- The Saku bandits took advantage of the chaos to invade the city of Silia and are now sacking the lord's palace.

After learning this shocking news, Charlie, the deputy captain of the garrison, hurriedly gathered the people who could still move, and galloped towards the lord's mansion in a carriage.

The situation was not good, and Charlie knew that the Saku Bandits were outnumbered and their leaders were quite powerful, and the guards stationed there would never be their opponents.

Once the guards' defenses were breached, the lord's palace was left with unarmed maids and young daughters.

Judging from the criminal record of that group of gangsters, it is not difficult to imagine what a tragic situation it will become.

But when it comes to the lord's daughter, there are some things that Charlie can't let go.

His question came from the little girl on the side of the carriage, who was "flying" at the same speed as a galloping horse.

Flying Magic-

This kind of rumored technique that only advanced wind elemental magicians can master, Charlie has also seen it for the first time.

But now, he doesn't make a fuss about this level of trickery.

The little girl's name is Elize, one of the three sisters of the lord's daughter who was attacked by bandits at this time.

Beneath the seemingly innocent smile, there is a hidden magical talent.

Not long ago, she cast a stunning spell again and again, dispersing the army of the undead who attacked the city gates at night, and saving the desperate garrison.

Once the city gate falls, the consequences can be imagined, and in the worst case, Celeia may be destroyed overnight.

Therefore, it is not an exaggeration to say that she is the savior of the entire city of Celeria.

However, only one question lingered in Charlie's mind, and finally, he couldn't help but ask.

"Miss Elize, since the house has been attacked, why did you come to the city gate to rescue us?"

"Well~~ it's very simple~~ The situation at the city gate is more urgent, I'm one step late, I'm afraid my uncles have already turned into zombies~~?"

The girl replied lightly, recalling Charlie's momentary moment.

However, her explanation did not make Charlie easily relieved.

If Alize left her family to escape alone, he felt it was reasonable.

After all, she was just a young child.

But in fact, although Alize is young, she is not ordinary.

She's strong, ridiculously strong, and she's able to play with the horrific magic that destroys an entire wall.

It's hard to imagine that a mere bandit could pose a threat to her.

Even if the leader of the Saku Bandits is really powerful, he will never be able to be Ariz's opponent.

Charlie believes that if he could really defeat Elize's master, he would not be entrenched on the border, and he would have become a hero of the empire, or the overlord of one side.

That's why Charlie wondered why Alize would leave her family behind and run to the city gate to rescue her irrelevant strangers.

It didn't take long for the carriage to arrive at the door of the Lord's Palace.

It takes more than 20 minutes to run from the city gate to here, and it only takes a third of the time to use the horse-drawn carriage.

- Speaking of which, when Miss Eliezer arrived at the city gate, it was about twenty minutes before the undead attack...... What exactly is this......

Thinking of this, the doubts in Charlie's heart deepened again.

Originally, the information about the attack on the Lord's Mansion came from the mouth of Elize.

According to her own testimony, she was awakened by the noise of the bandits breaking in.

If true, it means that when Alize woke up, the bandits had already arrived at the Lord's Mansion.

The Saku Bandits, with the exception of their leader, are just sparse and ordinary bandits.

Even if there are some alien races with superior physical strength to humans, they may not be faster than carriages.

If the bandits took advantage of the undead to invade the city, then it would take them more than ten minutes to reach the lord's mansion at the earliest, not to mention that they were not familiar with the roads in the city, so it would probably take more time.

In this way, Ariel's testimony becomes very eerie.

Putting aside how she learned about the danger at the city gate, the fact that she came from the lord's mansion to the city gate in an instant made people puzzled.

Charlie couldn't imagine how Eliza did it, but it was enough to prove that as long as the girl had the heart, he didn't need to use the slow means of "flying" at all, but in some more convenient and faster way, crossing tens of kilometers or even longer in an instant.

But Alize didn't do that.

Even at this moment, she didn't show a trace of anxiety, and always hung a dazzling bright smile.

"Uncle Charlie, don't you go in~~?"

Alice's question interrupted Charlie's ramblings and brought him back to his senses.

- It's true that I don't have time to think about it so much now.

Charlie didn't say anything, came to the door and made a gesture to keep several guards on either side of the door, and then without warning he raised his foot and kicked open the wooden door.

As soon as the door opened, the guards on both sides of the door rushed into the entrance quickly, and they raised their weapons to keep vigilant against the enemy's ambush.

However, not to mention the attack, there was silence at the entrance of the entrance, and there was no feeling of being attacked by bandits at all.

Just when Charlie begins to suspect that this is a prank by Aliser, the "object" that rolls at his feet refutes this conjecture with all its might.

In the dim light of the candlelight, two men ...... To be exact, the bodies of two men, falling motionless to the ground.

The dirty, crude leather armor testifies to the identity of the two.

