Chapter 5: The Odin Emblem’s Awakening

A perfectly polygonal gem, entirely blue and engraved with a spear motif, had been passed down through generations of the Aldoran family.

Upon Aldoran’s birth, this emblem, for the first time in a thousand years, rekindled its brilliance.

Subsequently, as if imbued with its own consciousness, it transformed into a bracelet, firmly encircling the newborn Aldoran’s arm, and never again had it parted from her.

When Aldoran, at the tender age of twelve, first activated this emblem, an eagle-shaped mark, centered upon her, unfurled with a radius spanning several hundred meters.

The ensuing turbulent magical surge obliterated all buildings within dozens of kilometers, leaving a devastating toll of nearly three thousand injured and five thousand dead.

To this day, the reason behind the emblem’s sudden activation remains an enigma.

Furthermore, ancient records revealed that archaeologists had discovered the emblem to be bound by a total of thirteen seals.

Remarkably, even at the time of Aldoran’s twelfth birthday, the Odin Emblem remained in a state where all its seals were perfectly intact, rendering its power at its weakest.

Concurrently, archaeological records indicated that on the very day the Odin Emblem suddenly erupted, one name inexplicably materialized among the thirteen names that had been erased from the narrative poem depicted on a mural within an ancient ruin discovered in the Northern Duchy.

Odin