The entire banquet hall was silent.

This is almost the shortest duel, starting from the duel between Rhodes and Antonio and ending with Antonio's defeat, it is only less than a minute in total, and it can be said that many people have not even had time to fully see what is happening, and the duel is over.

But that's not the point, because at this time, many people look at Rod with something wrong in their eyes.

If, before this duel, most of them were still looking at Rhodes with curiosity, even hostility and disdain, then this duel was enough to make them completely change their minds!!

From Antonio's subjective point of view, he didn't know anything, and he didn't even know how he lost. But among the nobles watching from the side, there were many good swordsmanship. They all saw the duel between Rod and Antonio, and because of this, they looked at Rhodes with unprecedented shock in their eyes at this moment.

They saw it very clearly, and in fact, it was a relatively normal duel until Antonio broke out of Rod's sword net, but when Antonio retreated, Rod condensed his sword light and stabbed at him, the duel had completely deviated from the scope of all common sense and truth, and began to tilt in a completely unreasonable direction.

Everyone saw it clearly, and when Antonio pulled back and distanced himself from Rod, the little starlight suddenly condensed, and then turned into a dazzling white sword shadow and rushed straight towards Antonio. Antonio swung his long sword to block Rod's powerful blow, and at the same time he quickly counterattacked, and then everyone saw that the sword shadow shining with white soul brilliance was shattered like a piece of glass broken by stones under Antonio's counterattack, and then Rod's figure quietly appeared behind Antonio.

If only that's all. Then at most, it will only surprise everyone a little, but it will not be too shocking, the clone swordsmanship has a similar swordsmanship inheritance among many families on the Dragon Soul Continent, and the low-level clone swordsmanship is just an afterimage created by speed to confuse the enemy and hide his true location. And the more advanced clone swordsmanship can condense the power, so that the clone also has the same lethality as the body. But it doesn't matter what kind of doppelganger it is. Their defenses are fragile, almost zero, like a beautiful bubble that disappears completely when burst. Not to mention that Rhodes had already shown this side at the Midsummer Festival, so everyone wouldn't be too surprised that he would use the clone swordsmanship.

But what happened next made many people drop their jaws to the ground in surprise.

Antonio heard the shouts of the people around him, dodged and blocked Rod's attack between the lightning and flint, and at this moment Antonio had to turn around because of this action. So he didn't see it, but everyone around the onlookers saw it——— and within two seconds of Antonio turning around, the fragments of Rhodes' sword shadow clone that had already been shattered by him suddenly seemed to be attracted by something, and the original broken pieces of residual light re-condensed into a new sword shadow clone at that moment, and stabbed straight towards Antonio!

Everyone who watched this scene was dumbfounded.

Even Lydia had a rare smile on her face at this moment. His eyes widened in surprise as he watched Antonio, who was defenseless behind him, being hit by the sword shadow clone. Then he flew high and fell to the ground and passed out with blood on his face. From the perspective of a duel, this is enough to sweep the face of the Williams family, and it can even be said that from today onwards, both the Rhodes and Williams families can be regarded as enemies.

But in fact, at the moment, no one cares about the feud between Antonio and Rhodes, not even Archmage Armond. He also frowned slightly, stretched out his hand to stroke his white beard, and stared at all this in front of him with a meaningful gaze. There are also some ways to create illusion clones among mages, but neither swordsmanship nor spells can restore a broken clone. And he was able to attack again as if he had self-awareness! What's even worse is that judging from Antonio's situation, the strength of that sword shadow clone is no worse than the main body! This shows that Rhodes has raised the power condensation of the sword shadow clone to an unprecedented height.

Among the nobles, there are also many swordsmen and swordsmen with good strength, they know very well the horror of this kind of swordsmanship, the clone swordsmanship is already difficult for people to deal with, if a broken clone can still recover and attack, how can this be prevented?

But this is not a problem that Rhodes needs to care about, because even he himself doesn't know what the principle of the Dao is, he just set up such a swordsmanship according to the guidance of the sword creation system, and then learned it, and then he was able to use it like this, as for whether there is any unscientific existence that violates common sense in this, Rod doesn't care about it at all. He just straightened his clothes, and then he didn't look further at Antonio, who had fallen to the ground, with wounds all over his body, and was breathing more than he was breathing, and turned away. Soon after Rhodes left, two war angels stepped forward to stop the bleeding for the unconscious Antonio, and then carried him down. Soon, the sound of music reappeared in the banquet hall, and everyone recovered from the fierce and fast duel just now, and began to talk about it——— but this time they didn't need to prepare any more conversations, just the strange swordsmanship of Rhodes in front of him and his relationship with the Williams family after that were enough to make everyone discuss for a long time.

