The Daughter of Cursed Steel Chapter 16: Chapter 16: Breaking Point

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Chapter 16: Breaking Point A few days went by, and Rachel had completely changed. The cheerful girl she once was had disappeared. As she walked through the halls of the castle and went about her day, she moved like a zombie, as if all the life had been sucked out of her. This lasted for a few more days until early this morning, when a maid frantically knocked at Elyndra's bedroom door. "Miss Elyndra... Miss Elyndra, we need your help! The young mistress has gone crazy! Miss Elyndra, please hurry!" Elyndra sat up in bed and reached toward the nightstand beside her, grabbing her glasses and putting them on. "All right, all right! Give me a few moments to get up and get ready!" she shouted toward the door. Elyndra quickly got dressed for the day before hurrying toward the door, where a worried maid was waiting. Elyndra walked over to her and spoke. "What's going on with Rachel?" "Well... you know how the past few days she was just moping around? Well, she completely flipped this morning. She ran to the tool shed and grabbed a pickaxe, then dragged it back to her bedroom and locked herself inside. Ever since then, all we've heard are explosions one after another coming from her room. We tried to force open the door, but it seems she barricaded it from the inside. Please, stop her and talk some sense into her!" "All right, I'll see what I can do." Elyndra immediately flew into the sky and headed toward Rachel's bedroom window. Earlier that morning, Rachel had been wandering down the hallway. She looked extremely depressed, just like she had the past few days, as she quietly murmured to herself. "Stupid mother..." She continued to aimlessly walk around the castle until she eventually stepped into the garden. As she wandered around, she noticed the tool shed. From the sunlight gleaming through the doorway, she spotted a pickaxe resting against the side of the shed. Rachel stared at it for a moment before slowly walking forward. Then suddenly, she threw the shed door open and grabbed the shaft of the pickaxe with a determined look. "I will not let you keep me trapped here, Mother." Rachel turned and sprinted through the castle halls, frightening the maids as she rushed past them with the pickaxe clenched in her hand. Several maids nervously followed after her, wondering what she planned to do with it. Rachel rushed into her room and slammed the door shut, then immediately locked it. Rachel slowly turned around and looked toward the arcane sigil lightly glowing on the floor. Anger and fury burned in her eyes. She raised the pickaxe over her head and slammed it down as hard as she could onto the arcane sigil, hoping to destroy it. The moment the pickaxe struck the sigil, a violent burst of magic exploded outward. The magical shockwave flung the pickaxe from Rachel's hands and sent it flying across the room before it violently impaled itself into the bedroom door. Outside the room, the maids jumped in fear when they heard the magical explosion. A second later, the sharp point of the pickaxe pierced through the wooden door only inches away from one maid's face. The terrified maid let out a scream and fell onto her backside as she stared upward in horror at the pickaxe sticking through the door. A moment later, the pickaxe was violently ripped back out from the other side, leaving behind a jagged hole. A maid standing to the side rushed toward the door and desperately tried to open it, only to realize Rachel had locked it. One maid nervously peeked through the hole in the door as she pleaded with Rachel. "Please stop, young miss!" "Leave me alone!" Rachel shouted back in anger. Rachel started to turn away, but her elven ears twitched. She heard the maids calling for the guards to come help break the door down. Rachel immediately turned back toward the door. She then turned toward her bookshelf and flung all the books off the shelf. Books scattered everywhere as they fell to the floor. Rachel rotated the heavy shelf, dragged it near the doo