Chapter 516: The Chronomancer (Two)

“Sweetheart, please calm down.” Levi comforted his wife, stroking her back. Madison is pregnant, so her mood swings are quickly triggered by small things. Now that their issue was huge, his wife fumed in rage. “Think for our daughter.”          

Madison let out a breath and tried to control her emotion. She closed her eyes and reminded herself to calm down. After a while, she apologizes to everyone for throwing a fuss.      

Cassandra stretched her arm and reached for Madison’s hand, tapping the back of her palm as she consoled her.     

“It’s alright, Madison. We shared your sentiment. We’re angry at him too. If Hailee is right that we are his children and we can seal him away, then isn’t that good news over the horrible truth?”     

Madison wanted to argue that, but Cassandra was correct. If they have that ability, they must do it as soon as possible.     

“Hail, can you tell us more about these sisters? Do you and Vincent know how we could seal him away?” she asked.     

Hailee nodded her head. Then she began…     

“I am the only daughter of the Zhang family, so everyone doted on me. My grandparents, brother, and relatives over-protected me to the point that it was suffocating. What I did was I often looked for a way to escape from their watch, then I would go to the woods, hunting. Or visit the neighboring town where the merchant came and sold stuff from foreign lands.”     

“One day, while I was on the run, I met a group called themselves ‘travelers.’ I often crossed paths with them and shared food a few times. As we gain trust from each other, we become friends, and they told me a story about a sorcerer….”     

“A very long time ago, a deity fell in love with a shaman. Their love gifted them three daughters. The elder daughter became the deity of the Red Blood Moon. However, many believe she would only bring chaos to the world; hence, the elder daughter never appears to the people.”     

“Later, after a few years, the deity again gives birth to her second daughter, who represents the Blue Moon. With her arrival, the people saw hope compared to their beliefs in the red blood moon. They believe she brought miracles, and many lovers prayed for her to grant their wishes of everlasting love. Last, the youngest daughter was born and is called the deity of the White Moon, the one we often see in the sky on normal days.”     

“Among her daughters, the White Moon shone brightly because of her outgoing character. The people felt fortunate to have her around. Not only that, she convinced the people that her eldest sister, the deity of the red blood moon, was not scary. But they are all special.”     

“As the sisters grew up, they soon learned they’d been gifted an ability to travel time and foresee things. Soon, their father learns about their unique ability. It was the power he dreamed of acquiring. Unfortunately, he could never learn it, no matter how he cultivated his abilities. Their father is too envious of this power. His heart was consumed by darkness after he learned his daughters possessed this ability through birth.”     

“The shaman, whose heart is completely consumed by darkness, wanders every part of the world to figure out how he could acquire this ability. However, he found nothing. With the thought that his daughters had defeated him, he grew to hate them. He left again and searched for something endlessly so that even his wife, the deity, didn’t understand him but noticed the darkness looming behind her husband. Until one day, he stumbled upon many secrets written in a book about different forbidden rituals. One can obtain any ability by performing a ritual of transferring someone’s power into him.”     

“His ability to travel time is only stolen from his wife after consuming her power. The three sisters investigated, and they found out it was their father who killed their mother. When they confront him, they will notice that their father has become a madman who even desires to conquer the world. His daughters tried to stop him, but he was too powerful for them. The sisters flee and hide from their father.”     

“One day, the youngest sister visited a hidden village that holds many secrets from thousands of years ago, one of which is how to trap someone’s soul in a different dimension. After the youngest sister performs the ritual, she goes home to inform her sisters about it. But something to consider even after they learned how to perform the ritual. They have to wait for the right time.” Hailee concluded. She observed their expression, and they all had complicated feelings toward her story.     

After listening to Hailee for a long time, resentment filled Madison, Isabella, and Cassandra’s hearts.     

‘How could he kill his wife?’ thought Cassandra.     

‘If true we are his daughter, how could he kill our mother!?’ It was what was on Madison’s mind.     

The only calm among them is Isabella. As the oldest sister who walked in this world for over three hundred years without death, she perfected how to conceal her emotion.     

