With a loud bang, the gate of the imperial capital was finally breached, and the red-eyed revolutionary army troops suddenly rushed in, slashing and slashing all the way, while the remnants of the imperial defenders fought and retreated, and they quickly changed from defensive warfare to roadway warfare after losing the advantage of the city wall, and still did not give up resistance.

However, in the face of an overwhelming disparity in strength, such stubborn resistance did not have much practical effect except for delaying the complete fall of the imperial capital.

As the shouts of killing and the advance of the fighting spread, the residents of the city who were hiding in their homes were also harassed, and the sounds of fighting, fighting, screaming, and cries for help were also heard...... The entire imperial capital became chaotic.

At the same time, the imperial capital of Uptown, outside Javier's mansion.

The old butler Fabio stood on a high place and looked out at the wolf smoke in the direction of the city, his brows furrowed tightly, realizing the seriousness of the problem - the imperial capital was about to fall.

But in the face of such a situation, the gray-haired and vicissitude-looking old man did not show the slightest panic, but bowed his head and pondered for a while, and then returned to the mansion silently, and when he entered the door, he turned back and slammed the door of the mansion shut.

With a bang, it seemed that the chaos and killing of the outside world were separated by this gate.

"Grandpa housekeeper, how's the situation outside? I think I heard some voices......"

In the forecourt of the house, three young girls dressed as maids were standing side by side at this time, and the questioner was a slightly older girl with long pink hair, although she tried very hard to pretend to be calm, but with Fabio's decades of experience, it was natural to easily see the anxiety hidden in the girl's heart.

These three are none other than Al, Farr, and Luna, who were rescued by the Falcon from traffickers more than half a year ago.

As early as the place where the revolutionary army led his troops to attack Bishui Pass, Fabio, who helped Javier manage the imperial capital mansion, had already dismissed all the servants in the family, and only those who were sold to the imperial capital were left, except for the three poor girls who had nowhere to go here.

“…… It's very bad, the walls of the imperial capital still haven't been able to stop the attack of the revolutionary army after all, the chaos has spread to the city, although there are still resisting troops, but it is only a matter of time before those rebels enter the upper city. ”

Fabio didn't hide it, he chose to tell the truth to the girls, with the current situation, even if he concealed it, it would be exposed immediately, and there was no point at all.

Hearing the news, the three girls all turned white, and their expressions could not hide their worries and fears.

After all, this is a war, a word that is several times more terrible than a natural disaster, and it is no wonder that they reacted like this.

As the subjects of the defeated side, especially those who are connected to the number one enemy of the revolutionary army, General Javier, who knows how they will be treated in the future? The girls have never experienced such a thing, but even if they have a flower field in their heads, they will not be optimistic about the next treatment.

Luna, the most introverted of the three, subconsciously pinched her skirt with her fingers, subconsciously swallowed her saliva, looked up at Fabio, and asked cautiously, "...... Will it die? ”

Fabio rubbed Luna's little head with some pity and kindness, and said, "No, it's not to that point of despair...... While the street fighting in the outer city can still hold the revolutionary army for a while, grandpa will take you out of the imperial capital. ”

"Leave?" Farr, who had short wild blond hair, wondered, "But now the whole city is surrounded by the revolutionary army!" How are we going to leave? ”

"Of course, there is a way...... There is an escape passage leading to the outside of the city in this mansion, except for Young Master Javier, only I, as a housekeeper, know that it is extremely hidden, and we can escape through this. ”

"Oh, is this what a high-status person calls an insurance measure? We saw it when we first came to the Imperial Capital! Right, Al? ”

"Seems to be the ...... thing"

After Farr's reminder, a vague memory flashed in Al's mind.

At the beginning, those bad nobles who colluded with human traffickers opened a secret passage and wanted to escape, but they were turned into sugar gourds by General Javier's shot, and she was scared at that time, and she didn't dare to look closely, but Farr, a nervous guy, watched the whole battle with relish, and secretly got excited for a long time, no wonder she was so impressed.

