While Thales was talking to Nicolai, Ada, who was watching on the roof of one side of the house, suddenly lowered her head and exclaimed: "Below me..."
The next second, a huge sound came!
boom!
The wooden roof beneath Ada's feet suddenly shattered!
Amidst the elf's exclamation, she fell from the roof into the house.
Everyone in the queue on the street changed their colors!
Thales looked worriedly at the house where Ada disappeared, but an angry-looking Nikolai pulled the reins back and said, "Guard formation!"
thump!
The sound of heavy objects falling to the ground.
Amidst the nervous and orderly footsteps of the Northlanders, the elf guard shouted angrily from inside the room: "Who are you?"
But before Ada could finish her words, the sound of weapons clashing suddenly sounded!
Thales suddenly changed his expression: within one second, the sound of metal collision actually sounded more than ten times in a row!
Don’t even look at the breathing time!
Just like the wind chimes that keep ringing in the strong wind.
Also shocked were Nicolai and Justin, who looked at each other in disbelief.
Fifteen engagements?
That is to say, in one second, the two people fighting...
"Ding."
The last sound fell, and the sound of fighting stopped abruptly!
boom!
Before Thales could react, a strange black figure burst out of the window as the wind blew rapidly!
Go straight to Thales!
Thales suddenly changed his color: Ada lost?
From the time Ada fell into the house to the time the black figure broke through the window and made a surprise attack, the time was less than four or five seconds!
Even counting from the sound of all the clashes, it was only a second of contact...
Did Ada lose?
Chills rose from Thales's heart. At that moment, he remembered the terrifying assassin who broke through the siege six years ago: Bananet Sariton.
But there was no time for Thales to think about it: between Nicolai's angry shouts and the orderly formation of the Grand Duke's personal guards, the sudden figure could hardly stand.
Because he had already cleaned up the surrounding area when he came, Nicolai placed most of his guards on the outside, and instead relaxed his guard against intruders who appeared on the way back.
The black figure staggered a little when he landed, but when he stood up tremblingly, he was only a few meters away from Thales.
He was tall and narrow, even a head taller than Nicolai, who was of average height. His whole body was wrapped in a dark-colored black robe, with no face or skin visible.
Like the purest night.
However, he held two long, narrow swords in his hands, with the blades less than two fingers wide.
"Do it!"
Nicolai dismounted decisively and was the first to shout violently and take action.
The Rising Sun Saber was unsheathed from his back and struck out with all its strength.
Justin, who came from behind, also had a weapon in hand and attacked with anger.
The six Grand Duke's personal guards surrounding Thales stood in front of him.
At this moment, with an explosion, thick gray smoke suddenly appeared around the intruder!
"It's an alchemy ball, stay back!"
In the gray smoke that blocked the vision, Nicolai yelled angrily: "Protect the prince and find cover! I will deal with him!"
People from the surrounding Northland gathered around to kill the assassin, while some of the Grand Duke's personal guards covered the prince and retreated towards the other side of the street.
As the smoke thickened, Thales felt that the vision in front of him was blurred, and he could only barely see the black figure and Nicolai's back.
"Your Highness!"
Wyatt struggled to pull Thales off the horse and dragged him backwards together with Rolf. Willow and Jennard, including the other Star People, blocked the front and stood behind the Grand Duke's personal guards.
Thales kept his feet on the ground and broke away from Huaiya's hand that was too tight: "Let's set up the formation first..."
At this moment, in the blurred vision of the smoke, the prince could barely see: the black-robed intruder raised his swords.
At that moment, Thales had only one feeling:
Is it raining?
"ding-ding-ding-ding-ding"
In the air, the sound of tinkling metal is continuous and endless, almost without stopping!
Like an endless rainstorm, violently hitting the fragile eaves in a terrible strong wind.
"Clang clang"
Pleasing to the ear.
Thrilling.
This heavy rain of fighting sounds almost drowned out the angry shouts of the people from the North who rushed forward.
However, at this moment, in the center of the smoke, no one was more shocked than Nicolai himself.
Nothing else.
He was suppressed.
At the moment when he drew his sword to fight, Nicolai had just swung his first sword and blocked the enemy's slash.
"Ding!"
The enemy's sword rushes immediately to deliver the next blow!
No pause.
Nicolai's heart tightened, and a unique twist of fate suddenly emerged from his joints: at the moment when the castration was over, his blade immediately folded up to block the second blow.
"clang!"
But this is not enough.
Because the opponent had just withdrawn the first sword, and he cut out the next sword as if without buffering!
"Keng!"
The twist of fate was activated again, Nikolai's face turned red and he blocked the third sword.
not enough.
The enemy's fourth sword broke through the smoke from the other hand and struck again!
