“What have you done to Prince Ernst?”
Tenebris glanced at the woman, who was pushing her sword with a fierce look at the front of his neck.
She was a woman who moved so lightly and fast that he didn’t even notice when she narrowed the distance this much.
‘What can an ordinary human woman do to me…….’
Tenebris gritted his teeth.
But he could tell by instinct.
She wasn’t an ordinary human woman.
A green energy fluttered around her sword pointed at him.
His awakening was not completed yet.
Because the damn things that sealed him in the past have cut his soul into eight pieces and scattered it on the world.
‘I don’t even know where the eighth fragment is.’
A long time ago, right after Tenebris died.
His soul was split into eight fragments.
The Albrecht Imperial family and the third generation divided the four fragments of Tenebris’ soul among themselves.
The remaining four fragments were stolen by the maids of the Western land who served Tenebris.
Three of them were already used when they put Tenebris’ soul in a vessel.
And he found two fragments from two families who had just arrived here.
The remaining two fragments were also emitting the energy not far away, so he is sure he will find them soon.
However, the most important, the eighth fragment, which was not recorded in the literature due to its unknown whereabouts, is still unknown.
If the eighth fragment was not found, the other seven fragments were useless.
It contains his “real soul” and all the power he had in the past.
In other words, if he finds the eighth fragment, even if the rest of the fragments were destroyed…….
‘It was Chernicia’s choice to separate and hide the eighth fragments.’
Just before Tenebris went to sleep, Chernicia separated the eighth fragment of his soul and sent it to another dimension of construction.
‘It’s to prevent me from resurrecting again, to never wake up and sleep for a long time.’
When he thought so, his heart throbbed unpleasantly.
“Tell me, you, Ernst…….”
The blade of the woman’s sword was close to the skin of Tenebris.
Tenebris stared at the woman with his teeth clenched.
His resurrection wasn’t completed yet, and he couldn’t beat her.
‘Come on…’
Tenebris was annoyed. The fact that he was being confronted by a human woman.
He felt even worse because she looked like Chernicia from his memory.
It was when he was thinking of how to move and was staring at the woman with fierce eyes.
‘What…??’
A faint agitation was seen in the woman’s eyes.
‘This, maybe…….’
For a moment, his lips bent at an angle.
The woman frowned at his sudden change of attitude.
It was that moment.
Swish.
Tenebris’ black hair, which had grown to his toes, gradually became shorter and turned bright platinum blonde.
The woman’s eyes grew round.
“Why, do you want to hurt me?”
Tenebris asked in a voice with a slight smlie.
In an instant, his appearance became the same as the ‘vessel’ that contained him up till now.
It was the face of Prince Ernst, who was loved by all the servants of the palace, with a gentle and amiable smile.
Only one thing, if there was anything else still unchanged, was the pair of red eyes different from the original Ernst.
“You want to kill me, Yvonne?”
Tenebris asked in a gentle tone.
His blood-red eyes curled round.
“……!”
He could feel the woman panicking.
Looking at it, Tenebris laughed inwardly.
‘A woman who couldn’t even kill me was just bluffing.’
Looking at the eyes of the woman, he noticed a slight agitation toward him a moment ago, and it made him realise that she wouldn’t be able to attack him.
And just now the guess was proven to be correct.
‘She is friends with the human prince.’
The insignificant human prince, who shed tears easily because he was unnecessarily weak, was not enough to contain him.
Tenebris recalled the moment when his soul was just floating in a vessel.
Ferdinand’s courtyard, where the old tree grew, was the place where Tenebris was sealed in the past.
In commemoration of the victory, Ferdinand’s descendants celebrated there whenever there was a celebration.
The tradition has changed little by little, and the custom of pregnant women coming there to pray for blessings has been established.
Tenebris, who was quietly closing his eyes in a long sleep, suddenly opened his eyes one day without anyone noticing.
It was also an unexpected wake-up call for no reason.
However, because there was no ‘vessel’ to hold him, Tenebris had to appear in the world without a shape.
Those who seek to wake him up in pursuit of strong power have been around for thousands of years.
Rudolph and Margarate were among them.
Margarate, pregnant with the Emperor’s child, stood in front of the old tree for blessing as per Ferdinand’s old custom.
