Imperiales and the Western Army side would handle it; Ophelia and Melpius would take care of it.
He stroked Icarus’s head, who kept anxiously looking at the sky where Ru was, and continued to break down the barriers consecutively.
Melpius might hold Ru’s head, but Hayden intended to break down all the barriers today.
That was something he, who had spent too long inside the barrier, had to do for the countless mentors who floated within and provided him with knowledge.
Although they were nothing more than vague and ephemeral entities, beings like apparitions and spirits that he didn’t know what was what.
Every time he ruthlessly tore down the barrier, the intense resistance Ru felt gradually, ever so slightly, weakened.
“…Ugh…”
Unable to make a proper sound and suffering, Ru relentlessly clung to the curse that was tormenting her, focusing on bringing Carlos’s power by doing so.
It wasn’t easy; it was painful. Too painful. It hurt too much, and tears welled up, wanting to give up.
Daring to resist, the angry curse tightened around her. But through this curse, if she could extract Carlos’s power or inject poison, Ru could do anything. The pearl that the Southern Sage personally gave her before heading into battle shone faintly and assisted her.
‘Don’t lose your mind.’
Ru tightly held onto the curse that was tormenting her.
Although tremendous pain surged again, she, while crying or screaming, attacked Carlos, who was in the Imperial City, through the evil power entrenched in the curse.
Clang, clang, the pearl that had been hanging around her neck fell out.
And at that moment, Carlos grabbed her throat.
“Kgh…!”
Fighting while unable to make a sound and suffering, Ru made a sound as she was being strangled to death by someone else. Her head was so dizzy that her throat was now numb.
Carlos, holding the woman’s throat in one hand far away, glared at Hayden with eyes that dropped venom.
“I definitely said, it’s physical.”
Struggling to speak, Carlos sharpened his teeth.
“All of it.”
Erk, Icarus also showed his teeth, facing him. The little guy also knew well how this situation was going.
“Is it okay if I break your neck like this?”
A sharp voice asked. Hayden, with a cold expression, broke down another barrier.
“I clearly said to break the curse.”
The hand squeezing Ru’s neck trembled. Hayden watched that and smiled.
Although he had no intention of listening to Carlos’s words, if he did, Ru would never forgive him.
The man, who had no intention of receiving Ru’s lifelong hatred, persisted while only breaking down barriers.
She said she would do it, and he answered that he believed. Then he had to believe to the end.
While breaking down the barrier, he continued to infuse strength into Ru’s body. Even if it all gets taken away by Carlos in the end, if it helps her endure, that’s enough.
“I don’t mind dying, you know.”
The words spat out with a childish innocence.
“Can you kill me?”
Hayden asked quietly.
“Now, can you break Ru’s neck.”
Do you think that’s possible?
The moment he asked, Carlos glanced at his hand. Something, unseen entities, was entwining around his hand and forcibly pulling it in the opposite direction. It was a power familiar to Carlos.
“This…!”
Boldly attempting to pull him away, the symbol of the Southern Sage was wrapped around the neck of Rustica Genesis, who was struggling.
The pearls that had been around Ru’s neck reached out from afar, formless, and tightly grabbed Carlos’s hand.
Even though her limbs were tightly bound, Ru found a way somehow. Her vision repeatedly turned black and then yellow, but she endured and endured.
She had experienced a more dreadful hell than this. Swearing to do what she could even if her bones broke and flesh burst, she would endure until the end.
“Ngh…”
Unquestionably abnormal sounds continued to escape from her mouth. The suppressed tears dropped. It’s okay. Occasionally, even intermittent breaths became a little easier.
As long as she could breathe a little, it was enough.
With all her strength, Ru forcefully tore Carlos’s hand away. She spared no effort in her futile attempts to scratch him with magic and, paradoxically, through the curse squeezing her throat, poured her power into him.
She could. No, even if it didn’t work, she wouldn’t stop.
She wouldn’t submit to such a sinister hand again. A knight who had never begged before, just by touching it, tightly grasped the painful curse and the hand that had tormented her.
And with gasping breaths, she smiled.
Even though her face turned red and blue, tears flowed from her eyes, saliva from her mouth, it wasn’t a pleasant sight at all, Ru smiled.
How, how?
Ah, she felt it. The one who had believed that she would prevail and that she would easily rise again by just touching it, was now perplexed and didn’t know what to do.
The more flustered he became, the more he squeezed her throat with all his might. But seeing his strength crumbling from all sides, he reached out that way, stopped, hesitated, and floundered.
And every time, Ru didn’t miss the opportunity to bite Carlos.
Now, the newly emerging tender sprout light gradually devoured the corrupted former Southern Sage, flashing ominously with colors resembling the dense forest of summer.
In the end, the hand that was holding her with evil intentions fought fiercely until the entwined pearls were torn apart.
“Don’t hesitate and attack!”
Ophelia ordered firmly. The Flache Viscount and his wife, who were already worried about their daughter, hadn’t looked up for a long time. They cast their anxiety into the wind.
