He...... How did you get in?

Looking at Julian's horizontal sword standing upright, Ipeya's expression was a little trance-like.

Although Julian was much more emaciated and thin than when he was last seen half a month ago, he wore the Paladin armor that had been hidden in the Temple of the First Dragon and originally belonged to Patnin McMahon on his body, and the emblem symbolizing the Knights Templar and the "Rose Blade" was clearly visible, but it did not make the majestic momentum much inferior. In contrast, the question of how Julian had broken through and broken into the barrier protected by high-level illusions seemed less urgent to Ipeya.

"Julian, you...... You're back!" General Menavino smiled heartily at seeing who had saved him. From despair to hope, it was only a moment.

When Her Majesty returned to Alexandria that day, Julian, the Reverend Nusan Xiudna, and the other three guests did not return with Ipea, and the Empress explained that Julian and the others had other tasks on their part, and that since it was the Empress's explanation, the Reverend Nusan Xiudena and Julian's father, the Grand Duke Rousseau, would not raise any objections, although they had always been suspicious of Julian's whereabouts. However, now that Julian has returned, this is a happy thing in any case, because from Julian's words and deeds just now, it seems that he and Empress Ipeia are not in the same group, and even parting ways will be parted ways when there has already been hostility. Since there are still people who stand up to stop the hypocritical empress, perhaps this crumbling empire can be saved.

"I'm sorry, Julian. The main hall of the palace has collapsed, and your father is buried there, and he is afraid that he is already very lucky. General Menavino reported the bad news to Julian with regret.

"I see. Julian took a deep breath, "But now is not the time to grieve. Sure enough, Owen is right, the guys in the Truth Society are a bunch of dehumanizing **!"

"The Truth Society, the mysterious organization that is rumored to have turned the Central Church upside down?!" Although he had been mentally prepared, this answer still made Bazak feel terrified.

"Your Excellency General, you can rest for a while, and leave the rest to me. ”

After speaking, Julian raised his magic sword "Tears of Repentance" and pointed it directly at Ipeya, who was standing on the other side of the old warehouse.

"Julian, I was worried about where to find you, but I didn't expect you to fall into the net. "In the face of Julian's challenge, it was not the three sisters Ipeia or Fernández who first responded, but Prince Halan.

He tightened his bowstring and fired the arrow at Julian with a "boom".

"Eagle insect trick!" Julian didn't even move his feet in the face of the arrow, which didn't fire fast, and just turned his head to dodge.

But this arrow was just a trick on the part of Prince Harlan, and while Julian dodged sideways, Prince Harlan kicked on his heel, drew his short sword at his waist, and the whole person pounced on him like an arrow from the string, straight to Julian's waist.

In the flash of lightning, Julian raised his magic sword and blocked Prince Harun's charge. The tip of the short sword slammed into the rune sword of the magic sword, and the powerful impact force was completely absorbed by the magic sword, and Julian did not move.

Prince Harun did not base his chances on a single assault, and while his attack was blocked by Julian, he swung his left longbow, a small but tough bowstring, like a wire saw, towards Julian's throat.

"Hey!" Julian shouted, throwing his head back to avoid the bowstring that cut his throat.

Julian's retreat gave Prince Harlan a chance to take a step forward and stab Julian in the waist with his nimble dagger in his back. But Julian's reaction was not slow, and he immediately reversed the magic sword and slashed it diagonally, only to hear a "bang", and the short sword and the magic sword collided together again.

"Give my holy sword back!" Prince Harlan roared at Julian in between brief wrestling.

"You have the ability to take it yourself!" Julian replied not to be outdone.

At this moment, the arrow, which had been flying behind, turned around in the air and flew silently towards the back of Julian's head.

"Be careful!"

General Menavino, who saw the clue, immediately reminded Julian, who had been warned, used his free left hand to pull out another weapon pinned to his waist: the holy sword "Eternal Victory", and waved it back.

Only a "buzz" sound was heard, and in the low sound of the holy sword as it was unsheathed, the sneak arrow was split in half from the middle.

