No Other Choice

If anyone was under the most pressure at this moment, it was undoubtedly David.

After all, Lu Su and Lyon were watching from afar; only he was facing the blade of the newly appeared demon head-on.

Ignoring the faint bloodstains appearing on his body, he said expressionlessly, "You’re the one who should die."

"Evil fiend!"

As his words fell, the Holy Bible wrapped in blazing golden flames crashed toward the demon opposite him like a meteor.

Yet the demon laughed in anger. "You people think you deserve to call me an evil fiend?!"

As he spoke, he used the sword in his right hand to block David’s attack while pointing with his left hand at the city behind him, which had been reduced to ruins by Ulquiorra’s Thunder Spear.

"Evil fiends deserve to die."

David used only five words to shut him up.

"His Majesty Adams!"

Seeing David and Lyon’s cards launch a pincer attack, the remaining Jade Grade demons on the field immediately cried out anxiously and rushed forward to support him.

Unfortunately, Ulquiorra stopped them.

Lu Su could now clearly see Adams’s appearance.

He wore black armor and a crown upon his head.

"No wonder it’s called the King City."

Although Adams’s strength had received an utterly terrifying boost from the weapon in his hand, two fists could not fend off four hands.

Surrounded by David and several high-quality cards, he gradually fell into a disadvantage.

Sword Light swept across the field. After forcing back the enemies around him, Adams took a slight breath.

"Tch."

He tightened his grip on the longsword in his hand, and dazzling light suddenly burst from the Sword Body.

Seeing Adams’s posture, Lu Su immediately became vigilant.

At this point, anyone who was not an idiot could tell that he was preparing some ultimate move.

This world had no rule saying someone was invincible while unleashing an ultimate move, so David and Lyon’s cards immediately attacked him.

Yet Adams merely kept evading. Only occasionally did he use the dazzling sword in his hand to block, showing no other abnormalities.

But Lu Su and the others did not believe he was doing this merely for appearances.

Generally speaking, the longer a move was charged, the greater the power it would unleash in the end.

At that moment, Lu Su felt an incomparably intense sense of danger descend from above.

"What’s going on? An orbital weapon?"

"Is that sword of his a targeting beacon?!"

Startled, he hurriedly took Amina and changed positions.

Not long after he left, an incomparably brilliant beam of light descended from the sky and slammed fiercely into the ground.

"Boom!"

Amid the violent impact, the soil surged in every direction like ocean waves.

Although the damage to the ground was indeed immense, any Jade Grade being present could basically achieve such a feat at full strength.

More importantly, David and Lyon’s cards had not suffered much damage at all.

Clearly, such an attack alone was not worth Adams charging for so long.

Only then did Adams speak slowly. "Perhaps you outsiders never knew why our Adams Family has been able to endure as the royal family all this time."

"But now you know."

As he spoke, he slowly descended into the center of the newly formed crater and drew out a longsword that resembled the stars.

"To ensure that we descendants possessed the power to protect ourselves, our ancestors deliberately forged two weapons."

"One was the King’s Sword, representing status."

"And the other…"

"Was the Sword of Sanction, representing power."

As Adams spoke, the armor on his left arm suddenly shattered, followed by blood spraying everywhere.

"This is the price of power."

As his words fell, dazzling Sword Light like starlight rose from the ground and suddenly slashed toward David.

Facing Adams’s fierce attack, David’s expression turned solemn, and the golden yellow flames draped around him surged even more violently in an instant.

Meanwhile, Lu Su frowned slightly in the distance.

"Another ITEM-type material."

In his perception, the Sword of Sanction Adams spoke of was no weaker in aura than the longsword he had initially wielded.

Without question, both swords would be of extremely high quality if converted into materials.

"This secret realm’s drop rate is ridiculously high."

Lu Su sighed inwardly, but quickly understood why.

After all, they were attacking the King City. If Adams’s family had controlled this secret realm all along as he claimed, it was only natural for this place to contain more valuable things.

At this moment, supported by the two weapons, Adams’s aura rose steadily, gradually approaching Diamond Grade.

The repeated twists left Lyon’s face as dark as though it could drip water.

But this was already the most suitable opportunity.

Outsiders might not know the exact circumstances of the British Royal Family, but as a prince, he understood them better than anyone.

To consolidate its rule, the British Royal Family had always followed a policy of raising the strongest through competition.

Only the strongest could inherit the throne.

Regardless of whether they were male or female.

Just like the current George VII. He had become king because he was Master grade.

For Lyon, if he failed to obtain that material this time, future opportunities would only become even slimmer.

His siblings might even step in to seize that material in order to suppress his growth in strength.

Thinking of this, he glanced at Lu Su in the distance. Even if I reveal that trump card, he probably won’t pose much of a threat.

