Chapter 181 - 180 - Inside The Castle.

The armor that sensed Isabell's approaching presence activated his magic and created a black sword in his right hand. Leaving an inn, he reached the narrow street and waited for her to approach.

Isabell who was still a kilometer away managed to feel that things would not be as easy as before.

But even so, she accelerated her flight.

With the gleam in her eyes increasing, she gripped the hilt of her sword tight and her speed increased even more.

The armor looking up at the sky, waited as continued to stand. Some residents who remained hidden looked at the armor with curiosity and fear. Because these people knew they couldn't get away, they just kept watching.

The atmosphere grew tense and silent as the armor held its sword tightly and made an attack position to receive Isabell.

As if time had stopped.

BOOM~~

The sound of a small explosion was made as a curtain of dust rose into the air. The concrete that was used on the street had also cracked within a radius of several meters. Pieces of the ground also flew away.

The curtain of dust prevented the villagers from seeing what had happened. But Isabell and armor didn't mind that despite being able to notice the presence of those people.

The two people face each other inside that huge amount of dust.

Isabell who collided with the armor at almost 100km/h had her attack blocked by the armor's sword. The arms of the armor cracked a little from the impact and the effect Isabell had on him.

The armor looked at Isabell in surprise as his arms shook and he was forced back.

As the dust curtain lowered, the armor felt its body grow weak as a light emitted from Isabell's body and penetrated her armor.

His sword made of concentrated magic began to lose its strength while Isabell's sword remained intact.

Realizing what was happening, the armor made his sword disappear and jumped back.

'Looks like I was wrong.' Realizing the armor's astonishment, Isabell realized she was wrong when she thought this battle wouldn't be so easy.

"Who are you?" The armor asked the same question as to the first armor, but Isabell didn't answer.

BANG~~

As if it were the sound of a gunshot, Isabell broke the ground beneath her feet and disappeared from her place. The residents, unable to follow his movements, were surprised when they saw Isabell's sword crash into the arm of the armor.

Tlin~~~

Break~~

With the sound of metal clashing and a sound of something cracking soon after, the right arm of the armor he had worn to protect her chest was cut off. Black smoke began to come out of her arm.

Isabell thought he would start to regenerate his arm, but the smoke was just coming out and dispersing into the air.

Isabell didn't wait and took another thrust with her sword toward the chest of armor. Leaning his body to the right, the armor avoided Isabell's sword and then immediately threw a punch with all its strength towards the girl's face.

Isabell who noticed this moved to the side and avoided the punch of the armor. With her eyes glowing golden, Isabell watched the armor move in slow motion, allowing her to do so with ease.

The armor was surprised when its punch that came at incredibly high speed was avoided as if it were something easy. But even so, he didn't despair and used her magic to create tentacles that tried to grab Isabell's legs.

But as soon as they got closer, the tentacles melted and disappeared.

'Guh~~' Not knowing what had just happened, the armor moaned in pain.

But with no time to think about it, Isabell's sword again lunged towards the chest of armor, which again leaped away and dodged the sword.

"huh?"

Or he thought he had avoided it.

Looking down, the armor noticed Isabell's sword in his chest.

'How?' He thought as tried to reason out what had happened.

"You are so slow," Isabell said as the armor crumbled and turned to earth.

'Haa~~' Isabell sighed in her mind as she sweated and felt a massive headache.

"These battles are being easy, but I don't know how long I'll hold out." She said as she remembered what she had just done. As soon as the armor jumped back to avoid his attack, Isabell again gave a great boost.

Sticking your sword through the chest of armor.

"Let's go to the next one." With two armors destroyed, Isabell still had three more armors around the capital in addition to the three armors that are still inside the castle.

'This armor did not seem to know of my sacred attribute as it was confused about its tentacles having disappeared. This is weird since the first armor I faced knew about it.'

But ignoring that, Isabell again took off and flew to the other side of town where another armor was.

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A few hours earlier, inside the royal castle.

A woman holding the hand of a small girl began to run towards one of the rooms below the castle. They descended a narrow staircase that was behind a secret door inside a room.

The stairs were dirty and cobwebs were everywhere, but the woman didn't care and descended quickly.

Coming downstairs, had a room with some cabinets stocked with water and food that had a high nutritional value. It was also a pickled food that would last a long time.

It was a not very large room and had two exits.

One that would lead directly outside the castle into a mansion that was secretly administered by the king.

And the other exit was the ladder they had used to go down.

"Mommy, what's going on?" The little girl said as she had a surprised expression on her face. Looking at her mother breathing heavily and with an expression of fear, the girl was extremely worried despite being just a child.

"Is nothing. We have to stay here for now, okay?" The woman said to her daughter and then bent down to hug the little girl.

"All right. And my daddy, doesn't he come?" the girl asked as she hugged her mother.

The woman who heard this felt her heart leap.

"Your dad is coming later, okay? Do not worry." Tears welled up in the woman's eyes as she continued to hug her daughter.

These were the queen and princess of Southlein. After the Queen received the news about her husband's condition and the situation in the war, she did her best to control herself and to stay by her daughter's side.

But after only a few hours, three armor appeared in the castle, forcing them to hide here.

Inside the castle, the guards desperately tried to kill the armors, but to no avail. With the strength of the armors, the guards could do nothing but be killed.

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Inside the castle, three armors walked together as they repelled the oncoming iron armored guards.

"Where is the king?" Armor grabbed one of the guards by the neck and lifted him.

"I do not know."

"Are you sure you won't say?" The armor tightened her neck even more. The man who had difficulty speaking and breathing responded negatively again, so armor squeezed his neck with all his strength.

The man had his neck destroyed and fell to the ground lifeless.

The nearby guards who saw this looked scared but still approached the armors to try to do something. Taking advantage of this situation, another armor also grabbed one of the guards.

The armor pressed the man, and this time he told him where the king was.

"You traitor."

"Bastard."

His comrades who witnessed his friend hand over the king's location raged, but even so, the man didn't seem to care as he was about to be released.

Or so he thought.

His neck was destroyed like the previous man's.

"Come on, if we go this way we'll reach the king's bedroom." The armors moved forward as they killed the oncoming guards. The number of guards was gradually decreasing.

By the time the armors arrived in front of the king's bedroom door, which was more luxurious than the others, the guards outside had already disappeared.

They stopped attacking them, showing that probably all the castle guards had already been killed or had fled.

Not caring about it, the armor that called itself number 1 opened the bedroom door.

"AAAH~~" But as soon as it opened, it was greeted by a guard who wore golden armor and a two-handed sword. The armor that was taken by surprise used his arms to protect itself.

The man's sword clashed against the arms of the armor, but no harm was done.

The armor that received the surprise attack increased the glow in his 'eyes' and swung his arm diagonally.

"Huh?" The man who was confused felt great pain. After that, the floor was stained with his blood.. The man's body was split in half.