The moment the Knights moved, the entire road seemed to fall into a strange, suffocating silence, as if even the air itself had sensed what was about to unfold and chose to retreat rather than witness it.
Then, without warning, the silence shattered.
The clash began instantly.
Sebastien’s hundred elite guards surged forward with overwhelming force, their footsteps pounding against the asphalt as weapons flashed under the dim lights of the highway, their confidence rooted in numbers and years of training, but that confidence did not last even a second once they collided with the Knights.
Because what stood before them was not a group of ordinary soldiers.
It was a wall they could not break.
Leon stepped forward at the very front, his movements calm and controlled, his gaze steady as h
