“At the time, Aisha and I took advantage of Father leading the nobles out of the city for hunting, and found a chance to sneak out—Aisha has a talent for bypassing surveillance, even the chief of intelligence and his secret agents couldn't find her.

We rode a small pony, carrying short bows, laughing as we came to the depths of the forest in the valley, seeing thorns, flowers, butterflies, streams, and a beam of white light falling from the sky.”

“The white light fell in the middle of the stream, it was a mirror, shining, bright, spotless, as if it could see all the mysteries of the world.”

“I felt a little scared and wanted to persuade Aisha to leave, but she was never afraid, she always is like that.”

“She stepped over the low stream in her boots and touched the mirror. In an instant, a whirlwind swept through, the stream flowed backward, the birds in the forest flew up in panic, then fell calmly, and the withered yellow leaves on the ground seemed to be lifted by some force, floating in the air, turning from yellow to green, and reattaching to the branches.”

“Aisha was still touching the mirror, but her whole body floated up, as if she was about to fly to the sky. I mustered up my courage and rushed over, pulling her down, and accidentally touched the mirror in the process.”

Li Ang frowned, "That mirror..."

"A magic mirror."

Anna corrected, "That was the beginning of everything, like Pandora's box. Father, hearing the news, arrived with people. Before that, they had already discovered we were missing. The chief of intelligence was so anxious that he wanted to draw his sword and kill himself.

The unconscious Aisha and I were taken back to the palace, along with the magic mirror.

Aisha and I woke up quickly, and after examination, there was nothing unusual, but I knew that some profound change had taken place in the depths of my sister's heart.

The former Aisha was completely gone.”

“The court mages studied the mirror over and over again, but they couldn't find any suspicious points.

After that, Aisha gradually began to show her spellcasting abilities, and when she communicated with me privately, the views she expressed on the world became more and more extreme and bizarre.

Am I jealous of her? No, I fear her, hate her, and even sneaked into the royal warehouse where the magic mirror was sealed, found the mirror, and wanted to smash it, to bring my sister back.

It was useless, the magic mirror was indestructible."

Anna heavily exhaled a breath of stale air, "Things got worse after my parents died. Aisha naturally became the queen without internal betrayal. She took the magic mirror out of the warehouse and placed it in her bedroom, no matter how I tried to persuade her, she wouldn't give up.

Her magic became stronger day by day, and her temperament became more and more distorted. She even froze a minister who publicly opposed her into an ice sculpture.

Fortunately, her feelings for me never changed. She allowed me to do anything, and she wasn't angry even when I lost my temper at her or wanted to steal and destroy the mirror.

She tried her best to gather physicians to heal my heart.

After discovering my ability, she didn't publicize it, secretly searching for death row inmates, using their lives to extend my life.

The magic mirror's influence on her grew deeper and deeper, and eventually, she embarked on the path of war, freezing all the enemies on the road with severe cold and ice.

She became the queen who ruled everything, and I became the magistrate who decided the life and death of millions.”

“So, what’s going on here?”

Li Ang reached out and pointed to the entire palace.

“You mean Aisha sealed herself up?”

Anna lowered her eyes and said calmly, “She became the supreme queen, enough to carry out all her fantasies over the years.

But perhaps the increase in power also made her aware of the anomaly. She told me that she often felt a voice talking to her, encouraging the darkest and most vicious thoughts in her heart.

Such as destroying humanity, freezing everything, and even destroying the world...

The true ability of the magic mirror is to distort reality, reverse black and white.

To make beauty ugly, to make good evil, to turn peace into radicalism, to turn humility and tolerance into stubbornness and rigidity.

Aisha was afraid of this, and tried to destroy and abandon the magic mirror but failed—the mirror was indestructible, and no matter how remote the place it was discarded, the mirror could always return to Aisha by various coincidences.

Helpless, she began to deliberately stay away from me—she worried that one day her love for me would turn into hatred under the distortion of the magic mirror.

Just at that time, someone reported that a meteorite fell from the sky and hit the top of the mountain.

This time, what fell was not a magic mirror, but a stone like a fountain base.”

Anna's eyes fell on the stone fountain, "Where the stone fell, clear spring water gushed out. The spring water had the ability to nourish and repair everything, to revitalize dead wood, and to heal shattered cups as before."

“Aisha and I guessed that the magic mirror and the fountain were likely to have originated from the same place, and the seemingly gentle and peaceful spring water might have some undiscovered side effects.

So, Aisha built a palace on the top of the mountain, sealing herself, the magic mirror, and the spring water, and began to study the essence of the spring water—she wanted to rely on the spring water to solve the magic mirror, her own distorted mind, and my illness.”

Li Ang glanced at the ice sculpture above the fountain, "It seems that the final result was not very successful."

"She succeeded, and she failed."

Anna sighed quietly, "She used the spring water and her magic to successfully shatter the magic mirror into several pieces.

But she herself was seriously injured by the things in the magic mirror and could no longer leave the spring water.

She told me to place the fragments of the magic mirror in different churches, absorbing the people's good beliefs in her to fight against the evil in the magic mirror—this kind of confrontation is only a helpless expedient measure.

Because the power of faith will eventually interfere with her mind, making her a personality god, and forever lose her independent will.

I placed five pieces of the magic mirror in different churches, and one piece was discarded into the depths of the sea according to her instructions—the magic mirror has an automatic recovery ability that can be described as weaving fate.

The lenses scattered in the sea can ensure that the magic mirror cannot be assembled in a short time.

But it seems that you have collected them all."

Li Ang was suddenly shocked, and narrowed his eyes to look at Anna.

Anna smiled, "You hide it well, but I am too familiar with that mirror, I can smell its special scent from people who have been in contact with the magic mirror."

"Maybe we just accidentally came into contact with it?"

"Heh, my intelligence personnel are incompetent, but at least they are not a group of dead people. It is still possible to find the places where you have been active—all of them are in the locations where the magic mirror is distributed.

However, I am still a little curious, where did you hide the fragments of the mirror?"