Rosie's Games

Chapter 357  The Other Continent

Rosalind pursed her lips. She just stared at Lurea for a few minutes before she started walking away.

It was not worth it.

Talking to someone like Lurea, who was also a victim of this world's cruelty, was just not worth it.

"What do you want me to do with her?" Lucas, who had been silent since she started talking asked.

"I want every bit of information about Ena's base. Then kill her."

"That's it?"

"Yes."

"Shall we make her suffer?"

Rosalind stopped walking when she heard that. Then she looked at his handsome smiling face. "Would you call me weak if I say no?" She asked.

"No," his answer was immediate. "Then let us do that."

"Thank you," Rosalind smiled. She felt warm. She felt safe.

"Are you not going to ask me about the relics?"

"Are you going to answer me if I ask?"

Instead of saying a word, he held her hand and the two of them disappeared inside the dungeon. When they appeared again, they were inside what looked like an old study. She looked around and immediately noticed the absence of any windows inside the room.

The place was lit by relics, white rocks that looked like stars when they shone.

Still, it was not enough to light the whole room.

"My great-great-grandfather called it magic pearls," Lucas said as he navigated between the piles of books and papers scattered around the room. The books vary in size and shape. Some of them looked like they were about to crumble while the others looked newer.

The air in the study was heavy with the scent of parchment and ink.

Despite the absence of windows, the room was not exactly gloomy. She did not know if this was because of the pearls or because of something else.

"Magic pearls… I have never heard of them before."

"Have you heard of the other continent?" he asked.

Again, she shook her head.

"Many people have not heard anything about that place. They say it was a place for the sorceress to thrive. A place with magic and sorcery."

"Sorcerers…" Rosalind does not exactly know a lot of things about them, but that was just because they are considered rare.

"Relics can only be manipulated by sorcerers." Lucas finally found the thing that he was looking for. It was a book, large and dusty and heavy.

He opened it and showed Rosalind its contents.

"This…"

"Relics that are found in that other continent," Lucas said. "That place… that is where the humans came. A long time ago, and for reasons unknown, humans ran away from that continent and settled here. We brought here knowledge that was known only to the people who lived there. One piece of which was the existence of relics."

"Relics… I thought this was because they existed in the ruins?" she asked.

He simply shrugged in response, leaving her question unanswered. She decided not to push further.

"Some relics that we found were from various places in the continents. The others that I showed you do not exist in this place but those were relics that my ancestors took from that place."

Rosalind said nothing. In fact, she heard that there were lands— unknown lands— far away from this place. However, not one of the sailors and adventurers who ventured into the sea in search of those lands came back.

Because of this, many assumed that there were no other lands and soon, they just stopped trying to cross the seas for something that did not exist.

"If this land exists then… why is it that no one is talking about them? I mean… why was it not included in history books or anything at all?"

"We do not know," Lucas answered. She had suspicions that he was lying but again, she opted not to press him for answers.

This was not because she was scared to hear his answer, it was just that she was taking her time in believing his words. After all, she did not know anything about this in her past life.

"So… the Howling Mountains," Rosalind said, changing the subject.

"Might be a place that contains some of the relics in this book."

"And you are showing me this book because…."

"Isn't that too obvious?" he asked.

Surely, he was not showing her these things because she was going to become his wife, right? She cleared her throat. "It is because I can make relics stronger," she concluded.

"Smart."

"And that was the reason why you are taking me to the Howling Mountains?" she asked.

"It is best that you train your body as much as your Blessing. A Blessed Individual's greatest weakness is their physical body. For instance, your grandfather and Martin Lux chose not to train their bodies and relied too much on their Blessing. They thought times had changed and that they are… invincible. Now, Federico Lux is missing while your father, who had been a little dumb and dependent, is doing his best to find him. Don't you think this could have been prevented if they did something?"

Rosalind said nothing. The Lux Family had become negligent and lax in their vigilance due to the strength that the North showed. They thought the North could protect them from the beasts. They thought that the Duke could handle everything and soon, they focused more on politics than fighting against the beasts in the North.

Instead of helping the North, they decided to focus on making themselves more powerful and tried to tip the balance of power in the continent.

"Do you think Ena and the others know about this?" Rosalind asked.

"For some reason, the members of the seven families do not seem to know about it," Lucas asked.

"But that— Isn't that too impossible? How could they not know something so important?"

"Perhaps the people before them stopped the information from spreading."

Rosalind said nothing. Why would the people before they do that?

"Perhaps, they did not want the future generation to use the relics," Lucas said.

"Why?" Rosalind asked.

"I wouldn't know that," Lucas shrugged. However, Rosalind could feel that he was lying. She blinked at him and stared at his expression as she started to wonder more about the Rothley Family.

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A/N: I am slowly introducing Eve's Continent! Did you already add Eve's Gambit to your library? Heheh thank you for the support! I am going to put the map side by side and show you that they belong to the same world.