"Are they going to destroy this place?"

Robert's group discreetly went inside the villa, but the more they went inside the former duchess' home, the stranger it got and the smell of blood got stronger, despite the quiet and clean surroundings.

As they slowly walk inside the mansion, their tensions and anxieties rise.

"It's strange. It's like the place has totally emptied." One knight commented in a hushed tone.

"Then where did the smell of blood come from?"

Robert had ten knights with him, and he ordered them not to wonder alone, and they walked inside the mansion in a group. They walked inside the halls without creating a sound and followed the strong smell of blood while they tightly clenched their hands around their sword.

"This is the dining room." Robert stated after the scent led them in front of a huge door, through which Robert knew that it was the dining area.

Robert checked the other side of the door without opening it by just using his aura. He didn't detect any living beings and lightly opened the door.

Creak

As the slow opening of the door with its eerie creaking began, the knights' eyes opened wide at the same time as the door.

"What on earth happened here?"

Robert asked as he froze in place. His eyes gaze on every corpse piled on the long dining table with the former duchess and former duke, who is on top of the peak of the mountain of corpses.

Robert's grip tightens as he trembles. He is thinking of Christopher after seeing the murdered former duke and duchess.

"Tope literally only has Mila now." He mumbled. He is more determined to look for Mila because Mila is the only remaining blood relative of Christopher.

The corpses were the villa's maids, butler, knights, helpers, and servants. The corpses were piled up on top of the strong dining table while the blood was flowing down to the floor, flooded with the malodorous liquid from the dead.

"How strange? How did they massacre this bunch of people while only keeping the dining area dirty?"

No one dared to enter the dining area as they looked inside and outside the door to compare the room's state. The hall they walked into doesn't even have a little bit of dirt.

Robert crouched down and checked the floor.

"The blood is not getting out of the dining area." Robert commented as he could clearly see a line between the dirty dining floor and the floor outside the door.

"Then maybe this is the work of a magician?" A knight commented, as he peered more inside the door, unintentionally making his first step onto the dirty floor.

"No! Step back!" Robert shouted, but it was too late.

BAM!

Seconds after the knight's boots touch the bloodied floor, its body flies up toward the pile of corpses and invincible swords pierce the knight's body, sending him to death.

The ten remaining people left at the door looked at their comrade's body with shock.

"L-let's leave this place, sir." One knight suggested while trembling, causing everyone to look at Robert at the same time.

Robert heaved a deep sigh after seeing the knights he had chosen cower too easily. He actually couldn't take the few skillful knights away from Tope because Tope needed more protection than him, but he could see how doomed the Esclamado would be in the future if they could no longer have skillful knights like they used to. The dragon's berserk was at fault for why they lacked excellent knights.

"No. seven men. Guard this door." While closing the door, Robert gave a firm instruction. The knights could not oppose him and just nodded their heads. Robert then closed his eyes and stomped his sword on the floor.

Bbbrrrrrrr

Along with the stomping of the floor, Robert's aura spread out of the mansion to check thoroughly if there was another person in the mansion other than them.

"Get ready." He warned his men as he could slightly feel the enemy.

"The roof. Follow me!" Robert shouted, and the two knights that were not assigned to guard the door ran behind him.

"Sir! Is the three of us enough?" the knight asked while they ran up stairs.

"We are enough." Robert bluntly responded. He could not focus on whatever the knights were worrying about because of the power he was sensing from the intruder on the roof.

"You two will defend. I alone will attack." Robert ordered.

Without fear, Robert charges toward the door through the roof. He gathered his aura around his sword and sliced the door for him to pass.

BOOM!

A loud explosion was made, not because of the door but of the sudden power that struck Robert the moment he passed the door.

Ugh!

Robert managed to use his sword and aura to shield himself from the explosive attack. He didn't wait for the place to settle, and he kicked his foot the moment it touched the roof. He springs back to the attacker and points his sword toward it.

"Who the hell are you!"

Robert shouted after his first attack didn't push through the opponent because of the other explosive attack sent at him. However, this time, Robert was much closer to the intruder as he could now see clearly what the intruder looked like.

Clang!

Robert's sword and the intruder's arms clash as if they were both swords.

"Y-you're not human?"

The intruder doesn't have any clothes on. Its body is in the shape of a human but without any hair or genitals. The color of his skin was full black and only his eyes were white. He looked like a human-size slim voodoo doll with a very flexible body and overflowing mana inside him.

Robert pulled back and all Robert could see of the intruder was danger. He surrounded his whole body with an aura and strengthened his body and armor. Robert's emerald eyes glowed, and the roof started to crumble with Robert's aura.

The peculiar looking intruder also surrounded himself with fire balls, waiting for Robert to attack.

While the two knights left at the corner watching their commander and the unknown being, they gulped their own saliva, and said, "Are they going to destroy this place?"