One of the Copper Shield Family's ancestors had once been entangled in a thread of karma with that powerful being. Thus, every century or so, the Copper Shield Family could obtain from that old undead, who slept only intermittently, some trinket that was either valuable—or utterly useless to humans.
These thirteen armor-breaking, defense-shattering curse runes were a gift that old undead had secretly sent to the Copper Shield Family through his disciple twelve years ago. Marquis Belin, who had displayed extraordinary talent within the family twelve years earlier, became the owner of the thirteen curse runes. Without hesitation, she had attached them to a pair of greaves she had commissioned a grandmaster gold dwarf to forge with painstaking care.
At this moment, the thirteen curse runes unleashed an extraordinarily terrifying effect.
A dim gray flash of cold light swept past. Marquis Belin's long skirt suddenly shattered, and the gleaming ram's horns plunged deep into the Law God's lower body. Golden divine radiance flashed through the Law God's flesh, but beneath the assault of that gray cold light, streak after streak of golden divine light shattered. The watching nobles could even hear a tremendous boom, like a catapult stone smashing through a solid wall.
"Hisssss—"
Every male noble who witnessed the scene—including Lin Qi, Alda, and Bilibili—all the men clamped their legs tightly together.
Longcheng, in particular, watched with a livid face as the pair of greaves was revealed beneath Marquis Belin's shattered skirt, fully enclosing her slender, flawless legs. Exquisitely shaped and seemingly inlaid all over with countless hexagonal scales, the greaves were pale silver throughout. Faint golden patterns ran along their edges, outlining ancient designs of breathtaking allure.
On the knees were two sharp ram's horns, half an inch tall. Grayish-white runes flowed rapidly across them, emanating a barely