How To Survive As a Villain on the Verge of Death

Sorel quickly turned around at the sound of the door opening. The person who entered the room was the emperor. It wasn’t surprising. After Sorel was imprisoned, the only person who came here was the Emperor. Of course, it didn’t happen often. The emperor has not been here for the past few days.

 

Her father, whom she had not seen in a long time, did not even glance at Sorel. He just looked at the window with empty, emotionless eyes.

 

“Eve has awakened her sacred power.”

 

After a moment of silence, the emperor spoke in a hollow voice.

 

“I saw it with my own eyes today. She treated a maid’s wounds.”

 

“She treated her wounds?”

 

Sorel was shocked to hear that.

 

“This is ridiculous! My sister’s holy power was precognition, right?”

 

Her holy power was something she was born with. Abilities did not suddenly change in the middle. The reason Eve lost her holy power was because of a spell cast by Sorel herself. If there was no such variable, her holy power did not disappear or increase.

 

‘No way…’

 

Sorel later realized that these two things were related. Eve suddenly becomes aware of her lost sacred power and her healing power.

 

‘Maybe my holy power didn’t disappear but was transferred to Eve… But why does this happen…?’

 

The emperor gave a strange look to Sorel, who was in shock.

 

“You clearly said that you stole Eve’s holy power. They said your mother died because of that.”

 

Young Sorel used a magic tool made by her mother to cast a spell that took away Eve’s powers. According to principle, Sorel herself should have lost her life, but she did not think it strange that her mother died instead of her. Since it was her mother who made it, she thought her mother’s life force had been exhausted. Because it wasn’t a proper spell to begin with. Young Sorel, who had not even formally learned witchcraft, could not perfectly perform such a complex curse. Although the process of performing the spell was a mess, she was lucky that it worked. Anyway, Sorel gained her powerful sacred power, and her mother’s life was lost in return for her magic. At the time it seemed like a complete success.

 

‘But did the spell go wrong and now the effect has disappeared?’

 

For now, it was reasonable to see it that way. As proof of that, almost all of her sacred power had disappeared. The emperor was thinking the same thing as her

 

“It looks like the spell has been broken.”

 

“Well, that can’t be possible.”

 

Sorel immediately denied it. In the first place, the reason the emperor had Sorel as a princess was because she had taken away Eve’s holy power. But now she had lost her reputation as a princess and even lost her sacred power. Until recently, she thought that even if she was kicked out to the villa, she would come back. In this situation, it seemed that the emperor would never refer to her as a royal again.

 

For her part, she had no choice but to deny the emperor’s words.

 

The emperor ordered in his grave voice.

 

“Then try using your abilities now.”

 

“I beg your pardon? Here?”

 

Sorel winced at his stricken expression. Then she saw the Emperor picking up a shard of glass that had fallen on the floor and grabbed Sorel by the arm. Then he cut Sorrel’s arm long with the sharp piece.

 

“Ahh!”

 

“Now, try treatment.”

 

Sorel held her bleeding wound and held her back. The emperor was still watching her with an indifferent expression. He seemed to feel no guilt or emotion while hurting his own daughter. The sight of his glassy, emotionless eyes sent goosebumps down her spine.

 

‘I knew she was a very cruel and heartless person, but…’

 

Sorel gathered all her holy power and desperately used her healing powers. A little gold seeped out of her hand. Her bleeding began to stop from the glass cut. And then that was it for her. In a matter of seconds, her light disappeared without a trace and blood flowed from her wound again.

 

The emperor watched calmly as Sorel turned pale and stiffened.

 

“As expected, you have lost your holy power.”

 

“I’ll use the spell again!”

 

Sorel held on to the emperor and pleaded earnestly.

 

“I’ll try that spell again. Please give me some time.”

 

That’s what she said, but she knew that it was nonsense. Having not learned magic properly, how could she make tools and complete the spell? Even if it succeeded, it was a problem. Her mother, who was a skilled sorcerer, also lost her life due to the spell. Even if Sorel herself were lucky enough to succeed with this spell, she would die immediately.

