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“Well… … .”
The princess, who had been unconscious for a long time, opened her eyes.
She rolled her eyes and looked around the room.
On one side of the room, an old priest and an escort knight were talking.
‘Where?’
On his way to the new empire, he was ambushed in the forest of welcome.
In the meantime, I lost ‘it’ and hurriedly turned to the new country.
And after witnessing the battle that took place at the guard post, he lost consciousness.
‘Seeing that there is a priest, you must have arrived at Nouvel.’
Cynthia breathed a sigh of relief inwardly.
“Why haven’t you opened your eyes yet?”
“Wow, huh. That is… Her Majesty’s body is full of magic and magical energy, so it doesn’t match well with divine magic using divine power.”
“Huh, you said the boy’s words were vain?”
“Uh-huh, don’t you have to listen to the end? That’s the problem, but the biggest one is poison! The unidentified and venomous poison is the main cause of erosion of the Imperial Princess’ body.”
“Does the name Pars Church not know what that poison is?”
“We are only saving people through faith. Don’t assassins know better about poison?”
“Does that mean you’re giving up on your Highness like this?”
The conversation between the two became increasingly bloody.
So they didn’t even know that Cynthia had woken up.
“So we’re using herbal medicine and healing techniques, so let’s keep an eye on the road. Because it has nothing to do with divine power.”
‘Shit! It’s like a quack!’
The escort knight swears inwardly.
The words of the high priest, Shunin, sounded as if there was no more hope.
Cynthia, who had been listening to their conversation for a long time, only then pretended to be popular.
“Ben.”
The escort knight, Ben, hurriedly approached the princess.
“majesty! Are you out of your mind?”
“Ugh… … .”
Cynthia, who was about to get up, let out a moan.
I felt a terrible pain in my stomach, which had been hurt during the raid.
“Do not move. I called a priest and killed him, but it’s only a temporary measure.”
Cynthia saw blood seeping from the bandage wrapped around her abdomen.
The blood from the bandages seemed to leak out for the rest of his life.
But she struggled to hide her fear of death.
“Don’t treat the priest like that. I’m okay.”
“one… … !”
“Is there any way they are, my body is like this.”
Resignation was familiar to Cynthia.
However, she could not lose her dignity as a princess yet.
She looked at Shunin and expressed her gratitude.
“I understand that you treated with all your heart. Thank you.”
“Your Majesty, it is too early to give up yet. We will mobilize all healers and herbalists in Nouvel to uncover the identity of the poison. Then we will find a way to decipher it.”
Shunin’s demeanor was shattered.
It was because he could not reveal his true colors in front of the princess.
Even so, he was skeptical.
‘Even if I die, I can’t tell you that the nameless poison written on the princess.’
He was also one of the Dark Followers.
So, I knew about this poison very well.
The princess’s fate had already been decided.
“It makes me feel better when you say that. By the way, what happened to the knights?”
“Your Majesty, now is the time to only care about your safety.”
Ben dissuaded the princess.
But the princess shook her head.
“They were seriously injured while escorting me.”
“We committed disloyalty for not properly serving His Majesty. Don’t say that.”
“I’m going to go out and check the wounded.”
Then, Shunin dried her up with a tan.
“You can’t even take a single step in your current state. Take it easy.”
At first glance, it was a tone that worried about the princess.
However, that was not the intention of Shunin.
Shunin looked at the princess’s bare hands.
‘Looks like he’s lost the gloves that protect him from Magi, but do you know what’s going to happen if we just let it run around?’
Cynthia hurriedly clasped her hands together.
It was because he recognized Shunin’s gaze.
“So there’s nothing I can do about it.”
Disappointed, Cynthia lay down again.
“Call the priest to change your bandages.”
“I see.”
Shunin ran out of the room.
“I’ll be out, call me if you need me.”
Ben also asked the princess to do that and left the room.
Cynthia, who was left alone, laid down her body that was gradually sagging.
And after some time had passed.
A sudden throbbing pain struck her body.
The poison seemed to have caused a sudden seizure.
“… … !”
She couldn’t even scream at the terrible pain.
Death was slowly approaching her.
A loud tinnitus rang in her ears.
Meanwhile, someone appeared in front of her.
‘Are you the reaper who came to kill me?’
A figure of someone appeared in the blurry vision.
Cynthia was rather relieved.
Her life has been painful.
‘So it wouldn’t be bad to end like this.’
The figure reached out to Cynthia.
Cynthia accepted her death and closed her eyes.
But an unexpected word was heard.
“It’s amazing that you’ve survived even being addicted to such a wound. It must have been quite difficult.”
It wasn’t a soft tone.
But I felt as if I could sympathize with her pain.
Cynthia cried without realizing it.
‘Who the hell are you?’
Cynthia tried to check the man’s face.
However, he soon lost consciousness due to the constant pain.
* * *
“Chief, a priest outside is looking for you.”
“Then keep me in front of me while I’m away.”
“yes. All right.”
The escort knight who guarded the front of the princess’s room left.
However, the face of the soldier who was guarding the door on behalf of the escort knight gradually became distorted.
The soldier broke into a cold sweat and grabbed his stomach.
“Oh, damn it. hungry again… … .”
The soldier immediately looked around and left to find the bathroom.
It was then that someone appeared in the place where the soldier was.
It was Ethan.
‘I didn’t know what number to use, but I’m glad.’
