章 91: Concern
"I'm the yakshini, Nati. And from now on, I shall be your guard."
'Guard', it did sound nice, Visha thought. Having such a powerful person on her side, already made her feel safer. How advantageous would it be if she could have her around forever? Visha immediately dismissed the thought as she looked at Nati's displeasure after announcing her service. Nati already hated doing this temporarily, she'd never stay a second longer than promised.
"And my name is Visha, not little girl." Visha said and turned around immediately. She knew she couldn't trust a cunning spirit like a Yaksha. She had read about them tricking people into believing they were gods. They had been posing as gods for milleniums, fooling people into worshipping them. They were powerful beings without a doubt, but still far away from godly powers. Since, humans had no idea of a God's powers they easily fell into Yaksha's traps. And the name Nati, was oddly familiar. She couldn't remember where she had read about it, but this one couldn't be an ordinary yakshini if she was mentioned in books. Right? There was no way she was going to let down her guard. She must remember where she had read about a yakshini named, Nati, and hope she didn't get herself into trouble. They walked right through the part of the forest and entered another one with the help of Mr Feathers.
Nati was not a woman of many words to begin with, but the silence between them right now was making even her uncomfortable. She could see Visha thinking really hard about something. Her brows would twitch every now and then. Nati had never been a slave or a prisoner, she hated the status quo her sitaution had forced her into. She had vowed to protect the twat, she can't let any harm come to her. She will have to wait till she is free from this vow so she could turn that smug little face all the way around. She snickered at thought of doing so, she could already imagine Visha's head turned around. What a gruesome and delightful sight that'd be! Nati thought.
Visha walked forward to see a similar sight of a pack of vicious saliva dripping canines behind a translucent wall. The scene had startled Mr Feathers too. He knew these pupil-less eyed monsters very well. They used to be his dear friends, before someone had turned them into mindless beasts. They had suddenly attacked him and chased him around the forest. When he had tried to fly away, one of them almost bit his wing off. He barely managed to get out of it alive. He couldn't help but feel sad for his unfortunate friends.
Nati was the only one that was surprised. She carefully examined the beasts before turning to Visha.
"What happened to them?" she asked.
"Black magic." Visha answered expressionlessly and turned to continue their journey. She had no relation to these beasts, and was neither shocked nor empathetic towards them. Since she felt no emotion for them, there was no concern either.
"That's not possible. Black magic doesn't work on the creatures of Spirit Forest."
Nati's words made Visha freeze in her tracks. She turned around to face Nati who was still examining the beasts inside the shield. Nati could feel someone's gaze on her and saw Visha's brows raised demanding for an explanation.
"Spirit Forest is a sacred and blessed place. The creatures that reside here aren't normal either. They're immune to all kinds of Black Magic. Be it curses, hexes, blood magic, or anything else, it just doesn't work."
The words had shook Visha to the core. This was the explanation that she had been believing till now. But this new piece of information had left their previous assumption in shreds. If not black magic, then what was this?
"What do you think happened here?" Visha knew well that Nati was quite knowledgeable. She might have an idea about the real trick behind it.
"Their souls seem to have been replaced by contracted souls. But these low class human souls aren't powerful enough to drive away the original ones. Spirit Forest has very high soul energy, beasts here contain powerful souls since they were born and bred in this environment..." Nati stopped as she saw the bewilderment on Visha's face. Her eyes were widened as she stared at the beasts behind her.
"What?" she asked. Visha seemed to have been pulled out of a trance. She turned to Nati to share the earth shattering concern she had just had.
"There is only one thing that can control souls and make them leave, the Philosopher's Stone. But if he's using the stone to keep the original beast souls away, then what is he using as the power source for the Hundred Chambers of Deception!"
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