Chapter 1
Chapter 1
Chapter 01
The petals were scattered.
It was the day of Luciel’s execution.
“Listen, sinner. You will have to pay the price with your life for deceiving the Crown Prince, all the nobles, and the people of the Empire with fake jewels.”
The executor shouted in a stern voice, and the angry crowd raised their voices.
“She’s not a jeweler, she’s a scammer who made jewels out of stones!””
“Kill!”
Stones flew from here and there.
The glass vault where she was in shattered and blood flowed from her head hit by a stone.
A scammer who made fake jewelry…..
That’s the tittle that came back to her, who sacrificed her whole life.
She could not believe this was the only price that she received after all the jewelry made by torture, squeezing the last remaining mana she had.
From the glass vault, she heard the command of the Crown Prince who was coldly staring at her, blankly sitting inside the vault.
“Drag the sinner out.”
Luciel’s slender body was dragged to the execution platform and tied up.
Where did it go wrong?
Since when did it become like this?
No, it may just be that everything went wrong from the very start.
Luciel, my kind and pitiful little sister.’
Sister llisia was waving her hand from the other side.
‘Sister, I am so tired….. Now… I don’t think I can last any longer.’
Silent tears flowed down Luciel’s cheek. She was neither sad nor hurt.
On the execution site, there was a guillotine with a sharp blade. Ahead of the moment of death, Luciel recalled the short life she had.
Throughout her life, she poured out emotions and made jewelry for someone else’s greed.
It wasn’t just the Crown prince.
Count Orbia.
The people of the Marquis of Cavill, who she was married as if she was being sold.
All of them wanted only one thing from Luciel. They turned a blind eye to her pure feelings and just demanded jewels. Luciel desperately hoped that
something in her heart would break. She didn’t even know that it might have already been broken a long time ago.
Now she didn’t feel any emotion for most things.
Clack.
The Crown prince’s sword, filled with Luciel’s jewels, was finally equipped with all twelve jewels, shining brilliantly with mana.
The last thing she was forced to do was complete that sword, to bring down Bellstein.
The prince took the sword, united with the nobles, and led the troops against them. Even Bellstein, who is said to have the greatest power on the continent, succumbed under the power of the sacred sword.
The timing was also right. Because they invaded when the reaper of Hell, Kizef von Bellstein, had vacated the territory to subdue monsters.
Crown Prince Reynold was intoxicated with a sense of victory and laughed as if the empire was completely his. He killed and ruined many for his power. Everything was possible thanks to Luciel’s jewelry,
Many lives were lost. People who were innocent.
Tears brimming with remorse filled Luciel’s eyes.
I would rather had run away with all my might to the end. If I had, my sins would have been alleviated.’
Seeing her tied to the execution site, the Crown Prince implied.
“Are there no last feelings? Make some jewelry out of fear of the death.”
Luciel looked at the crown prince silently. Now she didn’t want to feel any emotion. She didn’t want to give him her jewels anymore.
Shrink.
The Crown Prince took out the sword embed with Luciel’s Jewel. His cold face had a fishy smile.
“If you have a conscience, you should be useful until the end.”
Luciel turned her head in refusal.
The Crown Prince became even more annoyed at the unyielding sight of Luciel who disobeyed his orders until the end.
“Cheeky… Fine, I’ll do as you wish.”
The jewel sword in the hands of the crown prince buzzed and cried loudly. As if recognizing the owner who made it’s jewels.
From the rope that restrained her to the sound of the sword, everything felt particularly cold. She could feel the gaze of the large crowd watching him.
A life that ends as a sinner. I never imagined it when I was young. At that time, I only dreamed of a day when I could live happily with my sister. Or I dreamed, of meeting someone and living like a normal person.
I didn’t even know that it was foolish to expect that a Crystal Fairy’s life would be normal.
However, since the time when she was sold as a jewel slave, Luciel realized a long time ago that it was a dream that would be impossible to have.
