479 Royal Tragedy (1/2)

Princess Faelyn's eyes quickly narrowed with creased brows in repulsion from the subtle foul stench that escaped from the Heart of Spring Chamber's entrance.,

'Something is wrong with the Heart of Spring Chamber! How could the place containing the densest and purest wood elements in the entire Great Forest possess a foul stench? Was the spring contaminated?'

Princess Faelyn quickly discovered.

Her heart quickened with unease, and the dreadful feeling inside her intensified. Princess Faelyn was forced to take in another deep breath and calm herself.

'Whatever lies beyond here, I must find out what it is!'

Faelyn gritted her teeth before taking her first step beyond the entrance, proceeding to enter the Heart of Spring Chamber.

The space beyond the entrance was brightly lit with an overflowing warm green light while numerous small softer glowing green particles of light floated in the air.

However, the source of the brilliant green light came from the glowing green spring at the bottom of the Heart of Spring Chamber.

As Princess Faelyn made her way down, droplets of green liquid could be seen dripping down from the chamber's ceiling and falling into the spring, filling it up.

The green liquid was the concentration of the Wood Energy that exists within the green light particles mixed with the Elder Tree's Wood Essence Extract.

Undoubtedly, the Heart of Spring Chamber was the ideal location, whether it is to push for a breakthrough to the Transcendent Realm or cultivating in general.

Wood-type Awakeners would experience a significant boost to their cultivation speed by submerging themselves inside the pure wood essence spring.

Princess Faelyn suddenly halted her steps upon arriving at the bottom of the Heart of Spring Chamber, stunned from the sight before her.

Shortly after, tears welled up in her eyes before overflowing, dripping down her soft cheeks ceaselessly.

The Heart of Spring Chamber's walls and ground have been ravaged by numerous claw marks, indicating a big battle had occurred here.

However, the claw marks did not belong to any beast nor insect that might have unwittingly stumbled inside the Heart of Spring Chamber through some secret passage.

Instead, the claw marks belonged to unclipped elven nails like they had been grown for years.

In other words, it was the work of elves—and those elves were none other than her eldest brother and second eldest sister.

They have died inside the arms of her mother, the Elf Queen, with both their hearts crushed. At the same time, their teeth sunk into her mother's shoulders.

Evidently, something had possessed the minds of her eldest brother and second eldest sister to try eating their mother.

Despite that, her mother passed away with a peaceful expression while she was holding her dear children.

This broke Faelyn's heart further like someone was trying trying to wrench out her heart. She collapsed to the ground in tears and cried her lungs out.

”Uwahhhh! Mother! Brother! Sister!”

Numerous vines wrapped around the three bodies and bound them firmly together. Evidently, this was the Elf Queen's doing.

The Elf Queen was a Transcendent while the Crown Prince and Second Princess were only 9-Star Awakeners.