Year 395 of the Holy Calendar - Titan castle

(Emerald POV)

As I guard the gates, a hooded figure appears from the only path to the castle.

"Holt it right there!" Emerald

In response to her bloody appearance, I take a fighting stance with my shield in my right hand and my spear in my left.

"Whose blood is that!" Emerald

"..." Hooded figure

She ignores me and keeps walking toward the castle while covering her eyes with the cloak.

"Answer me or I will be forced to act!" Emerald

In recent times, rumors have appeared about demons reappearing in the world. An occurrence that only the Holy Isekai Church has records of.

"..." Hooded figure

One of the characteristics that define them is a dark tone aura around their being and its haunting presence is right in front of me.

That thing is a threat!

"Fire skill!" Emerald

I jump forward, twelve meters or so from the gate.

"Fire Wall" Emerald

I extend both my arms in front of me and cast a firewall six meters in width and two in height, obstructing her way.

"Stop! I am serious!" Emerald

"..." Hooded figure

She walks through the skill as if it's nothing, burning her cloak in the process.

"!?" Emerald

She was an old lady.

Her makeup is misaligned, showing traces of tears.

Her cheeks had bleeding scratches, probably self-injuries.

Her feet were naked, filled with mud.

Her high-quality dress was the only thing intact, it seems to be a reinforced product that only a noble of a high class could afford.

But the most disconcerting thing was on top of her head.

"Which country are you from?!" Emerald

She was wearing a crown with a symbol of an unknown country on it.

"...!" Foreign royalty

Her pitch-black eyes finally look at me.

"!!!" Emerald

She is fast!

"HiS QUeEnN!!!" Foreign royalty

By reflex, I cover the right side of my face with my shield.

*CRUSSSHH*

"Khag!" Emerald

Both my shield and my arm broke, and her slap reached my head.

I fly in the air and collide with a tree before dropping to the ground together with it.

*IIIIiiiiii*

That sound and the pain tell me that something in my ear is broken too, but...

"ARRGGHHH!!" Emerald

I can not rest now!

"Gghh!!" Emerald

Nailing my spear in the ground to serve as support, I stand again on my two feet.

"..." Foreign royalty

She looks at me with a emotionless face, as I point at her with my broken right arm.

"You will not touch my child!" Emerald

Demons kill everything on their way and will not let her do it!

"Fire skill!" Emerald

Not even A-rank adventurers could take this unscratched.

"Great Fire Sphere!" Emerald

The skin of my arm receive severe burns before expelling a fireball three times my size, that is the prize to pay for using it in my current condition.

"..." Foreign royalty

With the skill burning everything at its pace, the old lady just looks at it with the same emotionless face.

*Boooom!*

She receives it head-on.

"Did I do.... khh!" Emerald

But it didn't do anything to her.

She is lifting my body from the ground grabbing me from my face with one hand.

"Annoying" Foreign royalty

I can feel her fingers breaking my skull...

"Ala..."

stor...

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Emerald

Lv: 56

Pedigree: Commoner

Title: Professional Guard

Adventurer Rank: B

Affinities: Fire

HP: 0%

MP: 0/0

Physical Force: 54

Physical Defence: 27

Magical Force: 56

Magical Defence: 28

Charisma: 15

Luck: 10

Condition: Dead

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