Ethan smirked with a dismayed face.
After the attacker’s death, he continued to seek opportunities to infiltrate the princess’s room.
It was because he had to confirm whether it was true that the princess had been poisoned with a nameless poison.
Ethan secretly entered the princess’s room.
Fortunately or unfortunately, the princess was not in the mood to suffer from excruciating pain.
‘It won’t be long before the knight or soldier returns. Let’s get rid of it quickly.’
The escort of the princess was very thorough.
It was truly fortunate that the knight and the soldier were absent at the same time.
It could be dangerous if the infiltration was discovered.
But anyway, it didn’t take too long for him to do it.
The princess looked up at him with her half-closed blue eyes.
‘Gee, I forgot to cover my face.’
But the princess soon closed her eyes.
In such a state, I would not have been able to properly remember what I saw.
Ethan reached out and grabbed the princess’s wrist.
Then, she sent out divine magic to check the state of the princess.
“It’s amazing that you’ve survived even being addicted to such a wound. It must have been quite difficult.”
In the meantime, he discovered a repulsive energy flowing through the princess’s body.
“… … !”
It was an unnamed poison.
Ethan’s brow furrowed.
‘The poison was really used.’
It was impossible.
But since I even checked it myself, I couldn’t help but believe it.
And there was one thing to keep in mind.
With this alone, it was impossible to confirm whether the Demon King had already been resurrected or not.
‘There is still insufficient evidence to make a hasty conclusion.’
However, as long as the Dark Followers had poison made only from the Demon King’s blood, it was certain that they had become close to the Demon Lord in some way.
After confirming the poison, Ethan tried to get rid of the princess.
Then he stopped and looked at the princess.
‘I’m the imperial princess… … .’
The princess was the bloodline of the enemy.
Ethan did not need to save the princess, as long as he confirmed that the nameless poison existed.
‘Besides, it doesn’t seem to have anything to do with the Dark Followers.’
Unexpectedly, according to the memories she saw with her jet-black eyes, the princess had nothing to do with the Dark Followers.
Rather, they were attacked, so it could be called a hostile relationship.
Ethan shook his head.
‘no. Hopefully we can use it.’
The attack on the princess was not going to end with this one time.
In the end, there was no bait like a princess to approach the dark follower.
‘Let’s save it for now.’
Ethan poured divine magic on the wrist of the princess who had lost her mind.
The wounds in the abdomen that could not be healed by divine magic began to heal slowly.
Ethan then used his jet-black eyes to absorb only the magic of the demon king in the nameless poison.
The poison came from the Demon King.
And the jet-black eyes were a device that could absorb the magic of the Demon King better than anything else.
Because of this, it was possible to accurately target only the magic of the Demon King.
“Okay.”
Ethan, who absorbed the demon king’s magic, released his hand from the princess.
‘It’s not completely deciphered, but time is bought.’
It was difficult to completely detoxify unless you know how the poison was created.
Ethan took only what he could and left.
* * *
“Ugh.”
Cynthia woke up from a deep sleep.
And I opened my eyes to the freshness I felt for the first time in my life.
“… … ?”
It was strange.
Do you feel refreshed after being fatally wounded and poisoned?
Cynthia stood up blankly.
It was no longer painful when I woke up.
“Sir, are you awake?”
Ben looked up and approached Cynthia.
Cynthia tilted her head and asked Ben.
“Ben, how the hell did this happen? Why are my wounds… … .”
“A miracle has happened. Your wounds are completely healed!”
Ben was not a member of Parsism.
But this time, I thought that there might really be a God.
At Ben’s words, Cynthia looked down at her bandaged abdomen.
“Are you really all right?”
It was amazing.
Surely he wasn’t dying?
Cynthia vividly remembered the pain she experienced before she lost consciousness.
‘ Then I saw… … .’
Cynthia remembered that an unknown intruder had come to this room.
I couldn’t remember his face for sure, but it was a man.
She glanced at Ben.
Ben apparently didn’t know that the intruder had come.
Otherwise, it would not have been so quiet.
‘Maybe that person?’
I remembered the words he had left.
– It’s amazing that you’ve survived even being addicted to a wound like this. I must have suffered quite a bit.
It was clear that he said that after seeing only one wound.
Even so, I had the illusion that he saw through his life and left those words.
“I don’t know if God really did a miracle.”
As if recalling the warmth that stayed on her wrist, she stroked my wrist.
Suppressing the feeling of crying, she ordered Ben.
Now was the time to fulfill her duty as a princess.
“Ben, I need to see the Pope right now.”
“Your Majesty, are you going to ask the Pope for help?”
Cynthia nodded her head.
“It has already been too late. We must release the search party as soon as possible to find ‘it’.”
“But just because the wound is healed doesn’t mean the body is completely healed. If you overdo it, it may get worse.”
“How many of our knights can move?”
“I’m sorry, but there are only about ten people.”
“okay. So for now, I have no choice but to ask the church for help. furthermore… … .”
Cynthia hesitated before continuing.
“The denomination is the most active group when it comes to Grandfather, or even the Demon King. So you won’t be able to refuse my request. It may sound bad, but I am prepared for it.”
“It’s our fault.”
Ben bowed his head as if he had no face.
Cynthia shook her head.
“I don’t mean to blame you. Come on, hurry up. You have to move as quickly as possible.”