 

“Okay, I guess I’ll have to use a spell. But not that witchcraft.”

 

“Yes? What…?”

 

“I need you to use a spell to curse Eve.”

 

Sorel looked at the emperor with a puzzled face.

 

“But father, that’s… I don’t even know how to do it. I couldn’t even interpret all of my mother’s books…”

 

“I found an old woman who was the only one in the capital who had knowledge of magic. He had her decipher the book your mother left behind.”

 

Her mother had a book of magic that had been passed down from generation to generation. Sorel’s mother did not teach her daughter magic, but Sorel stole the book and cast a spell that took away Eve’s powers.

 

“But… But there are no magic tools.”

 

The book contained the process of using magic, but it did not contain instructions for making magic tools.

 

“There must have been some magic tools left behind by your mother, yes?”

 

Sorel couldn’t answer. All magic required tools made in a special way. The same was true for the spell that cursed the saint. The tool for cursing the saint used rare materials that only come out once every hundred years, and it was difficult to make.

 

Sorel did not learn from her mother how to make them, nor did she learn how to practice witchcraft. The magic was a secret that Sorel’s maternal family had kept for generations, so in the end, there was no one in this world who could make the tool or cast the spell.

 

“Your mother kept a curse tool that she inherited a long time ago. I saw it clearly.”

 

“That… I really don’t know. I told you it wasn’t in my mother’s safe.”

 

In fact, it was a lie. Even when she didn’t know much about magic, Sorel clearly knew where the magic tools were. That’s because her mother showed her and explained it to her ever since she was little.

 

‘To use a technique to kill a saint, you need another saint to become a victim.’

 

The spell was an original curse discovered by one of her mother’s ancestors. The life force of an ordinary shaman couldn’t be used to curse a saint. So what if they bring the power of the same saint? Normally, a shaman couldn’t take someone else’s life force. But the saint was different. As long as you had a magic tool that would act as an appropriate medium, it was possible to draw on the life force of a saint and curse another saint. Of course, there was the problem that both the saint who was cursed and the saint who had her life force taken away died. So as soon as Sorel confirmed that her mother was dead, she took out the tool and hid it in a place known only to herself. After she entered the imperial palace, she moved it to a safe place within the imperial palace.

 

Back then and now, the only daughters of the emperor were Sorel and Eve.

 

“Well, I can’t…!” cried Sorrel, her pale and weary face. “Father, if you use that technique… I’ll die.”

 

It was natural. She hated Eve so much that she wanted her to fall to the ground, but that didn’t mean her hatred for Eve was more important than her own life. It was good for Eve to die, but she hated it if she had to commit suicide along with her. Maybe it’s because Sorel herself lived luxuriously as a princess for many years. If she had lived her miserable life with nothing to lose, she might have given her life to kill Eve. But for now, her own life was more important to her than her hatred and jealousy of Eve.

 

“Are you sure you can’t do it?”

 

“I can not. It’s natural, right?”

 

“In the end, you don’t know where the magic tools are, and you’re saying you can’t do magic.”

 

The emperor did not even listen to Sorel’s answer and called his attendant. After a while, Vilos came into the room accompanied by an attendant.

 

“Vilos, take Sorel underground.”

 

The emperor ordered in a dry tone.

 

“Persuade her yourself until she agrees to follow my orders. You can do anything. All we have to do is hold on to her life.”

 

“Father!”

 

Vilos looked at Sorel with cruel eyes and beckoned to the servants. Sorel was dragged out her door screaming. The Emperor left into the opposite hallway without looking back.

 

At that time, a small shadow moved quietly in the shadows. Bayan, who was watching everything she did, came out of the abandoned palace after confirming that the emperor had left.

