Phantasia: The Princess Knight

Chapter 415: Some Souls Never Learn

Inside Alicia's space, Tang An, Tang Ming, Alicia, and Blake were all in Nomi's room. They had kept everyone else out because if anything happened they did not want to stress Frey out. So Loeri was keeping Frey busy by having Frey entertain her baby sister.

Tang An was currently spreading out the herbs in front of her on a wooden desk. "Well… four of the five herbs are useable but one is not."

"Why is that?" Alicia asked, she was confused as to why there was one herb that was not useable.

"Well for one thing it is a real soul in the shape of a soul revival grass." Tang An said as she suddenly wrapped the soul in a burning green flame. 

"Ahh! You wench you dare to harm me!" The soul suddenly yelled out.

"Did you think that by hiding as a soul revival grass that no one would be able to sense you? Let me tell you now if you ever did take over my grandson's body I would make sure to rip your soul out of it and then stuff it into a pile of dogshit to possess." Tang An was furious, she wondered what thought process this soul had to try to take over her grandson's body.

"Damn wench! Wha… Ahhh! Stop! Fucking Wench! Ahhh!" Because of his bad mouth, Tang An decided to light him on fire. "I'm sorry! I won't call you a wench again you filthy whore! Ahhhh! I didn't call you a wench you bicth! Ahhh!!!"

"Is it just me or does this soul not learn?" Alicia turned to her father and asked.

"All I know is that he will be used as a form of entertainment for An from now on… I do feel somewhat sorry for the little guy." Tang Ming watched as Tang An laughed every time she zapped the soul in her hand with a blast of green fire.

Green fire could burn souls, it was a special flame that was hard to control. Even if one used magic to cast it, the spell could always go out of control and consume the user's soul. It was a technique forbidden a few thousand years ago on Phantasia. 

Fifteen minutes passed by and the soul finally shut his mouth. Tang An, made a special cage that would keep the soul inside it making it impossible for it to escape. She also made it so a small green flame would float around the cage randomly diving at the soul to burn it. After watching the soul run around the cage for a while doing its best to dodge the green flame. Tang An, stored it away and turned back to the task at hand.

"With the amount of soul Nomi has left and these four soul revival grasses, we should be able to bring Nomi back to life, but we will need to get different herbs in order to nourish his soul, until then he will be bedridden." Tang An explained.

"As long as I can see the smile on my son's face I don't care even if I have to take care of him forever." Alicia did not care if he turned into a cripple as long as he was alive she would be content.

Tang An smiled and hugged Alicia tightly. "You are my daughter. When it comes to family you are fine as long as they are alive and safe." 

"Mmm... Mom when can we start?" Alicia looked up at Tang An her eyes filled with worry and anticipation. 

"It will take some time for me to do this and I will need absolute silence, so I will need everyone to leave." Tang An suddenly announced. Alicia wanted to stay but seeing her mother's firm look she sighed and nodded her head. She just hoped her mother was not going to do something stupid.

"An..." Tang Ming gave a worried look to Tang An.

"I know my limits. Plus, even if he is adopted, he is still my grandson. As a grandmother who has not even had any time to spend with her own daughter as she grew up, can't I at least do something for my grandson?" Tang An's eyes softened as she looked at Nomi. She truly wished to revive him so he could at least be able to speak.

"Just don't go overboard. If you exhaust your soul too much you will..." Tang Ming didn't want to think about it. He knew the process of repairing a soul was more than just a few herbs. She had lied to Alicia. The herbs were only a medium for one to use their own soul to nourish a damaged soul.

"It's not as bad as it looks. At most I may need to rest a few days. I also have a way to recover my soul. Remember how I was almost killed before?" Tang An asked as she reached up and cupped Tang Ming's cheek. The man in front of her has never changed and always worried over her no matter what. Her the tomboy of the family who would run out and get into fights all the time. He truly cherished her.

"As long as you are able to walk out of this room..." Tang Ming knew he could not change Tang An's mind to tell Alicia the truth. But they worried that Alicia would try to use her own soul instead. She was still young and had not used any means to cultivate her soul. So there was no way her soul was strong enough to endure such a task.

"I promise. Now, out with you." Tang An said. She gave Tang Ming a kiss on the lips and pushed him out the door before closing it, locking it, and setting up a barrier. She waved her hand, setting up another barrier around Nomi and also causing the ice encasing his body to disappear. "Child, your family loves you so you can not sleep forever."

***josei