234 Memories Of The Past
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Faylen analyzed the battlefield using her powerful sight, enhancing it with the power of her Owl Familiar, she glanced through most of it. She saw how Nepheline’s summons were pushing through a good chunk of the army of green skins, while Allan and Shade still got a lot of time to keep fighting before overloading themselves. She herself was overloading herself already with the many conjurations she had to do, but unlike them, she was able to employ magic to heal her own stress and the exhaustion she felt mentally, unlike her allies unable to do such a thing, she was able to continue working near endlessly as she used magic itself to heal her own exhaustion caused by her magic... This made it so Faylen could go through an infinite loop of magic conjuration, but the only thing which she couldn’t heal was the burden in her magic circle.
Of course, for her magic circle to present problems, she would need to conjure something above her own Tier and perhaps even higher, and even then, she would need to do it several times in a row... another way to overload herself would be if she overused the power of her magic for weeks without resting, but that wouldn’t be possible as of now. As she was stable despite constantly growing more exahsuted only to heal herself... the amount of mental strength that the elf mother of Sylphy had forged over her six hundred years of life was tremendous. Faylen was an incredible woman with amazing patience, and she had been abusing this patience and magic power to train herself a lot before she met the heroes.
Due to the problems with her family and how inferior she always was compared to them, Faylen grew obsessed with ways to help her reach the same level of power as the one they had, and continuously improved her own growth speed while seeking new ways to grow stronger in terms of magic, this infinite loop was something that allowed her to permanently gain more and more runes inside of her magic circle for hundreds of years, helping her surpass various of her more talented siblings, but it was at the cost of a constant mental exhaustion that she had to cure quickly after. However, over the years, she slowly stabilized herself, and ended stopping her work as a teacher in the magic academy of Greenwood, moving out into a tower of her own to research magic some more.
In such a tower, one day, she received the blessing of a god, and ended being given the Hero Crest, becoming a heroine at the age of 600 years, which wasn’t that old in terms of elves, as some of the eldest lived for tens of thousands. However, compared to the others, she was vastly experienced, mature, and looked way older as well, when she finally met the other heroes, they were all mostly teenagers, and each one had their own personal problems and even traumas she had to deal with... She remembered that one red-haired boy that was always causing trouble, fighting with the others, and sometimes being way too reckless just because he wanted to impress everybody, Allan.
Now she watched him fight outside, bravely defeating various enemies with the power he had forged through a journey that lasted almost twenty years. He had become a father, and somehow, he had conquered her heart... Back then she never thought that he would do as he said, back then when he said something outrageous to her when he reached the age of 16.
“F-Faylen, I will marry you when I grow up!”
“Eh?! W-What are you talking about, foolish child?! Don’t you know I am over six hundred years-”
“I know!”
.....
“Huh?!”
“I... I just love you...”
“Wha...? Why?”
“Because you’ve helped us all this time... Without you, I would had never been able to learn magic or save my friends when they most needed me... I’ve seen you studying with us, tiring yourself... I... I’ve never seen such an incredible woman as yourself...”
“I-Idiot... Stop talking such things... You shouldn’t love someone like me...”
“I don’t care!”
“S-Stop this already...! Also you scream way too loud! Go back to your room now!”
“Okay... Sorry. But... I had to get it out of my chest.”
“Geez... You’ve always been the most stupid of the group... As if I would ever marry a human...”
Sometimes she recalled this past where the teenager Allan would come to her and confess his love, over and over again, and receive her rejections over and over again. It was like a game the two had at some point, she never thought he would remain with the same feelings for almost twenty years, but he did, and now here they were... protecting their child, and another one next to come inside of her womb.
Faylen gently caressed her belly as she felt the small heart of her second child slowly beating inside, over time, the little fetus had developed a lot, and would continue growing bigger... She had to get out of here and go to a safe place, in a few more months, she would give birth again, and she cannot be in such a dangerous battlefield, if possible, she would like to give birth in her own Kingdom at the very least.
And because of that...!
Because of that, she cannot falter now!
Her eyes shone brightly with holy light coming out of them, her Aura continued growing bigger and bigger, as she suddenly pointed her staff at Ninhursag!
“Holy Symbol!”
FLAAAASH!
Suddenly, Ninhursag gained a holy symbol crest in the middle of her chest, that loaded her with enormous quantities of power, all her capabilities, physical strength and defense, magical power and resistance, agility, swiftness, dexterity, everything was enhanced!
“Now go and do your bidding as you’ve said you would, Ninhursag! And come back alive, I am not planning in losing another friend.” She said.
Ninhursag nodded confidently, as she suddenly transformed into a beautiful and colorful bird, and she flapped her wings, flying across the skies and moving towards her target. Faylen looked at Ninhursag slowly moving away, as she sent one of her spirits to watch over her.
“We’ll get this done with.”
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