Flillian, I want to live.

In fact, Andy knew a secret passage under the castle, through which he could directly reach the outside of the city. It was a secret known only to the Earl himself, and Andy had only discovered it occasionally when he was maintaining the magic circle.

However, just as Andy ran out two steps, he heard hurried footsteps in the corridor. In a hurry, he jumped onto the windowsill and hid in the curtains beside the window.

He thought that the people coming were the Earl's guards, but when he secretly peeked through the gap in the curtains, he was suddenly shocked.

Walking in an orderly manner from the corridor towards where he had just been was a group of headless knights who had lost their heads and were marching like a hundred demons at night.

Didn’t Aura’s army say it would arrive in a few days?

Andy thought to himself without daring to say anything.

Chapter 86: A Woman's Heart is as Deep as the Sea

In the pouring rain, Liuguna, who jumped down from the city wall, no longer had the elegance he had before.

The rain tangled his carefully styled blond hair and tore his fine clothes, made by a top tailor.

"Can you tell me why you don't believe me?"

Liuguna lifted her long hair that was blocking her face with her hand, raised her head and looked at Philen who was pointing his staff at her.

"Still stalling?"

Philen did not answer Liuguna's question, but continued to attack Liuguna with almost saturation attacks.

"I've clearly lived in harmony with humans for a full ten years. To be honest, during these ten years, the Earl and I became true friends..."

While Liuguna used his blood to form a shield to block Philen's attack, he continued his conversation with Philen calmly.

"So what?"

Philen replied coldly, showing no intention of stopping his attack.

"You also have a demon with you, and you seem to trust her. Why don't you trust me?"

However, Liuguna's next words shocked Philen.

"What demon clan?"

Philen replied pretending to be confused even though he knew the truth.

"Oh, there's no need to lie to me. Although I didn't expect you to have such a powerful magician by your side at first, I did make eye contact with her for a moment before I jumped off the wall."

Seeing Philen's somewhat abnormal expression, Liuguna smiled, which undoubtedly confirmed his guess.

"That's a look only demons have. I'm sure of it."

Liuguna said confidently.

"So what?"

Philen stopped his attack and asked the other party again.

"Since you are willing to trust that demon and treat her as your companion, then what is the difference between her and me? What is the difference between Earl Gulanat, who treats me as a friend and trusts me, and you?"

Liuguna opened his arms and explained the truth to Philen with clear logic.

"Hmm~"

Philen pondered for a moment.

"Let's talk, Miss Phelan. After all, the breaking of the peace treaty is just that girl's one-sided account. Even if you want to make a judgment, you should at least listen to our testimony, right?"

Liuguna raised his eyebrows and continued to ask Philen.

"What you said seems to make sense."

She tilted her head and looked at Liuguna, who had a sincere expression on his face.

Then, without any warning, he fired a demon-killing magic at the guy who wanted to exchange his true heart for his true heart.

"Varied--"

Liuguna, who didn't expect Philen to attack at this time, subconsciously used the blood shield to protect his heart.

puff-

However, this time, the blood shield was hit directly by the magic and failed to save Liuguna's life again because he did not dodge. The magic penetrated the protection of the blood shield and blew a huge cavity in Liuguna's chest.

"Sure enough, Lord Gutel is right. As long as the magic power is compressed, the magic's penetrating power can be increased."

Philen looked at the shocked and collapsed Liuguna with an expressionless face, muttering to himself like an experimenter observing a guinea pig.

"Why……"

Liuguna looked at Philen in mid-air. Having lost his heart, he no longer had the ability to recover and could only rely on the remaining blood in his body to barely slow down his death.

It was only then that he remembered the conversation he had with Count Gulanat when they parted today.

"Don't worry, even after this is done, Lord Aura will keep your family alive as promised."

In order to ensure the smooth progress of the operation, Liuguna specially appeased the "friend" with whom he had been for ten years.

"Really? Then I should be grateful to you?"

However, a mocking smile appeared on the count's face at that time.

"You seem to be laughing at us?"

Liuguna looked at the earl in front of him and realized the hidden meaning in his words.

"Mr. Liuguna, you have lived in this city as Aura's envoy for a full ten years. I have to say, during these ten years, you have been very good at disguising yourself. Everyone in this city, from top to bottom, treats you as a polite gentleman, but they don't know that you actually treat them all as your food."

Liuguna picked up the broadsword on the table, gently stroked the relic left to him by his father, and answered calmly.

"Can I take that as a compliment?"

Liuguna tilted his head and asked back with his hands inserted.

"Of course you can, but by now you're probably already confident that you can easily manipulate human emotions through lies."

The Earl touched his neck with his hand and said thoughtfully.

"Where is it."

Liuguna imitated human humility, but in his heart he took the count's words as facts.

"Humans are very complex. Even if they lived another life, the beasts would not be able to defeat humans."

