Although the mercenaries of the Flame Cross and Sean's other subordinates did not hear the conversation between Sean and the others, Kate's status as a "sky-level powerhouse" was enough to make them respect her.

So during the return to Hetan Town, no one dared to take a breath.

On the way back, Matthew also asked Sean:

"Sean, I'm seriously injured now. Can I stay in your territory to recuperate for a while?"

"Of course!" Sean replied without thinking:

"You can stay here as long as you want! After all, we are friends... But I have a question, why did those Black Hand Brotherhood people attack you?"

"That's a long story."

Matthew sighed and said: "Let me make a long story short! This starts from two months ago: two months ago, my daughter Kate found me..."

At this time, Kate abruptly interrupted Matthew:

"I am your subordinate, not your daughter!"

"Okay, okay." Matthew smiled and continued:

"Two months ago, Kate conveyed my father's order to me, ordering me to go to the Elf Kingdom to discuss the matter of 'reopening the trade route to the Elf Kingdom'.

After all, 100 years have passed since the Black Death, and it’s time to resume trade routes.”

"Restore trade routes?" Sean's eyes lit up.

In the past, the existence of Hetan Town was to do business with the Elf Kingdom, otherwise there might not even be a village in this ghost place.

If the commercial road can be reopened, it will be of great benefit to Hetan Town!

Matthew naturally knew what Sean was thinking and said with a smile:

"Don't be too happy. The Elf Kingdom didn't agree. The Great Elf King said they don't trust humans."

Sean: "..."

Matthew continued: "But for some reason, after leaving the Forest of Elves, we were suddenly chased by a powerful sky-level man named Mars Gale, also known as Mars Great Swordsman."

"A powerful person at the sky level?"

Hearing Matthew's words, everyone around him screamed in surprise, especially the mercenaries of Blazing Cross.

Some time ago, I heard that Lucas River had broken through the sky level. The mercenaries already regarded Lucas as a god-like existence, let alone a strong man at the top of the sky level.

"That's right." Matthew nodded:

"Kate and I worked together to kill him, but we were also seriously injured and our strength was severely damaged. Otherwise, we wouldn't have made such a big fuss against two gold-level brats."

Upon hearing Matthew's words, everyone around them opened their mouths in shock.

It turns out that a strong man from the sky really fell!

He is still a strong man at the top of the sky level!

But Matthew and Kate can kill the upper-level Sky Level experts together. Their strength is at least as strong as the mid-level Sky Level, right?!

Thinking of this, everyone looked at Matthew and Kate with more respect.

...

Sean was also shocked by the death of the sky-level expert, and quickly asked:

"Whose force does Mars Gale belong to? Is he from our Principality of Lane?"

"No, he is from the Sunflower Principality." Kate, who was standing aside, interrupted and explained:

"They are the indigenous people of this land, and they have another way of calling each realm:

Sky-level warriors like to call themselves great swordsmen, and sky-level mages like to call themselves magisters. From now on, when you hear the title ‘great swordsman’, it will definitely be someone from Sunflower!”

After hearing Kate's explanation, Sean couldn't help but breathed a sigh of relief:

"Since it was sent by the Sunflower Principality, it makes sense! After all, your two countries are at war and have a bloody feud. It is not too much to deliberately ambush and kill you..."

Seeing the weird looks from Kate and Matthew, Sean quickly changed the topic:

"I didn't expect that the Black Hand Brotherhood was actually a subordinate of the Sunflower Principality... No, why would the Sunflower Principality help Robert assassinate me? This doesn't make sense!"

Sean fell into deep thought. After all, he was the biological son of Archduke Lane. If the subordinate forces of the Sunflower Principality came to assassinate him, wouldn't the alliance between the two countries be further out of reach?

"No, I investigated the Black Hand Brotherhood some time ago."

Matthew explained to Sean as he walked:

"The Black Hand Brotherhood is not a force under the Sunflower Principality, but a transnational underground organization. This organization is very mysterious. No one knows where their headquarters is. They should only be peripheral personnel to assassinate you."

Sean nodded and said nothing. Windsor and Anduin were also thinking about their own thoughts, so the whole team became quiet again.

The large army continued to move towards Hetan Town.

...

...

It wasn't until after entering River Beach that Kate broke the silence again:

"Sean." Kate said with some embarrassment: "Do you still have the "Romance Novel" series that I read last time? My copy was snatched away by the elf princess."

"I have a hardcover copy with exquisite illustrations in my castle, which I can give to you when the time comes!" Sean replied.

"Really! That's great!" Kate happily hugged Sean's neck.

Sean was almost out of breath from Ketler. After handing Matthew over to Windsor for support, he asked:

"Why did the Elf Princess steal your book?"

"What else can there be? They just like to watch...wait, there's something going on!"

Kate let go of Sean's hands, and her face suddenly became serious.

At the same time, a house on the side of the street suddenly spewed out a huge amount of shadow magic elements.

The shadow elements covered the sky and the sun, and the sky darkened instantly, as if it turned from day to night in an instant.

Just two seconds later, a giant shadow magic circle quickly formed above their heads.

"Everyone, be careful!" Sean shouted immediately.

At the same time, Sean also used [Summon Ball Lightning] to teleport forward, out of the range of the shadow magic circle.

Unfortunately, the place where Sean landed was the same as the place where [Shrinking Ray Engineer] Occam Sparks was, so Sean and the two crashed into each other.

…

Kate was not too panicked. A light green magic shield rose from the ground, protecting everyone around her.

Although she only recovered a little bit of magic power, she believed that she could easily block the level 4 spell above her head, which was only gold-level in power.

So Kate said to everyone around her:

"Don't worry, everyone! The magic above my head is only level 4, and I can completely resist it with my defensive magic..."

Kate was just halfway through her words when the shadow magic circle that had formed in the sky suddenly stopped after approaching the magic shield.

"Crack!"

This dark magic array did not attack the magic array. Instead, it shattered like a mirror and disappeared completely.

"No! This is just an illusion!"

Kate was shocked, but it was too late.

At the same time, in another room behind her, a sharp blade condensed with dark energy flew over at an extremely fast speed and stabbed Kate's magic shield.

"Wow!"

The magic shield shattered like glass.
Chapter completed!