TLP (LoY Prequel) Epilogue

On the day the fifth five-thousandth year began, I turned my head when I heard a booming noise.

Far above my head, I heard the sounds of war. The sound of iron clashing against iron. The sound of human flesh being cut and bones being shattered.

“It seems the time has come.”

I murmured to Teryu.

“Really?”

Teryu answered back.

“How do you know?”

He even asked me a question of his own.

Like always, I answered him in a kind voice.

“When we hear that sound, it means it’s time.”

I turned around and smiled at him.

But Teryu was not able to smile back at me.

It was to be expected. He had already rotted away several hundred years ago, and all that was left was his skull.

Although he could speak, he could not smile. He could not take me to see all the wonderful sights he had seen. Because, unfortunately, all that was left of his body were bones.

In order to travel around the world together, we needed to get his body back.

“Don’t worry. Once I get out of here, I will turn you back to the way you were.”

I walked up to him and stroked his skull as if I were consoling him.

My old, dry hands were covered in protrusions. Just like the Nine Families that I had destroyed all those years ago.

“My premonitions are clear. The new body of the priestess has definitely appeared.”

I quickly snatched my hand back inside the veiled hat. Teryu’s eyes had rotted away, so he could not see me. However, I was still afraid he might see my current appearance, so I was careful.

My body was hideous. I was only skin and bones, and the rotten lumps were crawling with bugs. The beautiful, slender girl was nowhere to be found.

Surprisingly, I did not die. I lived inside this darkness for hundreds of years. My powers grew stronger, but I could not escape this place. The seal engraved in Paran held firm. However, there was a time when all things grew weak.

“Just like the beginning of a new millennium, there will be a day when a new fate spreads its wings.”

I whispered in a low voice as I walked into the cave. Having lost the energy of the moon, the moonwater had turned into a black puddle.

Next to it, there were piles of bones all around. I had sucked the energy out of the shamans, and the bones belonged to them.

Surviving was a very difficult ordeal.

However, I had endured it until now.

My power sensed that a new priestess was born. That energy was clearly connected to me. A strong, blue energy. If only I could put on that energy, I would be able to turn back all of this.

“I can do it.”

I murmured in a low voice.

As if it were a reaction to my words, boom!!! Something broke.

“Your Majesty! There is a cave over here!”

For the first time in hundreds of years, I heard a human’s voice.

I let out a gurgling moan and lifted my head to look up. Like a long time ago, a white light spilled in through the ceiling.

Light.

My hideous lips trembled as they stretched into a crooked smile.

O new priestess of Paran. Wait for me.

We will meet soon…