The guards noticed their approach immediately, hands moving to weapons as two figures appeared on the hillside above them.
All the guards were on full alert, ready to attack the intruders coming closer to the restricted area.
However, one of the main guards noticed something as Leon and Seraphine were leisurely coming closer to them.
The first thing he noticed was the distinctive purple hair of the woman and her face; he recognized her at first glance. However, that was not the thing that terrified him.
As quickly as he looked beside her, the tall, silver-white-haired young man walking beside her made his whole body tremble in fear.
Earth-shattering news had spread like wildfire around the whole Kingdom of Shampain yesterday—the death of Duke Arselin, the legendary patriarch of the House of Arselin, Duke Arselin's father, and his son, which was already big news enough to shake the entire kingdom's foundation.
