When I opened the chest, I saw that there were only two things inside of it. the first thing was a set of black and red magical robes that matched the one that my late husband to be had made for me before that dreadful day that I wish that I could go back and change it. The second item that was in the box was a letter that was addressed to me.
The letter read:
To my dearest wife to be:
if you are now reading this letter that means that I am no longer alive and I have been killed. You will have to endure a very hard life since I am no longer here to protect you. You do not need to worry because I have discussed what to do with my brother. if I were to pass away you at any time you will have access to a vault of money that I have set aside for you.
During this time, I told my brother to send you to the dark academy to ensure that the contract that I had made with you would be completed even after my death.
Check the back for more details in your native written language.
Then I checked the back of the paper and saw that it was written in the ancient elvish language but I was able to read it clearly because I had been trained since childhood to read this text by my people,
The back read:
You were always meant to do this. The contract that I had made with you was also to fulfill an ancient prophecy that was given to my household over two thousand years ago.
From beyond the severing dark veil shall come a contracted being
They are born under a sky that will bleed and not heal.
Their veins will remember all the old wars against the ancient enemy
They will cause the shadows of darkness to follow them in their conquest.
The world will either knell or fall to their new dark empress
That was the end of the text. The prophecy was very interesting and if it was about me, I was very excited at the fact that my rise to power was prophecy because that meant that I would have only win this fight and my rise to power would be assured.
"Are you done with your preparations because all the dark lords and ladies that are on the dark war council are all at the area where we will be fighting to the death to determine which of us will earn the title of dark lady that I currently hold?" she asked me making it clear that she was in a rush to get this fight over with and that she thought that I was not even worth her full attention.
"Yes, I am ready to kill you and avenge Lord Carvis. By the end if this day you will be dead and I will rise to a position of power where not a single person in the dark realm could possibly challenge me." I said to her very confidently as I put on the black mage robes that were given to me by Lord Carvis the demon lord that I was supposed to marry.
As I put on the robe, I felt it cause a surge of power rush through me and a massive red jewel that was underneath my chest area began to glow. Then it began to pulse in sync with my heartbeat which was fast because of the high stakes fight that I was about to go in against the woman that ruined the new life that I had started to build for myself.
I knew that she was going to pay the ultimate price. During this battle I was going to be doing more than just killing her I would torture her and make her suffer for as long as I could to get revenge for the death of my former husband to be.
Then I made my way to an active teleporter and was immediately teleported into a large arena that had demonic creatures from all around the dark realm. I even noticed that Carvis's brother was present with his wife and he gave me a nod of approval and then showed me a brief grin telling me that he was very happy that I was challenging her to combat for her title as a demon lord.
"Follow demon lords I have summoned all of you here today in this arena for a treat that I know you would not want to miss.
I have found the lost bride of the dead demon lord Carvis. I give you Syndrell the blood elf who has also earned the title of Dark Empress at The Dark Magic Academy." She said in a booming voice that made me look at her and sense the magic that she had just used.
After she spoke, I waved my hands at all the spectators that were going to be watching me battle this bitch that ruined both my second chance at life and revenge against the high priest of my people and the marriage that I was going to have with Lord Carvis.
I did not even say anything to her because while I was filled with rage, I knew that I did not want to become consumed by it and allow my rage to control my actions since that would make them sloppy and more predictable.
"Fallen Seraph's Holy Wings". She said to me and I saw that a pair of wings of both of her sides.
While these wings were made of a yellow light, I saw a few black cracks in them that were leaking dark energy from them. The energy caused the ground to have areas of black circles where I saw yellow beams of light shoot out and they homed in on me.
I could not react in time and the beams of light came and as the beams contacted my knees, I felt an intense rush of pain that made it very difficult from me to move.
With every step that I made the pain in knees became more intense.
Then I waved my staff and the gem in it started to glow and a circular wall of moving blood that blocked the next volley of light from the second volley that went after my chest now.
