The young girl displayed a very big smile while contemplating the object which was in front of her eyes.

"You have to be the one to take it, Lucas. After all, it belongs to your family," she prompted.

The young man turned to her, watching her for a moment before nodding his head affirmatively. He moved slowly towards the statue before staring at it insistently.

"I know who that person is," he said suddenly.

"Really? Who is it?" asked the girl curiously.

"It's my grandfather... Koraxos Alphelos... The sword belonged to him... That's why they created this statue that represents him in his honor and hid the sword there with it..." he answered.

"It makes a lot of sense, yeah. Looking at him like that, even though I never knew him, I can imagine that he was a very good emperor," she complimented.

"I'm sure he was, too..."

The young man stared at the sword for a moment before taking it from the statue's hands. As he did this, he felt his body absorb an enormous energy that ran through his veins. He sighed heavily before taking a deep breath of fresh air.

He swiveled the weapon in all directions before positioning it vertically to check its stiffness and if it was straight.

"It's perfect..." he whispered, stroking the weapon.

At that moment, they could hear the sound of rocks moving. Turning slowly behind them, the two young people found themselves in front of a very big army of stone knights. The statues they had noticed upon entering the room had moved.

The two young people widened their eyes in shock as Lucas moved in front of the young girl to protect her by putting his sword in front of him in a defensive position.

"Don't come any closer," he ordered in a very cold tone.

One of the knights who, apparently, was their leader advanced towards the young captain slowly before getting on one knee in front of him while lowering his head. A thing that surprised Lucas greatly.

"We are very happy to see you again, Your Highness, Prince Lucas Koraxos Alphelos," he greeted respectfully.

Lucas and Luana's eyes widened in shock as they listened to the latter's words.

The other knights did the same as their leader and knelt before the young knight, laying their weapons on the ground in front of them.

"We have waited for you for so many years, Your Highness. Now, we are all ready to be under your orders and to fight by your side," their leader continued.

With these words, Lucas, who had just come back to his senses, nodded affirmatively to them before speaking again.

"I thank you very much for your warm welcome and your loyalty to my family. It's a pleasure for me to have such strong and noble teammates as you," he said with a small smile on his lips.

"The pleasure is ours, Your Highness."

"To be honest, I really need your help. I would like you to come with me to the capital, to the royal palace. We are facing a great war and our enemy is not an easy target. So, your force will be very useful to us," he explained.

"We will fight with all our might, Your Highness!" said one of the knights.

"We will bring you victory! You can count on us on that!" another exclaimed.

"We won't let you down, Your Highness! We promise!"

"I trust you, all of you, completely and am very confident that you can be of great help to us."

"Yeah!" exclaimed the knights while raising their fists in the air.

With these words, Lucas took Luana's hand in his and moved towards the exit of the huge room before leaving it, followed by the other knights. The army behind him consisted of at least thousands of them, armed to the teeth.

Once outside the abandoned palace, they found Leo and Lea who were patiently waiting for them before getting on the backs of these two and moving together towards the capital.

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"I can't believe it!" Borislav exclaimed in rage, banging his fist hard on the round table in the meeting room where he was, accompanied by Soren.

"It's the truth, Master," the latter replied in an indifferent tone.

The Grand Master raised his hand in the air making the objects that were in the room fly before rotating them with magic to smash them all together against the walls, thus creating a complete disaster in the room.

"Arminel and Hastia... They betrayed me! And above all, Joranal and Dogadar were killed! What made my plans all go wrong?! What is the reason for this failure?! Even though I have drawn up my plans very well!" he exclaimed angrily.

"Maybe we trusted the wrong people, Master... That may be the reason..." answered the young woman in whisper.

"They'll pay for this... Especially Arminel! He tricked me into killing one of my leaders who was completely innocent and did nothing! If Dale was still alive, our plan of attack would have worked perfectly! I made a huge mistake by killing him!"

"It's still not too late to make up for it, Master. We can always come up with a new plan," Soren offered.

"No... No, we're not going to do that... This time, we're going to push them to come to us... We're going to attract them to our own trap... We're going to attract them all without exception! And when they will be in my hands, I'll finish them like dad always wanted to do! And this time I'm going to succeed!"

"What do you mean, Master?" asked the young woman, very confused.

The Grand Master moved quickly towards her before passing by her.

"Follow me... You'll understand later," he ordered dryly.

With these words, he left the room followed by the young woman who walked behind him very closely.

'Let's see what you're going to do now, you moron,' she thought bitterly.

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Ten days later, the emperor sat in his office accompanied by Angus and Edgar to discuss the current state of the empire and their next plans.