After a cursory examination, the fatal cause was quickly identified.

One of them, he had a visible cut in the neck, the artery had been severed, and blood was pouring all over the ground.

The wound of the other man, however, was so small that it was imperceptible, and there was a very narrow but deep puncture wound to the bone marrow under the hairline of the back of the head.

In addition, there were no other scars on their bodies, not even traces of struggle.

It is not difficult to imagine that these two people probably didn't even have a chance to resist, and they were killed by a single blow in an instant.

What a neat murderous method this is, so that everyone who looks at it can't help but gasp.

Charlie held his breath, clenched his sword in one hand and an oil lamp in the other, and peered deeper into the hallway, concentrating on catching some movement.

However, there was still silence in the corridor, and not even the slightest sound could be heard.

"Ai, Miss Eliza...... Did you kill these two people too?"

Charlie swallowed and asked tremblingly.

Because he really couldn't think of any other possibilities.

At least none of the guards stationed in the palace possessed such superb and ruthless skill.

"No~~ Cut off the artery and puncture the medulla oblongata or something, how could I be such a perverted trick~~ If it were me, at most, I would break their tendons, or burn their eyes, so that I wouldn't even take my life~~ Basically, I'm still a pacifist~~"

-- What kind of pacifism is this?

Although they didn't dare to say it, everyone present couldn't help but complain secretly in their hearts.

"But who is this......

"Ahaha~~This~~ Maybe it's the masterpiece of the 'Grim Reaper'~~"

While joking like this, Arize narrowed her eyes and became unusually happy.

But Charlie didn't laugh at all, because it made the situation even more complicated.

Originally, the leader of the Saku bandits was already difficult to deal with, but at this time, a mysterious figure who was unknown and did not know whether he was friend or foe broke in.

-- We must be more cautious.

As soon as he made up his mind like this, Arize on the side immediately disrupted Charlie's plan.

She took a brisk step and walked down the hallway into the depths without hesitation.

"Ai, Miss Eliza, please don't go too fast!"

Charlie had no choice but to put aside his worries and hurriedly led the crowd to follow.

The deeper you go, the thicker the water vapor fills, making the already drowsy corridor even more terrifying.

At the edge of the corridor, some corpses will emerge from the cold, including both bandits and maids from the lord's mansion.

It's just that there is a huge difference in the misery of the two.

The deaths of the maids were almost horrific, most of them were not fully clothed, and there were countless scars left on their bare skin, and it is not difficult to imagine how cruel the violence was before they died.

In stark contrast, the corpses of the bandits were almost impossible to find any extra wounds, and all of them had only one fatal wound - a deeply inserted dinner knife in the throat.

Along the way, just a few tens of meters away, just a rough calculation, there were more than twenty corpses like this.

Without exception, they died from this scalp-tinging throat blow.

The bleak scene made the originally hazy image of the mysterious man clearer and clearer.

In Charlie's mind, his silhouette was gradually taking shape, a dangerous man with a battle-hardened physique and a cold face, like a wolf lurking in the shadows.

"Ah...... Uncle Charlie, don't go any further~~?"

"Huh!?"

Suddenly, in front of the door of a room, Alize stopped her, but it was so sudden that Charlie, who was in deep thought, had no time to stop.

All he felt was a slight resistance from the soles of his feet before they hit the ground, followed by the cracking of thin lines, the sharp sound of wind, and the crunch of metal against hard objects.

The next scene left Charlie's mind blank, and when he came back to his senses, he saw several silver daggers lying on the floor at his feet.

"This, this!

Charlie retreated in panic, and the sight of him made him immediately understand that he was in danger.

In fact, if it weren't for Alize's timely rescue, these blades would probably be stuck in his body right now.

"Ou Ho~~Trap~~"

Alize bent down unhurriedly, picked up a short knife, ran her fingers over the blade, and then poked out the tip of her pink tongue and licked it gently.

"Hmm~~ I applied a lot of irritating seasonings~~ Although it will not be fatal, but if you are stabbed into the wound, it will definitely hurt and scream~~"

As she spoke, Ariezel stretched out her finger and summoned a round of emerald green aura out of thin air, immediately rolling up a strong wind in the mist-shrouded corridor.

The mist was swept away, converging in the shape of a spiral, and shooting towards the deepest part of the corridor.

The pitiful flames of the candles were blown out, and the already dimly lit corridor fell into darkness where you couldn't see your fingers.

In the darkness, near and far, there was a series of sounds of ropes breaking, metal hitting the ground or walls.

The continuous sound proved that there were at least ten traps like the one just now in this short corridor.

Charlie was so frightened that his eyes couldn't adjust to the sudden darkness, so he had to keep his back against the wall, tense his muscles, and barely maintain a standing position.

Most of the guards under him were half-crouched, and everyone was trembling, not even daring to make a sound.