"Get up!"

"Bang!"

With a heavy blow, a petite figure was knocked out again, rolling twice and lying on the ground unable to move.

"Is that really good?"

The man who spoke looked at his monarch with a sad look, the noble girl who was beaten down was an important hostage of the empire!

"It doesn't matter!"

"If this girl can't even survive this little difficulty, then she is of no use to me!"

The simple white robe dragged on the ground, the unfastened rope revealing the strong chest, and the young man who spoke was none other than Alexios, the supreme supreme of the Roman Empire.

Watching the battle in the audience with a relaxed mind, the emperor took a glass of wine from his attendant and drank it slowly.

The other person to whom he spoke was Nils, the Emperor's first chief of guard, who had taken over as commander of the Imperial Praetorian Guard because of his loyal service.

The original Imperial Forest Army was disbanded due to rebellion, and the current soldiers of the new Praetorian Guard are all from good families in the surrounding areas of the imperial capital.

The emperor didn't need the Praetorian Guard to be too powerful, they just needed to make foreign visitors feel the dignity of the Roman Empire.

As for the invading foreign enemy?

Those barbarians will naturally be defeated by the various units of the Imperial Field Army.

"Her Highness Isabella is only twelve years old after all, isn't it too cruel to do this?"

The commander of the emperor's Praetorian Guard smiled bitterly, looking at the princess of Jerusalem who was once again sent flying, and there was another reason that was not said, the emperor actually included this princess in the regular army of the empire and awarded her title.

Alexios was silent, calmly looking at the girl who was struggling to get up in the arena.

Distant memories came back to mind, and that was a few months ago.

At the court of the imperial capital of Constantinople, the Queen Regent Mary warmly entertained Maria Komnenos and her daughter Princess Isabella of Jerusalem.

The leper Baldwin sent his sister as promised, and also brought her mother, which was really affectionate.

But the emperor didn't care about all this, little Baldwin was the heart of the king of Jerusalem, and he was reluctant to send the child.

As for these two women, what good can they be?

But what happened next far exceeded the expectations of the Supreme of the Empire, and the subsequent history began to change beyond recognition.

After the banquet for the envoys of the Kingdom of Jerusalem was over, Princess Isabella followed the emperor firmly, persevering, and could not shake it off.

As a hostage sent by an ally, the emperor couldn't have sent guards to drive her out in plain sight, right?

That would definitely send a wrong signal!

Fortunately, the two came to a secluded garden, and without the hindrance of outsiders, the emperor twisted the little princess's hands and pushed her against the pillars of the court.

"Say, Isabella, who told you to do that?"

"Are you going to tempt me with your ungrown body?"

"Ahh

"My little niece!"

Alexios leaned close to the little princess's earlobe, and the gentle exfat of heat made Isabella's face flush.

"No, that's not what I meant!"

After struggling for a long time, the princess of Jerusalem still could not break free from the hands of the Roman emperor, gave up useless resistance, and watched the emperor in a daze without saying a word.

"Hah!"

Releasing the little princess's hands, Alexios lifted herself from her, stepped back some distance, crossed his hands on his chest, and looked at the little girl.

"You're not really going to seduce me, are you?"

The emperor teased the twelve-year-old girl with interest, and swept her immature body unscrupulously.

"Go back and tell the people behind you, the Roman emperor is not just a woman can get started!"

After saying that, Alexios was going to leave this place, and he didn't want to continue to entangle.

Once this kind of scandal spreads, it will be a blow to the emperor's prestige.

No matter how chaotic the Middle Ages were, with all kinds of inbred incest, you wouldn't really think that the Middle Ages were free of moral constraints, right?

"Gone!"

"Please wait!"

The desolate voice, the weak pleading, the emperor leaned on his head, and found that he could not leave the girl alone.

"Say, you have sixty breaths of time, and leave immediately when you're done!"

The girl felt as if she had been hit by the Supreme of the Empire, and immediately regained her senses.

"Your Majesty!"

"My kingdom, the kingdom of my brothers, the kingdom left by my father, and now the Holy Sepulchre of Jesus Christ is in an unprecedented crisis!"

"I begged my brother to let him train me to become a warrior who can fight with a sword on the battlefield!"

"But my brother turned me down!"

Looking at Princess Isabella's longing eyes, Alexios knew that this was a little girl whose brain had been broken by a chivalric novel.

Naive!

Ignorant!

I simply don't know what war means to women!

What's even more terrifying is that this is still a princess with royal blood, still a hostage in Constantinople, and the niece of the Roman emperor.

Smiling bitterly, the Imperial Supreme waved his hand at the princess.

"I only know one sentence, war makes women go away!"

"Except for those barbarians who also let women go into battle, the empire is not weak enough to need a little girl to join the army."

Alexios didn't want to listen any longer, and with a faint word, he refused directly, and then turned to leave.

"Huh!"

The Emperor heard a voice, the sound of his clothes slipping off, the sound he was most familiar with every morning when he had just sat on the throne.

"My God!"

Sure enough, Isabella behind her had already stripped off all her clothes, and her naked body was blowing in the cold wind.

But a long time passed, Isabella looked at Alexios, and Alexios looked at Isabella, but there was no movement.

Embarrassed!

Awkward capitalization!

It was not until the tears of the princess of Jerusalem could not stop flowing that the emperor walked over and picked up the clothes that belonged to the princess and gently put them on for her.

"Whatever you want to do?"

"At least don't make me look down on you!"

Isabella, who raised her head, finally couldn't hold back her tears and cried profusely.

"My brother Wang is really hard!"

"I want to help him!"

"But it can't be done!"

It's still ruthless, and it's okay and there is a precedent for letting an ally's hostages serve in your own army, but that's a man!

"The boy also had leprosy, and he could not inherit the throne of Jerusalem"

"Boom!"

The speaker has no intention of listening, and the emperor instantly felt a chill in his heart, is the child in Isabella's mouth little Baldwin?

I'm afraid so!

But how could it be impossible for the leper king to leak such a thing?

By the way, he was worried that if it was leaked, the morale of the royal party would collapse immediately!

Guy of Lusignan certainly wouldn't be the best candidate for the king of Jerusalem.

So Baldwin's heir to the next King of Jerusalem is her?

This little girl who held her little head in her arms and sobbed bitterly, wiped a handful of snot and tears on her royal robe?

Baldwin's scheming is really powerful, and he has to fall into his trap, after all, someone has sent the real heir!