Chapter 51: A Hefty Price
The princess couldn’t believe her eyes!
So that was why they didn’t notice the bandits up until they attacked them. Perhaps it was the jade necklace that kept them hidden in plain sight.
Elys scrambled up as fast as she could.
The bandits scattered after the explosion, all of them trying to reach either of Aleksander and Elys. The leader was nowhere in sight, and the princess strained her neck to search for him out of the chaos.
Cordelia was quick to her feet. Without a weapon at her disposal, the former warrior lady-in-waiting resorted to fighting the bandits with her bare hands.
The bandits charged at her thinking she was a defenseless old woman, but they were wrong – Cordelia was an expert in hand-to-hand combat.
On the other hand, Teo continued to fend off the other half of the bandits, slicing and thrusting his spear expertly with precise movements. The other knights rushed to support him, adding to the security that separated Aleksander and Elys from danger.
One by one, the bandits fell.
They had been surprised at first, but Teo and the knights had quickly recovered as they fought their attackers without mercy.
The bandits might have come at them by sheer force of numbers, but skills played a lot in winning a battle, and it was evident that most of them were incapable to defeat a vampire knight – much more several vampire knights.
Elys turned her attention to her husband.