Only God
Chapter 156 - 134: Both Wishes Come True!

Chapter 156: Chapter 134: Both Wishes Come True!

"What is your second wish?"

A moment later, the Witch asked.

King Oton seemed not to care at all that the Witch interrupted their love; in fact, he was so grateful for the miraculous Witch that he wished he could grant her nobility on the spot.

"...Perfect love, perfect love, Witch."

King Oton’s voice trembled as he looked at the Witch and spoke.

Esia was stunned, staring at Oton in disbelief.

"Witch, my lover and I are tormented. Such love, at least in the eyes of others, is not perfect."

King Oton spoke faster, overwhelmed with emotion,

"It must last forever and ever to be perfect."

Queen Isis, who was watching, had a gloomy expression; nobody noticed her changing complexion.

Esia stared at King Oton in astonishment.

Queen Isis almost couldn’t hold back in the distance.

Yet, for the sake of planning, she maintained her composure.

"Witch, what exactly must we do to achieve this love?"

Oton was already delirious with love.

The Witch asked coldly, without changing her expression:

"Are you sure?

Your Majesty, you do not know what price you have to pay."

King Oton nodded gravely.

He grabbed the Witch’s hand with one hand and, toward the Wish Stone,

"Please fulfill my wish, let us achieve everlasting love. Like stones clinging to each other."

The King proclaimed excitedly.

He was so certain because, apart from the Witch’s magic power, he had used the power of Prophecy the previous night.

And the power of Prophecy told him that his requests would be smoothly fulfilled.

"Then do as I say."

The Witch said, pulling a wooden awl from her bosom.

It seemed she had been prepared for the King’s request, perhaps having foreseen the Prophecy through Kagawus’s Divine Power.

King Oton took the wooden awl and looked at the Witch.

The Witch stretched out her hand and aimed the awl at Oton’s eyes.

King Oton fixated on the sharp awl.

The Wish Stone in her hand glowed faintly.

The Witch’s dry lips began chanting a spell,

"You must blind both eyes, for love is blind."

Oton looked at the Witch in astonishment.

He hesitated.

Just then, Queen Isis stepped forward and said earnestly:

"Trust me, Your Majesty,"

"Everything will be better after the ceremony."

"Do you not desire perfect love, Your Majesty?"

Hearing the advice, and having just witnessed the Witch’s magic power, Oton no longer hesitated and resolutely nodded.

"No matter what happens, I must not speak. That would draw the attention of the nobles and ministers and disrupt my ritual."

Oton muttered to himself.

He pursed his lips and fiercely stabbed the fragile eyeballs with the awl.

Blood spurted out; pain overwhelmed Oton’s brain, but he made no sound, fearing he might attract attention.

Immediately after, he aimed the awl at the other eye.

"I must blind both eyes, for love is often blind."

Oton, like a Poet, somberly murmured metaphors of love.

"You must burn with desire, for love is like self-immolation."

Saying this, the Witch extended her hand and grabbed a piece of burning charcoal from the nearby brazier, placing it in Oton’s hands.

The King’s hands cradled the charcoal, and soon, they were scorched by the flames.

Esia looked on anxiously at Oton.

"Esia,"

Oton smiled at him and softly said:

"I must burn with desire, for love is like self-immolation."

The Witch once again softly chanted the spell:

"You must plunge into the abyss, for love is always unconditional."

Fall into the Abyss?

What kind of ritual was needed to fall into the Abyss?

King Oton looked at the Witch, puzzled.

At that moment, the Witch glanced towards Queen Isis and took a step back.

Queen Isis took a dagger from her bosom.

King Oton, enduring severe pain, looked doubtfully at his Queen.

Was this part of the ritual?

Isis approached the bed, raised the dagger in her hand, and fiercely stabbed Esia’s throat.

Immediately, Esia’s blood gushed like a fountain, his throat so filled with blood he could neither speak nor cry out.

The Queen turned her head and coldly looked at the astonished Oton:

"Your lover is dead, and your love has now fallen into the Abyss."

King Oton felt as if he had fallen into an icy pit, fear and realization flooding his mind, freezing him in place.

He had never imagined that the ritual would be like this!

The Wish Stone in the Witch’s hand began to shine brilliantly!

King Oton’s body slowly changed, his waist grew stiff, his hair turned stone-like...

He was becoming the form he had wished for.

King Oton was overwhelmed with panic, his eyes turned towards Esia, and he screamed.

He threw himself at Esia recklessly.

Esia was gradually dying, his face losing color, his limbs slowly turning cold.

Under the effect of the Wish Stone, Oton saw that Esia’s body was beginning to turn to stone.

Even his own limbs were slowly petrifying.

He looked at the Wish Stone in horror.

"Please fulfill my wish, let us love each other eternally, like stones bound together."

She had made this wish not long ago.

"Your Majesty, become stone," Queen Isis thrust the dagger into the yet un-petrified body of the King,

"This is your wish, perfect love!"

King Oton looked at the Queen in disbelief; he hadn’t anticipated Isis’s betrayal.

Isis clenched her teeth, pouring out years of anger:

"To find your love, you ignored my years of dedication.

If we had no children, if we were newly married, I could have forgiven you, but now I cannot forgive you, my dignity will no longer tolerate you.

You are a disgraceful husband, a despicable King. Did you think your actions would not have consequences?!

Now the reckoning has come, you are going to die, lose your lover, lose your love, even lose your throne.

This is the retribution I give you, the retribution the Gods grant you!"

Fear, mixed with excruciating pain, swept over the King, causing him to uncontrollably tremble, wanting to retreat.

Seeing the King’s trembling legs, struggling to move, the Queen pushed him away, sneering:

"Your legs are trembling, where do you think you can run to?

You cannot escape from here, no one will come to save you.

Do you realize your regret now? There’s nowhere to escape!"

After unleashing all her anger, Queen Isis gasped for breath, staring intently at the gradually petrifying King Oton.

The Queen was vigilant for any last desperate counterattack from the King.

She did not want to be overturned at the last moment.

However, contrary to the Queen’s expectation.

The King turned his head, looked at Esia, and completely ignored the Queen.

Blood pooled,

Oton embraced Esia’s petrified body and lamented:

"Esia,

let me die with you."

Slowly, Oton’s body turned into cold, rigid stone.

The Wish Stone in the Witch’s hand exhausted all its brilliance.

The stoned pair, like exquisite sculptures, remained quiet and closely bound.

This tragic love would be sung by Minstrels for a thousand years,

because in the King’s chamber,

Perfect love became an immortal statue, the malevolent Queen won the final victory.

But,

Who would sympathize with the Queen’s years of suffering?

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