The Tale of the Void Emperor

Chapter 612 - Dark Days.

After a while, Elena opened her eyes as her soul avatar entered back into her body.

She looked at Gaarshil with an unbelievable expression. She hurriedly turned to Linci and said in a crackling voice, "L-linci...if you are my daughter, then please....please show me your memories."

She has to do this because...she didn't find many memories of Linci except for when Linci was born when she searched Gaarshil. What more, the cold exchange she saw between them left her bewildered.

Elena hugged Linci and used her soul power to read Linci's memories.

She saw herself hugging Linci after she was born while trying to resist the cold power from her body. At that time Elena was also shocked but her daughter was more important to her as she wanted to fill her with motherly love. This moment was important because Linci was a newborn true chaotic being and her soul was developing. Anything she experienced at that moment would be carved into her soul and affect her entire life.

So if she showed scared, fear, or such expression to Linci and exuded such intent from her mind, Linci would capture it instinctively. She can't put Linci away at that time. So...she cradled Linci with the gentlest smile and spoke with her, gave her name, and gave her the warmth to make Linci comfortable. She exuded her motherly love to the fullest until she was finally frozen.

While that was happening Gaarshil was shouting in worry and panic while seeing Elena slowly freezing. But Elena prevented him from moving with her power.

After Elena was frozen, Linci started crying but Gaarshil turned mad-worried about Elena.

At that time, when Gaarshil looked at crying Linci, he was filled with resentment as he felt that she was a cursed child.

Nobody could go near them because if they do, they would feel a deathly chill to their soul and would be attacked by the strange frost power.

Gaarshi then separated the floor around Linci and controlled the cut-off floor part without touching or getting close to Linci as he took away Linci while she cried and flayed her hands towards frozen Elena. She was just born and was getting her thoughts together but her mother and her love were carved in her soul.

But Gaarshil had only Elena in his mind at that time as he put Linci the furthest possible from Elene and put in her the furthest room before sealing it with several barriers. He then hurriedly made his way back to Elena to check her condition.

As Elena was a Saint-realm powerhouse, she endured for more than half an hour while cradling Linci and resisting the Netherly frost with all of her power until she ran out of her power and got frozen. After she was frozen, she was still trying to resist the frost using all of her soul power from killing her soul.

On the other hand, After finding that Elena's soul was seriously injured and she might die in a day, Gaarshil hurriedly sold all valuables and treasures to buy a powerful Stasis artifact in hope that he would unfreeze Elena later by asking aid from Chaos Monarch powerhouses or even Chaos Paragon powerhouses if he must.

He also bought tons of soul recovery natural treasures so that they can provide aid to Elena.

And indeed, her soul stop dying since no more additional Netherly frost was affecting her.

However, he had completely put Linci out of his mind as his entire focus was on Elena.

So Linci continued to cry in the dark, isolated room covered by several barriers before she was exhausted and fell asleep. Many days passed as none of them came to Linci as she just stayed in that dark room. She would cry after waking up as she wanted to meet her mother and sleep after getting exhausted.

She was getting weaker day by day as she needed some nourishment as well. Even though she was a chaotic being, she still needed nourishment as she was just a newborn.

After half a month, two maids entered the room fearfully. Linci was crying but she stopped crying after seeing them and stared at them while letting out baby sounds and flaying her hands towards them.

However, seeing Linci flaying her hands, the two maids hurriedly ran back. Linci was confused before she started crying again.

After a minute, the two servants entered the room again and hurriedly put the nourishment jades on the floor before controlling them and putting them beside Linci.

Linci felt comfortable in her body as the jades released energy to nourish her body. However, she longed to meet her mother and she didn't like staying in this room all the time.

A month passed by as Linci would dream of Elena holding her every day as that was the only thing that kept her sane.

Her soul had developed in a month as she started to speak and walk, as different maids would fearfully enter every day and talk to Linci from afar.

They would give Linci food, clothes, and other things from afar and after a year, one of the maids went near Linci as she felt pitiful for her but just when she entered within two meters of Linci, she started to feel a deathly chill to her soul and felt coldness coming from Linci's body as the maid fearfully ran away.

Linci had spent everyday people looking at her like she was a monster and their gaze would be filled with fear.

After a few years, she saw a man entering the room, devoid of any expression while exhaustion oozed out of him. Linci didn't know who that man was but he started shouting to Linci as he screamed, begged, and asked her if she knew a way to save Elena.

Linci was scared because she was five years old at that time and was confused and scared as to why this man suddenly started shouting and screaming like that.

Linci didn't know anything but she still uttered the words of wanting to meet her mother.

Gaarshil took out her and let her meet Elena but the situation didn't improve. Gaarshil blamed Linci and told her that she caused all of this. In the end, Gaarshil decided to start the training of Linci to make her powerful in hope that she might be able to control her berserk power after getting stronger in the future and save Elena

After that short meeting of Linci with her unconscious mother, Linci continued to stay in isolation as she was taught about training on how to comprehend order sets, how to break through, etc, by different people. During this time, many were injured since Linci was training and they had to demonstrate their power as well, which ended up attracting Netherly frost.

Her days got worse after that but she was still determined to become stronger, control her power, and save her mother. Linci took a cold and indifferent stance towards people after that because all of them either loathed her or were scared of her.

To Linci, Elena and her warmth, love and those moments she spent with her mother were everything and kept her going.

Eventually, she was thrown to lower-choasverse because Elena's condition was not improving and Gaarshil didn't want to risk it because, from the reports, Linci hadn't managed to control the slightest bit of the berserk power in her.

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Elena was crying as she experienced those dark days of Linci herself.