Chapter 51

Fransica locked her eyes to mine. She slowly spoke in fear and teary eyes, "Prince, I will always be loyal to you."

"Good," Lucas replied and pulled the trigger. The sound of the gunshot echoed hauntingly across the training ground. A bullet suddenly shot out from Fransica's forehead, and blood splattered on my face.

The bullet hit my body but was already weakened, the pain in my heart was greater. My people, Fransica's life was extinguished in an instant, her body collapsing before me, a bullet wound stark on the back of her head. The shock, the gore, the sheer brutality of it all left me reeling in horror and disbelief.

She was the one who consistently greeted me with a smile and had been by my side since my early years, baking me cookies. Now, she is gone forever.

"Next," Lucas yelled. Two soldiers dragged Fransica's body away, and the other two Shadow Soldiers took a new hostage, a woman named Maria who had an exceptionally pale complexion.

Lucas forced Maria to kneel and repeated