Chapter 96: Reflections on the Future
The carriage jolted and swayed along the road. Seated within, Isabel watched the castle draw ever closer. Mixed emotions warred in her heart.
The paladins had forcibly expelled all the humans within the castle. Isabel had no choice but to return to her former lands.
The lord who had once oppressed her was already dead, and his territory had been swallowed up by the Porcupine Knight. Acting on Ambrose's orders, that knight had quickly found Isabel and her brother and sent them back toward the castle by carriage.
Beside her, Raul looked almost overly excited. He kept rubbing the bone controller in his hands. Even though the aberrant skeleton it had once controlled was already destroyed, Raul could not bring himself to throw away this now-useless object.
It was proof of the time when he had stood above others—and the first time he had ever tasted the benefits of power.
Raul was filled with anticipation. He couldn't wait to serve his lich lord again.
Unlike her brother, however, Isabel didn't miss the place quite as much.
It was certainly true that the lich lord was far more merciful than the other human lords, but humans who followed an undead lord would surely end up as zombies or skeletons in the end, wouldn't they?
Even if that only happened after their natural deaths, they would be bound to eternal servitude.