Princess Mingyue personally joined the fight, greatly bolstering morale. Chen Fan and Yang Xiao guarded her on either side, swinging their Embroidered Spring Blades as they hacked at the demonkin!
Before long, the group fought their way out of the encirclement!
"Princess, there are too many of us. We are too conspicuous. We need to break up and move separately!"
Zhou Ze was covered in wounds. Looking at Princess Mingyue, he spoke in a deep voice.
"Alright. Come with me!"
Princess Mingyue nodded at his words.
"No!"
"Princess, I am severely injured. Less than one-tenth of my strength remains. I cannot hold you back!"
"It would be best to trouble the two Brocade Guard brothers with escorting you."
Zhou Ze refused.
Watching the master and servant pair, Chen Fan found it rather novel. The household servant was willing to lay down his life for righteousness, while the lofty princess was just as loyal and righteous.
That was truly rare in the rigidly hierarchical Great Zhou Dynasty!
"My little princess, where do you think you're going?"
An eerie voice rang out. A masked man emerged from the shadows, a pair of sharp crescent blades in his hands. Like a gust of black wind, he charged straight at Princess Mingyue!
Zhou Ze immediately stepped in front of Princess Mingyue, only to be yanked aside by her. She thrust out her spear and met the masked man's blow head-on!
After failing to land his strike, the masked man immediately slipped into the shadows and vanished without a trace. He looked exceedingly strange!
"He is a Shadow Assassin at the seventh level of the Divine Aperture Realm. You are no match for him!"
"I'll draw him away. You all leave quickly!"
Princess Mingyue rode off on her Blackscale Steed.
"Princess, you mustn't!"
"Alas!"
Zhou