Seeing Julian draw the holy sword, Prince Harun's face changed, he jumped back more than ten steps, out of the position of hand-to-hand combat, and suddenly returned the sword back to its sheath, and kicked the quiver behind his heel, and five arrows were kicked out of the quiver.

With the dexterity and speed of a butterfly piercing flowers, Prince Harun successively caught four arrows scattered in the air like a swift wind and shot them out. The targets of the four arrows were all aimed at Julian, but the arrows still had a strange change of trajectory during the flight, and did not shoot directly at Julian, but swept to his left and right, flying behind Julian.

The archer's greatest attainment in archery is not only a hundred steps or a series of shots, but also an arrow that knows how to use physical means to make itself shoot, of course, everyone may use the same method. For example, at this time, Joika, who was on the other side of the continent in the Olopa Sea, would use strips of cloth or string to control the curvature of the arrow, so that the arrow would change its direction during flight due to the release of elastic potential energy. As for the crown prince of the Kingdom of Sealand, who is proud of his bow skills, Prince Harun, who has been familiar with bow skills since childhood, uses a dagger to carve a specific spiral pattern on the shaft of the arrow, so that the two sides of the arrow body are deviated from the wind surface and quality, so as to achieve the effect of turning in the middle of the flight.

Sure enough, the four arrows that "circled" to the back each deflected a large bend with different distances and arcs and flew back, different distances and different directions, and the final flight trajectory was staggered on Julian.

But such superb bowing skills were not enough to defeat Julian. The young knight, dressed in the armor of his predecessors, was not deceived by the strange tricks, and did not move like a mountain, spinning his twin swords, and between the staggered swings of the magic sword "Tears of Repentance" and the holy sword "Eternal Victory", all four turning arrows were blocked.

During this time, Prince Harun, dressed in light leather armor, jumped onto a beam hanging above Julian's head with his nimble body, hooked the beam with his feet, and hung upside down in the posture of hanging the Admiralty upside down. Prince Harlan grasped the longbow in his left hand, and grasped the fifth arrow that had not been fired with his right hand, pulled the bowstring full, and took advantage of Julian's attention to be attracted by the four previous roundabout arrows, aimed at Julian's head, and fired a zero-distance shot from top to bottom!

Although he couldn't see it with the naked eye, Julian felt the murderous aura from the top of his head that he had cultivated from the life-and-death battle of the Ghost Gate for a long time. Before he could look up, Julian's body subconsciously slid back a step.

At this moment, only a "boom" was heard, the bowstring was released, and the sharp arrow that shot down vertically grazed the armor on Julian's left chest, and the arrowhead cast in iron rubbed against the armor made of Mithril alloy at high speed, sending out a burst of sparks, and finally the fatal arrow failed to achieve its goal, and half of it sank into the floor of the old warehouse.

Julian, who had escaped the arrow at the last moment, swung the holy sword in his left hand upward, and the crisp sword aura was released with the arc of the blade of "Eternal Victory", cutting off the beam. Although Prince Harun was not injured by the sword qi, he also lost his foothold in mid-air.

Prince Harun, who had fallen to the ground, stared at Julian with fierce eyes, and squeezed out his warnings one by one: "Don't use my 'Eternal Victory' again, or you will gouge out your eyes." ”

"I'm blind, otherwise how could I have saved you by the river that day?" Julian sneered.

"yes, I almost forgot to thank you. I owe you a life, and the best reward for you is to give you back a life. ”

"Are you going to kill yourself?"

"No, I'll spare your life. You put down my holy sword now, disappear from my vision immediately, and you won't die. ”

"What if I refuse?"

"Then my reward will be to carve a tombstone for you. Once again, Prince Harlan drew his dagger.

"If you can do it. Undeterred by the other man's cruel words, Julian withdrew the magic sword from its scabbard and held it to his chest with both hands.

Seeing Julian's posture, Prince Harun felt a great provocation, he held a bow in his left hand, a horizontal sword in his right hand, and his body was slightly bent like a spring bow, waiting only for the best time to "launch" himself.

Just as the second round of the duel between the two was about to start, a third person suddenly intervened.

"Two, can you listen to the concubine's words. Empress Ipeia intervened between the two with her signature graceful smile and light and graceful steps.