How to Divorce a Obsessive Emperor Safely (Completed Main Story) - Chapter 78

The reinforcements from the imperial palace arrived around midnight.

Of course, among them was Reskal, whose presence was so fearsome that no one dared approach him.

“Here—faint, but traces remain.”

By sheer coincidence, Dekan also returned to the ducal residence around that time. Though he’d heard a brief summary of the incident from the Silver Shield on his way back, the atmosphere at the ducal residence was far worse than he’d imagined.

Even if one were forced to light a fire on thin ice while blindfolded, it wouldn’t feel this tense.

All of it was because of Reskal, who stood gripping Lasilia’s hand tightly, his face grim with fear.

“I’ve never seen anything like this before, but hmm… it appears to be some kind of magic circle.”

Dekan kept clearing his throat out of dryness, committing the impoliteness of coughing in front of the Emperor. Even after coughing, his throat remained parched and itchy.

“Perhaps, specifically, a summoning circle.”

“So you’re saying they used a summoning circle to call these things forth through human bodies?”

Serben asked, prodding the half-mutilated monster idly with the tip of his sword.

“Stop that. You’ll end up like me.”

Rian calmly raised her left hand, which had turned an eerie blue. Serben recoiled in horror, then accidentally locked eyes with Reskal—and froze stiff as a frog facing a snake.

Dekan gave Serben a brief look of understanding before replying.

“That seems likely.”

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