NOVEL NEXT Chapter 779: -25- History_2
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"Blood Moon Era Year 31, April 7th, Rainy."
"Changing habits truly proves difficult, even after all these years, I still am not used to counting months numerically."
"Your Majesty has become increasingly quiet recently, looking as though burdened with heavy thoughts. I wonder if it is related to the conflicts that have been occurring in the kingdoms."
"I never imagined that the transcendent power that protected our city-state during the war would now become our greatest barrier with the people…"
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"Blood Moon Era Year 33, November 2nd, Clear."
"Another Blood Rage incident occurred, even though the Bloodline Curse has always been present, it's the first time such severe incidents have occurred so frequently over so many years…"
"I heard that almost all the kingdoms erupted in protests against the Blood Court, the Bloodline... are they truly no longer regarded as fellow humans?"
"I heard that Your Majesty personally suppressed a few rioting human legends and the Blood Duke, Your Majesty... what exactly are you thinking?"
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"Blood Moon Era Year 40, July 5th, Clear."
"Your Majesty is going to sleep again."
"In recent years, Your Majesty seems to be sleeping more frequently and for longer periods."
"Your Majesty said that he wants to try to completely end the Bloodline Curse and find the origin of the Bloodline, but... can it really be done?"
"No, I mustn't doubt Your Majesty; whatever Your Majesty wishes to accomplish, it can certainly be done!"
"Strange... why do I always feel like I have forgotten something?"
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"Blood Moon Era Year 112, March 2nd, Clear."
"I really don't understand what those people in Yabaton are thinking, actually trying to construct the Blood Slave System, have they forgotten they were once humans too?!"
"And Your Majesty, why aren't you managing them?"
"I'm beginning to see Your Majesty less clearly, sometimes, it feels like he has become a different person, is he really still the Your Majesty I once knew?"
"Your Majesty... seems to be hiding something, does He still remember to end the Bloodline Curse?"
"No, no, no, I shouldn't speculate and doubt our great Your Majesty, He is the one who created us!"
"Oops? That doesn't seem right…"
"Did Your Majesty really create the Bloodline?"
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"Blood Moon Era Year 235, August 5th, Clear."
"Your Majesty has returned from the Old Continent."
"He says he has found the way to resolve the Bloodline Curse."
"He hopes I can assist him in trying and solving this problem that has troubled the Bloodline for hundreds of years, He wants me to collaborate with Him to create a never-before-seen Divine Artifact that could change everything and end everything."
"I do not know what Your Majesty wants to change or end, but I am eager to be part of this plan to solve the Bloodline Curse, it's just... Your Majesty seems more unfamiliar than ever, he's even stopped using my nickname."
"Your Majesty occasionally looks up into the sky, his gaze very distant."
"Sometimes, I feel like He might disappear any moment..."
"Your Majesty... what's wrong?"
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"Blood Moon Era Year 270, September 18th, Clear."
"Creation Power! So... the source of the Bloodline's power is the Creation Power?!"
"Could the Elf Clan's Creation myths really be true?"
"Could there really be a Creator God in this world?!"
"What exactly is the origin of the Bloodline? Did Your Majesty not create the Bloodline?"
"If not, then who... who created the Bloodline?!"
"I seem to have truly forgotten something... but what exactly have I forgotten?!"
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"It failed... the ritual failed! The plan to create the Divine Artifact also failed!"
"Such a Divine Artifact is impossible to create, impossible!"
"Your Majesty was also injured, and He has to sleep again…"
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"He is not Your Majesty! He is definitely not Your Majesty!"
"We must notify the other Princes at once! We must tell them before it's all beyond recovery!"
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"Ah...so it is, it turns out everyone had already failed."
"We have always been in a loop, always...in a loop!"
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"I...finally understand why Your Majesty initially asked me to keep a journal."
"But I'm afraid...it's already too late."
"What stands before us is not a curse."
"Rather...it is the Primordial Law."
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The journal ended around here.
As Charlotte flipped to the last page, the records became increasingly blurred.
Even so, the parts she could make out were somewhat spine-chilling.
"The ritual...failed? What kind of ritual? A ritual to lift the Bloodline Curse?"
"The Divine Artifact they crafted also failed? Wasn't that referring to the Blood Holy Scripture? The Blood Holy Scripture...wasn't crafted successfully? If it wasn't successful, then what is the Blood Holy Scripture within me all about?"
"And...'He', He is not Your Majesty? What does that mean?"
"Who is 'He'?"
"What does this continuous loop mean? Could it...refer to history?"
Charlotte murmured to herself, her frown deepening.
Although most of the journal entries were mysteriously blurred, she could still piece together what had happened a thousand years ago.
After the Bloodline's victory, the one Royena referred to as Your Majesty, or more precisely...Lilith, seemed to be consistently searching for a way to resolve the Bloodline Curse.
The Bloodline...seemed to have forgotten they were created by her, and chasing the origins of the Bloodline and the solution to the curse became Lilith's obsession.
But in the end, Lilith failed.
Not only did She fail, but it also seemed She had fallen into madness and was stripped of Her identity by some entity...
Moreover, Lilith's effort to create the Divine Artifact, or more precisely, the Blood Holy Scripture, was also unsuccessful.
What happened afterward was not recorded in the journal.
But combining what Charlotte already knew, it was probably likely that the Princes overcame the being that had taken Lilith's identity.
This...might very well be the real truth behind the so-called "betrayal" of the Bloodline Princes.
"The journal mentioned that the source of the Bloodline's power comes from the Creation Power..."
"Could it be...the being that took Lilith's identity was the 'Creator God'?"
"Also, if the crafting of the Blood Holy Scripture failed, then what is the Holy Scripture within me? Or does the failure mentioned here refer to the scattered pages of the Blood Holy Scripture?"
"It's not impossible; the Blood Holy Scripture is in a fragmented state. Could it be that the Blood Holy Scripture was never 'complete' because it was never successful?"
"But...why then does the journal say 'it was impossible to craft successfully'?"
Charlotte's frown deepened.
After a moment of thought, she decided to go through the journal again.
However, just as she flipped back to the very beginning, she saw the journal suddenly emit a faint glow, and a new page appeared on the last page.
Charlotte paused.
Her gaze concentrated, she flipped back and saw that a new passage had appeared:
"I am Royena."
"When you read this text, I should have already passed away."
"I do not know who you are. Perhaps you are a descendant of the Bloodline, perhaps you are my chosen successor, perhaps you are a future version of me, or perhaps...you are an existence forgotten by us who failed."
"But no matter what identity you hold, since you can see this record I left, that means you are the person I trusted in the last lucid moment of my consciousness, and also...the last person trusted by Your Majesty in Her last lucid moment."
"Since you have seen this text, it means you are the last hope mentioned in the Oracle of Your Majesty, and it also means that you possess some power that can resist 'His' power."
"Please remember the following words, as they concern your future and the future of the entire world."
"This...is the last Oracle from Your Majesty—"
"History has never changed."
"But history...can be created!"
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