"Qiang!"
Still not enough!
Nicolai almost felt as if he was suffocating.
The fifth sword.
"when!"
The sixth sword.
"Qiang!"
Within one second, the enemy's two swords attacked alternately at an incredible speed.
And Nicolai was horrified to discover that he couldn't keep up with the opponent's sword speed!
The seventh sword.
eighth
"Clang clang"
All the Fallen Star can do is to constantly press the body with the power of termination, trying hard to catch up with the opponent's sword speed in the thick gray smoke!
In the gray smoke that already affected his vision, his face was distorted: he could hardly see the enemy's movements clearly.
"Clang! Clang!"
Listening to the simultaneous sounds coming from his ears, Nicolai was suddenly startled!
No, it's not just him.
At that moment, the people fighting the intruder in the thick smoke were also Justin.
He was on the other side of the enemy, just like Nicolai, gritting his teeth and struggling to hold on!
Nicolai and Justin, two battle-experienced personal guards of the Grand Duke, two positions, one even in the extreme realm.
However, he was suppressed by the enemy with alternating back and forth sword speeds that were as terrifying as the heavy rain.
"ding-ding-ding-ding-ding"
The sound is endless.
But the black-robed man's double swords became faster and faster with every swing!
How can it be?
"Ding! Cang!"
In just two seconds, Nicolai had no choice but to take a step back from the opponent's ninth sword, and his heart trembled: How could there be... such a fast sword speed?
This is a situation that the Fallen Star has never encountered in his combat career.
His bones are groaning, the blade is trembling, and the muscles are roaring!
But Nicolai knew: his blocking and interception were reaching their limits.
But the enemy's swords did not stop at all, but became faster and faster!
"Keng!"
At the third second, Justin gritted his teeth, his feet trembled, and his body swayed. He failed to follow the enemy's next sword.
The man in black robe instantly seized the opportunity. He kicked off his right leg and jumped up, over Justin's head!
"Jingle bell!"
On the way, he struck out three swift swords, blocking the attacks of Nicolai and Justin, and even counterattacked with one sword!
The Fallen Starman was shocked. He finally understood in frustration and depression that he had encountered an irresistible enemy.
Maybe it's a finishing power that I've never seen before.
It took three seconds to break through the joint blockade between him and Justin.
Three seconds!
I can only block, block, and block again, but I have no power to fight back. How is this possible?
Nicolai looked at the man in black robes who rolled over Justin in the air in surprise, and saw the figure of the other person rising to a height of three people and gradually disappearing into the thick smoke.
Flying over Thales.
The Fallen Starman gritted his teeth with hatred, and the Rising Sun Saber in his hand erupted with terrifying heat as the anger in his chest: He was ready to use the legendary anti-demon weapon to defeat his opponent.
At this moment.
"Ahhhhh!"
The elf guard Ada's unique scream, filled with anger and displeasure, suddenly sounded from the air!
"Get down here!"
Nicolai's pupils shrank, and he saw a flash of sword light flashing through the invisible smoke.
The black-robed figure flying up in the gray smoke trembled suddenly!
As the light of the sword flashed, the black robe seemed to be hit hard from the air by an invisible hand. Not only did the force disappear, but it also fell towards the ground!
"Boom!"
With the muffled sound of the blade piercing his clothes, the man in black robe fell to the ground.
He was motionless, pinned to the ground.
"Clang!"
The enemy's swords fell to the ground with a sound, and were kicked away by Ada who landed immediately.
The elf's cursing voice sounded: "Damn it, it's amazing how fast you can wield two swords."
Only then did Nicolai exhale.
fine……
Stopped him.
Huhu
A strong wind blew, and Rolf used his powers to blow away the smoke that blocked his vision.
The thick smoke gradually dissipated, and Nicolai frowned. He looked around: the frightened Grand Duke's bodyguards surrounded them, and rushed to the positions of the black robe and Ada with full vigilance, surrounding them.
"Surround him!"
Nicolai ordered unhappily: "Don't let him touch the weapon!"
"Boss," Justin held a wound on his arm and looked at him in disbelief: "That guy, with such a fast sword speed...how can he do it?"
Nicolai looked at the figure surrounded in the thick smoke and pondered solemnly.
"I remembered."
"A long time ago, Kaslan demonstrated it to us when he was still in the guard," Nikolai frowned, pulled up Justin, and walked towards the man in black robe: "That kind of quick hands that almost surpassed the sound, and was extremely fast in an instant.
Sword Style: 'Heavy Rain'."
"Kaslan? Beyond the Sound? Heavy Rain?"
Justin muttered to himself in confusion at first, then seemed to suddenly remember something and turned his head in surprise: "But that's not exclusive to..."
