As soon as Gandas fell, a gap was created on the right side of Emperor Alfred, and Franco naturally filled it.
He glanced at the scales on the emperor's body and knew that he had at least activated 90% of his blood. In this situation, the defense of the Emerald Dragon bloodline was still very strong. Franco was not sure that he could kill him from behind, so he followed his own plan and moved closer to the emperor, but did not move, waiting for his brother to come forward.
Franco looked like a wounded soldier, with splints tied on both of his hands. He had only activated less than half of his blood power, and it looked like he could only defend against some arrows. The emperor glanced at him and thought it would be dangerous for him to break through the obstacles in front of him. He said with concern, "You are seriously injured now, so you should hide behind the Black Guards. I don't need a wounded soldier like you to take care of me."
Franco rode his horse parallel to the emperor and said, "Your Majesty, this little magic and arrows can't hurt me. I can focus on one direction and protect you from the enemy's sneak attack."
Emperor Alfred said, "Then you should be careful. I sense a strong frost magic ahead. The enemy should have ambushed a great magician ahead. Our vanguard team is doomed."
"Don't worry, Gram has caught up." Franco said.
The emperor had already sensed someone approaching from the left, but suddenly he felt a sense of danger approaching from the left at a very fast speed. He turned his head and glanced to see Gram, who had already aroused all his blood, rushing towards him like a raging lion with open palms. The sharp claws on his palms were bloody in the orange-red firelight, grabbing his neck. At the same time, on his right, Franco, who was just sick, also broke the splint on his hand and reached out to stab him.
Franco did not use claws, but a fist blade more than ten centimeters long. The fist blade was also a holy weapon, which he had hidden in the splint. Now it was revealed, with a scarlet glow, silently stabbing at the emperor.
The emperor is also a bloodline master, and his strength is actually comparable to that of the brothers Franco and Gram.
His bloodline is more powerful, but his combat experience is not as rich as his brothers.
At such a close distance, Emperor Alfred's instinctive reaction was to claw against Gram. The Blood Master's dragon claws faced the lion claws, erupting with destructive power. This power was transmitted to the horses under their crotch, instantly crushing the horses' bodies. The two horses were blown into pieces alive and flew in all directions.
Gram and Alfred were thrown backwards by the reaction of the explosion. Gram fell to the ground, knocking away several bewildered Black Guards. Alfred flew backwards in the direction of Franco, who slapped him on the back with his left claw. His claw pierced into his armor, tearing off a large piece of the emperor's skin and flesh. But what was even more fatal was that he used his right hand to punch the emperor's heart.
This holy weapon fist blade is called the Blood Coagulation Blade. When anyone is stabbed by it, the blood in the whole body will slowly coagulate, and the whole person will naturally lose strength quickly at the moment of being stabbed. The Blood Master can naturally resist part of its power, but the weakening effect brought by the Blood Coagulation Blade piercing the heart has greatly reduced the emperor's reaction and speed.
"Ah!" Emperor Alfred let out a shrill roar. At the moment of life and death, he found the strength to turn around and slap Franco away with his claws.
But behind him, Gram rushed up again and slapped his dragon head with all his strength. The master's blow was so powerful that even hard rocks would be shattered into powder with Gram's slap. Alfred suddenly looked shorter because the bones in his head and neck were broken and stuck in his chest cavity by Gram's slap.
The emperor's eyes were hit so hard that they popped out of their sockets, and red and green blood flowed out of the seven orifices of the emperor's dragon head.
Emperor Alfred staggered forward and fell to his knees. Gram followed him, stabbed one claw into the back of his neck, and with his other hand, grabbed the dragon's mouth and pulled it up, tearing off half of the emperor's bloody head.
The assassination by the Gram brothers was so quick and swift that it took only ten seconds. The arrogant Emperor Alfred was killed on the spot.
When Gram and the emperor were fighting, the surrounding Black Guards were stunned. The battle between the masters was too fast, and they didn't have time to react to protect the emperor. At the same time Gram took action, the elite family warriors he brought launched a surprise attack on the Black Guards. The sharp blades from comrades are always harder to guard against than those from the enemy. The first wave of surprise attacks caused them unexpected casualties. Nearly one-third of the Black Guards fell down before they could make any counterattacks. The remaining Black Guards fought with the warriors of the Bright Lion Family. Normally, the Black Guards were stronger than them, but the emperor was assassinated before their eyes, which had a great impact on them. They were actually suppressed by the smaller family warriors.
Seeing that the situation was not good, Count Duan did not stop here. He hugged Master Gandas, spread his griffin wings and flew into the sky.
He even abandoned more than ten of his family warriors and left them on the killing field. At this time, most people's attention was focused on the sudden assassination. Even the Shadow Wolf assassins and Chinese wizards who were ambushing on both sides did not pay much attention to him. Earl Duan suffered some sporadic attacks from magic and arrows and suffered some minor injuries, but this did not affect him from flying directly into the sky and flying towards the north.
Count Duan sighed in his heart. It was not that Emperor Alfred did not have the opportunity to fly away first, but he was unwilling to abandon those ordinary soldiers, which gave Gram and Franco the opportunity to assassinate him. Now the emperor's heir is still too young, and the emperor himself died in the assassination of a powerful official. There are also Chinese outside who are eyeing the empire and are ready to attack the empire at any time. In this way, not only the Purple Eagle Empire, but also the political situation in the entire northern part of the continent will probably fall into turmoil.
Another master, Edel, was not so lucky. He was besieged by several high-level bloodline warriors. Edel, who was maintaining a defensive shield, was caught off guard by them. Edel was entangled by them and could not escape. When Gram came over, he took the opportunity to cut Edel's neck with one hand, knocked him unconscious and captured him. (To be continued)