The Prince’s Nanny, Her Specialty Is Assassination - Chapter 282

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Chapter 282. Last Dance (8)

“Urgh!”

Edwin let out a groan.

The young prince struggled desperately not to be overpowered in his contest of strength against the knight standing before him.

“Prince Edwin, it’s dangerous! Please fall back!”

Philip’s voice came from a short distance away.

But there was no time to listen to his words.

‘If I fall back, Catherine and Emilia will be exposed to the enemy.’

The Emperor, The Empress, and even the Crown Prince.

Philip and the other Imperial knights were busy enough just protecting those three people.

In front of Catherine and Emilia, there were only Edwin and one knight.

“Uaaaah!”

Edwin shouted as he pushed back the Senate knight with his body.

Then he immediately swung his sword in a wide arc.

Swaaaash.

The enemy’s blood splattered across the young prince’s face like raindrops.

Edwin wiped the blood from his face with his trembling hand.

‘I have to do this.’

Right now, at this moment.

The caretaker who would hunt for him, who would fight in his place, was not by his side.

Only the people he had to protect were behind him.

‘So this is what it feels like to fight to protect someone.’

It was a different feeling from fighting in the subjugation campaign.

It felt like if he took even one step back, he would fall off a cliff, making him more desperate and more fierce.

“Uaaaaah!”

Edwin deliberately let out an even louder battle cry.

He didn’t dodge the swords swung by the Senate knights, but met them head-on and struck them away.

“The 3rd Prince was this skilled with a sword?”

“How can a child have such strength…”

The Senate nobles were surprised by the 3rd Prince’s momentum.

How could such power and spirit come from a child who hadn’t even had his coming-of-age ceremony yet?

“Push forward!”

“Waaaah!”

Thanks to this, the morale of the Imperial knights also rose.

They responded to the 3rd Prince’s unbreaking fighting spirit by pressing the Senate knights.

“These idiots! What are the mages doing!”

Seres, who was watching the situation from the opposite side, shouted.

“We have to stop them by any means necessary…”

Before the old man from the Redcliff family could finish his words.

“Uaaaaah!”

A sudden scream erupted from among the Senate forces.

Startled, Seres whipped his head around.

“What the hell is that…?”

The troops blocking the entrance to the Imperial Palace were scattering to the ground like fallen leaves. All because of just one man.

“That person is…”

The Emperor’s side was equally surprised.

The knights couldn’t hide their amazement after confirming the identity of the suddenly appeared man.

“How is The King of Adamant in the Empire’s Imperial Capital?”

The Emperor, Cabellius III, widened his eyes upon seeing Kaiden.

The Empress and Adrian also stared at him with surprised faces.

“Prince Kaiden?”

“It’s The Emperor!”

Only the siblings Edwin and Emilia showed joy upon seeing Kaiden.

“It’s an intruder! An intruder has appeared! How dare an outsider come to this place…”

“Noisy.”

Kaiden raised his large greatsword high.

The sword, which emanated an extraordinary aura like its master, split the ground.

Kwarrrrung.

With a thunderous roar, the Senate soldiers flew in all directions.

To send people flying with just sword pressure alone was a realm beyond imagination.

“What is this…!”

“Why is The King of Adamant attacking…”

While the Senate nobles were confused.

The Emperor took advantage of the chaos to advance with his knights.

“All knights, assist The King of Adamant!”

For those following orders, it would have been confusing.

To suddenly help a foreign king attack the Empire’s nobles.

“What are you doing!”

But Philip was quick-witted.

He stepped forward and struck the rear of the Senate soldiers targeting Kaiden.

“Everyone follow The Emperor’s command! Assist The King of Adamant!”

Only then did the Imperial knights begin to move as one body.

Waaaah.

Battle cries echoed through the hall of the Imperial Palace.

Seres bit his lip, sensing that the situation was becoming serious.

Then he shouted at the allied mages who were still hesitating.

“You idiots, what are you doing! Set up defensive barriers or counterattack, do something!”

“Th-that is, The King of Adamant’s magic power is too strong, so defensive barriers would be useless!”

An attack that couldn’t be stopped by magic.

Could a mere human’s power, not even a monster’s, be that strong?

‘Is that person really the same human as us?’

Seres gritted his teeth as he watched Kaiden approaching closer and closer.

‘The operation has failed.’

The fact that Kaiden, an outsider, could enter the depths of the Imperial Capital meant that all the magic interference devices had been destroyed.

In other words, it was no different from saying that those guarding the palace gate had failed in their mission.

‘At this rate…’

From the beginning, this plan would be a revolution if it succeeded, and treason if it failed.

That’s why it was a plan that absolutely could not fail.

‘The moment we’re branded as traitors, we’ll all be executed.’

Rather than failing like this and being branded criminals and executed, it would be better if they all died together.

“Lord Seres!”

