Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 infoThe early morning light shines through the terraces, slowly filling the room through the narrow windows, and almost every detail of the walls above the soaring dome and around the walls has been carved by the most famous artists and craftsmen in the mainland

With a few solid gold candlesticks in the four corners of the huge room full of Empire style and even royal imprints, and the portrait paintings on the walls that are enough to drive connoisseurs and scholars crazy, representing the coat of arms of the royal family throughout the ages, and the totemic decoration from the most mysterious and gloomy barbarians of the Misty Mountains in the Empire, I am afraid that buying a small part of the decoration of this room is enough to bankrupt a wealthy baron......

And these treasures of inestimable value were now overturned or beaten rudely and dullly, perhaps because of the old man who was lying quietly on the bed in the middle of the room......

The low sobs of women and children came from time to time from the crowd gathered around the bed, and the atmosphere was extremely oppressive and dim, and even the entire dome made of precious glass could not be dispelled by the desperate reflection of bright light

An aura of decay and decay that pervades every inch of the surrounding space fills the space around it......

"Your Majesty......"

A pair of fair-skinned and well-maintained palms that still could not hide the folds gently held the old man's withered and white right hand, and the graceful and gorgeous imperial queen, Elena de Lancaster Chang, who was once the most dazzling pearl of the Lancaster family, the most precious little princess, could no longer maintain her appearance, and sat down sobbing and paralyzed

She gently rubbed the old man's shriveled and flabby arm with her cheek, the grief and reluctance in her eyes even the gods couldn't bear to look at it directly, perhaps it was the scattered silver hair that inadvertently swept the tip of the old man's nose, and the slight itching made him finally slowly open his eyes again after falling into an intermittent coma

"Huh~Huh~~~Huh......"

Like a bellows, the breath can never satisfy the overwhelmed lungs, the chest is like pressing a boulder that makes Leo feel pain, the power that he was once proud of has long disappeared with the aging of nature, and the fairness of nature makes everyone have no additional experience of this despair and this powerless humility at such a time......

Barely moving his fingers, gently scratching his lover's palm as he had when he was young, Leo winked apologetically at Elena, who was ecstatic to see him awake, and reluctantly turned his head with all his strength, and spat out a name in a faint voice

Kai...... Keith ......"

"Boom!"

The metal armor slammed into the sound of gold and stone on the woolen carpet a few inches thick, still burly and strong, and even did not have any old appearance, the current Grand Master of the Punishment Knights, the only existing knight of the Empire who was canonized by the Emperor himself, the Honorary Duke of the Empire, and the honorary Grand Master of all the Knights of the Empire, Keith Zhang, knelt down on one knee with a helmet in one hand

This great knight, who had never cried in his life, even when he died in battle with his comrades, but at this moment, his handsome face had long been blurred by tears

He held back his grief with almost all the strength of his body, trembling and whispering in a calm voice as much as possible

"Of your will, my lord!"

The familiar answer and voice made Leo a little trance for a while, and the chaotic brain, which could barely think, appeared in an instant with unbelievable clarity, from the arrival on this continent, from the first battle, everything was like a movie that was rewinded, and passed quickly in his mind......

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"No!! My lord!!! ”

Anthony's hot blood splattered Leo's stunned and sluggish face, and he stretched out his hand blankly to grab the body of his loyal knight, but he couldn't suppress his horror to find that the long black knife that came out of his body seemed to have life, and was frantically sucking Antony's flesh and even soul......

The strong body quickly withered, almost in an instant, as if a thousand years had passed, but Leo's outstretched arm could only grasp the gritty dust after Anthony shattered

Even...... Even Leo didn't have a chance to see the last expression of his close comrades, is it remorse? Is it gratifying? It's still the same gentle and majestic smile......

Two lines of cloudy tears gently slid down the cheeks of the old man on the bed, and the scene of Anthony's sacrifice to protect himself suddenly slowly dissipated like a broken screen

"My lord, use your weapon, use your sword, hurry up my lord, this is our last chance!!"

"No, I can't do Finn, I can't do it!"

"Leo, you have to do it, don't make Anthony and our sacrifice worthless, don't!! As a good ruler, you will face more cruel choices in your life, and you must ......"

"Ahhh

"Ahem...... Ahem, you did it, you did it, adult, this is my ...... The last thing I'll do for you, as your friend...... Thing...... Will you be...... Was a great ......."

