Chapter 24 (1/2)

Translator: La0o9  Editor: La0o9

“Nala is the best” Isabella jokingly pinched her daughter’s face and encouraged her.

Because Jacob was branded as a sinner, Isabella and Nala were branded the wife and daughter of a sinner. They became outcast by the others, struggling to survive day by day.

Since long ago, she had wanted to leave this place, but it always ended in failure.

Her first attempt was to seduce a smuggler and wanted to leave Reystromia together with the smuggler’s cargo, but the very next day, that smuggler was found dead in his room, bleeding black blood from his mouth and nose.

Her second attempt was a powerful mercenary. That very night, Isabella saw nothing but despair as over 100 crows flew out from the great tree that was now considered the town’s forbidden zone, turning into a black cloud of death. The so-called powerful mercenary was reduced to a pile of bones in mere seconds.

Her third attempt was not too long ago when a clergyman from the Church of Divine Grace came to Reystromia. Because of her trust towards the Church of Divine Grace, Isabella once again chose to try escaping this city with him but was instead shown how terrifying that personage was.

Even with dark clouds in her heart, Isabella had never shown it on her face. She had given up on the idea of escape, and because of Reystromia’s development and expansion these last few years, she and her daughter could live quite well from her weaved fabric.

Chris only observed them from afar a bit before leaving this place. He was constantly breathing rhythmically, his body felt like it had melted into the air itself. While sensing the air and its rhythm, he began to take a stroll around Reystromia.

In the morning, Reya was a lively town, many merchants and mercenaries busily moved around the streets and alleyways here. Many merchants of the two countries became smugglers that gathered in this place, trading the speciality products of their own country. The closer the war seems to be, the more active the trading became.

For example, a certain kind of fruit cakes of the Interkam Kingdom was always well-liked by aristocrats of the Royas Kingdom, but as the relations between the countries became tense, Interkam would naturally not bother to allow trade of such products just to please them.

And so, the smuggling of these fruit cakes became abnormally popular. A confectionery product could suddenly be sold at the price of gold, and merchants were known to do anything for the sake of profits.

Chris could see the prosperity of this town, as well as the deep currents running underneath that prosperity. More importantly, he could see the people hiding among the crowd, and Chris knew exactly why they had come.

Half a year earlier, someone had sought out a Witch and asked her where the future of the weakening Interkam Kingdom lies.

That Witch naturally gave them an answer, she prophesized that in the future, a Saintress of Salvation would appear in the Interkam Kingdom, her appearance would save the Kingdom and she was the Daughter of Dragon and the grace of God, a true Purest One.

After leaving her prophecy, the Witch disappeared without a trace, while this unreliable-sounding prophecy was spread among the high society of the Interkam Kingdom, causing quite a few to believe in it.

After half a year of searching, everyone focused their attention on the ‘daughter of Dragon’ part of the prophecy, as the founding King of the Interkam Kingdom in the legend was the son of Dragon, someone who had the immense power of dragons.

This prophecy naturally caused everyone to think of the royal bloodline, because of that, several young ladies from the royal bloodline suddenly passed away without clear reasons. Seth the First wasn’t known as a person who would give up and let go.