Blood Diamond and Blood Coral

Lionheart City, Triumphal Palace.

A man as gaunt as a ghost, his back hunched like a wild wolf's, stood at the door and carefully straightened his morning dress. He was so emaciated that the shoulders of his formal clothes had crumpled into a heap.

His black hair was damp and clumped together. He had made no effort to groom it, letting it hang naturally to his shoulders. When he lowered his head, he looked like a corpse that had only recently crawled out of a lake after drowning.

This was his first time visiting the royal palace. As an extraordinary being of the Path of Twilight, he adhered to the principle of moving as little as possible. For him to leave the Spirit Tower of his own accord and undertake such troublesome business, there had to be a reason.

He stood respectfully outside the study. He had not waited long when a beautiful woman who seemed somewhat familiar, yet whom he had actually never seen before, opened the study door and stepped out.

"Major Odvar Lasimi... correct?"

The other party asked solemnly.

"That's me."

Professor Lasimi nodded and sized up the woman before him. She had long red hair and wore a nearly transparent red veil, resembling a dancer. She was full-figured and fair-skinned, with dark-red lipstick like dried blood.

There was no doubt that the woman before him was the head of the Secret Chamber Mechanism, Blood Diamond Lady. Although she was only at the Fourth Level, in a sense, she could also be considered a guardian of the royal family.

The reason Professor Lasimi knew these secrets was that Blood Diamond was Blood Coral's biological elder sister, and Blood Coral had told him everything.

The sisters were witches who had fled from Iris Flower Kingdom during the Land