Become Tyrant On My Own Way
Chapter 24 – FOREST EXPEDITION MONSTER (bag. 2)
“Genesis ten years ago... Alice, if I may know, how old are you now?”
“Twenty-two years..What's up with that, Your Highness Prince?”
As soon as I received a confirmation answer from Alice, how I didn't believe her. Apparently, the traumatic event that became the turning point of his life that was just told by Alice occurred when he was just 12 years old.
I can't believe it.
How could the former emperor Vlonhard send a 12-year-old child to face the demons, moreover he had to be sent into a demon extermination expedition in the monster forest.
Not only that, he was sent not as a reserve member, but the team leader himself.
A child who should enjoy his childhood with the joy of playing and joking with his peers until given such a weight on his shoulders.
Whatever adults a child appears outside, they are still mentally undeveloped children.
Naturally, when the situation worsens, they will not be able to make important decisions and instead act in fear.
They still need the love and guidance of a more mature person. There is no responsibility that should be charged to a child who has not even shown the physical characteristics of his maturity.
And because of the irresponsible decision of the former emperor, Alice finally had to see the sadistic and traumatic slaughter of those who were her men at the time and could only curl up in fear about when she was still a child.
Alice must also be confined to the past events in deep trauma even after ten years have passed. But what can you expect from a child?
It was only natural that he did not yet have sufficient conditions to protect the subordinates under him when something charged to him was far above what a man should be able to bear children's.
After listening to Alice's story, I could only sympathize with her. There's nothing I can do to change a long-standing past event.
In the morning, we continued our expedition into the deeper regions of the monster forest. At some point, the fog suddenly appeared nowhere.
Instead, I saw an array of pearl artifacts lined up along the line from the south to the north of the monster forest. Then I could also see from far away the view of an underground dungeon that was still sealed by a stone painted by a giant woman with her eyes uncovered by cloth.
But it is not the dungeon that is now our focus, but one of the pearl artifact formations that appear to be damaged so that they cannot function properly.
I also told Alice and Yasmin to stand guard as I began to repair the damaged artifact.
It is not difficult for me to repair a damaged artifact, even if it comes from a past civilization even since I was endowed with a talent of mana sensitivity.
I can easily identify which flow pattern an artifact is and from there guess how the mechanism works. Quickly, I would be able to find where the artifact was defective or damaged by looking at which part of its flow was deviated.
About 30 minutes I spent struggling with the broken ancient artifact, and I finally found the damage.
However, this damage was not something that could happen naturally. This is damage thanks to the coercive interference of which a human being. Conspiracy theories are running rampant in my mind.
However, the thing I can most suspect right now is the Vlonhard Empire. The time is too precise with how they also sent Alice to damage the defensive fortress of Painfinn City in the event of many waves of monsters thanks to the abnormality of the function of the guard artifacts.
Immerse my ice mana into the artifact while melting the high-level monster core we recently obtained from the subjugation of the monster wave attack.
Moments later, I was finally able to patch up the artifact leak. But it remains as it is. Completely empty springing matter had been scattered into the air when the leak occurred.
This is where the role of the curse monster Alice works. The death energy it possessed was exactly the same as the death energy embedded in the previous artifact so that it could be a good substitution of the contents of the artifact that had disappeared.
I also told Alice to stand near me while telling Yasmin to stay alert to the possibility of monsters attacking.
I thrust my ice into Alice's heart in the form of very thin capillaries. Then I began to extract where the curse of the monster that has been successfully sucked by the artifact that is currently in the heart of Alice.
Little by little, the ancient artifacts controlling the growth of the dungeon at once which made even less violent monsters that were originally empty to jump, began to fill up again.
Then at some point, the entire curse of the monster in Alice's body was sucked all then disappeared.
I told Alice, “The curse of the monster is not so bad you have, Alice.”
Of course Alice will be angry for a moment because she misunderstood the meaning of my words. However, before he could say it, I gave him an explanation of what I meant.
“With the curse of the monster, you can be the tanker I desperately need in the party, Alice. You can create agro on monsters that will be very useful on party strategy when we are facing monsters.”
“It may be good, but it has made my life suffer all this time. To still have that curse, I'm actually really scared. But if this is the will of His Highness Prince Helios, then of course I will since I have given my life completely to you.”
However, against Alice's fear, I immediately dismissed her.
I took about 0.05% of the curse and instead of putting it in the ancient artifact, I put it into the white necklace I had previously given to Alice before entering the monster forest territory. The necklace immediately changed color to gray.
“Not to worry, Alice. The curse is no longer in you, but in this necklace. You can activate the monster agro effect anytime you want without worrying anymore if the monster curse will contaminate your mana.” flow
“Then, I am very willing, Your Majesty.” Suddenly Alice's eyes glazed over, and before long, she cried bitterly.
“Thank you. Thank you, Your Highness Prince. Thanks to you, thanks to you, now I can be freed from the curse of the monster. Now I can go back to being the swordsman I want to be. I no longer need to worry about monsters that suddenly go crazy every time they are near me. Also, in the end I will be able to re-injure the monsters with this sword skill that I am proud of.”
I looked at Alice with pity.
Then, I honestly spoke slowly to him.
“Alice, the curse of the monster only affects agro monsters. However, the matter of you no longer being able to use your sword, it is a trauma. Only the determination in you can cure it.”
Yes, Alice who could not succeed even landing her attacks on the enemy was the result of her trauma when she witnessed the slaughter of her comrades by monsters.
Deep in her heart, there was Alice's intense fear of hurting something about her tender heart, especially after witnessing that what results obtained from the attack is the tragic death of the opponent we attacked.
Also the trauma that he obtained when he was a child, then of course the wound he produced will be more visible again.