Reborn as a Mind-Reading Empress-Chapter 671: The Elder’s Past

Elder Satara then explained that she chose to stay in the human realm despite receiving the offer to head to a safer place reserved only for the long-lived races.

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Satara lost all her family and the people she knew during the Great War and thus decided to mourn for them on this mountain until she died.

She loathed humans for the longest time and prevented them from ever approaching this mountain which was her place of mourning.

However, after three thousand years, someone was able to enter the forest to acquire medicinal plants for his ailing younger sibling.

It was a man named Lobelius. Lobelius’ parents had settled on the plains near the mountain and farmed the area without trying to enter the forest due to all the rumors about it being a cursed mountain since everyone who tried to enter it had died or never got out.

One day, Lobelius’ young sibling who was just a toddler got ill and the cure could only be found in the mountain.

Despite the rumors of the mountain being cursed, Lobelius who was a Holy Knight for the Great Temple returned, and ventured into the forest. 𝗳𝚛𝗲𝕖𝚠𝚎𝚋𝗻𝗼𝕧𝗲𝐥.𝚌𝚘𝐦

Due to Lobelius’ determination to save his ailing younger sibling who was just a toddler, Satara did not kill him and allowed him to leave with the cure after making him promise not to tell other families that he got the cure from this mountain.

Lobelius did as he promised. He even made an altar at the foot of the forest for Satara as if she were some kind of deity.

Satara could tell he had retired from the holy knights since he came to the altar every day and offered her flowers, food, fruits, and vegetables. He even prayed for her good health and long life.

Satara was amused and simply let it be but did not touch any of the offerings. Yet, Lobelius kept doing so like a madman and kept thanking her for the life of his sibling who had been saved thanks to the medicinal plant he retrieved from the forest.

However, as the years went by, the toddler who was cured grew into a playful child and went into the forest one time despite everyone’s warning to never venture there.

Satara observed the child weaved through the forest without getting lost as if he knew where he was heading. Satara thought the child would eventually get lost but one day, she woke up when she felt an old wound she did not dare heal getting cured.

It was then that the Satara realized the child had cured her old wound from the Great War that she had refused to heal as part of her mourning.

"Who are you? Why did you heal me?" Satara said to the child.

"I am called Lahar. Thank you for letting my older brother take the medicine back then. Thanks to you, I am alive and well now," the boy said much to Satara’s surprise.

"He told you about it? I told him to keep it a secret," Satara frowned.

"He did not tell other families as he promised. He simply informed our family so we could be grateful to you," Lahar replied.

"Then why are you here? And where did you get that ability to heal?" Satara inquired.

"I must have received this gift from the Creator so I can come here and return the favor from when I was a child. I’m glad I was able to cure your wound. My brother said it looked like it hurt a lot. My brother and I both felt your pain and wanted to cure you so I’m glad I had this," Lahar thought that the pain Satara was feeling was from wounds she had.

However, it was not from the wound but from everything she lost due to the Great War.

Satara then spent hours speaking with the child and getting updated with the human realm which had fully recovered while she remained the same.

She was so absorbed in her conversation with the child that she did not notice an intruder in the forest until it appeared right before her eyes.

"I deeply apologize for my sibling’s intrusion into your abode. Please show him mercy, I will take him home with me now," Lobelius said and was wide-eyed when he noticed that Satara’s wounds were gone. "Lahar was able to cure you?"

"I am able to heal myself and intentionally did not cure my wounds. This insolent one cured it while I was asleep," Satara glared at the two intruders in her abode.

Satara did not heal it on purpose since it was one of her ways of remembering and lamenting those who passed while she continued to live.

"Lahar, how could you just approach a sleeping lady like that?!" Lobelius chided his sibling.

"But I was afraid to wake her up since she was sleeping so soundly," Lahar defended himself.

"Alright, apologize now and go home," Lobelius said and made his sibling bow.

"I’m so sorry, Mysterious Lady. Please do not be in pain anymore," Lahar smiled and began heading home all on his own.

Satara was rather surprised that Lobelius just allowed his younger sibling to go all alone when he was begging her for his sibling’s life when he came for the medicinal plant.

Now, he was allowing the boy to venture into danger all on his own.

"I truly apologize for my brother’s intrusion. I swear, our family kept the secret to ourselves. Oh, and I brought today’s offerings here. These are the freshest produce on our farm. This is the meat I cooked before heading here," Lobelius offered food to Satara again.

"You can stop all this now. I believe you know that I am not some kind of god. I am just another being who lives longer than you fools," Satara scoffed.

And yet, instead of stopping the offerings, Lobelius went to the top of the mountain every day to directly hand her the offerings and kept reasoning it was thanks for the past.