To The Eternal Knight (2 Chapters Left to Complete) - Chapter 159

“What are you talking about!”

Elaine Dunst raised her voice.

Spy Eric Scadugard—Nerea’s words made the knights standing right behind her visibly inhale sharply. She had to act quickly before unrest spread among the hundreds of knights standing behind her.

“Eric Scadugard, a spy for Gauwe? Count Esteban! He was one of the war heroes who fought most diligently in the war, serving as your deputy commander right at your side!”

Nerea Esteban, famously nicknamed the Black Knight, was undoubtedly a renowned war hero, but Elaine Dunst and Eric Scadugard had also earned their own measure of fame through the roles they held.

“How can you slander your own subordinate so harshly—and worse yet, treat him with such cruelty?”

Elaine Dunst snarled, veins standing out on her neck. Her voice echoed through the suddenly silent forest, and in that moment, her words alone felt like the only truth enveloping the surroundings.

Perhaps because of this,

Elaine Dunst failed to notice that Nerea’s gaze was fixed elsewhere or that the knights behind her had grown wary, as she continued defending Eric Scadugard.

“Ah—could it be because Sir Scadugard is Her Imperial Majesty the Empress’s nephew? They say you walk the same path as His Grace the Grand Duke, and now you start your rebellion by eliminating the Empress’s loyal knights first—”

“Rebellion?”

Suddenly, a man’s voice cut through Elaine Dunst’s speech, and she realized it sounded unfamiliar yet oddly familiar.

“You don’t mean… me, do you, Commander?”

Before she could even place the voice, the Grand Duke emerged from the thickly clustered trees.

Once mocked as a penniless noble barely keeping up appearances, the Grand Duke now wore splendid attire embroidered with gold thread and crimson hues.

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