Chapter 1202
They were bandits. Or perhaps it’d be wrong to even call them mere bandits. Their equipment was far too advanced for mere bandits, and every one of their movements was crisp like they had undergone professional training.
Still, even those highly trained individuals couldn’t help but panic facing such a situation.
More than anything, the reason they couldn’t simply be dismissed as ordinary bandits was because they carried special equipment—secret weapons and high-grade imperial equipment of the Nacha Empire—designed to disrupt mana structures.
Of course, that kind of interference didn’t have much effect on Reina, yet it was more than enough to hinder her. It was certainly more than enough to overpower the people in the carriage she was desperately trying to protect.
Reina, when she had been producing sacred, white-colored energy swords, looked like an angel descended from the heavens. However, that shimmering heat haze around her wings of light had since faded.
Instead, a thick crimson mist veiled her, and the once radiant white energy swords had long since turned into black blades with blood-red hues pulsing through them.
Sinister battle aura and murderous intent radiated from her.
Eventually, Reina, no longer able to contain herself, staggered and muttered in a broken voice, “Run... away.”
She trembled as she fought desperately to suppress the overwhelming impulse. “Please, run!!”
Alas, despite her desperate cries, the bandits didn’t retreat.
They weren’t simple bandits that fled at the slightest difficulty. They were armed forces of the Nacha Empire in disguise, sent to assassinate the passengers inside the carriage Reina was protecting.
Those occupants were royalty from one of the dimensions the empire had invaded. Figures who were too politically tricky to eliminate openly, yet far too inconvenient to leave alive. As such, under orders from above, the ‘bandits’ had to kill them.