Chapter 213: The Speculations of the Great Magician Mebucha (Part 2)
"Dresi only knew one side of the story. She felt the injustice the German royal family had treated her and her twin brother, and she was determined to carve out a better future for herself. Little did she know that her ancestors had placed a death curse on them to prevent the twins from fighting for the throne."
Mebucha smiled and said, "Then, Dresi herself has experienced the pain of having twins. She is not a romantic and love-brained person, nor does she love my royal brother to death. Why did she give birth to twins... Is it really just to get pregnant before marriage, to provoke the dignity of the Delman royal family, and to test their feelings for her?
"No, I don't think Dracy is that sentimental. No, everything she does is driven by ambition. In other words, Dracy's plans from the very beginning included her children. Perhaps having an only child or twins wouldn't affect her plans... Or perhaps Dracy had already anticipated a high probability of giving birth to twins, so she took a gamble.
"The probability of twins being born in the Delman royal family is extremely high, especially for parents who are one of the twins... So, following this line of thought, I have a bold guess: becoming a lich might not have been a natural consequence of Deresi's accidental death, but rather a plan from the beginning."
Andre: “?!”
"Dresi possessed the Great Magic Book, and she knew the method of creating a lich from the very beginning. However, compared to Crown Prince Frederick, Dresi's health was far weaker. After giving birth, she was bedridden for several months. Given Dresi's personality, having gone through so much hardship to secure the throne, she naturally wanted her rule to last a long time."
"Wealth, power and immortality will always be the immortal themes that people spend their entire lives pursuing," Andre said in a deep voice.
"That's right," Mebucha echoed. "Although these are old clichés, throughout history, all disputes have stemmed from this. People harm others for profit, crave power to protect their own interests, and ultimately, to enjoy it longer, exhaust all resources in pursuit of immortality. Dresi possesses the method to create a lich, and has the motivation to become one..."
"Wait a minute..." Andre raised his hand. "I understand what you're saying, but what does becoming a lich have to do with giving birth to twins?"
Mebucha glared at him from behind his glasses, like an old professor looking down on a student who couldn't keep up. "I've said before that the body and the soul have a degree of compatibility. If they don't, they will cause harm to each other. So, how can we improve the compatibility between the soul and the body?"
"Close blood ties, strong bodies, and the identity of being one of two twins... these conditions can make the 'body' and Dracy's soul more compatible: close blood ties can make the soul and body fit together, and the stronger and healthier the body, the more souls it can accommodate... And twins themselves are in a battle for soul fusion, which means that any twin's body is theoretically large enough to accommodate two souls."
Andrei gasped again: "Are you saying that the child Deresi gave birth to was the body she prepared for herself to become a lich?"
"That's right!" Mebucha nodded approvingly. "You have a pretty good understanding. Thinking from this perspective, the reason why Dresi chose my brother becomes clear. When he met Dresi, my brother had already developed a muscular body. He was handsome and very healthy. With him, Dresi would have a very high probability of giving birth to a perfect child, suitable for her to live in.
"Of course, Dresi herself was under house arrest at Rose Manor, so the people she could interact with were very limited. Aside from the servants and guards the queen brought with her on her short stay, there were only the surrounding villagers... The former dared not disobey the queen's orders and approach Dresi, while the latter were just ordinary mountain farmers, completely unattractive to Dresi. For Dresi, her shipwrecked brother was a treasure sent by fate."
Andrei couldn't help but twitch his lips. He always felt that the great magician Mebucha had a strange "filter" for His Majesty the King - this statement came from Xiaogutou's teaching of strange idioms - but he had to admit that what Mebucha said made a lot of sense.
He immediately realized the bigger problem this speculation pointed to: "In other words, the perfect body in Dracy's plan has always been Brother Winston or Valentine?!"
"Yes," Mebucha nodded. "Personally, I think she prefers Winston. After all, Winston has been crowned Duke of Huntington by His Majesty the King, making him the future crown prince. By obtaining Winston's body, they could easily take control of the entire Duchy of Huntington. For a lich, gender isn't an issue. In fact, in Dracy's eyes, being a man would be more advantageous for her to gain power.
"But she won't possess someone too soon... No, she won't take on this body until Winston has established himself and His Majesty the King is dead. Otherwise, as his former lover, once Winston is replaced, His Majesty the King will easily recognize her and prevent her from taking the throne."
Andrei opened his mouth, unsure what to say. No matter how he thought about it, this plan seemed insane and chaotic. A mother wanted to take her own son's life, use his body as a lich's shell, and thus gain the right to inherit the throne... and to do that, she would have to kill her former lover.
No, perhaps Dresi never loved His Majesty the King, and everything was just a plan for the perfect body.
"Brother is in danger." Andre murmured.
"Dangerous?" Mebucha shook his head. "I think Winston is still safe, but His Majesty the King has become a stumbling block on Dracy's path to power. A Baroness of Ellenor's stature won't have the chance to get close to His Majesty for a while, or else all sorts of poisons and spells will probably be cast upon the prince."
"But this gives me an idea," said Mebucha. "If we invite His Majesty the King and Winston to go on vacation to some remote place, do you think Dracy will try her best to catch up?"
Andrei suddenly realized: "You want to use His Majesty the King and Brother Winston as bait to lure Dracy out of the hole!"
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