“What you’re wearing…it’s their armor isn’t it…damn…”
Sidney did not faint after losing his hand, he struggled to his feet and looked at the culprit; Eleanor who was clad in dark purple plate and wielded Dolores’ long metallic claws, to uninformed outsiders, she looked somewhat like an unholy knight.
“I hope you’ll remember this!…”
Sidney bolted as soon as he got on his feet, although he was possessed by the soul of Adris, Adris could only use the strength of the person that he had possessed; Sidney wasn’t very strong in the first place, probably not even able to beat Roland in a duel; not to mention the current Eleanor.
Eleanor was using Dolores’ weapon, made from a material which was able to damage the target’s soul as well as the physical body. If he got killed with this weapon, it would be the true end for him. If he had known that Sidney was all looks but no strength, Adris would have possessed someone stronger.
Sidney wasn’t able to run very far before Eleanor caught up, barely outside the room. Eleanor swung the devil’s claws attached to her hands, cuts crisscrossed Sidney’s back, the force knocked him to the ground.
“Help! A demon is after me! The knights and priests over there, please…”
“Eleanor, you can’t! Stop!”
“Get out, you fiend!
The familiar voice behind her made Eleanor hesitate for a while, but her resolve was unchanged; her right arm swung down and Sidney was split in half vertically, ending the evil spirit of Adris once and for all.
Bella was a little disappointed at this, as she had not been able to find out how the old gentleman produced his smoke. It seemed that the recipe for the smoke would follow the old man to the afterlife.
Eleanor turned around to look at the people behind her; the first thing she saw was Hayley’s angered face, besides the holy maiden stood the pseudodragon knight Leopold as well as a dozen or so of the Church’s knights. They had been fooled by Shadow Demon Tanpur earlier, and had split their forces into two; the fate of the other party was unknown.
“You’ve fallen Eleanor, you’ve sold your soul to the devil, and spilled the blood of your own kin. I can not forgive your sins, it seemed that I was wrong about you.”
“It’s not as it seems Hayley, I can explain…”
“Don’t bother, isn’t the armor that you’re wearing that of the female demons from earlier? What do you have to say about that?”
“My own suit of armor was destroyed…”
“Did you kill those demons then? Where are their bodies, present them and you can prove your innocence!”
“I… can’t do that; to me at least, they’re not the bad people.”
Seeing the furious Hayley and the grave Leopold, Eleanor was at a loss for what to do; she had ‘stripped’ Bella and Dolores and if they were to show up now, it would just make things more chaotic.
“You’ve even lost the cross of a Holy Knight! You’ve put on the heretic’s blood-red cross. Eleanor, we’ve been friends for so long; come with me back to the Church to repent, you might have a slight chance to redeem yourself.”
“Get out the way, we’re going to clear the monsters ahead!”
“You can’t! I won’t let you pass.”
“What are you hiding? Are you helping the evil beings?”
“I…I just won’t let you pass me, you shall only cross over my dead body!”
Eleanor stopped Hayley’s party from crossing because not too far ahead was the room where her knights were being kept; if the Church’s knights discovered their current state, she couldn’t imagine what would happen.
Hayley might not have any problems, but she couldn’t trust Leopold and his male knights. After experiencing the incident with Sidney, there was a growing hatred and mistrust for males in Eleanor’s heart. Even if they were all honorable gentlemen, she definitely wouldn’t let them cross; Eleanor wanted to protect the dignity of her knights, if males were to see them in that state, it might have some bad impact on their futures.
“Eleanor, why are you so stubborn? The Octavian Empire’s 10th princess, Octavio Lisha, has already led her Anti-Demon Knight corp to this location, the 30,000 monsters outside have almost been completely exterminated. I suggest you make way.”
The name of Octavio Lisha has only become known in the past few years, this princess of the Octavian Empire had fallen into the lake near which she had been playing; she had remained in a coma for a year after being rescued, even the Church’s archbishops had said that she would never be able to wake up, but after a year, she did.
What happened to Octavio Lisha after could be regarded as a legend, becoming a holy knight in only a year, becoming a dragon knight candidate; breaking her sister Octavio Felia’s record. Reported on the competition to become a dragon knight, she exposed her abilities in both magic and combat, ‘defeating’ her sister Octavio Felia. Currently, she had contracted a princess of the Golden Dragons, it was believed that soon the empire would have the continent’s first ‘Magic Dragon Knight’.
As for Octavio Lisha’s Anti-Demon knight corp, it was not a force to laugh at; within the corp were many skilled masters, in the recent clash against the invading demon army, the 10,000 soldiers of the corp had utterly crushed the elite vanguard of the demons, over 100,000 in number, single-handedly turning the tides of war, and kept beating armies larger than their own. Currently, the demons had been scared by this force and had chosen to halt their advance into Coristel continent; choosing to fortify their current positions instead.
Apart from her,【Magic Dragon Knight]Octavio Lisha also commanded many legendary heroes:【Shadow Thorn]Lola,【Berserker]Barthes,【Hand of Resurrection]Wulfe, and【Grand Enchanter]Hayden. The five of them formed a legendary party that had countless achievements and high merit.
“Hayley, stop. Even if I were facing Octavio Lisha right now, my stance will not change! Leave, don’t force my hand.”
“Next time we meet, we will be enemies; take care.”
Hayley sighed as she turned around, with this she and Eleanor were now on opposing sides; their decade-long friendship had come to an end. They no longer had a common purpose. Eleanor would become the first human to become Bella’s follower.
Leopold and the other knights followed behind Hayley as she left, it wasn’t because they didn’t want to fight; but because their current surroundings was a tight corridor, they wouldn’t be able to use their superior numbers here, along with the darkness that made them unsure if there were any monsters hidden in ambush near Eleanor. The safer bet was to leave and meet up with Octavio Lisha’s Anti-Demon knight corp.
“Eleanor, you didn’t have to do this. If you followed Hayley back, you wouldn’t need to be worried of not being able to explain, even if you’re wearing our equipment, and our cross; but human blood still flows in your veins!”
Seeing Eleanor sitting on the ground, Bella said with a little remorse in her heart. It was because of her multiple unintentional actions that had led to Eleanor being mistaken as an infidel and a heretic by the Church, she felt as if she had wronged Eleanor.
“I can’t explain spilling the blood of my kin, and I don’t intend to. Now that Sidney’s blood is on my hands, my family definitely won’t listen to me. My father had always been more caring towards his sons than his daughters, if I didn’t have some ability, he would have married me off as a pawn in politics.”
“Then what do you intend to do now, boss?”
“Bella, Dolores, and little Noesha, are you human?”
Eleanor looked at the three of them, they didn’t hide anything from her and shook their heads.
“Then you really are… then Bella you…”
“If I were…say I was a threat to humans, what would you do?”
“My life does not matter, but those knights are all important to me. I don’t believe that those hypocrites won’t have any thoughts towards them, can you protect them for me; if it’s possible, will I have to sell my soul…?”
“Eleanor, you don’t have to sell your soul; why do you always believe the rubbish that the Church spews? I will protect your knights, and you of course. I just need you to answer me, would you follow me? I think that you’ll be able to see a great new world.”
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