Warlock Ch 451. Consent?
Then Cedric stepped forward. The prince revealed the truth behind his disappearancem He had been taken—abducted by imposters dressed as fae soldiers, men who moved too precisely and spoke with tongues too polished. Ritual scars marked his skin, and Evelyn's projections showed him bound in a summoning circle.
Selena followed. Her voice didn't shake, but her eyes did. She recounted the exam—how it turned into a slaughter, how every participant but her and Damian was dead as a test. How each kill had fed something dark. And how, in the end, it was Damian who pulled her out.
The Fae King then turned the accusation on its head. He exposed the S-rank examination's rules for what they were: legalized bloodsport that had allowed ritual killings under the guise of trial by combat. The Tribunal had nothing to say to that.
