Her eyes gradually closed, and she fell into deep darkness.

However, this darkness did not last long, and only a few tens of seconds later, a crying voice came from her ears:

"Sister Xia, Sister Xia!"

"Master, wake up!"

“……”

She struggled to open her eyes and sat up with an excruciating feeling of vertigo.

"What the hell just happened?"

"Sister Xia is awake!"

"Whoa-ah-"

Two small bodies threw themselves into her arms together, and the cries rang out in unison.

"Don't hold your master like this, she hasn't recovered yet!"

Then there was Erin's angry voice.

"It's okay...... It should be fine. ”

Natsu shook her head vigorously, and when she first woke up, the white vision in front of her gradually faded, and she found Zero and Evelyn hugging her and crying.

"Are you all okay?"

She looked around, and at this time, Xue Qian and the flame beast Bud had disappeared without a trace, the wide stone chamber had changed, and the pale yellow barrier was gone.

In addition to her, there are currently six people left; It's Evelyn, Zero, Camille, Dorinda, the weird savage old man, and the Lich Fernanxi.

To her shock, the artifact Lori was gone.

I seemed to hear Erin's voice just now...... Could it be that I was hallucinating because I fainted?

"None of us were hurt, just a little dizzy at first......"

Evelyn wiped her tears and replied:

"Only sister, you fell down alone, we couldn't wake up no matter how we screamed, and it took half a minute for us to wake up."

"It's okay for you guys to be fine."

Xia raised his hand to take a look and found the culprit. That is, the square crystal seemed to have been evaporated, leaving no trace at all.

"Camille, am I dead? I can meet you again......"

Dolinda lay in the arms of the female swordmaster and said in a murmuring voice.

She closed her eyes tightly when she spoke, for fear that the other party would disappear as soon as she opened her eyes.

"I'm not dead, Your Highness the Princess."

Camille had been unable to get close to the barrier due to her master's orders. I endured it for a long time by the side, and just now I was able to move freely because I felt the danger, so I protected Dolinda as soon as possible.

"Those bad women told me that you had been brutally murdered by the soldiers...... And he died a miserable death. ”

Dolinda sobbed and buried her head in the crook of her arm:

"So they were lying to me...... For the first time, I felt that being deceived was such a happy thing. ”

"I'm sorry, Your Highness."

Camille's eyes also flowed with shining tears, and he said with remorse:

"I was really seriously injured at the time, and Bane refused to risk saving you, which is why you were wronged so much."

"But the female soldiers who bullied you have all died in the outbreak. and the whole city of Leom was buried. ”

She carefully arranged Evelyn's hair and clothes, which she had done since she served as the little princess's bodyguard.

"I don't resent them at all."

Dolinda whispered:

"They made me understand one thing, in fact, many people are extremely dissatisfied with the royal family, just because the powerful force of the empire makes everyone dare not speak out."

"A great empire is bound to be unliked by many, and you don't need to worry about that."

"No, I do."

Dolinda slowly opened her eyes:

"When I lived in the Magic Tower. I can just see the hypocritical kindness of those people, and the high-sounding praise. Completely unable to understand the outside world. Now I know...... Whether it is the father or the two elder brothers, what is the most important thing in their eyes. ”

"Who's Bane?"

She suddenly remembered the name of the person Camille had just said, and raised her head and asked.

"Bane, she's ......"

The female swordmaster's expression was a little embarrassed.

"Camille, bring Dolinda here."

Natsu said to her.

"Please don't call Her Highness by name."

Camille gripped the bullet and said:

"Although you are also the princess of a country. But the two of you are not equal to each other......"

"I allow her to call me Dolinda, Camille."

Dolinda stopped her from continuing.

"Sister Xia, thank you very much for bringing someone to save me."

She lifted the corner of her skirt and saluted Xia Shen.

Then he straightened up and said:

"Again, allow me to call you that. Evelyn and Zero and I are very good friends, and their sister is naturally my sister too, and I have heard a lot of anecdotes about you from both of them, and I hope to be able to get closer to you in the future. ”

"Now is not the time to say those kind words, mate."

The lich had behaved strangely from the beginning, and the first thing it did was to fly around the stone chamber to observe the rocks, and then took out another object and fanned it into the air, and said in a deep voice:

"We're stuck...... This isn't the same place we were just now, we seem to have been transported to another dimension. ”

"And that's not even the worst problem."

It raised the wand of death in its hand and forcibly summoned it.

Dark magic instantly enveloped a few meters around it, but nothing happened.

"The worst problem?"

Xia used his superpowers to carefully sense the surroundings, but he didn't notice where the danger was.

"Monsters are not the most terrible thing for you, what is terrible is the lack of water and food."

The lich gave up the summoning, and said in a solemn tone:

"But there's one more important thing than water and food, and that's air."

