Love, thought the witch.
Her life's memories flashed before her eyes but never once did she experience something remotely close to the word called 'love'.
She had no idea who gave birth to her, she just knew that she was on the streets of the Witch Continent since day one of her being conscious.
She begged, she roamed, she fought, and eventually she got stronger after many thousands of years.
In her journey though, she made many enemies and was always on a run from them.
The witches weren't kind. Even though they worked as one, they weren't truly one. A witch was jealous of the progress of another and tried to bring them down by any means necessary.
If it wasn't for the rule that witches couldn't kill other witches, the entire witch society would have collapsed.
The witch had some interest develop within her eyes and looked at Lith.
Lith smiled and said, "If you don't have anything, we both can try having you experience them. We both can work together to find all the happiness you didn't and we both can work our way towards a life that isn't tragic anymore."
"You can die anytime, but you can only live once. Give me and your own self, one last chance. If it doesn't work out, it doesn't work out. Alright?"
The witch's eyes quivered. She had never heard such words from anyone in her whole entire life.
Listening to such words, she didn't know what to feel or even how to feel them.
She was a person deprived of all happiness and her life was nothing but full of tragedies.
She didn't even know the word happiness, it was this bad.
She looked at Lith, stared at him for a few seconds and pondered over what he had said.
It was true, she could die anytime. But she would only be able to live once. Say, even if she were to die and reincarnate, who is to say she'll not suffer through the same things? However, it could also be looked upon as, who is to say she won't be happy?
It was a gamble and she was tired. She didn't want to take such gambles. She wanted to rest.
She looked at Lith and asked this same question about reincarnating and finding her own happiness. She also mentioned that she had tried so many times, yet why did she not find anything he just mentioned?
Lith simply smiled and patted the witch's head. "It's because… this handsome prince wasn't there with you."
He then winked at her and chuckled.
The witch, at first, didn't understand anything Lith said, but after a while of pondering, she thought, 'I see…'
Nobody knew what she was thinking of, but whatever Lith said had turned the corner of her lips to slightly curve up.
Life reappeared within the witch's eyes and some hope of living again were rekindled within her.
"Unchain me, I'll try to break the curse."
Lith turned to Noman and Ruben in the room, who simply slashed at the chains and broke them.
Nobody was afraid of the witch attacking them. There was a higher power in the castle, things were fine.
The witch went to Fei and while using her powers, tried to break the chains binding her.
While doing so, she said, "There needs to be someone who's proficient in Time and Space elements."
"I am," said Lith.
The witch nodded lightly and handed him a few strings that he was supposed to wrap around the places she was asking him to.
A few minutes later, she began drawing certain inscriptions below Fei and circled her.
Then, she asked Noman and Ruben to help her and Lith to move aside.
The three people began injecting their powers into the inscriptions below and Fei's body began getting covered with darkness.
However, above the darkness appeared bright green chains and a rusty old lock.
The witch held on to the lock via the strings Lith had placed before and asked Noman and Ruben to hold the strings placed on the other areas on the chains.
With one go, the three people pulled the strings with all their might and a loud rumbling was heard in the room.
"Prepare for tribulation," the witch warned as she tugged hard, causing the lock to finally break.
Another loud rumbling was heard as if the heavens were angry and a tribulation was for sure going to descend.
However,
Two seconds… three seconds seconds… one minute…
Ten minutes passed and no tribulations occurred, dumbfounding everybody.
"Strange…" the witch muttered.
She gazed at Fei up and down, then at the ceiling of the room, but there seemed to be no signs of anything.
Everything seemed to be normal.
She was so dumbfounded as this was an ancient curse. Breaking it brought upon oneself a great calamity.
Then why didn't calamity arrive?
Did the curse not break? That shouldn't be the case. The chains were gone and Fei had gone into deep meditation.
She was also getting stronger by each passing second, meaning that the restrictions had indeed all gone.
Then why? Why was there no calamity?
The witch was so confused.