“It’s a place I should never go?”

Seol Jihu raised his voice subconsciously.

[After the previous emperor was executed, the emperor that succeeded him declared it a forbidden place.]

‘Forbidden….’

It wasn’t a strange concept. No matter the era, it wasn’t uncommon for the ruling party to designate some places as forbidden grounds.

It was just that this Sacrificium place had been designated as a place one couldn’t visit easily by an emperor of the Empire, a nation which was said to have reached the apex of magic engineering. The weight of the ban was far heavier than normal.

“Why did he designate it as a forbidden place?”

[Uuuuun~]

Flone groaned, seemingly having trouble recalling something that happened such a long time ago.

[I think it’s because people kept dying even after the death of the previous emperor.]

‘After the death of the previous emperor?’

Seol Jihu tilted his head.

“Was he raising a monster in his villa or something?”

[I don’t know.]

The smoke shook side to side.

[Many people wondered what the exact reason was, but no one could figure it out. The only thing everyone knew was that the only person to survive after going into that villa was that greedy emperor himself. Both during his lifetime and after.]

“Do you think you could explain this in greater detail?”

At that moment, a small cough...