---- NARRATOR Lifting her skirt, she nearly ran to her father''s carriage.


    "Tell me, tell me, daughter, did you confirm it?" The old man, with his long beard streaked with brown and gray, looked at his daughter with piercing green eyes as she entered his resting quarters.


    La closed the small door behind her and sat on the soft nket, her face filled with excitement.


    "Yes, yes, father! I confirmed it! She has a small red tattoo on her inner thigh, almost reaching her intimate areaa teardrop shape, or something like that," La recalled from when she examined Celine under the guise of tending to her wounds.


    "T knew it! The Goddess is on our side.


    Such good fortune," the old sorcerer patted his thigh in satisfaction while taking a drag from his pipe.


    ---- "T''ve prepared the spell.


    You must make sure it enters her bodyyou can''t fail!" "But father, are you sure it wont harm her? I feel a little bad about this...


    she and her brother saved me back then," La frowned, doubt creeping back into her expression.


    "Foolish girl," her father scolded, tapping her forehead.


    "That woman appeared in my prophetic vision.


    She will have a great influence among the vampires.


    I even considered eliminating her when we first found her, but notheres a more ingenious way to use her.


    That hybrid will help us infiltrate that cursed castle and seize control of the Realm." RK GABRIELLE "?He? has sealed the castle again," Brielle informed me, standing at my side.


    ---- I felt the warmth of the sun on my face and shoulders as I sat on the small terrace connected to my chambers.


    "T should have known.


    Before I left, I renewed the contract under that bastard Kaels name, and with his death, no Selenia imed the throne.


    The castle''s owner has reactivated the curse," I sighed, analyzing all the challenges Valeria would have to ovee to seize control of the Realmit wouldn''t be easy.


    Thisnd was home to ancient and powerful creatures, even older than I was, though they rarely meddled in mortal affairs.


    Entering the castle wouldnt be easy now, especially without our full power restored.


    "The sorcerers and vampires are fighting for control of the castle..." "Those fools dont realize they wont even set foot on that mountain unless the owner allows it," I