The sound of clashing weapons echoed across the open space by the sea.

Sabrina, controlling the body of the melee successor, effortlessly engaged in combat with Dion, appearing more like she was playing a game: "Excellent, truly excellent. My sister, you are so young, your body so supple and seemingly powerless, yet your swordsmanship is so superb. In all these years, you are the first I have ever seen!"

In contrast, Dion could only barely hold on against Sabrina's attacks. He was struggling to stay afloat, facing numerous dangers, and his shirt was completely soaked with sweat.

Dodging a crossbow bolt from an attacker, Sabrina kicked a stone with her foot and hurled it at the onlookers. Hearing the screams around her, she said unhappily, "You should be grateful that I'm in a good mood right now, otherwise you would all be lying in the dirt by now!"

Dion stepped back and shouted to the crowd around him, "Get out of here!"

After fighting for over a hundred rounds, D'Eon, whose body and mind had reached their limits, could no longer hold onto his weapon and was kicked to the ground by his opponent.

"So soon?" Sabrina pointed her longsword at the other's throat. "Too bad, I thought the fun would last longer."

Looking around at the terrified crowd fleeing in terror, Sabrina walked up to Dion, squatted down, and took a deep breath: "My sister, with your talent for swordsmanship, if you train hard for another ten years, the title of the strongest on the continent might just fall into your lap. But unfortunately, leaving behind a powerful enemy is not my style."

Sabrina stood up, raised her sword again, and pointed the blade at Dion's chest, but hesitated to move. Her expression was complicated: "What's going on? This is so strange... This is the first time I've felt hesitation when facing an enemy."

Suddenly, Sabrina turned her head to look into the distance, her attention drawn to something else. She muttered to herself, "What's going on? Elder?!"

Seconds later, Sabrina, with an incredulous expression and wide eyes, yelled in an empty direction, "Escape? You want me to escape?! What happened?!"

On the distant horizon, a figure rapidly approaches.

People stared intently and cried out, "It's His Majesty! Our King is safe and sound!"

Sabrina stared at the king standing before her, speechless, and stammered, "You...how did you escape?! Where is Clarence?!"

Todd looked somewhat bewildered, staring at his hands without saying a word.

Having received no answer, Sabrina turned her longsword around and walked towards Todd, saying angrily, "Clarence is such an unreliable guy! In the end, I have to do it myself!"

Todd looked up at the corpses lying scattered on the ground, then at the enemy approaching with a sword. He slowly crouched down and put his hands into the earth. A moment later, the ground began to shake, cracks appeared in the soil, and the mud and stones in front of him liquefied, turning into a swamp.

Sabrina felt her feet getting heavier and heavier as she walked, until finally she felt as if she were glued to the floor and could not move an inch.

Bubbling mud rose from the ground, first her feet, then her waist and hips, and finally her chest. The mud and rocks tightly enveloped her body, and from a distance, it looked like a human head emerging from a mound of earth.

Sabrina tried to use her strength to break free from the mud and rocks, but after a struggle, her escape attempt failed.

"How can you use the abilities of 'Earthquake' and 'Earth Manipulation'? These should be Clarence's abilities!" Sabrina looked at Todd and shook her head as she shouted.

Todd withdrew his arm, stood up, and looked at Sabrina, who was firmly restrained, and said, "In order to escape, Clarence transferred some of his memories and abilities to me through the linked nervous system."

After Todd finished speaking, he walked up to Sabrina, stretched out his hands toward her head, and said, "The ability of 'Soul Link' is the same. There are some things I need to ask you."

Sabrina looked coldly at Todd: "King of Muxi, you have won this time, but who knows what will happen next time?"

After she finished speaking, blood trickled from her mouth and nose, seeped into the ground, and vanished without a trace.

The melee successor's head slumped down, and he stopped breathing.

Todd frowned as he looked at the victim in the mound, and finally sighed.

Before the assassination of the king, almost no one would have believed that just three aliens from the Elders' Council could turn the entire city upside down and cause such great losses to the entire Kingdom of Muxi.

The king's guard, totaling 32 men, was almost entirely wiped out, with only the acting commander Alfonso and a few lucky survivors. The soldiers and residents responsible for searching for the king also suffered heavy losses, with more than half of the guard, including the 100-man guard regiment led by the garrison commander, being killed, along with 12 other residents.

A week later, the Knights of Twilight and the Knights of the North Island returned to the city, and the kingdom's casualties, which were originally less than 100, suddenly rose to more than 270.

The defense of Northstone Fortress, with its surprise attack by monstrous war beasts and the ferocity of the battle, resulted in the Twilight Knights suffering 20% ​​casualties. Commander Haskins suffered a severe spinal injury during the war, confining him to bed for over a month. Even when he could walk again, he needed crutches or assistance. The monk in charge of his medical care warned him against strenuous activity and even suggested he abandon his horseback riding career.

The Father's Advent became a day of mourning for the kingdom.

Hundreds of the kingdom's elite soldiers were buried forever in the knightly cemetery, and black crosses and white banners could be seen everywhere in the city. The coffins in the carpenters' shops were sold out, and the king had to order that the bodies be preserved by freezing and asked the carpenters and stonemasons to speed up the preparations for the burial.

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