Grand Master of the Punishment Knights, one of the most powerful Grand Knights in the Pander Continent, Fern Zhang lowered his head with a smile, but even if he lost his life, his limbs and his torso were still tightly imprisoned by the demon leader who had been given more power by the Demon God

It took a few moments for Leo to stumble off the unicorn's back, and he reached out with trembling hands to the hilt of the sword that pierced the heart of the demon and Finn, but he could not hold it again anyway

"Finn! No!!!! ”

The fragments of memory shattered again and fell into the eternal darkness of his heart, and Leo let Keys help him sit up with difficulty, despite the opposition of all the important ministers of the empire, his wife and children, leaning on the soft velvet pillow, and his mind returned to the battlefield of the past......

Never daring to touch the sword that had taken Finn's life, Leo stood in the middle of the battlefield with blood-red eyes, his sturdy paladin armor cracked everywhere, blood and sweat dripping through the cracks

But as if it weren't his own body that was scarred, Leo looked around with one hand holding the equally broken and twisted shield without seeing joy or sorrow

In the farthest distance, the Noldor Dawn Knight, who had finally fallen into hand-to-hand combat, set off a storm of blood with the light of the snow sword in the demon archer camp, and Aldalian, one of the last three lords of the Noldor in the world, was now wrestling with the cruel terror knight on the muddy ground without any grace, and the elven arrows broken in two were piercing the enemy's eye sockets with a frantic roar

Behind him, the nobles led the last hundreds of exhausted human knights to strangle the demon knights of less than ten, while Lester Crester stood in place with a grief on his face, the usually heroic lord holding the mangled body of Cardinal Kane Hugh Lenslot and the already cold body of the Marquis of Hohenzollern

After a long time, Leo leaned down and gently picked up the unconscious Keith and fixed him on Keely's back, his gaze swept over the central battlefield

The infantry of the Dark Believers, who had fallen into despair and madness, and the human soldiers, whose numbers had also been reduced to less than three thousand, were fighting with their lives, teeth, nails, stones...... Everything they could use seemed to have become their weapons, and they were like wild beasts constantly devouring and biting each other, never dying......

Farther away, Trinath, the beautiful countess from the Southern Realm, cried lonely on the edge of the battlefield with Marcel's head in her arms, and the body of the Southern Sword Saint who had done all this for her was held in her arms by her other arm......

I don't know how long it took, but the noise of the battlefield finally stopped, and the wails of the dead soldiers and knights slowly filled this dirty and bloody land

"Click, click......"

The soft sound of horses' hooves came from behind the distracted Leo, and the visitor slowed down desperately as if he was afraid of disturbing his musings

Facing the back of Leo, who was stained red with blood, Marshal El Andergrims turned his head and exchanged glances with Grand Master Saru, who was also tired and survived, and finally spoke cautiously

"Your Excellency...... The war is over, although ...... Although I grieve as much as you do, we have won after all, haven't we......"

didn't turn around, and after a while, just when Al couldn't help but be ready to speak again, Leo's emotionless voice came coldly

"Really? My friend? Victory, if there was a choice, I swear I'd rather not have such a victory, power? Status? Excuse? Can we really say the word victory now? Finn, Anthony, Kane, Hohenzollern, and all those warriors, do they want such a victory? Answer me, my marshal! ”

There was a long silence, Al didn't speak, he understood that at this moment, Ao was not asking for an answer, he just needed a way to vent, that's all

With a heavy sigh of empathy, Saru next to him turned over and dismounted, turned his head to look at the city gate of the imperial capital that was constantly opening, and the gorgeous costumes that were faintly behind the door, shook his head and said to Leo

"Your Highness, I am Saru, please forgive me for having to interrupt your grief, I think the people of the imperial capital, the nobles, and the Bernadotte family are eagerly looking forward to your presence at this time."

Turning around, Leo's blood-red eyes made Grand Master of Glory almost unable to help but take a step back, and he spoke softly, in a tone that didn't feel mockery or other feelings

"Really? In what capacity? Prisoner or something else? ”

Finally glancing at the thin figure that appeared in front of the gate of the imperial capital, Saru gritted his teeth and led hundreds of glorious knights behind him to kneel down on one knee

"Conqueror, Your Highness, the entire empire will offer you loyalty and life, and I swear to you as a true knight that I will never allow any more war between humans! Peace will come, and you will be crowned Emperor! ”