#Chapter 75
Sleek fingers that looked like they were made out of smooth, translucent porcelain swirled a glass of wine ever so elegantly.
There he sat, on a violet velvet sofa in the middle of a dark underground chamber.
His eyes folded into a thin, alluring smile.
“And your answer is?”
The scrawny man sitting in front of him anxiously picked at his goatee out of panic.
He read through the documents over and over again, but no matter how many times he did so, the content did not change.
The pitiful man desperately pleaded for the Duke to reconsider.
“But Your Grace, as you may know, it is impossible to finish this on such short notice…… We’re going to need at least a year more than this, and that’s the quickest we can do……”
Jantzen, who had been quietly standing behind Zahid, thought to himself about the futility of the man’s efforts.
As Jantzen predicted, Zahid was a man of no mercy.
