Ailia

**Ailia** was a human Awakened from the Gorgon Empire and part of a group of Awakened youths who attempted to conduct a Forbidden Magic ritual in Zantia under the guise of the Church of the Six.

## Appearance

Thanks to being an Awakened, Ailia's figure would make most men break their necks while turning their heads at her passing.

## Background

Her master had Awakened her when she already had a green mana core. Her body needed a lot of time to adapt, and she still needed help to survive whenever it was the moment to expel the impurities for a breakthrough.

The six Awakened youths met each other during Council meetings, bonding thanks to their mutual age and problems. Together, they had managed to alter Third Eye with Forbidden Magic, so that they would split his effects, both good and bad, equally between the six of them. They would still lose a consistent amount of their life force, but the ritual had brought them to the top. They lure Lith to Zantia to use him as the seventh member for the Forbidden Magic ritual and to further reduce the strain on their life force, especially since as a rogue Awakened Lith had no connection with the Council, so he couldn't report them even if he managed to escape.

They infected specific citizens with darkness magic to serve as the focal points of the grounding array, disguising it as the Griever "plague." By posing as the Sovereigns they drew the victims to the Church to "heal" them but in reality to ensure they aren't cured. To beat their competition, they would lose a total of two hundred years of life each, a small price to pay to inherit their masters' legacy and territory. The Forbidden Magic allowed them to slightly mitigate the cost of the ritual each time they performed it.

However, Kieran acts out alone and attempts to kill Lith while Lith investigates the Church of the Six's temple. He loses and Lith takes one of his Reaver daggers. Later, Lith lures Kieran to the warehouse district under the guise of the Church of the Six's All-Father using his Hybrid Form. Deraniel follows Kieran a distance away, but Lith causes enough chaos to kill Keiran before Deraniel can intervene. Deraniel calls in Pelion and **Ailia** for backup. Ailia grabs Deraniel and Pelion and escapes after recognizing Lith's omnipocket.

The group decides to continue with the ritual despite Kieran and Deraniel's absence, pressured by the desire to inherit their masters' legacies. When Lith poses as the All-Father and "attacks" the church members to discredit the Church, Ailia and Pelion attempt to refute him by announcing themselves as the Sovereigns, but are forced to retreat under Lith and Protector's onslaught. They attempt to proceed with the ritual, but Lith orders the city's mages to forcefully heal the victims of the Griever, destabilizing the Third Eye and disrupting the ritual. Lith kills Jaren while Protector kills Benyo. Tyris intervenes, killing Pelion and Ailia with golden rays of light while General Vorgh and his Spellbreakers contain the explosion their bodies create afterwards.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Chapter 575: Desperate Moves (Part 1)
2. ↑ Chapter 566: Round Two (Part 4)
3. ↑ Chapter 576: Desperate Moves (Part 2)
4. ↑ Chapter 577: All the World's a Stage (Part 1)
5. ↑ Chapter 583: Punishment and Rewards (Part 1)