"Well, the extremely fast double sword style like a torrential rain, this kind of skill belongs exclusively to Kaslan's Terminator Tower at the same time," the Faller nodded solemnly, recalling the feeling of the fight just now: "The legendary woman in Riordan's bloody battle
The God of War, the 'Flagbearer' knight appointed by the Hamble royal family..."
With a tone of disbelief, he said silently: "'Heart in the Rain' Jasmine Loren."
"You mean... the female knight Lorraine?" Justin's expression changed. He quickly turned to the man in black robe and exclaimed in surprise: "How could it be possible that 'Heart in the Rain', she, didn't she die in the East thirty years ago?
Is it Hamble from the Mainland?"
Nicolai patted his deputy on the shoulder and shook his head: "We will know what happened soon."
In the smoke, they walked towards the man in black robe lying on the ground.
"Hey!"
After the smoke dissipated, Ada's short figure appeared in the increasingly clear field of vision.
I saw her holding her waist, pointing at the black-robed figure who was nailed to the ground with her scimitar, and kept saying: "What about your skills? Even if you bully the pretty boy, you still want to sneak attack me..."
Nicolai couldn't help but frown when he saw Ada's appearance.
But the next moment, the chattering of the elf guard stopped abruptly!
"Hey!"
Ada stared at the people on the ground, her mouth wide open, looking at the people around her with an innocent and frightened face: "This, this, this, this..."
Nicolai's expression changed.
He didn't care that the choking smoke had not completely dissipated, so he rushed forward in a few steps and pushed away the guards.
Nicolai grabbed the man in black robe with his own hands, and then his whole body was shocked!
He discovered something was wrong.
Nicolai pulled out the scimitar that Ada had stuck on the ground, grabbed the "person" on the ground, and stood up with a solemn expression.
The soldiers around him saw clearly what he was holding, and they were all in an uproar!
The meteorite was holding a black robe in his hand.
An empty black robe.
Its hem hangs down without any support, swinging back and forth in the air.
Only black robes.
There are no living creatures.
Nicolai stared at the black robe in his hand for a few seconds, then widened his eyes and cast a questioning look at his deputy.
"No, boss," Justin knew what he wanted to ask, and shook his head in surprise: "We have just surrounded this place with water, and no enemy has broken through, and no one can escape."
"What are you doing..." Ada said tremblingly, holding her hands tightly on her chest and looking around nervously, as if she had seen a ghost: "I obviously lost it..."
"Why is it missing?"
Nicolai stared in disbelief, looking at the black robe, and then at the confused and surprised faces of the soldiers around him.
He lowered his head and kicked the pair of rapiers on the ground as if to test.
The two swords were kicked away obediently, indicating that their existence was not an illusion.
Nicolai took a deep breath and then hesitantly said: "Justin, the one who just fought with us..."
"He is indeed a big living person, right?"
Lord Justin opened his mouth slightly, but hesitated: "I..."
No one spoke.
The only thing on the scene was the black robe, which was still swinging, and together with the rapier on the ground, it spread a strange atmosphere.
At this moment.
"Your Highness, Your Highness!"
A shrill cry came.
Nicolai was startled and turned around quickly.
It's Wyatt.
Not far away, next to Black Horse Jenny, Wyatt Castle, the prince's attendant, was frantically pushing away the people around him like a madman.
He searched desperately for every figure in his field of vision, with uncontrollable panic on his face: "Tales... His Highness Thales!"
"how"
The bewildered Nicolai only had time to say one word. After noticing him, Huaiya rushed towards the Faller in panic, but was stopped by a Grand Duke's guard beside him:
"Hey, people from the North...your highness, where is your highness?"
The attendant asked everyone in fear: "Has anyone seen His Highness?"
What?
In the dissipating smoke, the Fallen Starman subconsciously turned in the direction of Dark Horse Jenny.
But all he could see was a group of panicked Star People and the guards who were also at a loss on the periphery.
Willow lowered his body and looked anxiously in the corners of the crowd. Gennard shuttled among the crowd, stopping someone from time to time, frowning, looking at him, and then letting him go in disappointment.
One person is missing.
not enough……
This thought flashed through the mind of Fallen Star.
He immediately froze in place.
At that moment, whether it was Justin, Ada or Rolf, everyone who reacted changed their color!
"Ah?" This was Ada who was at a loss.
Rolf, with his eyes wide open, grabbed Wyatt tightly and faced him while gesturing wildly in sign language.
But the Fallen Starman grabbed on more roughly, pushed Rolf away, grabbed Huaiya's collar with both hands, and asked with a ferocious expression: "What happened!"
"Where is Prince Prince?"
