Survive As The Brute's Wife

Alexandra squinted her eyes and pulled back the flames surrounding Maximus. She could see that he has reached his limit. Her heart started to hurt as she could hear the screams of her soul.

At first, she thought that the darkness has mixed with Maximus’ soul, but she realized that the darkness was not able to get a hold of Maximus’ soul in its entirety.

When she created the Aion stone, she integrated a spell to recognize each other in their next life. An extension of that spell is the one that connects the feelings of each other. Once they use the Aion stone to bound them together, they could feel the intense feeling of the other person. It won’t work on normal emotions but if the other person is in intense pain or suffering, the other can feel a part of that pain.

And that is how she could feel Maximus’ plea. He wanted to be out. He wanted to rid of the darkness. But since the darkness is inside him, mingled with part of his soul, he could not take control.

And he is screaming for help.

The more he wanted to be out, the louder she could hear him. The closer she got to Maximus, she could see the darkness in his soul retreating. But his body is getting damaged by the blue flame. And so she approached him closely using her healing spell along with the blue flame.

But he couldn’t handle it anymore as the darkness had gripped strongly to a part of his soul. She cannot destroy the darkness without destroying his soul. If his soul gets broken, it would cause dire consequences. It could even be fatal for a human to lose part of their soul.

The only thing she could do is to enclose the corrupted part of the soul and hide it deep inside. She should help Maximus deal with it later after he gains his strength.

And that’s what she did.

She enclosed the part of his soul that was corrupted by darkness using a spell and kept it in the corner of his consciousness so that he can deal with it later. She didn’t seal it since Maximus needs access to the darkness to heal himself.

"Lexa..."

Lying on her lap, Maximus finally opened his eyes.