Chapter 1: The Gate of Space
February 14, 4124 A.D. The capital of the Caiyun Empire, the city of Caiyun.
The night is deep, and the bustling city, which has just experienced the turmoil of war, is now gradually quiet, the lights are fading, and people are slowly falling asleep. But at this moment, in the corner of the Imperial prison, there is a woman who is still cursing in the most vicious words in her heart, cursing the ruler of this city, her accomplices, her followers, and those who betrayed, and finally even the whole city and the whole country, and even the whole humanity and the whole world.
She is the original Empress of the Rainbow Empire, Rosie Harris Eyler, half a month ago, she was the de facto ruler of this city and even this empire, wearing the most gorgeous silk clothes, wearing a golden crown, surrounded by clouds of attendants and subjects, she is as dazzling as the bright moon among the stars. But at this moment, she can only wear prison clothes, thrown like a wild dog in this steel prison, waiting for the time of death.
The Supreme Court of the Momiji Empire and a jury of ten nobles have already ruled guilty her. Tomorrow she will be put on the gallows under the gaze of tens of thousands, and tonight will be the last night of her life.
Life may be like a drama, maybe life is a drama originally, but why, why did she become a loser in this drama? She is unwilling and absolutely unable to accept this ending. But the reality is so cruel, her hands are shackled, her magic has been banned, and now she is like a tiger with its fangs and claws removed, unable to do anything, only to watch the little time left pass by minute by second, waiting for the death to come step by step. This feeling...... It's terrifying, it's so terrible, it's so tormenting. Is that hateful little girl going to punish herself in this way?
"No! I'm not reconciled! Alice Flender Micker! I'll curse you forever! I'll curse you forever even if I go to hell! And the abominable Linya Lantis Severia! And the abominable traitor Hiryl Eli Frank! I'm going to curse your souls, I'm going to curse you to die in the most miserable way forever and ever! I'll be waiting for you in hell, hahahaha......"
The patrolling guard heard the former queen's nervous screech, but he didn't bother to take another look. He had seen the deathbed wails and vicious curses of a dying man a lot.
"I can give you strength, let you live, let you get revenge, let you take back the throne - but you have to pay the price. After the guard left, a dark voice suddenly spoke. Who is talking? Is it her own hallucination? Empress Rosie woke up from her frenzy, and was stunned for a moment and asked, "Who? Who is talking there?"
"It doesn't matter who I am. I can give you power, endless power!" the voice in the darkness continued coldly, so calm and emotionless, like some kind of dwarven machine creaking. When Queen Rosie finally made sure that what she heard was not a hallucination, she shuddered. But she quickly woke up from her fear, and she was pleasantly surprised by the ** of survival. "Please give me strength! Help me! I am willing to give everything I have!"
"Rosie Harris Eyler, are you sure you're willing to give anything to get power?"
"Yes, I do, I will, whatever I want!" She had only a few hours left to live, and what could she not give up as long as she lived? In fact, if that hateful Alice stood in front of her now and said to her that she could forgive herself, she would not mind falling on her knees before her. But that's not possible. "Tell me, great God, what do you want?"
"I'm not a god. The voice in the darkness said in a voice that was still emotionless, "Rosie Harris Eyler, I want your soul. ”
After breakfast, when Princess Alice of the Caiyun Empire was about to go to the execution ground, the guards suddenly rushed in in panic and said, "No, it's not good, Your Highness the Princess! Something happened in the prison, and some people said that Queen Rosie had become a devil - I heard that she ...... She's got a pair of black wings!"
When Princess Alice and Princess Linya and Queen Cyril hurried to the prison, they were already surrounded by soldiers, and people had a look of fear on their faces, until Princess Linya and her white wings appeared, and the people breathed a sigh of relief. "Wings...... It really was a pair of black wings...... "Someone still said with a sigh of relief.
The crowd consciously parted, making way for the queen and princesses. Linya and Cyryl followed Alice into the prison, and the first thing that caught their eye was chaos, the ground was covered with stones and various debris, the walls were toppling in all directions, and the corpses of several soldiers and prisoners were lying on the ground, bleeding profusely. And in the center of this chaos, there is a woman in black half-kneeling on the ground, with her head bowed as if she is pondering something, and the most conspicuous place is a pair of black wings, stretched out from behind her, the black wing membrane and skeleton are clearly visible, and the end of the skeleton also has a sharp claw, which is chilling, and the evil aura emanating from her entire body is even more terrifying.
She's turned into a monster!
As for Princess Linya, she also has wings...... Now doesn't seem to be the time to think about this kind of question?
Alice and Cyryl had also seen this for the first time, and after taking a closer look, they couldn't help but turn their heads to look at Linya's white wings. Of course, Linya understood the doubts in their hearts, she took a deep breath, stepped forward, frowned and asked, "What are you? Did you kill these people?" It must be an evil thing, but she has no reason to be afraid, only evil and darkness have always been afraid of themselves, isn't it? Of course, the Ice Crystal Bow and the Sword of Light, and the Ice Shield are all secretly ready.
