Chapter 128 The Great Discovery

• Pontione’s POV
• It wasn’t like I wanted to be around this nobody Donald. No matter how much he tried to wear the mask of royalty, the stench of his miserable lowlife clung to him like a shadow. I regretted sparing him back when I had the chance. I should have executed him then and there instead of merely banishing him.
• Wandering the castle halls, nothing felt new. He had made some changes—cosmetic alterations here and there—but the place remained much as I remembered it. The same faded grandeur, the same lingering scent of decay beneath the veneer of power.