The Royal Court Falls, Escalation!

"Mm, most of them were fine already. The rest won't affect my movements."

Raising his arm to loosen it up, Fang Ran looked toward the uniquely elegant figure standing before him amid the faint multicolored glow around the silver wolf at the quiet edge of the nighttime forest.

Osphia's golden hair shone brilliantly as she sighed and spoke. He had never expected there would come a day when he would say something like this to her.

"Sorry. This time, I really have to thank you."

"It's nothing. Consider it repayment for what I owed you in the National War."

Owed me?

Fang Ran was slightly confused when he heard that. After all, if the final Moon God Hunt had not targeted her, then she would have been in the same position.

He truly did not understand what Osphia thought she owed him from the National War.

When he thanked her, she shifted her gaze away. She did not explain that she had escaped the collapsing building only because of a warning. Facing the figure before her,

Osphia felt nothing but endless unwillingness.

The Eye of Argos, the Divine Art Coordinate, the Bio-Armor—she had even brought out Zero Knight White Wings, yet she still had not defeated the young man before her.

And this had happened right before her ancestor.

"And here, take this back. It helped a lot."

"No need. The energy in a one-use Mystical Item disappears after it's used. You can deal with it yourself."

Fang Ran handed her the cross in his hand, then saw Osphia meet his gaze with those azure eyes.

"Then it's just an ordinary cross now."

"Is that so?"

"More importantly, why exactly are you here?"

"Ah, hold that question for a moment."

Hearing her say that, Fang Ran tucked the cross into