Russell: I Planted a Seed, and Finally Reaped the Fruit

P.S.: Sorry for the late update. There was only one chapter, too.

We had guests over at home. It was really hard to deal with.

Russell: I Planted a Seed and Finally Harvested Its Fruit

While Russell was carrying out a robbery somewhere.

The Empire's true center—the Twin Empresses Tower—was being swept up in turmoil.

"Clang—"

Steel war boots stepped across pristine white marble, producing a shrill screech.

Even sharper than the sound of boots striking the stairs was the scrape of a viking sword's tip dragging across the floor.

The woman the Lich Lord called the Ostentatious Sheep looked at the black-clad swordswoman before her and offered a greeting.

"It has been a long time, my dear Liselotte."

The Twin Empresses had been weapons of war born together in a laboratory, twin sisters, and the closest of friends.

Yet the woman across from her faced her old friend with—

"Boom—!!!"

The floor beneath the swordswoman's feet shattered. It was the prelude to a charge.

Accompanying that terrifying momentum was a black flash of sword light.

It was undoubtedly dreadful sword light—spreading for over a hundred meters, the heavy slash stirred up a physical hurricane that ravaged everything around it.

Had this tower not been a magical construct, it would surely have been destroyed in that terrifying storm.

Yet such a disaster was merely a single strike from the black swordswoman.

"...You seem to be in a very bad mood."

Though she stood within the sword light's range, the White Empress remained entirely unharmed as she looked at her friend and sister.

In response to her sister's greeting, the black swordswoman remained grim.

For the many descendants of Leithanien nobility.

The Lich Lord's defeat at the hands of the Count of Utica only revealed that the Count of Utica was