An Understated Dominance by Marina Vittori

Chapter 2225

"Huh?" Aurora was startled by Dustin's words.

Removing the needles would mean death within three hours. Wasn't that practically a death sentence?

"Hmph! I don't care about your ethereal-whatever technique. If you can't cure Alicia, you can only blame yourself for the pain you'll be in!" Brian said coldly.

Dustin glanced at him and retorted, "If you can't be of any help, then please keep quiet. Your constant blabbering is getting on my nerves."

"Why you-" Brian gritted his teeth but ultimately restrained himself from lashing out.

If Dustin had managed to cure Alicia, Brian would have had nothing to say. But if he failed, Brian would undoubtedly teach Dustin a lesson.

"Dr. Rhys, what do we do now?" Aurora changed the subject.

"Take good care of your sister, and make sure nobody touches her. I'll go back and prepare the antidote now,” Dustin said.

Then, he winked at Grace before leaving the room.

"Aurora, remember what Dr. Rhys said," Grace reminded her before following him and exiting the room.

Once outside the villa and ensuring there were no eavesdroppers, she couldn't contain her curiosity any longer. "What's going on? Is there something suspicious about Alicia's illness?"

could tell he wasn't telling them

nodded solemnly. "Alicia isn't

Grace raised an

said solemnly, "I've examined Alicia earlier, and there was a dark energy within her. It's potent and defensive, which makes it difficult to remove. It's a powerful spell that drains vital energy. At this rate,

just engaged in a battle of energies using his mystical pure energy against the dark energy within Alicia. But she

mean the Mystic Arts Order

disciple of the Regal Observatory, she knew her way around witchcraft pretty well. Dealing with regular witchcraft was a breeze,

high-ranking members of the Mystic Arts Order,

Alicia have any vendetta against

heard of any." Grace shook her head. "But the members of the Mystic Arts Order

the Mystic Arts Order may not adhere to conventional morality, they're not

one on Alicia would not only drain the caster mentally and physically

they were either

it's not the Mystic Arts Order, who else could it be?"

Mystic Arts Order, I'm more inclined to suspect the Hall of Gods," Dustin said, narrowing

proceedings

Hall of

threaten the Hall of Gods, but who she is matters. She's a key player. If she suddenly dies, how do you think

she

two daughters, and he treated Alicia as his most precious treasure. If anything were to happen to her, he might lose

to blame for Alicia's death?" Dustin