Seeing that the expressions of the three girls gradually became clearer, Fabio smiled and said, "Okay, you guys go back and prepare, bring the necessary things, and we will set off as soon as possible!" ”

Hearing this, Al, Farr, and Luna hurriedly trotted back to their room, and about five minutes later, when they packed their bags and came out again, they saw that the old butler Fabio was already waiting in place with a bag on his shoulder, and what was particularly striking was that Fabio was also carrying a huge black iron battle axe behind him.

He took off his perennial butler uniform, and put on a neat suit that was more convenient for action, coupled with the rather conspicuous battle axe, Fabio's temperament added a bit of the iron-blooded demeanor of the military era, and it was hard to imagine that this was the physical strength that an old man who was nearly seventy years old should have.

This giant battle axe was Fabio's weapon when he was young, and it had also been stained with the blood of countless aliens on the battlefield in the southwest, and after retiring, it had been sealed in the corner for a long time.

I thought that this weapon would be sealed until he died of old age, but now he suddenly encountered such a change as the fall of the imperial capital, for the sake of safety on the way to escape, he had to hold the handle of the axe again, and the blood flowing in various parts of his body that had not yet completely cooled was boiling again with the revival of the fighting heart!

Thirty years ago, the fierce general of the Southwest Legion, "Shattered Ghost" Fabio, who once shook the empire, is finally about to wield his battle axe again!

"Let's go, let's get out of here and go to the east to find Master Javier......"

The auspiciousness along the way is unknown, but the big axe is destined to be stained with blood, with such a determination, the old man and the three girls disappeared in the flames of war in the imperial capital.

-

Outside the imperial capital, in the center of the revolutionary army's military formation, Ulysses sat on the seat of a tall war chariot, his chin rested on the back of his hand, his posture was quite casual, and he looked at the scene of the city gate being smashed to pieces by the siege hammer in the distance with a smile, and he did not seem very excited, but only calm in his eyes, as if all this was happening in front of him as a matter of course.

Ulysses knew the fall of the imperial capital in his hands long before the war began, and everything he saw before him was just a normal performance of a script written by the god of fate.

There is a legend in the eastern part of the empire that the Taoist master of Anning was able to catch a glimpse of the apocalypse and predict the occurrence of disasters.

Even if it is called a rumor, there must be a lot of untruths in it, any revelation, what gifts from the gods, all are nonsense, a means to deceive the foolish, but that being said, there is a real thing about the part that predicts the catastrophe.

The ability to predict the future, Ulysses does have this mysterious and unspeakable power, but such a force is completely uncontrollable, he cannot manipulate it with subjective will, can only passively accept, for the various characteristics it shows, Ulysses prefers to use the name "prophetic dream" to summarize his ability.

As the name suggests, this ability is only activated irregularly in his sleep, and Ulysses occasionally sees scattered images of the future, mostly insignificant, but sometimes there are a few cases of great significance.

is like the fallen imperial capital in front of you.

I remember that on the eve of the war, Ulysses told Reinhardt that he had a dream in which the imperial capital was broken, the emperor was beheaded, and the dynasty was overthrown......

This is not a dream talk, but a foreknowledge of the future, and from the moment such a scene is presented in Ulysses's dream, it becomes a fact that is destined to happen, just like fate, as long as you are under the constraints of the web of fate, no one can violate and reverse it.

So Ulysses was confident throughout the war, as if he had a pearl of wisdom in his hands, and the situation went very smoothly as he expected.

Reinhardt inflicted a heavy blow on Javier at Anning Road, and the father and daughter duo of Lagarde and Cardina held back Estes on the Western Front, and even if the appearance of the Supreme Emperor almost turned the tide of the battle, he arranged for Tazmi, a card of victory discovered through foresight, to end the trouble...... Throughout the whole process, Ulysses actually walked all the way to the day of the fall of the imperial capital without danger.

"The overall situation has been decided, and I will take over the imperial capital......

With the half-covered mask on his face that showed only his chin and eyes, Ulysses' lips curled into a demonic smile, and he pondered with interest some of the problems he might encounter in the future, whether he should resort to gentle means or direct violence.

"Next, as long as I hold on to the internal power and completely extinguish the remaining fires of the empire in the east and west, I can truly establish a country of my own......"

"Javier Salmondo, and Estes Barutes...... I hope you don't disappoint me, it's rare to have such a grand game, and it would be a little too boring to win the final victory without a little twists and turns......"

