Extra's Harem: Invincibility Starts with Marriage and lots of Children-Chapter 39 - Reason for Everything (A Promise?)

She turned, not wanting to engage in conversation with Aleriana further, who didn’t even know what she wanted.

Once she said that man was her husband, then moments later she wished for his death—showing two conflicting sides that led Olea to dissolve away, her body vanishing like a ghost into thin air as she heard Aleriana’s last orders.

"....Send the Vice Guild Master of the Ghost Sect if you can’t make it here."

Closing her eyes, the princess averted her gaze, realizing her persuasion was futile.

Even showing her strength wouldn’t allow her to pursue Olea, so she chose the second-best outcome—sending the vice guild leader of the Ghost Sect.

Given there were chances of lower rank warriors not being able to do much, the princess did not want to take any risks, and to nullify it she made sure to directly ask the second strongest one in the Ghost Sect after the guild leader, who was naturally the vice guild leader.

"Haa....I will not lose to a mere promise."

With her eyes glancing towards the door, where no one was present, Aleriana’s gaze momentarily turned towards the window, seeking a fleeting moment before clenching her jaws in determination, clearly wanting to rid herself of that fake fantasy of love her mother told her.

Every man is just selfish; they tend to forget their loved ones when another comes, just like how the king forgot her mother when other queens arrived.

She would never fall for this game—a game where she might have promised her mother to love her husband in the same way her mother did.

To get rid of that promise, she needed to remove her husband even before this love could bud.

It was a battle between her and her mother’s principles and teachings—a promise she wanted to fulfill but did not want to become just a tool for her husband.

So it would be better to have a dead husband whom she would love until the end of her life.

A loophole in the final promise she made to her mother.

"May I enter, Queen?"

Suddenly a voice came from the nearby window, where a raven had just landed. Its voice was human and of a very bold tone, appearing like an old man as the raven looked completely black, its eyes glowing red, showing the application of a dead control spell or brain guiding it here.

"I am not yet Queen, Crowdius," Aleriana stated as she stood from her desk, looking towards a bottle hanging from the neck of the raven.

The bottle seemed small, containing a liquid that was bubbling, clearly something that was causing the nearby internal energy in the surroundings to repel back.

"My mistake, it’s hard to remember days; the last time I was here was when your mother summoned me to hand over a contract to you."

The raven seemed to close its eyes, speaking as it recalled the last time it had visited this palace, which was when Aleriana’s mother had summoned it to transfer ownership of its powers to her daughter.

"Will it work?" Aleriana, ignoring everything, stretched her hand, looking towards the vial carrying the liquid, her eyes showing a hint of doubt about whether such poison existed in this world that could temporarily nullify one’s internal energy.

"You doubt me too much! It will definitely work! Caawww!" With a loud voice, the raven yelled, flailing its wings as if declaring there was no reason for her to doubt the authenticity of the liquid.

"....." Aleriana just nodded before shifting her attention back to the vial, her hands tightening around it, clearly hesitant, knowing she needed to take this risk for her future.

Even if it might be dangerous, as she would be most vulnerable at that moment, this was her only option.

"How many hours will it work?" she inquired, turning towards the old man before further adding, "And does it have any side effects?"

Her mind was calm, as if determined not to hesitate from taking this decision, which might give her enemies a chance to kill her.

Yet, if she did not act, she might really become a slave to that so-called loyalty and love she, as a wife, needed to provide to her husband.

"Hm, rest assured it can even make a middle 6th layer master like you unable to recover for 8 hours; though if you tried to expel it, at least 3 hours," the raven informed her how potent and unique the liquid was—which was so rare that it was unique in itself, made from Rakshasa blood from the upper realm.

But given the uses of it being important to free its owner from a situation where the previous owner—Aleriana’s mother—had died, Raven brought it here.

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"I see...." Aleriana, seeing how once she drinks this liquid, her internal energy will be suppressed, would clearly make her a mortal.

She needed to use this after her marriage to paralyze her own body with no strength to protect her husband, who would most likely be killed.

Indeed, this poison was particularly arranged by her for herself.

Inevitably, after marriage, as per the promise to her mother, she would try her best to be an ideal wife.

Like how, if her husband was faced with assassination attempts, she would naturally need to protect him, even at the cost of her life. This would lead her to poison her own body, rendering her helpless to protect her husband on the first day of their marriage—restraining herself from doing anything.

For others, it would seem like a joke that she was going this far for a promise while not having any initial love for her husband.

But in truth, with her mother idealizing married life so much, she had expectations—a love born from commitment and submission of hearts.

What her past self found like a fantasy, her present self saw as a prison.

Polygamy was normal.

Already hearing Kyle’s interest in Olea, his presence would only make her saddened for the rest of her life.

Bound in a commitment where she would just burn like a candle to provide light to someone else while her own shadow remained dark.

"My time has come, owner; summon me when needed again with enough sacrifices," the raven spoke out before turning as it swiftly flew into the air, revealing how to summon it.

Human sacrifices were needed.

’...It may not be important then,’ Aleriana thought, looking towards the raven.

Finally reflecting that the reason it might not have informed her about side effects was probably because there were no side effects from this poison.

Or even if there were, then most likely they were not that important.

She turned, with her eyes closing for once as if telling herself that the day had finally arrived where she would be mentally free from that fantasy of her past self, which foolishly believed that love could exist in a world where polygamy was that casual.

’You need to die, Kyle... for my freedom.’

Yet the moment her mind thought of it, there was a hint of tremor in her lips as her teeth seemed to bite her lower lip as if wanting to inflict pain for uttering such words.

Waiting as if that weak side of her child self, which really believed that love could exist, tried to retaliate, yelling at her not to do this.

But ignoring it, she made her way towards the training ground.