I Became the Youngest Prince in the Novel

Chapter 9: The Dream of the Stars (3)

“What’s that?”

A cold-looking wizard riding inside the magic carriage across the Imperial City asked the knight accompanying him as he looked towards the knights rushing toward the main gate of the Imperial City.

“I think they are trying to stop someone from trespassing at the main gate.”

“Intruder? Someone trying to break in through the main gate?”

Bewilderment was written in the wizard’s eyes. He never heard of anyone breaking in so brazenly.

“Yes.”

“How many people?”

“—Only one person.”

The little absurdity in the wizard’s eyes was deepened by the knight’s answer. Knights of the Imperial City are generally more powerful than the outside knights. It was strange that the situation was not over yet despite seeing the rushing knights from the Imperial City.

“She’s a woman with red eyes who looks to be in her twenties, but she’s more competent than I thought, the knights are also having a hard time handling her.”

“A woman with red eyes— Anything else unusual?”

“Unfortunately, no deaths have been reported yet. And— the magic used by the woman is very unusual.”

“How is it unusual?”

“I haven’t seen it myself, so I don’t know for sure, but she treats her blood as a medium, and there’s something like a beast’s mouth around her—”

“—Blood magic!”

The wizard’s eyes glistened when he heard the knight’s words.

“More details— No, I’ll go there myself!”

“I understand. I’ll take you to the main gate.”

The knight turns on the steering wheel of the magic carriage following the wizard’s words.

“How many wizards are there who can use blood magic in the capital? Maybe we can get a clue about Night of Sabbath.”

The wizard murmured in the magic carriage heading to the main gate of the Imperial City. The wizard’s name is Lugan Ursula, he was one of the henchmen of the Third Prince, the owner of Hyukseong Palace.

* * *

After the Succession Ceremony, the royal family had to go through two procedures at the Baekseong Palace before they could begin their full-fledged activities. One was his audience with the Emperor a while ago and the other was to visit ‘The Dream of the Stars’.

The Dream of the Stars was a secret warehouse that was created at the same time as the Imperial Castle was built. This is the place where the best treasures collected by the Imperial Family for hundreds of years from the first emperor to the present are gathered.

It exists somewhere underground in the Baekseong Palace, and it was also known as a place where no one could enter without Agnes’ bloodline. The immediate blood relatives who passed the succession ceremony were able to take out one of their favorite items from “The Dream of the Stars.” Zion was heading toward “The Dream of the Stars” to exercise that right.

“You have to go alone from here. I hope you make a good choice.”

Ronniere, the knight who guided Zion right in front of the door heading underground of Baekseong Palace politely bowed his head as he stepped aside. Zion nodded at him and pushed the door.

Rattle.

Unlike the emperor’s bedroom, no knights were guarding the door to the basement. No, there was no need for that.

Because you can’t enter the basement of the Baekseong Palace without Agnes’ blood.

A thick fog came in as soon as he came down to the basement through the door. The fog was not common, but a fog of magic and sorcery. It had the effect of completely paralyzing a person’s senses. Therefore, without Agnes’ blood, even those with excellent senses could not distinguish the fog in front of them.

Is this it?

As soon as he took a few steps through the fog, Zion’s eyes caught stars that glowed softly from the ceiling, it was a long path of stars, like the Milky Way. Perhaps if he walks along these stars, he will be able to reach the ‘The Dream of the Stars’.

—I’ll take care of that later.

For a while, Zion, who was looking in a completely different direction from where the paths of stars, slowly moved, recalling the events that would take place in the Imperial Palace in the future. How long has he traveled along the path? Then, a huge stone gate blocking the front came into Zion’s eyes. A stone gate engraved with the sun, the moon, and numerous stars in it.

Drop.

Zion dropped a drop of his blood on the stone gate without hesitation. At that moment—

Doo-doo-doo!

With Zion’s blood, the sun and moon of the stone gate began to shine brightly, and the door began to split in two. Beyond that, numerous treasures could be seen. It was The Dream of the Stars. The moment Zion had just crossed the door and entered the warehouse—

“Welcome!”

Zion’s ears heard a cheerful voice that did not fit the situation. A girl who was short enough to barely reach his waist came into Zion’s sight when he turned his head towards where he heard her voice.

“Welcome to the Dream of the Stars!”

A girl with transparent sky-blue hair and blue eyes came into view.

“I’m Beyla, the warehouse keeper here! Are you Prince Zion Agnes?”

“Yes.”

Since he already knew that there was a warehouse keeper, Zion nodded as he looked at the girl without surprise. One might wonder how such a young girl was in charge of the warehouse here, but that girl was not human in the first place. She was a homunculus created by dragon’s magic. Therefore, unlike her outward appearance, she had lived several hundred years and was able to stay here, where only the Agnes bloodline could enter.

“First of all, congratulations on your Succession Ceremony! This is your first time coming to the Dream of the Stars, right?”

Beyla asked in a more cheerful voice as if she was in a good mood because she met a person after a long time, she then continued the conversation as she circled in front of Zion.

“This is the world’s greatest treasure warehouse, where more treasures exist than Prince Zion thought! You can buy a couple of castles, even those of the lowest value!”

There was no lie in her words, with these words, Beyla pointed to the trinkets lying on the floor of the warehouse because it was stacked like a mountain. 