-

At the same moment, at the Grand Canal docks, a little far from the war in the imperial capital, Lan and Sibia finally walked through the intricate palace passages and walked out of an inconspicuous dense forest.

They finally glanced at the wolf-filled imperial capital from afar, their eyes were complicated and indescribable, and then they finally relented and resolutely ran to a small steamer that had long been docked by the river.

The Grand Canal connects the east and west, and is a natural trade route that supplies many cities along the way, eventually joining the boundless East China Sea.

As long as they take a boat down the river, if nothing else, it will only take a few days to reach the eastern theater where Xavier is currently located, and they must convey what happened in the imperial capital to Xavier as soon as possible.

Thinking of the news that Javier was seriously injured and that the situation was now unknown, Spia's already unspeakable sadness tightened even more, she had lost a vital person in her life, and she could not afford to lose another.

And just before Lan and Sibia were about to board the ship, an indifferent male voice suddenly sounded out of thin air like a ghost.

"Originally, I thought that what appeared from the secret passage of the palace should at least be an important person at the level of the emperor and the minister of Jolly, but I didn't expect it to be just two small fish and shrimp, Ulysses really played an indifferent idle chess hand......"

"Well, it's okay to do anything like that...... Hold on to it, and in that case, I won't kill you. ”

As he spoke, a handsome man in pitch-black armor with pale golden hair paced in the shadows of the woods, his steps were obviously not fast, but he crossed a distance of dozens of meters in an instant, and finally stood calmly opposite Lan and Spiya, his eyes were as cold as an ancient well, and there was a kind of bone-chilling coldness.

Being watched quietly like this, Lan and Sibia both subconsciously breathed sluggishly, instinctively feeling an unbearable sense of oppression and heaviness, and were fortunate to experience the mood of a small animal thrown into the lion king's cage.

They didn't even need to fight, the two of them could understand through their intuition that the strength of the black-armored man in front of them was like a difference between them and them.

Does this person say......

After seeing the man's image clearly, Lan's mind suddenly flashed the name of someone in the revolutionary army, whether it was a conspicuous appearance or a monster-level power, it was completely consistent, and his heart suddenly became cold.

The person who came was naturally the "Black Knight" Reinhardt, who had just killed General Bud at the head of the imperial capital, and was assigned a new mission by Ulysses shortly after returning to the main formation, and the content of the mission was waiting in ambush at the docks of the Grand Canal.

The fact that there was a secret passage for escape on the lower floor of the palace had already been clarified by Ulysses through the investigation of the secret agents planted in the palace, and it was naturally impossible for him, who had always been meticulous, to miss this link.

Because it was not clear the specific situation of the palace at this time, but he had seen the scene of the Supreme Emperor being knocked down from a distance, and Ulysses was not sure whether the little emperor and the minister Jolly would have a chance to escape from the chaos.

In order to deal with it, he arranged for heavy troops to guard several exits of the secret passage in advance, and because he speculated that the escapees were the most likely to escape from the Grand Canal docks, he even transferred the idle Reinhardt here, and the strategy behind the scenes has reached the limit.

It's just that Ulysses probably didn't expect that the two goals that he originally focused on were left in the palace without exception, and only two young men and women with unknown names were waiting for them.

Although Reinhardt didn't know them, he could know by guessing that this should be someone with a certain status in the imperial court, and at the very least, he was also a relationship with a certain high-ranking person, so it was naturally impossible to let it go.

So Reinhardt raised his hand and drew the great sword hanging from his waist, and held it diagonally in front of him, waiting for the reaction of the two young men and women, and did not talk nonsense.

In terms of carrying out the mission, Reinhardt, as the leader of the Death Thorns, is undoubtedly the most upright and serious of the seven, just like his strict character, it is impossible for him to take it lightly in battle or even release water for fun.

Both Lan and Spiya understood what Reinhardt's eyes meant...... Captured or killed, choose one, you just choose one, and I'll do the rest.

Silently glancing at each other, confirming a certain firm will in the other party's eyes, Lan and Sibia stood side by side, each of them sinking their steps, holding their weapons, and putting on a posture of battle.

Although they did not speak, such actions have been silent about their choice - there is no possibility of taking prisoners, only fighting!