Chapter 550: Assassination

At Old Madam's words, Isabelle Hiorns and Sydney Hiorns both shuddered from head to toe, yet neither dared to make a sound. Old Madam rose slowly. Her vicious gaze fixed on the enormous cauldron at the very center of the room. It stood taller than a man, cast from bronze. Four beasts were carved into its surface, half dragon, half serpent. Flames roared beneath it. As for what had been placed inside, no one could tell, but it released wave after wave of an eerily strange fragrance. "Open it,"...