“Have you seen Celestial Blade’s body?” Stephanie countered.
“Although I haven’t seen his body, given his personality, he wouldn’t disappear like this if he were still alive!” Reit responded. “Furthermore, if he didn’t die, he wouldn’t have allowed his Celestial Blade Sect to be destroyed!”
“Are you finished?” Stephanie had no intention of continuing the conversation After a slight pause, her tone turned serious. “You can take your own life. As a fellow warlord, I’ll leave your body intact, except for that arm.”
“Heh, do you think too highly of yourself?” Reit didn’t continue with the topic of Celestial Blade, but sneered at Stephanie.
“Your son is already a cripple, unable to fully utilize half of his power. And you yourself are injured as well. The outcome is still uncertain!”
“You are ignorant!” Stephanie coldly replied, “Since you want a fight, I’ll grant your wish!”
As her words fell, a powerful aura burst forth from her body. Then, dozens of Chi-formed swords appeared around her, much smaller than the spirit-embodied ancient sword from before.
“Stuart Sword Art!”
With a deep voice, all the swords moved simultaneously, each following its own trajectory, emitting sharp sword energy. In no time, the sky was filled with countless sword shadows, as if thousands of swords were being swung at once, densely covering the sky. In the next moment, the sword energy, as if sentient, all aimed at Reit’s position.
Meanwhile, Reit on the opposite side was not idle when Stephanie made her move. Although he only had one arm left, he could still muster the strength of a mid-late stage Saint. He then raised his hand and sent numerous mysterious imprints towards Stephanie.
However, to his horror, his defensive aura exploded upon contact with the sword energy, without any possibility of resistance. What was even more despairing for him was that his defensive aura was breached by the sword energy after only a few breaths.
Dozens of sword energies pierced through his body as if entering an empty space, passing through.
Immediately, the atmosphere quieted, and the oppressive aura in the air disappeared.
Stephanie and Reit stood still, without any further movement.
“How… how is this possible…” After a while, Reit, with a face full of despair, lowered his head to look at his own body. As his words resounded, dozens of blood arrows shot out, and his aura deflated like a punctured balloon.
Then, his whole body fell heavily to the ground, twitching a few times before losing all signs of life.
The warlord, a powerful half-step Divine Emperor, had officially fallen!
Reit, lying on the ground, had an expression of endless unwillingness. His eyes wide open, he died without closure. Before today, he never imagined that he would bid farewell to this world so soon.
He had grand plans!
According to his plan, he would break through to the Divine realm with the help of the relics, then attack Skydragon City. After taking over Skydragon City, he would use his cultivation techniques to seize the cultivation of all warriors in the Sovereign Realm and above in Skydragon City. With that, he might be able to break through to another level quickly. Then he could head to the City of Angels. According to his estimation, it would only take him a year at most to unify the entire Polar Snow Region.
But now, he hadn’t even taken the first step, and he was already done for!
He truly couldn’t accept it!
At the same time, Stephanie spewed a mouthful of blood and her aura became extremely chaotic. Under the premise of being injured, she had once again activated the Stuart Sword Art, which worsened her injuries.
Finally, with the death of Reit, a heavy burden was lifted off her shoulders, and she let out a sigh of relief. This day had finally come, and she could finally find solace for the souls of her fellow comrades who had died at Reit’s hands over a year ago. She glanced one last time at Reit’s lifeless body on the ground before turning towards Billy, descending towards his direction.
At that moment, Billy sat on the ground with his eyes closed and legs crossed, having consumed two healing pills to mend his wounds. The direct clash with Reit had indeed taken a toll on him. Fortunately, Sol Stuart had promptly stabilized his injuries, and with the aid of the Heart Sutra of the Azure Void, he was no longer in mortal danger.
Stephanie approached them, a short distance away, and roughly checked Billy’s condition. Seeing that he was not in any life-threatening danger, she relaxed slightly.
“Madam, your injuries are severe as well. Take a moment to recuperate here with Young Master while I go check on Howard and the others,” Sol Stuart said, addressing Stephanie.
“Yes, please take care of yourself!” Stephanie nodded in agreement.
Reit was already dead, and Mysthaven City was no longer a concern. So she didn’t insist on going together and, in truth, she needed to recover from her injuries as well.
“Mum, are you alright?” Billy opened his eyes shortly after Sol Stuart left. He looked in the direction of Reit’s lifeless body lying on the ground, feeling a huge sense of relief.
“I’m fine, how about you? Are you feeling better?” Stephanie asked, concerned.
“Much better!” Billy smiled and replied, “Mum, let me check your injuries.”
“Focus on your own recovery for now. I don’t need that.” Stephanie responded.
“Alright then!” Billy didn’t insist any further.
Meanwhile, the battle inside Mysthaven City had already turned into a one-sided affair. Near the main city gate, more than half of the Saint experts had been killed by Osian Callahan. With his Eight-rank Saint strength, no one could stop him. The other half, with Saint realm cultivation, had become lifeless souls under the blades of Howard Sutherland, Casey, and the others.
After dealing with their opponents, Osian Callahan, accompanied by a few formidable members of his family, soared through the air towards the other three city gates. Howard Sutherland followed closely behind after taking a brief rest.
Casey and his group, on the other hand, led their fellow Skydragon City comrades in cleaning up the opponents below the Sovereign realm.
In less than twenty minutes, the enemy force of twenty thousand was reduced to less than half, all of them kneeling on the ground, begging for mercy.
Following that, Casey led Harleen and the others towards the other three city gates.
Sol Stuart arrived as well.
The subsequent battle held no suspense. The Saint realm experts guarding the other three city gates, just like those at the main gate, were all killed. Furthermore, once news of Reit’s death spread, the remaining enemy forces lost all their fighting spirit and surrendered, discarding their weapons.
Half an hour later, Stephanie and Billy, mother and son, entered the city. Under Stephanie’s orders, all the surrendering enemies had their cultivation crippled and were expelled from Mysthaven City. As for the ordinary merchants and casual visitors inside the city, Stephanie didn’t bother to trouble them. They were free to stay or leave as they pleased.
With that, Mysthaven City officially changed hands.
Subsequently, Howard Sutherland and the others began the process of handling the aftermath, while Stephanie led a group of people to the City Lord’s Manor.