"Careful..."
Brando wanted to shout at the woman.
But it was already too late. Twilight's Will grabbed the vines wrapped around her hand and yanked them toward herself. Andessa was dragged over with the vines, and Twilight's Will transformed her palm into a blade and slashed it into Andessa's chest. With a wet squelch, it pierced straight into her heart.
The decayed lord of the Tree Shepherds widened her eyes. The light in her violet eyes quickly dimmed. She stared at Dragon Queen Gwendolyn in the distance, tilted her head back, and was thrown away by Twilight's Will.
She fell into the void like a broken doll.
"Lady Andessa!" a voice familiar to Brando cried out. It was Merchant's Daughter's voice.
Then Merchant's Daughter's voice rang directly inside his mind. "Mr. Brando, cover us and create an opening!"
"What opening?"
"Mr. Brando, there's no time to explain. Please trust us!" Tata's voice was filled with urgency.
"Brando, this is Ailanta." Another voice sounded in his mind.
"Mr. Brando." This was the voice of the Elf Queen.
Brando understood in an instant. He silently nodded.
Twilight's Will seemed to have anticipated that someone was still hiding in the void. She raised her head and shouted, "Come out, you vermin!" The woman she had killed had posed no threat to her at all, yet someone had used the power of the Dragon of War to ambush her. This infuriated her to the extreme.
She had already guessed their identity. They had to be people Odin had left behind. She had never expected that he and the crystal would still trick her at the very end.
But at that very moment, a golden sword beam had already reached her.
This sword strike should have posed no trouble whatsoever to her. Although she had