Evelyn chewed her lips in nerves when she heard Adrian’s fever was rising once more. She needed to go to his place directly, however a number of instances she restrained her need.

“……That’s the story I heard from the Elder.”

After listening to Fabian’s phrases, Evelyn returned to her sense.

“In fact, I don’t belief all of these tales. Time magic, it’s ridiculous.”

Fabian’s response was typical. Evelyn couldn’t inform Fabian about her regression, both. As a substitute, his resolution can be doubtful if he believed such a factor.

“However it’s clear that he has some energy, and he’s making an attempt to harm our baby along with his lunatic perception.” His eyes froze in chilly anger.

“Duke Metis hasn’t confessed something but?”

“There’s no proof, so he’ll shut his mouth to the top. However it’s true that the Duke communicated with David.”

Evelyn was livid that she couldn’t punish Duke Metis with none proof. Nonetheless, there was nothing she may do as a result of he was the proprietor of a long-standing Duchy.

“Evelyn, do you bear in mind what I mentioned?”

Fabian repeatedly warned Evelyn of the risks of the dungeon and the Stones of reality.

“Sure.”

“You possibly can’t overlook what I mentioned. It’s not a noble object like a holy relic. It’s probably the most cursed factor on this continent. Should you method the stone, your life and thoughts vitality might be absorbed by it. “

“Sure, I’ll bear in mind it.”

Fabian was distraught that Evelyn would lose her thoughts when she approached the stone of reality and spoke with David. Fabian’s lungs felt stuffy simply by inhaling the air within the dungeon. That’s why he didn’t wish to take Evelyn there.

“Your Majesty, I’ve already made up my thoughts.”

Evelyn had already determined, for the sake of her baby, who was presently battling a fever.

“Superb.” Fabian took her hand. “I’ll belief you.”

With that one phrase, Evelyn hardened her coronary heart much more. It was too early for her to fall into despair since every little thing was completely different from her earlier sad life. No less than, the heat that held her hand proper now wasn’t a dream.

Grabbing Fabian’s hand, Evelyn stepped her toes in a bleak place she had by no means been earlier than. The steps went down endlessly. She walked for a very long time, following Serus, who led her steps with the lantern in entrance of her.

“Serus, keep right here.”

Fabian instructed Serus to remain after he reached the ground the place David was prisoned. Serus nodded and adopted his orders. Fabian walked once more down the darkish hall, holding Evelyn’s hand and the lantern within the different.

The farther they went inside, each step she took, Evelyn felt the coolness entered her lungs. Like inhaling heavy smoke, it was tough for her to breathe, and her coronary heart grew to become tight.

“Are you all proper?”

Evelyn nodded her head when Fabian requested her. It was nothing in comparison with Adrian, who was combating the poison along with his small physique.

“Let’s go.”

Evelyn urged him. Quickly after, an enormous corridor -that was onerous to consider it was an underground- appeared earlier than her eyes. On the opposite facet of the corridor, a wall was made from pitch-black stone, and Evelyn realized it was the stone of reality.

David was hung along with his physique tied to the stone. Evelyn had simply been terrified to see him as a result of it was such a frightful sight.

“Evelyn, don’t go any farther from right here.” Fabian pointed to a sample carved on the ground.

Evelyn obeyed him. Even when Fabian didn’t cease her, Evelyn was unwilling to return a bit nearer as a result of she felt the stone’s terrible vitality. As if he had been swallowed by the toxin, David appeared to have fainted along with his head falling down.

“Are you continue to awake?”

As Fabian spat out in a low voice, David slowly opened his eyes and raised his head midway. “I’ve been ready……”

Fabian grasped Evelyn’s hand tighter. It was proof of his anger and persistence to suppress his overflowing need to tear him to demise. “I’ve heard every little thing from Cornelius. However you received’t be capable of deceive me.”

David had a faint smile round his lips. Since he had no intention of deceiving somebody from the start. “You’ll by no means consider me, Emperor. As all the time, identical to your predecessors.”

Fabian closed and opened his eyes in rage. Wrath soared in his coronary heart, questioning how lengthy he needed to see David making enjoyable of him along with his tongue.

“Do away with the nonsense. There’s just one factor I wish to ask you.”

“About……The Prince…..?”

David’s voice was undoubtedly weak. If he have been an unusual particular person, he would have misplaced his thoughts, died after affected by insanity, and held on the stone of reality for the remainder of his life.

“You don’t wish to take heed to your loopy beliefs.” Fabian seemed straight forward. “Regardless that you’re a cursed guardian, you’ll solely die miserably on the stone of reality.”

“Sure, I’ll…I assume … possibly my soul it’s already been half eaten.”

Evelyn fastidiously noticed him. From earlier on, she felt David’s calm perspective was a bit unusual, one way or the other.

“Confess.” Fabian mentioned threateningly. “What poison did you give to my son, and easy methods to remedy him.?”

“I didn’t do something.”

Fabian glared at David with eyes that deeper than the abyss. His glare seemed extra deadly than a poison launched by the stone of reality. “Yet one more time I’ll ask you. Inform me now. The way to save my baby.”

As Fabian’s eerie low voice rang, David lifted his head. He checked out him, “Should you’re the Imperial Emperor …… absolutely your perception is above unusual people …….”

“You tricked Duke Metis and used the Empress to hold poison. You additionally set a dirty, merciless entice in order that we couldn’t acknowledge the poison instantly.”

