The next second, he violently raised the sword blade in his hand and struck directly at the knight before him; the Golden Sword spontaneously raised countless rootless golden flames in the air.
Those terrifying golden flames, as if an extension of the Golden Sword itself, swiftly turned into a terrifying surge of air that spread toward the front.
In an instant, all the Healing Magic above the bedroom burst into flames due to the frightful high temperature, erupting into golden flames.
Leading them, Prince Dexter’s face slightly changed, and he raised his hand to the knight beside him, saying,
After uttering these words, he turned back to look at Isabella and his younger brothers, who stood clueless behind him; hesitating for a second, he still had the maid take them back.
"Take them back to their rooms!"
"I...I won’t go, let go of me!"
Isabella was dragged away from the scene by the Maid, and afterwards, the knights standing at the bedroom door raised their magically inscribed Knight Swords, one intricate inscription lit up as per their will, and then gradually converged along those lines into a deep blue Protection Magic.
Lunxis, holding the relic radiating terrifying light, stood in front of Gedelin IX’s corpse, confronting Dexter and the others, but the flames quickly engulfed the entire bedroom.
Seeing his father’s corpse about to be burnt by the flames, Dexter still gently pinched the ring in his hand.
In a place unseen by Lunxis, at the back of the bedroom, shapes of human-like shadows slowly stood up—one simple human forms but extremely strong, each holding a long dagger.
These were relics—the Shadow Guard created by "Creation."
These shadows were actually very strong in battle, mainly tasked with protecting members of the Gedelin Royal Family, and the relic itself was kept under Dexter’s custody.
Elizabeth, being already of age and also a commander of the army, did not need this protection.
As for Lunxis, though inept, he had a great deal of pride!
Unwilling to be protected by Dexter, he had dismissed these relics long ago; thus, when Dexter caught him in the Healing Room, he had nothing by his side except a few attendants.
The Shadow Guards raised the daggers in their hands at Lunxis, and then the shadows all transformed into a substantive viscous material extending towards him—a shadow entwined around his feet, another around his arms, and an even larger shadow formed a huge maw behind him attempting to swallow him whole.
Lunxis roared, swinging his sword again at the shadows around him, the huge golden flames spreading like a tide, the unbearable high temperature dispersing the shadows, but they were endless unless Dexter was killed.
"Get lost! Get lost! Get lost!"
Dexter, watching Lunxis struggle desperately in the middle of the room, his expression cooling, then softly turned to the knight beside him and quietly said,
The knight raised his giant sword, and the complex pattern engraved on it was lit once again at One Ring; then he fiercely pointed it towards Lunxis, a phantom blue longsword responding by flying straight into Lunxis’s shoulder and violently puncturing a bloody hole in his body.
"Dexter! I will kill you!"
Injured Lunxis’s complexion grew paler, and he bit his teeth no longer caring about the shadow behind him, instead lifting his sword and rushing towards Dexter with reckless abandon.
With his Golden Sword in hand, fueled by his blood and anger, it burst forth with a brilliance like the Sun, and under Dexter’s astonished gaze, the flames instantly consumed the entire roof of the sleeping palace.
"Protect Prince Dexter!"
Countless knights raised their shields, blocking the front of Dexter. Lunxis, with a crazy smirk, charged forward heedlessly, but only made a step or two before collapsing uncontrollably to the ground.
He turned his head in surprise to look at his hands gripping the sword, only to see that the Gedelin’s Golden Sword had somehow completely burned his hands, the blinding golden light had fully infiltrated his body, burning all his blood and internal organs clean.
The fact that he had been able to hold the sword and fight for so long was just his good luck; now, these last few steps he made toward Dexter were the final straw that broke his body down.
At this moment, Lunxis’s legs had turned to ash like dry wood, leaving only his upper body. His eyes blankly watched the golden glow continue to spread inside his body, yet he was powerless to stop it...
Is it going to kill me?
Lunxis sharply felt that the relic was rejecting him, rejecting the person Lunxis Gedelin.
"Step back! Don’t come near him!"
Watching the terrifying golden flames ignite on Lunxis, Dexter shouted to the knights beside him.
The entire sleeping palace of Gedelin IX was now ablaze, soon to vanish from this world along with Gedelin IX’s corpse.
Lunxis, continuously burned by the flames, had no strength left to resist. Before his death, he could only painfully roll over on the ground once. In a sea of golden flames, having completed that motion, his limbs turned completely into ash, losing all sensation.
A tear of defiance dripped straight down his cheek, but Lunxis felt nothing, still staring directly at the burning oil painting amidst a sea of flames.
The golden flames had completely burned away the part depicting the young Gedelin IX, but Queen Nera beside him still quietly watched Lunxis.
Before his earliest memories, his mother had passed away, and now, only a vague impression of her remained in his mind...
"For King’s magnanimity..."
This faint, seemingly meaningless murmur was heard by no one else but himself.
Because in the next second, huge golden flames devoured the entire sleeping palace, Dexter covered his mouth and stepped back into the courtyard, but watching the chaos before him, watching Lunxis and his father slowly disappearing in the flames, his eyes still showed a touch of sadness.
In planning theories, one could easily erase the names of brothers and fathers standing in one’s way, but when family truly died before you, you still felt an inexplicable sense of loss.
He sighed softly, sitting dispiritedly on the grass.
The flames of the Golden Sword burned faster than any other fire; soon, the vast sleeping palace was reduced to nothing but a skeleton and pitch-black ashes.
The bodies of Lunxis and Gedelin IX had vanished without a trace, with only the still-gleaming Golden Sword standing in place, quietly observing Dexter before it.
Just as Dexter was about to react, a thunderous explosion resonated from the direction of Nali Lake, causing Dexter to incredulously look in that direction.