Ryan gazed at the evil vixen with eyes filled with venom but couldn't move a muscle.
He had Yoko on standby in case Isabelle made a move against his life, but he doubted she would, seeing she went through all this trouble to frame him.
Pulling out a vile of blood, she poured it on Ryan's cock before locking eyes with him and sliding his cock inside.
For the first time in his life, Ryan didn't experience pleasure when entering a woman, all he felt was hollow.
The look of fanatical hatred in Isabelle's eyes grew as she whispered, "Master says all men deserve to die."
"All men are trash and should be treated as such."
"I wish I could live in the human empire like her, but Master's orders are absolute."
Taking a vile of the same liquid she had made Ryan swallow, she gulped it down and shivered on Ryan's cock.
Flipping Ryan on top of her, they entered the missionary position as Isabelle started to scratch Ryan's back and her own clothes, making them ruffled.
Starting to convulse, she smiled and then started screaming.
"Rape! Rape!"
"Help, he's raping me!"
As Isabelle was shouting, she positioned the needle she had used earlier to inject Ryan right beside his left arm and started thrashing around, making it appear they had been in a struggle.
Her screams were deafening, and in mere moments, the door was flung open by four female security guards, Isabelle's lackeys, and Gwen and Amanda.
The security guards were the first to act and ran forward, knocking the motionless Ryan off of Isabelle.
"He poisoned me with something!" Isabelle screamed.
"I managed to stab him with that needle, but he still forced some of it down my throat first."
Gwen, who had entered the room, looked at Ryan disgustedly and shook her head. "I thought better of you."
However, Amanda looked at the situation with a furrowed brow, thinking, 'Did she actually go through with it?'
Recalling last night, when she had seen Isabelle receive a package called 'paralyzing anthrax' from her servant, she clenched her fists.
But as much as she wanted to say something, she knew she could do nothing.
'At least not at the moment,' Amanda thought, biting her lip and clutching the pill in her pants pocket.
Gwen walked over to Isabelle, who had stopped convulsing and lay paralyzed. "It's 'paralyzing nethrax'," she said after inspecting the needle.
"It's a costly drug with an even more expensive antidote."
Gwen moved a blanket to cover the now paralyzed Isabelle. "But I believe the Dragon Empress will be more than willing to buy some for you from the Dawn Pavilion."
Turning to Ryan, her concerned look changed back into one of disgust. "But she surely won't be buying one for you."
"Please bind him and present him before the Dragon Empress," Gwen said, turning to Amanda.
"I'll go ahead and rush Isabelle to the Dragon Empress."
Gwen quickly left the room with Isabelle, and Isabelle's lackeys followed shortly after.
The security guards also left, knowing this was well beyond their pay grade.
Left in the room alone with Ryan, Amanda walked over to him and looked into his eyes.
"Did you do it?"
Not able to move or speak, Ryan only stared at her unblinkingly.
Amanda bit her lip and looked over her shoulder.
"I know I'm going to regret this later, but god, I hate Isabelle."
Reaching into her pants pocket, she retrieved a pill and fed it to Ryan.
Almost immediately, Ryan started to feel control returning to his fingers and toes.
A few seconds later, he could freely move his ankles and wrists.
After a full minute, his body was more or less fully under his control.
Ryan looked at Amanda in awe and asked, "Why?"
Amanda smiled. "I don't know."
"Maybe it's because I hate Isabelle," she said, looking away.
"Or maybe it's because you dying would be a waste of a good cock."
Ryan chuckled dryly and touched Amanda's cheek.
"Will she really side with Isabelle?"
Ryan wanted to stay and get Page on his side, but it was best to leave if it was a lost cause.
"She will."
"When I went to talk with Isabelle last night, I overheard a conversation between her and one of her servants."
"She apparently isn't an actual part of Page's harem but a member of Grand Empress Kheaweth's party who is in charge of keeping the Red Dragon Kingdom in control."
Looking over her shoulder again and making sure no one was listening, she whispered, "Not a lot of people know this, but Grand Empress Kheaweth and the Holy Phoenix Empress are the only two people in charge of the Holy Alliance."
"What do you mean?" Ryan asked, frowning.
"The Red Dragon Empire isn't an equal part of the Holy Alliance or even has any part in the alliance other than to be the Grand Empress's bitch."
"It looks like I was wasting my time here then," Ryan grumbled.
"What do you mean?" Amanda asked, tilting her head.
Ignoring her question, Ryan held Amanda's hand. "Come with me."
Amanda shook her head. "I knew you'd ask, but no. I can't."
Ryan couldn't help himself and asked, "Why?"
"I love Page too much."
Getting off the bed, Ryan turned to go but paused at the door.
"Why did you have the antidote with you?"
Amanda said, "I saw her receive it from one of her servants last night and went to the Dawn Pavilion in the middle of the night to purchase an antidote just in case."
Ryan shook his head and turned to Amanda. "And you're sure you don't want to come with me?"
Amanda looked at Ryan with a hint of hesitation, but she still shook her head in the end.
"Then how much did it cost?"
"It doesn't matter. You should hurry and leave before someone comes back," Amanda said as tears formed in her eyes.
"How much?"
As the tears flowed faster, she gave up and said, "Fine, I spent 100 Heavenly Credits, alright?"
"Now, please go before someone comes."
Ryan nodded and sent her a prompt which Amanda thought was some money Ryan had scrapped together, obviously not the 100 Heavenly Credits that had bankrupted her to buy.
She looked at the notification as she slumped to the ground, watching Ryan disappear behind the corner.
"W-What?!" Scrambling to her feet, she raced out of the room, trying to find Ryan.
Looking in the lobby and not seeing him, she frantically ran outside and looked around, but Ryan was nowhere to be found.
As she ran through the streets, her thoughts raced even faster than her legs could carry her, thinking about both the message she had received and the man who had sent them.
'Why would he have 1000 Heavenly Credits?'
'I don't even know if Page has that many...'
'And why would he give them to me?'
Not finding Ryan, she slumped to the ground in exhaustion from all the stress she had endured and her decision to help and trust Ryan with the information.
'I wonder who he truly is and what he meant by wasting his time...'