Chapter 19

Kairo and Rosaline flinched as Ricardis lifted the mug. They looked like they wanted to quickly hit the teacup away. Ricardis smiled and brought the cup closer to his face. He intended to smell the scent again to discern the poison, but to others, it looked like he was preparing to drink the tea. Rosaline quickly moved before Kairo, who was in a panic, could dissuade Ricardis. Her movement was as fast as the wind.

Tak.

“Sir Rosaline, what insolence is this now? Give me the cup! No, Sir Rosaline, put your hands away quickly!”

Rosaline’s hand covered Ricardis’ mouth tightly. Rosaline remembered that Kairo had already said that it was rude when she grabbed Ricardis’ wrist. ‘If it’s rude to hold his wrist, I’ll do something else.’ Her actions came out of a humble way of thinking, but it made the situation worse. Kairo was on the verge of grabbing her by the neck. Ricardis rolled his eyes and looked up at her like she was insane. Meanwhile, his mouth was still covered by her hand.

Rosaline took the teacup from his hand and released her hold on his mouth. Ricardis wiped his tingling lips. After losing her memory, her changes were so extreme that they couldn’t even be compared to before the accident. He was aware that Rosaline had become a little cheeky but decided to let it go considering the deed she had done earlier.Discover new chapters at novelhall.come here.”

“No.”

“No, Your Highness!”

“Don’t do it, Your Highness!”

Rosaline, Kairo, and the chief secretary Isserion countered him in turn. Isserion’s body had been rigid while watching Rosaline beating the assassin, but Ricardis’ actions brought him to consciousness. He strode over to Rosaline.

“Please give this to me, Sir Rosaline. I’ll investigate it.”

“No, it’s mine. Give it to me, Sir Rosaline,” Ricardis demanded.

“No! Why do we still need to coerce you? You’re already 25 years old, Your Highness! They already said the tea contains poison! Just give it to me, Sir Rosaline!”

There was a lot of uproar on both sides of Rosaline. She had excellent hearing and was now suffering from a headache. As she pondered for a long time to whom she should give the cup, Ricardis grabbed her wrist. His perpetually cold face became even chillier. His blue eyes sank low.

“Even a 3-year-old deaf child knows that poison does not work on me because it can be healed with my holy power. Still, they tried to poison me. What do you think this means?”

“I’m sure they did something to it.”

Even then, magical power was said to be a product of Crean Tidanion, and those who possessed those powers were persecuted as sinister. Calyx said that in villages with a strong belief in Idelavhim, there was often a custom of burning demons at the stake. Beasts with magical power have always been the natural enemy of humans, so they thought it would be no different if the vessel of that sinister power that threatened humans would change from an animal to another human. Because of this, those ‘demons’ were killed, took their own lives, or hid. They gradually disappeared and are now as rare as the number of people with strong holy power.

[Sister, remember this: If you ever see the poison again in the Imperial Palace, or if you ever need to tell someone, say this...]

Rosaline’s voice overlapped with Calyx’s voice in the past.

“Magic and holy power do not interfere with each other.”

Saying these words was enough. Isserion’s eyes widened considerably. Ricardis raised one eyebrow. Even in the Imperial court, he had conducted investigations of the poison used in the hunting competition, but to no avail. It is a colorless, tasteless, odorless, and strong poison that guarantees a scarily low survival rate. There was talk that holy power didn’t work well, but he thought it was because the priests’ holy power was weak.

Magic and holy power do not interfere with each other. He couldn’t even recall learning the common sense that even children knew. As the saying goes, it is dark under the lamp. Isserion unconsciously spoke in a loud voice.

“Yeah, that’s right. It is much more intuitive to think that holy power was not applied in the first place, rather than the fact that those knights died because the poison had already progressed a lot before the holy power reached it. Why didn’t I think of that?! Awesome, Sir Rosaline! We will have to verify it first, but I think that is probably correct.”

Ricardis clicked his tongue. He also realized the moment he heard Rosaline’s words. The poison created by the Black Moon must have something to do with magic. ‘No, I’m positive it has something to do with magic.’

The 2nd Prince with the holy power to save even a dying person if they did not die instantly. Aside from the fact that the Black Moon is an elaborate group for intelligence research, the reputation of his holy power had already spread all over the continent. If no poison is determined to work on such a 2nd Prince, there will be no other choice but to find a formula in which holy power can’t interfere.

‘What’s more, they always wanted to bring down the greatness of holy power... There is nothing to brag about of a holy power that can’t heal poison. The authority of Idelavhim will fall to the ground. And that’s what the Black Moon has most wanted.’

“Yeah, that’s great. I mean, they made something like this. A kind of poison that holy power can’t heal and interfere with.”

It felt fucked up. When the poison investigation was in full swing, Ricardis had also poured in his holy power. But they only separated as softly as water and oil.

‘Perhaps?’ He had a thought. ‘Could this poison have something to do with magic? But is it possible to mix an invisible force with a substance called poison? If that’s the case... isn’t it an area that even Idelavhim can’t touch?’ At that time, Ricardis had only buried his doubts like that.

The feeling of powerlessness. The fall of Idelavhim. Those were the key elements that the Black Moon wanted to achieve. What the Black Moon fervently desired is what is least wanted by their enemy, Illavenia. So maybe that’s why they were so desperate.

It didn’t go through a perfect verification, but as of today, it has been confirmed by Ricardis. ‘The Black Moon created a new poison. Perhaps it will play a big hand in the control of this continent. Awesome.’ He even wanted to applaud the enemy.

Ricardis sighed and closed his eyes. He has never had a comfortable life, and he always thought he had been walking on a dirt road full of gravel, but it seems his full-fledged muddy path had just begun.