The giant serpent beast, which had been freed from the Curse Stone, lay silently on the ground, but the warriors of the expeditionary force dared not be careless and surrounded it tightly.
The Princess frowned, wrapping her palm with a cloth torn from her clothes, and picked up a fragment of the Curse Stone—a type of stone that scholars at the research institute had once pried off for study... If humans directly touched it, they would turn to sand.
Even shattered, the Curse Stone retained its power. However, the resurrection of the giant serpent beast through the Curse Stone's power, leading other beasts to resurrect with it, was something the Princess encountered for the first time in her life.
"Your Highness, it's ready!" A guard from the Royal Palace hurriedly approached the Princess. "Should we ascend the watchtower now?"
"If not now, then when?" the Princess snorted coldly.