“Eliminate them all!”

The moment those words fell from the fleeing Seres’s mouth.

The hesitating mages all drew up their magic power at once as if they had made up their minds.

Whoooosh.

The flames that bloomed from their fingertips instantly engulfed the Imperial Palace.

“Crazy bastards.”

Philip unconsciously spat out a curse.

He frowned at the acrid smell and the thick smoke rising up.

‘To use magic so suddenly without warning.’

He must have truly gone completely insane.

Philip gritted his teeth and struck down the enemies.

“Hurry and get outside! Escort His Majesty and Their Highnesses!”

Following his orders, the knights surrounded The Emperor, The Empress, and the other royals and escaped outside.

“Damn it!”

Along with someone’s curse, fire spread in an instant.

The flames that caught onto the curtains and carpets seemed unlikely to be easily extinguished.

“Finish them off!”

At Seres’s crazed shout, the mages unleashed a barrage of flames.

Because of this, the massive stone building shook precariously.

With this level of impact, it seemed the shock would affect not only the pillars but even the rooftop of the Imperial Palace’s top floor.

Creak.

Catherine, who had been fleeing, slowly raised her head at the chilling sound coming from above the ceiling.

One of the burning wooden ornaments fell down toward them.

“Kyaaaah!”

Catherine screamed and wrapped her entire body around Emilia to protect her.

“Catherine!”

Edwin urgently reached out his hand but couldn’t reach her.

“Don’t come, Your Highness!”

Catherine shouted with her eyes tightly shut.

She curled up her body with all her strength to protect The Princess from the impending impact.

“No!”

Just as tears welled up in the young prince’s eyes.

The shadow on the floor bubbled up like sticky liquid.

“Humans really require so much attention.”

“Saylus!”

Saylus’s shadow swallowed the falling timber whole.

He, who had been hiding in the shadows without any interference until now, looked around in all directions with a fed-up expression.

“Hah, I really didn’t want to step in.”

Saylus let out a deep sigh.

Whether there was a crude magic interference device nearby, he still couldn’t hear Kayla’s voice.

‘But I made a promise.’

The image of Kayla’s back as she said she would go to the Imperial Palace alone was vivid.

‘Don’t even think about coming to me until I call for you.’

Even in the darkness, his green eyes glinted with an eerie light.

‘Instead, protect Their Highnesses by any means necessary. If anything happens to those children, I’ll eliminate you first.’

It was the most terrifying threat in the world.

At least it was for Saylus.

Snap.

The Insane Black Mage silently flicked his finger.

Then the flames that had engulfed them disappeared without a trace.

“Huh, what?”

“Why isn’t the magic…?”

The mages who had received Seres’s orders trembled as if they couldn’t believe it. They seemed greatly flustered as they suddenly became unable to use magic.

“It’s bothersome to follow around and protect them.”

Saylus’s red eyes glinted.

His gaze was directed toward the knights and mages led by the Nobles of the Senate.

“Shall I have some fun after a long time?”

He had said that humans weren’t toys to be carelessly played with.

But Kayla would understand just this once. After all, those people were practically the ones responsible for putting the little ones she cherished so dearly in danger.

“Well then.”

Saylus’s thin lips curved into an elegant arc.

“Let’s play.”

As soon as his words ended, the shadows beneath his feet all rushed toward the Senate’s forces like an angry swarm of bees.

“Kyaaaah!”

“Save me!”

It was the moment when a second subjugation campaign unfolded in The Lobby of the Imperial Palace.

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“Damn…”

It was pain that made me curse involuntarily.

I slowly lifted my eyelids.

‘The fire has all been extinguished. Is this Saylus’s power?’

When I fell under the burning roof, I thought I was surely going to die.

Had God decided to take my side in this life?

The flames that had been blazing everywhere had disappeared, leaving only black marks.

‘Ian is…’

When I turned my head, I could see Ian collapsed not far away.

‘…That bastard isn’t dead either.’

He was lying with his back turned, so I couldn’t see his face. But from the way he wasn’t moving at all, he seemed to have fainted.

“…Ugh.”

The dagger Ian had stabbed into me was still embedded in my abdomen.

I deliberately didn’t pull it out and got up as I was. Whether the wound was in a bad spot, my legs weren’t moving properly.

‘Is this Saylus’s magic power?’

I felt Saylus’s magic power emanating from beneath my feet.

The lower floor was still chaotic, and amid that, I sensed familiar presences.

‘Edwin and Emilia are safe.’

I was about to let out a sigh mixed with relief and limp away when.

“Where do you think you’re going?”

An ice-cold voice came from right behind me.

“You said you would apologize with death.”

Ian, who had somehow stood up and approached me, grabbed my neck with both hands. Transparent streams were flowing down from his bloodshot eyes.

“Just how many times do you have to deceive me before you’re satisfied, Kayla?”

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