As a queen who has lost her kingdom, I can see the comments section.

At that moment, the surrounding wind and snow intensified.

In the midst of the swirling snowstorm, a dark figure suddenly appeared, arriving not far from Amelia in a flash. At the same time, a cold glint also approached Amelia.

"what?"

Amelia glanced at the cold light that had appeared, somewhat surprised.

Now that it was confirmed that the fire at the clock tower was a ploy to lure the enemy away, Amelia naturally knew that someone would take advantage of the situation. But why was she the one being attacked instead of Rose?

Although she didn't quite understand what was going on, Amelia lightly dodged backward and disappeared into the dark alley, avoiding the attack.

"boom!"

The attack landed on the wall next to where Amelia had been standing, making a crisp sound.

Hearing the commotion, Ruth quickly turned around, her expression changing drastically: "Who are you? What do you want?"

The person in front of me was wearing a brown trench coat and a hat. I could see that he had a small mustache and was holding a slender but extremely sharp sword.

Ruth knew at a glance that this person had just attacked Amelia. Although she didn't know why Amelia had dodged, it was still a very serious matter.

As she spoke, Ruth's hand trembled slightly, and poison powder began to silently spread through the air.

The man who launched the sneak attack pushed up his hat and said, "Who am I? Haven't you been waiting for me to come back? Don't you know who I am?"

"Barrett?" Ruth immediately understood upon hearing this, her eyes narrowing as she quickly said, "Wilbur, you hold him off, I'll use the poison to assist you!"

Wilbur did not move.

"Lord Ruth, Lord Ruth, don't you know yet?" Barrett flicked the snow off his collar with his finger, amusement on his face. "Wilbur isn't on your side; he's a member of the Redeemer Alliance."

Chapter 138 Love Makes People Bewildered

Upon hearing Barrett's words, Ruth's expression changed once again.

She suddenly looked at Wilbur, at the man in black armor.

Wilbur looked at Ruth with deep affection in his eyes, but said nothing.

The situation was clearly very bad, and Ruth quickly said, "Miss Lily, let's get out of here quickly."

In her mind, Amelia was just an ordinary person, so she naturally had to leave as soon as possible; she was not capable of protecting Amelia.

As for the rest, I can handle it myself.

Amelia, standing in the shadows of the alley, glanced at the group of people at the alley entrance, then turned and disappeared into the alley.

Upon seeing this, Barrett immediately chased after Amelia.

Ruth was somewhat surprised by Barrett's actions. Why was Barrett chasing Amelia? The previous sneak attack was the same. Wouldn't it have been better if he had just chosen to ambush her directly? After all, her status as a lord should have been more conspicuous, right?

Surely the other party couldn't possibly know Amelia's true identity, right?

As the thought flashed through her mind, Ruth threw a bottle at Barrett.

"Whoosh!"

Just as the bottle was thrown, a sword aura flew from the side and struck the bottle, shattering it instantly and causing it to explode in a cloud of green mist.

It was Wilbur who made the move.

He walked slowly and deliberately, blocking Rose's path and preventing her from pursuing Barrett.

“Wilbur! Why!” Ruth glared angrily at Wilbur.

Wilbur was the knight commander of her territory, someone she trusted deeply. She never imagined that Wilbur would betray her, and at that moment, her heart felt like it was on fire.

"Why?" Wilbur's smile looked somewhat bitter. "My lord, are you completely oblivious to my feelings for you?"

Ruth: "..."

Wilbur continued, "We studied at the same academy, grew up together, and could even be considered childhood sweethearts. Unfortunately, the difference in our social status has caused the distance between us to grow ever wider. But even so, I did not give up and worked hard to become your knight commander, to stay by your side. Isn't my affection clear enough? Yet you did not choose me."

Ruth took a deep breath: "This is not a reason for you to betray me."

Wilbur's chest heaved slightly. "Of course it's a reason, because you never gave me a chance. You even married someone else and had a daughter with him. Do you know how much these things hurt me? Do you know how many nights I almost went crazy? I even thought about ending it all. You don't understand that pain. Your life was so happy and fulfilling; you would never understand!"

Ruth: "..."

"So I plotted to kill your husband."

Wilbur's next words were like a bolt from the blue, causing Ruth's expression to change abruptly.

Was her husband killed by Wilbur?

"Wasn't he an accident? Did you kill him?" Ruth's emotions were becoming unstable.

"Of course I killed him. I was even thinking that this way I might have a chance. Although you're no longer a pure girl, and you even have a daughter, I still like you, as long as you're willing to accept me. For that reason, I've always stayed by your side, comforting you and trying to get through your grief, trying to understand you. But my companionship hasn't yielded any results." Wilbur clenched his fists as he spoke.

“Wilbur, you…you…” Ruth’s chest heaved with anger, and her eyes turned red.

"You feel pain too? But the pain you feel is nothing compared to the pain I once felt." Wilbur looked at Rose and said, "Since companionship brings no reward, I can only choose to win you over with savagery. Rose, I love you, everything is because I love you."

"I don't need your approval!" Ruth felt disgusted.

