Chapter 195 Mi Funa's Past
That bowl of noodles was unexpectedly delicious.
Mi Funa had never cared much about food. She came from the Kingdom of Ximan, a bitterly cold land in the far north. In that icy land, ordinary plants struggled to survive, but only demonic plants could thrive unchecked.
Crops were scarce, and naturally, there wasn't much normal food. But beneath that land lay a mysterious and immense power. Ancient gods perished in that ice and snow, their bones dissolved into the earth. Abundant magic energy transformed into veins within the land, nourishing the growth of countless magical plants.
People used magic plants to make potions and ate them. Magic became their food, making them stronger and granting them longer lives. So, people devoted their long lives to researching potions. Over and over again, their understanding of magic plants deepened, and they used this knowledge to develop more potion formulas.
Mi Funa had been obsessed with potion research since childhood. Thousands of magical plants were cut, juiced, and extracted through various techniques... Finally, they were poured into a crucible. Under the catalysis of magic, all sorts of miraculous reactions occurred, emitting smoke, condensing and changing color, and ultimately transforming into a miraculous nectar...
Her favorite moment was holding the stirring rod and watching the magic potion in the crucible take shape bit by bit under her control. At such times, Mi Funa would feel that her weak self was full of strength.
Through those potions, she can control other people's lives, manipulate people's emotions, make them beg, tremble, and even give up everything they have for a dose of potion.
If someone longs for a strong body, she will give them a pill that strengthens the body and cures all diseases; if someone pursues sweet love, she will give them a potion that will make their lover dazzled and fall in love at first sight; if someone wants to dominate the power of an entire country or even the world, she will develop a poison that can take a person's life and keep the antidote firmly in her hand...
She enjoyed the feeling of power. She felt like an omnipotent goddess!
Look! Her followers are so enthusiastic about her magic potion! They stay up all night to line up, stuffing countless gold, jewelry, and medicinal herbs into her hands, just to ask her to brew a potion!
Everything was going so smoothly until the civil war broke out and the He-Man Kingdom became a purgatory.
In the Heman Kingdom, countless pharmacists, like Mi Funa, pursued and reveled in the status and power that potions brought. Seduced by the allure of power, people took sides, choosing to align themselves with their respective favored factions. Poisons, antidotes, harmful, remedial, lethal, and non-lethal potions were sprayed in battle, flowing into rivers, seeping into the soil, and evaporating into the air, generating unpredictable magical reactions unseen by humans.
Various effects that the pharmaceutical masters had never anticipated appeared one after another, and people were horrified to find that they could no longer control the toxicity of the mutated substances, and their antidotes were no longer effective. The magical plants used for medicinal purposes also rapidly decreased due to their extensive use, mutating and withering in the polluted land.
Mi Funa was not only gifted at brewing potions, she was also adept at assessing the situation and seizing opportunities. Upon discovering that the Heman Kingdom was about to fall into war, Mi Funa took all her belongings and moved to the neighboring Rusman Federation.
In that federation of scholars, she transformed her knowledge and formulas into a nationally recognized qualification. Thus, Mi Funa went from being a renowned pharmacist in the Heman Kingdom to a renowned potion master.
But she still felt it was not enough.
She wanted a richer life, a better reputation, a longer life, and more power... She missed the feeling of controlling everything with potions, and longed to be recorded in history and become eternal.
Sadly, even the most powerful potion cannot break the laws of time. Humans have only two ways to achieve immortality: one is to pass on their achievements from generation to generation through inheritance, and the other is to continuously extend their lifespan until they achieve immortality.
Mi Funa tried the first one first.
The Rusman Federation was a nation of scholars who valued knowledge, but the vast majority of its citizens were scholars, meaning it would be difficult for Mi Funa to rise to prominence in this country. This was the so-called "literati look down on each other."
So Mi Funa turned her attention to the neighboring Kingdom of Delman.
At that time, King Rudolf German was still alive, Crown Prince Frederick had been designated as the king's heir, Princess Therese was still a bird in a cage in Rose Hill, and Maybury Huntington took a boat alone to the Rusman Federation to seek medicine in order to save his seriously injured old father.
As a master of potions, Mi Funa naturally heard about the Huntington family's request for medicine. She missed Maybury's trip to the Rusman Federation, but once again seized the opportunity and went to the Delman Kingdom, where she successfully met Mebucha Huntington, a student.
Mebucha was a simple scholar obsessed with the study of magic. For him, the only things in the world that mattered most were his elder brother and the secrets of magic. Mi Funa had encountered countless such simpletons in the Rusman Federation. She knew how to win Mebucha's favor and quickly became a close friend of the future great magician.
Through Mebucha, a son of a noble, Mi Funa got the opportunity to enter Rose Villa, met Princess Deresi, and became her teacher.
At that time, Mi Funa thought it was her greatest luck; however, now it seems that getting to know Dresi was perhaps her greatest misfortune.
Mi Funa, who pursues fame, power and eternity, quickly hits it off with the equally ambitious Dresi. The two of them are surprisingly similar in some aspects, both of them are ambitious and thirsty for power, and have an extraordinary desire to control their own and others' lives.
Dresi is brewing a shocking plan to change the dynasty. She wants to break out of the cage and become the true queen of this country. The moment Mi Funa learns of this secret, she becomes Dresi's accomplice.
If Dresi became queen, then Mi Funa would be the greatest contributor to her ascension to the throne. Dresi promised her countless benefits, and Mi Funa believed it without a doubt.
She made a slow-acting poison for Therese, successfully sending the old King Rudolf and Crown Prince Frederick to the kingdom of the dead.
Unfortunately, in the German royal family, the twin curse is not just a strange story, it really exists. After successfully poisoning her twin brother, Dresi also inexplicably collapsed and was dragged into another world by the ghost of Frederick.
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