The man's bewitching eyes flickered with a brilliance of crimson, extraordinarily strange.
He curved his lips into a faint smile, revealing no hint of emotion.
He lazily rested his chin on one hand, leaning against the throne, and snapped the fingers of his other hand. The sharp sound instantly echoed throughout the great hall.
At the moment the snap ended, several blood-colored figures suddenly emerged from the shadows around the palace, moving like phantoms, silently landing like condensed blood shadows.
Once they appeared, they approached the man's throne and knelt down respectfully, saying, "Your subordinates pay respects, my lord."
"Go and investigate the area around the Red Mist Forest and bring back the female with this emperor's beast husband mark," the man ordered lazily yet imposingly, his blood-red, eerie eyes swirling with dark light. "Remember, if anything dares to hurt her, kill it without mercy."
