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On the outskirts of the northern part of the city, there is a magic crystal mine that has been abandoned for many years.

Before Scott City was built, it was still a famous vein of magic crystals. Not only is this vein extremely large in scope and high in yield, but the purity of the magic crystal is several times higher than that of other veins in the surrounding area.

The famous ore vein attracted a large number of people to come to mine and exploit it, and gradually formed a small settlement with the magic crystal mine as the core in the surrounding area, and the prototype of Scott City was formed from this.

With the development and evolution of human civilization, the original small settlement has also become the magnificent capital of today, and it no longer lives on the magic crystal, and this mine where the magic crystal has dried up has been idle.

Due to the wide range of tunnels used to mine the crystals, and the hollow belly of the mountain was not suitable for building houses, the area was gradually forgotten and became an inaccessible and abandoned land.

"Da-da..."

In a mine near the outer city, a flash of fire lit up. A woman dressed as a maid stumbles out of the mine with a torch in hand.

"Whew... Call... Finally... Finally escaped..."

Like Juanjuan spring water, a refreshing female voice sounded, and the woman pulled down the dusty hood covered with cobwebs with her slender wrists.

With beautiful hair, slender willow eyebrows, a pair of eyes like stars like the bright moon, delicate Qiong's nose is delicate and dripping with lips, and her face is slightly red because of strenuous exercise, she is Angelina, the eldest princess known as Scott's first beauty!

But now, she is dressed in a mess, and she really can't be linked to the title of princess...

A few months ago, King Freeman suddenly fell ill and was diagnosed by the royal doctor as dying.

Angelina's older brother and younger brothers began to fight for the throne, and officials large and small within the empire also stood in line.

Before the old king died, several princes fought with each other, assassinations and conspiracies emerged one after another.

After a fight, the original crown prince was killed by the killers sent by the third prince and the second prince, and the third prince, who lost the enemy, also fought with the second prince non-stop, and even drew his sword at the court meeting, which simply lost the face of the royal family.

If that's all it takes, it's just a miserable succession war, and there's nothing worth studying.

But in fact, from the king's illness to the prince's fight, all of this was operated by the Northern Grand Public Security Drew.

When the second prince who killed his younger brother happily waited for the old king to die and then ascend the throne as king, Grand Duke Andrew, who had been hidden in the royal capital for a long time, rushed into the palace with the elite of the Bein family at lightning speed, took down the second prince and other royal family members, and held an enthronement ceremony in the name of the new king the next day.

Of course, a group of officials who had already been bought off answered the call and participated in the grand ceremony. When several royal diehards who were dissatisfied with Andrew's actions were executed, when they saw the powerful low-level officials on the other side, they fell with the wind and joined Archduke Andrew... Oh no, His Majesty Andrew's camp.

Anyway, it's about serving people, and it's different who to serve.

In this way, the uncrowned king of the north became a true king.

Out of the consideration of public opinion, Andrew did not kill the old king, but put them under house arrest in the palace.

In order to defeat the rebellious Grand Duke of the North and save the royal family under house arrest, the second prince secretly handed over the royal documents to his sister Angelina, who was not well guarded, and entrusted her to go to Middle-earth to ask for help from Scott's allies.

Finally, Angelina, who found an opportunity, successfully escaped from the palace using the secret passage with the assistance of several royal guards.

And now, she only needs to bring the documents in her arms to the countries of Middle-earth, and the royal family will have hope of recovering the country.

"You can't grind, you have to hurry!"

Angelina muttered a word and quickly applied a cleansing technique to herself to clean the dust from her body. Then he took off the package on his back, took out a travel suit commonly used by adventurers, took off the maid costume and quickly changed into this outfit.

An adventurer who is common in the continent of Dahlak is freshly baked - although her face is a bit pretty...

Angelina piled up the clothes she had changed into and burned them all with a fireball, then she exhaled, pulled up the face towel, walked out of the mining area quickly, and disappeared into the thick fog in the mountains and forests...

After about a quarter of an hour, three strangely dressed figures surrounded by rags appeared in the mine.

It seemed that the tall and thin man in the lead took out a strange gem, looked at it, and then quickly flashed to the location where Andylina was just now with two of his subordinates.

The tall, thin man crouched down to inspect the burnt clothes, and then removed a few hair-like strands from it.

"The clothes were destroyed, and the marks on the body were removed by magic..."

The tall and thin man frowned and thought for a moment, then dropped the filament and stood up,

"It's been a while since she's gone, and she can't chase her directly, so let's go back and make a difference..."

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In a side hall in the palace, the new King Andrew is discussing the current situation in the Scott Empire with General Owen and his son.

"How's the Southern Family doing?"

"Your Majesty, most of the families in the south have accepted your rule, and the remaining few are not to be worried, just leave them to the dogs to deal with." Imperial General Owen pointed to his son Fell.

"Oh haha, I almost forgot about the capable Phil, this victory is thanks to you!" Andrew smiled and looked at Fell, who was now the Southern Patrol Envoy, with admiration.

Andrew's success in usurping the throne was indispensable to the help of a number of officials. Among them, General Owen's father and son can be said to be the most helpful to him.

Owen naturally doesn't need to say much, if there is no support from the army, how can Andrew say that he will ascend the throne; As for Fair, he is the key to Andrew's success.

Prior to his appointment as an Inspector, Fell was the commander of the Imperial Capital's Forbidden Army. It was precisely because he controlled the forbidden army from the inside, released the guarded pass, and allowed the elite of the northern realm to raid in, that Andrew was able to successfully capture the old king's line and finally ascend to the throne.

Therefore, Andrew admires Fair as a hero very much.

"Your Majesty has won the award, and it is my honor to be able to do things for Your Majesty." In the face of the king's praise, Fell responded with neither humility nor arrogance, and at the same time complimented him.

"Owen, your son's official tone is slippery! Haha~"

"The king laughed, Fell has lived in the army all the year round, and I hope Your Majesty will forgive me if it is not appropriate." Owen, bowed, respectfully.

"The general is polite......"

"Your Majesty!"

A palace attendant hurried into the main hall and fell to his knees.

"Get up, what's the matter?" Andrew asked immediately, knowing that if there was no urgency, the chamberlain would not bother them at this time.

"This—" The guard glanced at the Imperial General's father and son, and stopped talking.

"It's okay, just say it!"

"Yes!" Seeing that His Majesty agreed, the chamberlain bowed his head and saluted again, and then immediately said:

"Your Majesty, just now there was news from below, Princess Angelina escaped from the secret passage of the palace with the documents with the old king's imperial seal, and has lost her trace."

"What!"

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