‘Sister….I’m sorry. I said I wouldn’t feel any emotions, but I couldn’t keep my promise, so it turned out like this.’
The rope that was winding around her began to be pulled firmly.
In the crowd shouting whether they were cheering or criticizing, the sharp blade flashed and something hot soared.
“Kuh…”
As the pain increased, Luciel felt more and more calm. The jewel inside her, which once shone more than the stars in the sky, had already lost its light for a long time. As her complexion gradually turned pale. She closed her eyes slowly.
Luciel thought she could finally meet her sister again if she waited a little longer.
‘Sister, please wait a little bit. I’ll be there soon, too.”
“This damned thing!”
Looking at Luciel, who no longer made jewelry despite the terrible pain, the Crown prince muttered harsh words.
“Is it really useless now?”
It was then.
The sound of horseshoes was heard from somewhere, and dark energy was rushing from afar.
A man appeared, armed in pitch black from head to toe, with a colorful insignia engraved with a black dragon that fluttered from his shoulder.
Would a lion from hell who came to pass the final judgment look like that?
The man with a deadpan expression was too beautiful to match his demeanor like a harbinger of doom.
He was the Young Lord of Bellstein who was called The Reaper.
His blood-red eyes rolled and he found the prince,
‘The main culprit of all the tragedies. My Bellstein’s enemy, who is not even worth of such title. (Kizef),
Bellstein’s black walls, which were left as ruins because it could not be completely destroyed, and the remains of the families buried and scattered there.
The scene that drove him the most was when the Duke of Bellstein, who commanded the world, became a cold dead body and was hung on the wall.
That moment came to mind once more and Kizef wailed again.
Like a beast.
After biting his finger to make it bleed, he drew a black magic circle in the air.
Large and small magic circles were drawn around him. A black tornado swirled. It was truly a storm. It raged
and devoured the nobles and the Crown Prince’s Knights.
-Wahhhhhh!!
Screaming broke out everywhere, and everything was destroyed in an instant. So perfectly so, the place became neat.
The square, which was filled with crowds, became quiet as if everything went dead. The Crown Prince, who realized that he was the only one left, fixed his sword with his eyes wide open, but the Young lord of Bellstein had already teleported behind the Crown prince’s back.
“…I’m here to avenge my family.”
“Wh-When did you!”
Saah.
The Young Master raised his finger and hung the Crown Prince in the air at once.
“Oh, my G-God”.
The Crown Prince’s face gradually turned white.
Chaeng-grang.
The prince’s sword rolled on the floor and stuck to the hand of the Young Master of Bellstein, who was looking at it.
It was a sword with strange power. It felt alive, like it was crying, wanting something.
When he swung the sword, it quickly lit up its colorful energy and began to wind around the prince’s body.
Soon after, the Prince lost his breath and the sword lost its light.
It didn’t had any energy left as if it had done what it wanted to do.
Luciel, who was watching everything in front of the execution site, thought it was fortunate to see the death of the Crown Prince before going first.
But it was all over now.
Luciel had deep regrets for the Young Master of Bellstein.
She wanted to ask for forgiveness.
Thud.
Luciel slowly ran out of life as soon as she made eye contact with him.
Her eyes were dim and she couldn’t even breathe.
She wanted to beg him for forgiveness if she could. It wasn’t her will. She didn’t want to hurt anyone.
It was a life where she was used until the end.
But Luciel felt guilty. All of that was an excuse after all. She knew better than anyone else about the sadness of losing family. The hand that was trying to reach him soon fell helplessly.
…..If I have a next life, I will never live this miserable life again. I’m going to live for myself. And I’ll remember you.’
At last, Luciel stopped breathing as if sleeping. Smiling as if very comfortable. The mana that remained in her body hovered in the air, and soon formed like dew.
Ddororong.
The thing that feel to the floor, was the first jewel she made out of her own will.
Shiing.
The bright light emitted by clear and transparent jewels permeated her body, and it was not long before the white light spread large enough to cover all, directions.