Evelyn was looking outside the window of the place where Prince Adley decided to imprison her. Cathay and Evelyn were separated from each other.

Well, Evelyn already predicted that Prince Adley and Ishid will make sure that she won't have any contact with anyone.

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Still, looking outside the window, she was standing there and was looking at the surroundings where she was imprisoned.

'I expected as such… but there's really nothing here ha…!' She deeply thought.

Looking at the room that she was in, there were only the necessities that were placed inside. Some chairs and tables for dining, a bed for sleeping and a washroom for her needs.

There wasn't even a single cloth except for the piece of the dress that she was wearing and the cover sheet of the bed.

'They really won't let a single chance of escape… even the window was fixed and have bars on it.' Evelyn assessed.

She also looked down at her fingers. Her black ring that has always been there was left with her contracted spirit Gil. She can't risk that Prince Adley would know about the black ring that stands as the medium of her powers to her spirits.

Though it was a hassle for her, she was still fine because she can still use her power and her swordsmanship. Any object would make a great weapon for Evelyn.

After she saw the abundant forest that surrounded the mansion that she was in which she didn't know where, Evelyn walked into the bed and laid her body and looked at the ceiling.

"I've been here for about two days…" Evelyn spoke and silently went quiet again.

Evelyn was imprisoned in the dark cell of god knows where before Prince Adley decided to change the location and brought her to a mansion in the middle of the forest.

She was afraid at first when Cathy and her were separated by the transportation. The thought of Prince Adley killing Cathy just because he doesn't have anything that he can gain from her struck Evelyn with anxiety.

She only felt relieved whenever Cathy talked to her via their link as a contracted spirit and contracted master.

Even though Evelyn looked bored right now, she was constantly communicating with her four other contracted spirits which are Gil, Chrisfold, Bern and Alisha.

She was menatlly busy while her body was just loitering around the room and making sure that the guard that was constantly checking up on her every hour won't suspect her.

Evelyn stretched out her hand and saw the familiar mana restriction wrap around her thin wrist. It was a black iron with chains wrapping her hand to her forearm.

She heaved a sigh.

'It's a relief that I learned how to manipulate the results of the mana assessment. It was a risk but it's worth it. I thought that guy would see right through me because he was looking at me with his sharp eyes…'

Recalling what Prince Adley did before they decided to change her location from the underground prison cell to the mansion that she was in right now was in a condition that her mana was inspected.

Evelyn remembered what Prince Adley said to her.

"We should check how strong you are now... I would be disappointed if my soon to be wife escaped because she think she can get away from me."

"I'll kill myself before I become your wife!!!" Evelyn yelled.

A flicked of Adley's hand and Ishid silently brought the crystal stone that scaled how large is her mana capacity.

Evelyn that time was trying to resist with all she got, trying to appeal like she doesn't want to abide by his order.

Ishid smiled viciously and snatched her hand away and placed it in the crystal stone.

Though at that time she was making sure that she was angry, she was also happy at how predictable the two were.

Internally, Evelyn was smiling from ear to ear. Because she already has made sure that she wouldn't get caught that easily.

"What?!" Ishid shockingly said after he got the result coming from the glow of the crystal stone.

Prince Adley also looked at Ishid who was crumpling his face.

"What is it?"

When Ishid passed the result to Prince Adely and read it, he was also shocked at the result.

"How can this be? Isn't she supposed to be in the middle-tier? How the hell did her mana fall backward like that?"

"I told you, I'm not the person you were looking for…!"

Prince Adley stares at Evelyn who has become messed up because of her resistance that she made during the few days that she was in the prison cell.

"I don't care who you are… as long as you have that pair of eyes, that unique hair and that face, you have all the things that I need. You should be grateful that I didn't let someone touch you in this cell."

Prince Adley laughed.

'This f*cker!' Evelyn gritting her teeth.

"Well, that's also fine that you are in the low-tier. That way, you won't escape easily." Prince Adley looked at the guards stationed outside her prison cell in the underground and told Evelyn.

"All of my servants are in the middle-tier and above."

Evelyn got her eyes open wide,it was not an easy feat for a single person to have servants that are elites.

