readsfreenovel Chapter 1720 - 1167: Should It Be Carried Forward?
Chapter 1720 - 1167: Should It Be Carried Forward?
All the world knows that the first queen of the Tistis Kingdom’s health began to deteriorate sharply after establishing the kingdom, and she eventually passed away due to illness at the age of 55.
After that, although the Tistis royal family quickly supported the second queen’s ascension, she was far inferior in capability compared to the first queen, leading the Tistis Kingdom, one of the four major nations of the Akasha continent, to start its decline.
It can be said that the Tistis Kingdom’s rise and fall were both due to the first queen, much like the history of the Great Qin in ancient China—after Qin Shi Huang, a legendary emperor, passed away, a previously thriving, powerful nation began its decline.
From this, it’s clear how formidable the first queen’s abilities were. Almost single-handedly, she unified the entire northern continent and established a great nation, truly a strong woman among strong women.
Compared to such a first queen, the current princes and princesses of the Tistis royal family are nothing more than jesters, only daring to engage in petty schemes in secret, and it was no surprise that Yanifet resolved these issues within a few days.
However, as the first queen herself, Yanifet once told Reiger that the Tistis family’s bloodline carries a curse.
It’s that curse which causes each generation of the Tistis family’s descendants to die early; the purer the bloodline, the quicker the death, while those with less pure blood are much less affected by the curse.
Thanks to this, when the kingdom was established, the Tistis family, led by the first queen, began spreading its branches throughout the kingdom, continuously proliferating, diluting the bloodline to gradually free future generations from the curse’s influence.
But as the first queen of the Tistis Kingdom and the purest member of the Tistis family at the time, the first queen herself did not choose to combine with anyone to propagate descendants, her early death also caused by the bloodline curse.
Yanifet herself was well aware; if she couldn’t solve the bloodline curse, she would eventually die.
Therefore, long before her passing, Yanifet had already begun trying to resolve the curse affecting her.
"At that time, I used many, many methods, not only searching through all the ancient libraries from the era of magical civilization within the Tistis tribe, but also gathering ancient texts from various tribes under my rule, focusing on uncovering ancient relics after establishing the kingdom, cultivating professionals, recruiting powerful court magicians, almost exhausting all methods and the might of the whole nation, persistently researching solutions to eliminate the curse."
Yanifet said lightly, while sipping tea.
"But the curse of the Swamp Beast King is exceedingly powerful; it’s a force that can even pollute the land, and despite the Tistis family’s exhaustive attempts to resolve it, all efforts ended in failure."
"Thus, even though I founded the kingdom and harnessed the nation’s power to tackle this dilemma, progress remained extremely bleak."
"I could only watch helplessly as my body grew weaker rapidly, without having any solution."
Thus, by around the age of 50, Yanifet almost gave up on resolving her curse.
But she didn’t intend to give up living.
"It was then that I thought to myself."
"Since the curse itself is unbreakable, why not abandon the cursed body directly?"
"Using ancient magical civilization’s technology, crafting a brand new body for myself, and transferring my soul there, could I then continue to live?"
In this way, Yanifet shifted direction, and with the assistance of numerous ancient texts, technologies, and highly skilled court magicians, successfully completed the crafting of a new body, developing the technique for soul transfer.
"The new body was forged according to my appearance in youth, imbued with my diluted blood, and apart from the relatively thin bloodline, has no difference from my body in youth."
"At the brink of my extremely weak flesh nearing its end, I spent my remaining breath to make various arrangements for the Tistis Kingdom, before finally conducting the grand ritual of soul transfer, moving my soul to the new body."
"Since then, I have fallen into a long slumber."
Because the soul needs to adapt to the new body, and the transferred soul requires time to rest, even Yanifet herself didn’t know how long it would take her to awaken.
Therefore, to prevent completely losing external resistance in sleep, she generated a new soul to act as her puppet, to temporarily administer her body, capable of waking up promptly and engaging when necessary.
This "puppet" is Cleria.
The original Cleria also fell into a slumber, like Yanifet, and was frozen until the external environment prompted new circumstances, when she woke ahead of time, took over the body, broke free of the ice, and began to flee within the borders of the Tistis Kingdom.
"The only ones aware of my situation of soul transferred and frozen in sleep are the royal family of the Tistis Kingdom."