#Chapter 238: The Crystal

Ella’s POV The Viridian Crystal. It sounded like a fantastical object from a fairytale—and it was. But, as Anya’s mother explained the old fable to me, how the crystal was said to have once been created by the Moon Goddess as a conduit for her power, I couldn’t help but wonder where the story ended and reality began. According to the old stories, the crystal was meant to cleanse the world of evil influences. The crystal could release trapped souls, lift curses. It contained a shard of the moon itself, allowing the wielder to restore light to the world on those dark nights when the moon was hidden in the sky. But one day, the Moon Goddess’s rival, a nameless goddess of darkness, was said to have tried to destroy the crystal. She nearly succeeded, forcing the Moon Goddess to hide the crystal away forever. “No one ever found it,” Anya’s mother said with a shrug. “Some say it’s still out there to this day, waiting for a hero to find it and wield it against th