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Chapter 102: Lorelei's Curse
Lorelei's excited voice rang out, awakening Nolan from his stupor.
She held a large book in her hands and walked toward him, grabbing his hand and pulling him away from the shelves.
The book Nolan was reading fell to the ground.
"Here it is. The book about my curse..." Lorelei said as they arrived under a wide reading table with a chandelier right above, making the place very bright.
Immediately, Lorelei opened the book and began skimming through the pages, with Nolan viewing the notes with interest.
According to what he could glean, Lorelei's curse was known as "Silent Existence," and it wasn't something relatively unknown in Atlantis.
The book mentioned that every generation of Atlantis would always have someone who bore this curse, and in this generation, it was Lorelei who was cursed.
Unknown to Nolan, the discovery that Lorelei possessed the curse had sent tidal waves through the entire Atlantis kingdom on the day it was discovered.
In the past, those who bore the curse were usually unimportant figures to the kingdom, and the kingdom paid little attention to it.
But Lorelei was no unimportant figure in Atlantis.
She was the daughter of the mighty King Sammodra of Atlantis, a figure who held prominent power.
But then she was cursed.
It had sent an uproar everywhere, and eventually, the princess had been forgotten by most, her mention invoking not the respect she deserved but pity from the people.
As Lorelei turned the page, Nolan glanced at her from the corner of his eye.
While he expected to see an embarrassed or angered expression from what was written in the book, all he saw was a smile of positivity on her face.
'How can she remain so positive when she is unfairly afflicted with such a thing? She doesn't seem to be bothered by the various words in the books at all,' Nolan mused to himself.
The book didn't just talk about the curse; it also hypothesized why the curse existed.
One of the most prominent hypotheses was that whoever bore the curse was an unlucky figure who would bring nothing but death and chaos to the realm of Atlantis.
It was said that the great god of Atlantis, Poseidon, had sent forth the curse to punish the person.
The entire world of Atlantis was rife with such theories, and anyone who bore the curse for a generation was haunted and mocked by the people.
That was until Lorelei possessed the curse.
How could the princess of King Sammodra be the one to bring death and chaos to Atlantis? It just seemed like a ridiculous hypothesis.
Still, such ideas were nonetheless haunting, and there were no doubt people who believed that she really might be a figure of misfortune to the realm.
But as Nolan stood before her now, he didn't think such a hypothesis was true. How could a person like her bring death and chaos to her kingdom?
"Here it is. The cure to the curse..." Lorelei called out as she turned to look at Nolan, who had his eyebrows furrowed at the page where the cure to the curse was written.
Just as with the place where the hypotheses for the reasons for the curse were written, there were also countless other hypotheses for how the curse could be broken, and to Nolan, they were just nonsensical.
The majority of the ways mentioned were nothing more than hate-filled theories, such as the person who bore the curse must sacrifice their own life or the life of their entire family so that the god of Atlantis, Poseidon, may be appeased and thus the curse will end with whoever possesses the curse.
Some simply wrote that there was no curse unless the person who possessed it was completely banished from Atlantis, and maybe then the god Poseidon would be willing to forgive them.
"These are just nonsense..." Nolan called out to Lorelei, who smiled before she turned to the next page.
Written on the page were well-composed and simple words.
It stated:
"The curse can only be broken by an anomaly, someone unlike others, who is resistant to the curse's effects."
"Only they can break the curse, but such a person would be as rare as Atlantis ever returning to its former glory.
"But if this person is found and they break the curse, then not only will the curse become history from that day on, but it will also mark the end of Atlantis's fall!"— by the Fourth King of Fallen Atlantis. thank-you-for-using-NovelFire
"This is the answer that was written by my great, great, great grandfather."
"According to the records about him, he was commonly referred to by the people of Atlantis as the Mad King, and the majority of his ideas were never accepted and most of the time treated as nothing more than fables and myths."
"He was also the youngest Atlantis king to ever reign, dying at the age of 20," Lorelei explained to Nolan about the one who had written the words, and Nolan's eyebrows furrowed.
"Has there ever been anyone like me, who is resistant to the curse, before?" Nolan asked, and Lorelei shook her head.
"None has ever been resistant to the curse throughout the generations of Atlantis, and everyone in Atlantis would argue that there will never be such a person."
"According to what the Fourth King of Atlantis said, finding that person would be as rare as Atlantis returning to its former glory."
"That is simply impossible..." she said with a small smile before she regained her seriousness.
"But here you are, standing before me. Able to listen to every word that I say, and capable of tracking my play down from a distance of hundreds of miles."
"None like you has ever existed since the fall of Atlantis. None."
"And if there's anyone who can help me out and break this curse," Lorelei said, as confusion set in for Nolan.
"But... I don't know how to break the curse."
[I do!]