Imperial capital, imperial palace.

It's still the palace garden that can be called gold everywhere in the outside world, but this time Shanna's mentality is completely different.

The last time I came here, because I had only crossed for a long time, I lacked confidence in my heart, and because the gap between the turtle and the local tyrant was so big that Alexander.

And this time, her net worth is not said to exceed that of the royal family, but she can definitely be regarded as a new local tyrant, as for her own strength, although she is still a junior professional, she has a half-step epic thug by her side.

Even if there is a deeply hidden epic realm in the royal family, if you can't beat yourself, you can definitely get out of the way.

Not to mention the larger scope, at least within the scope of the imperial capital, there are basically no things that can threaten one's personal safety.

In this way, Shanna has the leisure to carefully observe the Qiē around her.

(Emma...... Is there really something? ）

Soon Shanna noticed that there was a faint magic flowing throughout the palace.

This magic power is very weak, mixed with the regular magic in the air, if it weren't for the fact that her perception has reached a new level after condensing the will emblem, I'm afraid that even if she has the perception of the elf race, she won't be able to sense it.

Therefore, even though the council hall was often full of people coming and going, and even among these people, there were many magicians with outstanding perception, but no one had ever noticed the anomaly of the flow of magic power.

"This magic is extremely secretive, and it seems to connect the council hall and the other palaces in the palace...... What exactly is the structure? A mere defensive magic array? No, the palace's defensive magic array is not this structure, this magic structure is more like ...... A suppressive magic array? ”

Shanna was immediately shocked by her own speculation.

What is being suppressed under the palace?!

Originally, she hadn't entered the inner hall yet, so she was bored to trace the flow of hidden magic power, but she didn't expect to find a huge magic array enveloping the palace!

"Sure enough, these structures are 'sealing', 'suppression,'' 'permanence,' 'devouring,' and 'extracting'...... It's all like a structure used to suppress a certain deposit! That said. The flow of abnormal magic in this air should not be a magic array itself, but a huge magic array stored underground, because it is so large that a trace of power leaks out, causing abnormal magic fluctuations above? ”

Shanna is speculating, but now she doesn't have more equipment and equipment, and it is impossible for her to do it on the spot, so the various thoughts in her mind can only be ideas, and it is not yet possible to fully verify which one is the reality.

Just as Shanna was thinking about what was hidden under the palace, the courtyard outside the council hall began to gather the major nobles.

And there was a chestnut-haired middle-aged man, after seeing Shanna. Immediately strode over, with a smile on his face, but with a mockery that everyone could see.

"Eh, isn't this the Venerable Sage of Nassar? Your Excellency has been absent from His Majesty's summons five times, but time is running out. So often seriously ill in bed and unable to enter the palace? ”

Shanna, interrupted by her thoughts, turned her head. looked blankly at the middle-aged man in a luxurious dress in front of him.

In her estimation. The middle-aged dress is not only so expensive that ordinary people can't afford it for a lifetime, but the process of wearing it is also extremely complicated, so Shanna can't help but wonder if he cut it directly with scissors when he went home to undress?

And of course more importantly -

"Oh, who are you?"

The chestnut-haired middle-aged man's face suddenly froze.

Nesat. Edric doesn't even know him?! Is this possible!

To sum it up in one sentence, the two are officials in the same dynasty (that's what it means anyway), and every time they meet the emperor, they don't look up and don't look down. The earl and the aristocratic officials above the earl are basically known to everyone.

Even if you don't know each other, at least you have a familiar face, and you can call people's names to some extent.

And Shanna opened her mouth like this and asked, "Who are you?" ...... Almost unlikely.

Almost instantly, the middle-aged chestnut had already decided that Shanna was playing stupid.

At the same time, there are some thoughts in the bottom of my heart: although it is said that this Nesat. Edric is a legendary powerhouse. But the legendary powerhouse also has a lifespan limit, and it is generally the limit to live to be about 500 years old.

And Nessart. Edric ...... Chances are a legend whose deadline is approaching!

Otherwise, in the face of the previous decline, why should he swallow his anger?

This is obviously because time is running out, so he wants to leave a way back for the Sage Tower, so that the tower can still gain a foothold in the imperial capital after his death!

Coupled with Shanna's cousin who always nests in the tower and stays at home, it makes him confirm this guess!

It is only when the end of old age and physical decay is approaching that people will gradually stop moving, stay in the house and wait for death to approach.

"Hehe, Lord Edric, please don't be kidding. I'm Nixos, and we've met in front of the Council Hall before. ”

"Met?" Shanna's brow furrowed even deeper, and she glanced up and down Nixos several times, still feeling unimpressed, "You really met me?" Could it be that you actually want to climb my line at all, so that's why you pretend to know me? ”

In fact, at this time, she remembered who Nixsos was.

