Chapter 292: The Eastern Roman Empire "Princess" Semiramis
A stunning girl in a long black dress stood on the top of the palace and looked at the boundless continent beneath her feet.
She has been at this peculiar point for more than four hundred years.
Although it was only a year since she was active on the stage as the protagonist, perhaps the similarities in her memory made her choose to carefully watch the ups and downs of the four-hundred-year-old empire, especially what happened in such a palace full of certain dark qualities.
Conspiracy, rebellion, power, poisoning, the aging of the emperor, the incompetence of the young emperor, like a world of strange beings, such a small court gathers all the evil things in the world.
It's a bit nostalgic.
For now, though, the palace and even the city are their own.
All the nobles who would threaten her, whether they were powerful nobles or ministers, were killed or poisoned, and the army was replaced with more obedient dragontooth soldiers, leaving a relatively cooperative patriarch.
and a city in the sky that is completely modeled after the vanity courtyard in the sky, ten times larger than the original, enough to accommodate half a million people, and includes up to five layers of composite defense magic.
The girl has been living quite peacefully in the past year.
The changes are from the last two months.
The overhead barrier gradually weakened, and the remaining territory of the Eastern Roman Empire was repeatedly invaded, and the magic that hid the city suddenly lost its effect, and even the supply of magic power gradually became difficult.
Trouble after trouble occurred and she knew that the moment was coming.
"In that case, it's time for the master to appear!" The girl plays with the Holy Grail in her hand, don't look at the Holy Grail can fulfill her wish, because of some special reasons, the second special point of the Holy Grail is imposed on the Holy Grail War restrictions, only the ownership of Constantinople has settled, the victor is eligible to move to the Holy Grail to make a wish.
The maid came up behind her, "Princess, the nobles are plotting to overthrow your rule in order to regain control of Constantinople and return the city to the skies and hide from the barbarians of the land. They've even secretly chosen the court magician they want to succeed you. ”
The girl stared at the maid and gave an order: "Say their names, do you think I want to clash with the barbarians, this is just fate, so short-sighted, it is better to die early." ”
The maid shuddered as she uttered the names one by one, and she saw the girl repeat them in a strange and mysterious tone and tone, and then she closed her eyes, knowing that every time the maiden pronounced a name, it meant that someone had died.
Another bishop rushed in and urgently reported something new.
"A total of twenty people came to the city wall and jumped into the sea to commit suicide, can't Her Royal Highness the princess stop it? Have those believers forgotten the Lord's commandment! ”
"My bishop, the walls of Constantinople are twenty-one kilometers long, and no matter how prepared our army is, the people who want to die will always find an opportunity."
The bishop was speechless, he knew very well that Constantinople had more important matters to attend to, and it was only because of his status as a clergyman that he did not expect to see such a scene happen.
In this way, it seems that the people of the whole city have a premonition of impending calamity, and the people here have enjoyed more than two hundred years of comfort, and have not fallen since the foundation of Constantinople, so they are the most unacceptable of such an end.
And no matter how you deal with these messy things, you will only find that there are more and more things to deal with, and even the girl who is very good at government affairs will feel bored and irritable.
The only thought she had was probably that the master would surprise herself and save herself when she was most helpless, which seemed to be quite an interesting script, and the previous peculiarity, Miss Joan of Arc, had also been treated like this.
Seven days later.
The Royal Palace of Constantinople.
Patriarch of Arcacsius of the Diocese of Constantine stood beside the maiden, flanked by the few remaining Eastern Roman courtiers, all cowering at their princess.
In front of them were twenty armored dragon's fangs, and the corpses of twenty rebellious ministers who had just had their heads cut off and refused to obey.
The girl did not feel the slightest guilt, and faced everyone indifferently: "If I said that in seven days someone would stand up and save Constantinople, would you believe it?" ”
"Your Royal Highness Princess, now that the barbarians and the terrifying demon kings have gathered in the original site of New Rome, we think it is better to avoid the edge."
"It is rumored that a dead Roman emperor has appeared, and it is said that he wants to restore Rome." Another minister whispered.
"The probability of this is too low, even the great Caesar, Augustus did not be resurrected, maybe the demons are trying to deceive the people." Ministers expressed their disbelief.
"I tell you, Constantinople is not going anywhere else, it must return to its original location and regather its magic through the spiritual veins of the earth."
"Princess, I heard that you have a collection of items called the Holy Grail, and if you use it, the city can fly again."
"The Holy Grail does function as a universal wishing machine, but only the uncrowned king of Constantinople is eligible to use it, and neither I nor any of you have obtained this qualification at the moment."
Everyone was discussing, but in the face of an increasingly imminent situation, there was still no agreement.
The girl sensed something and pointed outside, "Enough, face your fate, look outside!" ”
Everyone saw that their city was slowly descending, from the initial height of 10,000 meters, after this time back to a thousand meters, not only that, but the city was now just above the original site of Constantinople, standing here enough to see the barbarian tent stretching for dozens of kilometers under the clouds.
Many fell to the ground, weeping in sorrow.
There are also a few people with a resolute look on their faces, understanding that there is no other choice, it is better to go all the way to the end.
Of course, many more are indifferent, or don't know what to do.
The girl smiled with hatred of iron and steel, "Barbarians, it's not so terrible, let me see what you are so powerful." ”
Constantinople suddenly froze in mid-air, and the eleven stone slabs painted with Warcraft patterns on the first layer of the periphery were flipped, and the surface gathered magic, and it was the turn of the second layer, the third layer... A total of five layers of defense spells are all enabled by the girl.,After the charge is completed, ten thousand cannons are fired!
A piercing light blooms over the Bosphorus.
At the same time, within 20 kilometers of Fang Yuan, 55 balls of light fell to the ground and exploded, releasing a dazzling light that pierced the night, penetrated the sea, and could be seen in the city more than 100 kilometers away.
After the smoke rolled, I saw that there were more than 55 potholes with a diameter of hundreds of meters, a large number of barbarian tents had disappeared, and a large number of barbarian soldiers were poured on the edges of the pits, and it seemed that the bombing effect was good, at least nearly 10,000 barbarian soldiers were annihilated.
Soon, Constantinople ushered in the barbarian counterattack, seeing the barbarian soldiers who had not yet died quickly got up, regardless of the blood, grabbed their bows and arrows, flew over a kilometer, and shot into the sky, and even, more than twenty huge trebuchets fired huge metal balls weighing dozens of tons into the sky.
There was a slight shaking at the bottom of Constantinople, although it was not enough to shake the foundations of the city's existence, and if such attacks were allowed to increase, it would certainly cause trouble.
Following an army composed entirely of harpy banshees, they landed by air, and suddenly brought nearly a thousand losses to the dragontooth soldiers guarding the city walls.
However, the defense of Constantinople was in the interval of accumulating magic power, and it was expected that a second round of bombardment would be launched in half an hour, and in a short time, they had to rely on the original defense of the city to defend against the enemy.
"Oops, can't I be the main character this time? Obviously, I fight for it every time. Even so, the girl thought to herself, such a thing would not be enough to affect her determination.