The vibration coming from the direction of the Temple of Light attracted the attention of the entire city of Fenlai.

Many residents of Fenlai City opened their doors and windows and looked in astonishment at the pale blue storm that covered the entire sky in the distance.

Inside the palace, King Clyde, who was sleeping with his beautiful concubine in his arms, suddenly woke up from his sleep and covered his chest with his hands.

"What...what's going on..."

"This inexplicable feeling of palpitations..."

Clyde covered his chest and gasped, with cold sweat oozing from his forehead.

The concubine next to him was startled by Clyde's sudden movement. She opened her sleepy eyes, half of her shoulders were exposed from the soft quilt, and she said softly in a soft voice: "Your Majesty, what's wrong?"

“…”

Clyde's face changed from gloomy to bright.

He ignored the beautiful concubine who was suddenly exposed beside him, got up from the bed, walked naked to the window, then waved his hand and tore the expensive satin curtains in front of him with his fighting spirit.

The sudden and rough action caused the beautiful concubine to scream.

But Clyde was in no mood to pay attention to what was happening behind him.

His pupils shrank and he looked at the scene outside the window with horror on his face.

Outside the stained glass window of Clyde's bedroom, there stood a six-meter-high gray stone pillar. On the pillar was a five-meter-long white lion tied with a light blue wind rope. It was the contracted monster that Clyde had subdued, a level nine ice snow lion.

But at this time, the Ice Snow Lion's originally snow-white hair was already covered with scarlet blood.

Looking up along the blood-stained body of the snow lion, the place where a head should have grown was now empty. Only the fluffy white mane was still majestic, stained with a shocking scarlet color.

"Gurgle—"

Chilled blood continuously gushed out from the cross-section of the severed head, then flowed down along the body of the snow lion, gathering at the base of the stone pillar into a pool of scarlet blood mixed with ice chips.

"How...how could this happen..."

Clyde's eyes were filled with horror, and he couldn't help but take two steps back.

He finally understood where the palpitations just now came from——

That was the final warning given to him by the monster he tamed through the contract before it died!

"Someone, someone, come!"

Clyde turned around suddenly, shouted angrily outside the palace, and grabbed a broadsword at the head of the bed.

But unfortunately, it was already silent outside the palace. No matter how loudly Clyde shouted, there was no response.

"call--"

“Crack!”

Accompanied by the sound of whistling wind, the stained glass window behind Clyde shattered.

The strong smell of blood came in from the window and filled Clyde's nose.

Clyde's eyes widened, his right hand tightly gripping the hilt of the sword, and he looked around with some fear in his eyes.

I saw a snow-white, blood-stained snow lion head thrown in from the window. The ferocious and majestic face was still full of anger, and it seemed that through its expression I could see how it had fought bloody battles when it was alive.

But it didn’t.

The battle between the snow lion and the enemy lasted less than five seconds.

Because the enemy's strength is far stronger than the snow lion itself!

"call out--"

There was a silent sound of wind, and a sharp blade came in from the window and rested on Clyde's shoulder.

The cold edge was mixed with a dark blue fighting spirit, which made Clyde's neck slightly red and even painful.

Looking at the purple light reflected from the sword blade in his peripheral vision, Clyde's heart sank.

He clenched the broadsword in his hand and was about to speak when the ** woman let out a scream of extreme terror.

"ah!!!"

“Monster!!”

...Oh no!

Clyde cursed this stupid woman in his heart, and at the same time, he saw the person behind him through the woman's beautiful sapphire eyes.

It was a humanoid monster that was over 1.9 meters tall, covered with pitch-black scales, with sword-like black fins growing on its back and arms, and cyan-blue light blooming in the gaps between its scales.

Seeing this scene, Clyde was slightly startled, and then his heart tightened. He swallowed his saliva and whispered: "Sir, don't be impulsive. I am the ruler of the Fenlai Kingdom under the Holy Alliance. I own all the wealth of the entire kingdom. No matter what you want, I can give it to you!"

"Do you want money? There is a magic crystal card hidden in my bedroom, which contains a full 100 million gold coins!"

"Do you want a woman? Look, there is one right here. She is my new concubine. She is extremely beautiful. If you want, I can give her and her twin sister to you!"

There was a hint of bewitching and a hint of anxiety in Clyde's tone.

Although he was also a ninth-level warrior, he had long been out of touch with the battlefield. Moreover, even his ninth-level strength was forcibly improved by the grace of the God of Light after he presented a woman with a pure soul to the Holy See of Light.

In terms of combat power, he couldn't even beat his own level nine snow lion monster, let alone the strange strong man behind him who could kill the snow lion.

That’s right, massacre!

Based on Clyde's understanding of the snow lion's character, it would have been impossible for it to die so quietly if it wasn't a one-sided crushing.

That was why he did not fight with the dark monster immediately after it appeared.

Because he understood that he was definitely no match for the man who had killed the snow lion silently.