GAO Ji. Nixos, known as the "Marquis of Chijin" who made you bankrupt, can be said to be the same as the smiling lion among the nobles of the imperial capital. An aristocrat of Enston's name.

However, with Shanna's memory, if it is an ordinary thing, she definitely belongs to the level of unforgettable, and what can make her forget something is either that she fell under someone's spell, or she subconsciously felt that this matter was really not important, and the reporter was also a waste of brain storage space, so she forgot about it on the spot.

From Gao Ji. Judging from Nixos's reputation, Shanna thinks that the latter situation is very likely.

However, at this time, she didn't want to turn her face, and more attention was still on studying the strange suppression magic array, so she simply said perfunctory.

"Oh, it's the Marquis of Nixos! Look up for a long time, look up for a long time! The old man still remembers that day when he accidentally saw Your Excellency in the fragrant house for a minute, three heroic postures! It really makes the old man ashamed and embarrassed, and he is embarrassed to be ......"

When Shanna said this, she was completely casual about whatever she remembered. I didn't care what I said.

Because at this time, she found a lot of wonderful structures in this suppression magic array, which opened her eyes, and she immediately rushed to study them.

In fact, she was already able to understand some of the books in the Sage's Tower, but many of them were not on-site observation after all, and even if she had questions, she might not be able to answer them.

And the magic array on the side of Sky City was completely incomprehensible...... There is no way, the magic array that can be suppressed even by disasters is really not something she can understand now.

In this way, the magic array in front of her has become the best prop for Shanna to deduce calculations in her mind on the spot and quickly enrich her alchemical insights.

It's just that what she said is actually just a patchwork of nonsense. But he still pieced together a coherent meaning, and this coherent meaning fell on the ears of the nobles who had gathered around him, and suddenly it became different.

A house full of fragrance? This place sounds romantic, but in fact it probably has to be removed from the comic word.

It is not a pastry or dessert shop, but the largest women's welfare organization in the red light district of the imperial capital!

What is a Women's Welfare Organization?

Commonly known as a brothel is also!

It's just that the second round of the imperial capital's anti-pornography campaign has been launched again. The word "brothel", which sounded like it would undermine social harmony and stability, was replaced by a "women's welfare organization".

And going to the fragrant house in addition to doing some in-depth body discussions. Could there be anything else?

In this way, a group of nobles came to a conclusion: the dignified Marquis of Chijin, Gao Ji. Nyxos actually went to a brothel!

For the common people and even some nobles with low titles. There is nothing at all unacceptable about going to a brothel.

But for the great aristocracy, going to a brothel was not a status symbol.

Even in many families, this behavior can be considered a shame.

――The family is so weak, and you still need to go outside to find a woman?

It's just that this is just the beginning, and Shanna's next sentence almost made people's eyes fall out.

Three in a minute?!

Even if the speed of the average person is a little faster, it will take more than ten minutes to say the least, right?

Three a minute? Is Nixos' buddy a cotton swab?

Scandal! What a scandal!

Although a group of nobles did not explode immediately, the whispered discussions in private had already made Nixos's face turn the color of pig liver.

It can be imagined. He will soon become the biggest laughing stock in the aristocratic circle of the entire Kalenkaya Empire!

"Lord Adric!! You are slandering me!! Besides, you said you saw me in a fragrant house, so how did you see it! Could it be that Your Excellency is there too!! ”

As soon as he said this, the surrounding group of nobles was in an uproar again.

I didn't expect it just now, but now I'm reminded by Nixos that you see something happening. You have to be there to see it, right?

It was impossible for Nixus to do that kind of thing directly on the street in public, so if he wanted to see it, he must have entered a fragrant house......

And it's okay for Nixos to enter the fragrant house...... People are also in the prime of life, and it is possible to have energy and nowhere to vent, and you Nasha. Edric, an old man still runs to a fragrant house?!

This kind of news sounds like an uncle has made a date with his granddaughter!

Shanna's questioning of Nyxos was only a rough one, and at this time, she just happened to study a key magic array node, and tried several methods to analyze it but failed.

In my mind, the system AI that looked particularly funny after the recovery sneered a few words from time to time, making Shanna want to catch this guy and smash it on the ground and hit it with her feet a few times.

"You know what! Don't you know that there is a peep structure! Even if you're not there, you can see what's inside! Didn't I still use this structure to test the suspected explosives inside the package at that time! ”

What Shanna said was a new point of view that she couldn't help but put forward after the idea of directly peeking into the internal space of the magic array from the outside world was ridiculed by the system AI.

And that peep structure is also a thing, originally intended to be promoted on a large scale to avoid terrorist attacks such as the last time St. George's Demon Domain's cursed array and the like, but it turned out to be not very powerful, and from time to time it shot too far, wasting a lot of storage and computing space. In the end, it had to be changed to manual exploration again.

The speaker has no intention of listening, Shanna's words actually have nothing to do with the conversation between a group of nobles, but it still makes them make up a truth in their brains!

