
“Otot Stomach?”
“Yes, I want to build up the abdominal muscles before I die. So my wife would say I was cool. Actually, this time my body was very sick. The curse sentence has not spread, but my body is getting weaker. Maybe I'm reaching my limit. I don't have much time left.”
“….”
Baekhan was speechless by the boy's motivation.
“Save this as a secret! Ancia would be upset if she knew.”
"….Alright."
"Thank you."
Blake smiled brightly.
Listening to her, Baekhan felt like crying.
***
“My country is Asteric and Emperor Tenstheon is my only master. I hope you don't say that again.”
Baekhan tried to persuade Eunhan again today.
But as usual, he was rejected again without fail.
She had never met Eunhan like this before.
Baekhan wondered if he should talk to Tenstheon.
If Tenstheon said it, Eunhan would definitely follow his words.
But he didn't like the idea. Tenstheon had never visited the Crown Prince's palace before.
But lately, he had been visiting the palace a lot, so there were a lot of nobles protesting against him. Baekhan did not want to burden her when she had already dealt with so much.
What's he supposed to do?
If Eunhan does not return, Chang will collapse and Timur will be in chaos.
Many people will die and Chang will soon perish.
But Baekhan couldn't force her to return. Eunhan has no good memories there.
Eunhan also knew about the situation and still refused to return to Chang.
Tap tap.
I heard a familiar voice at the door.
"It's me."
"Lake in."
Baekhan walked into the room and looked at me.
"You look worried."
"Yes." Yeah."
"What are you thinking?"
“Blake.”
After much thought, I only came to one conclusion. I want to save Blake.I want to break that curse, no matter what the price.
"Do you hate me?"
"No, I just hate myself for being powerless."
“You are a very good person.”
“Yeah, I'm not sure it.”
Baekhan smiled and turned towards the window.
"Your husband is working hard again today."
“You can see it from here?”
Blake is practicing swordsmanship now.
"There's no way you can't see it when it looks so obvious."
I looked out the window once more, but I still couldn't see anything.
"I can't see it."
"of course. You are just a human being.”
Did he mean to say that he could see it with the eyes of the White Dragon? I saw his strange looking eyes. What is the world like in his eyes?
"Do you like the Crown Prince?"
"He was like me and my older brother when we were kids."
"You must be older than you look."
He looked like he was ten years less than he looked, but from his behavior and manner of speaking, he was definitely older than that.
Baekhan laughed out loud as I said that.
"Haha, isn't that like you?"
"Huh?"
“You must have trouble pretending to be young.”
Heart's sinking. He knows I'm not a kid.
"…how do you know that?"
“I can see a presence that no human can see. Your soul, flow, and strength.”.
Baekhan reached out to me and touched my face as if to check something out.
"You must have suffered greatly, but your soul is very bright and clear."
His smile slowly faded.
“Because you are good, you will save many people. But you won't be able to save yourself.”
"What do you mean?"
“Moments options will be here soon. I can see you burning in white light.”
I can't understand Baekhan's words.
A thought suddenly popped into my mind.
"You mean I can get rid of Blake's curse?"
"Please tell me more."
“That's all I see.”
He stands. He'll leave me with another faint clue today.
"That's…"
Just as I was trying to hold onto Baekhan, he turned around and said, “Take me to the place where the stone slab is.”
"Ah yes!"
Maybe he'll tell me more about that stone slab. I nodded in haste.
***
I headed to the secret room in the Philion Palace with Baekhan.
"Why are we here?"
"Why really?Don't you want to know about that stone slab?”
"But I…."
In the end, I couldn't convince Eunhan. But Baekhan smiled brightly and went to the stone slab. I can't stop him.
"Are you really going to decipher the word from the rest of the stone slab?"
"No."
He shook his head. Then why did he ask me to bring him here?
"I'll return the rest of the writing on the stone slab."
"You're gonna recover it?"
"Yes." Yeah."
How did he return the already heavily worn stone slab?
I vaguely thought that it might be because of the power of the White Dragon.
Baekhan kindly explained as if he was reading my thoughts.
"I will revive the power of light on this stone slab."
"Is there a miracle on it?"
“Do you not know? It contains magic that removes some carvings.”
"So someone put a spell on it?"
It was an important stone slab that recorded the history of the Empire, so it was understandable if there was magic on it.
But an eraser spell?
What is it to prevent it from eroding naturally?
"Please back off for a moment."
I stood back up and looked at Baekhan.
He raised his hand to the stone slab with a serious expression.
A white light flowed from his hand and spread throughout the stone slab.
Baekhan's clothes and hair fluttered in the wind.I also had trouble standing in the middle of the strong wind.
A light flashed around the stone slab.
The concealment spell held back the light, leading to a fierce battle.
Then, it began to collapse, and at the same time, engraved letters began to appear on the empty stone slab.
— September 5th year, the third prince cursed by the Goddess died. Soon after, the Goddess Curse was transferred to the sixth prince.
The fifth year was when Philip became Emperor. But didn't Philip have only three sons?
Before I could question it, the next writings began to appear.
— November 5th year, the curse sentence engraved on the sixth prince's body changed.
The sixth prince died. Soon after, the seventh prince was cursed by the Goddess.
The curse sentence changed?
All the sentences on the stone slab immediately burned, and the white light gradually diminished. Then, a black light that was under the stone slab, suddenly flew towards me.
At that moment, I heard the voice of a girl.
***
[Ancia, what are you doing! How could you run away the moment you saw his face?! No matter how surprised you are, you shouldn't do that!]
Ancia had run away in shock when she saw Blake's face on the first day after their wedding. So he sat down by the lake and blamed himself. Then a voice came from his heart.
[Let's go back and apologize to the Crown Prince. Besides, he's the reason I got out of my house. I should thank him.]
Angie got up from her seat.
[Huh?]
Then something glittering in the lake caught his attention.
[What is that?]
Angia is getting closer to the lake. At that moment a light flashed and he lost his balance, thus falling into the lake.
Ancia tried desperately to get out of the lake, but something black came out from the stone slab that was at the bottom of the lake and stuck out like a snake to grab her ankle.
Ancia gradually sank into the depths of the lake. That's hurtful.
Then, he suddenly heard a mysterious voice.
[Who will you give your power to, Heir of Light?]
Ancia was depressed. He did not understand what the question meant, nor could he think of the answer. She only remembered Diana, who was the only good one to her in her memories.
[Ancia Bellacian, by your will, Diana Bellacian has been chosen as the new Heir of Light.]
Ann closed her eyes at the end.
The black light from the stone slab tried to swallow Ancia. However, a pure white light emerged from Ancia's body and erased that black light. Even the stone slab was shattered.
When Ancia died, the lights mourned and hovered around her small body. However, Ancia was already dead, so she could not hold back the light anymore.
The light goes to the next heir. Diana, the heir chosen by Ancia.