A feeling of hopelessness engulfed him as he widened his eyes upon being smiled at by a beautiful red-head woman on the B Empire's side. Somebody who matched Audrey's description of the woman responsible for delaying them and causing the escape of Mao, leader of C Empire's Catastrophe.
"Damn."
The world had been frozen. Even Nike, who had already been making big improvement in his magic level, could not move and could at most move his eyes, albeit he was at least not detached to this new reality.
"You are Grace."
In such a world, Niccoli blankly muttered a name even though the mic was already placed under his lips. He found it more dreadful how the words did not seem to reach the more than a hundred thousand people beneath the stage. Red-haired and
"Your answer?"Niccoli’s heart sunk when he heard that indifferent voice, seemingly telling that the death of one of her summons was no loss for her.“Master, your mana is running all time low We, we can't fight her. Just surrender. That will lower the odds of getting killed by her since from the current looks of it, she is the type who enjoys hunting struggling prey.”The young man looked down for a while, not knowing what to think about this realization after he gave his all against a terrible foe."So… I was this weak in your eyes, huh?" he absentmindedly murmured.Grace heard him and snickered, not denying his words. "That's why I asked you, why you haven't escaped yet."
The invisible barrier broke and a device on the young prince’s person broke. The gardener whose attacks failed to connect to his target frowned and then glared in the direction where Grace appeared. "Witch!!!""The name is Bathory Erzebeth," corrected the red-head woman while curtsying. Then she added with a slight smile, "Although I am probably more known as Erzebeth Tudor." "Cut the nonsense! What have you trespassed this territory for?" As if living to what the woman just called him, a barbarian, he didn't bother with courtesy and just went straight to the point. Bathory looked away from the ugly expression Irene was making and lightly smiled at the gardener. "Well. See this young man?""This one greatly insulted me, the Queen of the B Empire so I was enraged and wanted to exact punishment on him for Lèse majesté."The middle-aged man who arrived furrowed his brows and tightened his grip on his gardening tool. Hearing the explanation of the blood witch, he glared at her and said,
At the same time, while admiring the picturesque view before her, a sigh escaped Audrey's lips without her knowing it. "Truly, there was nothing quite like watching the sun paints the sky orange-pink as it kisses the ocean goodnight" A contented smile was hanging on her lips as she thought this out loud. Captain Henry was a beer loving lad and his huge beer belly spokes volume of how true it was. He also seemed strong to his age. In fact, Audrey could not help but saw his grandpa Johnson to the other party. Not only that, but he was fun to be with as well and whenever he was around, he would tell Audrey and her friends some pirate story to kill time. One story that standout the most was about the cursed treasure and the oblivious pirates who stole it. The captain only have one rule for the group to follow and it was something he advised them to take seriously. Otherwise, they will regret its consequence. However, when Luna went missing one night, Niccoli ended up breaking the rul
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