Chapter 197 - Crescia

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The light fae's eyes gleamed with sadness as she looked solemnly at Evie.

It was as if she had already known that Evie had somehow figured out what was inside the crystals, and she nodded curtly. "You're right, Princess…" she said in soft, enchanting voice. "They are light faes and they've been trapped inside the dark crystal for thousands of years."

Evie was taken aback at what she heard. For thousands of years? That long?

"What…" Evie paused and then composed herself before asking again, "what happened in this place? And why are these light faes trapped like this?"

The light fae turned her face towards the numerous dark crystals on the throne hall's floor. Her expression was filled with lost and regret and long suffering. "Long time ago," she started as nostalgia crept into her beautiful deep green eyes, "this land was lively and enchantingly beautiful. Its beauty was unparalleled… there was no other place that could be compared. And due to that, this place came to be known as the paradise of Lirea."

She smiled as her gaze seemed to have blurred as she stared ahead, most probably seeing the place now overlapping with what it was during its glorious days in the past. "And it was true most especially for Crescia."

"Crescia?" Evie questioned interestedly. 'Was that another city that is within the forbidden land?' Evie wondered and was highly curious after hearing the name of this place.

"This place was called the city of Crescia, the capital of the Middle Empire. This was once the most beautiful city in the entire land." The light fae replied with a pleasant gleam in her eyes but all too soon, the light faded, and her eyes became bleak again. "But everything was destroyed and now this place that was once a paradise is now reduced to nothing but a dark and desolate land. All because of that wretched war." There was a hint of sharpness and anger in the voice of the light fae at the end.

"War? Did other races unite to attack the Middle Empire?" Evie hazarded a guess.

"Sadly, it was the faes themselves that fought against each other. The Light Faes and Dark Faes attacked each other in a war that lasted for hundreds of years and ended up destroying both parties." She said then she looked at Evie.

"Once upon a time, Light Faes and Dark Faes lived in harmony until one day, the Fae Queen fell in love with a Dark Fae. Everything was fine for a long time until the Queen gave birth to a pair of twins. One was a Light Fae and the other one a Dark Fae. That was the very first time such a thing had happened in the long-standing history of the Faeries."

"You mean… that a Queen gave birth to a pair of twins?" Evie's brows knotted in curiosity.

"No, princess. Female light faes will always give birth to a light fae even if their mate was a dark fae. The same was true to the female dark faes, their children will always be a dark fae as well even if their mate was a light fae. All offspring always follows the fae type of the maternal side. So, the queen giving birth to one twin which was a dark fae was truly shocking. This aberration happened the very jfirst time and no one knew what to think of it for a while."

Evie had not seen a dark fae as of yet. Since that dark fae that possessed her father had never showed his true appearance, thus Evie had no idea how they looked like. What was the difference between dark and light faes?

"How did they find out the other child was a dark fae?" Evie asked, her curiosity to know everything about the faes were so intense that she could not stop herself from blurting out the question almost the moment the light fae stopped talking.

"The appearance is obvious because all dark faes have black hair. They also naturally wield dark magic, and their blood turns dark as the night when they bleed." The light fae explained then she continued telling the story again.

"Everything was fine at first until the time for the queen to pass her crown to her successor came. The dark faes wanted the dark fae prince to be king instead of the light fae princess. The Middle Empire had always been ruled by the royal family which are the light faes since the beginning of time. But the dark faes began to desire for one of their kind to rule too, saying that the queen giving birth to a dark fae was the sign that it was now time for a change. But the light faes, the queen included, dismissed the dark faes' plea because the queen had found out that her dark fae husband had changed as well. He too, began to desire the throne for himself. It was then that everything started. The dark faes began a rebellion. The dark fae prince wanted the throne as well, just like his father. So, he and his father collaborated and joined in the rebellion, abandoning the royal family and Crescia. They went to Gehhena, the second biggest city in the Middle Empire called the city of the Dark Faes located in the far north. The dark faes made the queen's husband king and the queen's son their crown prince. And since then, the Middle Empire was divided between the two sub-races and war commenced amongst the dark faes and light faes."

"It lasted for hundreds of years. The wars grew more horrific and got so bad to the point where both group of fae began to use the dragons to kill each other, ruining the empire, killing off countless of faeries on both sides. Until the dark faes began to drag the vampires into their battles as well. The dark faes had the ability to manipulate anyone using their dark magic. And topping it with the help of the vampires' strength and numbers, the dark faes managed to invade Crescia."