The Romantic Trials Of A Transmigrated Empress

Chapter 404

Chapter 404: Who dared to poison an empress?

It took an hour for everyone to be gathered in the empty ballroom. They assumed that the venue had been chosen because the new empress had a party to plan. It was expected of her to throw a ball that would be a celebration of her crowning.

Some maids asked Mauve and Christie what Sigrid was planning, but she shrugged. They had no clue about what was going on as well.

Sigrid entered the ballroom with Brolin at her back, sword drawn and facial expression menacing. She took a sit in a chair and faced the crowd. The expression on her face was unreadable as her eyes roamed over the sea of knights, maids, cooks and advisors.

Mauve and Christie moved to their usual positions and stood behind Sigrid. Another knight placed a small table before Sigrid and Lanai placed the cup of tea and crystal jar of facial cream down.

"Lock the doors." Brolin commanded.

That command had everyone nervous. Locked doors and unpredictable body language was very dangerous.

"This," Sigrid gestured to the tea and cream "is the work of one or some of you. Someone here wants to poison me."

Gasps, a ripple of panic, fear and other emotions swept through the hall.

"It seems that some of you forget that I am a mage and a healer at the same time. Or maybe you have not forgotten as you cleverly hid the poison in two mechanisms. Alone, each ingredient is harmless but together, they combine to form a poison called Brottongue. First it inflames the skin and causes it to turn a little red.

allergy. And then comes the itching as the body rots from within. In a weeks time, the unlucky victim has maggots dropping from flesh wounds. It seems like someone

filled the

this rot to me." She continued. "One that poisoned my cream without being noticed. Someone whose presence in my chambers would not be questioned. The other--a person that accessed the kitchen and managed to pry

her and according to the system which tracked the loyalty of those around her, they were still loyal. It

the questioning." She

forward the suspects, one by one. The questioning would be done with magic

Baldwin, captain of the knights that had been on duty the night before. Sigrid touched his

of the special tea leaves because my wife is pregnant. I thought that if she drunk the same tea as the crown princess, she would give birth to a healthy child. But I failed to get into the cabinet because it takes three locks to

are clean." Sigrid

cleaned the bathroom. She was already in tears as she said, "I touched the crystal jar of

smiled, thin as a

the fingerprints of the

crowd thinned. Maids wept and muttered their innocence. Knights looked

Bira, a scullery maid that was smiling, eyes clear with storybook innocence. She was one of the pretty ones, had many knights and servants eating

loyalty to Sigrid was only

touch her cheek and she backed away. That pullback

to my chambers"

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