“Hailee, could you tell us about the right time the sisters had to wait before they successfully sealed their father?” Isabella thought they must prepare as soon as possible. “Please, tell us, Hail.”     

Hailee nodded and replied, “To trap him, they must perform the ritual when the nine planets align during the red blood moon. So it took them three hundred years of waiting for the red blood moon to appear.”     

“Is that long? Then how old are they when they can seal their father away?” asked Levi.     

Vincent, who replied to that. “They were nearly four hundred years old.”     

“If that man was sealed away five hundred years ago. Then, the sisters are likely to be eight hundred years old if they are alive today?” Madison asked.     

“Yes. But the sisters lost their power after the ritual, which is why they grew old and passed away. The sisters didn’t know actually that their father had managed to divide his soul into half and half, able to escape and hide for a long time.”         

“Therefore, they only seal away half of his soul,” Shun chimed in.     

“Yes, Shun. He will become too powerful once he locates the other half of his soul. So we have to stop him soon,” Vincent chimed in.      

“I wonder where half of his soul has sealed away.” Levi pondered.     

“Maybe they sealed the soul into a different dimension?” Derek has been suspicious; thus, he shared his thoughts. “Could it be that in one of these timelines?”     

Madison concurred. “To think of now, Uncle Derek is correct. Maybe we, the sisters, trapped his soul somewhere out there….”     

“So which timeline the half of his soul trapped in?”     

Each of them fell into deep thoughts.     

“Could it be in the life that does not exist anymore?”     

“Where the clock stops ticking…. Maybe I keep going back in that timeline because we sealed half of his soul inside that dimension?” Cassandra muttered, lost in her own thoughts.     

“You are right, love.” Shun supported his wife’s conclusion. “I am not entirely certain. It will be possible.”     

“Then, we must guard the life that no longer exists!” Levi suggested. He then looked at his wife and said, “Sweetheart, please, stay here and let me visit there alone to warn the younger self of me to look for you.”     

“Is this work?” Madison is not used to time traveling alone or she will be left alone ever since she and Levi fall in love. Now they were inseparable; like glue, sticking together.      

“Don’t worry. I will come back right away.” Levi promised.     

“Wait! We’ve forgotten the most important part.” Bailey forgot something and so she reminded them. “The next red blood moon is in the year 2050. We have to wait till then.”     

“No, shit!” Levi cursed, and Madison glared at him. He quickly covered his mouth and apologized. “I’m sorry.”     

Madison hated him for swearing, especially in front of their children, who were all boys.     

Vincent meets Levi’s eyes. “I know how to defeat him. But I am uncertain if we can completely succeed when we are not following the sequence. I think we could only harm him but we could not destroy his soul when the red blood moon is just twenty-four years later.”     

“How about we go to that year?” Levi suggested.     

“But we never travel that far, except for the past.” Madison is disappointed that her ability has a limit.     

“Is it necessary that we wait for the red blood moon?” Levi queried.      

“It is necessary because the sisters’ power is at its peak during the Red Blood Moon. I remembered one quote from a long poem I had forgotten,” Hailee answered Levi’s question. She then recited a quote.     

“The sky is painted with love. But why does it bring sadness to my heart?”     

~     

After the long meeting, Hailee finally has alone time with Vincent. They had planned out everything, and it was only a matter of time before to commence them.     

For now, Cassandra will fly to Italy to join Shun to investigate the past, while Madison will look after the children while they were away.          

For the time being, they will keep the secret that Hailee has already woken up. She misses everyone, but she has to pretend she is still in a coma as they must be careful. Not only for the media, but their enemy is still looming around them. Besides, they must deal with Samuel in silence before facing the dark shaman.      

“Hubby…”     

Hailee sat down on Vincent’s lap and rested her head on his shoulder.      

“Why didn’t you tell them about the sword and the sorcerer who built it?”      

Hailee questioned him this; Vincent lifted his gaze and looked at her solemnly…      

(to be continued…)      

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