“Miss Lilith, you know he’s a Black Magician!”
“Your Highness Diana, I’m sorry… I don’t understand what you’re saying. A person in a black robe, of unknown identity, just fell down, that’s all.”
“His body will prove everything.”
With that, Diana turned and jumped off the cliff. Lilith also used slow descent to reach the bottom of the cliff.
But to their surprise, the body was gone…
Diana sighed in disappointment, her sharp gaze sweeping over Lilith:
“You hid his body so quickly?”
“As you can see, I just arrived as well.”
“I never thought that as the granddaughter of Elibol, the greatest White Magician, you would also collude with them.”
“Miss Diana, everyone has their own destiny they must face.”
Lilith took half a step back…
Perhaps Diana truly was a born queen; her ice-blue eyes were pure and flawless.
Just one glance made a chill run through Lilith’s heart.
In this world, besides mages, warriors also have their own path to advancement…
They also need magic nerves, but the way they are used and cultivated is different.
It is also divided into ten stages, from first to ninth stage, and the Holy Grail Knight above the ninth stage.
The ultimate goal of a mage is to refine their innate magic stone into a Philosopher’s Stone.
The ultimate goal of a warrior, on the other hand, is to find their own “Holy Grail.”
Although Diana, chosen by the Holy Sword, only possessed a fourth-stage combat ability herself,
the Holy Sword was the Holy Grail in her heart. To what extent could her strength be unleashed under the Holy Sword’s blessing?
No one knew yet…
Diana left along the stream at the bottom of the cliff, and Lilith also breathed a sigh of relief.
Mil probably wouldn’t die so easily?
Sure enough, when Lilith returned to the top of the cliff, she learned that Mil had already hidden in the carriage…
He was gasping for breath as if exhausted, beads of sweat streaming down his face, leaving streaks of perspiration.
At this moment, the Gem of Creation hanging on his chest glowed with a soft emerald light.
Mil found it somewhat amusing that the Elf Clan’s Gem of Creation had saved the Demon God's Child’s life at the most critical moment.
It almost ended the whole story…
The Holy Flame Knights brought the three mages over and asked:
“Miss Lilith, how should we deal with these three?”
Lilith glanced at Mil, who shook his head at his own neck.
The knight’s hand rose and fell, and three heads rolled to the ground.
…
Diana hurried along the river valley towards the capital, the blood-stained hem of her skirt brushing against the thorny bushes with a rustling sound.
She had to quickly inform the others about Ibon’s plan to trigger the demonic tide.
And just as she walked out of the forest, Diana suddenly stopped.
In a clearing thirty paces away, Royal Knights’s adjutant, Charles, was sitting around a bonfire with students.
Stew in a blackened iron pot gurgled, and half of the academy emblem peeked out from under the boys’ mud-stained cloaks.
“Your Highness Diana?!”
Charles suddenly stood up, and behind him followed a group of students from the Royal Guard School.
“Charles?! Weren’t you forbidden from leaving the city?”
“Your Highness, I snuck out. It’s wonderful to meet you here!”
Diana surveyed Charles, dressed in simple leather, and asked with some helplessness:
“Your equipment… was it also confiscated?”
“Not only confiscated… even all the equipment of the Royal Knights of Swan Castle has been sold off!”
Charles said through gritted teeth. Diana clenched her fists and glanced at the students behind him:
“With so many students, where are you planning to go?”
“We are looking for the true culprit who murdered His Highness Otto!”
The young men were enthusiastic, but Diana merely smiled faintly:
“I’ve already found the murderer of His Highness Otto… It’s Mil, the cardinal deacon from the Holy City.”
“How is that possible?” “It can’t be Mil!” “You must have mistaken him for someone else, Your Highness?”
Everyone spoke at once, unable to accept such a statement.
Diana also knew that no matter what she said now, they wouldn’t believe her:
“Alright… Then who do you think it could be?”
“Mil told us that on the day Otto was murdered, a suspicious Royal Knights escaped in a hay-transporting carriage… That person is very likely the true culprit!”
Diana knew him, the Royal Knights who survived at the murder scene.
She suddenly felt something was off…
If according to her teacher’s words, this conspiracy was arranged by the Third Prince, Rudolph,
why would they kill Otto’s guards, even though they had already been bribed?
To silence them? To make the scene more realistic?
Diana still felt that something was not quite right…
“Where do you plan to look for clues?”
“Mil said that person is a Black Magician and probably ran towards the Black Forest. We screened the map and found this castle…”
Saying that, the student opened the map and pointed towards the snow-capped mountains in the southwest.
“Moreover, we thoroughly investigated information about that castle. The Third Prince, Rudolph, has been transporting a large amount of supplies there and has been visiting frequently since last year.”
Diana still held a glimmer of hope in her heart; during the previous interrogation in prison, the judicial officer had said that Otto was not dead yet…
Even if she couldn’t find Otto, perhaps she could find some secrets about Rudolph there.
“Hmm… Let’s go together.”
Thus, entrusting the task of notifying about the demonic tide’s arrival to one of the students, Diana set off with the others.
The blessed swift horses galloped for a day and a night.
The group finally arrived at their destination at noon the next day—
Kur Gano Castle.
What met their eyes, besides the castle on the distant hilltop, were wolfsbane flowers blooming all over the mountains.
“Is it the season for wolfsbane to bloom?”
“Climate, perhaps?”
“Wolfsbane?”
Diana murmured softly, a bad premonition rising in her heart…
She suddenly fell silent.
The scent of humus mixed with blood filled her nose and mouth—werewolves.
Ten? Twenty? The sound of claws tearing at tree bark surrounded them from all directions.
“Buzz—!”
The Holy Sword in her hand suddenly hummed.
“Everyone, be careful, here…”
“Awooo—!”
Before she finished speaking, a wolf howl echoed, and a pack of werewolves surrounded them from all directions.
Diana spun and unleashed a sword aura, cutting down the front-row werewolves at the waist.
However, their numbers were not large, and their overall strength was not strong. Diana and the others quickly cleared them out.
And when the last werewolf, severely wounded, transformed back into human form, he sneered triumphantly before taking his last breath:
“It’s too late! Our main force and elites have already departed!”
“What do you mean?”
Charles grabbed his hair, but unfortunately, the other party had already stopped responding. Diana explained:
“The elite of the werewolves, the Werewolf Demons, can maintain human form while transforming into wolves and possess extremely powerful combat strength. Perhaps they are planning a major move.”
Subsequently, the group rushed into the castle. There were almost no guards, only a few remaining werewolves and a few Black Magicians.
The group searched the castle for useful information and evidence, but unexpectedly opened the basement.
Then, Charles’s cry of surprise came—
“It’s His Highness Otto! He’s still alive!”