By the Sword: A World Conquest Isekai (Empress Book 2) by J. V. Simms

Author:J. V. Simms [Simms, J. V.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Podium Publishing
Published: 2024-08-06T00:00:00+00:00

Willem found his target just as he was finishing with the last member of the patrol.

Around the two combatants, men lay broken and sprawled around them in a circle. The black knight was shorter than Willem expected, with a slighter build as well. From the armored figure’s movements, Willem suspected that what he’d assumed to be a man was in fact a woman.

Interesting. Could this be the infamous Black Lioness I’ve heard of? Willem wondered to himself.

But wasn’t the lioness known to fight in simple leather armor, with a curved sword? The person before him was encased in steel and wearing a cape that had been colored bright purple. And that sword she swung with such murderous force was no dainty Easterner’s blade. It was a ridiculous sheet of steel that was a sword in the same way that a gateway was a door. An ugly slab of iron that had no business being wielded so skillfully.

“ARRRGH!” screamed the last member of the patrol as the knight brought the sword down with bone-crushing finality across his collarbone. It was a killing blow that even a temple cleric would have difficulty healing. The man lay on his back, desperately gasping for air, as the knight loomed above him, passively watching him die. Like a child watching an insect continuing to twitch after it had already been crushed.

In fact, her attention was so taken up with her opponent’s slow death that she nearly lost her head when Willem came crashing from the sky with a thunderous downward swing of his blade that should have split her head down the middle.

Looking up just in time to see him coming, the knight stood still as Silencer connected with her helm. A crack appeared on either side of it before it broke in half with each piece falling to the ground at her feet, revealing an amused-looking young girl with her blond hair tied in a bun, smiling at Willem.

A thin trickle of blood began to flow from her scalp down her face. The girl dabbed a finger in it and gave it a lick. Then her smile grew wider, even as her eyes narrowed.

“Dirty,” she said to him. “Dirty, dirty, dirty.”

“War necessitates our actions,” Willem replied without shame. “Besides, if that had been enough to kill you, you wouldn’t have been worth my time.”

“That’s one way of explaining things,” the girl said thoughtfully. “But another is that you’re a coward who’s afraid of fighting fair.”

“As fairly as you fought these weaklings?” Willem asked skeptically as he gestured with his head toward the bodies surrounding them. “Aren’t you the real coward for picking fights that you know you’ll win?”

“Hey, I’ll have you know that I gave them options,” the girl said defensively.

“Was one of them sparing their lives if they surrendered?” Willem asked doubtfully.

“Noooo,” the girl admitted reluctantly. “But they still had options!”

Willem didn’t reply. Instead, he swung Silencer in a wide arc, intending to use his greater mass to knock the girl to the ground where he would then incapacitate her with a kick to the head.

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