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.

to the scent—both overpoweringly

they could, then they had long

a completely

and glorious, echoed within Gratiana's ears and mind

all parts of her body the more she breathed, to the

echoes resounded in her ears.

here—the Domain

could not make sense of any of the words that were being uttered. She was merely nodding like a fool

from the little her blurry eyes could

white, but Gratiana could notmake out the details. She only noticed her long

not fear, my child. You are safe here. You are free.

to do so—through the divine words uttered to

longer will you bear your common name. Your

consent

completely lost in her mind, and she embraced the new one granted to her by the

fault. Protect the Young Ones, mercifully shun all the tainted ones, and purge all

not open her mouth to respond to those words back then, but

with The Oracle was powerful—an unforgettable experience that words

together, The Oracle held her face and

pleasure shot through

only knew how good it felt back then… and how that joy overflowed from her

touched by the divine… it was pleasure

regained consciousness, Gratiana found herself within the Shrine—a completely new person from the Young One who stepped

was an Elder in every

she had never experienced that same feeling. Only Esteemed Elders could see the Oracle after

The Oracle again was if she worked hard enough and her efforts

be recommended to succeed an Esteemed Elder, and if The Oracle approved, she would be taken up to their Domain

wanted that more