The sound of swords clashing echoed in the open space by the sea.

Sabrina controlled the body of the melee heir, and went on with ease in the battle with Dion, she looked more like a pastime: "Yes, really good. My sister, you are so young, your body is so soft and weak, and your swordsmanship is so high. You're the first I've seen in all these years!"

In contrast, Dieng can only be said to be struggling to support Sabrina's attack. He was in danger and his shirt was completely wet with sweat.

Sideways to dodge one of the attackers' crossbow arrows, Sabrina picked up a stone with her foot, threw it at the onlookers with her hand, listened to the screams in her ears, and said unhappily: "You should thank me that I am in a good mood now, otherwise you would have been lying in the mud!"

Dion took a step back and shouted to the people around him, "Get out of here!"

After more than 100 rounds of fighting, Dion, who had reached the limit of his body and spirit, could no longer hold the weapon in his hand and was kicked to the ground by his opponent.

"Won't it work so soon?" Sabrina pointed her sword at the other man's throat, "Unfortunately, I thought the fun would last longer." ”

Looking around at the crowd of people who fled in terror around her, Sabrina walked in front of Dion, squatted down and took a deep breath: "My sister, with your swordsmanship talent, as long as you practice hard for another ten years, the title of the strongest in the continent may fall on your head." But unfortunately, it's not my style to leave a strong enemy behind. ”

Sabrina stood up, raised her sword again, and aimed the blade at Dion's chest, but she didn't move, her face was complicated: "What's going on? This is so strange...... It was the first time I had faced an enemy, and I had feelings of hesitation. ”

Suddenly, Sabrina turned her head into the distance, her attention drawn to other things, and she only heard herself mutter, "What's going on? Great Elder?!"

After a few seconds, Sabrina, with an incredulous expression, opened her eyes and yelled in the direction of no one, "Run, you let me run?!

Far away on the horizon, a figure was rapidly approaching.

The people looked at each other and shouted, "Your Majesty!

Sabrina looked at the king standing in front of her, and stammered dumbfounded, "You...... How did you escape?!Clorence?!"

Todd's face was a little confused, he looked at his hands, and there were no words.

Sabrina, who didn't get an answer, turned the long sword in her hand around, and said angrily as she walked towards Todd: "Lawrence is an unreliable guy!

Todd looked up at the corpses strewn across the ground, then at the sword-wielding enemy, and he slowly crouched down and plunged his hands into the ground. After a few moments, the ground began to shake, cracks appeared in the ground, and the dirt and stones in front of him liquefied and turned into a swamp.

The more Sabrina walked, the heavier her feet became, and finally she felt like she was stuck to the floor, unable to move a single bit.

The bubbling mud rose from the ground, first her feet, then her hips, and finally her chest, and the mud and stones wrapped tightly around her body, and from a distance, it looked like a human head had risen from a raised mound.

Sabrina tried to use her strength to break free from the mud and rocks, but after some struggle, her escape failed.

"How could you use the abilities of 'Earthquake' and 'Soil Control'? these are supposed to be Laws' abilities!" Sabrina shouted as she looked at Todd and shook her head.

Todd withdrew his arm, stood up, looked at Sabrina, who was firmly imprisoned, and said, "In order to escape, Clawrence transferred some of his memories and abilities to me through the linked nervous system. ”

After Todd finished speaking, he walked up to Sabrina, stretched his hands to her head, and said, "The ability of 'Soul Link' is the same, there are some things I want to ask you. ”

Sabrina looked at Todd coldly: "King of Twilight, you won this time, but who will know the result next time?"

After saying that, "blood" flowed out of her mouth and nose, burrowed into the earth, and disappeared without a trace in an instant.

The melee heir's head drooped, and he couldn't breathe anymore.

Todd frowned and looked at the victim in the mound, eventually sighing.

Before the king's assassination, few people would have believed that just three xenos from the Presbyterian Church could turn the entire city upside down and inflict such a loss on the entire Twilight Kingdom.

The king's 32-man guard regiment was almost completely wiped out, and the only survivors were the acting commander Alfonso and a few lucky ones, and the soldiers and inhabitants in charge of searching for the king also suffered heavy losses, including the commander of the defenders, the 100-man convoy was reduced by more than half, and 12 other inhabitants also lost their lives.

A week later, the Knights of the Twilight West and the Knights of the North Island returned to the city, and the number of casualties in the kingdom rose from less than 100 to more than 270.

The defense battle of the North Stone Fortress, the surprise attack of the alien war beasts, and the fierceness of the battle to defend the city, caused the Knights of the Dusk West to suffer 20% casualties. Commander Huggins suffered a severe spinal injury during the war and lay in bed for more than a month, even if he got out of bed again and walked, he had to rely on crutches or support. The monk in charge of medical care warned him not to engage vigorously in the future, and even advised him to give up his immediate career.

The Father's coming date has become a day of mourning for the Kingdom.

Hundreds of the kingdom's elite are forever buried in the Knights' Cemetery, and black crosses and white banners can be seen everywhere in the city. The coffins in the carpenter's shop were ordered to be sold out, and the king had to order the use of freezing methods to preserve the corpses, and asked the carpenters and stonemasons to speed up the preparation before the burial.

The only thing that can give some comfort is that the Silver Ring City has been completely destroyed, its territory has been incorporated into the Kingdom of Twilight, and hundreds of defeated soldiers and refugees flock to the gates of the city every day to ask for the kingdom's protection, and the northern quarries are back in operation, and the silver ore is mined and washed, adding an important source of economic resources to the kingdom.

The Knights of the North Island not only won the king's commendation for their outstanding performance in the "Silver Ring Elegy", but also carried out the first expansion on the basis of the original 130 people, 9 Valkyries and 42 North Island warriors gave up the life of the village under the call of the king, hoping to use the way of battle to obtain the glory of the gods and endless wealth.

The duel between the knight Dion and Sabrina bought valuable time for the retreat and preservation of the populace, and with this feat, he was not only reinstated, but also appointed by the royal family as the palace sword instructor.

On June 4, 1172, the underground test site of Twilight City.

Todd placed a blood sample he had just drawn under the microscope and watched as the Sutherland bacteria in the eyepiece swelled, devouring red blood cells and platelets in the blood, eventually amplifying and mutating.

Writing down a series of data on bacteria, Todd, who was pale, closed his eyes: "Even with bacteriophages and antibiotics, the number of microorganisms in the body has been suppressed, but the mutation of Sutherland's bacteria continues. Unexpectedly, Lawrence's parting "gift" not only gave me abilities, but also broke through the maximum upper limit of the number of xenobacteria in my body, triggering the mutation of Sutherland's bacteria. ”

"The most troublesome thing is that the mutation of Sutherland's bacteria is irreversible, and the traditional microbial route can only delay this mutation. Todd lifted his sleeves, opened his eyes, stroked a small 'scaly mutation protrusion' on his left arm, and whispered, "I must find a solution before I mutate." ”