civilwarnovels Chapter 2890 Zeref Seeks Help from the Council of Stars!
Chapter 2890 Zeref Seeks Help from the Council of Stars!
Chapter 2890 Zeref Seeks Help from the Council of Stars!
Aizen stared at Zeref as if trying to see through the shadows deep within his soul.
"Your mastery of dark magic, and your extraordinary and profound understanding of curses and contracts, are truly remarkable."
“I believe that your personal experience must also be extraordinary, perhaps even no less than that of Subaru.”
These words were spoken.
The entire space of the Star Council fell silent.
Subaru Natsuki, Perona, and Joseph all turned their curious gazes toward them.
Faced with Aizen's proposal.
Jelf rarely showed a look of hesitation.
Complex emotions flashed in those calm, dark eyes.
That period of loneliness, pain, and despair lasted for four hundred years.
It is a scar deep in one's heart that one least wants to touch.
He opened his heart to a group of people from another world whom he had just met.
This is not in line with his usual style.
But
Zeref glanced at Aizen beside him out of the corner of his eye.
"If you were to reveal the 'curse of contradictions'..."
He pondered to himself, "Perhaps, in this miraculous Council of Stars, we can really find a way to lift the curse, or perhaps, a way to kill myself."
Thinking about this...
Jelf gently closed his eyes.
When he opened his eyes again, the hesitation in them had vanished.
Instead, there is a sense of desolation from seeing through the ways of the world.
"Since you all want to hear it, then let me tell you."
Jelf's voice suddenly became ethereal and distant.
He began from a third-person perspective, as if recounting a legend.
Slowly draw back the curtain on a history that has been sealed for four hundred years.
"About four hundred years ago, it was not a civilized world dominated by humans, but a dark age ruled by dragons."
"Dragons soar through the sky, and in their eyes, humans are nothing more than weak ants, and food to fill their stomachs."
"However, even among the high and mighty dragon race, there are internal divisions."
"One faction of dragons felt pity for humans and hoped to coexist peacefully with them, while the other faction maintained the arrogance of the dragon race and firmly believed that humans were only fit to exist as inferior food."
"Because of ideological clashes, wars constantly break out between them."
As he spoke, Zeref's gaze seemed to pierce through the mists of the Star Council and reach the war-torn land.
"In that war-torn era, there was an ordinary boy."
"He originally had a happy family, loving parents, and a very cute younger brother."
When he said the word "brother," Jelf paused.
"But the dragons' war eventually affected them as well."
"In a dragon attack, the boy's parents and younger brother all perished in the dragon's flames."
"This incident has devastated the boy's life."
"It also made him curious about the true meaning of life and death."
"In order to find the answer and to resurrect his dead brother, the boy entered the highest institution of learning at the time, Mildian Magic Academy, and worked hard to learn magic."
Upon hearing this, Joseph's expression turned solemn.
He could imagine an orphan who suddenly lost all his relatives.
With what despair, sorrow, and pain did they yearn for a miracle?
"And so, the boy displayed a talent for magic that astonished those around him."
Jelf's tone remained calm, as if the story had nothing to do with him.
"He was soon hailed as the greatest genius in the history of the academy."
"But this genius's obsession is often the root of destruction."
"As the boy's knowledge increased, he still touched upon absolute taboos—studying magic about 'life and death'."
"Attempting to break the boundary between life and death to resurrect her younger brother."
"This led to his expulsion from the academy, and then angered Ankhseram, the god who controls life and death."
"In the end, the gods cast a curse upon him called 'Contradiction'."
At this point, Jelf looked up.
His dark eyes seemed to reflect endless death and desolation.
"When the boy awoke from his divinely punished stupor, he was horrified to discover..."
“The entire Mildian Magic Academy, his teachers, his classmates, everyone has become a cold corpse.”
"This is the cruelty of the curse of contradiction."
"It granted him an immortal body, while simultaneously establishing absolute rules."
Jelf's voice was filled with deep sorrow.
"The more he respects and loves life, the more his body will uncontrollably release and spread death energy, depriving all living things around him of life."
"Only when he closes his heart, treats life as worthless, treats others as pawns, and forgets his love for life, will the curse temporarily stop."
That concludes Jelf's story.
The Council of Stars had fallen into a deathly silence.
"Oh no, how could this happen?"
Perona, caught up in the emotions, covered her mouth.
His round eyes were already brimming with tears, and his gaze toward Jelf was full of sympathy.
Natsuki Subaru clenched his fists so tightly that his nails dug deep into his palms.
He experienced the despair and pain of death countless times.
But he still has Emilia, Rem, Betty, Ram, Otto, Garfield and other friends and family around him.
But His Majesty Zeref before us is trapped in eternal life and loneliness, unable even to express love.
Subaru Natsuki couldn't tell whether 'Return by Death' or 'Contradictory Curse' was more cruel.
"If we grant people immortality, will the more we love life, the more we take it away?"
Aizen Sousuke sat quietly in the Gemini seat.
On the surface, he revealed just the right amount of emotion and sigh.
In this atmosphere, Jelf lowered his eyes.
A self-deprecating and bitter smile curved his lips.
"I think you've already figured it out."
Her originally ethereal voice now had a slightly hoarse quality.
It seems to bear the weight and pain of four hundred years.
"The boy in the story is me."
"For four hundred years, I have wandered the world alone, deprived of the right to experience its beauty, even of those I love."
Jelf's gaze fell on the Starry Round Table, his eyes so empty it was heartbreaking.
"In order to be free from this endless torment."
"I tried everything to kill myself."
Upon hearing the words 'kill yourself,' Natsuki Subaru's heart clenched with pain.
He struggled desperately to survive the cycle of death.
But the person in front of me was desperately praying for death.
Zeref looked at Subaru Natsuki, suppressing his fluctuating emotions, and his tone returned to its usual calm.
“Subaru, the reason I asked you for the witch factors of ‘sloth’ and ‘envy’ is not out of mere curiosity or greed.”
"It's because I discovered that this conceptual power of distorting the laws of reality has a subtle similarity to the 'curse of contradiction' within me."
"I hope that by analyzing and studying them, I can find the flaws in the curse by analogy."
Natsuki Subaru suddenly understood, nodded repeatedly, and said loudly with slightly red eyes, "I understand, Your Majesty Zeref!"
"If you need it again in the future, I am willing to provide you with witch factors!"
"Thank you." Jelf nodded slightly.
He then turned to look at Aizen Sousuke beside him.
(P.S.: Do you guys think Aizen has a way to resolve the 'Curse of Contradiction'?)