"Khawwkk!"
Astaria coughed out blood as she fell on her knees.
Her eyes widened in shock, unable to believe that a sword passed through her defenses this easily and pierced her heart.
"H-How…?"
She spoke in a hoarse voice and the next moment, when her brain completely registered what happened, an unknown fear crept up her body.
Fear of death.
Her heart was pierced through.
She was dying.
The moment Astaria realized that her entire body started trembling in fear.
'No…'
She didn't want to die.
As a warrior who has spent most of her life training and aiming to become the strongest, she was never a woman who was scared of death.
Or at least that's what Astaria thought and for the previous Astaria, it was true, the Dowager of the Skyfall Kingdom, Astaria Skyfall, never feared death.
Astaria Leander, however, was different.
