Cursed Thrones
Chapter 8 - The First Findings

A few days have passed.

Brian and Cecilia are still searching the ruins of Baltimore.

They both did a simple renovation on one of the houses that was still slightly habitable. Make it a temporary headquarters in the City.

As for the affairs of eating and drinking, both have been accustomed to the pattern of hunting and gathering. So this life was not at all different from their previous life.

It's just....

'Bruuck! Krettafk!'

Brian was seen throwing some large rocks to the side to see if there was anything underneath.

But the results are really nil.

Their hard work over these few months really did not pay off at all. Brian began to feel hopeless about this plan.

"Hey, Cecilia. You think we can actually find something behind these ruins?"

"Patience! We'll find something soon!" reply Cecilia who was still eagerly looking, even though her clothes and appearance now looked so dirty.

"What about that horn fragment you were supposed to use to call me? You still have it, right?" ask Brian in curiosity.

"of course! But those little pieces are less useful. While the ritual of inserting a Hecate power fragment was quite complicated. So it's better to be included later after collecting enough." explained Cecilia.

"Is that so?"

"That's it!"

Brian slowly began to regret his own mouth and mind, which he dared to speak of this foolish idea.

An idea that instead of making their lives easier, but actually complicates this already bad situation.

'Twoaarr! Gledduuk!!'

Not long after, the rumbling sounds in the sky began to sound. The clouds began to look so dark, not letting sunlight through.

"Cecilia! Maybe we should rest first! It's gonna be a storm soon!" shouted Brian loudly.

"eeh?! But a little more...."

"If you're sick it'll be a lot more troublesome!"

"All right...."

With a heavy heart, Cecilia threw the piece of wood she had previously lifted. Before finally starting to turn around to return home while they.

Justright.

Not long after the two entered the house, a rainstorm soon fell. The strong winds and cold brought from the Frostbite region make this rain much more deadly than the rain on earth.

Occasionally, ice shards were seen hitting the ground strongly. Ice created by drops of frozen water due to cold temperatures in the Frostbite region.

The ice can do enormous damage, even to buildings.

"If it's your body, won't you die?" asked Brian with a cynical look.

"There's no way I'm dead from ice. But.... Being badly hurt might happen."

"That's the same."

While taking shelter, Brian lit a bonfire inside this house. Meanwhile, Cecilia took some of their food supplies.

He took and prepared some rabbits and put them on an iron stick. Then Cecilia burned it on the bonfire that had just been made.

"Hm.... Know it? It reminds me of satay in my world." Brian said with a light laugh after seeing the rabbit meat that was stuck on the iron.

"Sate? What'sthat?" ask Cecilia curiously.

"A dish where you stick meat on thin bamboo sticks, or it could be iron. Just like that." Brian explained.

"An interesting name. So there's also a dish like this?"

The two share stories with each other while taking shelter from the terrible rainstorm.

......***......

A few weeks later....

The two still had not found anything during this quest, making Brian even more desperate to this plan.

But at a time when all hope is almost gone....

"Brian!" cecilia shouted loudly.

"Well?!" reply Brian was puzzled by such a shabby appearance.

Brian was trying to ascertain what was in Cecilia's right hand.

'Ma-eyes?!' brian shouted in his heart.

He could not believe what he had just seen. Because to his knowledge, all the body parts of someone who had died were supposed to rot.

But Brian just remembered that even the blood of a Demon King could last for decades more.

"See this, Brian! No more wrong! These are really Hecate's eyes!" cecilia shouted with joy.

"You serious? But why is it here?" ask Brian as he approaches.

"All right, you think I know? I have never even seen the figure of the Demon King directly." Cecilia replied as she continued to look into those eyes.

The eyes are white with bright red pupils. A reddish glow seemed to envelop those eyes, which could only be seen by those who had inherited a bit of power from Hecate.

That was why Cecilia could be so confident that it was the eyes of the Demon King.

But now the problem....

"Who will use it?" ask Brian.

"You're right, there's only one eye...."

After thinking for a moment, Brian immediately expressed what was on his mind. Before Cecilia did anything strange.

"You know, I don't want to touch a dangerous object like that. Anyway, all I want is to live a relaxed life in this fantasy world." Brian explained.

"Is that so?"

Cecilia seemed hesitant to accept an offer from Brian. But after paying attention to those eyes once again, he finally received a suggestion from Brian.

"Then I won't hesitate." replied Cecilia.

Quickly, he immediately ran towards the house while they were. Take some pretty weird gear.

Cecilia began by pouring a silver liquid into a fairly flat ground. But the liquid was not poured carelessly, but formed a magic circle as wide as 1 meter with a hexagon shape.

In the center of the hexagon there are various complicated symbols.

Brian only saw the entire 'ritual' performed by Cecilia from a distance with such high curiosity.

After everything was ready, Cecilia was seen putting the Devil King Hecate's eyeballs together with a small piece of horn that she previously had in the middle of the magic circle.

Clasping her hands together, Cecilia was seen starting to cast her spell.

'What language is that?'

Brian who listened to Cecilia's spell from a distance did not know what was being cast.

Slowly, the magic circle created by Cecilia began to glow. Raise the eyeball and the horn into the air.

The same thing happened to Cecilia's body. Where the reddish light began to envelop him.

Eventually, the eyeball moved itself toward Cecilia's right eye. While the horn fragments move towards the right forehead.

Slowly the two seemed to merge with Cecilia's body.

'I can feel it.... An enormous demonic power, began to be felt from Cecilia's body.' Brian thought with a slightly trembling body.

Eve was so cold that it began to feel around where Cecilia was. Stabbed into Brian's bone.

"Done!" cecilia shouted suddenly while showing off her right eye which now had a much redder pupil and seemed to emit a reddish glow.

On his right forehead, a small gray horn began to grow.

"Not much has changed." replied Brian who saw Cecilia's figure.

Indeed, previously Cecilia had also had a reddish eye color. Making the changes that happen is not so visible.

But....

"Haha! It's not a matter of his main appearance, but his strength!" cecilia shouted with a smile so wide.

"So.... What power?"

Silence enveloped the two people in the middle of this dead city.

And after a few minutes of silence....

"I don't know, either."

Cecilia's reply was quite subtle, it felt so sad.