Chapter 71: 71. Heads Will Roll

"If you genuinely want to save your husband, you should wait until tomorrow morning and enter accompanied by several knights. Can't you think logically? What are you going to achieve by going in alone at night? Do you want to die alongside your husband?"

Smack!

Ellie slapped Xavier with all her strength.

Not because she was offended by what Xavier said, but his words hit the mark, making her furious because someone could read her mind.

She knew she couldn't do anything by going in alone, and she was too scared that if she was late, the thing she feared most might happen.

She wouldn't be able to live in this world without Cassius, and she planned to follow him if that happened.

'Ah... I really can't live without him.'

Realization struck her in the face, and she turned back toward the forest, whispering to Xavier behind her.

"Go. I'll call the guards and enter with them."