The Earl stood up and put the broadsword back into the scabbard at his waist.

"is it?"

Looking at the count's resolute back as he walked out, Liuguna did not take his words seriously.

"How did you see through me..."

Compared to those demons who broke down and struggled before dying, Liuguna decided to uphold the elegance he learned from humans, but there was one thing that bothered him.

That is, he thought that what he had said to Philen before was from the heart and there were no logical loopholes.

Liuguna was confident that he could lure Philen into a trap and make him believe his words like everyone else in the city. However, in reality, he was the one who was deceived in the end.

He was careless because he thought Philen was being fooled, but he didn't expect that from beginning to end, Philen never believed a word he said.

It would be fine if Philen was Old Deng, who was used to the lies of the demons like Fulilian, but she clearly believed in another demon around her and obeyed Gutel's orders.

This made Liuguna unable to let go.

He really wanted to know what the difference was between him and Guter.

"what?"

Although it is said that a dying man speaks kindly, Philen has no sympathy for the inhuman demons.

"That girl is the same as me. If you believe her, aren't you afraid that she might deceive you too?!"

With his last breath, Liuguna questioned Philen.

"the reason is simple."

Philen watched as her body gradually dissipated, but Liuguna, who stubbornly asked her questions, finally spoke up and told her the reason.

"It doesn't matter whether you tell the truth or not, or whether Lord Gutel lies or not. Only what I am willing to believe is the truth. If I have to say it, maybe this is called intuition..."

Philen smiled and gave the Liuguna answer.

"intuition!?"

Liuguna spat out a mouthful of blood.

"What is this? There is no logic at all, human..."

Chapter 87 True Lies

After watching Liuguna completely turn into ashes and disappear in front of him, Philen, who was sure of his death, raised his head and looked towards the tower where Fulilian and the others were.

"We have to inform them quickly."

Fearon muttered to himself.

Judging from Liuguna's performance just now, he was obviously trying to delay time. Although I don't know what kind of conspiracy the other party is brewing, it is always a good idea to support Fulilian and the others as soon as possible.

However, just as Philen was about to make up her mind, a cold light suddenly flashed above her head.

Philen subconsciously dodged the sword light attacking from above his head.

The next moment, the dull sound of a heavy object falling to the ground came from the ground.

"What is that..."

Philen looked intently at the attacker who had just fallen from the sky.

Although the body was broken into pieces, Philen could still recognize that it was the body of a knight in armor.

However, the knight who launched the fatal attack had no head and no neck.

When Philen looked up at the city wall, he found that more headless knights were jumping down from the high wall without fear of death and attacking Philen with suicidal attacks.

when……

Philen's pupils suddenly dilated. There could only be one reason why such a large number of headless knights appeared here.

The time provided by Sophia was wrong. Guillotine Aura had already descended into the city.

At this moment, Fulilian had just broken the ban in the tower and broke into the room where Volame had set up a defensive magic circle.

"Wow……"

As soon as you enter the room, Gutel is painted in the center of the room. Even after a thousand years, it still emits fluorescence, and the huge, slowly rotating magic circle attracts your attention.

"It's the teacher's technique, but it seems like there are some changes?"

Fulilian walked to the center of the magic circle. She lowered her head and looked at the defensive magic circle that was difficult for later magicians like Andy to analyze, and spoke in a nostalgic tone.

"Then quickly inject magic power into the magic circle and restart it, Lady Fulilian."

Sophia, who followed the two into the room, said to Freelian in an expectant tone.

"That's right... I have to admit, you almost fooled us all, Miss Sophia."

Fulilian turned her eyes away from the magic circle, then looked at Sophia, who looked a little surprised, and said with a smile.

"Huh? What are you talking about? What did I lie to you about?"

Sophia turned her head and looked both ways, then looked at Fulilian with a puzzled look.

"You said before that I was a great magician who had lived for a thousand years... If I remember correctly, I haven't told this secret to anyone here. Rather, the only one who would be particularly concerned about this is Aura, who is rumored to have been reborn once. After all, if I'm not mistaken, she died in her previous life because she misjudged my age and magical power."

Fulilian looked at Sophia and pointed out the flaw that she had inadvertently revealed.

"Eh?"

After hearing Frillian's analysis, Gutel showed a surprised expression on her face. She turned her head to look at Sophia who looked innocent. She prided herself on being good at seeing through human lies, but this time she was completely deceived by the other party.

"I, I heard it from Master Guter..."

However, in this situation, Sofia still behaved naturally, turned and walked towards Guter, trying to defend her words.

"Me? I didn't..."

Looking at Sophia who confidently claimed that she was the one who leaked the information, Gutel turned to look at Furlin with a suspicious look on her face and was about to explain.

A dagger hidden in Sophia's sleeve pierced Gutel's chest and accurately stabbed into the girl's heart.