The Duke Stole Everything (1 Chapters Left to Complete) - Chapter 78

The Archmage was busy.

He had always been a busy man, but now he was even busier, and he expected to become even busier still.

‘Just how did he get his hands on forbidden magic?’

Having discovered a clue to forbidden magic at the Habusan Falls cliff, the Archmage seethed inwardly despite his smiling face.

Unlike black magic, which harmed people through spells, forbidden magic corrupted mana itself, thereby damaging magic. Anyone who bore a mana sigil on their heart and meddled with forbidden magic would gradually spread tainted mana through their own spells, eventually affecting even the hearts of fellow mages.

As the one standing at the pinnacle of the Mage Tower, entrusted with the duty to protect its dignity and magic, the Archmage could not take this matter lightly.

‘He wouldn’t have resorted to forbidden magic just to kill a single person.’

The Archmage’s mind was tangled.

He wished he could interrogate every noble of the Newton Empire one by one to uncover the mastermind, but he was no god.

If even Grand Duke Gwendhill had fallen victim to this forbidden magic, then even the Archmage himself needed to stay alert.

‘If I can only identify which forbidden magic was used, countering it should be simple enough.’

To do that, he needed to find Leodert Gwendhill.

Yet even for an Archmage, casting a missing-persons tracking spell across the vast expanse of the empire was no easy feat.

“He might have fled beyond the empire’s borders.”

The search area was extremely wide.

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