After being devoured by an unknown entity, the young man only feels numb on his body. He can't feel anything as if all of his five senses have stop functioning.
'Am I going to die here?'
The young man felt regret deep in his heart. The biggest regret was that his sister's birthday was coming, but he couldn't give her anything for her birthday. The game that was supposed to be her birthday gift, had a crash that made her brother died in the incident.
Can she still be happy with his gift?
Everyone know, this incident will become the biggest trauma in Xueying's brain.
For a while, Yuxuan felt that the numbness on his body was gone, and now replaced by unfamiliar pain in his chest. Like something heavy was pressing on his chest, making Yuxuan felt short of breath.
Because of his pain in his chest, the young boy struggling to open his eyes.
A sky-blue Irish greet the sunlight, emitting a slightly green color on the young boy's eyes. A delicate snow white face showing a painful expression with frowning eyebrows. His beautiful little hand clutches the soft fabric on the mattress tightly.
"Hngh"
As if running a hundred kilometers, the little boy's breath came in short gasps.
Hearing something inside the room, the attendant who wait outside the bedroom, barge in. His worried expression mixed with a slightly relieved look at the boy still lying on his bed.
"Hurry, call the doctor. The young master is awake!" said a tall man with his dark tailcoat suit and round glasses hanging on his tall bridge nose.
The little boy felt as if his surroundings were buzzing, unable to hear what the tall man was saying. As if he had slept for a thousand days, his vision is still blurry.
The pair of icy blue eyes unable to focus, make the young boy only see the blurry shadow of the butler.
"Young Master, can you see me?" A deep but light male voice was suddenly can be heard by the little boy between the buzzing sounds.
The little boy stared at the blurry shadow which crouching beside his bed, still with a face full of pain.
"Ah"
The tall man looking at the little boy with heart broken face when he heard how hard it was for the little boy to speak.
When the doctor arrives, the tall man allows the doctor to check the little boy's condition.
"Please go ahead"
Following the big man's lead, the doctor, who was a middle-aged man, checked the little boy's condition. After a few minutes of checking, he could not hide his surprise.
After a short period of delibration, the middle-age man with dark gray hair said, "The young master's condition is really bad. I can't imagine how his little body can endure such a pain" after finishing his sentence, the doctor just sighed.
"Please tell the Duke to stand by beside the little master's side tonight, because whether the young master can survive or not depends on how the young master can endure the pain or not"
The doctor explaination was making the tall man with honey-like hair sillently afraid if his young master cannot survive this time.
"So, is there anything that can help young master to ease the pain?" He ask with nervous tone. His adam apple move up and down, and his forehead already wet with cold sweat.
"I'm sorry, I can't do anything beside the young master's symptoms was because of mana fluctuation. It can't be cured with medical knowledge" he said with pessimistic gaze.
The tall man know the best what was happening to his young master, but even the great magician in all of the contingent couldn't help his young master. Only his young master himself who could save him.
After the doctor excuse himself to leave the room, the man still looking at the beautiful face of his young master with long lashes twitching because of the pain.
A long fingers stroke the little boy's platinum silver hair. When the sun shines through the large window in front of the bed, the light shimmers off the boy's hair like the light of a firefly emits it's surrounding.
"Young master please survive" he was whispered with a face only an inch a way from the little boy's delicate face.
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The knock on the door making the big hand full of calluses stop writing, the man who was sitting at the desk only staring at the door for a few seconds, and then he continue to looking at all the document paper in front of him.
While he still reading the report, he permitted the man standing outside the door to enter his studyroom.
"Enter"
A deep voice enchanting the room, breaks the silence.
"What is it Cain?" The man with board chest sits in front of the butler named Cain who came in. Without taking his gaze off from the paper, he ask with an indifferent tone.
The tall man with the handsome face and wearing his tailcoat, his name was Cain. He was the Reinhavern Duchal's close confidant, who pledge his loyalty solely for the Duke. But of course, the little boy who was still bearing his pain on the bed was an exception for him.
"Your Highness, young master is awake" his pale lips tremble slightly.
After hearing the news from his butler, the man who has been looking at the paperwork all this time now stands up with his hand slamming the table surface because of his shock.
A few seconds later, the man's face, which had been indifferent all this time, changed to a worried face with a hint of sadness in both of his purple jewel-like eyes.
"Looking at your face..." both of the deep amethyst twilight orbs analyzed to every facial gesture of the man in front of him.
He knows, even if his brother regain his consciuousness, it does not guarantee that his brother will survive tonight.
"The doctor said, all we can do is waiting for young master to endure the pain, especially tonight. Because if he can't, maybe young master will not be able to survive" Cain explaination with his trembling as if he was being exposed to cold rainwater, making him trembling because of the cold.
Not only Cain, but even the Duke looks pale. His face is usually sharp, but now it is softened by the countless sorrows he has felt. Like an arrow piercing right through his heart.
