The next day, Eldriana's subordinates arrived in the city quite early in the morning. After getting an emergency alert from Eldriana, all her subordinates hurried to the city of Kakina. Eldriana handed all the captive to them to bring them back to the capital of the Ioikashi kingdom where specialised people were waiting for them to get information out of them.

Obviously Elena, Dalia and Eldriana had already interrogated them once. Eldriana knew about many torture techniques so she mostly used those and Dalia made a special truth serum to tackle this task. Elena was not in the mood to do anything like that and casually read their mind with a spell to get the information.

After Eldriana's subordinates left the city with the captives, Elena looked at the beautiful dark elf and asked -

"You're not going back, Ria ?"

After conversing with each other for a long time last night, Elena and Eldriana became quite close. She started to call her just Elena and Elena gave her a nickname, Ria. Dalia also became quite close to her but she was too much of a fangirl to have the courage to call Eldriana with a nickname. Hearing her question, Eldriana shook her head and replied -

"I'm not going back for the time being. Within a month a gathering among the S ranks is going to take place and I have to attend that. So I'm going to be here for the time being."

After saying this much she blushed a little bit but looked straight at Elena and said -

"I also want to challenge you for a duel. I can feel that you're stronger than me. After reaching the S rank I had never felt so outclassed. So I want to experience Elena's strength. Please."

Saying as much Eldriana slightly bowed her head. She had a feeling that if she was able to get down training for Elena, then her strength would increase even more. Everyone called her with titles like "The Strongest" or "A Walking Catastrophic" but she knew that in front of a true strongest catastrophe, she was nothing and would be powerless to stop it.

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Eldriana was an orphan born in one of the small towns close to the Ioikashi kingdom's capital. Elves were a race that very rarely were able to give birth to new life, so children were always given special care.

Her father was a guard for the city and died in a monster attack when Eldriana was still in her mother's womb. And when she was only 2 years old, her mother suddenly fell sick and died one year later. That's how very early in her life, Eldriana became all alone without a family.

Elves do not have any orphanages as the appearance of an orphan was very rare in their society. But the administration body of the town was able to find a family who were willing to take small Eldriana in.

But the family which took her in did so only because they were targeting the funds that would be given to them by the town. And even though Eldriana's true family were not very rich, they still had some funds.

So the life she spent with her new so called family was very hard. They did not beat her or anything as the town was going to observe her condition for a decade or two, but they completely ignored her as if she didn't exist. It was very painful and lonely especially for a little girl like her.

This experience made her childish mind to become mature quickly. As if her survival instincts were warning her that staying with this family was dangerous. So, from a very early age, Eldriana started to train. She trained her body, secretly went out to hunt beasts and monsters and many such things.

Just like that about 13 years passed. For the long living elves it was not a long time at all, but for a young elf like Eldriana it was her lifetime. In the last decade she had grown up quite a lot and now she was 15 years old. But at this exact time, the town administration stopped their observation of Eldriana. As if waiting for this exact moment, the head of the family who had become her new father took her to a distant border town to sell her a valuable product. Eldriana tried her best to resist, but as a little girl she was unable to do much against an adult elf like her new worthless father.

Dark elves were rarer than even a normal fare skinned elf, so the man who took her in was very happy with his decision. Taking this girl in not only gave him immediate funds to solve the financial problem he was facing at that time, now he could also become a very rich person after selling her. It was killing two birds with one stone.

But Eldriana was very stubborn. She never stopped resisting and when the handover was happening luckily she managed to untie her ropes and immediately tried to run away. Even though she was caught once again very quickly, this angered the slave trader who was buying her and he kicked her in the guts.

He was a level 138 elf so that kick was devastating for Eldriana who was only level 12 at that time. She coughed up blood and slammed to the wall of the building. She was on the verge of death. She had fought some monsters before but she was always careful and chose only to fight the weak ones. So she was never in any serious danger. That meant this was her first experience with death.

At this exact moment Eldriana thought that dying was better than becoming a slave and that would also spoil that man's plan. And her instincts were screaming at her to die which would be able to save her life. It was extremely weird. How could it save her life if she was going to die anyway. But she believed in her instincts and punched herself in the same place where she was kicked beforehand. Immediately her internal organs raptured and she died. Everyone was surprised to see this and the man who was selling her, had a face full of wrath.

But then something even more astonishing happened. Eldriana's body, which was supposed to be dead started to glow with white sacred light. Immediately natural energy entered it and her heart restarted. Eldriana who was supposed to be dead came back to life.

Eldriana was born with a special skill called "Essenceborn". But this skill would only be activated after her death and would give birth to a new stronger her. And in this exact moment she was reborn. She was not a weakling anymore who could just resist powerless without the ability to change anything.

That day Eldriana killed everyone present in that building. The level 138 slave merchant, the guard captain of the merchant who was level 151 and also the man who tried to sell her. She killed everyone. After that she left the building to live her life on her own, freely, independently.

So she became an adventurer. After her experience of death and consequent power up, she became obsessed with the feeling of death and took risks everywhere. She was also gaining powers very quickly this way.

Very soon she became a famous adventurer. At that time the Ioikashi kingdom also started a war with the neighbouring Faesounia Empire. So Eldriana was invited to join the royal army as a general. After thinking about it she decided to accept the proposal as she thought that she would be able to have more chances of encountering life threatening situations in a battlefield.

So she was given the role to manage a small group of 20 elves as their leader. And that was how Eldriana was able to meet her second true family after her mother and father died.

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