*NEXT DAY*
Zosia, Kamal, Adrian and Karl were dressed in white clothes as they stood in the mourning hall.
Kamal turned to look at Adrian and Karl who ignored him. He understood how they felt and he was sure that if it weren't for his sister, they probably wouldn't think twice before killing him.
"Sigh!" He sighed Inwardly and joined them to observe them in observing a minute of silence.
He had actually returned to mourn or celebrate whichever one they were currently doing, the anniversary of the late Emperor.
After they were done, Karl turned to look at Zosia.
"Cousin, how have you been?" Karl began.
"Been more than good. I will talk to you later, I am going to the Mausoleum. Thank you all for coming."
"It's nothing. Its sothing we should do." Adrian calmly said.
"You already have your rooms, so I don't think you would be needing soone to guide you." Zosia said calmly. As for if she was actually calm, only her knew but the rims of her eye tells a different story.
Adrian sighed inwardly as he stared at Zosia. He guessed that she must have been crying. "The child sure does miss her father. Even I miss my brother."
He knew that people would always die but he didn't expect his brother to die so soon. He thought he would even die before him. Feeling down, he left first, wanting to calm his mind.
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Arriving at the Emperor's Mausoleum. Zosia rolled the stone away, then walked down for a while before arriving at a massive Jade Gate.
In front of the Gate were the Golden statues of the past Emperor's and Empress since the founding of the Roza Empire.
Zosia walked towards the side. Clicking on a chanism, the double doors opened. The Gems glittered in the hallways, bringing forth a warm glow.
She had actually co here for the so-called stone. In the Mausoleum only the ruling Emperor or Empress are buried. As for the concubines, they have another place were they are buried.
Walking down the hallway, she spread her spiritual consciousness. She couldn't search for the stone during the Burial so she had planned to co later but things were not yet settled. Now the Emprire is set in motion.
She had actually thought that she would die, she never expected that she would still be alive and standing. Rembering the Emperor's last words about Luck, she felt that must have been what helped her survive.
Even her space has undergone so varying degrees of changes but she is yet to understand them.
She rembered, Nora telling her that the stone was buried with Empress Mist. She was known as Empress Mist. As a General daughter, she moved like the Mist in the battlefield.
"I hope Father didn't remove it." She thought Inwardly. She had co to accept calling Aaron Father.
Suddenly her senses tingled. Following the direction of where she had senses sothing, she ca across a road with a Plaque.
Reading what was written on the plaque. "So this is where those lovers were buried." She muttered, referring to Empress Mist and Aaron's father.
Pushing open the door, she saw the valuables that decorated the place but continued walking. Arriving at another door, she couldn't help but sigh at how complicated the Mausoleum is but at the sa ti appreciated it.
She finally arrived at the coffins that were placed side by side. Knowing that those coffins are just a mask and not the real one, she clicked on the Eagle statue hung on the wall.
Click!
Crick!
Zzzz!
Zosia turned to look at the space beneath the coffin. "Another work." She sighed and climbed down the staircase. After going through a few staircases, she arrived at the main coffin.
The main coffin was made of fine transparent glass. Zosia suddenly frowned. "How is this place so cold?" She couldn't attribute such cold to being underground.
Her spiritual consciousness tingled. Following it, she arrived at the coffin.
Whoosh!
Zosia heard a sharp breeze pass by and turned. Her eyes sharpened and a lilac color appeared in her eyes. She noticed a woman dressed in simple white and the ornate jewelries she was wearing.
"Quite a beauty." She comnted Inwardly.
"Greetings to her late Majesty." Zosia courtesied in greeting.
"You can actually see !" The woman cocked her head to the side with a frown.
"What are you here for? I can perceive the luck of Roza on you, are you the new Empress?"
Zosia nodded, "Yes, —" she couldn't complete he statent when the figure appeared few centiters away from her. She blinked but didn't move from her position.
"What happened to my son? You can't be an imposter, since I can feel the bloodline flowing within you and I can neither say that you are like the other lady that ca here one ti to steal what belongs to ." The woman said coldly.
"This is going to be hard." Zosia muttered inwardly but her smile didn't fade.
"I am His Late Majesty Daughter. As for the strangeness of my Constitution. I was poisoned and in order to live, I chose to beco one with the poison." Zosia explained.
"So My son is dead."
From her statent, Zosia glead that maybe she couldn't leave here.
"So what are you doing here?" The woman asked.
"I ca for my Father's death anniversary and then I rembered what he asked to get. He said that the luck of Roza is dwindling due to the curse and it wouldn't last long and we would be overthrown by the South and Northern Alliance."
"Those villages band together! " The woman said in surprise. She wasn't surprised by the curse since her son had once co to see them and she could only watch him complain.
"Yes her Majesty. I was only able to eradicate the Generals of the South Alliance, I haven't been able to get to the North. I want to improve the Empire so that during the War, nothing will affect it."
"Are you being delusional, war will always affect the economy." She scolded. Mist couldn't help but wonder if her granddaughter is stupid or what.
Zosia smiled, she started explain her plans and by the ti Mist finished listening, she was astounded.
