Charlie's playful question left Penny momentarily stunned.

She didn't actually recognize his face, but she had presumed from his uniform that he was just another one of the armed cavalry guards stationed here in Duca Mines.

With her supervising these mines, there was no way some interloper would just waltz into her office.

As such, she was stupefied that an armed cavalry guard had the nerve to speak to her with such disrespect!

Clearly insulted, she glared at Charlie in cold fury as her Reiki levitated her sword and launched it straight for his neck.

"You should be honored to die by my sword," she gloated flatly, even as she presumed Charlie's imminent death.

Charlie simply chuckled as he watched the sword come hurtling straight at him, unfazed. "It's good to be confident, but overconfidence always inevitably backfires."

Even the average warrior would have trouble dealing with this sword that was infused with Reiki, but it was no threat to Charlie.

While Penny looked on, waitin