 

[Hmm…]

 

As she overheard the conversation, she gained a lot of information. What shocked Bayan the most was that the blonde had stolen Eve’s sacred power. She took away her sacred power with such a crude spell. But that was only a temporary change created by her magic. You can’t take away the power in someone else’s body forever. If Eve had realized her holy power sooner, she would have regained her sacred power right away. She must have been deprived of her powers for this long because Eve was such a unique saint that she could not feel the powers in her own body. It made sense that Eve was suddenly free to use her healing powers as her own. The sacred powers of Eve were imbued with her healing powers while she was naturally imbued with Sorel. By getting it back, she learned about her healing powers. He didn’t know something like this was possible, but giving and receiving her sacred power in the first place was extremely rare, so no one knew about it until now. Anyway, when he summarized it that way, it all made sense.

 

Eve was waiting in a corner of her garden as she headed towards the Emperor’s womb. As he got closer, Eve noticed Bayan’s presence and turned her head.

 

“Bayan, you arrived safely.”

 

* * *

 

She looked around and walked to a more isolated place. Even though it was a remote place, there were guards everywhere near the garden, so there was no danger. As she became aware of her sacred power, she was able to tell when Bayan was nearby.

 

When Bayan came closer, she felt the light containing her warm energy coming closer.

 

“What is the emperor doing?”

 

[He was meeting a blonde saint.]

 

Bayan responded by jumping into her arms.

 

[As expected, the person who ordered the spell was the emperor. But the shaman was a completely different person.]

 

“I know, Sorel, right?”

 

She walked along the garden path, stroking Bayan’s fur.

 

“I just saw a prophecy.”

 

She told Bayan what she saw when she touched Mikhail.

 

[That’s what happens in the end. The emperor was forcing the blonde to use magic.]

 

Bayan also explained to her what he saw.

 

[The saint seemed to have lost a lot of her holy power compared to when I saw her before.]

 

“Considering the conversation I had with the emperor, that must have been Sorel’s original power.”

 

Sorel took away Eve’s powers. That part was shocking to Eve too. Anyway, she found out two things for sure. A person who casts a spell, and a shaman who directly casts a spell. But there’s one thing she hadn’t figured out yet.

 

“Where is that magic tool hidden?”

 

Considering the conversation between Sorel and the emperor, it seems that there was only one magic tool left that could kill the saint.

 

“I think it would be a good idea to find and destroy the magic tools as well.”

 

If something like that remains, it could become a source of trouble later on. Even if both the emperor and Sorel die, if the next emperor gives birth to a daughter, there will be another saint. Then someone could find that tool or something and try to take her life.

 

“As expected, I need to meet Sorel in person and hear his story.”

 

[Will the blonde tell the truth?]

 

“There’s no need for Sorel to tell me.”

 

According to the foresight seen through Michael, Sorel ultimately surrenders to the emperor’s will and casts a spell. That means that Sorel will one day confess everything to the emperor. All she had to do was see the scene with foresight.

 

“To do that, we have to go into the basement of the princess’s palace where Sorel is.”

 

She asked, looking down at Bayan.

 

“Bayan, if I give you more holy power, can you use other abilities?”

 

[If you give it a lot of Holy Power, I can create a temporary hallucination.]

 

“How much can I give you?”

 

[About ten times what you usually give.]

 

Over the past few days, she had been researching her sacred powers inside the mansion. How much do you need to use to see the foresight? How much can you spend at once? She practiced on her own, experimenting with things like how much holy power she could share with Bayan. Even if she used this sacred power as sparingly as possible, it recovered over time.

 

She measured the amount by moving the holy power within her body. Even if you use up all of Bayan’s holy power, you have to leave behind the power to see wisdom at least once.

 

“I think that’s okay. Then how many people can you hallucinate?”

 

[Two people… Maybe three?]

 

Three people. It was an ambiguous number. She thought it cost more than that.

 

[It is difficult to make people see hallucinations. It would be easier to attack.]

 

“That’s not allowed.”

 

Because she had to go secretly without the emperor finding out.

 

That night, she secretly returned to the Crown Prince’s palace. She asked Arentine for help in going to see Sorel.

 

Arentine accepted without any hesitation. But when she changed into her maid’s uniform and came out, he asked with a worried face.

 

“Do you really have to go yourself?”

 

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