NOVEL SIMPLE Chapter 4 : Mia Rosewood
Mia walked out of the bathroom after washing herself.
"Everything is ready as you have instructed, mistress. Can we send the letter to viscount?" Seina asked after watching Mia come out of her bathroom. Nobody could tell how or when she appeared inside the room and stood silently.
"Oh! Did you have a breakthrough today? I didn't even notice your presence.!!" Mia asked in a surprised tone.
"Thanks for the compliment, mistress. I just breakthrough to the 2nd layer of meridian opening and successfully opened my 2nd meridian." Seina replied emotionlessly. As a secret protector of Mia, she was trained to be emotionless from childhood.
"Umm. You don't have to send the letter right now. I don't even know if we could kill him. It's been one year since I last saw him. Let's wait for William's thoughts on this matter first." Mia replied with a mixture of emotions visible on her face. Hate, longing, and expectations—every single emotion could be seen on her face. Hate; she hated her husband; she hated the whole Saint Kingdom Royal family. Longing, it's been 10 years since her cultivation stopped advancing and stopped at the 4th stage of core formation. While she is very happy for Seina, she also doesn't want to end her cultivation path like this. And finally Mia looked towards William with moist and loving eyes, clearly waiting for him to rescue her from this hell hole. But soon she became worried. 'What will happen if William hears the whole truth and doesn't want to accept her?' A single question was gnawing her heart.
As soon as those thoughts appeared in her mind, she shook her head and walked outside the room while Seina followed her like a silent guardian.
The world of cultivation never stops for anyone. If you stop cultivating or go on a long retreat to breakthrough, everyone will forget about you. Talented cultivators, child of destiny, or heaven's favorite titles don't mean anything if you don't accomplish anything grand enough to remember you for centuries. Even immortals and emperors are like grains of sand in an endless desert.
How many people still remember the past of a 41-year-old woman, Mia Rosewood?. Once a famous genius and a princess of Heavenly Fire Kingdom, currently being reduced to a mere concubine of the Rosewood house in the blink of an eye.
Heavenly Fire Kingdom was once known as one of the 1st grade kingdoms located far east of Heavenly Sword Continent. With the 'goddess of light' and 'goddess of birth' watching over the people of this kingdom like two pillars. This kingdom quickly became one of the most prosperous lands in the heavenly sword continent.
Mia Blaze was the 3rd princess of the heavenly fire kingdom. Along with the 1st princess Lily Blaze and the 2nd princess Luna Blaze, they were known as the three great beauties of the heavenly fire kingdom.
While Lily and Luna both possess great talent in cultivation and devoted their time in cultivation from the moment they were awakened, Mia took the position of Holy Saintess of the 'goddess of birth' after awakening. Citizens of the kingdom loved Mia dearly. Even though Mia also possesses great talent in cultivation and breakthrough to flesh tempering, bone strengthening, and core formation realms one after another in the span of 2 years, she devoted her time to bless the citizens.
But twenty years ago everything fell apart when three neighborhood 2nd grade kingdoms declared war against the Heavenly Fire kingdom. The Heavenly Fire kingdom razed to the ground in a one-year-long war against the Saint kingdom, azure kingdom, and aurora kingdom. Mia still remembered the day when her beloved father, James Blaze, was beheaded in front of everyone. Her delicate body trembled with deep sorrow and hatred.
After his death, three kings decided to let Mia's mother, Amelia Blaze, be crowned Queen of Heavenly Fire Kingdom, and they would just control it from the shadows. Amelia couldn't even muster the courage to protect because they took Mia as their hostage. They also wanted to take Lily and Luna, but they failed because the lightning sword sect, one of the three great sects, took them away as their disciples.
This is just the start for Mia's journey towards hell. Where only a hollow, empty life was waiting for her.
They took away every happiness from her. She was forced to take an oath in the name of heaven so as not to go against these three kingdoms or their people. At that time, Mia fell in love with the Viscount of the Saint Kingdom. Rudra Rosewood, like the only flickering light in the endless darkness, married him and gave birth to a beautiful boy one year later. Mia lost 5 levels of the core formation realm and fell straight into the 1st stage of core formation.
From this point on, Rudra stopped seeing her. After a few months, she found out that their love is only a plot to further tie her up inside the kingdom. Rudra originally had a wife, and Mia was only meant to be a one-time concubine.
Mia was devastated when she found out about this, but as a cultivator, her will never wavered. Even if this child follows his father's steps in the future, she will. Sure enough, when he grew up, he became arrogant and left the house for his father. His reasoning for that? He said he couldn't stay in the same house with a war trophy. Yes Mia's heart hurts like hell, it took a few months to let go of any lingering feelings for her ungrateful child. She is just a trophy of war.
After that, she focused all her attention on cultivation; only now did she understand why her two big sisters focused all their attention on cultivation. She realized her mistakes at last, but it's too late; the damage was already done. But the question is, will the king of the Saint Kingdom let a poisonous snake like this grow? They are well aware of their own wrongdoing, so the revenge will come back to bite them if they don't pay much attention. The king hired a very high-level cultivator to perform a curse on Mia ten years ago. For the last ten years, because of the curse, she became unable to absorb outside free spiritual energy.
One year ago, news of her son William's death became public. It seems that William just joined a sect after awakening but offended a young master of a powerful clan on his first day because of his extreme arrogance and died in his hand. For the fear of offending the young master again, Rudra blamed everything on Mia and banished her from the royal capital along with a maid named Anna Acqua to take care of her.
'It's been eighteen long years of torture. What were her mother and sisters doing? Are they safe, or did any disaster fall upon them? Did they also abandon her?' Many questions came to her mind. After coming to the Windy City, distant from the watchful eye of the royal family, Mia began to think about her life. Even though they sent their watchdog as a maid to watch over her, she hoped for an opportunity.
At least her mother hadn't forgotten about her. One week after being banished from the royal capital, Mia's childhood friend Seina Gray secretly came to her as her secret protector and a messenger from her mother.
Seina was an understanding woman. Mia's dull eyes that have long lost their playful spark are all it took for Seina to understand the dire situation her friend was going through all these years.
In this one year, Seina is the only one who properly took care of her. After one year with her friend, Mia became much more lively but only showed this side in front of Seina. If Anna finds out about her mental recovery, she will surely report it to the royal family. They both discussed many plans for the revenge, but the oath Mia took nineteen years ago became a hindrance on their path.
She used her deep connection with the 'goddess of birth' for two wishes at the cost of losing all her connection with the goddess.
Her first wish was offsetting the punishment for breaking the heavenly oats. If the cultivators of the outside world were to know about this, they would surely curse her to death. Connection with the goddess itself is a blessing. Even though they couldn't actively take action in matters related to the mortal world, they could give oracles and blessings and increase the purity of your qi and spiritual energy.
As for her second wish, she wished for a person to take her out of this hell. She could only perform transmigration using the body of her dead child.
Mia stopped thinking about her painful past as she reached the prayer hall. The statue of the beautiful woman holding a child on her lap has long been turned into dust. Mia silently watched the empty spot and bowed her head with a deep sense of gratitude.
Yes, all of this is only possible because goddess Alicia helped her. If she ever meets the goddess in her life again, she will be sure to repay her. After that, she and Seina walked towards the empty spot behind the statue and tapped a specific place on the wall.
Sshh!!
A understood place opened its way for them. Yes, Mia and Seina created this underground training room. Although Mia couldn't absorb any spiritual energy from the outside and turn it to her own qi energy, she could at least train his physical powers and reflexes. Thus, a hard-core training regimen followed again.