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Adaria tried not to get angry. She really did. But with each second that passed as she stared at the parchment in her hands, her blood boiled to an unprecedented level.
“Where did you get this?” she asked Khalazori through gritted teeth. Even though she wasn’t aware of it, her fingers were beginning to squeeze the parchment, and she was so close to tearing it to pieces.
“We managed to escape the night creatures,” he explained, “even though Marietta got injured during the fight. But we escaped, and made our way to Drystone, a small town a bit further west from here. It was there that I came upon these parchments scattered all around the town.”
Adaria threw the parchment down, and Nero rushed over to read it, as did Reyna. It was a simple message, and it was a Royal decree that if
