Chapter 63: Vol2 Ch22 – Searching for Rei (3)

Alethea jumped toward Kye to embrace her lover, but she was met by an invisible rectangular barrier that became a translucent white upon contact. “Kye?”

“I’m sorry.” She didn’t react in the slightest. Her face and eyes were blank.

“What’s with the barrier?” Doran asked.

“I’ve been maintaining the barrier since I left Realm 7. My mental state is too dangerous for close contact with even you.” She raised her left hand and closed it into a fist while looking down at it. “It’s as though there’s someone else in my head. I won’t risk your safety in this state. My body has - what felt like - automatically reacted to things. I’ve been so angry. Angry with so many people. Angry at you three, everyone in this palace, everyone in the other palaces, every member of our families that were not here to stop it, but most of all... myself.”

“This is bothering you even more than me,” Alethea said.

Kye sighed. “Yes. I’ve spent most of my days since I heard Rei’s first prayer on Daemonheim deep in the demon beast infested area of the continent futilely trying to burn off some of that anger.”

Their eyes widened at the same time. “““Prayer?”””

“It’s not something I ever intended to tell anyone, and I still won’t tell anyone else. You’ll have to keep that information to yourself.” She sat down on the bed and collapsed backward. “Ever since the day I was born in this world, I’ve heard prayers. Anyone that prays to Elysia or ‘god’ is praying to me. After Allison and the others rescued me from my attempted kidnapping - specifically, on the way back to the palace - I heard my father praying for my safety. The day she was kidnapped, Rei prayed for me to save her. Ever since, I’ve heard a prayer from her every couple of hours. I heard your prayer, Alethea, when you casted Eye of Providence. That’s how I knew she was kidnapped in the first place, and that’s also when I left Realm 7. I was so overcome with grief that my power exploded and transported me to the place I thought she’d be, Icarus. But she wasn’t there.”

“Kye?” Alethea sat down next to her. “Why are you back at all?”

“I came to pick up you three. We’re going to Atlantis. Get dressed if you don’t want to go in your aethersilk clothes.” The three shrugged. They were far more concerned with what Kye was planning than wearing regular clothes. “Okay.” Kye created another portal and waited for them to step through. “I’ll join you shortly. I need to go pick up Luma.” She abruptly closed the portal before they could respond and opened another one to where Luma was. After picking her up, they joined the others in Atlantis.

*****

In a certain barrier encased mansion, a young black-haired girl was returning to her room escorted by one of the several maids. Once in her room, the maid scolded her for failing her lessons. She was having trouble grasping multiplication, a ridiculous expectation for a child her age.

I’m only three years old! Mommy, help me! Please, come save me. They are so mean to me. They are making me take lessons you said I wouldn’t take for a couple years! They’re making me swing a sword so many more times than you do... and it’s heavy.

The maid continued to list off things about Rei’s lessons as she did her best to hold back tears.

Please, mommy! This place is awful!

*****

In the Atlantis palace, Kye suddenly fell to her knees, clutching her head. “No.”

“They are so mean to me!”

Kye could hear every word Rei prayed, and every word the maid said. “No!”

“What’s wrong?” Alethea bent down to help Kye, but the barrier stopped her.

“No, get back!” she screamed. “I hear her. Stay back!”

“Please, mommy! This place is awful!”

Silvery white aether exploded from Kye’s body, reacting to her anger. “I’ll kill every one of them! STOP TORTURING MY DAUGHTER!” She stood up and threw an aether infused punch at nothing, but her fist landed on her own barrier and heavily cracked it. She collapsed to her knees again with tears falling to the ground. “Leave my baby alone...” She pounded the ground with one hand. “She’s only three years old. This is too much for her!”

Alethea cried as she watched Kye writhing in anger and sadness, Doran and Michelle trying to comfort her. Luma was frantically trying to cast healing magic on Kye, but the barrier nullified everything she did. It was only when Allison appeared and shattered the barrier that they could make any progress. Layla, James, and Hannah showed up soon after and helped with restraining Kye and applying healing magic.

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Atalante left the scene, but returned only a few minutes later with Evelyn in tow. Evelyn placed her hand on Kye’s forehand. The blonde tried to fight the restraints, but the combined effort of Luma and the many elder royals stopped Kye from moving an inch, even with her silvery white mana at full power under aether drive.

“REEEEEEEIIIIIIIIIII!!!!!”

After several minutes, Evelyn managed to calm her to the point that she no longer tried to fight them. Instead, she cried, and Layla held her tightly. She cried until she passed out from grief and exhaustion.

“In all my ten million years, I’ve never seen a breakdown even close to this in severity,” Hannah said. “To be honest, I’m at a loss at what to do about this. What even triggered it? What were you talking about before it happened?”

“It’s... not our place to say,” Michelle said hesitantly.

“I’ll say it,” Atalante said bluntly.

“““No, you can’t!””” came Michelle, Doran, and Alethea.

Atalante shook her head. “No, everyone here needs to know.” She took a deep breath and just let it rip. “She hears every prayer in the entirety of Elysium. Every single prayer offered to Goddess Elysia - if the person knows her name or not. Put yourselves in her shoes. Imagine you are forced to hear the prayers of your desperate and frightened child and you can’t save her.”

Michelle was shocked. “How do you know that much? She only said that she could hear her. She didn’t-”

“The lot of you aren’t the only anomalies in this world,” Atalante said, her seriousness on full display. “In your terms, I’m a mortal born with Radiance.” She paused for a moment and looked toward the door on the far side of the chamber. “Once everyone was gathered, I was planning to take you down below.”

“What are you talking about? How the hell could a mortal be born with Radiance?” Doran said, giving up the idea of keeping his own identity secret from those around him. “The only way a mortal can gain Radiance is by being blessed by one of us or Lady Eve. It’s outright impossible!”

“I was also born with Radiance,” Allison added matter-of-factly. “Don’t discount the possibility just because you’ve never heard of it happening.”

“I know about the prayers because I hear them, too,” Atalante continued. “When Goddess Eve appeared to us long ago, she secretly assigned me that responsibility, and I have governed this empire ever since, knowing what the people prayed for. Anyway, the issue here is that the prayers she hears from Rei are causing her an immense amount of pain. The longer this goes on, the worse it’s going to get. We have one advantage at the minimum with the prayers. Both Kye and I know what the place where Rei is being held looks like. However, it’s surrounded by a powerful, black-colored barrier. I don’t recognize the estate, so it’s somewhere I either have not laid eyes on or have not previously seen through prayer.”

“Well then, that narrows down the search!” Michelle exclaimed. “You should have brought this up right away!”

Atalante sighed. “Maybe so, but it’s not entirely helpful information. The problem is that I have laid eyes on every inch of my empire. There is no location across the thousands of planets under my rule that I have not seen, and since this incident began, I have been using world magic to visually watch over every planet. I admit I can’t perform the spell as well as Alethea did on Alcanus. My use of Eye of Providence isn’t good enough to allow me to examine mana across an entire planet, but it grants me the sight to view everything under my name.”

“What about the Void?” James asked, as if it was the obvious solution.

“The Void is purple and black, no? The estate she is being held within resembles any normal place. It’s full of color.”

“We should consult with Aliana,” Alethea said, her own confidence returned. “If there is a way to manipulate the color of the Void, then she may be able to confirm it. She’ll be at the Void Palace. Hannah, Astraia, may we trust Kye to you for now?”

Astraia exited her weapon form and nodded together with Hannah.

“Thank you. I... want to be there when she comes to, but I also want to find good news to share with her as fast as possible. Let’s go!”

 

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