Awakened: Evolving to Godhood

The betrayal caused the high elves many losses, but they still held their ground and protected their mainland, which had the branch of the world tree. But after that battle, they shunned and prosecuted dark elves. Freya also got implicated, and she had to live in shame, for she was the member of the race that had betrayed everyone.

After the battle, the lizardmen split into two factions too, one went rogue, and they did everything terrible. The other split up into tribes that protected the mainland from the outside. The wild ones acted like rouges, thieves, butchers, and mercenaries for hire who were ready to help anyone, including the spider queen, as long as they got to make a wad of cash.

With their help, the spider queen set her bases in the Sutherland, the territory to the south of the mainland. There, she cultivated her subordinates, raised her newborns, and prepared an army of various creatures, and attacked the mainland.

The elves successfully defended against the spider queen, and she failed to set foot inside the mainland once again.

The spider queen had attempted to overtake the mainland many times after that, but she failed every single time.

She stopped attacking, and it has been a few hundred years since.

However, everyone knew that she was cooking up something insidious.

Freya, who wanted to prove to the world that not all dark elves were terrible, took it upon herself to uncover the schemes of the spider queen and save the world.

Thus, after joining the resistance organization and becoming a resistor, she volunteered to come here and act as a spy on their behalf.

As she was a dark elf, it was easy for her to become a believer of the spider queen and her believer accepted her quickly.

Some were suspicious of her, including the spider queen, but after she performed some meritorious deeds, they accepted her as one of their own.

"After they stopped guarding against me, I found out about many of the spider queen's secrets, but I am afraid that I can not tell you as the slave mark she had put on me and strengthened over the years makes it impossible for me to expose to others anything detrimental to her interest," Freya said with a sad smile.

Although she had many pieces of information that were good enough to create many holes in the demonic goddess's shop, enough to make it sink to the depth of the ocean, she couldn't reveal a single one to another, as the curse would start eating her alive if she dared to say a word.

Freya had already planned to self-destructively destroy or put a massive hole in the plan of the spider queen at the start of the war, but because Elliot was here, she nearly thought she wouldn't need to die. Though, now she shook off such dreamy thoughts out of her mind and mentally prepared herself to sacrifice herself at the opportune time.

"I can solve it," Elliot said after confirming with Hope that he could destroy the slave mark on Freya's body with his unique energy.

"What did you say?" Freya's pretty eyes widened in shock.

She was in disbelief.

However, her eyes also told the onlooker that she wanted to believe in him.

If he set her free from the curse, then that would mean that she would be able to relay the spider queen's plot to her immediate superior and all her fellow comrades that also worked their asses off in the resistance organization.

"I don't like to repeat myself," Elliot said as he asked for her hand that had the slave mark on it.

"If you can, then please try to help me."

After saying that, Freya extended her hand towards him, and Elliot grabbed it. Her hand was soft like a sponge, and he liked how they felt. With one touch, he could tell that she had taken great care of her hands, skin, and body. Many units of the essence of life surged out of him and entered into her hand. Freya felt an indescribable warmness entering her. However, it soon left her as it vanished into the slave mark and eliminated it bit by bit.

[You're using the essence of life to eliminate the spider queen's slave mark.]

[You've successfully eliminated 75% of it!]

Freya's eyes expressed extreme happiness as she saw the slave mark leaving the back of her hand very fastly.

However, she was happy too soon.

[A problem has occurred.]

A foreboding feeling filled Elliot.

It looks like something has gone wrong!

[The slave mark had gone all out to take down Freya with it! It self-exploded, releasing massive amounts of poison into her body. The poison will devour all of her in five minutes.]

After reading the notification, Elliot realized that something had gone incredibly wrong!

"Argh!" Freya felt like someone had poured lava over her, causing her skin to dissolve, her bones to melt, and her figure to deform. None of that was happening, but the pain she felt was too honest, and she couldn't help but cry out loud and shed tears, which turned bloody in a couple of seconds.

Her legs lost their strength, and she fell to the ground, but Elliot, who messed up, caught her in his embrace.

She touched his face and wanted to say but felt too tired and sleepy.

"Calm down, and don't you dare fall asleep," Elliot said as he grabbed her falling hand and poured the energy of life into her.

The authority of recovery and the energy of life, two, was the best power of healing he had.

However, even though he was pouring energy of life into her to help her recover, the S-ranked poison of the spider queen was too strong and destroying her faster than he was healing her.

It seemed as if the poison had sealed her fate, making it impossible for Elliot to save her from the jaws of death, making it that she would die for sure.