An Extra’s POV

Gratiana still remembered how it felt when she was summoned to see The Oracle.

She had just attained her age of maturity and was going to become an Elder. It was an honor to grow into an Elder and finally assume more responsibility within the Elven Community.

She remembered how excited she was for the moment.

After all, more than the honor she would receive from her new name, and the responsibility that she would have to shoulder as an Elder, there was one more experience every Young One had to go through before they were officially recognized as an Elder.

—Meeting The Oracle.

It was The Oracle who gave names; the true nams that an Elder would bear for the rest of their lives. As such, Young Ones would appear within the shrine and be transported to the place where The Oracle resided.

No one really knew where it was.

However, all of those who had received this glorious experience had the same testimony.

"It is beautiful beyond belief!"

From everything Gratiana heard from her fellow sisters—some who had just gotten their True Names a few days before her turn—the experience couldn't be summed up in words.

Every Elf had to experience it for themselves.

And so, Gratiana faithfully waited for her own experience… until it finally came.

She was instantly transported to the interior of a golden palace; the halls designed so immaculately with architecture that she had never—and would never—lay eyes on.

The hall was brimming with beauty, but all of that was soon forgotten as soon as Gratiana finally took in a deep breath.

For the first time in her entire life, she smelled a certain fragrance that brought her to her knees almost instantly.

shivered in reaction to the scent—both overpoweringly intense and

ever smell this good and so intensely for that matter. If they could, then they had long

a completely

feminine voice, so sweet and glorious, echoed within Gratiana's ears and mind as she struggled to maintain

the more she breathed, to the point where her senses betrayed her

her ears. Thankfully, the voice that spoke always

have arrived here—the Domain of

sense of any of the words that were being uttered. She was merely nodding like a fool as drool, tears, and mucus

who, from the little her blurry

out the details. She only noticed her long white hair and bright blue eyes before everything became even harder to

child. You are safe

knew exactly what to think and how to do

bear your common name. Your name will now be Gratiana

nodded in consent

and she embraced the

to the community without fault. Protect the Young

not open her mouth to respond to those words back then, but in her heart, an automatic "Yes" played

Oracle was powerful—an unforgettable experience that words could never do justice

together, The Oracle

pleasure

just how much she shivered and how loudly she screamed. She only knew how good it

by the divine… it was

herself within the Shrine—a completely new person from the Young One who

Elder in every sense

same feeling. Only Esteemed Elders could see the Oracle

chance she had to meet The Oracle again was if she worked hard enough and her efforts

to succeed an Esteemed Elder, and if The Oracle approved, she would be taken

that more than