"Since the Imperial Knights have gotten rid of Jonaral and Dogadar and are now back in the palace, there is only one leader left and the Grand Master to defeat," Arthur said as he analyzed the facts.

"Yeah, that's right," Angus confirmed.

"Once Luana and Lucas are back with the sword, we can attack them and get rid of them once and for all," Edgar added.

"It's easier said than done, My Friend. Borislav's servants were already strong and cunning enough, so I don't think their master is less then that. We must be as careful and vigilant as possible. We must also come up with a really good plan of attack to make sure it works perfectly," Arthur explained.

With these words, someone knocked on the door of the office hastily which took the three men by surprise.

"Enter," ordered the emperor.

It was Gardner who rushed into the room, completely out of breath after running all the way there.

"Your Majesty... Your..." he said, catching his breath.

"What is it, Gardner? What's going on?" Angus asked worriedly.

"Her Highness is back with Sir Koraxos, Your Majesty!" he declared happily.

"What good news!" Arthur exclaimed with a very big smile.

"They didn't come alone, Your Majesty... A huge army of knights were behind them... an army of stone-like knights... They just entered the courtyard..." he added.

"An army of stone-like knights?" asked Angus.

"What does that mean?" Edgar wondered.

Hearing these words, the emperor abruptly rose up from his seat as he walked towards the office door to go out.

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Once at the courtyard, Arthur was greeted by a large number of stone-like knights who bowed to him upon seeing him, as well as Sir Koraxos and his daughter.

"Dad, we're back," she greeted, hugging him tightly in her arms.

"My Child... There you are safe and sound... I missed you so much..." he whispered, hugging her back.

After Arthur separated from his daughter's embrace, Lucas walked over to him and pulled the sword out of its holster that was hung on his waist before showing it to him.

"We found the sword, Your Majesty," he declared with a smile.

The emperor widened his eyes as he looked at the famous object in front of him. In a second, all the memories of his expedition and the war against Vuglonith flashed before his eyes. Arthur put his hand on the sword to stroke it as he sighed deeply.

"It's just like the last time I saw it... It hasn't changed at all..." he whispered.

With that, the emperor turned to the leader of the stone-like knights and stared at him intently for a little while before displaying a look of realization on his face.

"Aren't you Sir Grigori? The one who fought alongside me in the great war?" he asked in astonishment.

"Exactly, Your Majesty. I'm very flattered that you didn't forget me and that you recognized me on the spot," the latter replied, flashing him a very big smile.

"How could I forget you? You and everyone else? We spent so many times together... But... How did you come to look like this?"

"We did nothing, Your Majesty... It was His Majesty Emperor, Aleyn Alphelos and Her Majesty Empress, Isylte who did everything... By reciting the magical incantation that allowed you to eliminate Vuglonith, they made sure we disappeared with the sword too since we were all almost dead... When His Highness, Prince Lucas, found the sword and took it while sucking its power, he made us woke up from our long slumber..." he explained.

"That's really fascinating... With you on our side, we can easily beat Borislav like we did with Vuglonith..." marveled Arthur.

Once that said, they heard the sound of a horse's hooves galloping towards them. They all turned around to see Captain Arminel who had just entered the palace.

The latter descended from his horse hastily before advancing towards the emperor and bowing to him.

"Your Majesty," he greeted.

"You're back sooner than expected, Arminel. What's going on?" Arthur asked worriedly.

"Your Majesty... That's it... The time has come..."

"What do you mean?" he asked again, completely confused.

"We must prepare for the great war now, Your Majesty... The enemy has started moving..." he declared in a serious tone.

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On the top of a huge tower, in a completely isolated place where there were no trees or bushes, a completely dry and barren plain, was a very large dark room.

In the center of it, was placed a very large throne black in color where Borislav was sitting on. In front of him stood Soren who was completely lost, contemplating the place that was anything but familiar to her.

"Why did we come here, Master? Why did you put up the tower in a place so close to the capital? We might be spotted easily like that," she asked, very confused.

"That's the goal," he answered indifferently.

"What do you mean?"

"I would like them to find us today before tomorrow, Soren. There is no need to hide anymore. We will face them face to face and I will finally accomplish my revenge by killing the emperor and also all the Imperial Knights," he explained with a sadistic smile.

"What should we do now?" she asked.

"We'll just wait for them to come to us on their own..."

Borislav rose from his throne and walked towards the large window before raising his hand to the sky and reciting a magical incantation that caused black smoke to appear from his hands.

This smoke invades all the territory outside before fading away to give way to terrifying demons of all kinds.

"Vuglonith's army has been destroyed... Let's see if they can destroy Borislav's, now," he said with hatred.