"Boring math. Boring history. Boring geography. The Seven Precepts of Boredom, Boredom, Boredom. Why can't we learn fencing? Learning to sail? Learn about those monsters? ”

Once upon a time, young Emily Drexel Leila Kaldwin complained about the school.

But now, she regretted the childish and even ignorant remarks she had once uttered, and probably only people who had never experienced it would crave an adventurous experience.

It was a beautiful fantasy, wonderful, dreamy, and unrealistic.

As the rightful heir to the throne of the Empire of the Islands, she is the only daughter of the previous Empress Jasmine Kaldwin. When Emily was young, she experienced the death of her mother in an assassination attempt and the capture of the legendary Assassin Daodao......

At that time—

Even the Royal Santégé Corvo Attano was framed for this. It was only later when the royalists tried to restore Emily's position and help Emily ascend the throne to restore royal blood that she and Corvo had a chance to turn the tables around.

Corvo is ostensibly the royal guard of Empress Jessamine Kaldwin, and the first ever royal guard to be born outside of the continent of Gristol.

But in reality, he and the empress secretly became lovers, although the relationship was never made public. However, their intimacy did not escape the public eye, and rumors spread throughout the city of Danwall.

Either way, the matter has never been publicly acknowledged. Emily herself is the crystallization of this relationship, but for the public, her father's identity is kept strictly secret, even if everyone knows it.

Despite this, Corvo still has a strong emotional bond with Emily, often interacting with her in familiar and intimate ways.

Emily herself knows about this, and has always regarded Corvo as her father in her heart, and has unreserved trust in Corvo. The experience of her childhood taught her that as long as her legendary father was present-

Then, she will definitely not be harmed in any way.

But now, she once again feels the experience of the great change she had when she was ten years old. A coup d'état took place, and her rule was overthrown and ousted.

And her legendary father also became a prisoner because of the plot...... She was the only one who escaped.

Having lost everything he had all of a sudden, even the people he could rely on could not continue to rely on, but he needed to turn around himself to be able to save his father......

This feeling made her feel quite panicked, but she knew that there was no way out, she had to do it.

My father is indeed a legend, and he is indeed his strong backing, but he is really getting old day by day. Once upon a time, he desperately smashed the huge conspiracy against the empire and saved himself.

But just a few hours ago, he was reduced to a cold stone sculpture in the audience room of the palace to protect himself.

So now...... It's your turn to take him back!

Under the icy sea, the young empress of disgrace moved forward quickly and vigorously like a swimming fish, and the breath she held slowly reached the limit, and she had already approached the ship from under the sea in one breath.

And moving forward in the icy waters, she slowly cleared her mind.

Now that he has escaped from King Danvol's Tower, the Terrifying Whipmark in front of him is his only hope at present. Before he died, Captain Mei Xiu forcibly told her an important piece of information:

Earlier in the day, there was a captain at the docks, who could escape from the palace from the safe room and head to the docks to take a boat out of Danwall.

Only this way, only this way for now, if she wants to save her father in the future and regain everything she has lost, then the first thing she has to do at the moment is to flee the capital of the empire.

Staying here, she can't do anything, but she will be in danger herself.

There is only hope if you are alive – she knows that.

……

……

The dock harbor was blocked, and since news of Emily's escape from the Tower had been leaked, the coup forces feared that she had indeed managed to escape from Danwall, and even drove all the ships from the docks, not allowing them to dock.

The same goes for the Whipmark of Terror.

It didn't leave completely, but it was also quite far away from the dock, and only dropped a small boat next to the boat.

There was a slight splash, and Emily quickly climbed onto the boat, gasping for breath.

However, she was not in a hurry to climb onto the ship, but listened carefully to the movement above, and waited until her breath was even, and when her strength had recovered, she grabbed the trapezoidal bulge on the side and climbed up.

On the deck was a black woman, with a severed hand and a blind eye, waiting there silently.

She didn't seem surprised to see Emily climb up to her, but leaned up and looked her up and down.

Then, she said pointedly, "Ma'am, I have the information you want, and you can't be wrong." ”

“……”

“……”

Emily frowned, apparently relieved, but she didn't let her guard down immediately, she looked around and didn't speak.

"Lady Emily, Your Majesty, your face is printed on more than half of the coins in the Empire, and no one will fail to recognize you if you encounter it." The black woman said casually.

"The coup d'état has taken place, and they have used the murder of the monarch as an excuse, and my father has become a prisoner, and now all the people who support me in the royal tower have been killed...... Do you think I care what my face looks like now? ”

Emily said calmly, but in a stiff tone.

"Well, introduce myself, my name is Megan Foster, and I'm the one I wanted to ask to see you or your father this morning."

