3rd person POV

“Remember you and my descendants can never escape me.” (Kilus)

Isana collapsed against the wall near the entrance. Her vision was blurry but she could hear him whispering to her through her blood. As if a devil were tempting her to lose her sanity from over using her powers. She had used her aura to manifest him at the risk because she wasn’t thinking straight. Now that she was done she couldn’t help but mock at herself for doing so. No one would’ve found out nor would he be tempting her to fall into a blood rampage. Blood rampage was what they of her mother’s side of the family termed when their bloodline overpowered all reason.

It wasn’t wrong to say so but she didn’t think it’d push her over her limit. Instead she felt faint but she could hear the ceiling rumble as her ice at the entrance cracked. Rather she had dismissed her ice domain the moment she killed Yineve. But she didn’t expect that she’d be inside a cave in within the tomb she came to pay respect to her teacher. Instead she closed her eyes as she heard the crumbling of the ceiling as it fell towards her along with Ling Yue’s yells. She was also immortal so she knew this won’t kill her. Although she couldn’t help but smile wryly when she heard Ling Yue’s heavy footsteps towards her.

This was how she knew that Ling Yue actually cared though she acted like she acted nonchalant. Instead she smiled at that thought, her bloodline was resonating with her ancestor’s will because she went over her limit. Instead she’d rather die than go insane towards such a madness. Her ancestor even killed his own family. She who loved her family was on the verge of insanity whispering to her. Ling Yue arrived in front of her and tried to pick her up.

“Ling Yue I have an unreasonable request. One that I must ask you to do while I’m still sane and in control. I lost control once already, this time I probably won’t be able to revert back. So I ask that you kill me before my ancestor Kilus’s bloodline completely overpowers my reason. Also promise me you’ll keep Skyla from going down the same path.”

“No, I promised Skyla I’d get you home safely if you’re out on a journey.”

“I’m.... no our bloodline is of the emperor Kilus from my mother’s side. I can’t keep myself at bay forever. Please kill me before I lose my reason. Jasmine already reverted me back once. So I ask by the oath of the River Tepes, please promise you’ll kill me now before I lose myself.”

“Wait why are you telling me this now. Also I will not kill my own childhood friend.”

“Ling Yue, this isn’t the time and place to be stubborn. The real reason why this place isn’t caving in so fast is because I’m slowly losing my sanity to my bloodline. It slows down the process of collapsing rubbles. But that doesn’t mean if I leave here I’ll be sane. If I had a choice of dying while myself or being sealed off in here temporarily until the Phoenixes come digging here. I’d choose my own end by your hands than to go insane.”

Instead Ling Yue was stunned at the secret that Isana kept from her but she who grew up with Isana couldn’t do so. Aya who followed her inside cast a spell to stop the ceiling into place for the moment. Since she also knew that she can’t indefinitely make it freeze in time she thought it might be better to let the two talk their last words now. Since she also entered after Ling Yue but remained silent they didn’t notice her. But Aya had decided that if Ling Yue doesn’t end this dangerous person with the emperor Kilus’s bloodline then she would.

“Don’t worry Ling Yue this is my limit of my current body. Besides if I do die wouldn’t I end up in the land of souls.”

“I promised Skyla I’d protect you.”

“Then wouldn’t killing me before I go insane and massacring innocents better than taking me back, just for me to try to kill you once I lost all reason.”

“I can’t not do so. You know for a fact that I grew up with you this is harder for me to do.”

“Yue, this is hard for you, yes I know also. But you have to do so, so that no one becomes my victim. So that I don’t end up like Kilus. I have no wish to end my own family or hurt my friends nor do I want to kill innocents. Plus either you give me a quick painless death or I’d have to do so myself when I’m still in control. But my body itself is getting weaker at the moment and I can’t ignore the calls of my own bloodline forever. I beg of you end me.”

“Sister if you aren’t ending her I can do it for you.”

“No, Aya there must be a way.”

“By the time you do find it I’d already turned and this is already a 2nd time for me Jasmine said there’s no 2nd time. Meaning it’s pointless.”

Ling Yue stared at the pale skin girl with silver hair yet looking deathly pale though she wasn’t injured physically. This actually angered her how her friend was asking for her (LY) to end her. This really annoyed her that she who was asked to protect her (Isana) was being being asked by the person to kill herself (Isana). There was anger hanging in the air that even Aya can sense coming from her sister. She sighed when she noticed the thick anger her sister was letting out though she did slow down the process of the collapsing tomb.

“Anger isn’t going to get you anywhere. End me quickly before I turn insane from my own bloodline.”

“I told you it was impossible for me to do so.”

“Then I’ll ask the girl next to you to do it.”

“Since your going to be a threat physically to sister I will get rid of you either way.”

Ling Yue shouted at her when she noticed something wrong after her sister said those words. The air shifted as if something was crushing Isana’s body into nothing but mush but it angered Ling Yue. Instead she was angry at Aya for turning Isana’s body into meat paste. As the blood splattered onto Ling Yue Aya felt her sister’s anger but the glowing soul in her hand stopped her sister from attacking her.

“Aya hand her over to me.”

“And do something as foolish as reviving her fully because it’s only been less than a day since her death. Do remember that I can do a full resurrection if it’s been no more than 230 years if it’s an unnatural death. In this case I’ll just put her inside a different body so we don’t have any problems. I’ve also preserved her memories.”

“Yet you dare kill her.”

“Because if she was still alive she’d be a threat to you.”

“I’ll somehow fix the problem.”

“How so the Phoenix Queen Jasmine already did once and a 2nd time won’t work.”

“Aya come back here.”

Instead Ling Yue let out a frustrated scream as she came out from the tomb. This act of her sister who loved her dearly angered her. She didn’t consider her own feelings when her own best friend asked her to do the impossible. Yet her sister killed her best friend in front of her. Then used an unknown spell to preserve the soul of her said best friend. But what disturbed her the most was the state her friend’s body was forcefully sent into. It was like her sister judged that she would be unable to oppose the threat before her so she decided herself instead. Instead those actions incited her but instead she threw up. Because she remembered how the body was pushed by an invisible force and turned into meat paste in front of her. Usually she’d be nonchalant if it was enemies or during war but this was someone close to her.

“Aya, if I find you I swear I will get you for this.”

It angered her how easily her sister stated that all she was doing was moving a soul to another body as if a life wasn’t so precious. Yes the soul would be in tact but she was worried about the consequences when the death goddess Kana found out her daughter’s best friend had died when it wasn’t her time yet. This is a headache even for me, since I too care for Isana just not as crazily as ‘her’. Sister had naturally brought man made disaster in the form of a certain goddess’s daughter. Which is going to be more of a headache when she finds out. Ling Yue gripped her head as she felt a incoming headache and fainted. Olivia arrived after delivering Arisa home at a lost on what to do with Ling Yue so she dragged Ling Yue as far away as she can from the collapsed tomb itself. But Ling Yue frowned in her sleep as she kept recalling the scene where Isana’s body was smashed into meat paste before her eyes.