"Bell ——!"

The blood-stained dagger fell to the ground, and Peter Fasha, with a pained expression, fell to his knees, his left hand holding down his right hand, which was pierced by arrows and bleeding profusely, desperately unable to hold back his screams.

He lost.

And there is no suspense about losing.

Although he has done his best, although his performance is unbelievable even to himself, but... To no avail at all.

Although the other party is a girl, her strength is far better than his... That being said, he was just an ordinary night watchman, a spy rather than an assassin, and he would be left behind by Lord Ruth Infinit, and only as his liaison officer.

Think about it and know... How could he be given such a task as guarding His Majesty's dormitory, who had dubious loyalty and had a "criminal record" in private contact with the Wizard Tower?

But......

Struggling to raise his head, Peter Fasa looked desperately at his foe and couldn't help but purse the corners of his mouth.

Especially when you see her hearty smile.

"Give up, Your Excellency Peter Fasha, you are not a warrior at all. ”

The female elf with her left hand crossed her waist raised the double-edged Azorean long knife in her hand that looked like a war bow, and she smiled with great confidence under her long golden hair:

"Even your weird and weird magic can't stop my 'guerrilla arrows' at all, don't resist there anymore!"

Peter Fasa was stunned for a moment, and subconsciously spoke: "You, you know my name......"

Before he could finish speaking, he regretted it.

"That's right, I know your name, even where you used to be, what you did... Alexandra Tiberias knows it all!"

The elf girl, who was quite proud, tilted her chin very proudly: "After all, he is the apprentice of the first samurai of the Azores, and he will still be an Azorean in the future... No, he's the number one assassin in the world, so of course it's a trivial matter!"

"Five steps to save the world with the least amount of blood... This is Alexandra's dream!" The female elf grinned haughtily, "So... Gentleman Peter Fasha, please get out of the way, tonight's battle has nothing to do with you. ”

"The life of Eckhart de Salion alone can save all living beings in the world, and all wars and sufferings can be ended in the smallest possible way, and in a hundred years, whether it is the Empire or the Azores, everyone will completely forget what 'war' is. ”

"For the sake of such a great cause, it is only a human life to pay; Sounds like a good deal, right?"

Peter Fasa was dumbfounded.

He looked at the elf girl in front of him in a daze, and he couldn't imagine that the person who defeated him had such a strange brain circuit.

Or is it that the simpler the world, the more powerful it can have?

No, no, no... It's a mess!

How could he think about these things, the most important thing now is to ensure that the elf girl in front of him will not appear in His Majesty's bed......

"Bang ——!"

At this moment, the door of the dormitory behind him was suddenly opened.

The two of them, who were stunned at the same time, looked up in unison.

The pitch-black figure walked towards them step by step from the depths of the gate.

Obviously, I don't feel any murderous aura, and obviously that figure doesn't look majestic... But when the slow pace gradually approached, the two people outside the door still felt like they felt a thousand burdens, and even breathing became difficult.

"Kill me, and you'll have peace... It's easy. ”

His thick and slightly vicissitudes of voice, low and full of magnetism, make people feel his majesty personally: "Unfortunately, all the easy things in this world are never easy. ”

His eyes fell, his fiery eyes staring at Peter Fasa as he knelt on the ground.

"Imperials, stand up, we do not kneel to the enemy. ”

"We're just going to cut off their heads!"

Peter was shocked, bowed his head sharply, endured the pain in his arm and body, gritted his teeth and stood up, and picked up the dagger again,

"Obey ——!"

And the stunned elf girl seems to have finally recovered from the shock.

"It's unbelievable... However, worthy of being the Emperor, he would dare to appear in front of the future First Assassin alone!" Cocking the corners of her mouth, the Chief Adjutant of the Overseer, Alexandra Tiberias, raised the double-edged sword in his right hand, which resembled a warbow, and assumed a posture of opening his bow and arrow:

"Although some victories are not martial, but for the sake of world peace, I don't think I will mind!"