He can't even imagine how that delicate body can endure the pain.
"You don't need to attend to his chamber, I will visit Sylvian myself tonight"
The Duke left his study room in a hurry. With his long legs he was already gone in a few seconds, leaving Cain alone in the room.
A glimpse of remorse mixes with anger in his expression. He's upset because he can't stay with his little master, so he's ready to break the Duke's order, as if Sylvian were his true master. Not the Duke.
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The white light of the moon fell across the large window, casting a silvery glow over the little boy, whose snow-white hair shimmered in the white moon-light. The glow from the window embraces the little boy's white skin. His long lashes looks like a goose feather falling from the sky, make the owner looks like an angel.
His beautiful face looks peaceful, unlike before when he woke up with a face full of pain, as if something was tearing his body apart. Now he looks like a sleeping angel.
A long hand gently stroked the boy's soft hair, as if the slightest pressure would make the little angel feel the pain. The man with the obsidian hair like a deep night sky looked at the angel with his deep purple twilight eyes.
The man had been sitting beside the bed since before sunset. His two indigo eyes were always observing the little one, who was unconscious from the intense pain that made him tired. The man can't turn his eyes away from the little boy, afraid if something makes him uncomfortable and wakes him up.
A groan from the bed broke the silence in the room.
The man's eyes lit up before turning completely desperate, when the little boy open his eyes. A second later, after he woke up, his little hands looked trembling, clutching the blanket tightly.
The little boy's icy blue eyes look gloomy, and his pupil cannot focus. His vision is still blurry and the room a bit dark, especially since there's only dim light illuminating the room. Unlike when the sun was still shining brightly, he could see a glimmer of shadow. But now the shadow merged with the surrounding darkness.
"Sylvian!" The man shouts as he put the little boy to embrace, hoping to transfer the pain from the boy's body to his own.
Sylvian's eyes faintly see two indigo orbs behind the large shadow that embraces him.
"Don't worry I will help you control your mana" the deep voice waa enchanting in his ears, and a big hand support his small body firmly but with softness.
It's feel warm.
It was as if something warm was flowing through his body, lighten a bit his pain in the chest. For the first time, Sylvian felt comfortable.
The throbbing pain that was like tearing his body apart, calmed down a bit after After the man poured a bit of his mana into the little boy's body.
The pain in Sylvian's body was caused by the fluctuation of mana in his body. Since he was born, Sylvian's mana was unstable and he couldn't control his large amount of mana. Because of this reason, the mana inside Sylvian's body became uncontrollable and attacked the body. So the owner of the body had to endure the pain until he could fully control his mana.
Out of many people who experience the same syndrome, only one person can survive when the mana fluctuations occur, and that person is the First Emperor of the Aria Empire. Not only because he was able to survive the fatal disease, but because after he could fully control his mana, he became the strongest magician who could subdue the Demon King. After his subjugation, he built the Aria Empire and became the first emperor of Aria.
Therefore, the same symptoms experienced by the emperor are called First Emperor disease. The First Emperor's Disease is not really a disease, but rather an uncontrollable magic that damages the patient's body.
And now, the Duke was trying his best to guide his little brother to control his mana with his mana. The warm sensation was the effect of the Duke's mana that had the fire attribute.
But the Duke's mana can only help ease the pain for a while. Afterwards, the pain which he could bear at first, peaked like water gushing out violently after the stone was removed. Earlier the Duke's mana could alleviate the fluctuating mana flow in Sylvian's body, but now even with the Duke's mana, he cannot control the huge amount of mana inside the little boy.
Still half awake, the pain in his body made him feel numb. His silky white forehead was wet with cold sweat, soaking his delicate face. A plum blossom lips trembling with small groan, "hurts..."
Both of his azure blue eyes looks dark and gloomy, as if the light in his eyes had been taken away.
The mana inside Sylvian's like a ragging fire that devours his body. The pain make both of his almonds eyes wet. The tears drop fall from his long lashes, wetting his peach-colored cheeks.
Inside Sylvian's body, Yuxuan try his best to overcome the pain. Even if his current body was weak like a feather, but he had strong will to survive.
Yuxuan is still not sure if he is already dead not. But the pain in his body makes him assume he might still be alive, but he doesn't know about his real body conditions.
The pain is getting more and more intense, his eyes are wide open like they're about to fall.
With eyes filled with tears, Yuxuan could not hold back his groan. A loud groan echoed in the room, even the loud voice could be heard by the tall man standing outside the door.
Cain's hand gripped his pants tightly, forming a fist.
After a long roar, Yuxuan, that his name has changed to Sylvian, his throat becomes hoarse from taking out a loud voice. His eyes and cheeks become more and more red like a tomato.
Yuxuan feels that his life and death hanging by a thread.
'Is this how my life will end?'
Thud-
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