'So, that was the reason why the mage that we encountered back at the Deheldi Forest near the Academy were powerful enough for me to have my mana exhausted' Evelyn thought as she looked at Prince Adley and Ishid.

"We should get you out of here and bring you to a more comfortable place. You're going to become my bride soon and I wouldn't want to be called a cruel husband by my wife."

Prince Adley touches Evelyn's face whereas she spits on her.

"So feisty…"

*Slap!*

"Tried that one more time and I don't know what else I could do... I have a bit of a temper you see...."

"I'll f*cking kill you!"

Prince Adley only just smiled while he walked away from Evelyn.

That was the last time that Evelyn heard from Prince Adley, even until now that they imprisoned her in a room, Adley still didn't visit her like she thought he would do.

Evelyn has already predicted that Prince Adley will try to confirm how much her powers have evolved. For the record, she was in the middle-tier when she was at the start of her Academy days.

The most she could do was to seal most of her mana and let only a small portion that could have reflected in the mana ball as a low-tier mana.

'I thought I could erase the whole presence of my power but it's still hard.'

She sighed again. Evelyn put her hand where her heart is and closed her eyes.

'There's still some chains in my heart that were locked… That's why I still can't master my own power."

After she got her memory back… all the chain that was sealing her memories break down. However she still has another issue, the chains that were in her heart were still there.

A total of seven chains were wrapping her heart like it was making sure that no one could go in. She never would have had an idea about it,if she didn't feel a severe pain in her heart when she got her ring and met all her spirits.

At first, she thought that it was the side effect of that night when Cassandra prepared the unsealing of her memories. Never would have thought that it was for some different reasons.

One chain out of the seven broke free after meeting with all of her spirits.

'Did it trigger after I got a portion of my power?'Evelyn thought.

Though, she still didn't figure out what it was and the memory that she got accompanied by the unsealed one chain in her heart was a man who was looking at her with deep hatred.

Evelyn didn't know if it was her memory or just a vision. She got no clue of what it was. Even her memories of her past life were fading away.

'Is it because I've been living here for a lot of years? But that can't be… for me it was like yesterday, however, some of my old memories are getting blurry.'

Evelyn sat right up. Now that she thought about it, it was ridiculous because her screen status still has that skill that said that she has a photographic memory.

It was contradicting that memories of her past life were getting hazy and blurry. It was like something was making sure that she would forget everything that doesn't have a part now in her life.

The cursed child that was also in her screen status was still there. Despite her efforts to know what it was and making Cassandra help her, she only got the "reincarnation" part as her clue.

Evelyn decided to let her thoughts go for a bit. It was because she heard Cathy call her.

Evelyn rests her upper body on the headboard of the bed and glances at the door. She could still feel the presence of the two guards guarding the door.

'What is it?' Evelyn answered.

"They said that Duke Cabel has information where inside the Academy is your mother's soul. Alisha and Chrisfold will help in retrieving it while Gil and Bern will locate our location while the others will try to counter the plan of the temple." Cathay said in her mind.

'Good! Tell them that once Cabel have retrieved my mother's soul don't give it to father. Instead, give it to Cassandra… she will know where to put it. I already told her what to do about mother's soul.' Evelyn replied.

"Alright, I'll tell them that… but what about our escape?"

Evelyn became silent as to Cathy's question.

'I think I still need time, I remember one of Cassandra's predictions. My guts are telling me that it will happen if I stick to Adley for a while.'

Cathy protested when she heard Evelyn's abrupt thought.

"Don't tell me you want to stay a little more? We can't afford that, you already predicted that the Temple will cause an uproar in the Capital before Nine gave you that information, isn't that why you made me, Gil and Alisjha move separately to confirm your thought?"

Evelyn bit her lower lips. She knew that if she stayed longer, there would be a possibility that Priince Adley would make a cruel decision because he thought he had the trump card known as "Evelyn".

'Let me think about it… we have one more day. If Adley didn't show up then we should just escape this place.' Evelyn made a promise to Cathy that she thought what would eventually happen.

It would never occur to her that everything will move faster than she thought.