At that moment, a loud bang rang out.

It was Lianna who had jumped at Juan. Just like Dembel, she too was feeling the tremendous energy that was emanating from Juan as he spoke. Enormous power naturally crashed down upon Lianna without revealing itself, but feeling such power only further increased Lianna’s hostility toward Juan.

Sina blocked Lianna’s way path to Juan once again and parried her sword. Sina was so powerful that she was only driven to a corner after both Lianna and Dembel charged at her at once. There was no way that Lianna could handle Sina on her own.

However, Lianna called upon the power of the Grace granted to her and slowly began to transform her body into that of a shadow beast.

“Lianna, stop it!” Dembel shouted.

[Don’t be stupid, Dembel.]

At the same time, Lianna’s body began to turn into a dark shadow, and spider-like limbs grew from her body. Lianna curled up inside the fog-like shadow and glared at Juan with hostile eyes.

[I’ve seen the people who are behind this bastard at the Magic Tower! He is only pretending to be the emperor to blind our eyes! If such a powerful man is covered up with well-made up lies, then…!]

‘Then everyone will be fooled.’

Lianna thought that the Priest and the fake emperor they killed earlier were just a joke compared to Juan; after all, fooling the eyes of others just with appearances alone would eventually reveal the truth and it would only be a matter of time before their act failed.

But if the fake emperor had...