The physician pulled back Lady Kahn's eyelids and examined her pupils. By then, her pupils had already begun to dilate.
Alarmed, the physician pried open her lips to check for other symptoms.
"Holy Father, milady has been poisoned! Someone poisoned her! Someone is trying to frame her!" The physician's voice trembled violently. For Kahn Castle as it stood now, this was no less than a massive earthquake.
"What?! Who was it?! I'll tear him to pieces!"
"Stop standing around! Save milady!"
"It must have been Sir Sophie! He must have done this! I'll gather the troops and destroy him at once!"
The knights' furious roars filled the entire room and even carried into the corridor, leaving the passing servants and attendants terrified and confused.
"No! There's nothing that can be done! The poison is simply too potent. Milady's organs have almost completely failed. Within half an hour, she will likely go to meet the Holy Father just like the Baron. I have no way to save her—no way at all!" the physician said shakily, terrified that the knights would vent their anger on him.
"Die! Why don't you just die?!" One knight drew the longsword at his waist and was about to rush forward, but another knight stopped him.
"Could it be... that the Kahn Family will truly perish here?" The elderly knight let out a mournful sigh. "My family has followed every Baron Kahn since the Kahn Family first began ruling this land. Must this destiny end with my generation?"
At those words, the other knights were also overcome with grief. Those who supported Lady Kahn here were the Kahn Family's oldest vassals, some of whose service stretched back more than a century.
They were completely different from the knights who opposed Lady Kahn's succession and wished to divide