There, she made a ‘vessel’ by offering the purest young soul conceived in her stomach as a material.
Ernst’s real soul, which was sacrificed at that time, had been nourishing Tenebris for many years before slowly drying up.
And they put the three pieces of soul they found in the ‘vessel’.
But that didn’t wake Tenebris up completely.
Sacrifice was needed to keep him, and Margarate sacrificed the lives of those who had been under their protection to keep him nourished.
Every night, a body came out of the palace.
These were sacrifices offered to maintain Tenebris’ ‘vessel’.
Gradually, a vicious rumor circulated in the palace.
At one point, people pointed to Theodore, who was born with black hair, as the main character in the rumor.
Of course, Margarate was behind it too.
Margarate hid Prince Ernst in the name of ‘protection’ and forbade him to show his face to the people.
At the same time, she worked with Rudolph to establish him as the next Emperor.
Albrecht, the Empire that commands the continent.
To dedicate it entirely to Tenebris in the future.
Tenebris gradually increased his strength in the ‘vessel’ called Ernst.
In the past, the God of Brighim, who created the world, had four servants to serve him.
The Holder of Light, Leobrante.
The Agent of Heaven, Ferdinand.
The Guide of the Land, Chernicia.
The Ruler of Darkness, Tenebris.
They carried out the providence of the God of Brighim in their own ways, and had several believers.
And their power was proportional to their reputation. The more those who worshipped them, the greater their power became.
However, no one proudly worshipped Tenebris, which was defined as evil in the present generation and was called “the Ancient Darkness.”
The dark magic practiced in the dark was too weak to wake him up.
Rudolph and Margarate used the black magic, but it was not enough for Tenebris.
There were also moments of crisis.
Gunther Chernicia, the blue emerald embedded in his sword blade, responded to him the moment he encountered Ernst.
They had the jewel, which was originally a piece of Tenebris’ soul, to detect him if he ever reappeared in the world.
Who are you?
What’s wrong….?
If you don’t reveal your identity right away……!
I, I’m Prince Ernst….
This wretched ‘vessel’ could do nothing but cry.
Tenebris chose to move directly because the ‘vessel’ that he had tried to settle down would break if kept like this.
Gunther, who was caught in the fight and illusion, mistook the Emperor for him(Ernst), and eventually thrust a sword into the Emperor’s body.
At that moment, he belatedly came to his senses after the magic was lifted. But it was after everyone had already seen the circumstances in which he tried to assassinate the Emperor.
In the aftermath, Tenebris lost his power for a while and lost control of the ‘vessel’.
The weak young prince’s soul, who often shed tears, was much harder than expected.
Look, the wait for that woman with a sword pointing in his throat now made his soul stronger.
If the soul had not been shaken by the subsequent deaths of Rudolph and Margarate, Tenebris’ soul might have been eaten by an unsightly ‘vessel’ someday.
And while the ‘vessel’ was saddened by Yvonne’s death, Benjamin’s black magic woke Tenebris up again. Of course, Benjamin didn’t mean it.
Since then, Tenebris has moved for a perfect resurrection…….
It was when Tenebris was looking back on such a past for a long time.
“Yes.”
A sudden determined voice in front of his eyes stopped him from thinking.
Tenebris paused and looked at the woman.
As if the woman had never been agitated, she stared at him with straight eyes and pushed the sword blade further.
“I’ll kill you if I have to, even if I don’t want to.”
“Ugh……”
The skin of the place where the blade of the sword touched was torn, and black energy came out through it.
The sword-holding hand was full of power.
He was Ernst in front of her eyes…… No, Yves stared at the unknown being in the form of Ernst.
‘It’s not Ernest.’
She gathered her mind by looking at the blood-colored red eyes.
Are you going to kill me, Yvonne?
She was a little shaken at the moment he said so with a face resembling Ernst, but this was never Ernst.
The expression and voice that Ernst would never make.
Just a moment ago, dozens of black thorns bloomed everywhere to attack her and Celine.
And if he was a human, he would have bleed, but the thing that poured out of the white skin was black smoke, not red blood.
T/N: Poor Ernst. He was sacrificed even before he was born.🤧
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