NOVEL NEXT chapter 24
24 – Side Story ~Princess of Ruin~
Today was a happy day for the princess.
This is the 14th birthday.
She hummed her tune and left her room in her high spirits.
The first person to congratulate me was the escort waiting at the door.
Wearing shiny armor and smiling awkwardly, he delivered congratulations in a clumsy voice.
The princess returned to her knight with a broad smile.
The princess headed to the restaurant.
Because her long-awaited cream stew was waiting for her.
It was her favorite dish prepared ambitiously by the chef.
When she arrived at the restaurant, her brother was there.
He was only one year old, and he congratulated himself in a tick-tick tone.
The princess, realizing that there was warm emotion in his sharp tone, hugged him tightly.
The princess laughed as the prince freaked out and ran away.
Shortly, the chef brought out a cream stew.
A savory aroma filled the restaurant.
It was her favorite scent.
After taking a bite, warmth spread throughout my body.
The princess really liked this feeling of comforting her body and mind.
After finishing the meal, the princess headed to the audience room receiving congratulations from the chef.
Because she wanted to see her father.
Her caring father always gave her a friendly smile whenever he met her.
She liked his smile very much.
Chubby──
The princess knocked lightly on the door.
The soldiers had to stop it, but they too were just looking at the cute princess with a benevolent smile.
Soon, I heard my father’s voice from inside.
The princess smiled broadly and went inside.
Ignoring the gazes around her, the princess was immediately embraced by her father.
The princess, full of affection in her heart, smiled pleasantly at the touch she felt over her head.
Soon after, the father lightly bruised the princess, and the princess fell slowly.
The father, who had a troubled expression on his face, handed the princess a rough stone.
The princess made a puzzled expression.
It was because the yellowish stones looked insignificant.
But she suddenly felt her palms tingle as the princess held her stone in her hand.
Startled, she dropped the stone and heard her father’s mischievous voice.
Spirit Stone.
It was said to be a spirit stone infused with the spirit of lightning.
It was the first spirit given as a 14th birthday present.
The first spirit gifted to her by her mother, who is a top-level spiritist, and her father, who is a great spiritist, brought joy to the princess.
She expressed her joy as the princess jumped around at the fact that she, too, could become an elementalist herself.
Her mother approached the princess who was running without hesitation.
Her mother, who lightly straightened her flowing hair, kissed her on the forehead.
The princess opened her eyes wide in surprise and immediately kissed her mother on the forehead with a big smile.
The mother, with a delightful smile, immediately followed up with her precautions regarding her spirits.
After listening intently to her various explanations, the princess nodded her head and squeezed a yellow stone into her hand.
After a brief explanation, the princess stepped out of the castle.
Because she wanted to summon the spirit quickly.
The princess arrived in a secluded forest under the guidance of an escort.
Arriving at the forest, the princess grabbed her stone and moved around to summon her spirit.
Clinging to trees to get her natural powers.
I wondered if I might need the power of lightning, so I raised my hand high towards the bright sun.
However, when there was no response to the spirit stone, the princess cried.
After trying for a long time, the tired princess collapsed on the floor.
As he was sighing in depression, the escort who had been watching him approached cautiously.
He, a skilled elementalist, communicated sympathy to the princess.
It was said that the conditions for summoning were met through communion with the spirit.
When asked what to do in order to communicate, Howie held a stone in his hand and said to sigh.
The princess lay down in the grass without a word holding a stone in her hand.
To suspect something like this was because the princess and her escort had been together for a long time.
The princess slowly fell asleep feeling the warm sunlight.
How long did you fall asleep?
She stood up from her seat, frowning at the feeling of a peck on her forehead.
Then she could identify a little yellow bird flying around her.
When the princess saw the sparrow-sized bird, she looked at her escort in amazement.
The escort, who was watching the whole scene, nodded her head, and the princess approached the bird with a big smile.
The yellow bird was strange in many ways.
Not to mention that even when the princess approaches, she doesn’t run away.
When she held out her hand, she even climbed lightly on top of it.
The princess noticed that there was a pattern on the back of her hand that she hadn’t seen before.
The princess patted the back of her hand in wonder.
It was a pattern in the form of lightning as a whole.
It was glowing little by little, but it was probably because the spirit was summoned.
Today is the best day ever!
The princess began to leave the forest in her joy.
At last, she was guided by an escort and escaped the forest.
──I saw people die.
Die. Die. Die.
Her people who exchanged greetings with herself scream and die.
Witnessing the terrible sight, the princess’s face turned pale, and the guard with a hard expression quickly drew her sword.
The escort was taken aback.
People were dying, but there was nothing that looked like a monster.
People who were walking around in a normal state suddenly vomited blood and collapsed.
Convulsions continued intermittently, and then I became droopy before I knew it.
It is dead.
Screams erupted in spasms.
It seemed that the process of convulsions was accompanied by terrible pain.
The princess trembled all over in the arms of the escort.
It was a brutal scene she had never seen before.
People panicked when a person suddenly collapsed on the side of the road.
However, there was nowhere to run unless there was a clear enemy.
One of the fleeing people fell in front of her.
Soon after that, a terrible scream breaks out, and then it goes limp.
The escort immediately judged.
She decided to do her own duty.
The escort took her in her arms and ran to her castle.
She gathers all the magical energy in her body and runs desperately.
