A/N: First, let clear up a confusion. By mass releasing three Chapters every 25 tickets, I ant that I will be uploading three Chapters instead of two: one extra Chapter plus the two daily Chapters. So if we cross 50 tickets in a single day, which just happened this ti, four Chapters will be uploaded instead of two.
I apologise for the misunderstanding. 🙇🏻♂️
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From that day onward, Nyria beca more and more distant from her family. Due to her unwavering decision to marry Ignis, Aurelion had no choice but to agree to their marriage. However, he placed a condition that the marriage would only take place on the sa day her marriage with Taranis had originally been decided. He also forbade her from eting Ignis until then and ordered that the marriage be kept a secret.
By doing this, he hoped that Nyria might co to her senses as she grew older. However, as the years passed, she continued to display the sa cold behaviour toward everyone, never allowing even a flicker of emotion to appear on her face.
Everyone believed that she had beco this way because of the trauma she suffered in Sentinel Line, but Taranis, who had witnessed her mories, knew better.
She had not beco heartless. She had simply built an unbreakable wall around her heart and deliberately distanced herself from everyone in the hope that when she died at the age of twenty five, no one would mourn her death.
Aurelion stopped talking to her. Her mother, Lunaria, refused to even look her in the eye. The only person who still stubbornly approached her was her younger brother, Doran. No matter how much she beat him or spoke cruelly to him, he never stopped visiting her.
Unknowingly, he also beca her only joy in life, the last thread that kept her away from the useless thoughts of dying.
She secretly began eting Ignis as well. They would visit markets, buy clothes, and eat together. However, unlike before, she did not allow him to touch her, using the excuse that her father had cast a spell on her that would alert him if Ignis ever touched her. She had only one reason to keep eting him even though she absolutely hated him. She was using him to find out all the traitors who had been involved in the massacre of the Thunderbanes.
Titan was obviously a major suspect. He was the one who had submitted to the empire and also the one who had allowed the empire’s knights to enter the Hundred Sky Mountains.
Yet Nyria could not find a single clue against him. He was not involved in the treachery.
The reason why he had submitted to the empire remained a mystery.
After fifteen years, Nyria managed to find every last traitor. The mastermind was Ignis, and the rest were his subordinates, guards whom he had bribed to enter Heaven’s Sovereign Peak, and ssengers he had used to exchange ssages with the empire. Nyria had found them all.
Still, there was one more thing she wanted to discover. Sothing that Ignis himself was unaware of.
Taranis could not understand what she was trying to uncover because whenever the topic arose, her mories abruptly skipped, as if sothing was preventing Taranis from learning about it.
Assuming that she did not have enough ti to find what she was looking for, Nyria left the Hundred Sky Mountains in the hope of healing her illness, hoping to buy more ti before death claid her.
Everyone knew about the sacred treasure in the Forest of Gumiho that could heal any injury, illness, or disease. Since her fate was already sealed, Nyria decided to enter the Forest of Gumiho even though she knew the dangers behind this decision.
However, she had never imagined that fate had planned sothing else for her. After barely surviving the clash against Gumiho, she found herself sleeping naked beside a man.
As soon as she woke up, she grabbed the sleeping man’s neck, assuming that he had done the worst to her.
But then her eyes trembled as she focused on his face. He felt familiar. Nyria’s heartbeat quickened as she slowly moved her hand to remove the strands of hair from the man’s forehead. And there it was. A slit diamond shaped mark similar to the one she possessed.
Her body instinctively moved several feet back. Her chest rose and fell with heavy gasps, her heart beating like war drums.
Although the man had black hair instead of golden, although she could not sense even an ounce of Divine Soulforce from him, although his facial structure was not the sa, still Nyria’s soul had recognized him. How could she not recognize the man she loved with her very being, the man whose death had drained the colors from her life and filled every passing day with endless misery? How could she fail to recognize Taranis El Thunderbane?
"No, he could be an illusion cast by Gumiho," Nyria shook her head and put on her clothes.
She waited for the man to wake up beside the pond. Once she sensed that he had awakened, her heartbeat rose again, this ti with excitent and anticipation.
To her disappointnt, Taranis did not rember her at all. He looked at her as if she were a complete stranger.
"No, there is no way my Taranis would fail to recognize ," Nyria removed the useless thoughts from her mind. "I was an idiot to think he is Taranis. He is just soone who looks similar to him. M-My Taranis can never forget ."
As she conversed with the man who introduced himself as Raj, she finally asked him, although she was afraid of the answer.
"Which family do you belong to?"
"Umm... which family? What does that an?" Raj replied in confusion.
"Hey, do not play gas with . It is getting annoying," Nyria muttered, her tone growing sharp.
"I really don’t know what you are trying to ask by ’which family’."
Nyria sighed, then spoke again. "Show your attribute. Do not tell you cannot show that as well."
"My attribute... there is no harm in showing you that."
Small golden lightning erged from Raj’s palm.
"S-so it is really him," Nyria murmured inwardly, tears unknowingly rolling down her cheeks. Her heart was filled with mixed emotions.
On one side, she was extrely happy that Taranis was alive. On the other side, her heart was breaking into pieces because he did not rember her at all.
"Ex-excuse , lady. Why are you crying?" Raj asked awkwardly, the lightning disappearing from his hand.
"So, a mber of the Thunderbane family survived. Thank goodness," she replied, hiding the true reason for her tears.
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