“If I were truly a witch, I would crumble under your holy power, Great Saint. But why are your hands trembling so, Great Saint Sarap?”
Sarap’s complexion turned deathly pale.
Cold sweat beaded and trickled down her forehead. Meanwhile, her eyes and cheeks flushed bright red with heat.
Lorencia Pol Heredian stared at Sarap impassively, without the slightest sign of emotion.
Sarap took a deep breath. Closing her eyes, she raised both hands high above her head. Then a transparent crystal sphere began to form above her hands. The onlookers marveled at the sight.
“Watch closely, witch Lorencia. This crystal sphere can only be summoned by one chosen by Goddess Ella…”
Sarap’s triumphant words were cut short before she could finish.
This was because the transparent crystal sphere she had summoned above her head cracked and shattered, falling to the floor with a crash.
“Wh-what… My crystal sphere… Why.”
Sarap could not hide her bewilderment at the sudden shattering of the crystal sphere.
The same was true for the priests and saints following her, as well as the people in the banquet hall.
People doubted their own eyes. The Great Saint’s crystal sphere shattered! What in the world was happening!
Lorencia smiled and reached out her hand towards Sarap’s shattered crystal sphere.
“You witch! Don’t touch my crystal sphere! No!”
Sarap let out a scream bordering on a shriek, then yelled at the top of her lungs for the saints and priests to seize Lorencia as she reached for her shattered crystal sphere.
But the saints and priests did not move.
“What are you doing! That witch is going to take my crystal sphere…”
“Our bodies won’t move, Lady Sarap.”
“Great Saint! Please escape. The witch’s power is stronger than we thought.”
Sarap glared at Lorencia, who had taken her shattered crystal sphere in hand.
As Lorencia smiled and kissed the broken crystal sphere, Sarap’s screams and a brilliant light began to fill the banquet hall.
“I can’t believe it. This is impossible!”
Sarap’s lips began to tremble as a purple glowing crystal sphere appeared in Lorencia’s hand instead of the shattered one.
“You wicked witch! What have you done to the crystal sphere given by Goddess Ella!”
As Sarap shouted at Lorencia in an enraged voice, the crystal sphere in her hand began to shine even brighter.
“I speak as the seventh child of Goddess Ella.”
“How dare a mere witch impersonate a child of Goddess Ella! You dare utter the Goddess’s name, you must be out of your mind!”
“In the name of Goddess Ella, I will punish the Ella Temple for committing all sorts of evil acts by putting forth a false messenger of Goddess Ella.”
Sarap’s face turned deathly pale at Lorencia’s words.
“No. This can’t be. Give me back my crystal sphere.”
Sarap gritted her teeth and lunged at Lorencia.
“What? Why won’t my body…”
move.
Sarap exerted force on her arms, legs, and lower abdomen to try to move her body. But she couldn’t move, as if someone had bound her body.
“You filthy witch. What have you done to me, the Great Saint? Are you not afraid of Goddess Ella’s punishment!”
“You seem to have already forgotten what I said just now, so I’ll say it once more.”
Lorencia approached Sarap, who was struggling desperately to move her body.
“That I would punish you in the name of Goddess Ella.”
People could not help but understand what it meant to speak in the name of Goddess Ella.
“Don’t come any closer! You monster.”
Sarap’s face turned pale as she met the emotionless face with eerie purple eyes and gaze.
This was not why she had come out of the temple.
“Be sure to relay my message to the being who put you in that position and gave you the name Sarap.”
Lorencia bent slightly and whispered in a low voice into Sarap’s ear so that only she could hear.
“That I declare war.”
Lorencia had watched as Great Saint Sarap came to declare a holy war against Queen Benedict on the day of the Polroid Empire’s founding anniversary.
She had thought that war must never happen.
But no matter what future she saw, there seemed to be no way to prevent the word ‘war’ from coming out of Sarap’s mouth.
As she was pondering this, Teishar Spencer spoke.
Lorencia smiled serenely as she straightened her bent waist.
Sarap could not give any answer. She couldn’t even move a muscle. Her trembling lips were all she could manage.
Sarap was not the only one who could not move a muscle.
“How could the Great Saint…”
Ruans von Isuter’s green eyes flickered as he watched. To think Lorencia had the power to subdue Sarap.
‘Ah. I want her more and more. Lorencia.’
As Ruans reached out to approach Lorencia, Teishar blocked his path.
“I will not allow you to approach my fiancée any further.”
“Please do not come any closer to my daughter.”
“I’ve heard that it’s against chivalry for a man to keep pursuing a woman who says no.”
It wasn’t just Teishar. Baello and his younger brother Teslon also stepped forward to protect Lorencia.
“Lorencia was originally my…”
thing. A monster meant only for me. But why has it come to this! Where and how did it go wrong?
“Who do you think you’re blocking the path of?”
“Emperor Isuter, my daughter is already engaged to Duke Spencer. So she cannot become your concubine.”
Ruans’ face twisted more and more viciously.
Why wasn’t Lorencia coming to him, hiding behind them! He was furious and felt like he was going mad.
