Chapter 498: Scorned and Ridiculed
Meanwhile, Sarah became more anxious as the emperor’s ring was shown to the king. If a magical event occurred when Anna wore it and she demonstrated herself as the Khasif, as Kiev asserted, she would be in serious trouble.
Amid the crowd’s mounting anticipation, a royal guard discreetly approached the chief lady-in-waiting, handing her a secret message from an unknown source. Someone outside the royal court had arranged for it to be delivered to her, and it arrived just in time.
Initially, Sarah felt angered at being disturbed during such a critical moment. However, as she read the note, her eyes glimmered with realisation. She turned to Adam, who was focused ahead, huffing in frustration.
"I should have known! No wonder you took her side so adamantly!" she reprimanded him, now knowing his support for the king.
The admiral looked back at his sister, confused.
"What are you implying?" he asked, unable to grasp her meaning.
Sarah didn’t answer his question.
Instead, she declared, "I will not let you get in my way, brother! Not this time or any other!"
Turning her gaze back to the front, she saw Anna had worn the ring.
However, the expected moment never arrived.
Nothing occurred—no sparks, no tremors, no sounds. Only the bewildered expressions on Kyren and Anna’s faces, as if they shared a secret no one else understood, and the smiling Mederian Prince murmuring in Ro’an, a language most attendees couldn’t comprehend.