“We can’t be taken away again, attack!”
No one had not seen the symbol of the Southern Sage, tainted and spreading in the air. But still, the battle on the ground had to continue. Magic killed people, and sometimes swords clashed with swords.
Blood was scattered on the barren wasteland, the meadow in front of the Blue Carta Castle, and on the snow. White pearls were also scattered in the air.
Melfius and Ophelia stared at those pearls with wide-open eyes. Hayden also pushed Icarus in that direction.
“Ah, it would be nice if you bite him just once.”
Ignoring Icarus’s eyes that seemed to wish she had bitten Carlos just once and gone, Hayden gently pushed him away.
The symbol of the Southern Sage in the air did not fall. It faithfully helped its master without having to be entwined.
As Icarus flew toward the Southern Sage, Carlos, unable to overcome the force that repelled and pushed him back, staggered backward.
“Ha, hahaha…”
A sound like wind escaping from his mouth. Ru half laughed, half boasted as she wiped her chin.
“Meow?”
Icarus, who had flown in an instant, looked at Ru as if to ask why she was making such an expression, tilting his head.
Taking advantage of the moment when Icarus, who had flown in, was looking puzzled, Ru quickly climbed onto his back. With a sound, the pearls returned to Ru.
“Let’s go, Icarus.”
The clever griffin, following Ru’s lead, pierced through the shimmering light and descended below.
“Wow!”
The ones fighting on the ground cheered as they quickly returned the sword, which Ophelia had temporarily entrusted to Ru, watching her.
“Are you okay?”
Although her neck was reddened with bruises, Ru nodded and flew again. The curse that had held her had weakened too much. Breathing the cool air at high altitudes was refreshing.
The huge griffin, which quickly returned to its original position, stepped on the chest of the evil sorcerer who was just getting up again, knocking him down.
Carlos met the angry green eyes. The knight, riding on the wide wings of the black griffin, drew his sword. He looked like an angel bringing death.
Ex-husband Wants Reconciliation
One-line summary: Chasing the wife to the crematorium (making an effort to attract someone who has become indifferent), the female lead doesn’t look back, the second male lead takes the position.
Intro:
To repay the kindness of the older generation, Su Mu crossed into a female-dominated world and became a live-in daughter-in-law of the Yan family, single-handedly saving the Yan family from fire and water.
But her husband, Yan Jiyue, the eldest son of the Yan family, treated her with sarcasm and never showed her a good face.
It wasn’t until after Su Mu’s death that this pampered and arrogant young master shed a few fake tears and pretended to want to die for love.
This life’s kindness was enough. If there was a next life, she would definitely kick Yan Jiyue away.
Who knew that the heavens would be so kind as to allow her to be reborn, returning to the time when she had just married into the Yan family.
Su Mu glanced at the Yan eldest son, who still spoke coldly to her, and threw a divorce letter in front of him.
“Let’s divorce!”
***
Yan Jiyue never imagined that he would be reborn. He happily went to find Su Mu, wanting to make up for the mistakes he had made in his ignorant youth.
Wasn’t the reason the heavens allowed him to be reborn to let him reconcile with Su Mu?
But when he pushed open the door to Su Mu’s room, the person lying on the bed was another man.
Su Mu’s personal attendant, Xie Yi.
Yan Jiyue hated him so much that his teeth itched. In front of Su Mu, Xie Yi was a gentle and considerate whisperer of sweet nothings, but in reality, he was vicious-hearted and deliberately sabotaged their husband and wife relationship.
In the previous life, it was he who secretly hid in Su Mu’s coffin and committed suicide, stealing a step ahead of him to be buried with Su Mu.
Yan Jiyue’s eyes were filled with hatred as he cursed, “What kind of thing are you? Your background is lowly, what right do you have to occupy Su Mu?”
Xie Yi looked at the sleeping Su Mu and no longer pretended to be a whisperer of sweet nothings.
He proudly stuck out his belly, “I have the right because my belly is capable of giving the Wife-master a daughter.”
***
Yan Jiyue was consumed with jealousy. He spread rumors that Xie Yi had once been branded with the mark of a “harlot” on his chest.
But on the night Xie Yi cut off the flesh bearing that mark, Su Mu suddenly realized something was amiss.
“How did you know the exact moment I was poisoned? And why did you show up a month early?”
Xie Yi remained silent, blood from his wound soaking through his robes. His sapphire eyes brimmed with anguish – or was it just a flawless act?
Between a once-arrogant husband now seeking redemption, and a gentle soul willing to die for her – who truly held the darkest secrets? And could it be that Su Mu and Yan Jiyue weren’t the only ones given a second chance at life…?
[Reading Guide]
1. True divorce, chasing the wife to the crematorium, the female lead doesn’t look back, the male lead is Xie Yi.
2. The ex-husband did not cheat, he just realized too late and didn’t realize that he liked the female lead.
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