Tales of The Central Continent

Gries went inside and saw the Dark Lord reading on his chair "Yes Gries, is there anything to report?". She took a few second to relax, hoping she wouldn't be punished, because everyone who gets the punishment will be train ten times harder.

"I want to report that the intruder was not from the people from the Holy Kingdom and the guy seems familiar to me" she said,still standing beside the door. She closed the door and walked towards the Lord.

She then explain the situation she and Draven were just in when they were patrolling. The Dark Lord listen carefully and at the same time trying to think what's the intruder intentions are.

The Dark Lord has already understand except who the anonymous person is. "Gries, you've told me that you are quite familiar with that person,would you mind telling me who the person was?" the Dark Lord ask.

Gries then took quite a time to answer. Before she spoke, she left a small light breath out " I think that the person we encountered today was the person I used to met a hundred years ago" she answered with calm voice.

Gries then answered with more details " The guy Draven and I encountered today was my 'friend' " Gries realized the Dark Lord's expression after she say the word 'friend'. "I was young and naive at that time father, I didn't know anything about him neither who he is nor where he come from" the Dark Lord's expression change again.

" But... " Gries suddenly spoken. "I'm not that stupid enough to not knowing his name and his power, with this little information we maybe could find him". The Dark Lord then agreed with Gries's opinion. The Dark Lord then ask if there anything else. She wanted to tell the Lord that the guy wanted to meet tomorrow, but instead she shooked her head and said that there was nothing else.

The Dark Lord get up from his chair and head to his shelf full of books "You are now excuse" said the Lord.

Gries then nodded and went to the door. As she open the door, she stopped and stood there for second. She turn her face to the Lord "There is actually something I wanted to tell you father".

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The next day, the first thing in the morning that Gries do is going to the library. She wanted to take something that she put there, the 'thing' has been decades already. As she walk into the library, she saw Selena walking around with her book and her candle in the dark library.

Selena then realized the existence of Gries in the library, she then walked closer to Gries with a font smile. "Everytime someone's searching for you, they don't even need to search for other places" Gries said teasingly and referring to Selena who never leave the library. Selena then laugh lightly with her hand covering her mouth halfway. "Are you looking for that 'thing' again?" Selena ask.

Gries then smiled back " Yes, but today I came to take it, and I see you're still keeping this secret for years now" Gries said while the both of them going to the place where the 'thing' was placed. "You know I won't say anything except when they ask" Selena remind Gries. They both just laughed while walking in the dark with only the candle as a light source.

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At the gray and dreadful afternoon, Gries went to the 'Nameless Land'. "Are you sure you don't need me by your side My Lady" asked Leal(Leal means loyal in France😝), Gries's maid. The Dark Lord's offsprings maids are no ordinary creatures, they were trained to protect and fight even though the Dark Lord's childrens can took care of themselves.

"No need Leal, I don't think I need you for this one. Besides, I know that Alquen will ask billions of questions when she knows my inexistent in the castle, and the first person she's going to ask is definitely you, Leal" Gries replied. Leal then decided to just walk Gries to the gate. Gries then use her spirit animal, the animal was a pitch black shadow horse, named Shady. (Shady the Shadow horse ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) [puns]😂)

Every creatures has their spirit animal and most of the royals has mystical animals. Selena has the Legendary Dragon, 'Kamish' (I got the name from solo leveling bcs I can't think of any legendary dragon's name 🙏pls don't say I copy it, it's just I liked the manhwa🙏), and Draven has the White Tiger while the others has unique spirit animals but not legendary as Selena and Draven.

She arrived an hour later in the Nameless Land, she then get down from her horse when she arrived at the place the person mentioned. She then sit on an old bench she and the guy build when they were young. Suddenly,she heard a sound of steps at a pile of rock behind her. "I'm busy, I don't have time to play, come here and get straight to the point why you want me here" she command because she knew that was her old friend playing with her, but after that there were no response. Her curiosity grew bigger as there were no sound of reply a few minutes later.

She then approach the pile of rocks carefully and quietly while pulling out her arrow. She quickly point out her arrow behind the rock and saw a giant dessert centipede crawling on the rock. She was frighten a bit but she remain calm as she was thought. The giant centipede tried to attacked her but her eyes and arrow were more quicker than the centipede thought it was. The arrow went through it head and stucked in a tree.

"I improved a lot UwU" said Gries to herself proudly. She checked the centipede if it died or not, but what creature can survive Gries's arrows. The Nameless Land used to be beautiful and filled with butterflies, but after the big in the Central Continent, the land now we're filled with dangerous animals and creatures.

She went to take back her arrow so she didn't left any trance and a voice "I thought you wouldn't come" said her old friend with a smile. She wanted to hug him because she misses him so much as she flashed back to her memories with him, but she then remember what her motive is coming here.

"I came here for business, why do you invade my kingdom and how" Gries ask seriously. The guy then walk towards the old bench and asked Gries to seat with him too with a playfull smile. She left a small sigh and went with it as she remembered how childish her friend was.

They seat for a while and talk, she misses her childhood time and how she wishes it could last, but as the saying goes 'What goes, can never come back' .

"It's good to see you back, Little Shadow~" the guy said. Gries smile disappear as she see that it is almost dark soon.

She get up from the bench and look him. "It's nice seeing you too, Alex..." (I got the name from the person I admired, 'Alexis' UwU) out of the sudden, many soldiers of the Nether Empire surrounded him. The soldiers were always there while waiting for Gries's signal.

Alex was not expecting that, he didn't think that Gries would send an army to take him. "How can I forgot that you have trust issue " said Alex while two soldiers were grabbing him. "Send him to the castle" Gries command as she ride her horse, heading to the palace.

"YES MY LADY!" shout the soldiers following her command. They then chained him and follow Gries behind the back.

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