Love, thought the witch.

Her life's memories flashed before her eyes but never once did she experience something remotely close to the word called 'love'.

She had no idea who gave birth to her, she just knew that she was on the streets of the Witch Continent since day one of her being conscious.

She begged, she roamed, she fought, and eventually she got stronger after many thousands of years.

In her journey though, she made many enemies and was always on a run from them.

The witches weren't kind. Even though they worked as one, they weren't truly one. A witch was jealous of the progress of another and tried to bring them down by any means necessary.

If it wasn't for the rule that witches couldn't kill other witches, the entire witch society would have collapsed.

The witch had some interest develop within her eyes and looked at Lith.

Lith smiled and said, "If you don't have anything, we both can try having you experience them. We both can work together to find all the happiness you didn't and we both can work our way towards a life that isn't tragic anymore."

"You can die anytime, but you can only live once. Give me and your own self, one last chance. If it doesn't work out, it doesn't work out. Alright?"

The witch's eyes quivered. She had never heard such words from anyone in her whole entire life.

Listening to such words, she didn't know what to feel or even how to feel them.

She was a person deprived of all happiness and her life was nothing but full of tragedies.

She didn't even know the word happiness, it was this bad.

She looked at Lith, stared at him for a few seconds and pondered over what he had said.

It was true, she could die anytime. But she would only be able to live once. Say, even if she were to die and reincarnate, who is to say she'll not suffer through the same things? However, it could also be looked upon as, who is to say she won't be happy?

It was a gamble and she was tired. She didn't want to take such gambles. She wanted to rest.

She looked at Lith and asked this same question about reincarnating and finding her own happiness. She also mentioned that she had tried so many times, yet why did she not find anything he just mentioned?

Lith simply smiled and patted the witch's head. "It's because this handsome prince wasn't there with you."

He then winked at her and chuckled.

The witch, at first, didn't understand anything Lith said, but after a while of pondering, she thought, 'I see'

Nobody knew what she was thinking of, but whatever Lith said had turned the corner of her lips to slightly curve up.

Life reappeared within the witch's eyes and some hope of living again were rekindled within her.

"Unchain me, I'll try to break the curse."

Lith turned to Noman and Ruben in the room, who simply slashed at the chains and broke them.

Nobody was afraid of the witch attacking them. There was a higher power in the castle, things were fine.

The witch went to Fei and while using her powers, tried to break the chains binding her.

While doing so, she said, "There needs to be someone who's proficient in Time and Space elements."

"I am," said Lith.

The witch nodded lightly and handed him a few strings that he was supposed to wrap around the places she was asking him to.

A few minutes later, she began drawing certain inscriptions below Fei and circled her.

Then, she asked Noman and Ruben to help her and Lith to move aside.

The three people began injecting their powers into the inscriptions below and Fei's body began getting covered with darkness.

However, above the darkness appeared bright green chains and a rusty old lock.

The witch held on to the lock via the strings Lith had placed before and asked Noman and Ruben to hold the strings placed on the other areas on the chains.

With one go, the three people pulled the strings with all their might and a loud rumbling was heard in the room.

"Prepare for tribulation," the witch warned as she tugged hard, causing the lock to finally break.

Another loud rumbling was heard as if the heavens were angry and a tribulation was for sure going to descend.

However,

Two seconds three seconds seconds one minute

Ten minutes passed and no tribulations occurred, dumbfounding everybody.

"Strange" the witch muttered.

She gazed at Fei up and down, then at the ceiling of the room, but there seemed to be no signs of anything.

Everything seemed to be normal.

She was so dumbfounded as this was an ancient curse. Breaking it brought upon oneself a great calamity.

Then why didn't calamity arrive?

Did the curse not break? That shouldn't be the case. The chains were gone and Fei had gone into deep meditation.

She was also getting stronger by each passing second, meaning that the restrictions had indeed all gone.

Then why? Why was there no calamity?

The witch was so confused.

Ruben could see the witch's confused face and said with a smile, "Calamity won't descend, if Madam doesn't give permission."

The witch didn't understand what this guy said and asked, "What?"

Ruben laughed. "You'll know with due time."

Lith ignored the guys talking and stared at Fei. She was in a lotus position, in deep meditation, and with each second, her aura grew stronger.

It was quite the surprise to Lith as he thought she was about as strong as him. But he was quite wrong as she seemed to be growing.

Growing far stronger than even Lucy.

Her aura grew and after a point, reached such a tremendous stage that even Noman and Ruben couldn't protect Lith properly.

Sensing the disturbances, space fluctuated around Lith and everything immediately calmed down as a divine silver-haired being arrived at the scene.

"Need help?" Lilith asked with a smile.

Lith nodded. "Would be nice."

Lilith chuckled and turned to Fei.

She squatted down to reach her level and enveloped herself with Fei in a barrier.

Lith could see everything as the barrier was almost transparent.

Lilith poked at Fei's heart and immediately, all of Fei's hair stood on their ends, even her blonde hair defied gravity, and she seemed to be going through something really extraordinary.

Lith didn't know what it was so he just thought of it being extraordinary.

A minute later, Fei seemed to have calmed down and she slowly opened her eyes.

Once she did, she was a bit shocked, but then Lilith said something to her and Fei nodded her head in understanding.

The barrier then broke and Fei turned to Lith. She bowed and said, "Master, you have my deepest gratitude."

Lith didn't know what she was thanking him for, so he asked, "For what?"

"For taking away the seals binding me." Fei said flatly.

"It was her, not me." Lith didn't take credit and pointed at the witch.

Fei nodded and said, "But if you hadn't convinced her, she wouldn't have done it. It's all thanks to you, master."

Lith chuckled and said, "Alright. Now go see what's wrong with her."

Fei nodded and went to heal the witch.

Meanwhile, Lilith appeared beside Lith and said with a smile, "You got yourself some nice maids, baby."

Lith shrugged. "I just picked them up randomly."

His moves were calculated. He knew going to the right place would bring the right fruit, but yeah, he didn't think that he would get three good maids in one go.

Lilith giggled softly at this and didn't say anything more.

"By the way, did you stop the calamity, mom?"

"Yes."

"Understandable."

The conversation about this was short and Lith didn't waste too much energy on it. He had better things to ask, like, "Do you know something about Fei and that witch, mom?"

He didn't have much knowledge as to what the curse was on the witch or who put a lock on Fei. He felt his mother might know better and asked.

Lilith nodded and began explaining as to what she knew.

Fei belonged to a family of Timebound Seers. Basically Time path experts that were also proficient oracles.

This was a deadly combo and people were afraid of them.

Fear turned to horror as time passed and that family grew. People eventually couldn't take it anymore and they attacked the Timebound Seers, placing them on a curse and sealing them away.

Before they could get cursed or sealed, the Timebound Seers cursed the guys back and eventually, even after their death, the curse continued on.

This witch was probably someone related to the guys that were the reason for the wipe out of the Timebound Seers.

Fei was the last of her family and as for that witch, she was probably the last of the cursed people.

The long enmity had ended now with both of them working to free each other.

Lith couldn't help but be amazed and stare at Fei trying her best to remove the curse from the witch.

He wondered what she was feeling right now as she tried to break the curse the witch had.