Chapter 8

After taking a bath I sat on mother's lap in my little tiger form being pampered,unlike my human form a can't grow bigger but who cares I am cute...the peculiar thing was unlike mother I can't speak normally but by telepathy with the voice of my child form...

-Airi I think it is time for you to know this world's history, especially about the white tiger clan.(Elanora)

Waking up from my daydreaming, I looked at mother waiting for her to continue.

-In this world there are three continent,in the north,Silana the biggest continent where live the beastmans,elfs and dwarves.In South-west,Codor where lives the demons. And in the south-east Azlan where lives the humans. The three continent are separated by the middle sea. Us divine beasts don't belong to a continent in particular,we live in tribes away from the other races or secluded individually. In this world,war was always waged between the humans,the demons and the alliance between the other three races. Even thought they art at war at present, their relationship isn't good either.(Elanora)

mother stopped for a moment to look into my eyes before continuing.

-Divine beast generally doesn't interfere in those pointless struggles, as long as no one try to take over their territory that is, but other races generally don't go near a Divine beast territory because even if there aren't a lot of divine beasts,they are strong,and could perhaps destroy a city by themselves. Especially the four divine beats clans known as the azure dragon,the black turtle,the vermilion bird and the white tiger.(Elanora)

At those last words I felt proud in my race and mother was not different.

-The four divine beast clans even tough doesn't have more than hundred members in their races, were the true rulers of this word for thousands of years and worshiped by every races for their strength...that is until three hundred years ago and the events that occurred at that time...(Elanora)

Mother became sad after saying those words.

-Four hundred years ago,the azure dragon clan gave birth to a descendant that was strong...too strong even if compare him to members of of the four divine beast clans. His name was Zerad. Divine beasts worship the strong and look down on the weak,it's in our nature,so the azure dragon clan welcomed such a strong individual and after 100 years made him their clan leader, which was the biggest mistake they ever did.(Elanora)

Clenching her fist mother continued.

-Zerad was too arrogant and wanted the four divine beasts clans to dominate the world for real...killing and enslaving the weak. Of course the other three clans and even a lot of the azure dragon clansmen refused, which made him infuriated and he acted, assassinating those who opposed him in his clan,coaxing the humans and demons with a false promise of power,he waged war against the other clans. The largest war that history would record and would be known as the Divine beast war since it was first and last war centered around divine beasts...(Elanora)

Stopping there mother showed a complex expression and turned to look at the cave entrance,seeing that I started trembling...perhaps I will finally understand the feeling in my chest every time I look at it.

-You once asked me what is inside that cave right. Sealed inside that cave is my son Elanir...

I could no longer restrain myself,changing into my child form I jumped and start running toward the cave. But I didn't make a few steps before I was stopped by mother who clung to me from behind trembling, I can tell she was crying...

-But mother!!!!(Airi)

-It's no use Airi, my son has been cursed when he fought the demon lord in the war he triumphed and killed him, but before dying, the demon lord used all his remaining strength to curse Elanir making him lose himself and turning him into someone who would kill any being that stands before him. But my son's soul is strong he resisted even knowing he would eventually fall, so before the curse took control of his body he implored me to kill him. But how could I kill my own son? I couldn't bear to see my son killing his own family either. So I asked a friend of mine, a fox spirit to seal him here using her racial trait.(Elanora)

For now I calmed down and decided to listen to mother's story.

-After that the war continued,losing their demon lord and because their new demon lord was against the war they retreated leaving the azure clan with only the humans as allies,and with that the war accelerated,and eventually the final and biggest battle occurred.(Elanora)

Taking a deep breath before continuing,most likely to recollect her memories.

-that battle occurred in the human continent near the middle sea,while the weaker battled on land, the stronger did battle in the air above the sea...it was a huge battle that last a full day corps floated above the sea that was died red most of them killed by Zerad, but the clan leader of the white tiger clan in the end seeing an opportunity used white genesis, it didn't kill Zerad but still wounded him forcing him to retreat, after that Zerad disappeared and no one know were he did hide,but everyone think he will reappear one day, what survived from the divine beast clans scattered living in seclusion. Wounded, and exhausted I decided to come here and seclude myself near my son living alone until the day you appeared my child.(Elanora)

Seeing the smile filled with love mother showed I blotted myself in her embrace not wanting to let go.

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Elanora's pov

Confirming my cute little daughter is sleeping, I placed her on the grass, gave her a gentle kiss on her cheeks before getting up.

It is time for me to act, I need to prepare everything to protect Airi.

Leaving a message on the ground,I gave a last glance at my daughter then at the cave before leaving.