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Deep within the palace, just as Lili found herself trapped in a difficult situation, another battle was unfolding.

Alicia held a black longsword in her hand. Faint ripples of light flowed across its blade, constantly releasing an overwhelming aura. It was a top-tier Unique sword of extraordinary value.

Yet it was still beneath her. After all, only a Legendary weapon could allow her to unleash her full strength. A Unique weapon was still a little lacking. However, there was nothing she could do about that. Legendary weapons were not cabbages that could be picked up whenever one wanted.

Across from her, Richard had already regained his composure, and his pale, twisted face had returned to normal. The aura around him had finally stabilized. He held the silver-shimmering Sword of Eternity in his hand as he glared furiously at Alicia. He looked as though he could pounce at any moment and tear her to pieces.

The Sword of Eternity was worlds apart from the replica in Yae-hime’s hands. Even the aura it released was terrifying. It seemed as though the slightest movement would cause it to cleave space itself apart!

The true Sword of Eternity and its replica differed greatly in power, but their special effects were essentially identical. Of course, the inherent mana consumption of the genuine Sword of Eternity was undoubtedly far greater than that of the replica. Every second, it was frantically draining Richard’s Mana.

Without Legend-rank strength to wield this sword, one would absolutely be drained into a dried corpse.

The two stood facing each other with their swords in hand, creating an unusually quiet scene that was completely different from the battles taking place elsewhere. Although neither of them had made a move, their mental confrontation had already gone back and forth for nearly a thousand exchanges.

This was how experts fought. They could remain silent until they struck, and when they did, their attack would be earth-shattering.

The palace was extremely spacious, and the three battlefields were currently separated without interfering with one another. No, that was not quite right. The next second, the situation changed drastically.

Richard’s aura suddenly erupted, violently shaking the entire palace. Then, he struck! The Sword of Eternity shot toward Alicia like a bolt of lightning.

Alicia instantly sensed an intense killing intent and a powerful sense of danger. In her vision, the tip of the Sword of Eternity suddenly vanished. Alicia’s heart stirred as she immediately realized what was happening and dodged to the left with all her might.

The next moment, a section of the sword appeared at the spot where she had been standing, and faint spatial power rapidly spread outward. Then, a flash of silver erupted, and a silver beam of light shot from the sword’s tip.

With a sharp swish, the silver beam pierced through Alicia’s afterimage before shooting rapidly toward the Dark Mage near the main entrance. The Dark Mage’s pupils immediately contracted, and his heart spasmed. Instinctively, he used Flash.

The silver beam missed its target and shot straight out of the palace, finally crashing into a thick wall.

**BOOM!**

The wall exploded on impact. Not only that, the ground was blasted apart as well, revealing a deep crater. Broken stones flew everywhere, while dust filled the air.

The Dark Mage wiped away a bead of cold sweat, his heart filled with lingering terror. If he had been even a fraction of a second slower, he would definitely have been severely injured by the blast!

Outside the palace, quite a few people stopped what they were doing and looked toward the sound. When they saw that the thick wall had completely disappeared and a deep crater had been blasted into the ground, their scalps immediately went numb.

One had to know that the materials used to construct the imperial palace were incredibly sturdy. Even with powerful magic, it would be extremely difficult to blast out an effect like this. It was obvious just how terrifying the power behind that strike had been.

If unleashed outside, it might have destroyed an entire section of buildings! So this was the strength of a Legend-rank expert? No way no how! In an instant, many people near the palace hurriedly retreated from the surrounding area. They were terrified that they might be wiped out by the shockwaves from whatever was being blasted out from inside.

Yae-hime’s brows furrowed slightly as the Sword of Eternity replica in her hand trembled incessantly.

“Richard used the Sword of Eternity so soon?” She could clearly sense the resonance coming from the blade. Only the genuine article could make the replica tremble like it was cheering.

“My replica consumes one point of MP every second. If the genuine article doesn’t consume at least ten times as much, that would be strange. Looks like this battle will end much sooner than I expected. I need to speed things up!”

A flash of light passed through her eyes. Yae-hime withdrew the Sword of Eternity replica, then released her aura violently as a translucent Thousand-Armed Avalokiteśvara manifested around her.

Without the slightest hesitation, she unleashed the earth-shattering Bagua Palm, blasting it toward the soldiers who were still standing there in a daze. The battlefield immediately filled with ceaseless screams.

Elsewhere, Allie, who was concealed within the battlefield, gave a soft laugh as a pitch-black magic circle appeared beneath her feet.

With a low hum, the magic circle rapidly expanded, almost covering the entire battlefield. When it finally stopped expanding, a dark and sinister aura surged wildly from within it, swiftly burrowing into the bodies of thousands of elite soldiers.

Everyone got their share. Not a single one escaped. This was a large-scale magic spell that inflicted negative status effects. All soldiers who came into contact with the dark aura suffered a drastic reduction in Mentality, Stamina, Defense, and Endurance.

In other words, their overall strength had been severely weakened! Although the effect was limited in duration, the elite soldiers who had already been beaten badly would undoubtedly suffer an even worse beating now.

Allie had deliberately roamed around the battlefield without attacking earlier precisely to set up this magic circle and dramatically widen their advantage in a single move.

With her and Yae-hime working together, coupled with the Hidden Kill elites attacking as though they had been injected with stimulants, it would only take a few minutes to completely subdue these easy targets.

In the outer district, countless soldiers were attacking the barrier surrounding the inner district, while the commanders were so anxious that their eyes had turned red.

However, the barrier remained incredibly sturdy. No matter how desperately they bombarded it, they could not even blast open a gap. Sometimes, being too sturdy could be a bad thing.

Inside the palace, Moon relentlessly pursued and attacked the Dark Mage, beating him so badly that he was almost reduced to tears. The poor Dark Mage could not use his terrifying magic at all and could only desperately dodge wave after wave of lethal attacks.

‘If I hadn’t been ambushed earlier, and if this wretched woman weren’t so damn fast, how could I have been forced into such a miserable situation?!’

He was utterly frustrated.

“Holy Judgment!” From nearby, the insidious Gurant swung his staff and launched a sneak attack at Lili from behind. Holy light descended from the heavens like a gigantic blade.

At that moment, Lili was being harried by the thick-skinned Blei. Seeing the blade of holy light about to descend upon her head, Lili hardened her resolve, threw out both chakrams, then reached out with her bare hands and grabbed Blei’s wrists.

Then, power erupted from within her. She spun around and actually used the burly Blei as a human shield! The blade of holy light came crashing down without pause.

“F̲u̲c̲k̲!” Blei’s eyes nearly bulged out in shock as he immediately gathered his strength to defend himself. Unfortunately, he was still half a step too slow and took half of the blade of holy light head-on. The pain sent tears streaming from his eyes, and his nerves nearly snapped.

Seeing this, the corner of Gurant’s eye twitched several times. He had just seized a once-in-a-thousand-years opportunity and had thought he could seriously injure Lili. He had never expected that this little girl, despite looking so small, would possess such tremendous strength.

Blei couldn’t exactly complain about being used as a human shield. After all, his strength was even inferior to that of this little girl.

Gurant chuckled inwardly, pointed his staff at Lili, and continued with another underhanded attack. Holding her human shield, Lili quickly shifted her footing and forcefully slammed Blei into the ground, using him to block the insidious attack.

Poor Blei immediately let out a bloodcurdling scream.