"—This is an almost sealed space, some of the crevices in the rocks may be able to seep into the thin gas, but it is far from enough for the few of you to survive, now don't waste any more time, with the bone dragon and the black spirit unable to summon it, we will have to dig a way on our own."

"Good Mr. Monster, are you telling the truth?"

Dolinda was the first to react to the meaning of her words. The expression was a little skeptical.

"We can't just dig because we don't know where we are."

Natsu walked over to the edge of the rock wall, carefully examined the situation there, and realized the seriousness of the matter.

The rocks vary in color and hardness, and are covered with a layer of floating ash. Even if some mysterious force could change the texture of the rocks in a split second, there was no reason to create a layer of naturally occurring dust on them.

There's only one possibility—they're in a completely unfamiliar space right now, and they're threatened with suffocation!

"Stephanie was left in the camp by me, and Irene didn't know why she didn't come in with me...... Even the two strongest helpers, Xue Qian and Bude, are gone, what is that crystal? What is it trying to do to teleport us to this desperate situation? ”

She took a deep breath of slightly thin air and plunged the sword in her hand into the ground.

"Geotechnical Perception!"

A faint blue light shines through the blade of the sword, gradually extending along the veins of the ground to the vicinity, which is a small spell used by magicians to detect the surface structure and get a rough idea of the surrounding environment.

Fei Nanxi can only cast some magic of the dark and ice types. The Great Lich's natural limitations meant that it could only enjoy a wealth of magical knowledge, but could not condense the elements of other lines.

Of course, after arriving in the New World, this restriction seems to have been loosened somewhat; Maybe it has something to do with the fact that there is a new power system here.

So in the absence of the artifact Lori, everything is on her own.

"It's still a thick layer of rock and soil deep underneath, and there's no way out."

She quietly sensed the direction and changes of the earth element:

"About 200 meters to the left, there is an elemental fault."

"The area on the right side is very thick, give up."

"Huh. The overhead rocks are just under 50 meters thick. ”

Her heart skipped a beat.

Although this distance is long, it is not an insurmountable distance for the two powerful mages.

"Rear abandonment."

"Ahead...... Have mental swings? ”

Xia suddenly drew his long sword:

"Don't talk, everybody. Don't move either! ”

She whispered to everyone, then crept over to the rock wall in front of her, and put her ear to it.

Evelyn and Zero covered their mouths together, Fernanxi's eyes flickered, the old savage was as silent as ever, and Dolinda and Camille seemed to recognize the seriousness of the problem. They were all obedient and shut up, and no one dared to make a sound.

“…… Fight...... Black...... Offensive ......"

From the opposite side of the heavy rock, staccato sounds can be heard.

These voices sounded like they were arguing about something.

"Imperial?"

Xia noticed that the tone was somewhat similar to the language spoken in Harlem.

However, there seems to be some differences between the two, and I don't know if it's because I can't hear clearly.

She glanced back at Dolinda:

"At present, the rebel army has been completely wiped out. After all, Leom is the base camp of the rebels, and most of the soldiers were deceived by Regier and others to join the rebels; Now the Imperial army should be on Elio's side. ”

"We have a little princess of the empire here!"

She made up her mind at once, took two steps back, and chanted the incantation aloud.

"Boom!!"

A scorching fireball flew out, blasting a large hole in the rock in front of it.

The voice on the other side immediately stopped.

Under the splash of rubble, Xia used the sound transmission to tell other people, including the old man, and everyone's eyes showed a glimmer of hope.

"Your Royal Highness, please wear my clothes for the time being."

Camille took off her coat, revealing her smooth arms, her upper body only had 3 layers, except for the underwear and coat, there was only a narrow vest that she wore when cultivating.

"How can a girl take off her clothes in front of everyone casually."

Natsu walked over with a frown, took off his swordsman suit, and draped it over her.

The female swordmaster felt a little overwhelmed, she tightly grasped the clothes her master gave her with her fingers, in addition to being flattered, she was also secretly wondering:

- Aren't you a girl too?

I wore a lot of layers on my body.

Natsu seemed to understand what she was thinking, patted her white shirt, and walked to the place where the fireball exploded with her long sword. The blade of the sword was cut deep into it.

"Bang!"

At this time, she didn't care about the possibility of damaging the artifact sword, and made a few rough cuts, cutting a part of the rock, and then took a deep breath and screamed at the gap:

"Help—————— we're trapped in a cave!!"

Even if she was a little reluctant, she had to use the heroine's soft voice in an emergency. Even loud screams sound very moving, and there is a taste of pity in them.

After a while, the rough voice of the soldier came from outside:

"Civilians should have been closed to this place for a long time, right, who are you?"

Although the voice of the questioner was stern, the sound of excavation and excavation was still heard outside, and the other party seemed to be preparing to save people.

