Berhem froze, his face blank with shock. How could a backwater commoner like Ghislain know the royal family's most tightly guarded secret?

"H-How do you know about the Shadow Knights?"

"I’m the one asking questions," Ghislain replied coolly.

Berhem’s fury boiled inside him. The humiliation of being interrogated by this man was unbearable. But what choice did he have? His life now hung by a thread, held by the blade of the very man he despised.

The accursed priest of the Salvation Order had fled the moment news of Ghislain’s arrival in the capital spread. With Count Phalantz defeated, there …