Chapter 140: Master Will Be Very Angry
Their attacks became even more frantic.
Meanwhile, Aurora’s expression turned increasingly grim.
Until now...
she hadn’t managed to kill even a single Golden Knight.
At most, she had severed one of the golden knight’s hands.
And after witnessing the golden knight’s fate, the remaining Golden Knights had become far more cautious, refusing to confront her head-on and constantly relying on speed and afterimages to avoid her lethal sword.
The longer the battle dragged on...
The worse her situation became.
While they were constantly attacking Aurora, the surrounding archers fired at them continuously, but they ignored their attacks completely. Even the warwalker fortress cannons or ballista attacks couldn’t work on the golden knights.
As the blackstone legions kept attacking the golden knights, the Ashenford armies didn’t let them do what they pleased, and kept trying to stop them, because the person seemed to be an enemy of the Blackstone Highlands, which made them friends of the Ashenford armies.
Even though Sorin Ironclad, their commander, was down and unconscious, they still didn’t back down, and after seeing external help, they increased their attacks even more.
Aurielle and Vaelira also sensed the presence of the Golden Knights at the center battlefield, and both of them grew worried.
Fortunately, they had already defeated Alastair Ashenford, who now lay unconscious on the ground.
Moreover, neither of them had suffered any casualties or serious injuries.
Then both of them, along with all the peak tide keeper Marinthians, immediately moved toward the golden knights.
Aurora’s Queen’s Ward wasn’t faring well.
Countless cracks had already spread across the golden barrier, making it seem as though it would shatter at any moment.
Seeing this, Soren immediately seized the opportunity.
"Ghost Blade Strike."
The moment those words left his mouth, black Aether enveloped his dagger, rendering the blade nearly invisible once again.
He disappeared.
Then—
SHATTER!!
The already weakened Queen’s Ward could no longer withstand the assault.
The golden barrier exploded into countless fragments of light, scattering across the battlefield.
But the attack didn’t stop there. It tore straight through the broken barrier and slammed into Aurora’s waist, carving a deep, piercing wound into her side.
"Ugh..."
Aurora let out a pained groan as a sharp pain spread through her waist.
Warm blood quickly stained her silver armor.
Even her enhanced physical defenses had been breached.
The wound was far deeper than she had expected.
Seeing her injured, the surrounding Golden Knights immediately intensified their assault.
SHING! SHING! SHING!
Their daggers rained down from every direction, forcing Aurora completely onto the defensive.
Every passing moment added another cut to her body, leaving her with less and less room to breathe.
’I need to do—’ Just as Aurora was about to think of a countermeasure, a black arrow silently appeared beside one of the Golden Knights and pierced straight through his eye.
"UGGGH!"
His years of enduring brutal torture proved useless this time, as a pained cry escaped his lips.
’What?!’
The remaining three assassins, along with Soren, were completely startled.
None of them had been able to see the incoming arrow, and that realization sent a chill of dread through their hearts.
’A golden knight?’ And this thought came into each of their minds, which was totally wrong.
When Vaelira and Aurielle were coming with fast speed, Vaelira already saw the situation was bad and fired an eclipse arrow to interrupt or even kill one enemy.
Though the enemy didn’t die because of his golden knight body, all of their attacks did stop on Aurora for a moment, which gave her enough time to breathe.
’Shadow Blade.’ Then Aurielle from the side threw her attacks at each of them all, which they easily deflected.
Even though her armour was giving her a huge aether and stats buff, sadly it was close to half-golden knight, and if she wanted to use early golden knight attacks, then for that she would have to charge her attacks with a huge amount of Aether, which would take too much time.
"Aurora, move back!" Aurielle shouted and immediately used her shadow step to come beside her.
Seeing this, Vaelira got worried. Even though Aurielle had the queen’s ward and her queen regalia armour, if all the golden knights attacked her, then she would not be able to sustain for long, which Aurora could do even with her injured body.
This thought was also shared by Aurora, so she didn’t move; instead, she used her Aegis barrier to cover herself and Aurielle in a spherical shield.
Seeing that Aurora hadn’t moved, Aurielle let out a quiet sigh. Even so, she activated her skill to blind the enemies.
"Night Dominion."
The next instant a sphere of darkness rapidly expanded outward, engulfing everything within a 200-meter radius.
The sudden descent of darkness caught the enemies off guard, startling them for a brief moment.
So they used their golden knight aura to remove it, but couldn’t do so.
’What the hell is this?’ Soren and the others became confused, because inside this field he couldn’t feel the aura of others and his senses were also suppressed to the extreme, which made him a little wary of this darkness.
’A high rank Origin Skill.’ This thought came into his mind, because even after a few moments later, he couldn’t find the locations of any beings, at which he sighed with annoyance.
Because other than the hero, every other important member had come, which annoyed him even more.
’Is he even here at all?’ So a small doubt started forming in his mind.
But after a moment he stopped those thoughts and thought about his new plan, because they couldn’t harm the princess of the Human Emperor, even though she was exiled.
’What should we do?’ This same question was repeating in each of their minds, and this gave enough time for Aurora and Aurielle to back away from the night dominion field, while those enemies were still stuck there, or chose to be, as they were thinking about their next move.
The onlookers, the Ashenford armies, even Osric, thought another big fight was about to happen, but suddenly everything became quiet when the Night Dominion spell was released.
Even the ongoing battle between soldiers stopped, as they turned to look toward the dark sphere, waiting for the result.
"Aurielle, you should go back," Aurora said.
In response, Aurielle simply shook her head.
Seeing this, Aurora spoke again.
"Don’t be stubborn. If something happens to you... Master will be very angry."
She paused for a brief moment before adding in a much quieter voice,
"...and sad also."