Lich Lord Kilwint looked up and saw Rhode and Lilia slowly walking in.
No one outside had sounded an alarm. The guards must have already been dealt with.
There had been at least several hundred Scourge soldiers outside the Holy City. Had they vanished without a sound just like that?
Kilwint could not help feeling a little frightened.
"Are you... with the Alliance?" Kilwint asked.
"Oh, yes. Didn't expect that, did you?" Rhode laughed.
"Aren't you... aren't you still building a castle on the Southern Coast? How did you get here already?"
Kilwint truly had not expected this.
Only a few days earlier, he had sent Lady Deathwhisper to the beach to intercept the Alliance's advance force. Although she had lost, the Alliance army had remained on the beach and shown no signs of moving.
Yet now, they stood before him?
"How many of you came? And how did you sneak all the way here?" Kilwint asked again.
In his view, since the soldiers on the perimeter had been completely wiped out, the enemy could not have sent only one or two people.
It was probably a large force that had evaded the Scourge's surveillance entirely, descending out of nowhere to storm the Holy City in one fell swoop.
"Are you kidding?" Rhode tilted his head. "There are only two of us, and I'm a mage. Isn't it perfectly normal for me to get here?"
"Only two? A mage?" A sudden realization jolted through Kilwint's mind.
Among the Alliance, a mage capable of taking on a thousand enemies alone like this...
"Are you that Archmage Rhode?"
Rhode chuckled. "At least you've got a decent eye. All right, enough nonsense. Hand over your Scourge Navigation Stone."
"So that's what you came for..." Kilwint's expression darkened. "Unfortunately for you, I am a