Chapter 412
412 – Sacred Knight
Under the summons of the skeletal staff, waves of undead creatures densely filled Han Shuo’s surroundings. Han Shuo held Phoebe in one hand and the skeletal staff in the other, rapidly reciting incantations.
“Retreat!” Crespo decisively gave the order, taking the lead in withdrawing.
When Aubrey who was in charge of the current operation saw Han Shuo suddenly appearing by Phoebe’s side, he immediately knew that they had failed once again. When groups of undead creatures gradually appeared, Aubrey had also thought of withdrawing. Crespo’s call for retreat matched his intentions and he similarly started to escape toward the rear.
“Want to run? It’s too late!” Han Shuo released Phoebe’s hand which he had been holding firmly and suddenly flew toward Aubrey. He held the skeletal staff in his left hand as before, while the Demonslayer Edge shot out from his right palm.
Aubrey had already suffered great losses to Han Shuo previously. Once he saw Han Shuo directly charging toward him, his expression changed at once. He hastily shouted at the archers on the surrounding roofs, “Shoot him to death!”
A rain of arrows shot toward Han Shuo, the power and speed of the arrows indicating that the strength of these archers was out of the ordinary. However, even before the arrow rain could reach Han Shuo, Han Shuo’s skeletal staff shook, causing several towering bone shields to appear in all directions, blocking off the entire arrow rain.
Han Shuo’s speed exceeded Aubrey’s imagination. When Aubrey turned his head to take a look, the cold and vicious Han Shuo was actually only a short distance away from him.
“Be careful!” Crespo suddenly shouted loudly, the silver spear in his hand thrust like a drill at high speed toward Han Shuo. Han Shuo turned his head to glance at Crespo before raising his right hand. The Demonslayer Edge turned into a flash of black light and stabbed toward the spear point with a swish.
“Clang!”
Phoebe hesitated for a moment before nodding and saying, “Alright then. All of you take care too. Quickly leave this place.”
Han Shuo no longer said any superfluous words, holding Phoebe by the waist and directly flying toward Lawrence’s mansion.
“Bastard, how could you do that in public?” As Phoebe was grabbed by the waist, she smelt Han Shuo’s familiar smell. Her tender and beautiful face was red from blushing as she resentfully chided him.
“What’s your concern? In any case, all of them know that you are my woman.” Han Shuo casually replied, clearly not at all embarrassed.
“You, you still dare to say that. I haven’t forgiven you!” Phoebe hatefully rolled her eyes at Han Shuo, her residual anger yet to fade.
“We’ll talk about this later. Don’t talk anymore, we need to quickly find Lawrence. If Lawrence has indeed died, I will immediately bring you away from Ossen City and return at the fastest speed to my Brettel City.” Han Shuo replied.
“Bryan, it seems like you don’t care about Lawrence’s life or death. Is that true?” Phoebe looked astonishedly at Han Shuo with some uncertainty.
“No. I’m merely being realistic and stating the facts. If I didn’t care about Lawrence’s fate, I wouldn’t be going to save him now. Alright, no more talking!” Han Shuo casually replied before suddenly increasing his speed, heading toward Lawrence’s mansion like a streak of lightning.
Ever since Han Shuo knew that Lawrence had purposely made friends with him with ulterior motives, he had no longer treated Lawrence as a true friend. Lawrence who thought deeply and planned everything carefully had only been acting for his own interests. Han Shuo understood this and didn’t feel any resentment toward Lawrence’s actions.
However, it was also impossible for Han Shuo to not have any ill-feelings! Merely, Han Shuo’s interests were firmly tied to Lawrence. Only if Lawrence ascended the throne would Han Shuo be able to obtain the most benefits. Although this relationship which was purely based on benefits was firm, it wouldn’t involve too much personal feelings.
