Rosie's Games

Chapter 189: The Black Relic Stone

"I refuse," Rosalind's answer came as a surprise to the Princess.

"You refuse to be my friend?" there was a hint of disbelief in Isabel's tone. "No one would dare."

"I do." Rosalind got up. "I did not help you out of the goodness of my heart, Your Highness. It was purely business." Why would the Princess suddenly warm up to her? Rosalind refuse to believe that this was out of goodwill.

"I would like to excuse myself, Your Highness, I still have things to do," Rosalind said before she eyed Mathies who was standing not far away from her. Then she gestured for him to follow her.

"I am here—"

Rosalind stopped walking when she heard the Princess's voice. She turned around and saw the Princess standing. "I am here when you change your mind," Princess Isabel said before she walked towards the attendants that were standing not too far away from her.

"Am I the only one who found that uncomfortable?" Rosalind looked at Mathies. The latter could only give her an awkward smile.

"Perhaps, she only wants a friend?"

"A friend?" Rosalind snorted. Even sisters betray each other, how could someone have real friends in this world? People would only look at the benefits of every relationship.

"You wanted to do something?" Mathies asked.

"I need food."

"Food?"

"Something that I can store in my spatial bag."

"Oh—"

"And more information…"

"You should talk to Mr. Pratt about information, I am but a small physician."

"I am certain you know more than me," Rosalind said as they started walking down the stairs. "I want to keep it as discreet as possible and, although I trust Mr. Pratt, I know he has been very busy lately."

"What information would you like to know?"

"The disease?" she asked. "I am assuming that you were able to study the curse from the people that I healed. Do you know where it came from? How could a curse turn contagious?" she asked her questions rapidly. She had a suspicion that Lucas might have had something to do with this. But how? josei

"Ah… "

"What is it?" she asked.

"This reminds me. I was waiting for you because I wanted to show you something that might be related to the curse."

"What is it?"

The two soon arrived in Mathies's study. It was a large room located inside the infirmary where the wounded were placed. The last time she was there, a few people were lying in the bed, being quarantined. Right now though, the place was vacant, not one soul was lying on the multiple beds inside.

"I have been studying about curses," Mathies immediately said when they walked into the room. Surrounded by different objects in glass jars, the room looked more like a morgue than an actual study. She could see multiple drawings pinned on the wall and a large table filled with paper and some more things inside a jar could be seen in the middle of the room.

Rosalind thought she spotted a snake's bone in one of the jars and… an ear? A weird-looking ear.

Was it a monster's ears?

She focused her attention on Mathies who was rummaging through something inside the crates that were messily placed in the corner of the room. She frowned.

"This— " Mathies said, revealing a black relic stone— the same black relic stone that she had. "This one…" he smiled at her, expecting her to say something.

"What is it?"

"Do you not recognize this?"

"Well, that is a black relic. Isn't it useless?" she wanted to know the extent of information that Mathies had about the stone.

"Perhaps it is not."

"Explain."

"I believe that this may have caused it."

"The reason why the curse became contagious?" she asked.

"Yes."

She frowned. The reason why Jeames Sencler became a Baron was because of a black relic that he found in one of his adventures. At first, many thought it was nothing but a normal relic, but they quickly realized that they were wrong. The relics that Jeames found could be used against the worshipers of the Dark Lord— the sorcerers.

No sorcerer could perform their sorcery near a black relic and because they were able to understand the benefits of the relic, Jeames Sencler became the Emperor's benefactor and was then awarded the title of Baron.

However, in this lifetime, Rosalind made it impossible for them to discover the uses of the relics as she had purchased the majority of them.

She never thought that the relic had other purposes!

"How?" she frowned and stared at the relic. As someone who could sense darkness, she knew that the black relics were not normal relics because they contained a huge amount of darkness. Albeit impure, it was still darkness.

This was the reason why she tried to absorb the darkness from the relics that she had. It was very effective and she felt herself getting stronger, but it was not as pure as absorbing darkness from someone who had been infected by a curse.

"I think this stone… reacts to a curse."

"That is—" How?

"Show me your dagger."

He was talking about the cursed dagger that she absorbed. She complied out of curiosity.

"If I stab myself with the dagger—"

"You will die," Rosalind took the dagger back. "I did not come here to witness you end your own life."

"I was not intending to stab myself, all I am saying is that you have to be more careful. If I accidentally stab myself with that dagger, I might die."

"Oh…" Right. She just handed him the dagger. She had forgotten the fact that this dagger could make someone suffer a fate worse than death.

"No need to give it to me. You can hold it."

Mathies then held the relic closer to the dagger. They watched as the relic started to tremble until it slowly floated and shot itself toward the dagger.

Surprised, Rosalind took a step back. She thought the relic would hit her, but it did not. Instead, it stopped just in front of the dagger and disappeared.

Not long after, all of the relics around started trembling before they floated and shot toward the dagger. Then… all of them disappeared.

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