Chapter 458

Lin Cheng, who had been controlling everything from afar, revealed a faint smile.

Since Princess Jade had appeared, it meant that this wise princess had clearly understood his purpose.

"Your Highness! Please go back at once!"

"We'll hold them off here!"

Arcadios struggled to his feet with the longsword in his hand, trying to block Princess Jade's path.

But Princess Jade merely shook her head and patted Arcadios on the shoulder.

Then she looked toward not far away, at the blond kid Meliodas, who wore an innocent smile.

But in the span of a single blink, Meliodas had already vanished from her sight.

Then, Princess Jade suddenly felt a chill behind her skirt.

A flush of red kept rising on Princess Jade's face; the tips of her ears and her neck all turned beet-red.

She turned her head, glaring furiously at this rude fellow, and, relying on her small stature, directly flipped up her own skirt.

"Ara ara, Princess, your tastes are really quite something."

"But I think black would suit you better."

Meliodas's figure flickered twice, dodging a slap from Princess Jade.

"Bastard! How dare you be so rude to Her Highness!"

The fury in Arcadios's eyes was about to burst forth; the moment his blade was drawn, he wanted to charge at Meliodas.

But a sudden pressure spread across the open ground around them.

A terrifying magical power belonging to the Demon King emanated from Meliodas.

He, whose body already bore considerable injuries, could not endure it at all and immediately collapsed face-down onto the ground.

And it was only after lying on the ground that Arcadios and Princess Jade noticed.

The Meliodas who had been joking around had, at some unknown point, become expressionless.

Even coldness, ruthlessness, and killing intent were slowly surfacing.

But in an instant, these heart-chilling negative emotions were swept away.

Because the Meliodas before them seemed to suddenly revert to his earlier self; that terrifying appearance and aura had both vanished.

"Sorry, sorry, may I ask this most noble Princess—"

"Are you the master of this Wang Gong?"

Meliodas waved his hand, a smile appearing on his face as he spoke to Princess Jade in what seemed a very amicable manner.

Such a strange phenomenon left Princess Jade slightly stunned.

That tangible killing intent just now had been as though she had been plunged into an ice cellar.

That feeling could not possibly be mistaken; although she was of noble birth and had hardly stepped out of the Wang Gong a handful of times in her life,

Princess Jade trusted her own intuition completely, and understood even more clearly that the people before her were no ordinary folk.

"Indeed. May I ask what the three of you from the Seven Deadly Sins Knight Order have come into this Wang Gong to do?"

A hint of hesitation appeared on Jade's face, and a trace of doubt also flashed through her eyes.

If these three had come to cause trouble, harboring some ill intent toward the kingdom, then these soldiers would not merely have been heavily wounded and collapsed.

People with such strength would be respected by others wherever they went.

Even within this heavily surrounded Wang Gong.

"We are a knight order that belongs to the kingdom, though right now we don't belong to any kingdom."

"But now we hope to join the Fiore Kingdom."

Meliodas smiled faintly; within those pure, emotionless eyes, one could not tell what had made him say these words.

The Fiore Kingdom could be considered a powerful nation even within Ishgar.

Throughout the entire country, there were also many famous Daoshigong Societies.

Although they were not a direct force of the kingdom, at crucial moments they could still be directly commissioned by it.

"Why? Why do you wish to join the Fiore Kingdom?"

Princess Jade narrowed her eyes slightly; she did not believe the other party had no purpose, nor did she believe the Fiore Kingdom necessarily needed them.

In the Ishgar currently protected by the Fapingyi Society, if a kingdom's power grew too great, it would instead be coveted by others.

And in this era, dragons had appeared, and enemies had emerged that the Fapingyi Society could not resist.

Princess Jade herself harbored the thought of bolstering the kingdom's strength, only she had never had the chance.

But now that an opportunity lay before her, Princess Jade began to hesitate again.

"Why? Definitely for the money, of course. As for salary, the seven of us must all be at the same level."

"Of course, I'm the leader, so mine should be a bit higher."

Meliodas grinned, like a green youth in the middle of a job interview, haggling with an employer.

"Seven people? The Seven Deadly Sins..."

"There are seven of you?"

Suddenly, as if realizing something, the Seven Deadly Sins clearly meant the Seven Deadly Sins, and seven people made it obvious.

But realizing that there were a total of seven people of equal strength, shock began to well up in her eyes.

"Oh right, I don't think Your Highness will refuse this matter."

"We received word that the Alvarez Empire seems to have already crossed over."