Casius raised his head.
“This is really happening.”
Fiddling with his wrist, Casius muttered.
Although he had thought he could do it, the fact that Casius had accomplished something so extraordinary was astonishing.
Until now, he had only used his power to destroy.
He had regarded the power of the Red Snake as a curse and evil.
The aftermath left by his use of power was always brutal and horrendous, with no place to look.
Casius was standing in the midst of it all.
It had become a nightmare for him as well.
‘Your Majesty has saved us. Don’t think about those you have killed, think about those you have saved.’
Terion had comforted him many times, but it had never really touched his heart.
It took a long time to get used to it.
After meeting Isabella, he was finally able to shake off the nightmares that had tormented him for months after gaining his power.
‘Thank you for saving me.’
The day when, with a faint voice as her breath was about to cut off, she breathed hot breath into his neck, Casius shook off all his nightmares.
The fact that he didn’t send the child away alone and kept her until just before the war ended was not only out of fear that something might happen to her…
Isabella had been a comfort to Casius.
It was proof that he was really doing something to save someone.
And now.
Casius was beginning to think for the first time that his power was not a curse.
The power of the Red Snake is given only to the brave.
After he dies, this power will return to where it originally belonged.
Until then, Casius will constantly struggle, be disappointed, and once again harbor hope like this.
“Solein, please check.”
Casius stepped back.
Solein swallowed and bent over.
His rough hand touched the ground where the green shoots were sprouting.
Blackness burst from Solein’s eyes.
“The one who can put the Black Snake to sleep and cover it with life. Since the one with the power of the Red Snake has found the land where life has left.”
A voice unlike Solein’s flowed from his lips.
Below Solein’s palm, red and black glimmers swirled together.
“Hope will bloom again in Hiloshain!”
Hiloshain.
That was the name of the Black Snake buried in the ground.
The name of the pitiful snake that exiled itself to a barren and distant place, simply because it consumed life alone.
A deep loneliness seeped into Solein.
Black tears wetted Solein’s cheeks.
Power was surging within Casius.
It seemed as though the Red Snake was reacting to the Black Snake.
The power of the Red Snake penetrated the earth.
It spread farther and farther, beginning to dye the land, which had been barren and black, with the green light of life.
“… It may have been destiny that brought Your Majesty here.”
Solein muttered, soaked in a sense of loss.
His body, drained of divine power, seemed to have lost all its strength.
“Hiloshain may have been waiting for Your Majesty, or perhaps, Keros.”
Keros.
The name of the region where Casius had obtained the power of the Red Snake.
And also, the name of the Red Snake.
Plunk, plunk.
Rain began to fall from the sky.
It was a beautiful rain, with a bluish glow.
Casius and Solein raised their heads.
The rain clouds that began above their heads were starting to spread far away.
“… It seems Sailorus, the protector of the sea, has come too.”
Solein’s voice trembled.
He had led his tribe in the dying land, living in despair.
Dreaming of a hope that would bloom again someday.
Hiloshain might have been waiting for its siblings.
The barren land was being dyed with green.
Keros’s power sprouted life, and Sailorus’s power made that life grow.
Hiloshain’s black power was firmly supporting the ground and serving as the foundation of life.
Hiloshain, Keros, and lastly, Sailorus.
In the harmony of the three gods that had emerged from the chaos in the beginning, light was blooming.
Casius exclaimed.
‘It can’t be a curse.’
Casius wiped the raindrops from his face with his hand.
‘There’s no way such a warm power can be a curse…….’
Coming to Hiloshine was a good decision.
His tranquility was here.
Together with Lenisha, who led Casius to Hiloshine.
(This is a time divider.)
Lenisha and Brixton stared out the window in astonishment.
Above the dead land of Hiloshine, a bright green light was sprouting.
“This is…….”
Brixton muttered unconsciously.
“Casius…… This is definitely Casius.”
Lenisha said in a trembling voice.
“He promised to prepare a place for me to enshrine my parents. He said he would make new shoots sprout in this desolate land.”
And Casius kept his promise.
More grandly than he thought.
“Hiloshine, father’s words were right that it’s the land of hope.”
Brixton mumbled, gripping the railing.
Buried in this black land were not just the scales of a black snake.
Hiloshine was nurturing life.
“Father knew this moment.”
Brixton said again.
Lenisha bit her trembling lips.
The Duke of Lotera had told the children of Lotera many times.
If the hardest and most difficult moment comes, go to Hiloshine.
There, you can find the answer.
Male lead is a Divorced Husband
She said to him: “Tell me, what makes you like me? I’ll change it!”
Liu Changning transmigrated into a female cannon fodder character in a female-dominant novel.
After reading the first half of the novel’s plot, the first thing she did upon transmigration was to divorce the Pan Jinlian-style male protagonist she had just married.
She indulged herself, pretending to be ugly and poor.
But as time passed, the way that man looked at her became more and more unusual…
Liu Changning was dumbfounded: Tell me, what makes you like me? I’ll change!
――
This lifetime, Pei Yuanshao was rejected by the same woman twice!
The first time, she drove him away. Forced by the situation, he endured the waves of anger in his heart, yielding and humbling himself.
That person lay slanted on a rocking chair, her sallow face emotionless: “If you don’t want a divorce, go cook!”
Pei Yuanshao’s face was dark and gloomy: “You!”
The second time, after the crisis in Jinling City was resolved, the new emperor sent someone to pick him up. He turned around, stammering: “I… I have to go. If you keep me…”
That person lay on the kang bed, her back to him, as if she had long anticipated this day, crisp and clear: “Goodbye!”
Pei Yuanshao was so angry his fingers trembled: “You… you!”
The mission of family and country made him restrain himself, averting his eyes and turning to leave this broken household.
Two years later, they met again. Seeing her ethereal face, his body shook like a sieve.
“She was originally a ‘she’!”
At the Qionglin Banquet, the top scholar of the imperial examination, a talented person with exceptional speech and conduct, all the unmarried young gentlemen from aristocratic families looked at her with shy and timid eyes.
The peerless imperial official Pei Yuanshao felt the anger in his heart erupt. He pointed at the woman surrounded by the crowd at the Qionglin Banquet, his thin lips slightly curled: “Little sister, I wants that person to be the wife-master of my Mingde Prince Manor.”
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