"We are a rescue team, here to find the missing princess!"

"Your Highness the Princess?"

The military outside sounded unusually shocked:

"Did you find Princess Balerell?"

"-You, go and report to the sir! The princess appears to be trapped inside the cavern that has collapsed. And you! Go get the siege machine over now, the ram on it can be used to destroy the mountain! ”

Yes?

Hear the conversation outside. Xia couldn't help but be stunned for a moment.

- Not quite right?

"Bellerier? Does Harlem have a princess with that name? ”

According to the most authoritative official documents of Harlem, in addition to the two direct royal princesses of Tasia and Dolinda, there seem to be only some side branch women with thin blood left, but there seems to be no one named Bellerel in it.

Although it was strange, she still decided to wait patiently, there was a lot of space here, there was enough oxygen for everyone to breathe for at least 1 hour or so, and the other party seemed to be carrying large tools. It should be able to get through soon.

After waiting for about half a minute, the voice heard outside again:

"The people inside. Don't panic! We will get you out soon, what is the current situation of Her Royal Highness the Princess? ”

"It's not in good condition, it looks like I've been hungry for a long time."

Xia looked at Dolinda with a dish-faced face:

"We didn't have any food with us, and we're running out of water, so I hope you can ...... as quickly as possible."

"God bless!"

The military outside responded seriously:

"I'll risk my life and promise to get through here in half an hour! Please take Her Royal Highness Princess and stay away. ”

Natsu walked over to Dolinda and Camille. whispered to them:

"Did you know that there is a princess in the Empire named Bellerel?"

The two looked at each other, and both shook their heads blankly.

"That's weird."

Xia wondered:

"Anyway, Dolinda and they won't fail to recognize her, and she has a magic talisman on her that can't be forged...... There shouldn't be any problem. ”

Half an hour later, there was a violent crash outside.

"We're about to start destroying the mountain! Please take shelter in a safe place. ”

The thick-voiced soldier outside sounded the warning again.

"Please get through here as soon as possible. We had trouble breathing and the air was too thin in this place. ”

Xia activated his superpowers this time, and said to the other party.

There was silence outside for a moment.

"Spiritual mage?"

The soldier was surprised.

However, he didn't ask much, but commanded the siege machine to start attacking the rock wall.

"Boom—————— boom!!"

Just a few minutes later, the thick mountain was blasted open.

A hole was blasted into the rock, and a magic drill with a deep blue glow appeared from within, cutting and tearing the rock continuously, until finally a large hole that could be passed through by adults.

"Stand back!"

With the soldier's order, the magic drill gradually retracted.

A burst of fresh air poured into the space, and everyone's spirits were lifted!

Except for the lich, of course, it just hung there with a low chuckle.

"Salute, everyone!"

There was the sound of neat footsteps outside.

"—Your Highness the Princess!"

An officer covered in dust came in from the outside.

"Enlarge the entrance, quick! It's too narrow now, do you want His Highness Bellerier to pass through such a place? ”

He turned around and shouted outside.

"Who is he?"

Natsu asked in a low voice.

"I don't know ......"

Dolinda shook her head.

Camille next to her also looked at the hulking officer, who had served in the army for some time and had never seen this man.

"Where is Her Royal Highness Princess Bellerier?"

The officer said in a loud voice, which shook the whole cavern:

"I'm Second Lieutenant Newman of the Imperial Expeditionary Force, and I'm here to greet you!"

"I'm Dolinda."

Dolinda, accompanied by Camille and Xia, stepped in front of him:

"I'm looking for Commander Elio......"

"You are!"

The officer looked at her face in disbelief:

"Could it be that His Highness Bellerier is not alone trapped inside? I haven't heard of any other royals coming to the New World. ”

"You don't know me?"

Dolinda looked a little upset:

"Tell your chief to come to me!"

"Wait, where is Her Royal Highness the Princess?"

The officer named Newman suddenly said with vigilance:

"You have one, two, three here...... Seven people, there's no place to hide here, I didn't see her. ”

"What ———— ———— ————!"

Dorinda's delicate temper came up, and she stamped her foot and shouted:

"I don't even know what you're talking about Bellerel! I'm standing right before you, can't you see? ”

"What's the matter, His Highness hasn't come out yet?"

A crisp sound sounded outside.

The voice was a little low, and the voice was a little thick, otherwise it would have sounded like a woman.

"Looks like something went wrong, sir!"

Newman took off his military hat and could be seen with sweat all over his face:

"I didn't see His Highness Bellerier inside, but I did find a girl who looked exactly like His Highness, that is, her age...... It looks like it's a little bigger. ”

"Bring them all out!"

The voice outside froze:

"Then send someone to search inside, and make sure to find the whereabouts of Princess Balerreal!" (To be continued.) )