“…..I don’t know the latter.”

It was Duke Metis’ plan to intentionally infuse the starflower poison. It was a psychological entice solely an individual who dept at deception like him may do.

“I don’t care about that! Inform me easy methods to save my baby proper now. …or…. Did you overlook what I mentioned? “

David’s violet eyes stopped for a second as he additionally had one thing he was afraid of.

“If something occurs to my son, I’ll drag you round and search the entire world to seek out that rattling tower.”

Evelyn started to really feel the chills. Fabian, who noticed her that allow go of his hand, then put his arm round Evelyn’s waist to carry her again and checked out David once more.

“Days to years, I’ll moist the tower with blood earlier than your eyes.”

David’s eyes have been barely twitching. It was momentary, however Fabian’s fierce eyes didn’t miss it. Certainly, what he feared was the existence of his sacred tower being tarnished.

“However, Emperor……even when I let you know how, will you consider me?”

Fabian gnashed his enamel at his query. David was nicely conscious that he didn’t have one other selection as his baby’s life was at stake.

“A guardian isn’t somebody who would take a human’s life… Particularly if he’s a toddler.”

“However why are you so persistent to kill Adrian?” Evelyn, who may not bear it, shouted at David. Her resentment was as deep as Fabian’s anger. “He’s harmless baby, however why…… why he has to undergo from poison. Do you wish to kill him simply to take care of the steadiness? “

“Sure, your son is harmless. However he has a relation with you, and someday, he’ll make the Emperor subsequent to you a sinner. He’ll commit a grave sin that nobody can cease. “

“What a crap!”

However David stored speaking, even after Fabian’s yell,

“Princess Evelyn.” His purple eyes turned to her. “You don’t actually bear in mind me but. As a result of I made you that manner.”

Evelyn shuddered. It was solely her reminiscence of David that was distorted. Her unconscious thoughts mentioned there was one thing between them. However she couldn’t bear in mind something no matter how onerous she tried.

“This… … That is what you wished for.”

“Me? I needed Adrian to get damage?”

David shook his head slowly. Taking a deep breath. He needed to wrestle to exert a bit of his power after the stone had absorbed all of his life vitality. Nevertheless, David didn’t hand over, and he calmly stored his eyes on Evelyn.

“Keep in mind….The recollections engraved in your soul.”

Evelyn’s blue eyes have been pinned on his picturesque purple eyes. The eternal fog surrounding her recollections began to vanish slowly.

“……Poor girl.”

As these phrases fell, the chains that sealed Evelyn’s reminiscence broke. She staggered. Fabian managed to carry Evelyn’s physique earlier than she fainted and instantly checked her situation.

“Evelyn!”

Evelyn breathed, however her blue eyes have been out of focus.

“What else have you ever executed to her!?”

“She’ll bear in mind…”

David’s vitality was additionally operating out, and he dropped his head on the finish of the sentence.

“Evelyn, Have a look at me, Evelyn!” Fabian didn’t take a look at David and rapidly hugged Evelyn. “Serus!”

Serus fled instantly. Roughly, he discovered the scenario and took cost of David. Fabian instantly picked Evelyn up and introduced her out of the dungeon in a rush. He needed to free Evelyn from the poisonous air as quickly as potential.

“Evelyn, I’m right here.”

Fabian tried to maintain Evelyn keep consciousness. He didn’t know what had occurred, but it surely was clear that her situation proper now wasn’t regular.

“It’s me. I’m by your facet.”

The chains that bind her recollections slowly started to tear aside and vanish. Then fragments of these recollections began to look to the floor.

Evelyn may see Fabian together with her eyes, and she or he additionally may hear his voice, however she felt very distant from him. Her senses have been faint as if her complete physique have been floating within the air.

“Evelyn, take a look at me.” Fabian jarred Evelyn’s shoulder, however her blue eyes have been nonetheless unfocused like glass beads.

“Evelyn.” He muttered with a sigh. “Your husband is right here…”

Evelyn felt a robust pressure dragging her consciousness on the floor at that second.

Down under, deeper than some other sea….her thoughts was dragged into it.

On the identical time, she drooped in Fabian’s arms. But, Evelyn couldn’t inform the distinction between actuality and her blackout.

‘Poor girl.’

It was David’s voice.

‘Your want and my function are identical.’

Evelyn understood what he meant for some purpose.

‘Give me your despair, I’ll flip the time and make every little thing proper.’

There was a mysterious man who appeared when Evelyn was dying in her 30s. It’s such a transparent reminiscence, however why did she overlook about that?

‘Right here… … Now we have to open the hole of time, I’ll borrow your despair and switch again the time to the place we wish it to be.’

We?

What did Evelyn need then?

What that poor girl wished?

What did a withered Empress who was dying in loneliness at the moment hope for?

‘I shouldn’t have met the Emperor within the first place.’

Vaguely, that girl’s voice sounded so bitter.

‘However I’ve no selection however to fulfill him…….’

Evelyn couldn’t hear that voice nicely within the center.

‘You’re a poor girl. After time turns again, don’t repeat your painful relationship.’

Evelyn questioned, why did David name her a poor girl?

‘As soon as once more …… you shouldn’t have a painful relationship.’

When Evelyn recalled the final a part of her recollections, numerous fragments poured into her head, and she or he couldn’t breathe correctly.

She vomited a violent breath and opened her eyes, awakening from Fabian’s arms.

Then Evelyn realized every little thing was actual.