The Veil of Darkness
Chapter 193: The Black Tree

Chapter 193: The Black Tree

Annalise opened her eyes when she felt something or someone poking her cheek. She was expecting to be blinded by the morning sunlight, instead, she found herself staring at the ceiling visible to her enhanced eyesight even though there was not even a single lantern lighting up the area that looked so unfamiliar to her even though she knew that she was still inside the castle.

She moved to a sitting position, as her body and mind realized that something was not right with her situation, before standing up completely and looking around her to see exactly what was going on.

She could feel that there was a weird sort of lightness in her body but she also knew that her current situation was not a mere dream. There was undoubtedly something weird going on.

She tried to link to her husbands through the soulmate bonds that they shared but realized immediately that she couldn’t reach even one of the dark lords. The realization only made her more anxious as she tried to remain calm and think through the situation.

It was right then that she felt the familiar pull that was calling her in a particular direction. Before she could have got a proper grasp on the unexpected situation, she was already heading in that direction.

Her feet moved across the hard floor and brought her to huge wooden double doors that were covered in vines from top to bottom as the vines spread all across the walls and the ceiling. Her hands moved to push the doors open and she found herself stepping into a huge room that was completely empty except for a tree that was standing in the very center of the room.

Her gaze was fixed on the tree as she stepped further inside the room. The tree was huge, to begin with. With a massive trunk of the color of charcoal, the branches were spread across a large area, and big black leaves were covering the branches with the faintest touch of gold in them.

She recognized the powerful energy surrounding the tree, it was the same one that had been calling her all this while. She stepped, even more, closer to the tree as it was almost impossible for her to stop herself at that point, not like she was doing any better initially.

What really surprised her was the fact that despite the peculiarity of the situation she was suddenly pulled into, there were no warning bells ringing in her head, no inner voice was telling her to stay away from the weird but extremely alluring tree, and not even her instincts were warning her against the mystery of the situation.

She came to stand right in front of the tree. Her eyes took in every single detail of the tree and she felt her hands itching to touch it but she hesitated to actually touch it, but then she again felt the strong urge to touch the tree and this time, she did exactly that.

Her hand trembled slightly as she moved it toward the trunk and slowly pressed her palm against it. A sudden surge of energy rushed through her entire body and made her powers surface as they enjoyed the new energy that somehow felt really similar despite the fact that she had never ever come across it before in her life.

Her powers clashed against the tree’s energy but in a completely friendly manner before another surge of energy rushed through her body and made its way out of her palm and straight into the trunk.

Annalise watched in awe as a golden light shone through the tears in the trunk before it spread across all the branches and eventually into the leaves. The golden light completely took over the black tree before the light disappeared just as suddenly and smoothly as it had appeared and the only trace of its existence left behind was the gold glitter that was covering the trunk, its branches, and leaves, here and there.

If the tree looked mystic and stunning before, then after the golden touch of glitters, it was looking totally breathtaking. The feeling that the tree kept giving her from the very moment she set her eyes on it was about how right its presence was.

She kept tracing her fingers over the creases in the trunk and all of a sudden, something sharp pricked the tip of her index finger and she let out a small gasp of pain while pulling her hand away from the trunk to look at the wound.

However, she was unable to pull her hand away, not only that but she couldn’t even move her hand even the slightest. If that was already not bizarre enough to send her into an alarm, then the sudden pull on her index finger from tge trunk definitely did the deed.

She realized almost immediately that the tree was sucking her blood and even then her instincts remained calm and did not protest against the attack that the tree had launched at her out of the blue.

She again tried to pull her hand away but the result was nothing but utter failure. The grip of the tree tightened on her hand as it continued to suck her blood as if it was determined to drain her completely.

She tried to call her powers for her aid to get herself out of the tree’s clutches but she soon realized that her powers were completely at the tree’s mercy as if it had casted some sort of compulsion on her to keep her from fighting and pulling away. The only part of her that was actually protesting was only her mind that was aware of the wrongness of the situation.

A small cry of discomfort escaped her lips as she gave another tug on her hand and all of a sudden, the tree bit deeply into her palm as some sharp things entered her palm and started sucking on her blood.

However, right when she thought there was no saving for her, something... or someone, eventually helped her.

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