"Due to the very long and nonstop battle in the past hundreds of years, the light faes have already been reduced to only a few thousands. The same was true with the dark faes but the light faes did not expect the vampires to aid the dark faes in this war." The glight fae continued in her recollection and Evie subconsciously looked at her men.

She never expected to hear that the vampires were actually actively involved in the fall of this empire. It seemed that they played quite a significant role in it too!

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Evie found that her heart was aching as she listened to this painful tale. Who would have thought that the faes actually ended up destroying themselves all for the sake of the throne? And the most painful thing was that the queen's enemy was her own husband and child that she bore. Evie could not even imagine what she had to go through going to a war against the one she once loved and even her very own child.

The story made Evie's eyes sting and her throat hurt for the queen and all the faes.

"Did the light faes not seek outside help?" Evie asked and the light fae shook her head.

"Light faes can enchant other races but the queen had refused the idea to seek out the humans to help them. The vampires were already on the dark faes' side, leaving the humans the only race left. But the queen refused to involve the humans in the war. She knew humans were strong in their own right but they could not stand against dark faes and vampires together. The queen knew she would only end up sacrificing many other innocent lives by doing that. So, she stood her ground and fought on without seeking any help. The light faes stood and fought by her side with everything they had." The light fae looked up smiling bitterly as if recalling a very painful memory and Evie was rendered speechless as she waited for her to continue with this tragic tale.

"The queen had sworn that day that she herself would end the war that started because she was the one who had fallen for a man who ended up betraying her. She vowed with her very life in this same place that we are standing in right now. She had ordered the remaining young ones to stay in this hall, including me, before she set out with the remaining faes for what she had called the last battle. We had refused to stay, all of us… we had wanted to fight together with the rest of them until the end. But the queen forcefully made us stay using her strong magic. All of us had been frozen still in our spot and could not move." She said as she looked at the first dark coloured crystal closest to the throne.

Evie immediately realized that this light fae's body must be encased in that particular crystal. Rising from the throne, Evie stood to approach it. As she stood before the black crystal, she stared intently into it before looking at the light fae next to her.

"This… Is this you?" Evie hesitantly asked the light fae, lifting her finger and pointing to the blurry outline of a figure that could barely be seen within the dark crystal.

"Yes." She nodded before she too, turned to look at the crystal Evie was pointing at. "I was the only one who managed to break free from our bondage. I suspect it was because I am a noble faery and am more powerful than everyone in this hall. So, I left my body to follow the queen and saw everything that happened after that."

Evie faced her, her face grave and serious as she listened intently to the story, even though she could already tell the ending of the war. Because she had seen it, with her own two eyes, the desolate land they passed through on their way here. There was literally nothing left to this once majestic and noble realm. There were no animals, no faes… not even a single living plant. Everything was just dead and deathly still in this dark and sombre land.

"The queen lost herself during that war. The sight of her empire being reduced to ashes, and her people all dying in an unfair fight… until her dragon, Onyx, was the only one left… made her burst out and lost all control, and she unleashed everything that she had. All her magic was used up. She even went to the extent of burning her soul to increase to potency of her magic. Her heart had been dead many years ago and had darkened that she fought without mercy by herself, killing both vampires and dark faes even her own husband. She killed him so mercilessly without batting even an eye. However, she was already dying too as she had spent herself out. But the queen was determined to kill her son as well. She had vowed she'll take both of them with her. So even though the prince was powerful, being a royal blooded dark fae, he was still unable to escape the very last powerful attack the queen had unleashed upon himself."

"I saw the queen got surrounded with a balls of lights as she knelt on the ground, her body being pierced through with all sorts of weapons. The dark faes and the vampires were fleeing, including the dragons. I saw her crying and then she screamed as the lights all merged into one massive ball of light surrounding her before exploding in an enormous blast. Every living being that had been touched by the queen's light disappeared as if they were eaten by the light. All the dragons suffered the same fate except for Onyx as the queen had forcefully sent it far up into the sky. The lights had covered the entire land, and there was no place the light did not reach. And when the light was gone, the queen had disappeared as well. Her clothes, her crown, and personal sword was the only thing left lying in that spot where she had sat."