To You Who No Longer Want Me (7 Chapters Left to Complete) - Chapter 95

The door clanked open as if granting Viare permission to enter, and she stepped inside, dreadfully tense.

She still didn’t understand why he had allowed her visit, but Viare didn’t want to miss this opportunity.

Passing tall shelves stacked with various potions and catching the scent of peculiar medicines, she glimpsed rare forms emerging from within glass containers.

This place, resembling a laboratory, was so dim it relied entirely on lamplight, and thus she tread cautiously, one step at a time.

Today, Viare had come here because the person entangled in the Ruschef family’s corruption lived precisely in this location.

Long ago, under the pretext of strengthening imperial authority, the Marta Empire had demolished the Mage Tower and slaughtered countless mages.

Of them, he was likely the only ancient mage still clinging to life.

In exchange for sheltering him, the Ruschef family had, for a very long time, exploited his power to amass wealth and honor.

Even the illicit auctions of magical artifacts in the underworld had only been possible because they passed through his hands.

The reason this ancient mage remained trapped here for centuries, unable even to die, was none other than an immortality contract.

That contract was, in essence, clear-cut slavery—preventing him from dying however much he wished, unless granted permission by the contract’s other party.

This fact had been confirmed through documents Viare discovered in Duke Ruschef’s private study using Raymond’s key.

Viare now believed Duke Ruschef was conspiring with imperial-aligned nobles to rebuild Ivan as the next Sun.

Ideally, she ought to remove Duke Ruschef from his position before they enacted their schemes, yet for some reason, Dension still hadn’t exposed the duke’s corruption to the public.

Sensing that Dension’s hesitation might be because of her, Viare had decided instead to expose her own father’s wrongdoing first.

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