Within the imperial courtyard in the imperial capital.
Annie, who had been watching the battle together with Lilith and Alice, suddenly paled.
"Alice, keep an eye on the western battlefield!"
With that, Annie grabbed Lilith. A ripple spread through space, and the two vanished on the spot.
Alice was left staring in bewilderment at where they had disappeared.
Only after a good while did Alice suddenly notice that a life presence had vanished from the eastern battlefield!
The Shattered Rock Archipelago.
A ripple spread through space, and Annie and Lilith instantly appeared in the middle of the battlefield!
The Legendaries, whose attention had already been drawn by Finis's furious roar before his death, tacitly eased off their attacks when they saw Annie and Lilith arrive.
Except for that glutton, Igneel!
With a "delicacy" he had never tasted right before his eyes, yet remaining out of his reach,-
Igneel had grown increasingly irritable.
He paid no attention whatsoever to anything else. All he could see now was Bronn, that "delicacy."
Looking at Finis's corpse,
veins faintly bulged on Annie's forehead!
Annie had never expected one of their own Legendaries to fall so abruptly when the war had only just begun!
Yes, his opponent was the renowned Raging Waves Sword Saint, and their own Legendary had been carrying serious injuries.
But!
He was still a Legendary, no matter what!
How could he have been slaughtered like a pig just like that!
It had happened so quickly that Annie had not even had time to react!
After all, Annie had been watching the battlefield ever since the fighting began.
Moreover, the battlefield was within Annie's Sea Route. Even so, Finis's abrupt death had caught her off guard.
The first time she had acted on her own without consulting Dunn, something this disastrous