"Commander Leonard, you made a wise decision. Wait for him to ...... I will not treat you badly. ”

Glancing at Leonard appreciatively, Helen bowed her head slightly and said with a light smile.

She knew that with Leonard, a smart man, the main gate of the imperial city, as well as the team of five hundred court warriors stationed here, were all under her control.

"Temple...... Your Majesty is serious. Serving His Majesty is the mission of the court warriors. Leonard once again fell to one knee in front of Helen, this time as a direct pledge of allegiance.

Hearing Leonard actually call himself "Your Majesty" instead of "Her Royal Highness the Princess", Helen instantly understood that her father, the Emperor, really had little time. Otherwise, even if Leonard had the heart to be loyal to him, he would not dare to risk the condemnation of the world.

Thinking of this, Helen's originally slightly relaxed mood suddenly came back to it.

"Leave five hundred people to assist the palace warriors to guard the city gates, and the rest will follow me into the palace and occupy the city gates of the eight directions, and there will be no noise all the way, and no swords will be drawn without an edict!"

Helen snorted coldly and ordered. Immediately, surrounded by a group of court magicians and high-ranking knights, she took the lead and entered the imperial city first. And behind her, the rolling iron stream also entered the city, solemn and dull.

As soon as she entered the Imperial City, Helen immediately ordered the Knights of the Stars who followed her to divide into a team of 4,000 people and a team of 500 people to form eight teams to occupy the remaining eight gates in the Imperial City, while she was only followed by 500 people, plus a group of guards.

Immediately afterwards, Helen ordered all the palace guards and ceremonial officers who were about to lead the way to get out of the way, and pulled her horse and headed for her father's lodging. At this moment, she couldn't care about the regulations that the royal family members had to bathe and change their clothes when they returned to the palace, so she was dressed in a military uniform and led people to run away all the way!

Passing through the palace hall, corridors, and entering the palace, Helen only saw the guards fully armed one by one, guarding the palace gates and arteries one by one, more than five times more than when Helen left.

Moreover, these guards all looked solemn, and their hands were on top of their weapons, as if they were facing a great enemy.

This scene made Helen's heart sink.

When did there be so many palace guards?

You must know that the palace warrior regiment originally only had 3,000 people, nearly half of the casualties in the imperial capital rebellion, and no more than 2,000 people could still perform their duties in the palace.

But now, just as far as Helen could see, she saw at least three thousand palace guards! And she has only just walked through five palace gates, and there are still seven palace gates that have not passed!

Even if she wasn't in the imperial capital during the time she was in the imperial capital, the court warrior group recruited some new people, but there shouldn't be so many!

No, it's so wrong!

I'm afraid these guards are not a court warrior group at all!

Secretly vigilantly staring at these court warriors, Helen suddenly discovered that behind a column of court warriors, there were actually enchanted crossbow machines on their backs!

This is a big killing weapon that can only be equipped by the Shoye Legion, and it can pose a serious threat to fourth-order high-level mages and third-order intermediate knights. These military enchanted killing weapons are strictly forbidden to be equipped by court warriors!

In the entire imperial capital, the regular army equipped with this kind of killing weapon was only the ...... that should have been stationed on the acropolis and city walls outside the imperial capital Royal Guard!!

Ambush! Definitely an ambush against her!!

Helen's heart beat suddenly, but there was no expression on her pretty face. The more this time, the more she can't panic.

Now that she has passed through the five palace gates, she must not turn around and go back immediately, otherwise she will be besieged by a large scale.

But it wasn't quite right to go any further, and any further on, she would really be completely surrounded by the royal guards.

"Who planned it......

Helen, who was in a bit of a dilemma, bit her rosy lip and wondered about the mastermind of the coup.

First of all, the emperor Odysseus was excluded, and with what she knew about her father, her father may not be a wise emperor, but he is definitely a person who licks calves deeply. There was absolutely no way he would have sent heavy troops to assassinate his daughter.

Moreover, without her, the empire would collapse in an instant, and it was impossible for the emperor, who had always focused on the overall situation, not to take this into account.

But who but the emperor has the power to manipulate all this?

Helen was puzzled, and her slender hand reached into her sleeve, pinching a small blue magic scroll.

It was a teleportation scroll given to her by the Astral Traveler Karazan, which could teleport her to any location she had ever been to in an instant.

