Voyage Of The Villainess

{The first thing to defeat Oliver is to choose carefully whom you will trust.

I know it is hard for you to fight someone you consider a friend. But Hyun Jae, if that one friend became the reason to cause a lot of people to suffer, it is also your duty to stop him as his true friend.

Read carefully the next thing I will need to tell you. 

For the first phase of my real plan, I will seal Oliver\'s magic. It is just a temporary method but it is enough for you to move. The map was drawn below, will show you the exact location where the main sacrifice will take place. Once you can see the full moon, go there, and proceed to purify the land with the mist. 

The main purpose of this is to purify the lands, prevent the sacrifice\'s death and at the same time weed out all Oliver\'s potential allies that are still lurking on our side.

The rest of the act, I will handle the rest after that

It would be a painful event, Hyun Jae but you must hold on no matter what. Remember if other people might betray you, don\'t lose sight of the people that remain on your side.}

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"Aadel!!!" Hyun Jae screamed in fright as she used all her force to fly towards the crown prince.

The crown prince raised his head when he heard Hyun Jae\'s desperate voice. \'Don\'t- don\'t come near here,\' with all the remaining energy he had, he raised his right arm and a burst of ice came out. It created a small dome in the sky, completely blocking Hyun Jae\'s passage towards him.

"Aadel!!!" Tears streamed down Hyun Jae\'s face as she tried to smash the dome of ice.

However before she could continue smashing the ice, Oliver raised his head. 

*Boosgh!* Something huge fell in the crown prince\'s location.

Oliver was carried away with Charrio who materialized in the shadows once again. Theo also leaped a few steps away from the crown prince. As they gazed upon his location, they couldn\'t make any out of the thing that suddenly fell in the prince\'s location since there was a thick layer of dust and smokes lingering around.

The crown prince\'s vision was dwindling already. His becoming numb due to too much blood loss, he was experiencing it right now. 

Aadel smiled bitterly, as he heard Hyun Jae\'s scream. \'Don\'t give me that look, I don\'t deserve that. The time when I heard about the prophecy of the Saintess who will appear in the sacred lake at the imperial palace, a selfish desire rose upon me. If you appeared and I won your favor, I thought no one would look down on me since you will be by my side.\' 

\'And indeed you appear, but as I get to know you, never in once you gave me malicious looks. You look at me for who I am and always be true about your feelings. It is refreshing and reassuring. While I only thought of you something that I could use first. But there is one factor that worries you. The fact that I\'m engaged with someone else. And when I heard that woman is harassing you, I\'m completely enraged. But even though the evidence was shown that it was not that woman who was harassing you, maybe it was my pride that stopped me from believing these truths. And another selfish thing built inside me.\' 

\'The selfish thinking that if I kept believing that woman was truly harassing you, then I could have the reason to break our engagement and I could live freely with you. And even before the annulling of the engagement, that very woman made me wake up about something from a long time ago.\'

{"Useful? All this time, is Hyun Jae just an item for you to use? Don\'t call people like that your highness even if you\'re the prince."}

\'Even if that woman was the same with other people who always belittle him and did all those hateful things to him especially in that foundation ball. I simply couldn\'t be on good terms with her and my pride refused to be in the very end. \'\'But I guess now that I\'m dying, I deserve that all.\' 

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"Ayah. ayah, it seems, I made it in time." 

The crown prince heard a familiar female voice that he hated deeply. He tried to look at her but all he could see were dark spots covering his vision now.

"If you\'re not foolish nor irritating, many girls would surely flock to you. But I guess now that I realize it, since you are completely foolish..."

\'This woman!\' The crown prince tried to move but instead, he only felt a strong sensation of pain in his abdomen. He stiffened when he felt a slight tap on his right shoulder. 

"You are one of the last things, I need to worry about betraying Hyun Jae. Since anyone could easily read you." The crown prince felt another tap.

"You have done quite well enough to prove that even trash could do something useful. You can die now peacefully without any regrets, kid."

\'Truly, I will forever hate this woman.\' It was the last thing the crown prince thought before his consciousness blackout.

"Seriously, I don\'t know anymore whether you\'re complimenting him or simply annoying him to his death." Iris glanced down at the unconscious and wounded prince in front of her, with both her arms crossed.

"Why are you angry with me?" Malaya said amused as she fed the crown prince with the same healing pill that she fed to Kayden… "I\'m actually complimenting your trashy male lead."

Iris scowled hearing Malaya\'s remarks. "You are really something."  She said in disbelief.

"I always tend to be now as something." Malaya grinned. "But with this, all the unwanted grass were now weeded out of our side."

"Hah. Your mind is truly terrifying." Iris scoffed. "And in exchange with that, you sacrifice other people."

"Iris," Malaya tilted her head slightly as she looked at Iris\' eyes. "I never sacrifice anyone. If I sacrifice someone, they will not see the next day of their lives once again."

"Aadel!!!" Both Iris and Malaya turned towards Hyun Jae\'s who just landed together with Elred. Compared to the last time they saw her, Hyun Jae completely looked haggard and one could see clearly the reddening of her eyes stating that she was crying not long ago,

She ran towards them to check the crown prince\'s condition. "Malaya," Although, there was confusion to see Malaya with the crown prince and their very situation, she first asked the condition of the prince. "How is he?"

Malaya, who just finished checking the crown prince\'s pulse, looked at Hyun Jae. "He\'s breathing has stabilized now, but he needs further rest since he lost too much blood."

"I can still heal…" Before Hyun Jae could finish her words, she collapsed. Malaya immediately caught her and laid her beside the crown prince. "Let me heal him…" Hyun Jae said in a meek voice and tried to stand up. This left Malaya no choice but to hit Hyun Jae\'s neck and lose consciousness.

"You already exhausted enough lifa, you should rest as well, Hyun Jae. Let the adults handle the matter now."

Malaya stood up as she glanced down at Oliver\'s location who was looking at her as well. They were now high above the skies, standing above a huge floating mass of earth. The people who were being sacrificed as well also were now above in another floating mass of land. The people there were surrounded by the black knights. 

\'This floating land, it is like I am seeing a real-life earth bender.\'

"Is he the crown prince?" A deep and gruffed voice sounded behind Malaya, interrupting her thoughts..

Malaya grinned as her line of vision caught sight of the man that would help her with the next phase of her plan.

Lanzelot Astaseul, the former Archmage of the fallen country of Gendever and the mayor of the current hidden city of Heloz. He was wearing a black robe and had a black wizard hat as well. With each stride, he made towards Malaya\'s side, with his long dark violet hair and purple eyes that reflected clearly his wisdom, and visage that was screaming, he was a man that couldn\'t be easy to deal with. No one knew his real age, but with his appearance, he looked like someone who was around their thirties.

"Yes, he is the crown prince," Malaya replied casually with a smile. "And the one below there is his brother, the second prince."

"You really speak the truth that both sons of the emperor are on the island."

"Yes, why would I lie to you?" Malaya said. 

"Then as what you told me and upon the contract we sign, once this is all over, both of them will be mine now."

"Of course," Malaya grinned as she glanced back at Oliver who was now looking at her with a serious gaze.. "Once this is all over, you could have them seek revenge on the emperor, and the empire that banished me and destroyed your kingdom."