Inside the Royal Palace.

Although Nanyun City is not the original capital, the royal family still built a huge and magnificent imperial city in Nanyun City in this short period of time. The Imperial City is an inner city, and Nanyun City is like an outer city, where only the royal family and clan nobles live, and even if they are the Rose family, they have no right to enter.

At the center of the Imperial City is the Imperial Palace, which is inhabited by the royal family.

The palatial palace is built on the Foggy Lake, the largest lake in the Namunous Castle, which originates from the upper reaches of the Nagumo Castle and flows through the Namunjo River to the Namunbo River. He formed a large lake in Nanyun City, or Nanyun City was built on the edge of the Foggy Lake at the beginning, because the Foggy Lake is foggy all year round, and the dense fog will only dissipate at noon every day, so it is called the Foggy Lake.

The palace has not been completely built at this time, but it has been largely completed, and most of the palaces are still being built are some Qionglou temples and leisure palaces.

In a pavilion by the Foggy Lake, Emma, the current head of the Rose Family, and Taemin, the third princess of the royal family, were sitting in the pavilion, looking at the foggy lake at this time, and talking casually.

Emma was not as vicious as people imagined at this time, she was just like an ordinary girl, with a girlish smile on her delicate little face, smiling lively, and from time to time she covered her mouth and laughed exaggeratedly, which made Taemin laugh reservedly from time to time.

Taemin smiled and glanced at the lively Emma, but he was thinking about his heart, and he was a little embarrassed about Emma's jokes after that. She lowered her head slightly, but her eyes looked at the Qionglou Yuyu that was constantly being built by the foggy lake in the distance, and sighed slightly in her heart, he was a little incomprehensible to his father's decision, and now the empire is facing a catastrophe, and his father does not want to recover the north, but he still spends a huge amount of money to build these useless buildings.

She felt anxious for the empire in her heart, but as a princess, she didn't have much right to speak out in front of her father, who had always regarded him as a girl, and so was the minister of the empire.

Emma, who had been joking, saw Taemin's lack of interest, and he was smart enough to easily think of Taemin's mood and thoughts at this time, and he waved his hand to let the maids stand back, leaving only the guards not far away.

"Emma," Taemin suddenly turned his head to look at Emma, and asked in a low tone, "What do you think of the empire now?" "She was asking Emma like she was asking, but she was more like asking herself. She already knew the answer, but she was just looking for someone else's answer.

"Of course it's good, princess." Emma blinked her eyes and replied, "The Purple Gold Empire is rich and powerful, and even in the far east, the reputation of the empire is spreading. ”

The continent where the Purple Gold Empire is located is huge, not only the Elven Empire, the Human Empire, but also other countries and tribes composed of various races. Moreover, even the elves have several different countries, and the human race is widely distributed, and the Purple Gold Empire is only one of many human empires.

"Hehe......" Taemin smiled far-fetchedly, "You're lying, Emma." I grew up with you, and no one could see it, but I could tell at a glance that you were lying, Emma. She sighed and said, "Today's empire is like the bright empire in history, it seems to be strong, but it has an empty appearance. The orc army is stationed on the other side of the Nanyun River, but the empire is spending a huge amount of money to build these things, do you think this is what a powerful empire should do? ”

She asked rhetorically, slightly agitated, and he turned his dark eyes to look at Emma, as if trying to see something on Emma's face.

"Maybe the emperor has other things in mind." Emma was not moved by Taemin's words, she said: "Those orcs are just a momentary bravery, they can't hold out for long, and in the coming year, the empire will gather a large army, and those orcs will definitely retreat, the princess doesn't have to worry." ”

Emma looked at Taemin and said, of course she knows what the empire is rotting into, but she is also smart, she knows that Taemin is a very smart princess. She knew she had always been like this, both as a child and as a present. But today's empire is definitely not something that can be supported by a princess, she doesn't want to get involved and disappear in history with this empire.

"Hmph...."Taemin snorted lightly as he looked at Emma's unmoved appearance, biting his lip and saying, "I hope the empire will be as you said it will be." He stood up, beckoned to the maid, and said, "I'm a little tired today, I'll leave first, and you can go back too." She took the maids and guards and departed.

Emma stood up and watched Taemin leave, and only then did he sit down with a soft snort and a smile on his face. Pouted, leaned back in his chair, and looked at the foggy lake where the fog had dissipated.

She felt a little sad in her heart, the simple playmate in the past had disappeared at this time, and when she entered the palace this time, the princess was not playing with her words all the time, it was nothing more than trying to pull the Rose family down on his body. But at this time, the capital empire was terminally ill, how could Emma put her family's fate on this carriage that was destined to fall apart, and left the Purple Gold Empire, and the rose family could find a support again with its strength. Whether it is the Elven Empire or other human empires, the Rose family has a lot of prestige, and she buried her hands early. Whether it's the Rhinerises family in the Northland or other newly rising powers, she has created a good relationship, so she can only apologize.

"Butler, prepare the car, let's go back." Emma beckoned to the butler, who did not know when he had entered the palace from the palace, so he walked slowly, as shy as a eunuch in the palace, crossed his legs, and said, "Master, the carriage is ready, but there is one more thing I want to tell you." He said flatteringly.

"What's the matter?" Emma seemed to have become commonplace, she asked.

"Master, Engels has returned from the Northland, and he wants to see you." Although the butler was a little flattering and cunning, he was very cautious in his work, and although he took a fancy to Engels' merits and wanted a piece of the pie, there were things he also knew that he could not get. It is also because he knows how to measure that he will become the steward of the Rose family for decades.

"He's back," Emma chuckled softly, "and it looks like he's got a lot to gain," she said, getting up and leaving with the butler.

……………..

Inside the palace, Taemin returns to his study.

Fresh air blew beside her face, and she looked through the open window at the sparkling lake of fog in the distance, from which she could see the small pavilion where she had been with Emma, and she turned back as Emma left with the butler.

At this time, I don't know when there was an extra person in his study, he was wearing a black leather coat, a black turban on his head, and even his face was covered by a black cloth, and the only thing that was revealed was a pair of eyes with black pupils. This is a private force that Taemin has privately cultivated, and all of them are special soldiers from an island to the west, skilled in detection and assassination.