- When the sage Nasa was debugging the peep structure for the country, the structure got out of control as it had happened so many times before, and he accidentally saw something that Nikosus was doing in the far away fragrant room!

Although this explanation is a bit far-fetched, when there is no explanation, many people will subconsciously treat the first explanation they hear as a perfect explanation!

"You!! You're slandering! You are!! ”

Nyxos was so angry that his beard curled, and he almost rushed up to fight Shanna.

And this still takes into account the relationship between the black-robed old man in front of him is actually a legendary master who is deeply hidden!

At this time, Shanna was finally awakened by Nixos's roar, and looked at the angry middle-aged man in front of her inexplicably. frowned.

"Who are you?"

"Na, Sha, Ai, De, Ri, Ke! You're provoking! ”

Shanna wanted to respond to something, and the voice of summons came from the inner sanctum, so that all the nobles present entered the meeting at this moment.

Ignore this inexplicable (?) Shem stepped in first, leaving Nyxos, who was full of old blood and had nowhere to vomit, suffocating his old face to pitch black.

"Very good...... Very good! Edric. This thing...... Not all! ”

Shanna hadn't heard her say anything, her thoughts at the moment were - it's her business!

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in the council hall. Melanster IV has ascended to the throne. His face was not angry and arrogant, and he quietly waited for everyone's arrival.

It stands to reason that at this time, it is usually the subjects below who wait for the emperor to appear, but Melanster IV is the first to appear, and he has already sat down in his seat, which makes people feel extremely intriguing!

And it's different from the last time Shanna came to see the emperor. This time Melanster IV didn't say any nonsense, but cut straight to the point.

"Ladies and gentlemen, this king has summoned you this time so that you can witness a very important event together."

Speaking of which. Melanster IV paused slightly, and suddenly there were palace guards coming from outside the palace with dozens of people, and except for a few of them, the rest of them all bowed down one by one.

And by this time, some people's faces have changed.

The dozen or so people who were brought to the council hall were obviously noble and unusual, and judging from their clothing and bearing alone, they would even suspect that they were at the same level as themselves!

And whether it's the fresh faces that these people have almost never seen, or the exotic clothes on their bodies, it all says one thing.

-- These people are likely to be from other countries...... Aristocrat!

Seeing that these people had arrived, Melanster IV nodded with great satisfaction, with a faint smile on his face: "Everyone, you may not know these people here, but some of them you should still know, such as this one-Catina. Merros, everyone here must be very familiar with it, right? ”

"What?!"

Catina. Merros, how could they not be familiar with this name?

Not long ago, many of them had no choice but to send the young people of their families to the Sanling Clan for friendly exchanges in order to preserve their bloodline, but in fact, they took refuge to preserve the last trace of bloodline.

Catina. Mei Ros, the current emperor of the Oslan Empire adjacent to the Karenkaya Empire, is also the emperor of the royal family who broke through the epic realm and made an ambitious announcement not long ago, wanting to make the surrounding countries bow down!

How could this guy be here?!

In this way, wouldn't the graceful and luxurious woman beside him be the queen of the Oslan Empire? And those who look like high-ranking people in the back are many important nobles of the Oslan Empire?!

As a result, many people broke out in a cold sweat.

Doesn't it mean that the Oslan Empire is so aggressive that it wants to subdue many empires, and even wants to take the Kalenkaya Empire for blood?

How could it be ...... now? It looks like he is being slaughtered and bowed down?

If it weren't for that, those nobles would now be so devout to worship Melanster IV, the emperor of the Karenkaya Empire, it can be said that they would be treasonous at all.

However, the emperor of the Oslan Empire was present and acquiesced in the behavior of these people.

Don't......

An unbelievable idea, but with a high probability of being the true answer in the end, pops up in the minds of many people.

"Dare to ask Your Majesty, is it the Oslan Empire that has bowed down to my Kalenkaya?"

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If life is only as first seen, then when you and I meet again, it will be like the first year.

The time of 4,950 years has taken away the memory, the history, and the fear of disaster, but it can't take away the bits and pieces of each other.

Just like the waves crashing on the shore, the waves go east into the sea and never return, but the waves that roll up thousands of layers are engraved in the scenery on both sides of the strait, becoming an eternal scenery in time.

Looking at the black cat, which had not changed as before, I finally showed a heartfelt smile.

Seeing my appearance, the black cat was stunned, and then, tears flowed down her cheeks.

Flowers bloom and fall year after year, I hope that the old and dead flowers and wine.

How many people know that the strongest witch who is known as immortal and immortal is only looking forward to the return of a person who is waiting.

And now, what turned into tears was thousands of years of waiting, and I cried with joy when I finally got the result.

"Four thousand nine hundred and fifty years, time has not taken me, and you are waiting for me ......" (to be continued......