Tribes and Empires: Storm of Prophecy

- Your Highness! - No matter what happens

you're not to come in.

What are you going to do?

Your Highness!

Your Highness!

Sheng...

Sheng! My son, Sheng!

Sheng!

Father...

Who are you?

I am you.

You are not me.

You pretended to forget.

You've locked away the memory of me.

I will always exist.

One day...

I will return.

Since I can have you locked away

I can do so forever.

That's your own wishful thinking!

You and I are one.

There's no telling us apart.

You don't really know when I will be unleashed again.

I can do it.

Then why have you failed to find true happiness all these years?

Why do you keep thinking about escaping into that glass bead?

Fool.

I am you.

The demon within me!

You've harmed people, so you shall be destroyed!

Fool...

You wish to protect the people.

You think that all people are kind and innocent?

They don't have their own demons?

Should you discover one day

that everyone in the world has become demons...

who will protect you?

It won't happen.

Are you out of the glass bead, or am I in it?

This is all illusion. You are wherever you want to be.

How beautiful.

Really?

Don't you find it strange in some way?

There's the sun.

But I can't feel its warmth.

There's also wind, but I can't seem to feel it.

And...

there is no other sound.

Wherever we are, we're there, but we're also blocked out of it.

Apart from seeing it with our eyes

there are no other senses.

Nothing else could make you feel lonelier than this place.

How long have you been in the glass bead?

Time doesn't exist in here.

Time goes on.

In a day, it's the sequence of morning, noon, evening, and night.

There's no such sequence here.

Whatever time of the day you have on your mind

it shall appear in here.

Therefore, I can't figure out or calculate how long I've been in here.

That's quite nice as well.

People can then remain young forever.

That's quite a blessing.

Without the old as a comparison, how is there youth?

Without the flow of time...

there is no indicator of the past.

Nor the future.

There is no past?

Then how did you get into the glass bead?

I also often ask myself this question.

However...

I really can't remember.

As far as I can recall, I've only been in one other place.

It's been on my mind.

I also don't understand.

What place is it?

I'm always right here.

It's also always here.

But I can't remember why.

It's just as if...

my hometown is in the sea.

But it's so vast that I don't know where it is.

There are words written on that ship!

Duke Heng?

Is there anyone else in this glass bead?

Take care.

Server!

Get us another bottle of wine!

Sir, just a moment.

Coming!

Madam, two pots of tea, please?

Serve wine in the rooms!

Madam?

Madam, are there any seats left?

Yes, there are! Come right in!

Madam, another half a kilo of beef!

Half a kilo of beef!

Sure! Half a kilo of beef!

Serve the food quickly!

Sure! Coming!

You saw it?

There are other people in the glass bead sometimes.

And sometimes not.

Did you also imagine those people?

I had also thought so in the beginning.

Then I gradually realized that

their looks and time of appearance aren't exactly controlled by me.

They don't know where you were from either?

No matter how many people I've seen in here

you're the only one who can speak to me.

Really?

Only I can speak to you?

Why are you so happy?

I don't know why either.

I just suddenly feel happy.

I couldn't hide such joy in time.

Look!

There's nothing over there.

Why have you left?

Are you angry?

If I've done anything wrong, please come out and tell me.

I'll apologize to you.

I know that you can hear me.

You've told me that only my voice exists in here.

Come on out!

I don't even know your name yet.

You've really left?

I'll head home as well then.

Haven't you already left?

I thought that it was too lonely for you to be here alone.

It's quite pitiful.

I'm not.

Apart from having no one to talk to

this place has everything that I want.

Is it all right for me to come and chat with you from now on?

- Really? - Yes.

No, thank you.

What is your name?

I don't have a name.

How could you not have a name?

You can have as many ordinary names as you want.

But I didn't like any.

I'm waiting for a name that belongs only to me.

How about I give you one?

You've come to see me so you could give me a name?

You told me once.

You're one of the Charmers.

What abilities do Charmers have?

We can create magical powers?

Is there any magical power that can cure illnesses?

Is this why you have come to see me?

You wish to learn from my magical powers?

That was why.

However...

after I met you--

Is that why you said you'd come and chat with me often?

It isn't so.

You actually have an ulterior motive.

Your Highness!

Your Highness!

Your Highness!

Sir.

Have you come to see me for a reason?

Yes.

What is the matter?

Sir...

Could you help my prince?

If you need any help, I'll surely be of service.

It's not me.

It's His Highness who needs help.

I'm Prince Sheng's maid.

I boldly...

I boldly ask you for help on behalf of His Highness.

Tell me what it is about.

His Highness is keen on saving His Majesty.

He's asked the lady in the glass bead about magical powers.

However, he ended up offending her.

She now refuses to ever see him again.

His Highness has to study occultism on his own.

However, he doesn't have a clue.

He hasn't slept for days.

I had no other choice but to impose on you.

Has His Highness asked about the origins of that woman?

He said...

she's from the sea.

Has she mentioned a book?

I've never heard His Highness mention it.

How about this?

I'll have my men escort you home first.

Don't worry.

We'll surely help His Highness.

Thank you, sir.

Prince Ye, please look.

The woman in the painting is holding a scroll.

What is drawn on its cover?

What is it?

This is...

the "Book of the Charmers."

"Book of the Charmers"?

Exactly.