Chapter 291: True love’s kiss
Atlan skidded on the muddy ground about 30 meters away from the Prince and the White Canzer's glass coffin.
Discover hidden tales at empire
The shockwave was too strong for Atlan to overcome. He failed to prevent the Prince from kissing the White Canzer.
Once the wind died down from the blast, Atlan looked in front of him.
The Prince, after kissing the White Canzer, simply kneeled right next to her coffin and sobbed quietly. He was in grief.
"What happens now?"
"...Unfortunately…"
Carmine didn't have to continue his words. Atlan saw the result of that kiss with his very own eyes.
The very peaceful sleep of the White Canzer was suddenly interrupted as one of her chitinous fingers twitched. This small movement was not by Atlan.
"There's no way, right?"
The White Canzer, who was supposed to have been vanquished by Atlan by putting the poisoned apple in her mouth, suddenly opened her eyes and sat up on her glass coffin
And as incredulous as it sounded, the White Canzer looked even more whiter than before. It was as if that brief sleep only gave her nothing but a beauty regimen rather than a punishment.
"Yes…the only way for the White Canzer to awaken from her eternal slumber is through a kiss from the Prince. I never told you this because I didn't think I needed to. I shouldn't have underestimated your bad luck."
Carmine thought that using the poisoned apple would have been enough to deal with the White Canzer. Unfortunately, he was wrong. If he knew this would happen, he wouldn't have made Atlan go off on his own and away from Ninth and the team.
'Hrnggg!'
The White Canzer stretched her arms as if she had just awakened from a very good sleep.
The Prince, seeing this miracle unfold in front of his very eyes, erupted in a joyful shout.
'My princess! You're alive! I knew it. Only a true love's kiss could overcome death's grip!'
The Prince hugged the White Canzer wholeheartedly, but he didn't see that the White Canzer hated being touched. After he let her go and looked her in the eyes, the White Canzer changed her expression into one of loving jubilance.
'Yes. You have saved me, my prince, my love. If it weren't for you, then I don't think I would have survived. You have done the world a great service, after all, you have saved them from being deprived of my beauty!'
The Prince took the White Canzer's hands and kissed them.
'Anything for you, my love.'
The White Canzer smiled.
'Well, then…I suggest you kill the human that tried to take me away from you.'
She looked at Atlan and flashed a devious smile. She wasn't mad that he tried to kill her. No, she was more mad about the fact that Atlan said that the Queen was much more beautiful than her. For the White Canzer, saying those words were even more of a crime than murder.
The Prince didn't even look at Atlan's direction. From his perspective, the human wasn't even a problem.
'Why should we waste our time with the human? We should immediately leave and start a kingdom of our own!'
The White Canzer gritted her teeth. She liked the fact that the Prince was infatuated with her, but sometimes, it was too much. His love was overbearing to the point that he wouldn't completely acquiesce to her words.
'Please? I don't want to feel fear and paranoia in our paradise. If he is left alive, then I will always keep a watch over my shoulder. I won't be able to eat, I won't be able to sleep, and most of all, I won't be able to make love to you.'
The Prince sighed. He didn't want to waste any more time on a worthless human, but her words were too persuasive.
'Fine, my princess. I won't be long.'
Atlan, fearing the worst, immediately activated the 'Fog of War' LifeSkill and shrouded himself in the gray smoke.
The Prince felt himself being surrounded by the smoke, preventing him from seeing the White Canzer even though they were only a few feet away from each other.
'How dare you try to separate me from my princess?!'
The Prince stomped the ground, and Atlan swore that he heard a lion's roar accompany his move.
Suddenly, the gray smoke that tried to confuse the Prince was immediately dispersed. It allowed him to finally see the White Canzer again.
Her beauty made him completely distracted, even forgetting the fact that he was facing Atlan.
Seeing a chance, Atlan briefly let go of the Fog of War LifeSkill and used his Sniper LifeSkill: Apocalyptic Hellfire.
One of the arrows left over from the Huntsman fight was left lying on the ground. He immediately picked it up and used it as his ammo.
Picking up his slingshot hanging from his waist, he created a makeshift bow. Although the power and accuracy were not comparable to a bow, it didn't matter. As long as Atlan could use it as ammo, then his Apocalyptic Hellfire LifeSkill could be used.
Immediately, bluish-green fire surrounded the arrow notched on the slingshot.
He stretched the rubber band to its maximum length and aimed it at the Prince at the other end of the dispersing fog.
Since he could only use one LifeSkill at one time, he had to get this shot off before the Fog of War dispersed.
TWANG!
The arrow flew forward, but it was not traveling in a straight line. It tumbled and twisted in random ways due to the incompatibility of the arrow with the slingshot.
But thankfully, the arrow didn't matter. It was simply a vessel for the Apocalyptic Hellfire.
A bluish-green line of fire appeared and headed straight for the Prince's chest. The Specialist Canzer saw the attack but chose not to dodge the arrow.
BOOM!
The Apocalyptic Hellfire exploded, creating a wall of fire that erupted on the Prince's entire body.
But after a few seconds, the fire died down. The Prince stood tall with nothing but a small dark spot in his chest where the arrow landed.
And just as it was about to scoff at Atlan's attack, it suddenly felt a threatening aura come out of the fog.
Above the Prince's head, a golden cloud appeared, with the power of the Angels rumbling inside.