Fighting through the pain, Peter Fasa struggled to move his feet, holding Eckhart II in his back.

Although she can't win, at least she can block her for His Majesty......

"Victory or not?"

Eckhart II muttered in a low voice, his calm voice without the slightest emotion: "Yes." ”

"Let you appear alone in front of the door of my dormitory, and have to be the enemy of a supreme emperor, even if I defeat you, it will be a little invincible. ”

The elven girl's eyes widened, and the long knife in her hand shone brightly.

The slender figure jumped up calmly, and then plucked the string with his left hand, and an invisible arrow struck at Eckhart's figure.

"Your Majesty, be careful!" Peter Fasa, who was startled, roared anxiously and angrily, and desperately threw himself at Eckhart behind him: "That arrow can't be stopped......"

Before he could finish speaking, he froze in place.

Eckhart II, standing still, drew his sword.

"Bell ——!"

The blade of the sword, covered with runes, was nailed straight in front of him.

"Nodes... Finish. Eckhart, who was sharp-eyed, suddenly raised his head: "Open up......"

"Broken Boundary: Dragon Domain ——!"

In the next second, a dazzling white light bloomed, lighting up the entire Heavenly Dome Palace, and the three figures in front of the gate of the dormitory palace were instantly swallowed by the light.

If it weren't for the ice barrier, the entire imperial capital would be "bathed" in this light!

Stunned, Peter Fasa froze motionlessly.

Syllable!

Not far away, there was a splashing sound, and a broken arrow fell silently to the ground.

This, what the hell is this......

"What the hell is this——?!

The angry screams of the elven girl rang out behind him.

"It's not a big deal, it's just a wall. With an indifferent face, Eckhart II spoke: "The De Salion family has been inherited for hundreds of years... A little trick. ”

"Future enemies are kept out of the walls, and if any Void Reactive life comes close, they will be killed by a beam of light falling from the sky. ”

"In this thousand rays of light, reflect on whether your thoughts are wrong!"

Expressionless, Eckhart II turned and re-entered the palace gates, without looking back again.

"Wait a minute, I'm ......"

The anxious elven girl tried to stop the departing Eckhart II, but at this moment, a dazzling beam of light flashed above her head, falling head-on like an arrow from a string.

"Boom ——————!!!!"

The door of the dormitory was closed again.

.......................................

In the dormitory, Peter Fasa, who had lost too much blood, leaned weakly against the door, gasping for breath, and the cold sweat on his forehead kept sliding down like raindrops.

Close to the gate of the dormitory, you can still hear the roar of explosions outside the palace, like thundershowers, one after another, wanton ravage.

But at this time, there was no surviving joy on Peter Fasha's face, only full of doubts.

If there are such strong defenses, why is it useless in the first place, but wait until the enemy attacks the dormitory?

It's because there are too many restrictions, or because it doesn't feel necessary at first, or because it's ......

"The Boundary Wall... It is a legacy inherited from the Dragon Kingdom. ”

Before he could ask, Eckhart II had already answered: "This is supposed to be a defensive measure to resist the dragon's air attack, and for ordinary types of enemies, the resistance effect is not ideal. ”

"In two quarters of an hour at most, she should be able to figure out how to crack it. ”

Two quarters of an hour?!

Peter Fasha, who had just breathed a sigh of relief, looked at the figure of Eckhart II in astonishment.

In other words, the enemy just now will break through the gate in a quarter of an hour at most and kill from the outside?!

"Poof!"

Eckhart II paused, and turned his gaze behind him.

I saw Peter Fasa kneeling on one knee, and his raised eyes flashed with determination: "Since there are still two quarters of an hour, then please evacuate from here as soon as possible - there is also a secret passage connecting to the outside of the city in the dormitory, and there is a night watchman handle near the exit, and there is no danger!"

"If the enemy attacks, I will stop them for Your Majesty!"

