I Was The Hero, But I Woke Up as a Phoenix Princess! – Chapter 282

Chapter 282 Chapter 76 Shadow of the Abyss
“According to you, did you grow up with Ig?”
Ophilia ran to Chrisis, looking at the nun, and let out a slightly confused voice. Even Verafia, whose face was cradled by her slender hand, shifted her gaze, and her large eyes showed a curious expression.
Fran, who had been standing quietly beside Verafia, had a few strands of moonlight and frost scattered on her fair white skin. Her ruby-like eyes lifted slightly to see the undisguised tension on the black-haired young man’s face. Her tender lips seemed to let out a cold snort, trying her best to conceal the hostility in her eyes.
“That’s not it.”
Chrisis, with her slightly raised watery blue eyes, saw the black-haired young man’s expression, and suddenly shook her head and replied in a soft voice, “Although I was saved by the young master, eight years ago, when the young master’s cousin went to the royal capital to study, I also followed her to Lichen’s Holy Light Academy, and only graduated last year and returned to Lorincle.”
The nun in the silver robe seemed to have some thoughts in her eyes. She reached out and brushed a strand of golden hair that had fallen from her hood, and then smiled at the young man:
“At that time, when I returned to Lorincle, I never expected that the young master, who was still a little brother back then, would have grown up so much. However, the young master has been secretly sending me silver coins every month all these years, I haven’t forgotten.”
“Sister Chrisis!” Ig’s face became embarrassed.
“That’s how it is… Hmm, I thought there would be some interesting stories, like the one you told me last month, ‘The Nightingale Princess and the Little Prince’?”
Verafia pouted and mumbled, her delicate face showing a look of great disappointment. Even Ophilia, who walked beside her, nodded in agreement.
On the other hand, Elisis curiously turned her eyes and said with some surprise, “I didn’t expect that the young master now could tell stories?”
“Ah, after all, Shiel also often clung to me at home when she was a child.”
Ig’s face became even more awkward. He thought to himself that if it weren’t for this little phoenix beside him, who for some reason suddenly clamored to hear a story when she saw the storybook in Ophilia’s hands, how could he have forced himself to tell these things that only children liked.
The nun nodded with understanding. However, the Ice Dragon girl standing beside her suddenly thought of something, touched the residual demonic power on her frost spear blade with her fair white slender fingers, and tried to touch it.
“But, that swordsman, I just heard Dofi say that he is from Fran? And you called him Hodrea, is this person very famous?”
Ophilia looked at the nun with her frost-like crystal eyes, staring at the nun with great curiosity. Verafia also suddenly jumped to the ground and ran to her side, also somewhat curious.
She had originally intended to ask about this swordsman named Hodrea, who looked very unusual at first glance. Ophilia helped her ask, which was just right.
“Are you asking about Hodrea?”
Upon hearing this name, the nun’s expression became much more serious. She grasped her staff, and the light scattered around her. Seeing Ophilia nod vigorously, she then thought for a moment and began to narrate.
Considering that Ophilia and Miss Phoenix Verafia seemed to be unfamiliar with the various organizations of humans on the continent, Chrisis first patiently introduced them to the Fran Legion.
Listening to the nun’s voice, Verafia looked up at her face, but under her long eyelashes, which trembled slightly in the night wind, a pair of pupils surged with thoughts under the gorgeous scorching gold color.
“Abyss, and Geon…”
Although Verafia guessed that this fortress called “Fran” was mostly related to the Abyss, she still did not expect that it would also be related to her former companion Geon.
Since waking up, among her former “companions,” Verafia undoubtedly paid the most attention to Lancaster, who was a “Knight” and now the King of Peka. Next was Fatter, the recent “Mage.”
As for others, such as “Priests” and “Singers,” Verafia also knew some news about them. Geon was one of the few people she had heard little about.
It was just that Verafia did not expect that this silent and taciturn swordsman of that year had also disappeared in the tide of the Abyss.
“Abyss…”
Verafia tilted her golden eyes and repeated in her heart.
When she was still Lothel, she had also interacted with the black-haired swordsman, who had been known for his “sword technique” in the Empire for a long time, and had even exchanged sword techniques more than once.
If Verafia were still Lothel from back then, she would have been very sad about Geon’s fall, who could be called a friend. But even with the girl’s current indifferent state of mind, a ripple of ripples could not help but arise.
As a companion who could fight side by side with her, in the demon race war a hundred years ago, Geon’s strength was already close to the peak of legends. Even in terms of attack power alone, Verafia was not confident that she could have surpassed him at that time.
Even now, if she abandoned the sacred sword, Geon’s strength should not be much inferior to Lancaster… but such an existence had fallen in a turmoil of the Abyss.
The girl once again regarded the “Abyss,” with which she had indirectly come into contact many times but had never seen its true face, with vigilance.
“…Just as I said, the Fran Legion, after it was established by the ‘Sword Saint’ Geon, has always been the front line against the Abyss. And Hodrea, as you guessed, is not a recent figure.”
Chrisis paused and continued.
“Although his appearance looks very young, Hodrea was already a very famous figure more than fifty years ago, and it is even rumored that he was personally taught by ‘Sword Saint’ Geon.”
“However, it seems that it is precisely because of this that after Lord Geon fell thirty years ago, Hodrea’s mental state seemed to have an obstacle. He attacked his colleagues, even abandoning his sword insignia and wolf insignia and escaping from the Fran Fortress… After that, I only heard that he was pursued by the Empire’s ‘Iron Badge Sword’ and the Church’s ‘Brilliant Sacred Guard,’ and since then there has been no news. I didn’t expect to see him here again.”
Ophilia, who was listening intently, suddenly raised her small hand. Her pure and white delicate face fell under the clear moonlight, and her frost-blue beautiful eyes looked at Chrisis with some confusion.
“‘Sword Saint’ Geon, hmm, I also heard from my father that he is a very powerful human… but, there is one thing I don’t understand. If this Hodrea, if he is really as you said, why, when I fought him, did I feel like he was just a crystal?”