"Hahaha... My son trained a General' daughter indeed!" She laughed happily.
She was finally hearing a good news in this depressing place. Due to the stone she has been able to live as a spirit and unwilling to beco an evil spirit, she lived as a Yin spirit.
"Good, Good!" She praised.
"Take the stone. In fact, let get it for you." She also hoped that the stone will help with her granddaughter being able to get pregnant.
Zosia breath a sigh of relief, she was able to bluff her way through. But, she didn't necessarily lie. The luck on her has been dwindling. She knew it couldn't last forever but she needs to make the Empire stronger.
That is her main goal. She didn't necessarily care about the rest. They could be solved as she forged ahead.
Mist brought out the stone from inside her body and her spirit turned faint. "I can't last for long. Go and make sure the Empire keeps rising and it would forever be rembered In the annals of history. I can finally rest" she said with a faint smile.
Zosia promised and bowed. She watched as she turned faint and sighed.
Turning back, she left, making sure to close everywhere properly. She promised to offer more tribute to the late Emperors and Empresses.
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In a restaurant....
"And after the Empress defeated the South and Northern Alliance, she rged them to the Roza Empire."
"Valiantly returning from her conquest, she made more conquest and Roza Empire beca what it is today, She—"
"Storyteller, I have a question." A child interrupted the storyteller.
The old man who looked to be in his sixties smiled and turned to look at the person.
"How old is the Empress, I heard she never died."
"It's been 400 years now according to history book. Who knows, but there have been sightings of her. She left the stage of the throne at age 200 and ruled from behind the scene, training the successors for a 100 years, but one thing is that, the Empress never aged. Not for one day. She remains as beautiful as she is despite the cracks on her face."
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Many more years passed.....
Zosia stood in the Luxurious palace that has stood the test of ti. Since she ca to this world to present, it's been 500 years.
And the Luck didn't completely dwindle as she thought but increase along with her conquest, but nevertheless, she did not remain arrogant, even becoming calr.
She made sure that the history of Roza Empire remained complete and now that the traditional days are slowly dying out and the modernized way is the current trend. She was happy to have done a lot.
Thinking about the people she had trained both those that had helped her in the long run and are long since dead, she decided it was ti for her to go as well.
Kamal, Adrian and Karl had long since died.she still rembered how they shook their head whenever they t her and saw she was still young.
Even to the extent of wondering if that was the effect of the poison constitution.
Kamal wasn't able to cure her but he found a lot of cures for many things and she learnt dicine from him.
Entering Nora's self made spirit prison, she t Nora whose soul was shining brighter than ever.
"Thank you. You have done more than enough." Nora said with a smile.
"Its ti for us to go. The sould world invited , so we will et again sister." She sniffed.
"Thank you.... Thank you. I don't know what would have happened without your help. Thank you." She hugged Zosia and entered a crying fit.
After crying for a while, they both suddenly felt a pull on their soul.
"Take care. See you next ti. If we end up in the sa place. Type Zosia ave Branden in your contact list to find or chat up with this Id number....." She was still talking but Nora was already becoming fainter.
"Sigh! It's also ti I leave. My space has refused to let see it, since it ate up that stone." She muttered, returning back to her host body.
Ringing the bell beside her, the attendants who had been in wait, imdiately entered. Zosia handed them the various scrolls and which departnt they would be taken to.
"Ma, are you going?" A Handso young man with sea green eyes like hers spoke, his voice tinged with a hint of sadness. It was the current Emperor.
"Yes. Don't forget my teachings and keep up the good work in growing the Empire." Zosia smiled and laid down.
He has always been told about how she was feeling that she was dying soon, he never believed that such a day would co soon.
They all Knelt down.
Zosia closed her eyes and muttered. "Let the remaining luck go to this child and let him spread it around the Empire." Zosia let her soul be pulled. Suddenly a rain shower with a freaking bright sun appeared everywhere in the empire, followed by the gong that announced her death.
Her body glowed a golden light before dying down. They kept kneeling down.
Inwardly the young man sighed when he felt a strange feeling. It was sothing he wasn't strange to as she had educated him on it.
Closing his eyes, his head throbbed at the impending work he had to do.
"Emperor see!" His attendant called out with a shout.
Raising his head, he watched as the body of the greatest Empress in history dissolved into ashes.
Standing up in shock, he approached the ashes that also disintegrated and disappeared.
He was so shocked that he stood there in a trance. He was completely stupefied.
"Emperor what do we do?" His secretary asked worriedly.
Indeed, Instead of Eunuch, there is now a secretary.
"We can't do anything. We would bury her picture instead." He said and turned to look back at the bed. "And maybe the bed. Also the clothes she wore. I just don't know!" He broke down, crying as he buried his head into his palm.
The attendants lowered their heads, no one said anything, allowing the Emperor to cry.
After getting himself and pulling himself together, he organized her burial and that was how the Greatest Empress in Roza's History Died.
He buried her in the grandest way ever and that marked Zosia's death and the longest ti she ever lived in any of the worlds she has currently been to.
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