In other words, even if Helen is besieged and desperate today, she can always rely on this teleportation scroll to teleport back to the military camp in the province of Valen, which she absolutely controls.

In Valen Province, there is her newly formed army of 500,000 troops, and the two powerhouses of Duke John and Starry Sky Sword Saint, who have broken through the Holy Rank under Zhou Chen's guidance, are also there, and if something goes wrong, she will be able to get out immediately.

Moreover, in the palace, there are two masters above the Holy Order, Lady Alice and Chief Lawrence.

Of the two, Lady Alice is definitely inclined to her, and Governor Lawrence has served three generations of emperors for nearly a hundred years, and his loyalty to the royal family is unquestionable. With these two people, it is impossible for too much chaos to occur in the palace.

Now that her life is secured, Helen decides to move on, as a sentimental woman, she is very worried that her father has been murdered by these thieves who participated in the coup d'état, and she must see it with her own eyes!

So, after suggesting that the knights and mages around her be vigilant, Helen led the people all the way forward, passed through the seven palace gates, and finally came to the palace where the emperor stayed.

Helen, who couldn't suppress her worries in her heart, immediately led people to rush into the hall she was familiar with, and even the waiters outside wanted to report, but they were stopped by her knights.

Although the court warriors and attendants around this hall were not Helen's people, even they vaguely knew that they were going to do something to this eldest princess, who was known as the pearl of the empire, today.

However, without a definite order, none of them wanted to be the first bird, so they had to let Helen break into the main hall.

As soon as she entered the main hall, Helen immediately felt the strong smell of medicine filling the air.

The smell is very complicated, I don't know how many flavors are mixed with medicinal materials used to reduce inflammation and hanging, and there are even many alchemy magic potions with large side effects, which make people feel stuffy and even a little drowsy when they smell it.

There was silence and solemnity in the hall, and in the middle of the distance. Central surrounded by a curtain of large. On the bed, there seemed to be a figure lying there weakly.

Big. Around the bed, more than a dozen old scholars from the medical school and several court mages in red robes were standing silently on both sides, watching quietly.

Inside the curtain, in addition to the emperor who was seriously ill and bedridden, there was also a miscellaneous. A slender figure sat at the head of the bed. She is the emperor's second wife, that is, Helen's stepmother, the mother of the little prince Charles, Queen Mary.

At this moment, Queen Mary was carrying a bowl of colorful magic potion and feeding it to the emperor lying on the bed.

And Helen didn't care about the danger she had just felt, she was flustered and worried in her heart, and rushed directly to the side of the big bed, lifted the curtain, and her eyes fell on the person on the bed.

Then Helen's eyes immediately moistened......

The Emperor of the Empire, Odysseus VII, was lying quietly on the bed at the moment, his handsome face, which was very similar to Helen, was pale at the moment, only the eyebrows and lips were black, and he was obviously seriously injured and would die soon.

"Father...... I'm back......"

Helen couldn't hold back her tears and choked up.

She could never have imagined that after only two months of separation, her handsome, strong, and infinitely awe-inspiring father would lie there like a vegetative person who was about to die, almost unconsciously.

At this moment, the emperor's eyes were half-closed, his snort was slight, and a pair of originally slender and powerful hands were also weakly placed on the side of the bed, obviously in a semi-comatose state.

"Father ...... How long has it been? Did the assassins catch it? ”

Helen turned her head with tears in her eyes and asked her stepmother seemingly unguardedly.

However, before Queen Mary could speak, she cried first, stretched out her arms, and hugged Helen, as if she wanted to hug Helen and cry for a while.

However, before one of her hands could reach out, it was grabbed by a knight beside Helen, and then twisted!

"Bang!"

A crisp sound of metal hitting the ground sounded, and in an instant, everyone's eyes looked over, and a strange atmosphere suddenly rose.

Because, what fell to the ground was a magic dagger that glowed with a faint blue light, and looking at the corrosive reaction between it and the ground, it was obviously still violently toxic.

"Sure enough, it's you, Your Majesty."

Helen gently wiped the tears from her face, and when she looked up again, her eyes were extremely determined!!

She said who could mobilize the royal guards, and she couldn't make a fool of it, it turned out to be the emperor's closest wife, and the master of the palace besides the emperor - Queen Mary.

It all makes sense.

The morning before yesterday, Helen, who was treating the army in Valen Province, suddenly got a secret letter from the imperial capital!

