Not long after Solam was pushed out of the hall, a shrill cry rang out from the hall behind them.
Hearing the grief-stricken voice, Isabella immediately turned back to look. Then she slowly turned forward again, lowered her head, and pushed Solam onward. She wanted to comfort her friend, but she had no idea how.
After quite a while, Isabella pushed Solam into an open area and finally could not help asking, "Solam... why didn't you save Xianna just now?"
"Save someone who wanted to die?" Solam did not even turn his head. He merely waved a hand and summoned a flaming carriage. This time, Godzilla was no longer pulling it. Instead, there were two half-blood Fang Dragons, because Godzilla was simply too large. "Would it have done any good?"
Isabella hesitated. "Maybe... Yetana could have found a way to persuade Xianna?"
"Heh." Solam coldly spat out those two words.
"Was I wrong?"
Isabella was somewhat unconvinced.
"If that woman were really so easy to persuade, there wouldn't have been so much damn nonsense!" If Xianna could be reasoned with, then would not all those people who had died because of her have died unjustly? It was as though no one had ever tried to persuade that woman before.
Before Isabella could speak, Solam continued, "Besides, even if we tried to save her, we couldn't. Why waste the effort?"
"What do you mean?" Isabella asked.
"That woman took poison. An alchemical toxin, and it had already gone deep. Unless a god descended and resurrected her directly, nothing else would work."
There were many kinds of alchemical toxins. Xianna had taken one that prevented wounds from healing and stopped blood from clotting. One only had to look at how much blood that woman had lost to know it. The human body