Just before the arrows reach Julian and the knights.
Julian's red eyes flashed.
Goooooo
Ooooooh
Black knights suddenly emerged from his shadow and blocked all the arrows with their bodies.
From all directions, bang! bang! The sound of arrows bouncing off empty armor could be heard.
Heeeek!
The knights calmed their startled horses and took up their swords.
Julian instinctively knew that those who had attacked him were the same group of assassins who had attacked Bridget.
Can't miss it.
"Destroy the enemies."
He gave orders to the knights of the guard.
He even went so far as to place the black knights one by one in the shadows of the knights of the guard.
The knights of the guard rushed forward without hesitation, knowing the location of the assassins who were hiding in the darkness and attacking with arrows and spears.
Julian didn't even have to get off his horse.
A few black knights surrounded him to defend him, while the rest ran faster than an arrow and struck the enemy in the direction Julian's gaze pointed.
In fact, the movement of the knights of the guard didn't really have much meaning.
The large number of black knights rushed towards the enemy faster than the knights of the guard.
Those cursed tools that had no life to protect were not rough at all.
"Ugh!"
"Ahh!"
Soon, screams could be heard here and there.
The attacks by assassins hiding in the forest were more difficult than the battles taking place on the plains.
But that's all, the number or skill of the enemy wasn't that important to Julian.
Every time Julian's red eyes flashed, screams erupted from all directions.
The black knights ate everything around them in an instant, like a swarm of locusts flying into a farmland.
Trees that were in the way were uprooted and thrown away as if they were nothing, and grass was cut down and destroyed.
In an instant, the forest was reduced to scorched earth.
While the knights of the guard sought out and cut down one or two enemies, the black knights sought out and cut down five or six.
***
'What's this.'
Bruce, who was hiding in the rear and commanding the assassins, was confused.
'That's ridiculous...!'
He's often heard that Julian's strength is amazing.
He alone possessed the fighting power of a legion and turned the battlefield into a sea of blood in the blink of an eye.
There were a lot of ridiculous rumors.
Bruce thought it was all exaggeration.
He used to think it was just a trick by Julian Blake to make people tremble in fear and rule the country through fear.
'Wow, is something like this possible?'
Before dawn had even begun, a forest had disappeared.
The torn bodies of the assassins were strewn about like animal skins on the trees that the black knights had pulled out and thrown.
The assassins' poison-soaked secrets, the arrows that hit the enemy, and the quick and accurate swordsmanship were of no use to the black knights.
Even the knights of the guard were protected by the black knights, and not a single hair was harmed.
'Ugh.'
Bruce, barely able to hide behind a rock, gasped in fear.
He heard from his father that each black knight only faces one enemy.
He's also heard that the number of Black Knights Julian can command is limited, and that Julian cannot exert his power indefinitely since he risks his life to control the Black Knights.
"You just have to make him use his power until his life is completely depleted. Then he will go crazy and run wild until he kills himself."
Bruce knew quite a bit about the limitations of the Shadow Curse.
However, the Julian before his eyes was someone who made the limitations of the curse, which he believed to be Julian's weakness, seem useless.
Theory and reality were two different things.
Bruce decided to bring out all the assassins he had trained in the Church of Resurrection.
However, the ambitious strategy was of no use as the Black Knight cut down the assassins so quickly.
As the assassins gradually ran out of places to hide and ranged attacks became less effective, they were quickly torn apart by the Black Knight.
Even assassins who operated through sorcery and brainwashing hesitated in the face of its overwhelming power.
'A monster... monster...! That guy is truly a monster...!'
Bruce looked at Julian from afar, as if he were tired.
Julian sat proudly on his horse, looking down on everything with an arrogant expression.
'But.'
Bruce gritted his teeth.
'Let's see if you can do this too!'
Suddenly, the man who had been gripped by fear smiled sinisterly.
Then he took out the dagger hanging from his waist and lightly cut his palm.
Then, instead of a sword, he put his blood on the flute he was holding in his hand.
Then the strange patterns carved into the flute began to glow purple.
Bruce put the flute in his mouth and blew it.
Then something amazing happened.
The corpses that had been cut down by the knights and spread out staggered up.
In the distance, Julian's once leisurely face distorted for the first time.
***
Bridget was hurriedly returning to the palace.
'I didn't know it would be this late.'
I'm sure Julian noticed I was gone.
I was distraught, not knowing what to say when she confronted him.
It was Julian who was trying to send me to a faraway place.
Could I tell him that there was no way to finally break the curse, that everything was lost to the flames?
"Ugh!"
I slapped my thigh with a thud.
I was angry.
I even pulled out my hair.
I have to save Julian.
How on earth?
Will the future Seraphina spoke of inevitably come?
I was so angry and frustrated, I thought I was going crazy.
Even if the Duke of Linchester had gotten his hands on the stolen records, I might not have been able to figure out a way to break the curse.
But I didn't give up because I didn't see it.
It felt like the way to save Julian was right in front of me, but I had lost it.
I've never been more desperate than I am now.
My head felt complicated and empty.
I don't want to lose Julian.
In the face of such great despair, even prayers did not come out.
What can you hold onto?
As I was holding on to the burning inside, the carriage suddenly slowed down.
The horse's head window opened.
"The Royal Knights."
I realized that Julian had released the knights to find me.
The knight opened the door and looked at my face.
"His Majesty is looking for you. I will escort you to the palace."
"Where is His Majesty now?"
"He went another way to find Miss Bridget. I will send someone to tell His Majesty that we has found Miss Bridget."
"Yes. Thanks for your hard work."
Of the four knights, three escorted me to the palace, while only one ran to Julian.
I chose my words carefully, wondering what to say to Julian when I met him.
Countless words came to mind and disappeared.
All the words that came to mind were bad.
Although my heart was filled with despair, I still wanted to say something hopeful to Julian.
In my mind, I had the natural belief that Julian would come to me right away while I was putting in so much effort.
It was a long night.
He might get angry at me for going out and coming back without saying a word, not listening to him when I was told not to leave.
But I didn't care.
I returned to the precipitation.
Leticia, who had been insisting on staying by my side until the end, had been sent to her parents' house a long time ago and prevented from going to work.
It seemed that Millea had left the palace with Eric, as Julian had ordered.
The sediment was empty.
The morning sunlight was quietly streaming down into the shared living room where Julian and I had spent our dreamlike daily lives.
"..."
I collapsed on the sofa.
When I lay down, I felt a fatigue that I had never felt before come rushing to me all at once.
I wanted to see Julian.
I wanted to hug him and bury my face in his arms.
Right now, I just want to do it without thinking about anything.
I wiped away a tear that fell from my eyes.
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