“Well said! I, the Imperial Prince, am the one with the mandate of heaven!” Charles spread his arms, as if he could already see himself stepping onto the Divine Ascension Steps, crushing the entire Empire and even the entire Continent under his feet.
Just then, Charles’s gaze swept past the burning cage of light and coldly scanned the corner of the Great Hall.
There, Annabell, with her silver hair cascading like a waterfall, stood quietly in front of Charlotte, holding a staff, like an inviolable Ice Goddess.
And behind her, once a “Good-for-Nothing” without any magic, was now calmly refining the largest and purest mass of soulfire under the protection of the Elf King’s jade pendant!
Seeing this scene, the greed in Charles’s heart instantly transformed into an uncontrollable jealousy and hatred.
“Why?” Charles’s eyes turned vicious, his fingers cracking as he clenched them.
“Why am I, the Grand Prince of the Empire, forced to use all my trump cards to suppress these embers, even ending up as pathetic as a stray dog!”
“Yet Annabell not only humiliated me publicly, stole my quota, extorted my magic herbs, but now even that useless, worthless sidekick of hers can comfortably absorb the purest Ancient God’s embers?!”
New grudges and old hatreds churned fiercely in Charles’s chest like scalding hot oil.
His gaze locked onto Annabell’s finger—where she wore the storage ring filled with high-grade magic herbs that she had “extorted” from him.
At the same time, he looked at the Elf King’s jade pendant on Charlotte’s chest, which was emitting a strange light.
“As long as I get rid of them…” A crazy thought took shape in Charles’s mind.
“Once I kill Annabell, all the treasures on her will be mine! Kill that worthless waste, and not only can I snatch that magical jade pendant, but I can also take the soulfire she’s absorbing for myself! By then, I’ll be the sole biggest winner in the entire Elven King Ruins!”
Greed completely clouded Charles’s judgment. The smile on his face instantly vanished, replaced by undisguised, icy killing intent.
“Prince Charles, what are you looking at?”
Rosalind, who was desperately maintaining the guardian sword, noticed Charles’s strange behavior. She followed his gaze and her expression immediately changed.
As the Saintess ranked second on the Prodigy Ranking, how could she not see the undisguised killing intent in Charles’s eyes?
“Your Highness! Don’t cause any more trouble!” Rosalind gritted her teeth and warned sternly.
“The guardian dragon soul’s energy is limited. Our top priority now is to focus on suppressing the embers in the cage! If you get distracted and attack Annabell, the cage of light will collapse instantly without the support of the Dragon’s might, and then we will all die!”
“Shut up, Saintess.” Charles sneered, turned his head, and looked at Rosalind with an extremely arrogant and contemptuous gaze.
“You’re afraid of that crazy woman, but I, the Imperial Prince, am not! These soulfires are already trapped beasts with no way out. They can’t escape my grasp. Now, it’s time to clean up the eyesore trash.”
With that, Charles suddenly raised the half-shattered amulet fragment in his hand and crushed it directly into powder.
“In the name of the Imperial Royal Family, guardian dragon soul, heed my command!”
Charles extended his hand, pointing directly at the distant Annabell, his eyes filled with twisted delight. “Kill that insolent bitch! Tear her to pieces!”
The moment it received the command, the golden dragon circling in the air let out a deafening roar.
Its golden eyes burned fiercely, furious and ferocious! Locked tightly onto Annabell standing in the corner.
“Madman! Charles, you idiot!” Rosalind shouted in despair. She felt that the cage of light she was maintaining had already begun to show fine cracks due to the loss of the Dragon’s might’s suppression.
Facing this terrifying Dragon’s might, like a god descending, even a veteran high-level mage would probably have their legs go weak and kneel in submission in an instant.
However, Annabell, standing at the very center of this killing intent, didn’t even blink.
“Oh my, what a frightening look.”
Annabell lightly patted the non-existent dust off her robe. Then, under Charles’s flabbergasted gaze, she did not choose to retreat and dodge.
Instead, she stepped forward with her long, straight black-stocking legs, striding leisurely and unhurriedly toward the terrifying Dragon’s might, one step at a time.
“Annabell, quit your grandstanding!” Charles, enraged by Annabell’s indifferent attitude, roared loudly. “Before this Saint-domain-level guardian dragon soul, your proud ice magic is nothing but a joke! Today, this place will be your grave!”
“A joke?”
Annabell stopped, slightly lifting her fair, delicate chin.
In her truth dual pupils, one red and one blue, seemed to shimmer with a light that could see through all falsehood in the world.
She just stood there quietly, exuding a pride that went deep into her bones.
“Charles, do you have some misunderstanding about the word ‘powerful’?”
A trace of extremely contemptuous sneer curled at the corner of Annabell’s mouth. Her cold, clear voice echoed in the Great Hall, each word like a loud slap hitting Charles’s face:
“A prince who has to kill and steal to handle his own men; a waste who, when faced with a trial, only cries like a giant baby and can only rely on the old Emperor’s trump cards to save his life. Do you think you have any right to bark in front of me?”
Gather.
Annabell spread her hands and shook her head, her heterochromatic eyes filled with undisguised pity and ridicule.
A look of utter disappointment.
“You… you bitch!!!”
Charles was precisely struck in his deepest inferiority and sore spot by Annabell’s words, “a giant baby who can only rely on his daddy.”
He had always prided himself as a child of destiny, hating it when others said that everything he had came from his Imperial background.
“Kill her! Kill her now!!!”
With Charles’s roar, the golden dragon in the air suddenly opened its huge maw, and terrifying Dragon’s might and scorching energy frantically gathered in its mouth.
The incandescent Dragon flame was like a golden waterfall falling from the sky, igniting even the air wherever it passed!
Facing this overwhelming and terrifying attack, a trace of seriousness flashed in Annabell’s eyes.
With her speed and the prediction of her truth magic eye, she was completely confident in using “short-range teleportation” to easily dodge before the Dragon flame landed.
Her feet moved slightly, ready to retreat.
But just then, her peripheral vision caught sight of behind her.
Less than ten meters away, Charlotte still had her eyes tightly shut, surrounded by the green light of the Elf King’s jade pendant, fully focused on the final synchronization with the mass of soulfire.
If she dodged, this large-scale Dragon flame would inevitably hit Charlotte behind her.
‘Tch, how troublesome. But… isn’t this the perfect opportunity to boost affection level? If I don’t get a little injured, how can I make my little wife feel so heartbroken she’ll be completely devoted?’
Annabell schemed quietly in her heart, a barely perceptible sly smile curling at the corner of her mouth.