The black woman smiled, then stepped forward and held out her hand to lead her to the side.

"I was going to come to warn the royal guards, but it seems to be a step too late, and the men's plot has succeeded...... Don't be so vigilant, I'm an accomplice to your former ally Anton Sokolov. ”

"Anton?"

Emily's eyes seemed to light up slightly, and her expression was somewhat relaxed.

"Yes, we learned of something terrible in the south, and Anton thought that a huge conspiracy might be involved...... Anyway, that's what you saw, and I'm here to warn you, but it's a step too late. ”

Megan nodded, and said in a somewhat oddly calm tone.

"I know Anton, but ...... The Duke of Sokonos himself was here, and beside her was a woman named Delila. ”

Emily didn't notice the detail, though, and she frowned and turned her head to look at the location of King Danwall's Tower on the steep cliff of the coast in the distance, revealing a blatant disgust and hatred.

"It was they who staged a coup d'état and washed my palace in blood, and that woman ...... And also did things that I can't explain, she, she ......"

Probably thinking that what he wanted to say was a bit ridiculous, Her Majesty the Empress, who was now in a bad mood, finally gritted her teeth, shook her head and did not continue.

She just turned her head a little tiredly, sighed and said, "Running away is the only thing I can do right now. ”

Emily's mind still can't help but replay the previous events:

At the beginning of the coup d'état, the unfaithful lackeys were just trying to hurt themselves, and their own father was instantly violent and murderous.

After chopping melons and vegetables in a row, after cutting down several palace guards who wanted to be unfavorable to themselves and were bribed to rebel-

He unexpectedly teleported in front of the woman, and before the woman could react at all, he accurately sent the blade into her chest, stabbing her directly through the heart.

However, it didn't work, because the woman actually ...... Nothing at all.

Even if he was stabbed through the heart, he didn't die, and he didn't even seem to be injured at all.

It was precisely because she didn't expect such a ridiculous unfolding at all, that her father was suppressed by her in turn, and then turned into a cold stone sculpture.

Megan Foster stared at Emily's tired face, then nodded: "Sometimes you can't do anything about it, don't put too much pressure on yourself......"

"This is my ship, the Whipmark of the Dread. When you're ready, we're ready to set sail...... Escaping or evacuating, in short, first of all, to avoid the limelight and leave this royal city. ”

Emily nodded wordlessly, and then she looked at the ocean in a certain direction, and her eyes sharpened—

"I've got to go to Karnaca, where the murder of the monarch took place, and Delilah must have been there for a while, and I'll have to find out."

Megan Foster shrugged: "You're Corvo's daughter, I can guarantee that...... So are you ready, let's get out of here now. ”

The tired Empress nodded slowly and said softly, "Okay, I'm ready." ”

At the moment when her words fell, an unfamiliar voice suddenly came from a high place behind her-

"Well, may I ask, can you take me one?"

Almost instantly, Emily and Captain Megan both jumped out of the way with agility, drew their weapons, and assumed a vigilant defensive posture. They glanced at it quickly, and finally fixed their eyes on the mast above the ship.

"Who are you?" Emily raised her pistol and asked, in a deep voice.

Megan Foster also frowned, and did the same, she subconsciously felt the danger, because she didn't even know when the guy above touched the boat and climbed onto the mast.

Because it was still a little close to the dock, neither of them dared to make any rash noise, nor did they dare to shoot.

Just raise the pistol in a threatening manner and aim at it.

In fact, not only did they feel threatened, but Mo Chen also felt threatened, he was just pretending to be calm. First, it is to consider that they will not be so reckless, and secondly, it is ...... He was sure to face such a situation.

Although he did not develop new magical abilities, the consumption of six ancient runes allowed him to greatly increase his magic power ceiling, and at the same time, he also greatly increased the magic ability and physical ability he had mastered.

Not to mention the flickering teleportation, the void perception has also become extremely powerful.

The range of perception is greatly increased, and it can penetrate multiple obstacles or fairly thick objects, for example, it can even see five or six meters underground.

The most important thing is that this all-encompassing perceptual realm seems to have been further strengthened in some way after being strengthened one after another, which is a branching effect of "premonition".

Moreover, the basic sensory perception ability has also become very keen, and there is a tendency of "the autumn wind is not moving the cicada", which can generally predict the course of action of ordinary people and the behavior they are ready to take.

- Therefore, if the opponent wants to attack, he feels that he can also sense it in advance......

Unless the other party has specially practiced, there will be no hostility before attacking, and he can hide his murderous aura or something.

That's right, although he was a little cowardly, Mo Chen was indeed maintaining the magic ability of Void Perception at the moment.