"Be careful. If you run into Cyrabelle or Wood Slater, you can retreat rather than engage," Modi's voice reached Arudika, who had transformed into a Golden Dragon.
"Roar..." A long dragon cry answered him. The Golden Dragon beat her wings and soared into the sky, her nearly twenty-meter-long body vanishing into the clouds.
In Stinnard's central district, the last surrounded Holy Crusader's head was blown apart by a Dragon-Hunting Rifle round. The battlefield fell silent again. The victorious Undead did not cheer; they quickly cleared the field, collecting the corpses' equipment and weapons before transporting everything to the Graveyard.
The Holy Crusaders' enchanted armor and weapons had cost the Lorenzo Kingdom a fortune. They were no worse than the batch of Construct Armor Green had previously obtained from the Rune Federation.
Although this battle had yielded no souls, and the Holy Crusaders' corpses had been so steeped in Holy Light that they could not be used to create Undead, the equipment was still a fine haul.
By the time Green returned after killing Sebolutes and saving Professor Arkansas, the fighting here had just ended.
To ambush the Holy Crusaders, the Anomalies Bureau headquarters had been blown up. Green brazenly took over the neighboring prime minister's residence as the bureau's new headquarters. He left Marquis Carpson's former office to Cyrabelle and chose the former interior minister's office for himself—not because it was second only to the prime minister's office, but because its windows faced the Royal Palace, giving him a clear view in that direction.
By hiding the Holy Crusaders inside the Royal Palace, the Little King and Marquis Belon had utterly betrayed the Kingdom. Not only had they cooperated with the Holy Crusaders, they had also secretly allied with the Revolutionary Army. If not for Grand Duke Mora's plan, Cyrabelle