This letter was sent by a court magician himself, and the sender of the letter was Lawrence, the head of the court, and the letter also had Lawrence's personal magic seal on it, which could not be faked.

The content of the letter is to frankly admit that the emperor has been assassinated and will die soon, and asks her to return to preside over the overall situation as soon as possible.

Helen, who saw this secret letter at that time, had no doubts in her heart except worry and panic. She immediately left everything behind, and without hesitation, she led people back to the imperial capital quickly.

She not only wants to see her father for the last time, but also wants to compete for the throne, and she is even more afraid that she will make trouble in the imperial capital...... So she traveled under the stars and nights, and it took less than two days to march 3,000 miles and rush back to the imperial capital.

But now it seems that she was deceived.

Queen Mary, who intended a coup d'état, wanted to trick her back from the army of 500,000 and murder her, so that they could control the overall situation.

"Grandpa Lawrence, is he dead now, or has he been with you all along?"

Helen looked coldly at the Queen Mary in front of her, but she had a certain number in her heart. Without Lawrence, it would have been impossible for Queen Mary to mobilize her army, let alone trick her back so easily.

And, if she wasn't mistaken, Lawrence must have betrayed her and her father.

Because Lawrence is very strong, so strong that the Starry Sky Sword Saint opens his mouth to admit that he can't see through it, such a character cannot be killed, and it is impossible to be coerced by Queen Mary.

Since Lawrence will not be coerced, then they must be in a gang!

"Hehe, she is worthy of Princess Helen, not only is she more beautiful than Venus, the goddess of beauty, but her wisdom is not inferior to that of Athena, the legendary goddess of wisdom. Hee-hee, you're the envy of all of us women......"

"Queen Mary", who had just failed in the assassination and was grabbed by the wrist of the guard knight beside Helen, grinned, and in the next moment, her whole body suddenly twisted, and her wrist became like a sea snake that could not slip through the hand, and in an instant she broke free from the guard knight's powerful hand like iron pincers.

This instantly made the knights and magicians around Princess Helen nervous.

You must know that the knight who just restrained the "Queen Mary" is named Kao Douglas, he is a senior knight with a strength of up to the fifth order, a famous master in the Northern Legion of the Empire, and a close retainer of the Lake Sword Saint John "Douglas, although he is far away from the Holy Order, he is enough to be invincible among mortals.

However, such a master can't even control "Queen Mary"? What did this queen do before?

Breaking free from the knight's big hand, the "Queen Mary" took a few steps backwards in a row, retreating to a distance that she thought was safe, and then pinched a few magic seals in her hand, and in an instant, a billowing black mist enveloped her whole body.

After a few breaths, the black mist dissipated, and what appeared in place was actually a man with dark blue skin, slender ears, and violent clothes. Lu's woman, where is there still a little bit of Queen Mary?

"Dark Elves?!"

Beside Helen, an old magician with a white beard said in shock. Didn't the dark elves be exterminated by the empire and the priests of the Olympus god system at that time in the "Rebellion of the Seven Kings" thousands of years ago?

And the biggest reason for exterminating the dark elves at that time was because of the innate magic skill of every dark elf - dark transfiguration!

This is a spell that can turn the dark elves into any species, and this change is so subtle that even a Saint-level powerhouse cannot detect it.

At that time, the leader of the dark elves intended to use this transformation technique to let the dark elves gradually replace the high-ranking officials and generals of the Dawn Empire, and finally even replaced several members of the royal family, causing the Rebellion of the Seven Kings, intending to take advantage of the chaos to steal the imperial power of the Dawn Empire and realize the rise of the dark elves.

However, the dark elves took too many steps. Arrive. Egg. , it was finally discovered by a domain-level mage in the gods and the imperial family, and then triggered the "Dark War" that lasted for decades, with the goal of exterminating the dark elves!

Unexpectedly, after thousands of years, the dark elves actually appeared again!

Hearing that someone had revealed his identity, the dark elf pretending to be Queen Mary sneered and said, "Princess Helen, my dark elf clan will be the big one today. Lu Wan's people, ask your Dawn royal family for justice!! ”

As soon as these words came out, Helen was stunned for a moment, and then burst out laughing, looked at the dark blue dark elf in front of her, and said mockingly: "How innocent is the common people? Actually used as a fig leaf for rebellion all day long? ”