Chapter 1049 Taboo


    Rufus'' POV:


    After putting Beryl to sleep, I left her room and went downstairs. I swept my eyes around the living room, but didn''t spot the she-wolf I was seeking


    "Who are you looking for? Crystal left." My mother was sitting at the table and leisurely sipping her coffee


    "I''m stepping out for a while." After saying that, I quickly marched out of the lycan king''s pce.


    My mind shed back to seeing Crystal sneaking around the forbidden forest today, and I had no clue about what she was doing there. So I would


    have to go to the forest again


    We passed the City Hall and then the Royal Military School, but I kept walking forward


    My bodyguard kept pace with me and asked, "Your Majesty, are we going the wrong way? This path leads to the forbidden forest.”


    "That''s our destination. I need to confirm something," I replied.


    Crystal must have done some unknown deed in the forbidden forest. I quickened my steps and reached the entrance. The sun had already set.


    Except for a fewmps at the entrance of the forbidden forest, everything else was pitch-ck.Material ? N?velDrama.Org.


    I turned on the torch on my phone and entered the forbidden forest. A faint stench of death came from afar, pulling me into the forest. My spirits lifted


    and I focused on finding its source.


    After a long hike, we finally came upon a clearing that didn’t match the surroundings.


    Although normally no one was


    allowed to getinto the forbidden


    forest, wild agima s roamed it, and


    they were us usually noisy especially at


    night. But this part of the forest was


    eerily quiet and weird. All living


    creatures seemed to deliberately


    avoid this ce. Even the hitds who


    ttered around the forest-had


    disappeared, as if some terrible


    thing here made them wary of


    approaching, heightening the sense


    of death one felt around this area.


    I cautiously took a couple of steps forward, and the stench of death I''d followed suddenly weakened.


    I stopped in my tracks and


    scrutinized the ground around me. It


    was much sefter than the rest of the


    forest floor￥d encountered on my ~


    way here? I seemed that someone:


    had cleaned this ce a little while


    ago and covered it with dirt. —


    Although the perpetrators had tried


    texconceal something, the-color of


    the soil at the edge o f the clearing


    was deeper than the soil in the rest


    of the forest. The exposed soil was


    wet and red.


    I crouched down and checked the soil. It indeed contained a particrly strong evil aura. I frowned andmented, "I''d heard that an ominous ce


    existed in the forest. I can finally see it, but I never expected it to be so strange."


    My attendant also seemed to feel a strong sense of death. He stepped back with a serious expression, the fear clearly visible on his face, and said, "It


    must be true. I heard that Queen Mother Laura had killed Noreen and buried her bones in the forest. Perhaps this is the burial spot. We have


    identally stumbled upon it today."


    gazed at the ground in front of me,


    ost in deep thought. was ill when


    my mother-had killed Noreen, so I


    knew nothirig about how she had <


    done it:-Besides, when she brought it


    upte?, she was very casual about


    it and there was hardly any. detail.


    That was the reason didnt pay any


    attention to it, nor did I bring up this


    topic again.


    Things didn''t look as simple as I thought they were anymore, because Crystal was definitely involved


    She wouldn''t havee here if she had simply lost her way. She must have some connection to this witch.


    My mind was buzzing with doubts. I bent down a little to touch the ground, and my fingers were immediately stung. I quickly pulled my hand back, and


    my expression changed. It looked like a witch had put a spell over thisnd. It must be Crystal.