Warlock Ch 457. Cleaning The House
Senator Meryll tried to run.
He filed his resignation quietly, slipped out before dawn, and took a teleportation gate to an isolated research outpost near the elemental ravine.
Damian was there.
No explosion. No bloodbath. No screams.
Just… quiet.
And the next morning, Meryll's body was found slumped over his desk. An open book before him. No signs of forced entry. Cause of death: overuse of unstable mana experiments.
Tragic.
Completely preventable.
And no one asked questions.
One left.
Senator Duraen. The careful one. The whisperer. He didn't fund anything directly. No paper trail. No sigils signed in his own hand.
He thought he was clean.
He wasn't.
Damian waited.
Two nights later, Duraen hosted a quiet meeting with three "concerned noble liaisons." Discussing instability. Discussing Damian.
Damian watched from the shadows of the meeting hall, seated behind an illusion veil.
