Chapter 127 --127
One to Helena: Trial in three days. Need your lie detection testimony. Will expose your existence but Emperor promises protection. Your choice.
One to the beast knight delegation: Fourth Princess arrested. Trial is political attack. Stand ready to mobilize if conviction seems likely.
One to Elara’s Port Crestfall staff: Maintain operations. Await further instructions. Do not panic.
Within hours, responses came back.
Helena: I’m coming. Father, I’ve hidden for forty years. Time to stop hiding. If my magic can save Elara, I’ll use it.
Beast knight delegation: We’re ready. Thousands standing by. Give the word and we move.
Port Crestfall staff: Operations continuing normally. Standing by for orders. We trust Your Grace.
Duke Romian compiled everything into a folder and went to visit Elara in detention.
The guards searched him, confiscated any weapons, then allowed him into the visiting room—a sparse space with a table and two chairs, guard watching from the corner.
Elara entered looking calm, composed, wearing the same white suit she’d been arrested in.
"Husband," she said, sitting across from him. "I assume you’ve been working on the legal defense."
"Yes. And I’ve spoken with the Emperor. He’s ensuring the trial is fair and that the Lin Mei evidence gets proper examination." Duke Romian slid the folder across the table. "Legal precedent, witness lists, strategy recommendations."