Seeing that the dark monster behind him continued to remain silent, Clyde suddenly became a little anxious.

He quickly continued: "You don't want these, then what about power and authority?"

"Sir, you should know that the Kingdom of Finlay is the leader of the six kingdoms of the Holy Alliance, and the city of Finlay that I rule is known as the Holy Capital of the Church of Light!"

"I'm not saying this to use my background to pressure you. I just want to remind you that the Holy See of Light is behind me."

"You can fight against the Fenlai Kingdom on your own, but can you fight against the Holy See of Light behind me?"

Clyde persuaded earnestly.

But the dark monster behind him remained completely indifferent.

After a moment, the dark monster finally spoke for the first time.

He asked in a low and hoarse voice: "One night ten years ago, you instructed Pederson to kidnap a woman. I want to know if that woman is still alive now. If she is alive, where is she? If she is dead... then how did she die?"

Hearing the low voice coming from behind him, Clyde was slightly startled, and then his pupils shrank, and he couldn't help but say:

"You...you came here for that woman?"

"What is her relationship to you?"

“Shua——”

Before he finished speaking, the purple sword drew a strange arc, cutting off Clyde's right arm at a speed that Clyde could not react to at all, and then it was placed on his shoulder again like lightning.

“Clang—”

The heavy broadsword fell to the ground, and countless blood gushed out from the broken arm.

The severe pain made Clyde groan, and then he covered his arm with a pale face.

**The woman was so frightened by the bloody scene that her eyes rolled back and she fainted.

Clyde widened his eyes, endured the pain and said angrily: "You...you..."

"Use your fighting spirit to stop the bleeding, and then answer my questions properly."

A cold and indifferent voice came from behind, instantly making Clyde's shock and anger disappear without a trace.

He used his fighting spirit to stop the blood flowing from his broken arm, and with his pupils held back, he sneered in a cold sweat, “If the woman you are talking about is the same one in my memory, then don’t look for her, because she died ten years ago!”

“…”

The purple sword on his shoulder trembled slightly, and then a slightly disturbing voice came from behind.

"How did he die?"

Clyde's forehead was covered with cold sweat, and he endured the pain and said, "I gave her to a big shot, a big shot you can't afford to offend!"

"Sir, no matter what your relationship with that woman is, I advise you to forget about it, because..."

“Shua——”

Another flash of purple light passed by, and a piece of flesh as thin as a cicada's wing was immediately cut off of Clyde's broken arm.

The intense pain caused Clyde to let out an extremely miserable cry.

The dark monster growled in his ear: "She is my mother!"

Clyde's eyes widened in shock, then he suddenly realized.

“I see, that’s how it is!”

At this point, Clyde no longer expected the other party to let him go.

He laughed loudly, looked at the dark monster with a mocking expression and said, "Since you insist on dying, I won't hide it from you. The murderer who killed your mother was the Church of Light!"

"As the supreme Lord of Light, the God of Light does not ask much of us mortals. He only needs two things: the faith of believers and a pure soul!"

"The Holy See of Light offers pure souls to the Lord of Light every year. This is an open secret among the six kingdoms of the Holy Alliance. Only kingdom nobles like me know about it."

"And your mother was the sacrifice ten years ago. She was also the purest one in the past hundred years!"

Having said this, the dark monster behind him was already a little dazed.

Clyde took the opportunity to quietly slip away from the purple sword, turned around and looked at the dark monster, and said with a smile: "You know, during that sacrifice, the Lord of Light bestowed unprecedented grace. I don't know what the Church of Light got, but I know that after that God's gift, I was directly promoted from a level 7 warrior to a level 9 warrior!"

"Not only that, the Holy See of Light also gave me an additional Holy Land magic scroll, which is this one..."

As he spoke, Clyde flipped his right hand and took out a magic scroll from his space ring.

The next second, the Holy Land Magic Scroll was activated, and an invisible ripple instantly enveloped Clyde's entire body.

Just at this moment, the expression on Clyde's face instantly changed from a chuckle to a grin.

He grabbed the broadsword on the ground with his left hand, and stepped forward with a fierce grin, slashing at the dark monster's forehead.

"Idiot, you actually let me take it out!"

"This is the Sanctuary Defense Magic Scroll 'Destiny Guardian', which has a powerful defense that can resist the Sanctuary's attacks--"

Before he finished speaking, a crisp sound came from Clyde's body.

The purple sword appeared in front of his pupils like a ghost, firmly embedded in the invisible ripples.

The sharp tip of the sword was stuck in the "Guardian of Destiny", and stopped three centimeters in front of Clyde's pupil.

The cold sword light pierced Clyde's eyes so much that he stopped suddenly. He held the broadsword in his left hand and kept it raised high, with cold sweat oozing from his forehead.

“This…how is this possible?”

"How could you possibly pierce the protection of Destiny's guardian?!"