134 The Ring (1/2)

Chapter 134: The Ring

Translator: Kris_LiuEditor: Vermillion

This idea occurred to Lucien when the surroundings in the black forest became more and more familiar to him. He remembered that, after he found Fire Wolf dead, he buried his two magic items there.

During the past couple of months, Lucien had gained a better understanding of the inner structures of the two magic items, Fire Weaver Bracelet, and the black iron dagger, called Grimsteel Dagger, and had also become capable of properly using them.

That was why Lucien was being that confident when he was talking to the princess. What was out of his expectation was that, although Aaron was only a level two knight, he was surprisingly cautious, and his carefulness forced Lucien to spend more time on killing him. Also, Lucien did not expect that Natasha would come back within such a short period of time.

Although Lucien was not sure whether Natasha witnessed everything or just a part, he clearly heard Natasha repeat the word ”Professor”.

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A little while before Lucien pull out the bracelet.

Natasha gradually started to get an upper hand in this fighting. Although Tod’s body was fully materialized into iron, he felt the great power in each of Natasha’s attacks, and he could tell that the aura surrounding her had changed.

The princess’ movement was becoming more and more aggressive, and her whole will was dedicated to this fight. Her attacks were as fast as raindrops hitting the ground. Even Natasha herself had no idea how many times she wielded her sword.

She did not feel tired anymore. She could not feel it.

The color of her eyes switched back and forth from silver gray to purple, and finally the two colors blended. At the same time, Natasha’s soul and body integrated.

With a sudden shout, the princess burst out great power. Her legs were bent slightly and then fiercely pushed off the ground with her maximum force.

She bounced up high and, at the same time, lifted up her sword with both of her hands.

Tod looked up and decided to fight back, since it seemed his tactic of attrition was not going to work anyway.

He lifted the square shield in front of him and adjusted the angle of his wrist a bit, so his sword would target Natasha’s waist.

However, by the time Tod lifted his sword, Natasha’s figure suddenly became transparent, and the great power of her sword was like from another world, which directly hacked his shield into two halves.

As a matter of fact, what was hacked into halves was more than Tod’s iron shield, but also his own body. The iron shield did not manage to reduce the great momentum of the sword at all.

The astonished look on his face suddenly froze when he was split into halves.

”Bang!”

Tod’s iron skin was still covered by metal when his body fell on the ground, colliding with his sword and making a loud metallic sound.

Natasha landed heavily and quickly rolled over to the side. After gasping a few times for air, she stood up and started to rush back for Lucien.

When she arrived, Natasha ran into the scene where Lucien was kneeling on the ground, looking rather weak, and the dark knight was about to stab his dagger toward Lucien’s back.

At that moment when Natasha was about to jump out to rescue Lucien, she saw that Lucien activated his magic shield again, and then, Lucien pulled out a scarlet bracelet from the dirt.

She heard the dark knight calling Lucien… Professor.

Natasha’s mind suddenly buzzed.

She recalled that the Church did mention a dark red bracelet missing in the case related to Professor.

The potion that helped Lucien with activating his Blessing… the missing heretic who was following Lucien from Argent Horn… Lucien’s great interest in the ancient books… and his great memory… and the fact that Lucien suddenly showed up tonight from the magic lock.

”Professor…?!”

Natasha could not find any excuse to lie to herself.

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Lucien could tell the mixed emotions in Natasha’s beautiful eyes, in which there was astonishment, pain, sadness and anger.

Grabbing the bracelet tightly in his hand, Lucien was ready to activate it at any time, although he clearly knew that, facing a level five grand knight, these spells would not really work.

At the same time, there was a voice in Lucien’s mind telling him that he might still be able to lie to the princess again, to make another garbled story.

When Lucien was about to talk, Natasha said to him first, in a deep and low voice, ”Go to Holm, then.”