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"You found it, bu-yeon,"
"give the ice stone to uncle"
Bu Yeon shook her head no. The little girl focused her energy on the divine energy floating in her hand.
suddenly the clouds are getting darker.
The sky is thundering.
The wind forms a tornado.
The calm lake rippled frantically.
The boat they were traveling on was moving unbalanced.
"move!" his uncle, Jin Mu, impatiently picked up the ice stone and in the process pushed Jin buyeon into the lake.
"buyeon. BUYEONNN" jin u-tak who had been watching from the end of the boat ran desperately.
They say she is the next arrival of Jin Seol Ran, the divine priestess from 200 years ago. Even stronger. But the girl could feel her body helpless. Perhaps the ice stone were taking up too much energy. Her body slowly fell into the depths of the lake. NO. She can't die like this. What about her mother, her sister, what about him whom she has to meet. Somehow she seems to be missing something. Him? Who is him? Her mind swirled to memories she didn't know existed. Is this what it feels like to die?
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Jang Uk is not a loner child. He is a quite happy child, even though it's only Kim's maid who raises him and a few busy lowly maids. He's quite a humble and kind kid but apparently that's not enough for his friends. People shun him for reasons he can't control. They say his mother cheated on his father and as a result his father banished him to his mother's hometown, Wol defense city. Unfortunately he had no way of disproving the rumors to be untrue. His mother had died, his father he had never met since birth and Maidservant Kim who did not know.
"your mother loves your father very much. I have never seen that loving gaze except for Jang Gang."
Jang Uk loves his mother and he has spent his whole life believing in Kim Doju. But what was the real reason his father left him here and never visited him?
In order to forget about situations he couldn't understand, he busied himself with studying and training so hard. He made it to chinsu at the age of fifteen. They say he's a genius like his father, Jang Gang.
Today, as usual, Jang Uk is practicing in an area close to Gyeongcheondaeho lake, which is the border lake between daeho and wol. No one asked, it was common knowledge that jang uk really wanted to go to Daeho and become one of the students at jeongjingak. Suddenly the clouds that had been bright turned black and the wind blew hard to form a tornado. Jang Uk can see the wind that comes from the lake.
He should have run away from danger but his feet stepped into the source before thinking and ended up witnessing something unexpected.
there were three people in the boat, instinctively looking to hide in the bushes. He knew enough that he shouldn't have witnessed it. As the man grabbed something from the girl and pushed her off the boat, the object he was holding suddenly burst into a blinding light.
When the light died down, Jang Uk felt a strong energy around him, two men in the boat fainted, he didn't care that, there was a drowning girl he had to save. Jang Uk jumped off the cliff and swam into the depths of the lake.