After speaking in a gloomy tone, Penny turned and returned to Prince Carter's side.
Marquis Henry stood there blankly for a moment, deep in thought, yet still unable to make sense of anything.
A maddening power was influencing his mind, but there was nothing he could do about it.
He could only watch helplessly as Lentax Great City headed down a path of no return.
Shaking his head, he moved away from the secret chamber with stiff steps.
After Marquis Henry left, Penny slowly approached Prince Carter.
She reached out and removed the black sack covering his head.
Then she pulled out the cloth gag stuffed in his mouth.
"Penny... don't kill me... don't kill me..."
"D-Dear... I swear in the name of the great ancestor, King Arthur..."
"I'll marry you. I'll definitely marry you!"
"You will become the Queen of Avalon..."
Under the combined effects of terror and the [Rose Mark], Prince Carter, having regained the ability to speak, muttered fearfully with a face full of terror.
Honestly, in such an intensely conflicted mental state, the minds of both Henry Lancaster and Carter Pendragon would suffer irreversible damage.
They would become deranged, gradually losing their rationality and ability to think independently.
As she looked at Prince Carter before her, his face streaked with tears and snot as he desperately professed his love, a rare flicker of struggle appeared on Penny Lancaster's face.
But it was quickly replaced by indifference.
Returning to the root of it all, she herself had actually been the one most affected by the Blood Rose and the evil earth spirit.
She lightly waved her fair, lotus-like arm, and a cloud of pinkish-white fragrant mist immediately billowed forth.
When Prince Carter, who had still been restless moments ago, inhaled the mist, his expression suddenly relaxed, and