The Princess Doesn't Hide Her Status (3)

“Ugh…….”

Murdock spat out blood-tinged saliva and, with great difficulty, slowly forced himself to his feet.

He was alive.

That last strike was almost a miracle for that reason alone.

Any ordinary human would have had his neck snapped and died on the spot from that force.

But Murdock had survived.

It was thanks to the jewels he had poured into strengthening his body.

What he had offered up as sacrifice was not ordinary jewelry.

High-purity mana crystal stones.

Raw ore mined in tiny amounts deep within mana-stone veins, shaved down dozens of times, stripped of impure mana, and then shaped into jewel-like form by a craftsman’s hands...