Arantis, Imperial Palace.

Groups of Praetorian Guards patrol back and forth outside the palace wall, there is a guard with a halberd every ten meters on the palace wall, and there are many high-level martial artists and magicians lurking in the palace wall.

The guards of the Imperial Palace were so strict that even the most brilliant thieves of the Thieves' Guild were deterred.

Under the moonlight, two black figures lurked in the shadows, slowly approaching the outer wall of the imperial palace, and these two unknown ones were none other than Joan and Arthur.

When Joan proposed to go to the palace, Arthur thought he was crazy! The queen was catching them, but now he had to take the initiative to send them to the tiger's mouth!

The reason why Joan ventured into the imperial palace was very simple, just to take a look at Concubine Joanna and report safety.

Four years ago, the imperial capital was in turmoil, Concubine Qiongna lost her son and husband successively, and Qiong and the tenth princess fled away from home to avoid trouble, and there was no news in four years. Concubine Joanna is alone in the cold palace, and these years can be described as desolate, so Joan has to look at Aunt Joanna no matter how she comes back this time.

Arthur's mother died young, but because of this, he valued family affection more, so he still accompanied Joan to his crazy heart.

There was only a gap of three hundred meters between the Praetorian Guards on patrol in each group, and it was during this interval that the two of them quickly rushed under the palace walls.

The biggest trouble is to deal with the guards on the palace wall, the distance between the guards is too close, and the slightest movement from one guard will alarm the people around him.

Arthur was prepared for this, and he leaned against the wall, and after a few rubs, he quietly climbed under the edge of the palace wall.

Even so, the vigilant guard of the forbidden army still heard a slight movement, stepped forward and leaned under the palace wall, a faint black mist happened to float in front of him at this time, he suddenly felt dizzy, and he only shook his head and passed out in an instant.

The fourth-level dark magic "Ecstasy" can make people lose their minds in an instant.

Normally, a person who had passed out should have fallen, but the guard stood straight in place, unable to see anything unusual except for his eyes closed. If it weren't for the closeness, no one would have noticed that his calf down had been frozen together with the palace wall, so naturally Gru cooperated with Arthur to make a move.

Now in terms of the ability to infiltrate and sneak attack, Arthur and Gru's cooperation is seamless.

Arthur's body moved sideways directly on the palace wall like a gecko, and he solved the guards next to him in the same way. After the three guards were eliminated, a vacuum of nearly fifty meters appeared on the palace wall.

Joan climbed the palace wall with the Flying Ring against the wall a moment before the next patrol of the Praetorian Army approached.

Arthur and Joan lay motionless in the shadow of the arrows of the palace wall, and did not dare to sneak into the palace until a cloud of white gas rose from the roof of the nearest attic.

Outsiders don't know the inside story, and there is a garrison slightly higher than the palace wall every fifty meters inside the palace wall. The garrison is the place where the forbidden army in the palace usually rests, and the top of the building is also the first layer of secret posts in the palace, and every night there are masters of the forbidden army lurking on the roof of the building to monitor every move on each section of the city wall.

If Arthur and Joan had rushed into it just now, they would have been discovered by the secret sentry on the roof. Arthur let Gru sneak up to the tower first, and froze to death the secret sentry on the top of the building before he dared to climb into the palace wall.

After sneaking into the Imperial Palace, Joan and Arthur immediately changed into cyan palace clothes under the corner, and each carried a palace magic lamp in their hands, and then swaggered towards the Imperial Palace.

Joan had grown up in the Imperial Palace until he was fifteen years old, and was familiar with almost every corner of the palace, as long as he was allowed to enter the Imperial Palace smoothly, the vigilance inside and outside the palace would have no effect on him.

Passing through the courtyard, Joan took Arthur around the palace to pick a secluded path. The two of them did not go deep into the inner palace, but came to a remote house in the northwest corner of the imperial palace, where the lights were sparse and even the guards were scarce.

This is Jingyi Garden, the place where the concubines left by the previous emperor died of their old age. In the name of pension, it is just a disguised house arrest, and he cannot leave the palace for life, and he is just wasting his life here.

There is a small courtyard with green tiles in the corner, the door of the courtyard has been locked, and the dim light inside can be seen through the crack in the door. Joan and Arthur didn't knock on the door, but jumped straight into the courtyard wall, and a haggard figure under the lamp was reflected through the window.

Joan knocked on the door.

"It's so late, who?"

A young maid came to open the door sleepily, and a black mist rushed to her face, and she fainted before she could see the comer.

"Qinglian, who's coming?"

"Auntie, it's me back. ”

There was the sound of a chair falling in the back room, and a middle-aged beautiful woman ran out of it. When he saw Joan, he stopped his panicked footsteps, and was stunned for a moment before he stepped forward and hugged Joan, "My child, you are finally back, and my aunt knows that you must be fine." ”

"Auntie, I'm fine, Yihua is with me now, and she's fine. Tears flowed silently from Joan's eyes.

Yihua is the nickname of the tenth princess.

Arthur's eyes moistened even with this tender scene, and he quietly withdrew, and gently closed the door, leaving time alone with Joan and Jona.

Arthur climbed onto the roof and stood guard in the shadow of the eaves.

Faintly, Arthur seemed to feel wrong. As several figures flashed away from afar, Arthur smelled danger.

Arthur jumped into the courtyard again and knocked on the window a few times, "Joan, something is wrong, we have to go." ”

"What's wrong?"

"It's a little too quiet around here, and someone seems to be coming this way. ”

Joan was pushed out of the house by Concubine Jona, "Child, let's go, it's too dangerous here!"

"Auntie, take care of yourself. ”

Concubine Joanna had tears in her eyes, "Let's go, as long as you and Yihua are okay, I'll be fine." ”

"Let's go!" Arthur pulled Joan and walked out.

Before the two of them were discharged from the hospital, there was a rustling sound outside the door.

Arthur and Joan glanced at each other, and sure enough, there was a problem! The two exchanged only one look and ran out of the palace desperately.

The other party obviously didn't expect Arthur and them to react so quickly, at this time the encirclement was not fully formed, and as soon as the two fled, one figure after another was forced to emerge from the darkness and surrounded the two.

This time, the ambushes around Jingyi Yuan were all the elite of the dragon scale guards, and a team of dragon scale guards quickly stopped in front of the two.

If they were surrounded in the Imperial Palace, it would be difficult for the two of them to escape, so Arthur and Joan did not make contact with each other at all, and the two of them attacked at the same time before the dragon scale guard rushed close, and the two roaring fire dragons pounced on the dragon scale guard who rushed over.

The fire dragon roars, Arthur and Joan are going to make trouble in the palace tonight!