Chapter 254: The Dying Duke and the New Duke

Chapter 254: The Dying Duke and the New Duke

"Elias, what are you trying to do?" Captain Gaudy asked when Rosalind left. Since Elias had already agreed to work with her, Valentin and Captain Gaudy soon agreed thereafter.

"We should go. We are needed at the walls." Elias said. However, before he could leave, Valentin held his arms. "What?" he asked, irritated.

"If our families find out, we are working with a sorcerer"

Elias snorted. The thing is, they were not just working with a sorceress they were working with the Duke. "Then let them come."

"Your arrogance knows no bounce, Elias. I know you are strong but"

"It's not arrogance, Valentin, it's confidence and self-assurance. I know who I am and I know who I am working with." He then shook Valentin's hands off his arm and walked out of the barracks.

"Are you going to change his mind?" Captain Gaudy asked him.

"Do you really think I can change his mind?"

Captain Gaudy shrugged. "We should get going then. We really cannot let that idiot show off in front of the new Duchess, right?"

"You"

"What?"

In the end, Valentin shook his head, and the two followed Rosalind toward the walls. Just as they were expecting, Rosalind was already busy giving her Blessings to other people. Since these people did not know that she was a Blessed one and just assumed that she was a sorcerer, they still looked a little wary at the hooded Duchess.

But Rosalind ignored everyone.

"These are the next four people that will fight," Rosalind said. "Go ahead and call Magda and the rest. Let them come back."

"What about us?" Elias asked as he stood next to Rosalind.

"You stay by my side," Rosalind answered.

"Lady Rosie," Arriane called out. "You must take a look."

Arriane looked at her weirdly, as if she had just asked a taboo question.

"You are the first Duchess of the Rothley estate. We have never met their mothers."

"Oh" Rosalind looked at the beasts. By now, the ground was already littered with the bodies of the fallen beasts. The snow was tainted with black, green, and red. A chorus of both agony and anger filled the atmosphere.

"Are you alright?" Magda asked as she arrived next to Rosalind. She sized up Elias and Valentin. "This is"

"They are going to work with me."

"I was not even gone for a day and you already found yourself other guards?" Magda jokingly asked. She was using a cloth to wipe the blood from her face.

"No wounds?" Rosalind asked.

"No. Whatever happened there was simply" Magda did not continue her words as she looked at the others who fought with her. Gamaryl looked fearsome with that large sword and bloodied appearance while the one from the Etonde Family just silently stood there looking at the surviving beast. "I feel like I can fight for hours."

"There is no need to exhaust yourself. We do not know when this will end." Rosalind said.

"I agree we do not know when this will end. We currently lack people and"

"We now have three more people," Rosalind interrupted Arriane. "The three of them will be fighting in there very soon."

"How could you let ordinary swordsmen fight in the front line?" Magda frowned and met Elias's eyes. "Many people would take this opportunity to know without understanding that this is not a game. They cannot just gamble their lives. This is a beast tide."

"Do you think we are just trying to show off?" Elias responded.

"Isn't that why you approached the Duchess? If you are looking for death, then please go ahead and kill yourself using your own hands. Why must you put other people's safety in jeopardy?"

"The audacity! How dare you"

"Alright Elias, that is enough."

"This woman is looking down on me."

"The fact that you are a little pleasant to look at does not change the fact that you are not like us." Magda sneered. "If you want to fight, then you must wait here in the gates! Wait for the beasts to come and then you fight! In that field, you are on your own. And once you fall, the other beasts will start attacking the people that you are with. Do you understand what I am talking about?"