The woman in black finally woke up from her deep thoughts when she heard Linya's voice, and she slowly raised her head, revealing the two black sharp horns on the top of her head. "Linya Lantis Severa!, go to hell!" Rosie said through gritted teeth in a deep voice, word by word, as if some kind of dark fire was burning in her eyes, and the voice was more like she was biting something, which was creepy.
It's Rosie!, although both her appearance and voice have become many different from the original Wizard Queen, and there are several black scars on her face, but people can still recognize her identity at a glance. It's just that what everyone can't understand for a while is why she suddenly became the way she is, like some kind of legendary evil creature.
As soon as the words fell, Rosie suddenly raised her hand, and a cold light flew out, and the light and shadow turned into a dagger and flew towards Linya with an extremely slight sizzling sound. However, Linya, who had been prepared for a long time, immediately stretched out the ice shield, and after a "ding", the magic dagger splashed a fragment of magic on the ice shield, and then it was unexpectedly bounced off, flying in the air and spinning a few times before dissipating.
Seeing Linya being attacked, Alice and Cyryl, as well as the guards who followed closely behind, were about to make a move, but Linya raised her hand to signal and stop their behavior. "I think this guy should be dealt with by me, what do you say?"
Alice and Cealy looked at each other, shrugged their shoulders and withdrew their magic. The little girl seems to have a point, two guys with wings, it's better for them to solve the duel between them. Of course, if Linya is in any danger, she will definitely help, and it is not too late to take action depending on the situation. Everyone knows her strength, and it seems that there is nothing to worry about.
Dark magic attack, but this doesn't seem to have any effect on Linya. "Why, is that all? I thought there would be some surprise, Your Majesty Queen Rosie. Linya said with a disappointed expression, but there was obvious disdain and mockery in her tone. Ridiculous, would Princess Ben be afraid of magical damage?" "By the way, there is another point that must be corrected, there is a slight error in your words - this princess will not go to hell - it doesn't seem right to say that, because in fact this princess will not die at all!"
After saying this, Linya felt as if her taunt skills were about to be upgraded again. But the question is, is it really good to have such a skill as a magician and not a knight?
"Damn! Death!" Completely enraged, Rosie spread her black wings and flew up like a whirlwind, and with a wave of her arm, the dark blade in her hand turned into countless magical daggers and flew towards the crowd. Linya hurriedly stretched out the magic ice shield and spread out into a semicircle above the crowd.
Most of the attacks were blocked by a clanging clang, but a few people were still on the edge of the shield who were struck by these poisonous dark daggers, and screams of pain followed.
Linya immediately straightened her face and became very unhappy. When Rosie withdrew her wings and fell, Linya frowned and said, "Okay, now it's my turn!" After speaking, she raised the ice crystal bow in her hand, put an ice arrow on her right hand, and shot it with a bang.
Everyone around immediately felt a biting chill. This is the power of the artifact. The ice arrow flew towards Rosie like lightning. But surprisingly, a dark shadow flashed, and Rosie suddenly disappeared. Linya was wondering when a strong sense of crisis surged from the bottom of her heart, coming from behind her! At the same time, her mental intuition immediately told her that the dark aura had come behind her.
Linya's heart trembled, it all came so fast that her mind didn't have time to react. How could she have come behind her from ten meters away in an instant?
Linya instinctively ducked to the side, but it was too late. Rosie's dark blade stabbed her in the chest from behind, and before everyone could scream, the blade had already reached Linya's body. But...... Rosie seemed to have forgotten one thing, Linya's ice shield was still on, and such an attack didn't mean much to her. When the Dark Blade pierced into the ice shield, the magical power of the water elemental immediately reversed, condensing Rosie's magic sword into pieces of ice that extended all the way to her arm.
Susanna, who was the closest, was also the first to react, she quickly pulled out her short sword and stabbed it, but Rosie also came to her senses, quickly drew the dark blade, spread her wings and flew up. More than ten seconds later, Rosie returned to the same place, and Linya was full of unhappiness. Although she didn't suffer substantial damage, it was clear that she lost this round, which is completely unacceptable!
"Is this flickering?" Alice muttered after a false alarm, thinking. It's a very powerful spell indeed, and it's also very useful. But now was not the time to think about it, and Linya calmed down, withdrew her ice crystal bow, and summoned the Sword of Light. It is absolutely intolerable to dare to sweep the face of this princess in front of so many people!
"Die!" Linya shouted, her snow-white wings spreading out at the same time, waving the dark wings that flew to the other side. Rosie sneered, and also flew into the sky with the dark blade, stabbing head-on.
"Bell!" The two magic swords collided violently in the sky, and then, unexpectedly, the blade of darkness was cut through the middle, and the unstoppable sword of light slashed through a field of light and shadow, and when the round ended, Linya landed where Rosie had stood before, and Rosie retreated several meters backwards, a large piece of his right wing was severed, and black blood stains were sprinkled on the ground. "Ahh "No, it can't ......"
