09. Orion Azvameth.

He knew the blessings bestowed upon him would only act as a guide in solving the issues that plagued his kingdom , rather than guaranteeing an immediate eradication of the challenges he would face.

In a nutshell, these blessings would only provide him with the tools, resources, and abilities needed to overcome these difficulties, but the outcome would still depend on his efforts and decisions.

Looking through his memories, Orion realized how little he knew about Prince Orion Azvameth.

Orion realized a lot of things that weren't revealed in the game.

In fact, he could see how the characters in this world felt so alive, with each of them having their own personal goals and dreams.

This further cemented his resolve to accept this world as his new reality, because the more he looked through his memories, the more he felt like he had been living as a prince all his life.

Orion looked around his room once again to familiarize himself with it, but as he did so, he became awed by his room and how big it was.

"This is amazing," Orion was amazed by the neat and luxurious room that now belonged to him. He could clearly see that the room was befitting for a prince.

'Now, let's have a quick recap of everything that has happened in my new life so far,' Orion said in his thoughts.

Prince Orion was born to a dragon father and a nature-spirit mother.

His father, King Roland Azvameth 'The Great' had two wives, with his stepmother and half-sister being known as Lucretia and Mia respectively.

Since Orion was the son of a dragon and a nature spirit, everyone expected great things from him.

This was because everyone knew he had the potential to awaken either or both of his parents' bloodline abilities.

Even the king of the Eastern Kingdom entered an agreement with Orion's father to unite their children in marriage, with the aim of strengthening the bond between the two kingdoms.

However, they were hugely disappointed to find out that Orion was unable to awaken either of his parents' bloodlines.

In this world, it was a norm for royal families and nobles with a strong bloodline to awaken their bloodline ability at the age of ten. But when it was Orion's turn to awaken his, things didn't go exactly as they had hoped.

So many things could be blamed for his inability to awaken his bloodline. One prominent cause of this could be the strange death of his mother which occurred the night before his tenth birthday.

Some concluded that the death of his mother might have placed a psychological strain on him which affected his desire to awaken his potential. However, there were many nobles within the kingdom who had been concerned about Orion's weak body since his birth.

Orion had been born with a weak body, and many nobles wondered if a prince with such a weak body was capable and worthy of ascending the throne, but the moment they noticed Orion couldn't awaken his bloodline, they concluded in their minds that he was unworthy to succeed the throne and rule the kingdom.

With that, they slowly planned a revolt, waiting for the right time to attack.

Although Orion might have been born with a weak body, this didn't hinder his parents and stepmother from showering him with the love and care a parent had towards their child.

They supported and cared for him, hopeful that his future would be great, and even after his mother's death and his inability to awaken his bloodline, his father and stepmother continued to shower that same amount of love on him.

However, some unexpected events occurred within the kingdom a few months ago, causing the death of several healers.

A strange and unknown disease also afflicted hundreds of people within the kingdom, leading to their deaths.

This made Orion's father seek out alchemists and potion-brewers to help brew a cure for the disease because so many healers had died and the few who were still alive couldn't do anything about the disease.

Their healing magic proved ineffective against the disease, leaving the afflicted individuals to succumb to their fate, which was death.

But even with the alchemists and potion-brewers working hard to find a cure, no one was able to identify the cause of this unknown disease, let alone come up with a cure for it.

'This was why Mia died of the illness,' Orion clenched his fist as he imagined a life without his little sister.

Just like his parents, Mia loved her brother a lot and she would always visit his room to play and read stories together with him, but she had been unable to visit him ever since she became ill.

Since Prince Orion had a weak body, he spent a lot of his time in his room.

He rarely came out of his room, and it didn't take long for rumors to spread across the kingdom of how useless and unworthy he was as the successor of the throne.

Of course, Orion's father did his best by punishing those who spoke ill of his son, both at the palace and in the kingdom , but it wasn't enough to completely prevent the rumors from spreading to other kingdoms on the continent.

Although, right now, Orion wasn't troubled by this.

He couldn't care less about what the rumors said about him. All that mattered to him right now was to see his sister again.

"Alright, it's been decided," Orion clenched his fist as his mind was finally made up.

He wasn't going to just sit around and allow fate to decide how he would live the rest of his life.

He vowed to grow stronger to protect those he cared about and to enjoy every bit of his new life.

With the knowledge of the game at the back of his mind, Orion not only knew the cause of his sister's illness, but he was also confident that he could come up with a way to cure his sister.

However, for him to do that, he had to see her and note the condition she was in.