That was a bit too arrogant. The royal villa was super huge inside. Even I and Adrian got lost.
"Elton, stop talking nonsense! It's not that simple. What if there are secret passages, and Reider runs away? Pope specifically told us we must get Reider..."
Sure enough, Meredith, who was doing the questioning, immediately rejected the suggestion. But right when the two were arguing, a spear pierced through his chest from behind. The killer wasn't anyone else - it was the third knight who had been cleaning up the battlefield nearby.
Things can change in just one moment. How come the three knights who were winning suddenly started fighting each other?
"How is this possible... Dylan! Are you crazy? Why are you doing this?"
The knight called Elton had a super confused look when he saw this. He shouted at his friend who stabbed from behind, but didn't get any response.
The one he called Dylan moved very quickly. Seeing Meredith fall down badly injured, he quickly pulled his weapon out and stabbed straight at Elton.
Now not just Elton, but I and Adrian could also see that Dylan must have been controlled by someone! But the problem was, not many spells can control high-level fighters. Only high-level light mages or angels can barely do it. But I couldn't sense any light element aura nearby.
"Hurry up! The enemy is too strong, I can only control one of them!"
Suddenly a girl's voice came from a dark corner. Only then did I know there was another group of people hiding not far below us.
Right after that, a young boy having an unusually strong build jumped out from the corner. Without saying anything, he rushed straight at Elton who was fighting with Dylan.
"Eh?"
When Adrian saw this, he couldn't help making a surprised sound. Not because the boy was wearing Earth-style clothes (after Earth armies invaded, many similar clothes appeared in Eldoria Continent), but because he didn't bring any weapons at all - he went into battle completely empty-handed!
Everyone knows weapons are super important in fights! In the whole continent, it's very rare to see someone fight bare-handed against enemies with weapons.
But the knight being attacked wasn't weak at all - after all, Star Glory Knights Order members are at least level six. Elton's weapons were two short swords a bit longer than daggers, one in each hand. With his super quick movements, he could still hold on for a while.
Looking at his friend and enemy Dylan, probably because his mind was controlled, he wasn't fighting at his full level. The main pressure came from the empty-handed boy who just joined the fight.
"These moves... look like kung fu!"
After watching for a while, I couldn't help commenting. Nobody expected the empty-handed boy would use his palms to attack! Yes, not punching, but hitting enemies with his palm!
Never mind how much damage a palm hit would do if it landed. But throughout the whole thing, his palms crossed with Elton's short swords many times and always came out fine, not hurt at all! Of course it wasn't because the short swords weren't sharp enough - it was because his palms released an invisible force at crucial moments that made enemy attacks miss.
"Kung fu? You mean those novels from Earth right?"
Adrian had been to Earth so of course he knew a bit about it. Actually some Battle Qi masters could copy some kung fu moves if they really tried. But this was the first time he saw someone using palms in real fights.
To be fair, looking at it from a kung fu view, the boy's palm force was pretty strong, but still needed more practice. Too bad his enemy was a real knight close to level six. Even fighting two people at once, he could still hold on for a while.
"Strange, seems like there's a tiny bit of light element aura..."
This time I finally noticed - while the three people were fighting non-stop, some light element aura sneaked into the battlefield. Then Elton started getting distracted during the fight.
This was deadly of course. Soon after a few moves he got caught off guard and took a palm hit to the chest, then the spear went through his heart, pinning him straight to the wall.
"Finally won. Didn't expect to meet such tough enemies right away!"
When everything was over, a blonde girl with two braids walked out from the corner. The knight Dylan who had been controlled just stood there like a wooden block. The empty-handed boy turned around and said excitedly:
"That was great, Sister Mamos is really awesome! If you hadn't disturbed that guy's mind, it would've been much harder to take him down!"
"That's because your skills aren't good enough. If the captain was here, I wouldn't need to use so much energy dealing with these three top fighters!"
Mamos talked back to the boy a bit annoyed, then quickly went to the people who were captured by the knights earlier. She untied their ropes while sighing. "Looks like it's not safe anymore for newbies to stay here. We must tell the captain about this right away, let him decide what to do!"
"Sister Mamos, those people said they were knights, and they came here to..."
One of the so-called newbies who had been tied up for a long time just got free and stood up, about to report to the blonde girl, but got interrupted by the boy:
"This guy seems still alive. Should we finish him off?"
He was pointing at Meredith, who got stabbed through the chest by Dylan. Probably because it didn't hit vital spots, even though Meredith had fallen down weak from blood loss, he wasn't really dead.
"Kill him! We can just ask the guy I'm controlling about their stuff later. I don't want any more trouble!"
No mercy at all - even though Mamos the blonde girl looked young, she was super decisive.
But right when the empty-handed boy was about to palm strike Meredith's head, a super bright golden light burst out from his body, instantly throwing the boy several meters away.
"What, another twist?"
I couldn't help muttering. This knight was too tough - even hurt so badly he could still fight back!
But watching Meredith shakily stand up from the ground, he looked like he was at his limit. Still, I felt something wasn't right, mainly because of that golden light around him.
"Even though this mission failed... I'm sure you people aren't humans, maybe you're not even from this world!"
After throwing the empty-handed boy away, the golden light on Meredith didn't fade, but got stronger instead. He kept mumbling, then spread his arms and started shouting at the sky like he was crazy.
"Oh great and mighty Lord! Please give us a miracle, clean up all these invaders! Under the Pope's leadership, we will welcome a new future!"
Meredith's Lord must be the god True Church believes in. Usually this kind of prayer isn't strange - I heard enough from Cyra too. But next second the golden light got stronger again, so bright people couldn't even open their eyes!
Not only that, the area affected by the light quickly expanded...