Chapter 1482 Crown [1]

Chapter 1482 Crown [1]

Every step Thalia took towards the pantheon became heavier after a certain point in time.

She felt a sinking feeling in her heart as if she was going to lose something important, but she had no way to identify the nature of those feelings.

Unlike Damien, she didn't even know there was an extinction-level event happening for the Gehenna Tribe right now.

Since she was young, she'd been told she was the Saintess' successor.

Her position had been decided at birth. She was chosen by the spirits.

Thalia never understood why.

She was definitely more talented than most people, but she wasn't fit to lead the tribe.

She was a hunter. That was her calling.

She always took the things she heard about her future as the Saintess with a grain of salt, barely believing she would ever actually get raised to that point.

But it happened.

She arrived here quite confidently because that was the mentality she held when going into anything and everything, but in reality, it was just now setting in the kind of responsibility that was being placed on her shoulders.

Was she ready for it?

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She wasn't even close to being prepared to lead the entire tribe.

She'd shadowed the Saintess for years and knew exactly how much she had to do to keep the tribe stable. There were many threats that only the Saintess could deal with, things that threatened the tribe that the tribespeople didn't even know about.

She wasn't mature enough, nor was she stable enough in her own self to take the position that she was destined for.

Still, she pushed down the uncomfortable feeling in her chest.

No matter what it stemmed from, what was ahead of her was more important.

The second she entered that building, everything would change.

She wouldn't be able to live whimsically anymore.

She would willingly be trapping herself in a cage.

'But, that cage is the one I have chosen.'

She was a free-spirited person, so it was a hard decision to make, but she always knew the answer deep down.

She cared about the tribe more than anything else. For the tribe, she was willing to do anything.

She may have been able to achieve the position of Great Hunter easily and gained the respect of everyone, but if she wanted to bring her ambitions to reality, the Saintess role was her only choice.

It was their job to bestow Thalia with her ability.

As such, they knew what kind of ability she'd be given.

"She already possesses a vestige of the past generation's Future Sight. If her own ability is compounded with that..."

A certain Saintess who lived almost ten generations ago spoke worriedly.

"...the current trajectory of the tribe...is it good or bad?"

A fellow Saintess finished her thought.

They couldn't tell.

Whatever Thalia became when she finished digesting her inheritance...

Whatever was happening in the outside world to provoke such a transformation...

...there was no way for them to tell whether it would be the tribe's fortune or its ruin.

"In the end, it is not our duty to decide. We can only grant her the power to persevere and watch over our descendant's journey."

The first-generation Saintess, the woman who originally allowed the Gehenna Tribe to form a connection with a Gehenna and become what it was today, she was the one who said those words.

And the others had no choice but to agree.

The fate of a Gehenna Saintess could be extremely cruel. They'd experienced it personally.

However, if a Saintess was able to persevere through that cruelty and come out the other side stronger...

Only one thing needed to be said.

There was a reason the Gehenna Tribe was once the ruler of the sacred jungle.

Thalia naturally didn't know any of this was happening.

She was still waiting for some sort of reaction from the pantheon.

She had yet to realize that something inside of her was already changing.

As the Saintesses of past generations blessed her qualities as a Saintess, and as the Great Hunters of past generations blessed her qualities as a warrior, a massive transformation started taking root in Thalia's body.

A power like nothing the Gehenna Tribe had ever seen started to bloom.

It was not a power meant to protect like most others had been, nor was it a power to foresee like the current Saintess had.

No, it was a power that showed only one future for the tribe Thalia would come to rule.

Conquest.