Corrupt Creations

In no time, all the traces the people from the Illusive Ethereal Sanctuary left behind, vanished and only two people remained on that lake area.

Those two people were actually, Lan Xue and the Lake Mother.

Lan Xue was so focused on trying to infuse her Mana inside her grandmother's body, that she didn't even notice the Sanctuary Master's attacks had stopped.

However, as time passed, she started to realize that her Mana was useless. Nothing she did was able to stop her grandmother's health from deteriorating. Well... With her lifeline damaged, it was pretty much certain that she would pass away shortly and both of them knew that. But Lan Xue refused to accept it.

"No... This can't be..." A sense of desperation started to form inside of Lan Xue and she was about to sacrifice her own vitality in order to increase the power of her Mana.

But suddenly, a voice stopped her from doing that.

"Little Lan... Don't... It's too late now."

"No! Grandma! You have to..."

"Honey... I was glad that I could spend some more time with you, but..." The Lake Mother started to feel her strength going away. Her whole body was getting super heavy and her eyelids were forcefully closing.

Lan Xue realized that probably, there was nothing else she could do and her tears started to stream down her cheeks.

"Little Lan... Please... Don't go after..." She wanted to finish the whole phrase, asking for her granddaughter to forget about going looking for revenge or anything similar, but her words simply stopped coming out.

Her life energy had been totally consumed and she fell in an eternal slumber, right in her own granddaughter's embrace.

"NOOOOOO!!! Grandma!!!"

The water shield protecting the both of them finally showed signs that it would vanish, since the Mana holding the skill together started to get weaker and weaker.

From inside the Glazed Lake Sect, the Lake Goddess and Caizhi could see everything that had happened on the outside. Both of them had this very complicated expression over their faces, but differently from Caizhi's watering and wide eyes, the Lake Goddess face was presenting a sad but serene countenance. It was as if she had seen something similar, many different times already.

"Master... Couldn't you...?"

"Caizhi... Sigh... It was her choice. I couldn't do anything about that as well. You're still too young and I hope that everything that had happened, served as a good lesson for you."

Caizhi nodded. She was trying very hard to hold her tears in, but some of them were inevitably escaping.

After a while, Lan Xue, still mourning and crying for the loss of her grandmother, carried her body to the lake and disappeared inside of it, while bringing her to the internal Glazed Sect area.

She reappeared in front of a bamboo house; the place her grandmother loved the most.

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Seth woke up feeling something very strange. It was like he was drowning in anxiety, but he didn't know from where it was coming from.

"Sigh..." Since he didn't know what was causing that, he decided to stand up and do his daily shores.

After a while, he came back to the bedroom he had slept on, to wake up the person that had accompanied him the whole night.

"Hey, wake up, sweetie. It's already bright outside."

"Yawn! Just more five min..." Serene mumbled some words and turned around on the bed. She adjusted herself properly to keep sleeping for a bit longer, ignoring everything else.

Seth tried to make Serene get up early, but he just couldn't do it. She was a person that would naturally wake up late, due to her race and personality traits.

The previous night, Seth had decided to go visit Serene and spend it beside her, since on the other days, he was constantly together with Rina and Arwen.

When he realized Serene would not wake up anytime soon, he decided to leave by himself and let her resting there for a bit longer.

Seth knew that Arwen was probably still undergoing the process of creating her soul space, since it would require some time for it to perfectly form. He also knew that Rina was diligently training her elemental proficiency, due to the energy fluctuations coming from her room. And because of that, he decided to leave on his own, to go visit someone he had an appointment with.

Actually, three days had already passed since he had that conversation with Elyra and it was time for their date. But since Seth was a very straightforward person, he didn't want to let that beautiful elf waiting and decided to go pay her a visit.

However, since it was still early in the morning, he made sure to have a nice chat with Rina first and then calmly leave towards his destination.

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Last night, Elyra had some difficulties to sleep, due to the fact that she kept thinking about her private encounter with Seth. She had never done something like that before, since most of her time, was directed to the management of the family and to her daily trainings.

For Elyra, going out with someone was not something she ever planned on doing and this whole situation with Seth, was kind of her giving a chance, to a hidden desire she had, deep inside of her.

However, during these past few days, Elyra kept thinking about the circumstances that circled Seth and how would their future be, if they were to really get together.

It was certain, that Elyra felt something for him, but in her conception, it didn't mean that they would end up having something together, just because of some affectionate feelings.

That's why, she had been thinking things very thoroughly.

Knock! Knock! Knock!

Suddenly, someone knocked on the door of her bedroom. Elyra expected it would be Arel calling for her and she was right this time. Arel came to tell her someone was calling for her.

"Good morning, Master. I came here to inform you, that there is someone that wishes to see you."

"Who is it?" Elyra could easily guess who it was, but she didn't want give Arel the impression that she was already expecting that person.

"It's Young Master Seth. He said he wanted to talk with you."

"Seth...? I understand. Tell him that I'll be there soon."

"Alright." Arel nodded and left to do her job.