"That spell might have worked during the first volley, but did you really think that I would not be able to think of a counter for your spell?" I asked her proving to her that she would have to try with a little more effort if she was going to defeat me.
"If it is more that you want then I will do more. Just do not get mad if I kill you since it has a long time since I last used even twenty percent of my power."
"I want you to take this seriously because if you are not giving this conflict your all then I will have not earned my title as one of the dark lords of this world." I said to her as I grabbed one of my vials of blood that were on my waist and drank it.
"Purity Scorn paired with Crown of Apostasy" she said as I drank the blood and a set of small light particles appeared around her and then a black crown with golden tips appeared on her head.
The ground around her feet began to burn as she walked towards me. Then the light particles shot at me twice as fast as the last barrage that had come from the ground.
My body began to shift and teleport around the area as the light particles were about to meet my armor.
"Come on I expected more from the lady who killed lord Carvis." I said to her as I was blinking all over the arena when the light particles were continuously shooting at me.
I was only able to use the teleporting a dozen times because after every warp I could feel the pain in my knees where I was originally kit by her first attack. Then I fell to my knees unable to move at all without feeling that my body was rotting from the inside.
"You were talking such a big game when you blocked my second volley of Fallen Seraph's Holy Wings. I bet that you did not expect for the skill to have a rot effect." She said to me as I saw her starting to slowly walk towards me. "Where is your arrogance now!" she yelled at me as she then kicked me to the back wall of the arena.
"So, tell me now that you are about to kill me you can at least tell me how you killed lord Carvis?" I asked as blood was starting to pour out of my mouth.
"Since you are going to be dead very soon, I guess that I have nothing to lose in telling you all about my master plan to kill Carvis." She said as she kneeled in front of me and pulled me by my hair as she talked.
"Well obviously, you know that I was the one that killed Carvis on the day when you were be challenged by other females who believed that they would be a better fit as his wife. What you don't know is that I have been a player in the events of your life long before that fateful day."
"What do you mean?"
"Did you not find it weird that you were chosen to be an offering to a dark god? Were you never curious about exactly why a dark god would have ever taken interest in a blood elf?"
I had never really thought of it before because of how much rage that I was filled with after the fact that the female leader of my people was so willing to give me up.
"Do you not understand the truth? I am was also in your cult during the ceremony that was used to summon Carvis."
There was no way that she could be the leader of the blood elf cult that raised me. The thought of that made me feel uneasy. If she was then she had been rooted in my life and controlling things from the start of everything.
"If you are still going to need some convincing about my level of involvement in molding the events of your life to make the events that I needed to happen unfold then we can talk about the vow that I heard you make on the day that I sacrificed your sister.
Yes, I can recall it as if it were yesterday. Your sister was not the first choice that I had to be the sacrifice for your people that day. She ended up being a willingly sacrificed volunteer because she did not want to lose the person who she was closest to."
"What do you mean? I was told that she was the chosen sacrifice that day?" I asked her as she continued to pull my hair.
"Your sister sacrificed herself so that you could be spared the pain of becoming a sacrifice. In the end her sacrifice was meaningless and I was still able to get what I wanted by being patient.
When I am finally done with you, I will hunt down all your friends from the academy. When I have them all to myself it will not be quick. I am going finish them nice and slow enjoying every scream that comes out of their mouths since they will know that there is nothing that can be done to save them." She said as she started to laugh at me.
The thought of what she was going to be doing to all of those that were close to me made me enraged. I would not allow her to kill my roommate, my slave, or the professor who had sworn loyalty to me. I stood up despite the pain that I was feeling.
"No!!!!" I yelled I as I felt a rush of anger like never before go through my system.
I looked up and I saw blood pouring out of her throat because of a large circular opening that I had made when I waved my hand at her in rage.
She then fell onto the ground lifeless and I saw a rush of white energy leave her body and turn blood red before coming into my body.
Then I felt my body shift and change as if something had left me after which I passed out.