did not agree, but in the end she ended up giving him her blessing.
By making the decision to become the hero's concubine, she lost the right to succeed to the Stromcrest dukedom, which was given to Sherry.
Everything was going normal, Lumine grew up without any pressure and was trained by her grandmother in the warlike arts of the Stromcrest, while I succeeded to my father's Lestia duchy.
It seemed that I was the paranoid one about the Temporal Entropy, but it was a mistake to let my guard down.
It all started when the hero, already an emperor, invaded a small kingdom. The big countries like the Glaciara Empire and the Celestia Kingdom simply ignored this, as it seemed that country was seeking its own ruin.
But when he invaded 2 others, the rulers had no choice but to pay attention to his actions.
His justification? The hero wanted to unify the world.
Yes, he had the guts to proclaim that to the world. It was unrealistic from many points of view, but when the golden generation started to support him, things got serious.
Glaciara did not take long to declare war, but the Celestia Kingdom did not act immediately. This is because the church of Light somehow convinced the king that the hero would not initiate anything with Celestia.
This was a mistake.
After the fall of Glaciara, Anabel, Valeria and other concubines of the hero returned to the kingdom to convince their respective households to surrender to the hero and swear allegiance.
Some accepted, but many of them, including high nobility such as Arabella, did not.
When Anabel tried to convince her mother, I was there at the time and saw firsthand how proud that woman had become.
She even tried to threaten her and use force, saying that the only way was to join the hero.
When he noticed my presence, he told me that I should surrender to him and that if I used my beauty, he would grant me a lot of power.
Needless to say, that annoyed me.
It seemed that Anabel had become a very proud woman and believed that no one in the world would dare raise a hand against her.
It wasn't until she was humiliated by me that she knew there was someone with guts. She was pitifully weak.
As Duchess Lestia, I imprisoned her for treason and held her captive indefinitely, something that annoyed the hero, employing him as an excuse to officially start the war.
Valeria wanted to negotiate, but who was I, the most talented woman the Celestia kingdom or even the world had seen born before my daughter.
I would never cower against the hero, I was even pretty sure I far surpassed his strength, as I had a lot of time on my hands compared to when I was queen, so getting to the 10 twin stars (mage, knight) was faster than in my past life.
The only drawback was the golden generation talents, the vast majority of whom followed the hero with fanaticism.
These guys, besides being very talented, also used impressive and novel, otherworldly tactics.
But it seemed that entropy was waiting for this moment, because some visitors arrived from the Eria continent.
I am no stranger to the existence of Eria, as many lucky ones were able to cross the sea and arrive here, although they looked more like castaways than visitors, I must say.
Seeing a completely unharmed ship, I became suspicious.
There is a great saying that there are more empires under the sea than there are kingdoms on land, taking for granted that the creatures that inhabit the sea are much more dangerous than those on land, so the fact that a ship crossed the sea and arrived unscathed gave much food for thought.
I personally went to meet these visitors, and what my eyes saw was a completely black and luxurious ship. I must admit that I had never seen a ship with those specifications.
From it, a young woman came out accompanied with 2 girls, a beast girl and an elf.
"Hello sister, mother."
--
I took them into my office and asked them the obvious:
"Are you sure it's true?", I said earnestly.
"Yes," and the young "vampire" didn't take a second to answer.
Seeing her face seemingly certain that she was Kylo's daughter, I pulled out a device that tested blood for parentage, a device that nobles used regularly.
"You know what this is, don't you?", I said and carefully examined her expressions.
"Yes, it's for testing blood, isn't it?" the little elf said.
"Right, we're going to use the blood of all three of them to find out if what they say is true."
The girls didn't freak out, they just acted like it was normal, so without delay I tested everyone's blood and compared it to Lumine's blood.
It was positive.
I felt strange when for the first time I experienced an unfamiliar emotion at the sight of the late Kylo's apparent daughters. I couldn't quite understand what I was feeling, but something inside me stirred every time I saw them.
I ignored it and simply conversed with them. I discovered many shocking things, from the identity of the young woman to the exact number of daughters Kylo had under the pseudonym Spectre.
Ten daughters, and not just that.
She told me that there were over 4500 people in the castle that "Kylo" built, all the inhabitants shared a blood bond, but they were not called sisters because they were not strong enough.
My daughter Lumine told me about the theory of parallel worlds and I thought this was the work of temporal entropy, which convinced me, or rather, I ignored reality.
After that, I went to the Eria continent with the help of a complex teleportation matrix they installed, a matrix I honestly don't know where they got it from and how they made it work.
I took the time to analyze everyone's blood and realized that the possibility that they were from another world didn't sound so far-fetched.
All these people, from Kylo's daughters to the inhabitants of the castle, had something in common: an extremely dark aura but not evil, rather it was as if they were all walking natural disasters, something absurd.
I even thought they would cause the end of the world.
When they heard about the situation in the Celestia realm, they wanted to help me even though I told them that Kylo was accidentally killed by a demon.
Probably, they didn't believe me, but I took the opportunity to command all these disasters.
When I deployed them in the war, I was very impressed with them.
In addition to being extremely talented as Lumine, their strategies were completely geared towards destroying the golden generation geniuses.
It was as if they were their natural predators.
The war escalated greatly, so much so that I had no choice but to appear on the final battlefield, where the hero and her companions were deployed to finish once and for all with "The Spectre Demons," the nickname given to Kylo's daughters by the members of the golden generation.
Just before the final battle began, the sky broke.
It was very unreal, as out of those cracks, came..... Angels?
Yes, beautiful men and women with wings.
At first, we all thought that the gods sent their angels to stop the war, myself included.
But when they started murdering everyone without any distinction, we all knew something was wrong. We had no choice but to join the hero, as the angels were many and very powerful.
Something to note is that the weapons I made with Lumine's blood were very effective against these "angels".
I killed many, I can't remember the exact number, but there were many of them on the ground where I was.
The last thing I remember from this life was a big white flash and a woman arriving on the battlefield.
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Thousands of thoughts formed in my head as I saw the same room in the same situation as when I started this second life.
(I failed again)
I had no choice but to start again.
I went to the party where I met the boy with the purple eyes, but when I saw his eyes, I felt something different.
There wasn't that obsessive love, but I could see an unwavering determination.
Most of all, a familiar dark energy that reminded me of those walking disasters that were so terrifying to those of the golden generation.
(You're that Kylo, aren't you, the one who called himself... Spectre).
Sorry if some events seem too summarized, but this pov got too long je, je :)