“Your Highness!” “Elder?!” Outside the secret room’s door, two nervous voices were heard.

“You are not allowed to enter!!!” Laurent snarled.

He had been forced to retreat in one move; he definitely couldn’t allow anyone else to see. However, he couldn’t afford to lose to Xu Yangyi, either!

A spirit pellet wreathed in a penetratingly sharp murderous aura pressed straight onto to the center of his brows. He couldn’t help but tightly clench his fists. From head to toe, his muscles swelled dramatically, and he roared, “Stop!”

It didn’t stop.

“Your Highness, please be lenient!” The pellet was already in front of him. In spite of his prestige, Laurent shouted. In the secret room, his entire body was long since soaked in cold sweat.

In the moment he spoke the words ‘Your Highness’, the white pellet suddenly disappeared.

Deathly silence.

The inside of the room was as still as death.

Stationed outside the door, the two trusted confidants looked at each other in dismay. What was going on with the elder? He had actually called someone else His Highness?

Laurent held trepidation in his heart, and his body of spirit light looked at Xu Yangyi as if he’d seen a ghost. This wasn’t his first time trading moves with a mid Marquis expert… but apart from a Second Bitten expert, he had never encountered a mid Marquis who could defeat...