Death... and me
chapter-2517

?"Wait, you are saying you don't remember reaching the Altar at all? You are not trying to make fun of us, right?" Rean asked from the other side. He couldn't see Aelrie very well, so it was hard to tell if she was lying from such a distance.

"I'M NOT!" Aelrie was already losing her patience. "Why don't you two believe me? I'm telling you, all I can remember was Kentucky leaving me behind and suddenly coming back. I've not seen the Altar at all!"

Rean narrowed his eyes. "Kentucky, didn't you two pass by the Altars before we met for the first time? Did the same thing happen back then?"

Kentucky shook his head. "It didn't. However, we weren't intending to use the Altar, so we didn't really get close to it. This time, when Aelrie left my back, we were several times closer to it than when we just passed by."

Rean nodded. "Seems like some kind of effect that activates when she gets too close to the Altar. Kentucky, I want you and Aelrie to try something. Go back to the Altar, and this time, when she tries to fly away, hold her with your Divine Energy and try to force her to use the Altar."

"What?!" Aelrie was taken aback. "Is there a need for such methods?"

Rean didn't really care. "If you have a better idea, go ahead and tell me. If not, just go back and let Kentucky help you. Kentucky, I will wait here. If I feel that you suddenly teleported far away, I will know you went back. If it doesn't work, just come back here."

Aelrie wanted to say something. She didn't need to think much to understand that she had died in this place before, while Kentucky and Rean didn't. She thought that her sudden loss was connected to this fact. No, in fact, she didn't just lose her memories of approaching the Altar. She even gained new memories of things that had never happened before. Of course, it could also be that Kentucky and Rean were lying to her, and what she thought happened really happened. It's just that she didn't feel it was the case.

Kentucky didn't hold back this time. This change in the situation was giving him the creeps, so he immediately took Aelrie and flew at his maximum speed to the previous Altar. Thanks to that, he got there in less than a minute.

Sure enough, as soon as they got close to it, Aelrie once again jumped from Kentucky's back, trying to fly away from the Altar. Yet, Kentucky's Divine Energy immediately caught her. "Where do you think you are going? Bad girl, bad girl!"

"Ahhhh!" Yet, Aelrie seemed to lose her mind when Kentucky stopped her. She struggled with all her might, releasing all her power. If things continued like that, she would probably even burst her meridians.

"What the hell?" Kentucky found it quite scary. Fortunately, he was several times stronger than Aelrie, to the point she couldn't do anything other than that struggle. Still, Kentucky understood that if she continued like that, she might end up killing herself instead.

*Zush!*

Kentucky forcefully brought Aelrie to the Altar, making her touch it. From what he heard from Rean, that's all you need to do to be sent outside. Well, it was according to the Light Beast instead since it was the Light Beast who told Rean.

Yet, to Kentucky's surprise, the Altar shined with a blue light, which quickly began to corrode Aelrie's body. Let alone send her out; the Altar's blue light looked more like some kind of poison to her. "What the fuck is going on?"

Kentucky quickly pulled Aelrie away, who looked to be more dead than alive. The only good thing about this outcome was that she lost consciousness and stopped struggling. Kentucky then looked at the Altar and saw the Blue Light disappearing.

Kentucky didn't want to go back with just that. he was very confident in his defense, and he had Rean's Instant Recover and Purification Skills. That said, he decided to touch the Altar as well to test it.

Things played out differently this time. The Blue Light still appeared. However, it caused Kentucky no harm whatsoever. Instead, Kentucky instantly felt the power of space closing on him, showing that he was about to be teleported away. "Shit!"

Kentucky wasn't going to leave Aelrie back just like that, so he released his Sky Energy instead of just Divine Energy, making sure to cut that connection before the teleport. The Altar's light then disappeared as if nothing had happened.

Kentucky looked at Aelrie and took her away from that place. Once again, he flew at full speed, straight to the area where he and Rean talked a moment ago.

Rean, on the other side, noticed their arrival, and especially the lack of response from Aelrie. But before he could ask anything, he felt Kentucky activating his Instant Recovery skill. It was hard to see from that distance, but he could at least tell that Aelrie's body looked somewhat darker now.

That didn't last for long, though. Rean's Instant Recovery was unparalleled in the world of healing skills. Not to mention, Aelrie's cultivation was much lower than Kentucky's. In a matter of a few seconds, her body had already recovered more than 80%.

"Kentucky, stop the healing." Rean knew his skill very well, so he told Kentucky to stop.

Kentucky, obviously, did as Rean said and just asked back. "Why?"

"Let Aelrie wake up and see her state. Otherwise, she might think we were lying once again since her memories were altered last time," Rean explained.

"Oh!" Kentucky had to admit that was a good idea. He then checked her body with his Divine Sense by touching her body and making sure she wasn't at any risk. "She will feel quite some pain when she wak-"

"Ahhhh! What the hell?! It hurts like hell!"

Kentucky didn't even finish saying that when Aelrie suddenly woke up and felt the pain from her injuries. Aelrie wasn't a kid, though. As soon as she noticed her injuries, she calmed down and focused her Divine Energy on her wounds, trying to heal herself. At the same time, she looked at Kentucky. "Why... am I like this?"

Kentucky bitterly smiled before touching her back with his wing. Right after, he activated Rean's Instant Recovery Skill again, finishing the job. "Do you believe me if I said you were almost dead a moment ago? I only healed around 80% of your body, more or less. I left the rest of the injuries intact so that you could see it yourself."

Aelrie was shaken by Kentucky's healing skill. Yet, what truly caught her attention was the fact she couldn't remember when it happened. "Just... what happened?"

Kentucky nodded and began to explain to both Aelrie and Rean on the other side the previous events. "And that's how Aelrie became like that."

Aelrie completely forgot the pain from a moment ago. Now, she was truly scared out of her mind. Even if Rean didn't say anything, she knew something wasn't right with her body and soul.