The next day, deep within the royal palace of the Royal City, at the ritual site.
After more than two months of preparation, the transformation ritual for the Fourteenth Princess into a Demon is officially underway, marking the first creation of an artificial Demon in the history of the Kingdom.
Although similar forbidden rituals are numerous in both historical records and the archives of the Mage Association, today's ceremony is unprecedented, receiving official recognition and having a member of the Royal Family as the subject.
However, despite its significance, the ceremony is not publicly revealed with fanfare.
Including direct participants, less than fifty people are gathered in the vast ritual site. Among them, nearly a third are the rarely assembled siblings of the Fourteenth Princess.
The old king is naturally among them.
