I Will Live for Your Death (20 Chapters Left to Complete) - Chapter 178

The banquet had ended long ago. The soldiers had all returned to their assigned barracks, and only Claudius and Lindein remained inside the hastily erected banquet tent.

It was hard to say how many drinks it had been. Neither the attendant beside Claudius nor Lindein, seated close to the Emperor, bothered counting anymore.

It was liquor consumed not for joy, but deliberately to get drunk—intoxicating himself to the point of collapse, pitiful and bitter.

“Ambassador Lindein.”

Surprisingly, Claudius’s speech remained unslurred, even precise. Though astonished, Lindein forced himself to reply calmly.

“Yes, Your Imperial Majesty the Emperor.”

“Can sorcerers bring people back to life?”

It was an ambiguous question. Since a clear answer was required, he offered a few examples.

“Do you refer to matters of healing, or to forbidden practices such as necromancy?”

“Resurrection is a forbidden act.”

Everyone is born with a destined span of life. To defy nature’s order and revive the dead could only be called wrong.

Claudius slowly spun his remaining wineglass in his hand. The crimson liquid began to swirl like the turmoil within him.

“…If only it were possible, I would bring her back.”

Lindein deliberately avoided looking directly at Claudius. Ever since the horrifying incident when Claudius gutted the dead doe before Ilyd, he found it difficult to meet the Emperor’s eyes.

What had driven the Emperor to commit such a grotesque act? Was it out of love? Had his overflowing emotions turned into poison?

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