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The vibration emanating from Lily’s throat. Lily’s lips and breath moving diligently.

In addition, I have been making noise to stop Lily since earlier.

But it felt like I was alone in a quiet abyss, not feeling anything.

In the pitch-black sight where even light couldn’t be felt, not even a small sound like being left alone in this world could be heard.

Only Lily holding onto my shoulders was everything to me right now.

I pushed Lily’s hand away, touched my throat, and said again.

“Lily. Lily. Lily. Lily. Lily. Lily.”

I feel it. A slight vibration in my throat with each word. But I can’t hear it in my ears.

No, am I calling her Lily in the first place?

Once again, I called Lily’s name.

“Lily. Lily… Lily…. Lily! Lily!! Lily!!!”

As my mouth opened, a strong vibration was felt in my throat, and my vocal cords trembled. Yet, even shouting Lily like this, screaming her name, I couldn’t hear anything.

“Lily! Kek.”

Unconsciously, I kept calling Lily, saying there was nothing wrong, but then a pain in my throat came, and I coughed.

-Cough.

It wasn’t just a cough, but something coming up from my body.

Having experienced this before, I know what it is even though I can’t see it.

My body moved abruptly. It seemed like Lily was hugging me. Clearly, the famous princess hug.

Lily held me and moved somewhere.

It felt like I was leaving Su-eon’s body, but we entered the next room. In just a minute, I was back in Lily’s arms.

As Lily let me down, I was engulfed in fear.

==

As Amelia fell from Lily, she began to frantically search for Lily as if she were insane.

Calling Lily’s name, she moved clumsily around with a body that wasn’t functioning properly.

Lily had no choice but to hold Amelia’s hand, but Amelia held on so tightly with both hands as if it were a lifeline, gripping Lily’s arm so tightly it hurt.

“Darn it…!”

Amelia is in a very anxious state mentally right now.

Even when she couldn’t see, she panicked and struggled. She was scared, though she didn’t tell Lily and Helena. But she endured it thanks to the warmth around her.

Now it’s different. Her eyes and ears are broken.

Amelia can’t feel anything except touch now. That’s why, as soon as Lily fell, she felt fear at being left alone and frantically searched for Lily.

Amelia needs Saint Isabelle now. Lily knows that too.

To call Saint Isabelle, there are only two ways. Either go directly to her or use mana to forcibly summon her.

She initially tried to go directly, but that was canceled due to Amelia’s seizure. So the remaining option is to use mana to forcefully summon Saint Isabelle through magic.

The problem is that Amelia is very vulnerable to mana.

But to use space teleportation magic that consumes a lot of mana? Amelia would clearly suffer a lot.

While pondering how to handle this situation, someone entered the room.

It was Eia, with black long hair and a maid outfit, following Amelia. Eia saw Amelia holding Lily, covered in blood, and screamed.

“Amelia! Tell Helena to call Saint Isabelle right now!!!”

Like Amelia, Eia is an ordinary maid, but having lived with Lily, Helena, and the World Tree, she quickly understood the situation and ran to inform Helena.

Helena immediately informed the saint who was training with Emily about the dire situation of Amelia using magic as soon as she heard about it.

With Emily’s help, the saint was able to quickly reach Amelia.

Lily and Helena waited for the diagnosis from the saint with grim expressions, not expecting much.

However.

“It seems possible.”

Lily and Helena looked up at the saint in surprise at her words.

“What do you mean?”

“I think we can save Amelia.”

“Really!?”

Lily stood up abruptly and grabbed the saint’s shoulders.

“Yes. But it will be very difficult and there is a possibility of failure.”

“No. If there’s even a 1% chance, we will make it a success.”

The saint calmly explained the method she had come up with to Lily, Helena, and Emily.

The only way to save Amelia was with Lily and Emily.

“This won’t increase Amelia’s life force.”

“Then?”

“We just need to turn back to when Amelia’s life force was at its brightest.”

Everyone was puzzled by the saint’s words. Emily, with doubts about the saint’s words, spoke up.

“Isn’t that why we couldn’t save Unni until now?”

“No! I also thought it was impossible at first. But Lily and Emily, you succeeded.”

“What are you talking about? When did Lily and I…”

“Yes. That’s right. Lily and Emily succeeded.”

Lily stood up from her seat.

“What? No way we did something like that…”

Lily and Emily stood up and looked at their bodies.

The life force flowing through their bodies was different from their pre-travel state. Lily was maintaining the worst life force due to numerous drugs and was in a dangerously unstable state close to mental collapse.

They had been in a situation where they didn’t know when or where they would die, but they had persevered with just mana.

Emily resurrected after dying in front of the saint.

Resurrection.

In literal terms, it means dying and coming back to life. Such a miraculous event naturally came with risks.

The saint and the resurrected Emily had their maximum life force drastically reduced. They had resurrected, but they were in a state where they couldn’t live for long.

All of that disappeared when they traveled to the past. They were in their best state.

Nothing had happened, no time had passed.

When is life force at its highest? At birth. As one ages, life force decreases.

Originally, it was impossible to increase the decreased life force to its maximum.

That was the rule and law of the world.

But Lily and Emily ignored that.

“Time. It was time.”

It’s a bit of a pun. Instead of increasing life force, they were turning back time to before it decreased.

But it was the same as increasing life force, just a different method.

The problem was.

“How will they pay the price?”

“That’s the problem. Lily and Emily paid an unimaginable price to travel to the past.”

Lily paid with all the national-level artifacts in the world and countless lives.

Emily had her very existence erased from the person she loved most, Amelia, and couldn’t even approach her for the rest of her life. In addition, she sacrificed the unique artifact, the Holy Sword, surpassing national-level artifacts, and traveled to the past.

“But compared to Lily and Emily, it’s much more relaxed. We’re not going back in time, just turning back Amelia’s time. But no one knows what will happen. However, there is a possibility.”

“Emily.”

“Lily.”

The two of them no longer had any concerns about the price.

Lily opened a spatial rift and pulled out a massive sphere. Emily pulled out the Holy Sword she had stolen from the Levank Kingdom from her own spatial rift.

“What is that?”

Emily questioned the black orb Lily was holding.

“The souls of the lives I’ve collected.”

“Collected souls?”

“Simply put, the souls of every living being I’ve killed.”

“Ugh…”

==

After deciding on their course of action, time quickly passed. They had poured everything into this solely for Amelia.

Once all preparations were complete, everyone nervously swallowed their saliva, tension thick in the air.

Lily had created the magic, and ultimately it was the saint who would manifest it.

Given Amelia’s sensitivity to mana, the saint had been chosen to manifest the magic in case of any unforeseen circumstances.

The plan was to turn back 14 years of Amelia’s time. Currently, Amelia was 32 years old. They aimed to revert her to the age of 18, the age where vitality is most active and growth has ceased.

To circumvent the rules and laws of the world in reverting Amelia to 18, the saint received everyone’s mana to manifest the magic.

Fortunately, the magic was successfully manifested. Everyone realized the success of the magic as they looked at Amelia.

They soon realized something was amiss.

14 years. Reverting 14 years of time would naturally bring Amelia back to the age of 18.

However, they had made a mistake.

The 8 years Amelia had spent sleeping were not counted as time passing for her.

Due to the power of the World Tree, her vitality had been forcibly halted, and although she appeared to be sleeping, it was more accurate to say time had stopped for her.

In other words, Emily’s actual age was not 32, but 24.

Instead of reverting to 18 years old, she had regressed to 10 years old.

Fortunately, the magic itself was successful, as Amelia opened her eyes and sat up.

“Eh…?”

Upon seeing her reflection, she let out a gasp.