All of a sudden, Karna's tears burst out.

"Thank you, Martin, really thank you. ”

Others only feel the brilliance of her apparent position as an empress candidate, but no one can understand the pain in her heart.

This battle for the imperial throne is more like a conspiracy that forces the Lopez family and the Nord family to fight.

Carl Rick, in this world with quite powerful healing magic, actually died of malaria. According to the merits of the Ka Huang, he can even apply to the divine envoy for divine gifts. In fact, when Sigma was alarmed, she did send an oracle to save Carl.

Karl died before the oracle arrived.

If this is barely a coincidence, the deaths of the four direct children are definitely a conspiracy in the standard sense of the word - the forces of chaos are trying to plunge the empire into chaos.

However, the empire has too many enemies to even have a clear direction.

In the most ancient periods, the dominant people of this continent were not humans at all. High elves and dwarves rule this vast continent. They worked hand in hand, with elves ruling the plains and woodlands, and dwarves dominating all the mountains.

At its peak, the dwarf even built fortresses and fortresses on top of the Chaos Wasteland in the northeast under the cover of the army, right at the doorstep of the people of Chaos, which can be described as a slap in the face day and night.

Unfortunately, due to the widening differences between the elves and the dwarves, a protracted war broke out after all, which greatly damaged the vitality of the two races.

The elves abandoned the continent and crossed the ocean to return to their hometown, leaving only the distant relatives of the wood elves. The dwarves weren't having a hard time either, having been overrun by the orcs in more than half of the mountain fortresses and settlements, including several of the eight peaks of Kalas, considered sacred by the dwarves.

After the High Elves got out, this continent can be said to be a group of heroes.

The territory of the Rick Empire is in this situation, and basically Sigma, a guy who doesn't know whether to open or pretend to be a traverser, has forcibly carved out a vast territory.

Whether it's a child of chaos, a Slinka, a vampire, or an orc, Sigma is simply a god of war, and there is no enemy boss he can't kill with a hammer.

If there is, then two hammers.

Karna's Lopez family is located in the south, representing the union of several provinces, as their territory must face the endless orcs that sprise in the mountains.

Compared to the Nords, they are truly unsafe, and are more dependent on blood transfusions from the central province of Rick - mainly money.

Grand Duke Salas's Eastern Army has been rumored to have had an unclear entanglement with the vampires. And he has always been at odds with the Lopez family.

Carl Rick died on Duke Salas's territory, and before he died, he sent a team of secret emissaries to the territory of the Lopez family, but unfortunately the whole team was poisoned before he met Grand Duke Lopez.

If the imperial power were handed over to the Duke of Salas, the Lopez family would be convinced that they would be liquidated.

No one can understand how cruel it is to put the fate of millions of people in several provinces on a single underage girl.

All along, Karna has held herself to the standards of an empress. Not only did he study internal affairs and diplomacy, but he also worked hard to develop his fighting talent for the Rick royal family.

In order to prevent himself and his relatives and friends from suffering the fate of extermination.

On the road to imperial power, there was no turning back from the bow.

Either ascend the throne as an empress, or be defeated and liquidated.

If it was in the past, once defeated, it would basically be dead. There are only three places that humans can go, the Empire, Bakaria, and the Southern City-States.

Needless to say, if someone else becomes the emperor, Karna will definitely be killed. The southern city-states don't have to stay, because it is a free federation, and most of the lords there are open-minded about money, and they will definitely not be able to withstand the pressure of the empire to sell Karna.

Bakaria has a guiding rule with the Empire, and no king or lord will be willing to do so.

Now Martin had uttered what a precious promise it was to Lorrainburg to shelter her in case she failed.

"Hell, Martin, you're so good to me, I'm afraid I'm really in love with you and will give up everything to give you a baby!" Karna said with a strange expression that didn't know whether to cry or laugh.

But in the next second, Karna showed a lonely expression: "It's a pity that I can't, I still have my parents, grandfather, and a large group of relatives in the south." My ideal future is still to ascend to the throne of the Empress, and then ......"

She suddenly didn't want to talk anymore, and even Jessica secretly lowered her head and let her head rest on Martin's chest.

"And then, in order to consolidate power, marry some great nobleman?" Martin sneered.

"I ......," Karna was momentarily speechless. It was exactly what she imagined.

For aristocracy, love is one thing, marriage is another.

Who knew that Martin grasped the Queen's Peak with all his strength, and said to her extremely domineeringly: "Tell you, my Martin Lorraine woman will never give it to anyone." If anyone dares to use their brains, prepare for war!"

Karna was startled, for he could see from Martin's eyes that had turned red for some reason that Martin was serious.

That's not the momentum of a minister at all, it's the momentum of a king who is far above the duke!

Martin's thunderous words don't stop there.

"Chaotic times are coming. Get rid of those damn aristocratic ideas. If one is not done well, the human race will be wiped out. The guy who still thinks about power at this time is an idiot, and only delivers it to the nezumi for dinner. If I were you, I would give up the offensive and consolidate the existing territory. Chaos has destroyed the southern city-states, and they have all reached the territory of the wood elves and the south of Bakaria. Guess what's next place to face the Chaos Front?"

"Northeast!?" Karna's master and servant lost their voices at the same time.

Martin's reminder to them ended there. They have their own positions, and unless the empire falls, they can't cooperate with Martin without a bottom line.

Leaving Karna as a servant, Martin walked out of the room. He knew he needed to give them some time to digest it. Suddenly stepping out of a small world limited to imperial power, in the face of an even more exaggerated general trend, not everyone is capable of doing it.

Martin believes Karna can.

Walking down the corridor, there was a small square of the temple built in a cave, and Valrhona sat lonely with her legs crossed on a high platform at the entrance of the square.

Martin approached and found Princess Valrhona sitting there in silent tears.

Martin immediately understood that the little princess of the wood elves with sharp ears and eyes had heard everything.

Although Martin felt a little bad, his instinct told him that if he didn't do something, Valrhona was afraid that he would run.

At the moment when Valrhona wanted to run, Martin made a decisive move and hugged her.