Endless Leveling Done Right!

Chapter 537: The Ending Of A Fairy Tale [Part 1]

I could still remember the time when Alex and I fought against the Demon Lord, Vanaac, in his Sea of Consciousness.

Centuries had passed, yet whenever I closed my eyes, the memory would play in my head very vividly.

We had won that battle, but the price we paid was painfully steep.

When the battle ended, Alex fell into a coma for an entire month. If not for the fact that he was still breathing, albeit barely, I would’ve thought that he had truly died.

The fear I felt back then couldn’t be described with words. Losing him would’ve been no different from losing my last family.

When he opened his eyes a month later, I was ecstatic. Although he must’ve felt weak then, the first thing he did was smile at me and greet me with a, “Good Morning, Fran”.

That alone melted the fear and anxiety in my heart, like ice on a hot summer’s day.

Unfortunately, that happiness didn’t last long.

Alex’s soul was seriously injured from that fight, and it had drastically cut his lifespan.

Ten years.

He could only stay alive for ten years, and during that time, we spent every waking hour together.

It was also the most beautiful, sweetest time of my life.

Compared to his meager lifespan, mine was long… hundreds of years long.

Together, we buried the bodies of our party members and finally put them to rest.

Then our ten years of living together began.

For some reason, Alex and I both knew that he only had ten years to live.

Perhaps it was thanks to the Gaia Ring. After Alex and I teamed up to deal with Vanaac, our connection grew so strong that the secrets we had kept deep in our hearts had been known to each other after we fought together inside the Sea of Consciousness.

That slimy bastard teased me repeatedly when he found out that the reason why I always bullied him was because I had a crush on him!

It was the most embarrassing moment of my life, but he should not be one to talk either. I also found out that he secretly liked being bullied by me as well.

Well, it couldn’t be helped, right?

I was a very cute fairy, and getting bullied by me should be seen as an honor!

The years of happiness went by so quickly, and before we knew it, Alex became twenty-two years old, and I, eighteen.

By then, only five years remained of his life. We spent those five years happily together, nurturing our feelings for each other.

Of course, the racial differences were a hurdle. There were simply things we couldn’t do because of the difference in size.

Still, kissing, snuggling, and watching the sunrise, sunset, and the stars together was a truly romantic experience.

But this all changed after I became eighteen-years old.

The Gaia Ring had unlocked one of the extremely rare trait of my species, and that was to adjust my size

When I learned about this ability, I decided to surprise Alex.

The expression on his face when I changed my size to match my age as a human was priceless.

At first he rubbed his eyes a few times, thinking that he was hallucinating or I had cast some kind of illusion spell to make me look that way.

However, when he reached out to pull me close to his chest and hugged me tight, he finally realized that what he was holding was real.

Perhaps, that was also the first time that my heart had beaten so fast. I even felt like it was about to jump from my chest.

We then shared a passionate kiss… the sweetest one we shared together.

And on the night of that miraculous change, he and I finally became one.

Never in my life did I think that I would get to experience something like that.

Fairies weren’t born the way humans were.

We just came into existence from places with high magic power or in locations where the power of nature thrived strongly.

Fairies were born like how flowers bloomed for the first time in their life.

These flowers would be nourished by the power of nature or any place with high concentrations of magic power.

Depending on the environment, the nature of the Fairy would also be different.

Fairies born near volcanoes were Fire Fairies.

Those born under the water were Water Fairies.

And I was born out of nature, so I was a Forest Fairy.

But I didn’t share the mindset of my fellow fairies, who were content to live their lives in the forest.

I wished to see the bigger world, so when I met Medina, Ron, and Carlo in one of their expeditions in the forest where I was born, I decided to come with them to see the human world.

That was when I met Alex and where our journey as a party began.

Watching him grow up from a teenage boy to a fine young man made me feel happy about being there with him all the way.

And with the feelings we had for each other, our days… and nights had become more memorable than ever.

My only regret was that I couldn’t give birth to his child.

For that was not something that could be done, even with the power of the Gaia Rings.

Still, he cherished me until the last day he drew his last breath.

He even promised that he would do his best to be born as a fairy and find me as soon as possible.

After that one, final kiss we shared together, he finally breathed his last, dying with a smile on his face.

Medina once told me that saying goodbye to a loved one was hard.

However, she also added that it was also hard for those who would be left behind.

Holding onto Alex’s promise, I endured the loneliness of the passing years.

I always looked at the epitaph he had asked me to write on his grave marker. I desperately hoped that one of these days, he would appear as promised so we could live a life filled with happiness for a second time.