Chapter 279 (Catching Bugs)
Natalie's bloodshot eyes stared at the little cub that was carefully protected in the arms of the king and queen. A sneer appeared on her lips. She looked at her companion beside her, and then said perfunctorily without much sincerity: "We, the dragon clan, hereby promise that in the next hundred years, as long as the little princess is still alive, we will never invade the Narva and Bello kingdoms. The people of your country will gain long-term peace because of the existence of the little princess."
As soon as these words were spoken, the nobles in the audience could hardly hide their cries of astonishment. Several of them stood up in shock and looked from afar at the two dragons who had made the promise.
Eric looked around at the people in the hall who had similar reactions, but couldn't help but smile bitterly in his heart. He and his wife bowed slightly to express their gratitude, then walked towards the next distinguished guest with their sleeping daughter in their arms.
The dragon clan's promise is valid after the contract is signed. From now on, the two countries will no longer be invaded by the dragon clan, there will be no more tragedies of burning villages, and there will be no more situations of evil dragons snatching children for food. I believe that this promise will spread throughout the entire continent in a very short time.
By then, the Kingdoms of Narva and Belo will usher in a new round of population growth, and their strength will be even more formidable.
But behind all this, what is exchanged is a large amount of wealth, jewelry, and a fixed period of food delivery.
The arrogant and unreasonable dragons have never known what concession is. If you want them to give up hunting humans, you have to give them more benefits and at the same time find ways to fill their hungry and huge stomachs.
Eric lowered his head and looked at the little one in his arms who was sleeping soundly and carefree. His originally gloomy eyes relaxed a little. He and his wife came in front of the Elf Queen and bowed slightly in greeting when she stood up.
He first smiled and nodded to Yun Mian who was sitting obediently next to him. When he looked at Yun Yejin, he opened his mouth and was about to say something when he suddenly heard the sound of hurried running outside.
Being interrupted, Eric turned around unhappily and looked at the guard who rushed in rashly.
The guard didn't care about anything else and put the things in his arms at the feet of the king and queen, and said in a tight voice: "Your Majesty, this is something sent by the wizard tower, but we were unable to keep them, please forgive me..."
The guard knelt on one knee at the king's feet, with a crude wooden box beside him.
This is the "gift" that the wizard tower claims to have sent to the little princess.
The hall fell into a subtle silence for a moment. The nobles and ministers who came to participate in the banquet suddenly realized that among so many forces, the king seemed to have missed the Wizard Tower alone.
But what exactly does this so-called "gift" sent by the Wizard Tower mean?
Provocation? Dissatisfaction? Or a genuine gift?
No one could guess, but they all looked at the silent King Eric, waiting for the other party's reaction.
Yun Mian was also stunned when she saw the small wooden box. She didn’t expect that it was different from what was said in the story. The wizard did not come, but instead brought a gift?
The box looked ordinary, even crudely made, as if it was a box made of wood that had been hollowed out casually, or as if someone had casually taken it out of an old display window. Its old appearance was out of place in this magnificent palace.
Therefore, it would look very conspicuous even if placed at the feet of the king and queen.
"Your Majesty, would you like to open it?"
"A gift from the Wizard Tower? Why didn't we invite the wizards from the Wizard Tower?"
"Yes, all the forces are here, except for the Wizard Tower..."
"I don't know what's in this box. It looks extremely crude. What does the wizard tower want to do?"
Amid the increasingly dense buzz of discussions, Eric looked down at the box at his feet, but his mind flashed back to the result of the Wizard Tower sending someone to discuss the matter with him in advance.
The Wizard Tower said that it could bless the little princess, but she had to provide enough children with outstanding talents or pure hearts every month in the next ten years to be sent to the Wizard Tower for the wizards in the tower to study various magic or potions, especially medicine servants for testing drugs. Not only children are needed, but also strong adults, so that they can withstand the torture of those mysterious and strange potions and present better and more perfect medicinal properties.
In addition, his country has to provide enough money every year for the many wizards in the wizard tower to conduct more research, which is also a considerable expense.
Compared with compromising with other forces, Eric, as the king of the Kingdom of Narva and who had just had his first child with his wife, could not sign such a humiliating and even vicious agreement.
Therefore, he rejected the request of the Wizard Tower and tore up the invitation letter that was originally prepared to be sent to the Wizard Tower, pretending that he had never met them.
I thought the matter would end here. After all, it was a collaboration between both parties and no one would lose anything if it didn't come to fruition. But... the wizard tower delivered such a crude and mysterious wooden box tonight.
It seemed like a provocation or a warning, but no matter what, based on the greedy look on the Wizard Tower's face before, Eric would not think that this was really a friendly gift.
"...Open it." In the quiet atmosphere, Eric ignored the many curious or worried looks that fell on him, and thought for a long time before asking the guards to take the wooden box to a farther place before opening it.
