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"Exactly what the hell happened? The curse should have worked properly. He shouldn't have been able to show any sort of resistance..."

"No, more than that... The Emperor's condition was weird too. He didn't even reopen the sealing ritual, and collapsed just like that."

There was a lot of blood running down the Sacred Land Detalt where Emperor Leonhardt was asleep. This was because the sacred ground, where the golden rose bloomed, rejected the blood that was imbued with vitality. The flowing blood from the body was then expelled out of the Sacred Land.

There were dozens of bleeding bodies. Among them were three men who looked at Leonhardt, who was lying on the floor, with a pale face. They then looked at Dae-ha, who was lying next to Celestia. However, they were currently not interested in the Imperial Princess.

"Can we no longer insert the Sword of Destruction?" A man of sturdy build was lamenting. There was a Magic Sword with all kinds of Curse of Deaths, layered and compressed, in his hand. Since it was an item that was made with the heart and soul of the Great Wizards, even a pretty powerful transcendent wouldn't come out unscathed upon getting defensely stabbed by the cursed blade.

“Did you not also notice that you can approach or touch them, but you can no longer stab them…?” The other man was right, and this was the problem. They entered Detalt to kill Dae-ha, who lost his consciousness from the infectious curse of the Emperor, but they just couldn't execute it. 

"Damn...