Forever Destined to the Silver Shadow-Chapter 189: You are going to lead the quest

Lilin’s POV:

Surprisingly, it just took me less than two hours to heal my broken heart this time—as I didn’t actually give my heart to Aaron.

I decided not to go back to Ashland ever again. Aaron will get the message that I am not interested in him if I don’t show up in his lands.

I reminded myself that it was just lust! The feeling of lust can be suppressed easily—but it is not the same for love. Anyway, I was not stupid enough to fall in that pit again.

Love is just an illusion that gives false happiness—it is not so different from intoxicants like grey wine. Power and Victory is the only thing that can provide real happiness. It is not an illusion like love!

The one who has the power rules the realm—and the one who doesn’t have it is a slave to the one who has it.

I want to be powerful like my mother and destroy my rivals! This is going to be my only quest from now on.

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My mother had called in the Coven of the Dark Lord for a meeting tonight in the cavern of darkness that is under the surface of the Shadow Castle.

Most of the Shadowlands are not even aware that a secret cavern exists underground—and they are not supposed to know about it either.

The Coven consists of only five Demonic warriors. My mother, the Demon Queen, is the leader of the Coven. The members of the coven are supposed to hear out the commands of the Dark Lord and go on a quest to fulfill his will.

I wore a black cloak over my gown and covered my hair with its hoodie—as it is always freezing down in the cavern.

Then I disintegrated as black smoke and reappeared in the dark cavern. I was shocked to see that all the five coven members and my mother were already there.

My mother’s red eyes were glittering through the darkness of the cavern like luminous ruby stones. Her furious gaze almost burned my skin. She is mad at me because I arrived here late!

"I am... sorry. I lost track of time," I apologized to her. She didn’t accept my apology as usual.

She then focused her gaze on the Demon warriors who were in front of her. All of them were wearing dark-colored robes, and their heads were covered by their cloaks just like mine.

"Members of the Coven," my mother commenced her speech. "We are gathered here tonight to hear out the Lord of Darkness and fulfill his will. What the Dark Lord wants is to spread his glory in all three realms. All the entities who accept the Dark Lord are our allies—and the rest of them are our enemies."

I have heard her say these lines a thousand times in this same cavern. I still don’t get why she has to repeat saying this every time before the meeting starts.

"The Dark Lord has given us free will to do anything in our realm," she went on. "He gave us the gift of speaking the most powerful language in all three realms. He has showered our realm with abundance and power. In return, all he asks for is to spread out his glory—and we have still not accomplished it to date."

One of the Demon Warriors stepped forward and said," My Queen! We were so close to accomplishing that a thousand years ago. We would have made it if the Dawn hadn’t sacrificed herself and strengthened the side of light."

My blood started to boil as he mentioned her. It is hard for me to stay calm when the image of that weakling pops up in my head.

"Yes, we all know exactly the reason for that," my mother said and glanced at me.

My mother considers this as the biggest mistake I ever made. But I refuse to agree to that. I wasn’t aware that Celestia was going to step in the Holy fire as a sacrifice. I thought that Oberon was assassinating her. That is what Oberon himself told me!

At that time, I had Silver Shadow chained in this cavern. He somehow anticipated that Celestia was sacrificing herself, and he pleaded with me to release him from his chains—but I didn’t!

If I had released Silver Shadow, then he would have saved Celestia’s life, and the sacrifice would never have happened—the force of light would have diminished entirely.

And that’s why my mother is pinning the blame on me—as I had the chance to stop the light force from getting stronger.

"Mother, please stop blaming me for that. Oberon told me that he was going to kill his daughter as she failed to fulfill her purpose. How could I have known that he had an ulterior motive of using her as a sacrifice? That is why I didn’t release Silver Shadow from his chains—"

"So you are confessing to me that you were gullible enough to believe his lies, aren’t you?"

I don’t know how my mother finds a way to turn the tables and pin the blame on me every time I try to defend myself.

"At least you should have summoned me down here when Silver Shadow told you that Dawn was sacrificing herself. Because of your ignorance, our rivals have gotten stronger than ever. And you don’t feel a little guilty about that?"

Now I started to feel guilty. Is it really my fault?! This is what my mother sometimes does to me. She confuses my mind so much with her words that I end up taking the blame for something that I didn’t actually do. And accepting the blame is a better option than fighting knife to knife with the Demon Queen! 𝐟𝚛𝕖𝚎𝕨𝗲𝐛𝚗𝐨𝐯𝐞𝕝.𝐜𝗼𝗺

"I am sorry for my actions, mother. I should not have trusted the Fae King’s words. And I should have released Silver Shadow from his chains."

She smirked at my words and said," Since you are the reason for this, it is on you to make the Shadow Realm stronger, just like the light realm. You are going to lead the quest—"