He had to open it tonight because the wizards' methods were unpredictable, and the wizards in the wizard tower never took others seriously. They were all a group of weird lunatics. If he didn't open it tonight while there were humans and immortals from other forces present, once the banquet was over and there was danger, the result might be even more difficult to control.
Thinking of this, Eric's voice was slightly cold: "Since it was sent by the wizards of the Wizard Tower, then open it in front of you and see what kind of gift they sent."
At his command, the guard brought the wooden box to the center of the open space and opened it with bated breath.
The next second, everyone saw a strange object flying out of the wooden box and flying straight towards little Irene in the queen's arms.
It was so fast and so swift that even the alert Eric was unable to stop it. He could only watch as the sharp, long object flew over and stabbed little Irene's finger.
Bright red blood quickly oozed out from the wound and dripped onto the ground. Little Eileen suddenly struggled and woke up crying, and the thing that had stabbed little Eileen let out an eerie, hoarse laugh in the changing black fog.
"…Poor little princess, she will be stabbed in the finger by the spindle again when she is fifteen, and her young life will end completely at that time."
"Your Majesty, King Narva, this is your punishment for ignoring and provoking the Wizard Tower. This expensive gift will surely become the most real curse when your princess turns fifteen."
The eerie and vicious curse disappeared without a trace when Eric drew his sword decisively and stabbed forward.
Only the murder weapon at the beginning fell to the ground, and without any surprise, it was indeed a spindle with a bloody tip.
Little Ailin's cry was heartbreaking, as if she was aware of the brevity of her own life. She did not fall into a drowsy sleep again, but her poor little face turned red from crying, and the blood on her fingers was still dripping down.
Before other people in the palace could react, Yun Mian flapped her wings and ran over, grabbed the blood-stained spindle on the ground, and quickly chanted the elven magic healing spell to heal the small wound on the crying little Ailin's finger while the queen was holding the child and trying to stop the bleeding.
Her already low mood plummeted to the bottom when she looked down and saw the blood on the tip of the spindle in her hand.
Still not blocked.
The irresistible nature of the plot always makes Yunmian feel powerless at critical moments.
She had clearly decided to ask her mother to subdue the wizard once he came in, and she had clearly decided to rush up and cover his mouth the moment the wizard dared to utter the curse.
But the wizard did not appear, but a wooden box appeared.
The wizard's curse could not be cast by just standing there and opening his mouth like those people did just now. Instead, he suddenly pierced little Irene's finger with a spindle and then used the blood to cast a vicious curse.
Yun Mian knew nothing about the wizard tower, which was why her defenses were unfulfilled.
The child held the spindle tightly. The slightly salty sea breeze outside the hall blew in with the faint sound of waves, blowing the silk tied on his wrist gently, and accidentally touched the top of the spindle. After a few seconds, the end of the originally pure white and light silk was dotted with small spots of mottled blood.
The sudden change plunged the entire banquet into an eerie silence.
Most of the immortals sat in their original seats and watched the fun, and the other human forces that received the golden invitation letters had no intention of providing help.
After all, they have already gotten a price that they are satisfied with, and if little Ailin can only live to the age of fifteen... if you calculate carefully, it will be more beneficial to them.
Therefore, they showed a certain degree of indifference as if they were just watching the fun.
Only Lecia and Eric had dark complexions and gloomy eyes.
In the suffocating silence, Eric finally swung his sword and chopped the wooden box that had fallen to the ground into pieces.
But at the same time, he quickly suppressed his hatred and anger in this violent outburst.
He put away his sword, put his arms around his wife, then took a deep breath, and walked towards the Elf Queen again with her, holding little Ailin, whose crying voice was gradually becoming hoarse.
With the blessing of the two immortal species, the situation is not completely hopeless yet.
Yunmian flapped her wings and flew beside them towards her mother.
Yun Yejin lowered his eyes to look at the tender fingers of little Ailin that were healed by his daughter's healing magic, and then took the spindle that his daughter had been holding tightly in her hand and refused to let go. After checking it, he said softly to the nervous king and queen, "It's the blood curse of the wizard tower. As long as the spell touches the blood of the cursed, the curse will come true immediately."
“…Is there any way to resolve this?”
Under their expectant gazes, Yun Yejin shook his head helplessly: "Not yet. The blood curse is the most difficult spell to remove among all wizard curses."
Hearing this, Eric clenched his knuckles until they turned pale, still trying hard to suppress the hatred surging in his heart.
Lesia's originally warm blue eyes had now turned ice-cold, as if condensed with the biting wind and snow in the snowfield, and her murderous intent could not be concealed.
The vampire Oriah next to him stood up and saluted, saying slowly: "Perhaps we vampires can find a way to prevent the little princess from dying."
Ahhhh, I clearly updated it last night, why didn’t I send it out? !
Thanks to the little angel who irrigated the nutrient solution:
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