I’m Going to Change My Husband With a Predatory Marriage - Chapter 94

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Chapter 94

Gaspard, the Mad Archmage, unfortunately did not witness the dragon’s eclipse firsthand.
However, the moment he sensed it through the fluctuations in magical power, he abandoned all research plans that would have taken years to complete and returned to the Archmage’s Tower.
After that, he immediately sought out the Empress.
A dragon’s eclipse.
And the Crown Princess, who had supposedly received the dragon’s blessing.
Either way, it was impossible for Gaspard not to take interest.
He was a man obsessed with dragons.
To personally recreate with his own hands that magnificent and beautiful existence known as a dragon.
That was the goal Gaspard had devoted his entire life to pursuing.
Even searching across the entire continent, there were few humans who understood dragons better than he did.
Yet even for Gaspard, what had transpired over the past month was a rare occurrence he had never heard of before.
It was only natural that he would head to the Imperial Palace to obtain information about this.
‘But even the Empress doesn’t seem to know for certain whether that woman truly received the dragon’s blessing.’
He accepted the confident bargain the Empress had offered.
After all, there was nothing for him to lose.
But he still wanted to verify it directly—that woman who claimed to have received the dragon’s blessing.
So he snuck directly into Ivory’s bedroom.
Since he had no intention of being discovered, he carefully explored the Prince’s Palace.
There was nowhere a mage of Gaspard’s caliber could not enter secretly, and the Imperial Palace was no exception.
He was a stronger mage than Durin, the Court Mage.
However, there were a few places within the Imperial Palace that even he could not freely access.
‘The residences of the Imperial Family, who inherited the bloodline of dragons.’
They kept the surrounding magical power under their dominion, allowing them to sense a mage’s presence faster than anyone else.
Because of this, deceiving their attention and slipping in was no easy task.
Currently, among the Imperial Family, only two individuals posed the greatest danger: the Emperor and the Crown Prince.
The Prince’s Palace, where the Crown Prince resided, was naturally difficult to invade recklessly.
But the mage’s curiosity and thirst for knowledge overcame his concerns about danger.
‘She received a dragon’s blessing? Could she have actually seen one?’
His curiosity surged uncontrollably, difficult to suppress.
If she truly had received the blessing, wouldn’t the dragon have left some mark of evidence upon her?
His heart raced.
It felt like the excitement he had experienced as a boy when he first saw the fragments of Arctanus and embarked on the path of magic had been revived.
He felt as though he would die if he didn’t verify it directly.
After brief deliberation, Gaspard erected dozens of barriers and infiltrated Ivory’s bedroom in the Prince’s Palace.
Even if the Crown Prince discovered him, he was confident he could save his own life and escape.
Without such skill, one could never become the Archmage.
And hidden in the darkness, the Crown Princess he observed directly appeared utterly ordinary.
I had hoped to discern something extraordinary at a glance, but I was disappointed.
My interest waned.
I was about to withdraw when it happened.
Suddenly, the Crown Princess sensed my presence.

“Who goes there!”
“…Oh? How did you know I was here? So there is something special about you after all?”

My fading curiosity surged back to life.
Now that I had been discovered, there was no point in remaining hidden.
When I revealed myself, the woman froze in terror.
‘Still nothing special about this woman whatsoever.’
Gaspard unleashed upon Hillia all the questions he had harbored, laced with threats.
It would have been ideal to extract information from the woman paralyzed by fear, but it mattered little if he couldn’t.
‘If it becomes too tedious, I could simply kill her in secret and demand separate compensation from the Empress.’
Yet the woman recovered from her terror with astonishing speed.
This made no sense.
The moment Gaspard was discovered by Hillia, he unleashed all the magical power he had been concealing.
Even an ordinary person incapable of sensing mana would inevitably feel primal terror before such an overwhelming and hostile surge of power.
What this woman had done was akin to a mouse overcoming its fear and resisting before a serpent.
No—it was far more remarkable than that.
‘What is this woman?’
Gaspard paused in astonishment.
Hillia laughed with confidence and dangled bait that would shock him.

“Neither Evangeline nor the Empress can give you what you truly desire.”
“Don’t you want it? A living, breathing body bearing the dragon bloodline of the Imperial Family?”

It was as though she had peered into the depths of my mind to confirm her suspicions.
How?
Gaspard opened his mouth to speak, then hesitated.
He sensed a tremendous surge of magical power approaching rapidly from a distance.
Only the Imperial Family possessed such dominion over magical force of this magnitude.
‘The Crown Prince is coming.’
The Woman seemed to know this as well, for she smiled with confidence and made her demand.
“Next time, come with a proper price and visit with courtesy.”
Gaspard found himself astonished and impressed despite his better judgment.
Her bearing was nothing short of elegant and commanding—truly befitting a Crown Princess.
“You speak as though you have something to give.”
Her response drew an involuntary chuckle from him.
“If you wish to have the husband, you must first seek permission from his wife.”
It was a statement brimming with audacious confidence.
He had only just met this Woman today. She had revealed nothing of his inner thoughts.
Yet she understood precisely what he desired.
His bewilderment swiftly transformed into curiosity and intrigue.
Until now, only dragons had captured his interest.
But in this moment, another being had been added to that exclusive list.
‘I’ve become fascinated by this Woman.’
“Very well. Next time, I shall visit with proper payment and the utmost courtesy, Your Highness the Crown Princess.”
Gaspard bowed with an elegance that seemed entirely out of character for him.
Hillia appeared genuinely startled by this unexpected gesture.
Gaspard smirked and tore the scroll he had prepared in advance, just in case.
The teleportation spell activated instantly.
He vanished as abruptly as he had appeared, leaving behind only a faint smile.

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Crash!
Ivory’s bedroom door burst open violently. No—it shattered to pieces.
Crack!
“Hillia!”
Arpard lunged into the bedroom alongside the sound.
Hillia turned slowly to face him.
The residual magical energy swirled chaotically throughout the room.
Her long hair and white silk nightgown whipped about wildly.
For a moment, Arpard was seized by the terrifying thought that she might be swept away entirely.
So he reached out desperately, urgently.
Only after wrapping both arms firmly around her waist and confirming she hadn’t been torn from him by the tempest could Arpard finally breathe.
Only then did his mind clear enough to survey the room’s condition.
The bedroom was in complete disarray.
Furniture and fixtures lay overturned and shattered, scattered by the violent winds.
This was the aftermath of a spatial teleportation spell that had just been cast.
Fortunately, Hillia was unharmed.
Not a single strand of her hair was damaged. That was what mattered most, and it was enough.
“What on earth is happening?”
“Well, that is… I’m sorry, Arpard.”
“Sorry for what?”
I couldn’t understand why she apologized so frequently.
Even when there was no reason to ask for forgiveness.
She apologized for being ill, and now she was asking forgiveness after being attacked in her own bedroom.
Shouldn’t it be the other way around?
Arpard forgot what he’d been thinking as his wife continued.
“I… I sold you out.”
“…Now that, that’s genuinely something to apologize for.”

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