I finally escaped their control and could live a proper life. Why would I suddenly make such a foolish choice?
This isn't love. It's humiliation, humiliation brought about by someone else's arrangements!
No!
No! No!
I have to break free of the shackles these arrangements have imposed on me. Only I can decide my own life. I never want to be controlled by anyone again. I have to leave this place, leave Backlund, and get far away from everything in my past!
Trissy abruptly turned around and, under Prince Grove's puzzled gaze, left the mausoleum. She walked farther and farther away until she gradually disappeared from sight.
As she left, the petrification inside the mausoleum gradually wore off as well.
Sensing that the danger had passed, Prince Grove leaped out of the mausoleum in pursuit, only to discover that Trissy really had left.
"She was clearly... just a little short of succeeding. Why did she suddenly leave? Did she suddenly become afraid of dying?"
He could not understand it, but in any case, he had fulfilled his agreement with George III and successfully defended this mausoleum.
Chapter 678: Your emperor has returned!
Meanwhile, the other mausoleums scattered throughout Loen were all guarded by members of the Twilight Hermit Order whom George III had recruited. From beginning to end, they had seen no one come to cause trouble.
In other words, of the nine mausoleums, only one had been destroyed in the clash between the two Demonesses of Catastrophe, Krismona and Judith. The other eight remained completely intact, standing in their respective locations as George III gradually completed his Black Emperor Ascension Ritual.
In Backlund, at Anniversary Square.
The imagined George III's voice grew increasingly impassioned. He waved his hands vigorously, bringing the speech to its conclusion:
"My subjects! Follow your