"How do you feel now?"
Shaxier turned to Angus and said, "Uncle, the contract on my soul has disappeared."
"Then I'll arrange for someone to take you to Okla City right away," Angus said immediately upon hearing this.
"Uncle, can't I stay by your side?"
"No."
Angus refused without a second thought. He knew perfectly well about Shaxier's inexplicable feelings for him.
He could guarantee that Elisa was the only woman he loved and that he had no interest whatsoever in any other woman.
But his father-in-law did not see it that way. With his own father as an example, and Bamund after that, it was basically impossible for his father-in-law to fully trust him.
If he truly kept Shaxier here, then once this war ended, what awaited him would be a disastrous trial.
Seeing the look of outright resistance on Angus's face, Shaxier could not help but laugh. "Uncle, I was just teasing you."
"I have to say, you really are easy to fool."
"Go back and rest first. In three days, I'll send someone to take you to Okla City."
"All right."
After watching Shaxier leave, Angus helplessly covered his forehead.
He admitted that Shaxier was beautiful and skilled at seducing others, but his feelings for Elisa were unwavering.
Within the Administrative Hall of the royal palace in the capital of Seraphitaine Province, Thorim Seraphitaine, king of the Kingdom of Seraphitaine, listened to the report expressionlessly before waving the man away.
As he looked up at the empty hall, a forlorn expression appeared on Thorim's face.
In less than a year, Viridian Province, Kalabuya Province, Thornwood Province, Cliff Province, East Luoyan Province, Delin Province, Vitria Province, and Dehol Province—eight provinces in total—had all fallen. Elwinde Province and Fennis Province had lost control over half their territories, and their