“From here, Prince Zion can take only one weapon, jewelry, or anything else! All the other successors who have come here have chosen weapons. Will Prince Zion also choose a weapon?”

“That’s right, but it’s not everything here, is it?”

Zion, who was looking around in response, asked her. The weapons scattered here were so amazing that even one of them would cause great chaos in the world. The level of weaponry present in the Dream of the Stars that Zion had read about in the Chronicle was by no means of this standard.

“Of course not! Inside, they’ve got even greater weapons sorted. But—”

Beyla looked at Zion, blurring her last words.

“Each weapon inside is filled with myths and legends, a weapon that people will talk about forever, from the past to the present and into the future! And so the weapon chooses its master! That’s why if you don’t get chosen by a weapon, you can’t use it no matter how much you like it!”

No, it was not enough to simply not be able to use it. If you tried to force yourself to use a weapon without being chosen, you could be injured or even lose your life.

“Are you still going inside?”

Beyla asks Zion once more. Zion was aware of why Beyla was asking this.

She thinks I won’t be chosen by the weapons.

That must be what she thought that’s because the criteria for weapons inside to choose their owners were very strict.

There were even some emperors who were not chosen.

She must have thought that Zion himself does not meet that standard. However, Zion had already thought of a weapon even before he came to the Dream of the Stars. It’s Rigveda.1Heavenly Double-Edged Sword. Because the ancient treasures spread out like stars, there are only three mythical weapons in this Imperial Castle’s secret warehouse, called the “The Dream of the Stars.” A divine sword with an origin that once caused the god of heaven to crash to the ground.

“Guide me.”

Even if it wasn’t that sword, Zion opened his mouth looking at Beyla because he was going to take one of the other mythical weapons completely. Zion had no anxiety that he would not be chosen by weapons because Zion was always the one who made the choice, not the one being chosen.

“Each person has a weapon that suits them! Even if it’s not a legendary weapon if it’s matched against each other, more synergy—”

“I don’t like to say it twice.”

“—I understand. I can’t even say if you are going to be chosen.”

Beyla sighed as she shook her finger and murmured.

Hwaaaak!

The space opened and a new entrance was created. As if asking him to follow her, the warehouse keeper pushes into the entrance first. Zion, who entered after her, soon saw an enormous feast of weapons unfold in his eyes. Unlike the weapons that were randomly scattered earlier, weapons and armour were neatly displayed on both walls. Zion felt that the energy flowing out of those weapons was pressing his body.

“Isn’t it amazing? Even if one of these appears in the world, there will be a bloodbath. Perhaps there would even be a war! These are items that the Prince cannot handle yet. So now—”

“There it is.” Zion’s eyes shone as he skimmed through the warehouse, letting Beyla’s mumbling words sink beside him. Among the numerous weapons on display, three weapons were placed at the very top.

The Seasonal Bow, Hypnos. 

The Gravity Gun, Agnus. 

And—The Heavenly Sword Rigveda.

They were all mythological-grade weapons. Zion walked toward Rigveda, which was in the middle of it.

Uuung!

Did the sword notice that he was coming to pick it up himself? The body of the blue heavenly sword which resembles a clear sky begins to vibrate slightly.

“Huh? Why is Rigveda—”

For the first time in her life, Beyla murmured while looking at Rigveda, forgetting to extend her words. In the meantime, Zion, who was nearing in front of the heavenly sword, reached for the sword.

Uung!

The vibration gradually got stronger as if to welcome him. At that moment—

Tuk.

Zion’s hand, which was trying to grab Rigveda’s handle, stopped.

“—Oh?”

A muffled voice flowed out of Zion’s mouth. Zion’s eyes were looking at something behind it, not the heavenly sword. It was a sword, a half-dark sword wrapped in the thick darkness that even he wouldn’t notice if he had not come close. 

From the sword to the handle, it was ominously stuck in the floor, absorbing all the light that existed around it in a jet-black-like blackness. Zion knew what that sword was. No, there was no way he didn’t know. Eclaxia, the Sword of Annihilation. It was a weapon he used as the emperor of the original world, not here.

“How did that—”

He couldn’t see where half of the sword had gone, but that was indeed Eclaxia. Why on earth is his sword in this novel?

Thud, thud.

Zion approaches Eclaxia as if he was possessed.

“That—That black one! No, My Prince! The sword was used by the First Emperor of the Empire, the Eternal Emperor! I didn’t leave it there to give it to anyone!”

Impatience was drifting in Beyla’s eyes as she alternately gazed at Zion and the Sword of Annihilation. Why is that sword stuck there? It was because it was a monumental sword used by the first emperor and it wasn’t something that was left to give to someone. The very existence of that black sword was too dangerous.

For hundreds of years, some of the Imperial Family had eyes on that sword, and the moment they all touched it, they disappeared. If they’re lucky, only a part of their body will vanish but if they’re unlucky, they’ll completely vanish. The sword has never chosen a master since the first emperor that’s why she hid it out of sight, but she didn’t know how it got there.

“How come—”

Meanwhile, Zion has already walked right in front of Eclaxia and reached for the handle of the sword.

“It—It’s dangerous!”

When even Beyla broke the prohibition of not touching Agnes’ bloodline as she hurriedly reached out towards Zion. The next moment— she could see an eerie black light erupt from Eclaxia, The Annihilation Sword.

————-!

The scene swallowed Prince Zion’s entire body in an instant.