“Last dance,” she whispered. Her first words in seventeen hours.
Here is the final chapter of the story, focusing on the enigmatic Royal Guard known only by her codename: . Royal Guards of Ethyria -Final- -Yukari-chan- Part I: The Phantom of the Spire
She looked toward the sanctum door. The Princess had stopped praying. She was listening.
To the watching guards, it looked like she dissolved . One moment she was standing still, doll tucked at her waist, eyes half-closed. The next, she was everywhere . A flicker of white. A silver line traced through the air. The golem’s arm fell in three pieces before the fist reached its apex. Royal Guards of Ethyria -Final- -Yukari-chan- F...
She wore no armor. Only a white sleeveless tunic, grey leggings, and thin leather sandals. Her hair was the color of winter ash, cut short and uneven, as if she had done it herself with a knife. At her hip hung a blade so slender it seemed more like a long needle: , the “White Shadow.”
It never landed.
The Praetor’s arcane riflemen opened fire. “Last dance,” she whispered
She paused.
He caught it.
By the sixteenth, the outer wards had fallen. The Praetor’s war-golems—each one a three-ton statue of animated black iron—had smashed through the inner bailey. The Royal Guard had given ground, room by bloody room, until only the Spire’s apex remained. Royal Guards of Ethyria -Final- -Yukari-chan- Part I:
A storm of crystal-tipped bolts, each one enchanted to seek the heart.
“Surrender the Princess,” the Praetor said. His voice was the sound of a landslide. “And I will let you walk away.”