Chapter 63: The Clearing
Alexandria's permanent population was not 100,000, but as this day is the most special day of the "Red Moon Mica Festival", many people from the surrounding towns and villages flock to the imperial capital to participate in the rare celebration and expect to have the privilege of witnessing Her Majesty Empress Ipeia.
However, such enthusiasm and loyalty were exchanged for death and calamity.
Now Alexandria, the thousand-year-old capital, has become a dead city sunk in ashes, like a hot hell, where people who were alive and cheerful not so long ago either died or fled, leaving only a ruined wall, charred and stinking corpses, and houses with endless flames. Only the flag of the Rocal Empire, which had collapsed to the ground and had been half burned but still distinguishable in bright colors, showed the glory of this once unbeatable empire.
A leather boot stepped on the half of the torn flag. Owen chased the tarot card "world" to get here.
Although Owen threw the card into the fire, the "world" was not burned, because just before the "world" was about to be swept away by the flames, a strange wind howled and blew the tarot cards elsewhere. Owen hurriedly drove the griffon, chased the tarot cards, and finally came to a corner on the west side of the city.
The place was supposed to be a densely populated residential area. Although the surrounding houses have been burned to the ground, the foundations of the houses are still a large number of low, simple and leaky small houses, and combined with the crooked and narrow streets, it can be inferred that the place where they exist is originally a slum. The card, called "World", floated to the slum and stopped, and fell to the corner of the half of the flag on the ground.
Owen jumped off the back of the griffin, and he bent over and stared at the "world". The topless woman on the card tilted her head sideways, as if looking at something. Owen looked in the direction of her eyes, and saw a sudden opening through the two rows of red-burned houses. Owen picked up "World", then stood up and walked in that direction, and sure enough, he saw a clean and wide clearing.
With no houses, no debris, no bodies and no fires, this clearing is like an island in the middle of a sea of disaster.
It's just an open space, and there's no one to live in, and there's no place to hide, and that's been the case for many years, so it's not safe and there's nothing worth noting, so let's go.
For some reason, this strange feeling crossed Owen's mind.
"Psychological hints, huh!" Owen sneered, disapproving.
Ordinary people may not see any clues, but Owen immediately realized what kind of trick this is, but this psychological hint is too obvious. Even today, Owen is only coming to Alexandria for the second time, but he has the idea that "this place was an empty space with nothing many years ago", and this is the most obvious flaw. And this psychological implication is too illogical, if there is such a vacant land in a slum, there is no reason why it should not be used rationally by those poor people who live in poor and crowded conditions.
Therefore, some people want to hide something unknown, so they deliberately create the illusion of an "open space".
Thinking of this, Owen came to a stop at the edge of the clearing, and he stretched out his hand and slowly leaned forward.
The hand stretched forward less than 30 centimeters, and the space in front of him was like a ripple of water, and the diffuse ripples distorted the space.
Sure enough, the clearing that looks like nothing is actually hiding something terrible that no one knows. Due to Owen's interference, after the space distortion occurred, the disguise was torn off, and something terrible hidden in the clearing appeared in front of Owen.
Oh my God! It was a black dragon with claws and claws.
The black qi that wraps around the black dragon is a kind of dragon pressure that can be seen with the naked eye, and the creatures that come into contact with these black qi will not only be shocked by the dragon's coercion, but also will not even have a chance to escape, because the black qi will invade the body along the eyes, ears, mouth, nose and pores outside the body, paralyzing the nerves and robbing the body's mobility - just like Owen now.
"Ang ......"
The black dragon roared and raised its strong, massive black front paws and slammed them down on the top of Owen's head......
The attempt to exhort the monarch by force has failed.
In such an unfavorable situation, defeat was inevitable, and although the tenacious General Menavino still tried his last best to fight to the death, in the end he only suffered more serious injuries.
Hand amputation, arrow piercing, burns, bites...... Multiple injuries tormented the stubborn general who lay in a pool of blood. Although he was no longer able to fight, the general could not admit defeat, he supported his crumbling body with his axe, and stared at the tiger like a wounded hungry tiger, although he was scarred and drowned, but it made people afraid to approach.
"You did something superfluous just now, His Royal Highness Prince Harun, the concubine said that she would personally handle this situation, and there is no need for you to intervene. Ipeia looked at the young man with the longbow standing behind her, her brows furrowed, and she looked very dissatisfied.
"Prince Harun, he's the crown prince of the Kingdom of Sealand?!" General Menavino was surprised at the true identity of the man in front of him who had wounded him with a hidden arrow.
When he was in the lakeside villa, when the general first saw this man who didn't even have a name and called himself "Riverside Man", he intuitively felt that his origin was unusual, so he paid more attention to him.
"Miss, although you keep saying that you want to deal with it yourself, but with such obvious mercy from your subordinates, do you think I really haven't noticed? Since you are reluctant to be such a good minister and famous general, then I can only do it for you. Prince Harlan spoke in a calm tone, but with a distinctly aggressive tone.
"Do you doubt the concubine?" Ipeiya smiled and replied, "Well, then the concubine will prove it by action." ”
"Ipeya, as the Empress of the Empire, why do you have to grovel to this foreign prince!" Seeing Ipaya's attitude towards Prince Harun, General Menavino was enraged and asked in an unprecedented tone.
"I'm sorry, Bazak. You are a rare excellent talent in a hundred years, but unfortunately, you have heard things that you shouldn't have heard and known things that you shouldn't know. Ipeia shook her head with a sympathetic expression.
The powerful magic power was transmitted to the earth through the magic in the mind of the caster, and the sand was once again dominated, and it rose up, forming an impenetrable wall of sand that surrounded the general.
"Stop being obsessed! Ipeya Drogen, turn back!" Bazak uttered his final cry.
"Farewell. My general. ”
From behind the sand wall, Ipeya's cold answer came.
General Menavino knew that he was going to die, and he could only slowly close his eyes and wait for the moment of death to come. In his military life, General Menavino was ready to die in battle at any time, but when death did come, he could not face it calmly. At this time, how unwilling his heart was, not for personal life and death, but for believing in the wrong woman who should not be believed......
The sand wall collapsed inward, unlike the previous loosely structured sand stand-ins, the structure of this group of sand walls was very tight, and the gap in the middle was almost completely filled, after collapsing, the people trapped in it would be squeezed into the flesh and mud, and then as the magic power was lifted, the flesh and blood droplets were splashed everywhere, and the corpses were broken into thousands of pieces, and there would never be any way to live.
Using such vicious magic, you can see how determined Ipeya is to kill Bazak.
"Boom ......"
A sudden loud bang exploded in this leaky old warehouse, and the extremely dense sand wall had not completely collapsed, but it was "broken" by another more powerful external force.
In the dust everywhere, General Menavino's muscular figure gradually appeared. The general was accompanied by a young knight standing tall with a sword in front of him.
"How dare you do this, Ipeya, you're hopeless. ”
The magic sword "Tears of Repentance" lowered to the right, and the aftermath generated after releasing the powerful energy just now did not completely dissipate, causing the black sword body engraved with runes to tremble slightly.
The owner of the sword, Julian Rousseau, looked at Ipeia with an angry face.