Chapter 200
His body was gradually being sucked into the darkness, as if sinking into a swamp. Just like Lutan she had seen earlier. Roina indifferently passed by the Crown Prince’s figure and looked at Ryuhyeon. The other person was important to her.
“What did you do to Lutan?”
“Ah, that’s a shame. It was almost over.”
Yoseph, who was watching from the side, whispered.
“You seem to have cut off the ritual of offering the most important sacrifice. The Archmage is captured, but it doesn’t seem like he’s been devoured yet.”
With a flick of Ryuhyeon’s hand, Lutan, bound, emerged from the darkness. His skin was covered in golden scales in various places, and his physique was much larger.
“He even used the orb I gave him well, and was regaining his Golden Dragon form, you know.”
“……!!”
Roina was about to run straight to Lutan, but she jumped back to avoid the tentacles that were swung directly at her.
“What on earth is your purpose!”
“Well… your body and heart?”
Roina frowned at Ryuhyeon’s persistent playful tone. Seeing her, he burst into laughter. The laughter, which had seemed cheerful at first, gradually grew louder and became filled with madness.
Roina and Yoseph hesitated. It was because he looked like he could do anything at any moment. Suddenly stopping his laughter, Ryuhyeon looked at the two of them with a languid face.
“Look at my pathetic state, only able to affect the world this much. You’re the one who made me like this.”
“That’s a past I don’t remember. That’s not me.”
“It doesn’t matter.”
Roina retorted immediately, but Ryuhyeon shook his head and simply chuckled.
“Because when I swallow everything in this world, you’ll have no choice but to see me in the end.”
It was a chilling obsession. Roina inhaled sharply. Yoseph, who had been quietly chanting defensive magic, informed her in a whisper.
“The ritual is disappearing.”
At those words, Roina glanced around. As he said, the darkness surrounding them was disappearing, and the Imperial Palace’s banquet hall was gradually returning to its original state. Yoseph uttered the next words in a calm tone.
“That being is also a part of the ritual. He’s manifested here before us now, but he’ll soon disappear.”
Roina looked at Ryuhyeon. He was still looking at her with intense eyes. The surrounding darkness was gradually disappearing.
“If the ritual disappears, what about Lutan? Can he come back?”
Roina said urgently. The golden energy swirling within her was now almost extinguished, and she was at the end of her strength.
“You’re still looking for the Golden Dragon.”
He raised one corner of his mouth as if sneering, then returned Lutan as a favor. A man covered in golden scales fell, unconscious. Roina hurriedly approached him and touched him. To feel Lutan’s energy beneath her hand. But…
‘It’s gone.’
Roina’s eyes wavered. It was because Lutan’s energy was barely felt.
“Why? Isn’t that the one you were looking for?”
“What on earth did you do to Lutan!”
Roina’s voice, like a scream, echoed through the banquet hall. Their surroundings had now almost returned to the original banquet hall. Many nobles were lying unconscious in the places where they had been captured.
“He was the one I was planning to swallow.”
Ryuhyeon looked at her and smiled languidly like a satisfied cat.
“I have to go back now… but I’ll be back soon. A year from now, at this time again, when I complete the rest of the ritual… a year in the mortal realm is fleeting, you know.”
Then, I will devour this world and have you completely. Ryuhyeon said that, curving the corners of his red-painted eyes in a seductive smile. Just as Roina was about to say something more to him, he was engulfed in darkness and disappeared with it.
If it weren’t for the many people lying unconscious everywhere, no one would have known that such a great magical disaster had occurred here. Because the Crown Prince, Lutan who had transformed into a different form, the nobles, and Erika were all lying down.
“The ritual has been completely nullified… Since this contract is for this year, it can be seen as a final one-year grace period has been granted.”
Yoseph looked around the hall with a firm face, then first bound the Crown Prince to prevent him from moving.
Then, he stepped forward and began to take care of the people, and Roina bit her lip and hugged Lutan. She was becoming dizzy from using her energy to the very end, and her vision was gradually blurring, but she had to come to her senses and take him back home.
First, she had to move him to a safe place and examine his condition in detail. So that he could return.
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