Chapter 16 The Inevitable Curse

The scene in the mirror continued to play.

What Princess Aurora was most interested in was listening to the learned magician Rhine and other scholars flipping through books and telling stories about the outside world before going to bed every night.

Whenever a bedtime story ended and the lights were turned off, the little princess would look out the window at the sparkling stars outside.

Will falling down a rabbit hole really lead you to a wonderland? Are there really mermaids in the deep ocean? Is the giant's castle above the clouds a legend or reality?

"Father, Mother, as long as I wait until my 15th birthday, the curse will be lifted and I will be able to go out into the world, right?"

Beside the pillow, the girl's jewel-like eyes were full of hope.

This was the promise she had received since she could remember.

"Tomorrow is my birthday!"

Aurora's tone was filled with undisguised excitement.

That was the day she had been waiting for for thousands of days and nights since she was born!

"Father, Mother, and Master Magician Rhine, thank you."

"The curse will be lifted after my birthday tomorrow!"

"After that, I want to go out and see the world! There are so many things I want to see and so many places I want to go. I want to see if what is said in the books is true..."

The image in the mirror is frozen in the girl's smile as she looks forward to the future.

The scene then shifts to the next shot.

Aurora is celebrating her 15th birthday.

When the old king saw this scene, the stone in his heart slowly settled down.

It seems that my precautions were indeed useful.

As long as we confiscate all the spindles in the kingdom and imprison the princess, theoretically eliminating any possibility of Aurora touching the spindles, we can prevent the prophecy from coming true! "Although I have imprisoned my daughter for more than ten years and confiscated all the spindles in the country, which has caused dissatisfaction, it is totally worth it!"

The old monarch's white beard trembled.

Seeing the old king's excitement, Rhine sighed softly and couldn't help feeling emotional in his heart.

The old king is still too young! How could the so-called prophecy be avoided in such a simple way?

In many myths and fairy tales, all attempts to resist prophecy through human means will only make the prophecy self-fulfilling in the end.

"His Majesty……"

On the contrary, the expressions of the witches were far less relaxed than the king's.

They are true spellcasters who understand magic, and can vaguely sense that something bad is going to happen.

The next second, the picture in the mirror suddenly changed.

After the birthday celebration, before the stroke of midnight, the little princess still observed the last half hour of prohibition, wandering around the palace, walking through the rooms of all sizes that she had seen hundreds of thousands of times since she was born.

At last she came to an old palace, with a narrow staircase leading up to a door with a golden key in it.

"Strange, I don't think I've ever walked here before?"

With doubt in her mind, Aurora turned the golden key and the door popped open.

An old woman was sitting inside, busy spinning.

The princess had never seen weaving tools before, so she asked in confusion: "Hello, old mother! Hello! What are you doing?"

"Spinning," the old woman answered.

"This little thing is so fun to play when it spins! Can you show it to me?"

As she spoke, Aurora walked forward curiously and wanted to pick up the spindle and spin.

Seeing this, the queen screamed loudly, stretched out her hand, and touched the silver mirror in Rhine's hand:

"No, don't! Daughter, don't go near that thing!"

The old king also turned pale and was horrified: "Wait, no!"

But how could Aurora in the mirror hear the voices of her parents outside the mirror? In the desperate and frightened eyes of her parents, Aurora touched the spindle and immediately pricked her finger.

The spindle is not a weapon, so the blessing "artificial and natural weapons cannot harm Aurora" is naturally invalid!

The next second, the blonde girl fell to the ground and lost consciousness.

The curse came true.

However, the blessing that the magician Rhine had offered also took effect.

The princess was not dead, she just fell into a deep, dreamless sleep.

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The king and queen were hurrying back at this moment.

As soon as they entered the hall, they fell asleep too.

The horses in the stable, the dogs in the yard, the pigeons on the roof, and the flies on the wall all fell asleep.

Even the fire in the stove stopped burning and fell asleep; the roasting meat stopped crackling; everything was still and fell into a deep sleep.

A sleeping spell enveloped the entire kingdom, causing every resident of the kingdom to fall into eternal sleep.

Soon, a large hedge of thorns grew on the land of the kingdom.

Year after year, the crazy plants grew taller and denser, until they completely covered the palace, even the roof and chimneys.

10 years have passed.

20 years have passed.

50 years have passed.

There is a legend about this kingdom, a legend of a beautiful sleeping princess.

Since then, many princes have come to explore, and they have tried to cut through the hedge and get to the palace, but none of them succeeded.

Every warrior who set foot on this cursed land was either entangled by thorns or tripped by the bushes, as if countless hands were holding them tightly and making it difficult to escape. They all eventually died in pain.

Outside the mirror.

The old king felt weak and powerless as he watched his land become dominated by thorns and thistles and become a cursed land that no one dared to set foot on.

"Why?"

"Why can't the curse be stopped!?"

"Why are there stairs and rooms in my palace that have never existed before? Why did a weaving grandmother appear out of nowhere?"

This is all too unreasonable! The king of the kingdom no longer looked like a king. He roared uncontrollably and cried with his face covered.

It was as if I had just experienced several decades.

It's as if all the disasters have already happened.

(End of this chapter)