C3 Chapter 3 - Her Three Lifetimes

Hazel Tancongco feels the warm of the old mansion like it is welcoming its new master.

"Young Miss Tancongco, I'll guide you to your new room" an old woman, who is wearing a different color but with similar style of those maids, said with respect. There's no signs of contempt nor ridicule to her tone and eyes. This made her smile towards the old maid.

"You are..?" she tilted her head and contemplating. The old woman is a maid but she never saw her before in her first lifetime.

"I am Antonette Aquino, the Head Maid of this mansion. I was one of the Old Master Hunter's personal maid but I preferred to stay here when he traveled there" she introduced herself and curtsied. Just any usual ancient times greetings, as they believed that it is one of the Old Mansion's rules and they cannot go against it.

Hazel Tancongco's eyes widened her eyes as she stared at the Head Maid. Now, she remembers. Once in her first lifetime, she heard the maids in Hunter Family that an old maid angered Liezel Hunter to death she asked where the Old Mansion was located.

However, the Old Maid didn't reveal the location of the old mansion and stayed silent. When Old Master Hunter heard that Liezel somehow knows about the old mansion, he was angry and nagged at his son to educate Liezel to behave herself. The Old Master Hunter even once said that if he heard someone mentioned about the old mansion, they will be fired or kicked out of the family. Immediately!

Surely, Liezel couldn't help but be curious as to why the Old Master Hunter forbids anyone to talk about the old mansion.

"The Old Mansion? It is a prison mansion for the family members of Hunter Family who committed a treason against the family. If a member of the Hunter Family threatened its family to death, he/she must reside in old mansion. Only the Family Heads of Hunter Family have the rights to use that authority" he lied, without batting an eyelid. But it was effective because it shocked the entire Hunter Family, even the other family branch and never mention the old mansion again. Only she, who doesn't know about the old mansion and accepted the documents as the new owner while weird gazes are on her.

Before she transferred to the old mansion, Liezel secretly told her about the old mansion, just like what the Old Master Hunter implied. She asked forgiveness from Hunter Family and, specially, to her grandfather who arranged it. However, only frowns showed on her grandfather's face.

This lead to her being depressed, scared, despaired and hated everyone including her grandfather until she died in her sleep after three days of residing in the old mansion.

Anyway, she already tried to be connected with them but they refused. However, in her second lifetime in another world - The Cultivation World. There was also a similar forest and old mansion.

What bewildered her the most was that it just recently changed into Tancongco Forest and it was already three days passed since the change of names. It was also already three days since she died in her first lifetime and reincarnated in her second lifetime.

Because she lacked of familial love from her parents in the first lifetime, she treated her master as her own mother. She was an orphan in her second lifetime.

Her master even said that she has no soul when she took her to the sect and always muddle-headed for thirteen years. When Hazel suddenly speaks like the any other girls, her master embraced her tightly and stared at her brilliant eyes.

From that day onwards, Hazel becomes her only core disciple and taught her everything she knows. From alchemy to medicine. From Blacksmithing to Array Formations. From Taming Monsters to Cooking.

Every field her master have known, her master taught it to her without reserved! This shocked the whole sect. There were times that other disciples tried to bully her but was beaten by her until their masters couldn't recognize them anymore.

However, she died during her tribulations to step on Saint Realm. She was not beaten by her own tribulations but was betrayed by her own sect brothers and sisters because of the Sect Head Master's declaration that Hazel will be the next Sect Head Master if she successfully went through her tribulation and reached Saint Realm. Wasn't that the same as sowing discords between her and sect disciples? Hypocrite!

If it happens, she will be the youngest Saint in the whole realm at the age of 30. Because of their envy, jealousy and greeds, they killed her with the Array Formation which also killed the Saint Realm Late Stage - The Blood Sucking Array. However, she had no regrets at that time because she already lived for seventeen years in her second lifetime.

She was just sad that she had no longer time to go to Tancongco Forest in that lifetime. She was just glad that it was not Spirit Sucking Array. Otherwise, she couldn't reincarnate again in another world - The World of Sword and Magic.

She reincarnated in her third lifetime as the Youngest Princess of Ezare Kingdom, the poorest kingdom in the world. She was the 100th newborn baby of the lustful Emperor ever in the world. He sold his sons and daughters to the neighboring kingdom for his kingdom to hold on. The Ezare people no longer hope for their kingdom so they migrated to another kingdom and lived there properly.

When she was born at that day, her body exuded a radiant aura of a phoenix soaring the sky. The whole world was shaken because of the strong mana coming from the phoenix above and they all kneeled down to welcome it. Then, the phoenix screeched loudly and flew downwards towards the baby. The mana phoenix entered the baby.

When they heard that it came from the Ezare Kingdom, the biological sons and daughters of King of Ezare Kingdom flew up the sky with highest level of Magic. The Eldest Son attacked the Nobles of Ezare Kingdom, the Second Son closed down the businesses of the Ezare Kingdom and the Third Son took over the Magic Tower of Ezare Kingdom. When the neighboring kingdom heard these exaggerated stories of these three princes of Ezare Kingdom and saw it in their Magic Recorder, they were shaken to the core.

The other sons and daughters of the lustful King of Ezare Kingdom he sold didn't even want to be left behind of the thrill that their eldest brothers did and visited the Ezare Kingdom with Imperial sedan. Yes, they were all sold to the neighboring Imperial Families while hiding their birth identity.

They killed their own father using a cup of aprodiasiac wine and thousands of brothel women to death. They declared the 100th newborn baby as the new ruler of Ezare Kingdom but the three eldest brothers will be the Imperial Regents. They rule the Kingdom as the guardian of the 100th newborn baby.

Within fifteen years, all of the 90 children of the previous King taught her numerous magic circles, chants and spells either a defensive magic or offensive magic. They were even shocked to know that the 100th Princess of Ezare Kingdom reached Level 30 Magic - The Supreme Magister at the age sixteen when she was tested in front of the crowd during her coronation as the Youngest Female Emperor and Supreme Magister in whole world.

At the age of forty, she used the wood, water, wind, and fire to forge a human baby with her own blood. It is her strongest magic and she named him - Medorico. She almost depleted her mana reserves and rested. She has a 600 years of lifespan but she felt she couldn't live longer sixty years old.

Indeed, as she predicted she couldn't live longer than sixty years because she sacrificed herself to protect her kingdom. Her son Medorico started to reign since he was fifteen and became Supreme Magister when he turned eighteen, just like her. When the Demons God attacked the Ezare Kingdom, she used a God-Tier Magic Spell to kill the Demon God. Anyway, she already reached the Godly Magister at the age of sixty. So, she has no regrets.