"Huhuhu, it's funny."

Lydia chuckled as she watched Rhodes leave, but soon she turned her eyes to Lijie as she stood in the crowd. Although she said that she was here to attend the banquet, Lijie was not dressed like other aristocratic girls, she was just wearing a simple snow-white dress, like a maid in a group of luxuriously dressed nobles, unremarkable.

It's really strange to say that my sister likes to show off so much, but my sister is so careful never to show her face in front of everyone. And that's a lot of fun.

Thinking of this, Lydia smiled softly, then she stretched out her hand and made a gesture, and soon a maid came to Lydia's side, and then the archangel whispered something to her, and then the maid nodded slightly. Soon turned away.

"Welcome back, Rod."

When Rod walked back to his place, he quickly saw Marlene coming up with a smile and Anne beside her, feasting on the food in front of her. Anne was visibly very excited to see Rhodes return, and she cheered loudly as she waved the roast leg of lamb in her hand.

"Commander, what you did was amazing, that little white face was knocked away by your sword. It's really useless! ”

If Antonio had heard what Anne had said about him, the poor unfortunate creature would have vomited blood again and fainted.

"It's fine."

In the face of Annie's compliment, Rod didn't say anything, but nodded, and then he shifted his gaze, surprised to find that Lijie, who was supposed to be next to him, was missing at this time. This made Rod raise his eyebrows curiously, Lijie is not the kind of person who likes to be lively, in fact, she didn't plan to attend the banquet this time. Lijie even had a tactful hope that Rhodes would let him return to the fortress of the Land of Atonement first, but Rod did not agree to Lidgy's request. Because he thinks that Lijie's performance in this war is very good, and under the tempering of himself and Qilian, Lijie has gradually shown the side of a qualified lieutenant, although she is not as good at looking at the big picture as Marlene, but her observation of the subtleties does save Rhodes a lot of work. So although Lijie didn't care very much, Rhodes decided to bring her to this banquet. As a reward.

"Where's Lijie?"

"Just now, Her Highness Lydia sent someone to call her away."

Hearing Rod's inquiry, a complicated look flashed across Marlene's face, but she quickly replied. After getting the answer, Rod turned to look ahead in some surprise, only to realize that Lydia, who was supposed to be sitting on the throne, also did not know when the road disappeared. This is quite in line with her style all along.

At this moment, Rod suddenly felt a soft and warm hand grasp his hand, and he lowered his head, but saw Marlene's beautiful face with a smile. She glanced at Anne, who was already paying all her attention to the delicious roast turkey and leg of lamb and fruit on the plate in front of her, and then looked at Rod.

"Rod, let's get out of the city and go for a walk."

Marlene then proposed.

Sitting in front of Lydia, Lijie was a little uneasy, she raised her head and looked at her sister, but she didn't know what to say. However, in the face of Lijie, Lydia didn't say anything immediately, she just picked up the teapot at hand with her usual smile, poured a cup of steaming black tea and put it in front of Lijie.

"You're doing a great job, my sister. I've heard from Garling about what you've done, and I've always believed that you have the ability, but you haven't had much confidence in yourself. But the facts have proven everything, and I must thank Sir Rod. ”

"Sister-sama.................."

Lydia looked a little nervous at what she said, but Lydia only smiled lightly, and then, interlacing her fingers, leaning back in her chair, and looking at her sister playfully. I don't know what Lu Dao is about, Li Jie always felt that Lydia's gaze seemed to be a little different from usual, she raised her head a little curiously, but before Li Jie could speak, Lydia's voice had already sounded again.

"But sister, shouldn't you have something very important to report to me? Like between you and Sir Rhodes? ”

“————！！”

Hearing this, Li Jie felt her face and immediately turned red.

The Golden City was as quiet and tranquil as ever, with the faint sound of melodious music wafting through the ballroom and wafting through the spacious and bright corridors. In the garden, beautiful green grass and flowers danced in the breeze, and ripples on the blue lake not far away, but this beauty did not attract the attention of the two.

"Uh............ Hmmm..............."

Marlene leaned against the door of the storage room, hugging the man in front of her tightly, muffled gasps and faint sounds of tongues intertwining echoed through the small room until a moment later. The two reluctantly parted their lips, and several silver streaks of water emerged from between their lips and slid to the ground.