His mind was filled with nothing but the question ‘why’.
“Your Majesty. I think it would be best to withdraw for now.”
The aide behind Ruans actively tried to stop him, fearing some danger might befall the emperor in this unfavorable atmosphere.
“Lorencia.”
“Yes.”
“I’ll come for you soon. Wait for me.”
Lorencia looked at Ruans, who was gazing at her.
She felt chills at his gentle words, so different from his selfish and violent gaze directed at her.
The incident between Sarap and Lorencia on the Polroid Empire’s founding anniversary spread like wildfire through people’s mouths.
Lorencia’s statement about punishing Great Saint Sarap and the Ella Temple was bound to be shocking.
[This is the timeline separator]“When will you fulfill your promise to make Lorencia my concubine?”
As soon as he returned to the Isuter Empire, Ruans went to Empress Dowager Pelena’s palace and pressed her in an irritable voice.
“Why haven’t you kept your promise?”
Pelena sighed as she looked at Ruans, who was fuming and panting.
“The Empress Dowager has been busy handling all the palace affairs while Your Majesty was away.”
“Why does that sound like an excuse to me?”
“Emperor Ruans. Please don’t be too harsh on the Empress Dowager. She’s been working without proper sleep lately.”
“Stay out of this, grandfather.”
Daniel raised an eyebrow at Ruans’ somewhat disrespectful remark.
“Empress Dowager. Lorencia possesses tremendous power. Not only can she see the future, but she crushed the Great Saint with incredible strength in front of everyone.”
“I’ve heard everything that happened between Great Saint Sarap and Lorencia.”
“That’s why we need to bring Lorencia to the Isuter Empire right now.”
“Emperor Ruans.”
Pelena called Ruans in a gentle voice.
“It will take time to bring Lady Lorencia to the Isuter Empire.”
“I said ‘right now.'”
“Right now is impossible. But if you give us time…”
“Argh!”
Ruans screamed with all his might and stomped his feet on the floor. Thump thump.
“My… My Lorencia is engaged to Duke Teishar Spencer.”
Unable to contain his anger, Ruans grabbed framed pictures and vases decorating the room and smashed them on the floor.
“My Lorencia has been tainted.”
After venting his anger on objects for a while, Ruans caught his breath and brushed back his disheveled hair.
“But I will still cherish her preciously. I will forgive her. You don’t throw away a valuable item just because it got a little dirty, right? You should clean it thoroughly and keep it safe so it won’t be stolen again.”
A moment of silence followed, and Pelena was the first to break it.
“You’re wrong, Emperor Ruans.”
“What do you mean, Empress Dowager?”
“No matter how well you hide something precious, as long as there are those who try to steal it, Your Majesty’s precious thing will continue to be tainted.”
Unlike the grim atmosphere in the room, Pelena’s voice was extremely soft and gentle.
“When an item gets dirty, it’s partly the owner’s fault for poor management, but the thief who stole it bears the greatest blame.”
The expression gradually disappeared from Ruans’ face.
“Then what should we do with the thief who stole the item?”
“We must punish them. No, we must kill them. We must cut off their limbs so they can never touch my possessions again.”
Pelena smiled brightly like a blooming rose, seemingly satisfied with his answer.
“Your Majesty is correct. You must kill the thief who stole your precious thing. So kill the thief and reclaim your precious item.”
[This is the timeline separator]It was an afternoon when warm sunlight streamed through the windows.
Sarap entered the reception room guided by a maid.
The reception room was filled with luxurious furniture and decorations, and famous paintings hung on the walls.
“You’ve come, Great Saint Sarap.”
“Sarap greets the Empress Dowager of the Isuter Empire.”
An Indifferent Woman is the One Men Desire the Most
One-line summary: The female lead is actually cold-hearted and extremely rational. She has stage-by-stage relationships and won’t two-time, but there will always be someone who secretly likes her.
This novel has the following triggers, so if you’re sensitive to these, please don’t read:
1. The female lead has had many relationships, but she treated each one seriously and broke up properly.
It’s just that the men unilaterally pestered her incessantly. For the female lead, when she doesn’t like someone anymore, she simply doesn’t like them.
(This applies to her relationships with Male Lead 1, 2, 3, and 4 as well, but she’s loyal in each 1-on-1 relationship!)
2. In this novel, Male Lead 2 and the female lead kiss in a car, and Male Lead 1 sees it and beats up Male Lead 2.
The female lead calls the police and sends both Male Lead 1 and 2 to the police station! Male Lead 1 begs the female lead not to break up with him.
3. Male Lead 1 has a gentle appearance but an obsessive personality.
Male Lead 2 has a delicate and soft appearance, slightly green tea-like (two-faced).
Male Lead 3 is a youthful college student and a smart person who has secretly liked the female lead for a long time.
Male Lead 4 is the female lead’s father’s special assistant, a business elite with deep, hidden thoughts.
4. At the beginning of this novel, the female lead has already broken up with Male Lead 1 (Chapter 4) and gotten back together with Male Lead 2 (ex-boyfriend).
5. Enter with caution if you have triggers!!!
