Chapter 2.3
With Carling and the counsel of Edom facing Execution, Nes, Mona, and Eri go north to try and save them. They sneak into Alsaice de Carmalle, and once in the capital city being looking for clues. Nes discovers news and details of a ball scheduled the night before the execution, however, she is captured by Alsaician soldiers before she can reunite with Mona and Eri. Mona and Eri escape the soldiers and discover that Carling’s assistant, Jill Christmas, has organized a mission to save the counsel as well, and with her help Mona and Eri infiltrate the ball. Meanwhile, Nes, under duress from General Noman Mauvais infiltrates the ball as well to get close to Duke Aquinas. The Duke selects the girls along with several others to join him outside the ball, only to discover it is for ritual sacrifice in another ritual chamber. He goes mad as the ritual liquifies the noble women, and the party breaks free to defeat him and the ritual beast, gaining their second shard of The Glass of Edom. The General arrives to congratulate them on assisting him before disappearing. The Palace above begins to collapse, and the group escapes with the counsel to Edom.
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