"It's really unusually proactive for you, Marlene, can't you help it?"

looked at the girl with slightly red cheeks in front of her. The corners of Rod's mouth curled slightly——— after they left the banquet hall alone from the eyes of others and leaving Anne who was eating and drinking, the two went for a walk in the garden outside the Golden City, but soon Rhodes found that Marlene's so-called "walk" was not a drunkard at all, so he simply took Marlene to a remote storage room while there was no one around. It's just that to Rod's surprise, Marlene's enthusiasm is far more intense than he imagined. He had just entered the storage room, and before Rod could lock the door, Marlene immediately threw himself into his arms. He put his arms around Rod's neck and kissed them passionately.

"Because we haven't seen each other in months........."

Hearing Rod's words, Marlene pursed her lips with some dissatisfaction, this action made her look a little more cute than she had ever been. Rod, who watched it, couldn't help but move in his heart. As Marlene spoke, she clinged to Rod's body, her soft and plump breasts pressed against Rod's chest, and she could even feel the other party's heartbeat.

Marlene never knew that separation was such a painful thing.

If it's the same as before. A short separation from Rhodes is not painful, although it can be a little lonely at times. But it's just lonely. But when she tasted the joy of being a woman, this separation seemed very cruel to Marlene. Even in the Blossoming Field, Marlene felt an unprecedented emptiness every night fell, and she longed for Rod's comfort, but Rhodes was not by her side. This emptiness and loneliness kept Marlene awake. On weekdays, she can also choose to focus on directing the battle and thinking about the situation, but once she has free time, Marlene can't help but miss Rhodes and his warm hug.

And now. Seeing the person she missed close in front of her, Marlene finally couldn't bear it anymore.

"Rhodes......... Hold me tight..............."

She leaned against the door, closed her eyes, and spoke in a low moan. The girl could feel Rod's hands roaming over her body, caressing her body and chest through the thin fabric, and she could even feel Rod's hands digging deep into the hem of her skirt. Then she felt herself being picked up.

"Marlene...............

Hearing Marlene's moan, Rod also lowered his voice and responded, he looked at the beautiful face of the girl in front of him, but his heart was extremely complicated, although Rod didn't know what to do for Lydia and didn't give Marlene a rich reward. But since Anne asked Marlene when she would return to the guild when Marlene didn't answer immediately, Rhodes had already guessed this ending. Although he had not had any expectations before, now, getting such an answer also made Rod a little disappointed. However, Rod quickly reined in his mind, at least for now, the girl in front of him belonged to him. Then this is enough for yourself. Thinking of this, Rod lifted Marlene's long skirt and parted her beautiful snow-white legs. Feeling Rod's fiery collision, Marlene closed her eyes tightly, and her hands grasped Rod's shoulders.

"Woo....................."

When she felt the fiery presence penetrate deep into her body, filling the loneliness and emptiness, Marlene finally couldn't help but snort.

The intense and exciting pleasure washed over her body like a wave, and the incomparably fulfilling satisfaction made Marlene even want to cry out, she couldn't wait to completely vent the passion hidden in her heart, but the only trace of reason was firmly on her neck like a shackle, suppressing the cry that she was about to let out in her throat.

This is the Golden City......... If it's here............ If I find out, my life will be completely ruined.........

When Rod pulled herself to the storage room, Marlene had such hesitation in her heart, but the scorching fire covered up the only reason, so she finally chose to impatiently woo Rhodes. Marlene knew very well what the consequences of doing this kind of thing in the Golden City would be if she was discovered, but because of this, she felt more nervous and excited at the moment, and the girl leaned against the door panel tightly, turning her ears sideways, while bearing the impact of Rod's passion, while listening to the movement outside the door. It's a rare place, but if someone comes here and opens the door and sees himself and Rod's behavior, then ..................!!

Thinking of that scene, Marlene felt her whole body contract, and the incomparable stimulation of that tension turned into a scorching heat, like molten steel flowing down the veins to every corner of her body, and the girl tightened her body, her legs interlaced around Rod's waist.

"Woo..............."

Feeling Marlene's eagerness, Rod's movements became faster and faster, instinctive passion had suppressed reason, his movements became louder and louder, and the sound of water stains slapping began to become more and more frequent. And Marlene's wheezing became more and more rapid, the girl shook her head from side to side as if she had lost her mind, as if she wanted to escape from under Rod's body, a pink flush appeared on the girl's face and the white and delicate skin on her chest, finally, Marlene opened her mouth, but in the next moment, she bit Rod's shoulder deadly.

“————————！！！”

The scorching, almost perceptual impact of the burn penetrated deep into her body at this moment, and Marlene felt as if she was completely in a furnace, both her sanity and herself were completely melted at this moment, regardless of each other. (To be continued.) )