After saying that, Peter Fasha, who pursed his lips, remained motionless, waiting for Eckhart II's answer.

He was ready to die.

But Eckhart just looked at him silently, slowly shaking his head.

"I'm not leaving. ”

Peter Fasa was stunned: "Your Majesty?!"

"You are willing to use your death to be loyal to the Empire and sacrifice for the safety of thousands of Empire people... I am very grateful for that. Eckhart II sat down slowly, calmly:

"But I can't leave... Not only could I not leave, but I had to die tonight, under the sword of some elven assassin - well, it would be better if even the head was cut off and appeared in front of the people of the imperial capital. ”

Peter Fasa was dumbfounded.

"Of course, this process must not be too easy, or it will arouse their suspicions, so the royal guards, the night watchmen, the knights of the Church's oaths... I designed them with a lot of checkpoints to convince them that I knew about the assassination and were prepared for it. ”

"And then... Again, the Celestial Dome must be allowed to conceal the true time of my death, and the later it is exposed, the more credible it will be—preferably until they discover the 'truth' from a pile of clues themselves, or until the situation is irretrievable......"

Looking at Peter Fasa with a "stunned" expression, Eckhart II stopped his words and looked at him with his red pupils:

"Yes, Peter Fasha, don't be so surprised, you heard you right. ”

"I, Eckhart de Salion, have orchestrated my death—all of it, I have devised it, and so far nothing has gone wrong. ”

At that moment, Peter Fasa only felt like his brain was empty.

Eckhart... Your Majesty... He... He......

What the hell is he talking about?!

"You're confused, it's not surprising... Even when I made this decision, I hesitated. A low, slow voice sounded:

"But if I want this game to go the way I want it to go, my death is a must - no, the death of 'Eckhart II, the Twelfth Emperor of the Empire' is a necessary step to open the next step. ”

"There's no other way to make the Empire truly feel threatened, to truly defeat our enemies... Thinking about this, I was at ease. With that magnetic voice, Eckhart sighed under his breath:

"A good chess player must not only count everything on the board, but also hold everything outside the board in the palm of his hand... The life of a chess piece, the life of an enemy, the life of oneself ... It's all chips, and it's all something that can be used. ”

Eckhart II, who raised his head and looked up at the ceiling overhead, looked deeply, as if in deep thought.

Peter Fasa still doesn't get it.

"Your Majesty, you did this... Is it to unite the whole empire and defeat the invasion of the Azores?" Peter, whose eyes widened, even his voice trembled:

"If that's the case, you don't have to, whether it's His Highness Conrad or His Highness Brandon, it will definitely ......"

"Azorean elves?"

Hearing this, Eckhart II shook his head with a hint of disdain in his eyes.

"No, not the Azorean elves ... Our enemies are a thousand, ten thousand times more terrifying than they are, a threat that has existed since the dawn of the Empire, a terrible force capable of destroying the entire world!"

The whole world, the stunned Peter subconsciously spoke: "What you are talking about... Monsters of the North?"

This time, Eckhart didn't answer him again.

"You can't understand, it's not your fault... Even within the Empire, there are very few who can truly understand the existence of such a threat, and only a handful have the ability to stop it. Eckhart said in a deep voice:

"Twelve Generations of Empires...... Beginning with the second generation of Eckhart I's ancestors, each generation of de Salion has struggled to contend with the menace or remain powerless in their anguish to allow it to grow. ”

"This kind of suffering is very real... Like a clay vase full of filth and cracks, we have to replace every piece of the vase, but we have to be careful not to shatter the whole vase. ”

"The Dragon Empress, Charlotte de Salion, my grandmother... She almost did, but she almost smashed the vase, and my father, who spent his life putting the broken bottle back together, only to leave it with more filth. ”

"And now it's my turn, and the chance to end it all is finally in front of me, and I make a decision that I'm going to end it, but... Not in the twelfth generation, not even by my hands. ”

"But I want to let it all come to an end!"