Only then did I touch Idric’s neck, and my hand felt warm. Come to think of it, he still seemed short of breath.
“What should we do?”
I looked anxiously at Idric once and then at the end of the dark corridor.
There was no time to lift the curse now. I couldn’t tell if the footsteps of the soldiers I heard in my ears were illusions or real.
“Let’s forget about the scolding for later and save the lords first since there’s no time now.”
We started opening the locked doors. Well, it was actually Idric’s shoulders that were doing most of the work.
Bang, bang!
With two or three strikes, the door fell out.
If I had such a powerful shoulder, I would have escaped sooner.
The trapped lords were momentarily surprised, but soon realized that the figure standing at the door was not the death messenger with reversed blood but Idric, who had come to save them. They sighed with relief.
Talfinnes and I led them and helped them escape. They would use the original escape route.
“Go out safely. I really want to apologize properly to both of you.”
After bidding farewell, Talfinnes went into the ventilation hole. The freed animal lords followed him.
The problem was the lords and Idric, who couldn’t escape through the tunnel even if they turned into animals.
“What should we do? We can’t escape through the tunnel.”
Idric looked around at them.
“I will go to open the castle gate. If you have the will, I hope you can join me.”
He said it nonchalantly as if it were an ordinary thing.
Opening the castle gate meant going out of here to the place with the most Servian soldiers in the Servian territory.
With his body in such a mess due to the curse? Even if the current lords helped, the chances were slim.
Probably everyone was thinking the same thing.
Without waiting for that, Idric added an explanation.
“There’s a battle going on outside right now. When the dawn breaks completely, the fight will turn into a full-scale siege. So whether the castle gate opens or not will be a crucial factor in determining the outcome of this fight. So, even if no one helps, I’m going.”
“But how can you do that alone…”
“If you help, it’s possible.”
“I’ll lure the soldiers.”
A short silence followed.
“I can use my ability, so I can temporarily stop the soldiers. During that time, I hope you can open the castle gate.”
The plan sounded plausible. With Idric’s ability, he could stop numerous people in an instant.
The lords also nodded in agreement with his plan.
The problem was the curse firmly entrenched in his chest. Even now, in a bad state, could Idric survive using his ability?
“All right. We’ll handle it as quickly as possible and come to help.”
“I’ll join too. If it weren’t for Idric, I would have died miserably as a hostage.”
The willing faces of the animal lords who came forward were impressive.
They say such things so easily because they don’t know about the curse!
I bit my lips tightly.
But was there any other way?
No other ideas came to mind. Our allies who could help were outside the castle walls, and we didn’t have the means to cut through the Servian army with this few enemies.
“Okay, I’ll transform into a hedgehog and stick close to Idric.”
“Sesilia, you can go out through the tunnel. Quickly follow Talfinnes.”
“What are you talking about? I have to be with Idric. That way, Idric will be safe, and I’ll be safe too. We know what happened when we were separated from Idric last time.”
Idric’s eyebrows furrowed. But since he knew the misfortune that occurred when he left me last time, this time he couldn’t refuse.
“Fine, but don’t take a single step away from my side.”
“Yeah, okay. I’m scared anyway, so I don’t want to go out.”
Idric sighed briefly and reached out to me. It meant for me to enter his embrace.
But at the moment I was about to transform into a hedgehog, a door with no windows caught my eye.
“Idric, it seems like we need to open that room too.”
“Who could be in there?”
I didn’t know. There were no clues to rely on. Still, there was a guess.
“It’s probably Zyka.”
I hoped it wasn’t her, but it seemed likely to be her.
It would probably be Ozar or Percop’s doing.
I hoped it was Percop’s doing. If Ozar had fallen to such a level, Zyka would be too heartbroken. I stood behind Idric and quietly watched him shake off the door in three attempts.
When the door opened, a shadow lying in the darkness came into view.
“Zyka!”
Zyka’s small and slender body was sprawled on the floor in an indifferent manner.
My Arch-enemy Sealed My Memory and Said That He is My Husband
This is an incredibly captivating story that you absolutely shouldn’t miss! I’ll give a brief introduction here, and below you’ll find a detailed synopsis of the plot.
The female lead is a fierce and powerful demon king. The male lead is a once-in-a-millennium celestial lord, admired by the entire cultivation world.
They are equally matched, legendary rivals who have battled for centuries.
In the final duel, the female lead is gravely injured. The male lead saves her, seals her memories, and hides her true identity. He tells her that he is her fiancé. His entire life has been flawless—except for the one thing he never expected, never controlled, and never wanted to control: falling for his greatest enemy. She is his inner demon, his obsession.
When the female lead regains her memories, she is furious at his deception.
She makes his life a living hell.
And somehow, the male lead—possibly a total masochist—doesn’t mind at all. In fact, he’s happy she’s paying attention to him.
Yep, we’re back to my favorite trope: male lead suffering. If you love this kind of story, jump into the pit with me now!!!
Intro
Dong Xia lost her memory.
Her handsome and extremely powerful fiancé Li Qing comforted her: “It’s okay if you can’t remember. I’ll always be with you.”
Everyone thought Dong Xia’s ancestors must have burned incense to get such a perfect fiancé. He was the number one person in the immortal realm, yet he remained chaste and only loved her.
…
The day before marrying her fiancé, Dong Xia finally remembered everything.
She wasn’t suffering from memory loss at all.
Her arch-enemy had made her fake her death, destroyed her cultivation, replaced her memories, and pretended to be her deeply in love fiancé.
No wonder he said, “It’s okay if you can’t remember”!
Dong Xia laughed coldly as she pulled out her long knife: Li Qing, prepare to die 🙂
*
Li Qing, as the supreme being of the immortal realm, was the people’s shining beacon.
The only unknown stain in his life was his affection for Dong Xia, the ruler of the demon realm.
In the final battle of the war between immortals and demons, the sky collapsed and the earth shattered. The ruler of the demon realm was finally slain under the sword of the supreme being of the immortal realm, and everyone in the immortal realm applauded.
The cultivation world lost a ruler of the demon realm.
And in the back mountain of Li Qing’s cave dwelling, he secretly hid away a fiancée.
Notes:
1. The female lead is white on the outside, black on the inside, and the queen of flattery; the male lead repeatedly tests the edge of darkness, a VIP guest at the crematorium.
2. Fantasy cultivation world setting.
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