The princess’s face was already full of tears.
The escort, who was comforting the crying princess, bit her lip.
As he swallowed the blood leaking out of his mouth, Howie felt his fate.
How far did you run?
The escort stopped.
It was before the resistance.
The princess lifted her steady hand and landed on her floor.
I called the escort in a cautious voice, but the escort did not answer.
The princess became anxious.
I couldn’t see because of the tears.
I can’t see the figure of the escort.
The princess wiped her tears with her sleeve and looked at him.
And then I held my breath.
The escort stood there with blood gushing from the pores all over his body.
No matter how much blood he had shed, the path he passed was painted in blood.
She swallowed her cries and gently laid the escort down.
A yellow bird comforted her sad heart.
Leaving the escort behind, the princess ran around the castle.
And the more she wandered around her castle, the more the princess’ anxiety grew.
It was because all the people inside the castle were dead.
Not only the gatekeeper who opened the door with a happy expression, but also the maid who occasionally came to the room and gave snacks, and the young butler who always wore clean clothes.
All of them were dead with painful expressions.
The princess cried and ran.
I couldn’t stand it even though I wanted to.
Tears dripping down my cheeks wet the marble floor.
Leaving the people inside the castle behind, the princess headed to the audience room.
Instinctively, he realized that his father and mother were there.
But the princess could not reach the throne room.
Just before she arrived there, her familiar hand grabbed her.
The princess was startled and looked at the owner of the hand that held her own.
It was my mother.
Her mother, who had been putting on her weary expression, as soon as she saw her princess, made her weepy look and hugged her silently.
Her
Her strong embrace Her To her Her reason The princess felt uneasy about her and was hugged by her without a word.
After a while, her mother whispered to her.
Asmodians have invaded the kingdom.
There is only one opponent.
There is no way for us to fight.
You and your father will be tying his feet, so hurry up and get away from this place.
Of course, the princess protested.
He said he would fight too.
But the mother shook her head.
He was said to be a strong man who could not deal with himself, the highest level spirit sage, and the king, the great spirit sage.
Tears overflowed from the princess’s eyes.
Watching the weeping princess in her arms, her mother tucked her hair in her familiar hand.
Soon after, the mother handed a green stone to the princess in her arms.
It was a much more colorful and larger stone than the yellow stone I had seen for the first time.
At first glance, it looked like a jewel, but the princess strangely recognized it as a stone.
The queen who gave the wind spirit stone said to the princess.
This is the great spirit of the wind that the king served.
I leave this to you, the mark of the kingdom and the history of Crimea.
After saying that, the queen could not hold back and shed her tears.
The princess burst into tears as well.
I could tell.
That was the last will of her father, whom she loves.
And the queen, who stole her tears, also handed the blue stone to the princess.
The princess intuitively felt that this was a water spirit stone.
As expected.
The queen handed the princess a spirit stone containing her highest level spirit.
Her
She entrusted her future to her, even if her own fighting power declined.
The princess shook her head desperately.
I didn’t want to receive this.
She didn’t want to prolong her own life with the same things as her parents’ lives.
She knew it too.
If you don’t have the spirit stone, your loving parents will never survive it.
But the princess was powerless.
Her mother drops her and unleashes her magic.
She said to the princess who desperately stretched out her arms.
Escape the Crimean Kingdom.
And then head for Academy City.
I will protect you there.
My mother smiled through the glowing magic circle.
The princess wanted to hold on to her mother, but her limp legs wouldn’t move.
She tried to approach her even if she crawled, but unfortunately, she was the first to activate the magic circle.
Her mother’s will was heard in her ears as she cried.
I love you, Tatiana.
At the end of the muffled voice, her mind went out.
.
.
.
The queen looked blankly at the place where the princess had disappeared and moved her steps.
It was the audience room where her husband was.
She had a comfortable smile.
Because only the princess survived.
The prince is already dead.
She couldn’t help but notice that she herself had taken care of the collapse from vomiting her own blood on the way.
Her heart was broken, but she was not sad.
Because even that time was wasted.
The queen left the prince’s body and came here with the mind to shake off her lingering feelings.
Thanks to her, she was able to save the princess, so she was truly lucky.
The queen was deeply relieved and thanked the goddess of light.
She didn’t think the princess would die.
At least you won’t die from This.
The lightning spirit stone that she gave to her.
An heirloom of the Crimean Kingdom, it was the item that sealed the Great Spirit of Lightning.
Even if you couldn’t summon it, it was an item that could resist most conditions just by having it.
The queen opened the door to the audience room.
Her husband was already dead.
As expected, even he, who is a great spirit commander, must be like this when his biggest power is gone.
After closing her husband’s eyes, the queen slowly raised her body.
Hiding her sad face, the queen soon turned her head and looked at ‘him’.
There was a demon there.
A man in black with a black crow mask hanging from his waist and an ominous smile.
The queen knew the man’s identity.
Demon of Death.
Among the four heavenly kings, he was the great devil who was ranked second.
The demon of death did not move much when she saw the presence of her queen.
The queen’s expression distorted as she didn’t even look at her, as if she wasn’t worth dealing with.
But right after.
Suddenly, a cough erupted from her queen’s mouth.
Feeling something wrong with her body, the queen slowly closed her eyes.
Still, the devil wasn’t looking this way.
After a while.
She gritted her teeth and raised her mana.