Preparations Before the Battle

It was still unknown who the European Union Royal Court had sent to this National War.

Unlike Britain, where people already needed to wear thick coats,

at the same time, on a Sea Island in the tropical ocean, emerald-transparent seawater cast shimmering reflections beneath the sunlight onto the pure white beach.

The deserted beach in the afternoon remained quietly warm beneath the shade of the coconut trees, with only the crashing waves sounding in the air.

But beneath that enormous white villa, in the spacious underground Training Ground, amid the explosive roars of blades and machinery, the participants' pre-National War rehearsal was in full swing!

Mechanical drones tasked with interference, rapidly crawling suicide bugs, turrets firing at full power in overload mode—all kinds of weapons surged forth under the Young Master's command,

unleashing a barrage at the figure on the other end of the Training Ground!

Bullets melted, shells were sliced apart, and the flames of explosions were either absorbed or blown away. Attacks sufficient to wipe out an entire unit failed to halt her advance.

Sword Encirclement swept out, and in the instant the blade's shockwave opened a gap,

the tall figure lowered herself and dashed forward. Just as her practice steel sword cut through the mechanical guards' barrier and exposed the Young Master himself,

the illusion vanished, replaced by another figure gripping a blade, delivering a lethal strike from behind the cover of the phantom!

At the same time, the mechanical guards arranged in a circle transformed with a thunderous crash into an inner ring of powerful turrets, firing concentrated lasers at the figure who had rushed into the trap!

Clang—

The perilous dead end vanished without a trace in the next second.

Her speed suddenly exploded. The opening in the sword strike disappeared as she accelerated, pressing