With a sharp reprimand, the battle between Huang Huo and Krais's descendant finally reached its conclusion. The young girl thrust her sword through the shadow's forehead, tossed aside the longsword, stepped back, turned, and punched the shadow in the chest. Flames surged from her fist, reducing the monster to ash in an instant.
Amid the monster's shrill scream, Huang Huo sheathed her sword and turned around. She took two steps back and gently exhaled before raising her head. First, she looked somewhat strangely at her own hand, then turned her gaze toward Brando and the others.
By then, Brando's argument with Queen Madara had come to an end. The latter had not disappointed him and had indeed explained the whole sequence of events clearly.
First, she frankly admitted that she had known about Krais's fall for a long time—since before Madara's army's Prince Hofenthos had fought the Crystal Cluster. However, the exact day the goddess's will would break through the barrier was not something she could decide. Brando and the others had happened to run into this matter partly because of coincidence, and partly because White had deliberately arranged it that way.
But Brando felt that something was wrong. According to her explanation, White should have known the whole truth long ago. Yet White's encounter with him in Fatan Port had merely been a coincidence. At that time, the Dragon Queen had not yet launched her plan, he had not gone to the Elemental Boundary, the Twilight Dragon's will had not yet awakened within Roman's body, and there had been no talk of invading this world.
If so, how could White have arranged all of this in advance? Not to mention her agreement with Her Majesty the Queen.
However, when Queen Madara heard his question, she merely shook her head