But Huaiya looked like he was about to collapse. He shook his head tremblingly, his tone full of panic and worry: "No, no, the assassin came too fast...the smoke was too big, the sound was too loud, and it was too chaotic...I pulled His Highness from the horse
Come down, I went to catch him again, but I could only catch Jennard..."
Gennard's face was ugly: "It's impossible. When you fought, the prince was still with me a moment ago... How could it be..."
Nicolai suppressed his anger and roared, pushing the lost Huiya to the ground.
But no one can care about dealing with the relationship between the Northlanders and the Star People at this time.
"Were you kidnapped by that assassin?"
Ada said to Nicolai in horror: "When he jumped up, he avoided my flying knife and abducted Thales from the air?"
The pale Nikolai suddenly raised his head and looked at the roof closest to them.
There, standing there was a bodyguard of the Grand Duke who had previously climbed onto the roof to alert the surroundings, holding a crossbow.
"No, boss!"
The guard stood on a high place with a puzzled look on his face and said: "From just now to now, even when there is thick smoke... No matter it is a street, an alley, a rooftop, or any place that is slightly higher... I use the honor and power of the White Blade Guard to
My life is guaranteed, I didn’t see anyone leave! The same goes for everyone else!”
Nicolai gritted his teeth and turned to look at an archduke's personal guard coming from behind.
The guard just shook his head: "The entrances and exits around the ground are all well observed by the sentry posts we just set up. From the time the assassin appeared until just now, no one has entered or exited. We have checked the passwords and faces, and no one has pretended to be there."
Our own people.”
Nicolai was completely stunned.
How could that happen?
Not in the sky, not on the roof, not on the ground, not in the lanes...
For hundreds of meters around, no one came in or out, and no one was pretending...
The prince was just kidnapped out of thin air?
In this street, whether they were Northlanders or Star People, they were all stunned, looking at each other, and at a loss.
The Fallen Starman turned to the surrounding warriors, almost biting his teeth in his mouth, and ordered angrily:
"Complete the team, search! From here, to our outermost blockade, every wall, every alley, every house, every ditch, and even behind every person!"
"Our sentries and blockades to intercept every suspicious person are still there. It is impossible for anyone to leave silently from here!"
In the solemn and strange atmosphere, the patrol team and the Grand Duke's personal guards, who had equally bad expressions, agreed loudly.
They were in their respective positions and performed their duties well-trained: moving, forming a team, spreading out, and searching. Everyone looked around anxiously and nervously, looking for the target, and refused to let go of any corner.
The Starmen headed by Huaiya were also ready to take action, but were stopped in place by a few cold guards of the Grand Duke. They could only wait anxiously.
Waiting for the results of the Northlander search.
But a few minutes passed.
"There is nothing in the four lanes on the east side!"
“The area around Luhu Residence is very clean!”
"There is no one on the intersection between Ax District and Spear District!"
“We searched both inside and outside the chess and card room!”
"All the houses in the south have been searched!"
"The ditch on the left, no clue!"
"We almost demolished the house where the assassin appeared. Apart from the broken roof, there wasn't even a fly!"
Whether it was the patrols or the Grand Duke's personal bodyguards, their searches yielded no results.
Listening to the reports from his subordinates, Nicolai's expression became increasingly ugly.
Finally, Justin and others walked out of the last alley and shook his head at Nicolai, whose face was ashen.
"When the assassins appeared, our sentry posts and blockades were intact. From the commanding heights to the main roads on the ground, there was no leakage in a radius of 200 meters. The smoke from the assassins did not affect them." Justin's voice sounded difficult:
"But... they didn't see anyone break out."
"anyone."
Nicolai almost stared out of his eyes. He stared blankly at his deputy, who was petrified on the spot.
Everyone was silent.
The situation is clear: there is nothing around and nothing outside.
They couldn't find the figure.
That figure of fourteen years old.
The figure who can influence the future of the two major countries in the Western Continent.
It's like he disappeared for no reason.
"Fuck..." Nikolai breathed heavily, looking fiercely at the surrounding buildings, as if he was suspicious of what was behind every wall.
what happened……
what happened……
Wyatt and Rolf looked at each other worriedly and shook their heads.
"Impossible," Ada said solemnly, "This is too strange..."
Beside him, Lord Justin frowned deeply.
"Boss..."
Nicolai, with a distorted face, turned to his deputy, who stared blankly at the ground.
"The 'Heart in the Rain' who has been dead for thirty years suddenly appeared and disappeared out of thin air, and now Prince Thales is also included..."
Lord Justin looked at the empty black robe with a pale face, and then at the two swords shaking on the ground. He blinked his eyes desperately, as if he couldn't believe his eyes: