I Was The Hero, But I Woke Up as a Phoenix Princess! – Chapter 333

Chapter 333 Chapter 127 Douglas
“Douglas…”
A low voice was uttered bit by bit from the young man’s mouth. Even though Igert tried his best, he could not suppress the deep hatred grinding his teeth.
Igert’s palm gripped the hilt of the Sword of the End in his hand with great force. He had thought more than once about what kind of mindset he would have if this person appeared before him.
However, at this very moment, when he truly saw the other party, all the past rushed through his mind like a magic guiding scene, and the accumulated hatred in his chest almost surged out.
The young man in the black robe wore a scarlet long sword at his waist, his heroic figure tall, and his crimson long hair seemed to be dyed with melted red crystal gems. The young man clenched his fist with force, crushing the residual attack that blocked it, and turned around to look at the young man standing before him.
The shadow cut off by the black long clothes seemed like a domain, concealing all other superfluous things, leaving only the two people gazing at each other. Douglas saw the black-haired young man’s hand tightly grasping the sword hilt, and a smile appeared on his handsome face:
“Igert, since you left Andelfir, we haven’t seen each other for a long time… It seems that your journey these days has yielded a lot.”
“Thank you for your concern, Douglas.” Igert’s cold voice responded.
“We are not strangers, why use such a tone.”
Douglas shook his head indifferently at Igert’s words, which were filled with extreme cold and sharpness. The young man suddenly raised a pair of blood-gold eyes.
“Lense told me that you, Igert, went to Duolun a few days ago. Unfortunately, I was out at the time and trapped in a secret realm, so I couldn’t meet you. Otherwise, if we had met earlier, perhaps the recent times would have been more interesting.”
Igert’s gaze fell on the young man’s half-smiling face, his hand gripping tightly. Suddenly, a hurried girlish voice came.
“Igert!”
Verafia’s golden flame instantly engulfed the mage who had turned into a skeleton, without stopping for a moment. She didn’t even put away the golden feather long sword in her hand, and after arriving, she blocked in front of Igert, her scorching golden eyes vigilantly looking at the red-haired youth opposite her, as if worried that this newly appeared youth would make a move on Igert.
Douglas saw the girl with golden flowing hair blocking in front of him, and a trace of surprise flashed in his eyes, then he smiled again: “This beautiful young lady, is it the Verafia Miss about whom there are rumors, who is by Igert’s side?”
“You know me?”
Verafia frowned, raising her delicate face to look at the other party.
“It is only natural. The rumors before said that Miss Verafia’s flames were far more noble and magnificent than ordinary people imagined. I didn’t believe it at first, but the moment Miss Verafia released her flames, even though I was a hundred meters away at the time, I could hardly resist the astonishment in my heart.”
“Hmph, do you need to praise my flames?”
Verafia did not accept his praise, and her magnificent scorching golden eyes looked at the other party with ill intentions.
“To make a beautiful young lady show such malicious hostility towards me, I am afraid it is indeed my dereliction of duty. However, Miss Verafia’s hostility towards me is probably a misunderstanding.”
Douglas sighed and showed a smile again, “Of course, compared to your flames, Miss Verafia, it is the sword technique at the end that surprised me more. Such a dazzling sword intent, I never thought I would see it in the hands of a beautiful Miss Phoenix before seeing it.”
Verafia’s delicate face showed a slight surprise, and her golden eyes were raised, wanting to see the meaning of the other party’s words clearly.
But Douglas seemed to be just complimenting. His blood-gold eyes shifted from her and saw Flarn standing with Verafia, and the Frost Giant Dragon with golden dragon eyes, and finally looked at Igert behind the girl:
“Not only Miss Verafia, Snogg once said that you have several unusual girls by your side. Igert, it seems that this is your confidence in returning to Lorinc?”
Verafia’s small face instantly showed an angry expression. She was about to raise her small head to retort, but suddenly her arm was grabbed by a hand, which surprised her, and she turned her head to look.
Igert walked in front of the girl, his azure blue eyes, as if frozen into frost, looked directly into the young man’s blood-gold eyes and said, “Douglas, you are not wrong. If it were not for Miss Verafia and the others, I would have been as you wished these days.”
“Interesting. I thought you would deny it.”
“I don’t need to deny it. But now, I am standing in front of you.”
Igert stared at him without evading, and questioned, “Douglas, tell me, why did you come to Lorinc?”
Douglas looked at the young man, a smile on his lips, as if he had gained some spirit, but more was indifference, “I think you will not ask that superficial question. However, Douglas, what you are thinking is too complicated. I just want to see Miss Shiel.”
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The courtyard of the ruined small town had already been destroyed by Verafia’s flames and completely leveled by the last blow of the white-robed mage. While Igert and Douglas confronted each other, the sounds of war horses’ hooves and armor clashing were heard one after another, and soon, hundreds of elite knights arrived.
Verafia swept her eyes around lightly. The knights around were clearly not under the same command.
The knights arrayed behind Douglas raised the flags of the red lion and the blood-gold fortress of Andelfir Province, numbering more than a hundred. The Andelfir knights were equipped with exquisite silver armor, and wore fiery red capes on their backs. Each of them had a very calm and restrained aura, indicating that they were all carefully selected elites with extremely powerful combat capabilities.
Looking at them, a strange color flashed in Verafia’s scorching golden eyes.
Apart from the cavalry brought by Douglas, the rest of the knights naturally belonged to Lorinc.
However, among the knights of Lorinc, there were clearly divisions. The knights marked as city guards were led by Blade, whom Verafia had also seen a few days ago. The young commander, armed and with a sword, nodded and smiled at Douglas when he arrived; and on the other side, it was the personal guard cavalry of Marquis Mays from the Black Knight’s castle, whom Igert had previously mobilized, led by Eggesti in black.
Marquis Mays could not help but frown when he saw the Frost Giant Dragon nailed to the ground, and when he saw the heroic red-haired youth opposite Igert, a trace of worry appeared in his eyes, but he quickly concealed it.
“Uncle, thank you for coming all this way. Are you perhaps here for Igert and this Miss Ice Dragon?”
Douglas also saw the Marquis and showed a smile, walking closer to perform the rites of a junior in front of him.
But the young man’s actions were caught by the Marquis, whose deep blue eyes gazed at his face.
“Lord Governor has traveled far, and I have not been able to prepare. This is already my negligence. As for my son, you do not need to be too concerned.”