It can only be said that Han Shuo going to Lawrence’s aid was entirely for his own interests and not because of personal relations between them. Hence, Han Shuo didn’t have much feelings regarding Lawrence’s life or death. That was why he had an apathetic expression when talking about Lawrence’s situation.
Soaring flames could be seen from afar even before they reached Lawrence’s mansion, illuminating the moonless night. The fire from Lawrence’s mansion was really too conspicuous.
There were also mansions of other nobles in the surroundings of Lawrence’s mansion. However, these mansions were untouched, the gates firmly shut without a single person emerging to take a look, as though they had suddenly become blind and deaf, ignoring the sound of activity coming from Lawrence’s mansion. All of them seemed to have sunk into the deepest sleep.
As Han Shuo glanced at the strangely silent mansions, the mystic demons had made a loop at a high altitude, suddenly realizing that the people within these seemingly silent mansions were similarly losing their head out of fear. However, at the strict orders of their owners, no one dared to make a sound and no one was curious enough to exit the mansion to take a look.
This was the best example of the hypocrisy of the world. The nobles within these mansions were not Lawrence’s closest allies. Most of them had yet to indicate which side they supported and hence luckily escaped a calamity. The older nobles all knew what they were doing, realizing that the only people within the entire Lancelot Empire who dared to attack Lawrence’s residence were Ashburn and Eldest Prince Charles. They were not people these nobles could contend against and thus, being a bystander was the most sensible decision.
“Rumble…”
A huge bang could be heard from within Lawrence’s mansion. From afar, Han Shuo saw many tall buildings collapse loudly. Within the dark sky, two gold figures were extremely gaudy as they soared uninhibitedly over several buildings. Gold light would frequently flash out and would result in the collapse of another building.
Slender gorges would appear after the flashes of gold light. The magic barriers surrounding Lawrence’s entire residence was constantly being destroyed and many servants were killed in succession, their corpses lying in disarray.
Several knights dressed in brown, silver and grey armors, as well as several white, red and black robed magi, surrounded Lawrence’s mansion from all directions. These people included experts under Ashburn, experts under Eldest Prince Charles as well as experts dispatched by the Church of Light.
When Han Shuo and Phoebe almost reached that area, a mystic demon had finally approached in advance, suddenly detecting the two figures that were constantly soaring uninhibitedly. One of them was actually sacred swordmaster Karel, while the other was a golden-haired elder who donned gold knight armor.
The golden-haired elder held a gold pike and there was a symbol of an angel on the chest plate of his gold armor. The angel design was extremely lifelike, its wings appearing to be continuously flapping.
The angel engraved on the Temple Knight’s chest was a symbol that he had been blessed by the God of Light. Every Temple Knight that possesses the angel engravement had frightening strength comparable to sacred knights. If the Temple Knight was also personally a sacred knight, his strength would be even more terrifying.
However, these kind of Temple Knights were extremely rare within the Church of Light. They would definitely not leave the Temple of Light under normal situations. It is said that only when evil heretics that blaspheme the God of Light appear would these rarely seen Temple Knights leave the Temple of Light, delivering punishment on these heretics on behalf of the God of Light.
Han Shuo had never expected to actually see one within the Lancelot Empire and was thoroughly shocked. As strands of gold light flowed from the gold pike in the Temple Knight’s hand, a matchless sacred aura proliferated, giving Han Shuo an extremely indisposed feeling.
Only sacred knights and sacred swordmasters possessed gold fighting aura. For this Temple Knight to be able to unleash gold fighting aura, it proved that he was a sacred knight. In the event such a formidable existence obtains the blessing of the God of Light, his frightful personal strength will become shocking. Han Shuo merely took a look and already secretly started worrying for sacred swordmaster Karel.
With so many experts besieging Lawrence’s mansion, Han Shuo naturally wouldn’t charge in stupidly. He hurriedly summoned the earth zombie to create a tunnel leading to the center of Lawrence’s mansion before bringing Phoebe along and entered the tunnel.