Alexi Ethren looked unamused as he looked at his father fly away. He closed his eyes and raised his hand as he muttered in a low voice.

"I thought you would do something like this... How predictable..."

Abruptly, a burst of light shone and a fiery array emerged from the other side of the cloud and enclosed the space that had been torn open by Kaiser Ethren's raging wave of flames.

A lithe figure with a beautiful face possessing a frigid expression appeared on the other side of the open cloud. Her mouth moved with as a cold voice echoed.

"Your end is nigh, rotten scum!"

Everyone became stunned as they looked at the newcomer with various emotions.

While the battle came to a momentary standstill, Davis heard the female voice seething with an intense amount of hatred and rage, making him blink from afar at the scene.

His concealed soul sense could penetrate the cloud formation, hence, he could see what was going on but the moment the cloud formation was torn apart, intense undulations erupted as it spread to the third level, penetrating through the second level.

In the second level, his entire group was alarmed, so he had to calm them down by sending them Soul Transmissions while using his main body.

He had easily quelled their panic with his explanation, however, Princess Isabella came out and stood guard over the residence. He came out with his main body and said that there was no need to stay but she just shook her head and shot a knowing look at him.

To him, it became obvious that she wanted to spend since time with him, even if it were a serious situation like this, or it was because of a situation like this that she precisely wanted to stay with him.

Davis who became elated thought that he could spend time with Princess Isabella but his attention was quickly grabbed by this woman far away from him, floating in the air while radiating immense hatred at Kaiser Ethren!

She had unanimously grabbed everyone's complete attention, including his! It wasn't because she was kingdom-toppling beauty but because her cultivation seemed to be at the Body Transformation Stage; Fourth Stage in Essence Gathering Cultivation.

Everyone doubted their own eyesight and senses and even Davis wasn't an exception. This completely made him doubt his own eyesight and senses.

Clearly, how can a Fourth Stage Cultivator stand up against an Eighth Stage Cultivator!?

It basically came off as a suicidal action!

Just when Davis thought that this woman who was out for vengeance was crazy, he noticed that her vitality was abnormally weak with his acute senses in a belated manner.

It was so weak that he couldn't practically find any kind of vibrant vitality that would exist within a common cultivator.

His eyes flashed red before he blinked once as the red shade disappeared. However, his eyes widened in shock as he noticed that the woman was going to die sooner, perhaps within an hour.

However, there was another reason he became shocked! It's because of her name!

"..."

Davis seemed to mutter something but it became muffled by the resulting explosion that sent Kaiser Ethren into the fiery array that had been placed beside the spongy cloud.

Kaiser Ethren's expression contorted as he was sent flying from an explosion.

From the start to the end, the fight had been so fast-paced that only a half a minute had passed, making him unable to completely utilize his apocalyptic might. Just when he thought that he could play it out by exhausting Alex Ethren, a crazy woman set up a trap for him!

He deeply became enraged but the moment he was sent flying by an entirely big fiery halberd that exploded right behind his back, his entire back burned with his skin and flesh becoming completely charred.

"Arggghhh!!!!!!!"

The miserable screams didn't stop. His eyes faintly glanced at the woman who brought the fiery array to the escape route as if she would know that he would escape beforehand.

He didn't even know who this woman yet at the moment he glanced, he knew that he had somehow incurred her wrath to create this death trap. Without even missing a beat, he continued to scream in scorching pain like a pig and yelled.

"I surrender!!!"

At the same time, the fiery array activated and engulfed Kaiser Ethren in a flaming hell!

"Yiahhhhhhh!!!"

Kaiser Ethren's miserable scream echoed as the array threatened him to burn him to death.

Although the woman was the one who set-up the array at the right place with the right timing, the core; the activation mechanism of the array remained in Alexi Ethren's hands as only he could effectively control the Low-Level Emperor Grade Array with his Law Sea Stage Cultivation.

An array is entirely different than a formation because it has been designated only to be used a limited number of times and it completely needs no energy to be used since the required energy was already stored in it.

All it needs is a suitable and strong controller who possesses the core of the array and a fitting place for the array to be set up!

"Stop! My husband has surrendered!"

A female voice suddenly echoed as a beautiful figure flashed past outside the cloud formation, nearing it as she stood a little bit away from the woman.

"According to the rules of the duel, the winner has the right to kill the loser! However, as the Empress Dowager, the mother of the ruling Emperor, I have the right to ask that you do not land a killing blow on my husband."

"Not to mention that he is your royal father, Alexi Ethren. No matter what he might have done in the past, an act of forgiveness will enable the relationship between you two to become amicable..."

"Iona Ethren..." Alexi Ethren muttered under his breath as he became cautious to an extent, wondering what this woman was currently plotting in her mind.

As far as he knew, he never had a good relationship with this stepmother of his as she always seemed to openly express her disgust and displeasure to him.

Now, here she was saying that his relationship with his father could become amicable.

He didn't know what kind of plot this woman was brewing but his revenge didn't require him to kill his father instantly anyway, and besides, the secret technique he used could be extended for a period of time if he didn't use it actively although the backlash would be equally worse.

"First Mother, you misunderstood. I'm not here to kill my father but publically execute him for his crimes, especially to the things which he did against my mother and my master!"

"Master?" Iona Ethren narrowed her brows.

And so did every Royal Protector intently looking at how their conversation would play out.

Alexi Ethren just pointed his finger towards the woman who stood a little away from Iona Ethren.

The woman who was pointed did not even respond but instead, deeply etched the burning Kaiser Ethren into her eyes. Her expression possessed a hint of a crazed smile. It could be seen that she was truly ecstatic with what she is witnessing currently, even going far as to display a deranged grin with her lips.

"Master? This lowly woman who is at the Body Transformation Stage?" Iona Ethren chuckled with a breath and shook her head.

"First of all, this woman interfering with the duel by placing a trap is a violation!"

"Secondly, if it weren't for my husband proclaiming that he surrendered before he got trapped in the array, I would've cried foul at the start!"

"Thirdly, you used a despicable secret technique of unknown origins!"

"Even with all this, do you still think that you fairly won against your royal father!?"

Iona Ethren roared as her eyes flashed with a concealed intent.