Chapter 80: Her Majesty (2/2)

This time, however, things didn’t go as he’d expected.

“Oh? I don’t think so.” Leah glanced at her fallen spear with a look of disappointment. It had been her reward for being the event NPC during the raid on the Rotten Bones Church. Xi Wei had bequeathed the weapon upon her personally. It was merely an Elite-tier item with the Indestructible property, which also extended the radius of her Auras by 20%.

As a Warrior Princess, Leah was festooned with Auras. That Aura-expanding banner-spear was the perfect item for her in a team fight.

But the thing was that it was mainly useful only during team fights. That was the only time when using it was worthwhile. In a solo duel, however, it was crap. It only had the stats of an Elite-tier item, and she didn’t have any skills which required it to be equipped.

The truth was that it wasn’t her best weapon, in spite of the way it gleamed with divine radiance. Others might look upon it and imagine it to be an immensely powerful artifact—completely ignoring the longsword sheathed at her hip!

“My god, won’t you avert your eyes from me for a moment…” with a whispered prayer, she drew the blade.

“What’s this? You fancy a sword fight, now? Too bad for you—even more so than spears, I happen to specialize in defeating opponents with swords!”

“Let’s see you defend yourself against me, then!” With a flick of her wrist, the princess’s sword became a bladed whip!

At the same time, something changed in her expression. The cast of her features changed from pious to haughty in the blink of an eye, her lips twisted into a vicious sneer.

Her Viper Blade whirled through the air in a flashing blur, lashing and snapping all about her!

“Kneel before me, uwahahahahaha!”

Every rock and tree within reach of her whip-blade was split and sundered effortlessly, until everything had been shredded into a million fragments.

The Secret Eye swordsman frantically parried a couple of strikes before being consumed by the whirling bladestorm. When the blade fell away at last, his badly lacerated body simply toppled over, barely recognizable as human.

“That’s… not… a sword…” he managed to gasp with his last, dying breath.

The brutality of that display meant that neither friend nor foe dared to get too close to Princess Leah for a while.

“Your-your Highness…” One of her bodyguards squeaked, approaching on tip-toes.

“You will refer to me as Your Majesty!” Leah snapped in cold reply.

“Uh… Your Highness…” he choked at the words, and when he saw the chilling light in her eyes, he stammered, “Your Majesty!”

At this, Leah nodded with satisfaction.

Meanwhile, the bodyguard rolled his eyes, thinking, ‘When you come back to your senses, and remember this moment, don’t go looking for a hole to die in or anything.’