He lay me down on a very soft cushion while he holds my hand tightly and putting his clasp hands on his forehead.
The physician came and examined me thoroughly but he didn't find anything wrong with me. Although with a faint heartbeat he said that the blood circulating in me is still normal and my lungs are still working properly.
"So you're telling me that I am the one who's at wrong here?" Ignatius commented.
"I am sorry your majesty but you should try summoning an expert at the magic tower, the answer that you might be looking is there" the physician advised.
"You also know that your majesty. I know you can feel the irregularities happening in her highness' body" he said with a sad tone.
"She cannot undergo that process. She's too young" he said with a voice I cannot comprehend his true feelings.
"You know the light magic can come at a young age" the physician advised him.
"The problem is that, I am detecting something other than light magic. I don't know what is it but it is concealing whatever that magic is" Ignatius replied.
It's black magic. I will be executed if they learn that I am holding such power. But he can't detect it? Are they holding me captive until that "dark queen" manifest?
"That's why you should summon one from the magic tower" the physician advised him again.
"If you truly care for her highness, then summon them first and get a thorough evaluation. Then---" Ignatius stopped the physician from talking further.
"Carl, send a messenger to the magic tower." He demanded.
"What message do I send them your majesty?" Carl asked.
"Tell them to come as soon as possible. I will cut down the tower myself if they did not arrive in 30… no 15 minutes" he said with a very deadly voice.
There you go~ The tyrant King and his warnings. But why does he not want me to undergo such process? Does he really want me to die today?
"Yo-Your Majesty!" a group of people said.
"Took you long enough! Assess her right now" he demanded.
"Way to make your long time friend work immediately without greeting me nicely. I really hate your threats you know that" someone said.
"Archmage Lulian" they all greeted.
"I will now touch her" he told him in advance.
"Granted" Ignatius replied coldly.
After that I felt my body was being embraced by a warm entity for I don't know how long.
"It is true that she has an overflowing mana, even greater than yours Max. BUT I can sense something from within besides her light magic. I did what I can to decode it but it is trying hard to conceal it's presence." He replied.
"What can we do to remove that entity? Maybe that's what keeping her from waking up" Ignatius replied.
"If we remove that entity then we might also take her life. Seeing by her hand then there must be a ritual that happened. I cannot decode or remove it even with my advanced magic." The archmage replied blankly.
"Then you're telling me that the best we can do is wait for her to wake up?" Ignatius asked.
"It's too young for her to receive that kind of treatment since she has a small and weak body. Not to mention that entity that's took a close hold on her heart and her core. The sudden mana urge and explosion, they must have used it to supply the continuous flow of the ritual and the bonding of that entity with her blood is something we alone can break. It is up to her highness' will" the archmage told him again.
I can't imagine this duo to be both cold and express a tyrant vibe.
Then suddenly a cold hand embraced me and pulled me somewhere. Deep in my consciousness, it drags me into a shadowy void, an oppressive space suffused with sorrow and rage. I can feel her emotions as if it were also mine.
"Everhart, let it burn to the ground" she said while sobbing but then she was laughing as if she turned into a madwoman.
"What do you mean burn it to the ground?" I asked her again.
"It is an empire that you can't easily burn to the ground" I told her while I was looking for her in the dark room.
"HAHHAHAHA THAT'S FUNNY! BECAUSE IT IS AN EMPIRE WHO BURNED kingdoms to the ground" she was laughing in agony.
"There are a lot of innocent people involved in this" I replied.
"Do not speak of innocent people when I can sense your aura that killed tons of people mercilessly" she said with a cold tone.
"I know that I am not innocent in that sense but I vowed to change myself in this life" I replied.
"Are you confident that you can protect this whole empire when my hold to you is getting deeper?" she whispered on my ear and when I turned around, she's gone.
"I will do my best to protect it." I responded even though I don't know how to do it.
"Then do your best to protect it my dear!" she said and I feel her hand around me. Holding on to me like a leech, sucking to my life force.
I was again trapped in a dark room but now I am sinking in a swamp with a lot of hand strapped on my body.
"How long will I stay here?" I asked myself as I was looking upwards. I can't think of a way to make these entity's grasp loosen.
"Dear child~" I heard a whisper on my ear again but this time it is not suffocating like the one earlier.
"Who are you?" I asked.
"The one who will buy you time to escape. Remember continue to run as fast as you can towards the light. Don't ever look back" she said while I feel her warm embrace and a pat on my head.
"Can I trust your word? Miss?" I asked while I felt so hopeless.
"Yes! I will hold Zalarith for some time. Do as you are instructed, everyone's waiting for you and they are worried since you are sleeping for a long time dear child" she said while I felt those grasps slowly loosening.
"Now run like your life depends on it" she said and I stumbled at first but when I took my pace. I run and ran until I saw a bright light.