"You've finally denied my love for you...... Do you think you'll be able to restore the throne in this way? Coward, coward! Your enemy, Gawain, would not be so cowardly! Marlena gritted her teeth at the "guilt". Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Seeing that she might tear up the paperwork, John hurried over and grabbed his adoptive mother's hand, she struggled, her hair draped over her forehead and now, her mature and seductive body writhed like that, which made John's heart shake again, he was so infatuated with her body, but what could he do now? I myself am also in a desperate situation, and it is impossible to take her on the road again, which is tantamount to not confessing the crimes accused by my mother, so it is better to follow the advice of his henchman Axeppokaus, completely put the blame on Marlena, and then go to the north to find Tetisius, which may be the only feasible way.

"Help me, help me! If you really love me, you won't think I'm denying it. John said eagerly, grabbing the seal ornament around his adoptive mother's neck, trying to pull it to the end of the paper and poke it.

In the midst of the swaying and scrambling, Marlena gradually weakened, and finally she gave up her resistance and fell into the arms of her adopted son, who still stamped his own seal with his own guilt, and then John tore off the badge button on his adoptive mother's cloak, which symbolized the status of the chief noblewoman, and placed it in the lead sealing box with the paperwork.

For the last time, Marlena touched her adopted son's cheek and rubbed it, her lips were pale, "Okay, I can only help you get here, you have to go on your own in the future...... I hope you can finally fulfill your long-cherished wish......" and then her eyes became hollow, and she looked at the colonnade behind John, and smiled slowly.

Over there, the vague black shadow behind the pillar came out with some restraint and reserve, and approached Marlena step by step, with a little hesitation.

John was a little frightened, and he looked back at Marlena.

But apart from the windows, and the curtains, and the empty pillars and floors, they could see nothing.

"You're finally here, my sin. At last, I can go to Hell to redeem it. Marlena said.

The dark shadow became clearer and clearer in her eyes.

It was the ghost of Constantine, who still had blood in the corners of her eyes and nostrils, her real flesh and blood child, who had come to her mother.

The child was still the same as when he was poisoned, not grown, only his face was pale, and when he approached Marlena, Marlena opened her arms, with despair of the present world, and a longing for death.

"Mother, I found you, are you ......" The ghost seemed to say this, with sourness and joy.

In the empty palace where the wind swirled, John hugged his adoptive mother, whose arms were still stretched stiffly against the ceiling, and he was not poisoned or assassinated, but he lost his life in this way.

At this time, Axeppokaus and a group of soldiers ran in and warned the Emperor to flee north, because the situation there was not at all optimistic at the fortress of Gallipoli - the Hungarian soldiers stationed there wanted to surrender, and Gawain's offensive became more and more fierce. In addition, on the east coast of the city, Gawain's soldiers and horses have already built up a fortress for advancement.

John cut off the last bit of affection, threw Marlena's body in place, and put the so-called confession next to him, and took advantage of the darkness of the second half of the night to cover his identity, and rode back towards the Thracian snowfields north of Constantinople.

A few hours later, on the morning of the next day, all the Hungarian soldiers in the Gallipoli fortress, led by the general counsellor of the royal palace, Clembauder, and the soldiers of the Apshikin brigade besieging the place scrambled to the top of the fortress, raised the new battle flag, and captured all the boats in the harbor.

On the other hand, the Nika Brigade and the Bithynian Frontier People's Army also began to approach the Jukuntina Palace, and an advance party of soldiers trotted with shields through the streets of the town of Seven Miles, and the drawbridge of the Jukuntina Palace, and the empty gate tower and atrium, where they stopped, panting, and looked around, because they were full of rare trees and strange beasts, which opened their eyes, and this group of soldiers who had previously served on the imperial side might not have seen the interior of the royal palace for the rest of their lives.

After pushing open the door, the group of soldiers cautiously stepped inside, and found the body of Marlena lying there in the cold wind of the temple, her hair and clothes were half covered with snowflakes.

Soon General Marinus and more soldiers arrived, he looked at the female corpse on the floor at his feet, and quickly determined her identity, "She is Marlena of Alania, the chief lady of the court, go and report to the other side of the strait." ”

In the evening, several herald horsemen, with snow on their shoulders, ran into the courtyard where fires were lit, and "the merciful emperor and queen issued an order to dispose of the sinner, to cremate her body here, not to insult or hurt her, and then to collect the ashes in jars and send them to the monastery of the caves of Calleadeo for burial, where her sister Sister Marianne would take care of her tomb." ”

In obedience to such an order, the soldiers in iron helmets carried stretchers, put Marlena's body on it, braved the snow that had risen again, set it on the cremation pile, doused it with Armenian light oil and set it on fire.

The light of fire and black smoke rushed up in the courtyard of the Juquantina Palace, illuminating its roof, on which many of the Tarsus frontier and brigade soldiers waved their flags and fired their fiery guns into the sky, and a little north of their gaze, the golden gate of the great Constantinople towered over the gray wind and snow.

On the edge of the port of Skadari, Anna, dressed in a white robe, stood on the top of the cliff with some embarrassment, looking at the mighty sea and the endless city opposite, holding Marlena's confession in her hand, lowering her eyebrows and turning her head slightly, and said to Gawain behind her, "Do you remember why I had a high fever in the first place? For I was frightened to see with my own eyes in the dark corner of the study how Marlena had poisoned her own son, Constantine—though I did not love her or Constantine, I sympathized with them and prayed for them. ”

"Power ultimately turns people into crazy animals." Gawain gripped the hilt of his sword and sighed.

Then the two of them were silent at the same time, looking at the ocean, and the capital and palace that were about to fall into their hands, wondering if they and the people of the future generations would fall into the same bloody and conspiracy weaving traps?

Anna leaned her head on Gawain's arm, "Great barbarian, I don't think about what will happen in the future, but I want to break through all this, how can people be saved?" ”

"Don't think too much about it, it's like we're going to have to leave this world right now. Even an uninvited guest like me understands that since I hold the hilt and key of power, I have to change the way of the world. Anna, there is still a long, long road ahead to conquer, and is it not worth your life to raise your children, to put the country, your court, your armaments in order, to make dealings with the world, to fight the enemy, and to revive Rome? I think that before the future death comes, I will be satisfied and have no regrets—Anna, my comrade-in-arms, when the time comes—I have finished the battle that should be done, I have finished the way I should go, and I have kept the way that should be believed. ”