My heart pounded so hard it felt like it would leap out of my throat. At this point, how he found out didn’t matter. What mattered was what he would do with me, with the sacred sword.
Tobias smiled.
“Don’t look so scared. I have no intention of taking it from you.”
“……Okay.”
“I plan to take you and the sacred sword back to the empire.”
He extended his hand towards me. Blood was fresh on the hand that had just killed several people.
“What if I don’t want to?”
I pulled back.
“Then there’s nothing to be done.”
Tobias answered gently.
“I’ll have to take you by force.”
I mumbled towards Denesor.
“How about you?”
“Are you insane?”
Denesor responded in a voice that seemed incredulous.
“Show that brat what you’re made of. What does this inexperienced kid think he’s doing, trying to take me somewhere…!”
Simultaneously, Denesor began to glow; its blade lengthened and its hilt grew larger.
I gripped Denesor with both hands and glared at Tobias.
He had merely watched in awe as Denesor transformed; that made me even angrier.
“This is… the sacred sword.”
Tobias muttered in a daze.
Huh.
I couldn’t hold back a chuckle. It seemed the sacred sword really did have the power to bewitch people.
“What have you done?”
Denesor flared up when I mumbled to myself.
“What are you talking about? I’ve done nothing!”
Tobias slowly approached me. There was a limit to how much I could evade him in the confined room. My only option left was…
I swung Denesor at Tobias.
“……!”
At that moment, his eyes, which were just captivated by Denesor, turned back to me.
Clang!
The sound of metal clashing rang out. My hands trembled. It was abundantly clear that Tobias had been going easy on me.
I gritted my teeth. I was bound to lose like this. Neither my sacred power nor my swordsmanship had any effect on him.
‘Wait.’
My eyes widened. The ‘Luminescence of Tatyana’ that protected Tobias from my sacred power was gone. Hades had picked it up from the ground and shown it to me.
So now my sacred power would work on him!
“Setun.”
I quietly muttered. The rosary glowed, and Tobias’s eyelids drooped.
Thud.
Even though I hadn’t laid a hand on him, he collapsed powerlessly onto the ground.
I hurriedly ran towards Sir William.
‘It’s good I didn’t use that stamina potion earlier.’
If I had wasted a stamina potion on just an envoy and thus missed saving Sir William’s life…
‘Ugh, let’s not think about it.’
I quickly checked Sir William’s condition. He was unconscious but, fortunately, still breathing faintly.
I pulled out the stamina potion I’d always kept hidden and forced it into his mouth.
“……Saint?”
His eyes flickered open almost immediately. I breathed a sigh of relief.
Indeed, the effect of the stamina potion was miraculous.
“Are you alright?”
“Yes. What did you…feed me?”
“I’ll tell you later. Please hold off Tobias for now.”
No sooner had I spoken than Tobias staggered to his feet.
“Leave it to me.”
Sir William drew his sword.
Moments ago, it was hard to believe he had been teetering between life and death; now he looked perfectly stable.
‘I need to get out of here.’
Tobias was the only one who knew about the sacred sword. I had to get as far away as possible where he couldn’t get to me.
Sir William would be able to buy me time; I would have enough left to find Hades.
I hurriedly left the room.
And then…
“Pl…please…help…”
I was speechless at the gruesome scene. Tobias hadn’t killed anyone; he’d just incapacitated them to the point where they couldn’t move.
He had brutally targeted their ankles so they would never walk properly again.
“I’ll call the doctors.”
“Yo, Your Holiness…!”
I knew what the unspoken words meant. They were clearly asking me to heal them with my divine power.
‘…I can’t.’
It wasn’t that I didn’t want to. Even if I used all my divine power, it would be like scooping water with a cup to bring to the desert.
I clenched my eyes shut and opened them.
The most immediate thing to do was to get away from Tobias. The second was to find Hades.
Those knights…
‘If I encounter anyone on the way, I’ll tell them to call a doctor immediately.’
I transformed Dénésor back into its dagger form and hid it in my arms.
I had to protect Dénésor at all costs, for everyone, including the kind knights who had been good to me, to survive.
Even if it earns me their resentment, it’s something I absolutely have to do.
I began to run down the hallway.
Hades must still be near the banquet hall.
With my deep understanding of the castle layout and wearing ‘Hermes’s Breath,’ I could reach him in no time.
No, I had to reach him.
But then…
“Who do we have here?”
A sarcastic voice sent shivers down my spine. I looked at the person who had caught my hand.
Shuzhéchin Byungbaek.
The last man I wanted to see in this situation had seized my wrist.
“Where are you rushing off to so hurriedly, Holy Lady?”
“It’s none of Your Excellency’s concern.”
I tried to wriggle my hand free but couldn’t escape Shuzhéchin’s grip.
‘Where the hell is Hades?’
When scheming men desperately battle for her favor in the male harem
This one’s also on my reread list! The rivalry, scheming between the men in the imperial harem are just as intense and thrilling as in classic palace drama novels, where concubines fight to the death. Give it a read, girls! I promise you won’t be disappointed.
Synopsis:
“I am not worthy of her… but I still want to be by her side, even if only as a loyal dog…”
Those were the painful whispers of Yue Guanyi – the proud Crown Prince of the Great Qi, who was torn between deep love and a guilty conscience. Despite holding the supreme power of the Imperial Guard, he still could not forget the dark past when he was sold into a brothel.
Fate played a cruel twist when Qiu Shuzhi – a young female official who had just passed the imperial examinations with top honors – stepped into his life. She did not know that she was the one who had saved him from a tragic fate many years ago. And now, her heart was the target of pursuit for both Yue Guanyi and the powerful Empress Dowager Qin Qing.
While Yue Guanyi only dared to silently care for and protect the one he loved from afar, the Empress Dowager Qin Qing openly expressed his feelings and did not hesitate to take advantage of his power to approach Qiu Shuzhi. The covert struggle between the two most powerful forces in the imperial court began…
Trigger warning: All men in this novel are yandere style.
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