Amber Sword

"Because I have a best friend who was secretly taken back to a territory by a certain lord. She is my best friend, and she got injured because of me. I have to go see her."

The man’s voice suddenly coughed awkwardly.

Two voices approached from afar, and the Female Knight was startled for a moment before realizing it was the Princess and the Count. So the Count was already awake? She thought, then instinctively got up wanting to go out and greet them—she was a bit puzzled about how she could suddenly fall asleep.

But she moved slightly and realized her hands were tied behind her back. In fact, she was completely tied to a pillar. Nia suddenly woke up, and everything that had happened seemed to quickly return to her memory.

"Miss Delphire!" The Female Knight couldn’t help but call out softly. She opened her eyes suddenly and saw the door to the hall being pushed open with a creak by Brand and the Princess.

She immediately saw the maid beside them.

Brand immediately noticed the Female Knight bound to the pillar; of course, he remembered this cowgirl knight. The first time he met Delphire, he had a skirmish with her. He remembered the other party should be called Nia, Delphire’s personal knight.

"But what’s going on here?" He immediately changed his expression.

"What on earth is going on?" the Princess also turned back to question the maid.

Before they entered the outer courtyard, they saw the maid standing outside with a pale face, but she stammered and couldn’t answer when asked what happened. He and Princess Griffine realized something was wrong and hurried over, opening the door directly without even knocking, only to find such a scene when the door opened.

Brand rushed to Nia’s side, untying the ropes on the Female Knight, and then removed the cloth from her mouth. Nia felt the foreign object in her mouth disappear, but before she could catch her breath, she immediately shouted at Brand, "Mr. Brand, go quickly and save Miss Delphire!"

"Where is she? What happened?" Brand’s expression changed.

After he and the Princess left the ’Lu Se Ti Ya’ weapon and armor shop, they had a whim to visit the Countess because the Princess mentioned that Delphire’s condition was not good. Forcibly using the Demon Bracelet had severely overdrawn her life, and though she ultimately saved her life, she might have to spend the rest of it in a wheelchair.

Brand initially intended to comfort the Countess. He had already anticipated this outcome; the Demon King wasn’t something anyone could control casually. At that time, everyone thought death was certain and rashly allowed Delphire to use this method, but unexpectedly, the greatest trauma after the battle fell on the girl from Yan Castle.

However, in Brand’s view, this wasn’t irreparable, at least the legendary Life Spring in the Black Forest could perfectly solve this problem. Of course, for ordinary people, the Life Spring is just an elusive legend, but for him, it might not necessarily be so. Brand felt that if he waited a little longer, searching for the Life Spring in the Black Forest might not be impossible.

Of course, before that, he felt he needed to first calm Delphire down.

But unexpectedly, he encountered such a situation upon arriving.

Actually, before Nia spoke, Brand had more or less guessed who the enemy was. The ones causing trouble for the Countess could only be three forces: first, Demons, but the Demons wouldn’t retaliate so quickly; moreover, even if the King of Chaos sought revenge, he would come for him first, not the Countess.

Then there’s the Flame Temple, but using Evil Magic is a serious matter, and the Flame Temple certainly wouldn’t slap themselves in the face at this critical moment. Furthermore, they wouldn’t use such disgraceful means; kidnapping nobles? If news spread, the Flame Temple might as well close down.

So that leaves only the power struggle within the Yanbao Family. Actually, when Brand first sneaked into the estate and met Delphire, he realized there might be issues within Yan Castle, otherwise, they wouldn’t let Delphire, a young girl, come to this place representing the Earl of Yan Castle and bring nearly the strongest combat force within Yan Castle.

However, what he didn’t expect was that as soon as the Ambeser war concluded, those foolish nobles came to trouble him. And they directly targeted Delphire.

The anger in Brand’s heart suddenly blazed up.

"Miss is in her room on the second floor, someone is trying to harm her—!"

"Which room is her room?" the Female Knight’s words weren’t finished before Brand interrupted to ask. The young lord’s icy tone slightly startled Nia, approximately not understanding why he was so furious.

To her, Brand was one of the culprits who caused Delphire’s current condition. She originally didn’t have much good will towards Brand, but this time, she couldn’t help but weakly respond, "It’s the third room from the left upstairs, Count, please quickly help Miss..."

𝐟𝚛𝕖𝚎𝕨𝗲𝐛𝚗𝐨𝐯𝐞𝕝.𝐜𝗼𝗺

The Female Knight’s weak words were not yet finished when Brand’s Earth Sword was already ringing out, the dark sword blade casting a slight chill in her heart. She completely felt the kind of killing intent emanating from the young lord, and the next moment, Brand disappeared in front of her.

The Cruz people’s Flash Sword.

What Brand used was the Flash Sword. He swung backwards, slicing through one of the pillar on the suspended corridor on the second floor, cutting through it with sword and man, before landing steadily on the corridor.

The door to Delphire’s room was already before him.

But precisely at this moment, Brand’s keen hearing caught the last dialogue between Acker and Delphire. Listening wasn’t advantageous, as a brief listen nearly drove Brand mad.

Is this still considered human?

Although he knew some unbearable rumors among the Erune nobles, a brother being able to be so ruthless to his own sister... Whether it was the soul of a modern man within him or that boy’s spirit from Buqi, Brand absolutely could not accept it.

His heart was cold, perhaps only once before in Fir Castle having seen what Gruding did then had he been this furious. The element of space solidified with its master’s anger; Brand hadn’t yet drawn his sword when a burst of frost, centered on him, erupted soundlessly outwards in all directions.

Brand moved forward with a sword.

The door immediately burst into pieces, and then he saw that bewildered face. Although extraordinarily handsome, it was as hideous as a Demon.

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