Arc Royale [Ch. 25, Ch. 26, Ch. 27]

Knight was swarmed immediately with Grimm – Beowolves, Ursa and Nevermore piling onto him like angry bees trying to ball their queen to death. Teeth and claws ripped and rent, but it was Knight's bare hands that proved victorious. He tore heads off the Grimm, battered the rest aside with their own allies and even kicked one so hard it smashed through a nearby building, shattering brickwork like plaster.

"Mercury is dead!" Cinder rasped.

"What? When!?"

Cinder shook her head angrily. It must have been too quick for them to track, and likely as one-sided as Ashari imagined.

—Arc Royale [Ch. 25]



Mercury was already dead.

Killed in the blink of an eye, before he'd even had time to realise the danger he was in.

—Arc Royale [Ch. 26]



"The body of whom we believe to be Mercury Black was cut in two. It would have been helpful if we had someone alive to question."

"I tried to withhold my strength." Knight said. "Your enemies here are… fragile."

That was what was terrifying – he'd tried.

—Arc Royale [Ch. 27]