After observing for so long, Lyon had basically figured out the strength Lu Su had displayed.

That demon-type card was indeed terrifyingly powerful, but it had not reached the point where it could threaten him.

Lyon let out a soft breath, and then a man holding a sword in his left hand and a spear in his right appeared beside him.

The instant the man appeared, Adams in the distance felt that something was wrong.

He sensed an intense threat.

"ibar."

As the newly appeared male card spoke softly, the spear in his right hand suddenly vanished.

When it reappeared, it was already before Adams’s chest.

Adams’s pupils constricted as he instinctively raised the sword in his left hand.

"Clang!"

Under the tremendous force, Adams’s legs sank into the soil like two nails. Yet he was still uncontrollably pushed backward, carving a long trench into the ground.

"athibar."

As the unknown male card spoke again, the spear instantly returned to his hand.

Seeing this, Lu Su shuddered inwardly. "Longinus?!"

The man’s display made him think of Odin from Norse Mythology immediately.

That spear looked far too much like Gungnir, the Eternal Spear.

But Lu Su quickly rejected that guess. Neither of those was something a Jade Grade card could possibly create.

Besides, their manifestations were not quite the same.

"So it’s Gáe Bolg, the Spear That Pierces Through Dead Thorns?"

The next person Lu Su thought of was Cú Chulainn.

This one suited Lyon’s identity rather well.

After all, Celtic Mythology had spread widely throughout Great Britain.

And in the original mythology, Cú Chulainn did indeed use a sword.

The issue was that, according to Lu Su’s understanding, Cú Chulainn should not have reached the threshold of Jade Grade unless he had been heavily modified.

In the original myth, Gáe Bolg did not possess the absurd causality-reversing ability it had in Type-Moon.

But recalling the two words the man had said earlier, Lu Su felt that he did not quite resemble Cú Chulainn either.

On the field, Lyon’s newly summoned card threw the sword in his left hand at Adams. The sword then began fighting Adams on its own.

Seeing this, Lu Su tugged at the corner of his mouth. "Case closed. He’s not Cú Chulainn."

After all, no matter how much the Hound of Culann was modified, he could not possibly gain sword-control techniques like this.

Unable to guess the identity of the newly appeared card for the time being, Lu Su could only bury his doubts in his heart.

With the unknown card joining the battle, the situation on the field returned to a stalemate.

Of course, the main reason was still Lyon’s numerical advantage.

Even though Adams had reached the Half-step Diamond Realm with the support of two weapons, he still could not gain much of an advantage against David and several of Lyon’s high-quality cards.

Lu Su even suspected that the two weapons in the new card’s hands were not innate abilities, but linked Item Cards.

Their area-of-effect damage might not have been strong, but their single-target attack power was exceptionally terrifying.

In just a few minutes, Adams’s armor was already covered in scars.

Seeing this, Lu Su could not help feeling a bit fortunate. Good thing I had Ulquiorra slack off at the side. Otherwise, I really wouldn’t have discovered that Lyon had hidden such a trump card.

Just as he thought that, several attacks suddenly shot toward Lyon.

The attackers were not Jade Grade demons belonging to the King City, but several cards that had appeared around them at some unknown time.

"Fallen Cult?!"

Lyon’s expression changed drastically as he roared.

A radiant glow immediately appeared around him, blocking the attacks.

Then several black-robed figures appeared in the distance and said to Lu Su, "Comrade, you did well."

Lu Su’s head filled with question marks. "? Since when did I become your comrade? Don’t talk nonsense!"

He had no idea what these Fallen Cult members were talking about.

However, after sensing Lyon’s furious gaze, he immediately understood their motive.

It was a scheme to drive a wedge between them.

"I should have thought of it long ago." Lyon’s voice was nearly gritted through his teeth. "These Fallen Cult members followed you here, didn’t they?!"

"And that child beside you was someone you were preparing to recruit as well, wasn’t she?!"

Lu Su had never expected Amina to become evidence for the Fallen Cult’s scheme to sow discord.

Lyon had already been suspicious of Lu Su’s origins. He had only stopped David earlier because he still needed Lu Su.

But now that the Fallen Cult had appeared, every doubt surrounding Lu Su could be explained.

He had not arrived in this secret realm because of spatial turbulence at all. As a member of the Fallen Cult, Lu Su had always been able to move freely within the secret realm.

David had simply happened to run into him.

At least, that was what Lyon believed now.

Seeing that the Fallen Cult’s scheme had succeeded, Lu Su did not intend to explain too much. He merely sighed softly. "Then there’s no other choice."

As his words fell, Ulquiorra, who had been slacking off all this time, suddenly erupted with an incomparably terrifying aura.