I Killed My Husband (Completed Main Story) - Chapter 112

Skylar clicked her tongue.

Mercedes’s mana was absurd. To use a reconnaissance spell, barely enough to mark the city walls, to open the gate? And so easily?

If she used such a spell, Skylar’s own mana would have been drained by more than half, and she would have collapsed right there.

Yet she claimed she could do it easily—and stood there with perfect composure.

Of course. Thousands, no, tens of thousands of lives—carried by Carlos from childhood through countless conquests—had been amassed at once by Mercedes’s power.

In fact, she wondered if Mercedes alone, without the Emperor or the knights, could end this entire situation.

Still, she stepped back—for Carlos, who worried for her, and for the knight order eager to crush the rebellion themselves.

But she firmly insisted she would be the one to open the gate. Otherwise, people would inevitably be crushed.

The high watchtower gave a full view of the surroundings, making troop infiltration difficult. To cast magic, one had to get close—and to spread a reconnaissance spell across the entire wall to open the gate would take even more time.

Moreover, when casting magic, she had to divert her power underground to conceal the white light, making it even harder.

So Mercedes decided to step forward herself, having Skylar guard her with a barrier while she performed the display.

She would become the decoy, drawing the Empress Dowager’s attention with cries of death.

“Do you have any idea how impossible that power is?”

“It’s the power Carlos gave me.”

Mercedes smiled.

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