Inside the Royal Palace in the Central City of the Holy Kingdom, somewhere in the basement.

It was cold and damp, and there was no sunlight, except for the magic candlesticks on the surrounding walls to glow dimly when the basement door was opened.

With a creaky sound, the basement door was opened, and the candlestick "whirred" to ignite the flames, illuminating the room. At the end of the room, an iron cross was erected, and a ragged girl was tied to the cross, her limbs firmly locked with special iron rings, and on the inside of these iron rings were protruding barbs that had pierced the girl's skin, and the slightest movement of her would produce severe pain, often accompanied by her heart-rending screams.

As a second-order magician, she has a better physique than ordinary people, but because of this, she has been subjected to this kind of torture that she would never normally use. In fact, she was now numb to the pain, and what really scared her was every time that woman came.

Hearing the basement door open, coupled with the familiar footsteps, the girl knew that the woman was coming.

In the dim light, Queen Catherina walked in through the doorway.

Molly slowly raised her head, revealing her face ruined by knife marks and branding, because the teeth in her mouth had been stripped and her tongue had been cut to look like a snake letter, so she could only make a "whine" sound, so that Queen Catherina naturally couldn't understand what she was trying to say, and of course, she didn't want to know.

Every time she came to this basement, the purpose was only to vent. Usually when her proposal was rejected by Nepsys in public, or when Will confronted her in public, in short, she would come here to torture Molly whenever she felt that her majesty and power were no longer secure. It was a hidden basement and a secret room, and those who knew that Molly was imprisoned here were a handful of personal maids in addition to herself.

She didn't need to worry about one of them betraying her and leaking it to Will, though, because they would never be able to tell the secret. The rest of the kingdom thought that Princess Molly had gone crazy and was locked up in a bedroom for treatment, including Will, who thought so.

Whenever she thought about it, Queen Catherina felt that she was a genius of lying. Thinking back to the scene when he first ascended the throne, the position of the queen also came to this way. She just told a few small lies, and King Reinhardt's fans were smitten, but unfortunately, Reinhardt and the previous queen Maurelith had two children, namely Will and Molly, and herself, after Moreth died of illness, was brought into the palace, but she did not give birth for two years.

The nobles laughed at themselves in private, looking at King Reinhardt's frowning brow and the smiling faces of her two children every day, Queen Catherina felt only sick to her stomach, and in addition to that, there was resentment and jealousy. She resented the scorn of the nobles, and Reinhardt's inaction as a king when his wife was being discussed.

She is also jealous, jealous of the two children left by the previous queen, who have never experienced the hard work of ordinary people, let alone the intrigue between adults. She was even jealous of the deceased Maureth, why did she have the next generation, and it was two.

Catherina believes that in order to make her existence higher, to make herself less painful, she needs to be strong, she needs her own power. And it just so happens that in the traditions handed down from the Holy Kingdom, the queen has a certain say. At each meeting, she would present a very different point of view from the king, and then look for people who might be at her behest from the reactions of the nobles.

But she didn't think that the first person to support her was Pope Neposis. One afternoon, when everyone was leaving the chamber, and Reinhardt had taken Captain Dalter out to inspect the training of the cavalry, leaving her alone to go back to her bedroom, Nipsis stopped her, and praised her for her approach, which gave her a different kind of affection for the man.

With the first, there is a second. The two seemed to have reached an agreement in the management of the kingdom affairs later, which made Reinhardt feel pressured and made many nobles turn closer to their own power. The initiative of the nobles and the "favor" of Pope Nepsis from time to time made Catherina experience the feeling of having love and power.

This feeling lasted for many years, until the day Will was an adult and could participate in the deliberations together, and Will sharply pointed out the fatal flaw in her plan. At that moment, she saw the long-lost proud expression on Reinhardt's face sitting next to her, and she panicked.

Is there any way to make this fledgling prince disappear from the system of power? Catherina thought for a long time, but there was no clear way, until one day, Pope Nepsis and her after the clouds and rain were overwhelmed, he fell into her ear and spoke.

At first she thought she had misheard, she didn't think it was what Nepsis should have said. She distinctly heard him say the words in a gentle voice that frightened her, and she remembered only the last few words because of her shock.

He said—

"Molly. ”

Queen Catherina panicked, and she got up and looked at the man lying beside her, his face seemed younger than herself, and his smile was more disgusting than her own.

She had said panic, deceived people, even deceived Reinhardt, but never thought of taking a person's life.

She argues loudly with Nepsis, and in the end, the two agree to make Molly disappear, but not to let her lose her life, as long as Will, as an older brother, has no desire to fight them, such as poisoning Molly.

But Molly, as a magician, ordinary poison is definitely useless, and Nepsis told her that further north of the Beta Dunes in the northern part of the central city of the Holy Kingdom, there is a sea, and there is a special plant along the coast, which is refined and made into a potion, and people will be poisoned after ingesting it, so that they will become very insane.

They added the potion to the salad that Molly ate every day.

In the first few days, Molly went crazy, completely crazy, the nobles behaved sadly, and King Reinhardt and Prince Will were devastated. The young and handsome Prince Will, henceforth, like a fool, no longer disagrees with Queen Catherina in the council chamber, eats like a pig, and does not go anywhere every day except his bedroom, which is perennially filled with a foul smell, and he himself dresses sloppily.

In this way, everyone thought that Molly was really crazy and would continue to be crazy. Queen Catherina locked up Molly under the pretext of "taking care of her daughter", but when she examined her one day, she found that Molly had a special skill to detoxify at some point. She could even recognize Catherina as her "mother", and Catherina knew that Molly's madness was going to be cured.

She must not allow this to happen! She had managed to regain control of the kingdom, and she could not allow Will to take the limelight. She quietly led people to create an underground secret room, hidden it with rare space magic, and the servants who helped her hide and transfer Molly were all disposed of by her, and that was the first time she had been a person, and once, it was a group.

When the blood flowed on the ground, Catherina looked at the bright red all over the ground, she felt an unprecedented stimulation, an unprecedented sense of release, nothing could make her feel more refreshed.

She tries to use non-magical artifacts against Molly because she is afraid that Molly has some special magic that she doesn't know about. When she used a sharp knife to slash over the girl's delicate face, listening to the girl's wail, looking at the blood left, she involuntarily leaned forward and licked the mixed liquid mixed with the blood and tears on the girl's face, which was a different kind of taste that stimulated her taste buds.

Subsequently, all kinds of things that could be tried, she tried on Molly.

Screams and wails are like a symphony, and blood is like wine.

She felt that she was very perverted, and it was, and every time she was upset, she would make an excuse to leave, come here, and torture the poor girl over and over again.

Today, Will's sudden transformation, and the stranger he brought, made her feel very uncomfortable, and Nepsis didn't care about her feelings, and decided what happened next, even knighted the man!

She decided to have fun with Molly.