The person I've always trusted turns out to be this kind of guy?

Wilbur wasn't surprised by Rose's reaction; he knew what kind of person she was. But he no longer needed to care about Rose's feelings, because that would lead nowhere. He would choose to use violence to win Rose over.

This is why Barrett attacked Amelia instead of Rose; it wasn't that Barrett knew Amelia's identity, but that Wilbur had said beforehand that Rose should be kept alive.

Ruth must become his woman!

So Barrett will take care of the other guy first, then come back and help him take down Ruth.

“Wilbur, you only disgust me now. Have you forgotten all the chivalry you once learned? How can you face everyone you once knew?” Ruth accused angrily.

“It’s too late to say all this now, isn’t it? It’s all too late. When you refused to choose me, everything became too late.” Wilbur looked deeply at Ruth.

He did many things to get Ruth, and he even orchestrated Phoebe's abduction by thieves. It's just a pity that the maid Marina didn't understand his intentions and failed to hand Phoebe over to the people he arranged. Instead, she was taken away by another group of thieves who happened to be passing by.

So later he secretly killed Marina to prevent her from being interrogated by Ruth and getting any information out of her.

"Yes, it's too late. It's too late to say all this now. You're not the Wilbur I used to know. But I still have some questions."

Ruth kept talking, but she was actually secretly poisoning him.

She needed to get rid of Wilbur quickly to help Amelia, but she discovered that the poison she had given was not working.

Therefore, while keeping the conversation going and trying to buy time, she tried several different poisons, but none of them worked on Wilbur, which made her increasingly frustrated.

As a mid-level apostle, her poison should theoretically be effective against apostles below the high-level apostle, unless...

"Is your question why the poison didn't work?" Wilbur seemed to see through Ruth's thoughts.

Ruth's expression changed.

Wilbur smiled and said, "Because I have various antidotes issued by the Kingdom of Bagus, which I have already taken in advance. It is said that these were made by a mid-level apostle of the Kingdom of Bagus and are enough to counteract your poison. When the poison can no longer work on me, my lord... no, Ruth, to me you are just an ordinary person."

As he spoke, Wilbur walked towards Ruth.

Ruth instinctively took a step back.

"Ruth, my Ruth, let me have you like this. Your husband has been dead for many years, you must be very lonely, right? I will make you not lonely anymore, I will love you well."

As Wilbur spoke, his eyes became increasingly fervent.

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[Ruth, oh my dear Ruth, please don't let this guy take advantage of you!]

The disadvantage of having external abilities becomes apparent at this point; even a lower-ranking apostle could threaten Rose, or more accurately, any reasonably strong ordinary person could pose a threat to her.

Is this going to be a doujinshi plot? No way!

[I'm more interested in Amelia than her. Let's switch the camera back to Amelia; I want to see her.]

I want to see Eileen, sob sob!

[It's Amelia! The camera has finally returned to Amelia.]

Snowflakes drifted through the alley, and the icy wind howled, causing Amelia's light golden, slightly wavy hair to flutter.

She pushed up the mask covering the upper half of her face, fixed it in place, and then looked at the comments scrolling by.

The audience had been watching Ruth's feed, and through the comments, she had learned some things about Ruth and Wilbur, which made her frown slightly.

Wilbur has the antidote? Could this cause Rose to have a major mishap?

If that's the case, then I can't waste any more time. As the lord of Star River Territory, Ruth is still very useful to me.

Thinking of this, Amelia stopped and looked back.

She had just turned around when a rapier whirled through the snow and wind, aimed directly at Amelia's brow, carrying a penetrating power.

'Is this a piercing sword?'

Amelia recognized this ability, which greatly enhanced the penetrating power of attacks, allowing her to pierce through obstacles that were previously impenetrable with a single strike.

Without taking the hit head-on, Amelia leaned back and dodged the blow, then lightly touched the snow with her feet and gracefully landed to the side.

"Huh? Are you perhaps a mid-level apostle?"

Barrett emerged from the dark alley, looking at Amelia with a hint of suspicion.

Shouldn't the middle apostle Wilbur mentioned have already been led to the clock tower to rescue people? How come there's another middle apostle here?

“Barrett.” Amelia looked at the person in front of her and sighed. “You must have been a nobleman. Let me think, you should have been a baron.”

The members of the Redeemers League came from diverse backgrounds, including nobles, and that noble was Barrett, who also founded the Redeemers League.

“Those are all past identities, what’s there to say?” Barrett said as he walked over. “You all seem to already know who I am now, don’t you?”

"You... never mind, it's a waste of time to talk to you anymore, let's just end it all."

Amelia didn't intend to say anything more.

She grabbed her long skirt with her left hand and lifted it slightly, then reached under the skirt with her right hand and took out her longbow, "Silver Moon".

She always carried this weapon with her, usually strapping it to her thigh. Since it was covered by her long skirt, nothing seemed amiss from the outside.

"bow?"

Upon seeing the weapon Amelia had drawn, Barrett instinctively sped up and rushed over, his longsword flashing before Amelia's eyes.

Double Shadow Sword!