She looked at me hesitantly, then hurriedly dragged herself away, leaving the room in terror without even greeting me properly. She even left the door open behind her.
This woman...
Let's calm down…
I began trying to control my breathing, but the fever raging in my head made it difficult even to breathe properly.
Damn it, what's going on here?
Who is this woman?
The Hagelmark Nordreich Empire has long been notorious for its strange and strict laws, which some have claimed border on madness. but what set the Hagelmark Nordreich Empire apart were its laws of governance. In the Hagelmark, the Crown Prince is not merely a title but absolute authority; in the entire empire, only the Emperor has the right to deny the Crown Prince's words or challenge it.
Therefore, even though I have been away from the palace for some time, this does not mean that a mere temporary healer—who is not even of royal blood—can ignore my words or leave so rudely.
Look, we are in an empire where titles cannot be traded like cheap coins; not even the Emperor has the right to take the title of Crown Prince from me. According to the laws of the empire, unless I am dead, this title cannot pass to anyone else, and this is also the reason for my anger and my doubts regarding the events in the records, where the title of Crown Prince was transferred to the second prince whilst I am still alive.
For this reason, too, I know that I still retain my authority as Crown Prince; for this very reason, I do not understand the presence of this woman, why she is in charge of me, and where are the palace healers and doctors?
I exhaled calmly and pushed all the questions to the back of my mind; I will find the answers later. What matters now is that I keep my composure.
As the First Prince of the Empire and the person born to inherit the throne, I have always been brought up—ever since I understood the world—to value discipline, composure and rational judgement.
But the problem is the overlap between the record and my memories. If we compare less than ten years of education with the freedom of thirty years of madness, there's no need to elaborate on which of the two personalities will prevail
The only thing that helps me control myself is that I do not see the record as something I have experienced entirely myself; what I mean is that it has not become mixed with my original memories, so I can still benefit from my royal education and keep my composure.
But my focus on my mental state was disrupted when a strange holographic screen appeared once again before my eyes
[Suppress Bloodlust
+1 Mind]
[Enormous physical/mental exertion whilst severely weakened
-1 Vigor
-1 Endurance
-1 Strength]
What on earth is this nonsense now?
I cautiously reached out to touch this strange thing and, to my surprise, it reacted to my touch this time. Instead of disappearing, it changed and another screen appeared showing... my information?...
"...."
I tilted my head and stared curiously at the screen
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🔴Narrator System
🔻Status Screen:
▪️Name: Eckehard Khaos von Grünewald Ehrenfeld
▪️Talent: Swordman
▪️Age: 14
▪️Title: The Prince of Massacre, Narrator Heir, Crown Prince of Hagelmark Nordreich, The Saint.
▪️Innate Aura: Bloodshed
▪️Rank: G -sealed
▪️Essence: Destruction
▪️Element: Cursed Light
▪️ Ability: Annihilation -sealed
▪️Sanctuary: Last winter -sealed
▪️Status: madness, Physical fatigue.
Cursed by ▫️▫️▫️▫️
▪️ Curse: The Saint,
Marked by▫️▫️▫️▫️
▪️ Mark: Gate, The Cursed Book Engraving, Sacrifice, Blood sign.
🔻 Statistics
▪️Vigor: 4
▪️Endurance: 2
▪️Strength: 2
▪️Agility: 2
▪️Mind: 8
▪️Dexterity: 3
◻️Skills: -sealed
▪️Silver threads - Soul
▪️Moon Fragment - Sword.
🔺 Reader
▪️Reader Gifts
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I didn't understand what this was, and I'd never seen anything like it, not even in the records
Although I wanted to ignore it, it showed me almost all my details.
Ignoring that strange age... Wait, has it really been four years since all this trouble started? Wasn't it two years? OK, putting that odd age and nonsense like 'Prince of the Massacre' aside, are the events in the record counted among my titles?
Narrator, what does this even mean?? And 'Saint' – when did I become one? Basically, in our empire, this term doesn't even exist; even our official religion doesn't have such an existence. We have clergy who run the temples and the Holy Court to judge between people according to the laws of the Holy Book, and that's all. In our religion, we don't deify people, so we don't have terms like 'Saint', 'Chosen One' and the like...
So I didn't understand the meaning of these titles or where they came from.
Have I joined some shady sect without realising it? Well, I was kidnapped by some shady people, then kidnapped from those shady people by even shadier people, and for some reason they decided to sell me at a black auction house, where I was bought by people even shadier than both of those groups