Rising from the Ashes BY Only For You Novel

---- Chapter 2821 "The Lloyd royal family of Holtrien has some skill, I'll give them that! But in the end, they're nothing special!" With those words, the man launched another attack. However, Eleanor was prepared and immediately engaged him in combat. Even so, she only lasted two rounds before coughing up blood. Seeing this, the young Andrew grew frantic and furious. "Mom, I'm coming to help you!" He charged forward, rushing straight at the man. Eleanor cried out in alarm and hurried after him. The man's large hand reached out, grabbing for the boy's neck.

Unexpectedly, the boy's body leaned backward in a surprising move. Then, like a baseball slide, he slipped right under the man's grasp. Clutching the small pocket knife in his hand, he stabbed toward the man's waist with a sharp shout. There was a ripping sound, and the man instantly dissolved into thin air. The boy stared in disbelief, because he was sure he had struck him. ---- However, Andrew, watching from the outside, saw the truth. The child version of himself had indeed landed the strike, but the attacker had been using a technique that allowed his body to split and reform like smoke.

It was a legendary martial art called the Shifting Form Technique. It was a unique flow of energy that allowed the user to blur the line between solid and illusion, making it impossible for an enemy to know what was real. The man chuckled darkly and said, "Brat, you're a little talented, I'll give you that." Then he added coldly, "But trash is still trash. In my eyes, you're nothing but an insect." Wind sliced through the air as he attacked again. The boy finally froze, feeling a cold grip seize his neck. Andrew's heart tightened as his younger self was captured.

He could not remember how his mother saved him back then, The man growled, "Ms. Schafer, are you going back to The Veiled Faction with me or not?" Eleanor looked at Andrew, pain filling her eyes as she whispered, "Andy, don't be scared. | will save you." Then, she glared at the masked man. "Rafe Holloway, let go of ---- my son, and I'll return with you." Rafe let out a cold laugh. "Good. | thought you were too stubborn to drag back. Come here and seal your energy points." Eleanor had no choice but to comply.

From Andrew's vantage point as an observer, something felt amiss, yet he could not pinpoint it at first. He stared at the furious little boy, the helpless Eleanor, and the tall man wearing a ghost mask. Suddenly, Andrew's mind shook violently. He realized what was wrong: Rafe's eyes. They held amusement and a murderous chill. He never intended to take Eleanor back alive. He intended to kill! "Don't go!" Andrew shouted instinctively. However, everything happening in front of him belonged to another time, and nothing he said mattered Eleanor sealed her energy and stood still, ready to be taken.

Rafe suddenly slammed his palm into the boy, sending him flying, and then he sliced Eleanor's throat in one swift motion. ---- Eleanor clutched her bleeding neck in disbelief. "H-How dare you Rafe let out a laugh harsh and grating as a night ow''s cry. "Ms. Schafer, this was the Elders' true order all along! Anyone who betrays The Veiled Faction dies, even you. So rest in peace." The boy dropped to his knees, horrified, watching his mother die right in front of him. He screamed and tried to rush forward, yet darkness overwhelmed him, and he passed out on the spot.

Andrew, unknowingly, felt his own eyes turn bloodshot. "I'll kill you, you monster!" He lunged forward, trying to grab Rafe's throat, but the scene rippled like water under his hands. In the next instant, everything shifted again. Andrew stared anxiously at the new scene in front of him. Rafe was gone, and only the young boy remained, pale and crying. Then, he saw an extremely handsome man holding Eleanor's body in his arms, saying nothing It was Reginald. He said, "Stop crying. I'll send you to enlist in the army. Your mother is gone. She died protecting you.

If you want her to rest in peace, then you'd better live well." ---- His voice was flat, even tinged with resentment. The boy trembled violently as his head lowered. The whole world seemed to collapse in front of him. Andrew felt the same. He had always believed Eleanor was alive somewhere, but the truth was she had already died. And she died because of him. Andrew could not accept it. He screamed, grabbed his head, and dropped to his knees. Outside the cavern, Valerie panicked instantly.