"Nothing is impossible. After winning this round, Linya finally regained her face, and said a little triumphantly: "Didn't you also grow wings? What is impossible in this world? By the way, you haven't said how you grew wings, is it some kind of legendary evil devil who has merged with you? It looks quite similar." But before she could finish her sentence, she felt as if there was some kind of magical reaction around her.
"Hmph, don't be too complacent!" Rosie's originally beautiful face had a few black marks, plus the two black horns on her head, and the cold eyes, her current appearance was really hideous. "I wasn't just playing with you, little girl, but I didn't use a tenth of my strength!" she said, summoning a dark spell that gathered around her like a cloud of smoke.
"Well, I'd love to see what you can do with a three-legged cat!" Linya sneered, Rosie was originally a magician, but now she has become such a strange appearance, and she also uses magic attacks, and she really has nothing to worry about. The physique of a demigod and the nemesis of a mage are just playing with you!
As the magic on Rosie's body became stronger and stronger, the magic around Linya became more and more intense, and it seemed to be gathering towards some location. But Rosie never attacked, and Linya, who was on guard, confronted each other.
Gradually, Rosie's dark magic focused into six dots around Linya, and then spread towards Linya along a six-pointed star-shaped passage on the ground. Linya then discovered a strange thing, around it was a ring with a diameter of about five meters, and there was a positive six-pointed star in the ring, and the center of the six-pointed star and the ring was also where she was standing now, and there was an inner ring with a diameter of about one meter, which together formed something like some kind of magic array, and she didn't notice it because of the scattered stones and debris scattered everywhere on the ground.
Looks like it's activated now. It looks like there's some kind of conspiracy. Linya clenched the Bright Star and the Sword of Light in her hand, surrounding more magic around her, waiting for Rosie's conspiracy to strike. Come on, I'm all set.
"Sister Linya, get out of there quickly!" Alice also sensed the existence of the magic array, and hurriedly shouted. "It's like...... Is it a magical teleportation array?" Queen Cyril thought for a while and said, it really looks like a magical teleportation array, but this teleportation array may not be too big, right? But Linya didn't feel any danger, compared to the dark aura coming from Rosie in front of her, the little magic flow flowing in the magic array was nothing at all.
"Your Royal Highness, get out of there first!" Suzanne finally couldn't help it, of course she knew that her little princess would not be afraid of any magical attack on the enemy, but some kind of conspiracy seemed to be brewing on the other side, and she couldn't be reassured. The enemy seemed to be deliberately delaying time, and although the little princess said that no one was allowed to help, she still drew the long sword at her waist and rushed forward.
A cold glint flashed in Rosie's eyes, and before she had time to think about it, she pushed her arms forward and turned all her magic power into a black long sword and shot it at Linya in the magic array. Linya, who had been waiting for a long time, also raised her arm and shot out the light magic gathered in the bright star, and the two magical powers that were essentially opposite met in the air, immediately triggering a violent explosion of magic power.
The dazzling light made people almost unable to open their eyes, and the waves of energy set off by the magic made people almost unsteady on their feet. The magic blast that flew everywhere completely activated the magic circle, and the stone pillar at the hexagonal apex of the outer ring lit up first, followed by the hexagram, and finally the inner ring.
When Suzanne ran to Linya's side, a strong wall of magic suddenly burst into the entire magic circle, completely isolating Linya and Suzanne from the crowd outside. People's eyes were also blocked by this blazing magic wall.
"Linya!" exclaimed Alice and Cyryl, who ran up quickly, but was immediately bounced back by the magic wall. "Oh no!" a bad premonition immediately crept through people's minds. Is there really a conspiracy?The Praetorian Knights hurriedly swung their weapons and tried to slash at the magic wall, but the result was of course in vain.
When the entire magic array shone with extreme light for more than ten seconds, an even brighter light flew up from the center of the magic array, heading straight into the sky. In the end, the magic array finally slowly dimmed, but ...... But when the light faded, the panicked people found that the most unbelievable of them had arisen - Princess Linya and her captain of the knights, Susanna, had disappeared. The magic circle became empty, and they were gone.
"Hahahaha-" Dark Wing Rosie on the other side of the magic array suddenly raised her head and laughed, her voice was so terrifying that everyone felt a chill from the bottom of their hearts.
"Damn, Rosie, what did you do, what did you do to Linya?" said Alice, who was already a little confused. Rosie has a conspiracy, that's already for sure. If something happens to Linya, I'm afraid that she, as a sister, will not be able to atone for her sins even if she dies! .
"Hahahaha...... Little fool, this arrogant and ignorant fellow!" Rosie continued her victorious laughter, the horrible wings, the horrified countenance, the maniacal laughter, which made everyone's hearts tremble.
"Maybe she can't be killed, just like a god - but that doesn't mean she can't be defeated! You know, ignorant fools, even the mighty gods can be banished!" Rosie smirked, "You've lost, Alice! Say goodbye to your moon goddess forever! she's been banished to the end of the world, and she'll never come back! This space gate was specially prepared for her, but I can't believe that this stupid guy was fooled so easily! Hahahaha...... Enjoy your throne, Alice, and I'll be back!