Chapter 16: The Empire's Chaper
Watching Levi gallop out on horseback, Lefmont couldn't understand why Levi had suddenly become so panicked. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
Leif and Levi have only known each other for two days, but Noshi is different because Levi was captured by her and Verus and returned to the town of Jotun.
Rivi's reaction on the other side of the hill still remembers Nosh, and judging from the circumstances at that time, she quickly came to the conclusion that someone was chasing Rivi.
At the moment when Levi fled, the figure standing under the sign of Jotun also moved, so fast that even Noshi could only catch the afterimage remaining in the air.
Noshi put away the two pairs of glasses that Rivi had thrown at her, looked at the approaching dark shadow, and pulled out the knight's sword at his waist.
"Are you from the Kaos Empire?" At that time, Levi mistook Noshi for a chaser sent by Kaos, so now the identity of this black shadow is self-evident.
With her eyesight, Nuoxi saw the brown face under the black robe and smiled slightly, the other party didn't answer her question, and took out a dagger blade and held it in her hand with a turn of her left hand.
Leif also sank his face, because Noshi was not talking about the San Kaos Empire, but the Kaos Empire, and the difference between the words represented by a completely different meaning, one of the two was an ally and the other was an enemy country.
The speed of the afterimage suddenly narrowed the distance between the two sides, and Noshi, who was riding on the horse, swung his cross sword at the black shadow, but the speed of the other party was too fast, and he dodged Noxi's attack on one side, and the dagger blade slashed through the blade of the knight's sword and brought a series of sparks.
The shadow flew into the air, with Noshi on her left and Leif on her right, and the flat and tight brown skin of the black shadow with its head down swept Leif with a single spin, kicking him directly under the horse.
"It's so beautiful" Cold sweat trickled down Noxi's curved side face, and the black-robed figure with extraordinary skills defeated the two of them in one round, sitting behind Noxi's back and pressing the dagger against her snow-white neck.
There is naturally a reason for the strength of the black-robed figure, but it is also inseparable from the fact that Nuoxi was injured, but this is a battle, and no one will specifically pick you to attack you when you are in good shape.
Now the black-robed figure could easily slice Noshi's throat with a push of the dagger forward, but she didn't do that, she just pushed Noshi to the ground.
"Little sister, borrow your horse," leaving a sentence that sounded extremely harsh to Noshi, and the black-robed figure drove the horse in the direction of Rivi's escape.
Noxi's face was originally just cold, but now it had become full of murderous aura that could freeze people's blood, and her hand clutched the dirt on the ground tightly, watching the black-robed figure fade away.
She failed to fulfill her grandmother's request to take care of Levi, and she lost at the hands of Rivi's pursuers.
"Damn!"
...
Seeing the black-robed figure again, the hairs on his body stood upside down, no matter where he fled in the past year, the black-robed figure would chase him, and Levi didn't know how she found her.
Speaking of which, this black-robed figure Levi had worked with her before, but he was in charge of technical research, and the other party was in charge of assassination, yes, the other party was a member of the Kaos Empire's assassination organization.
"Erima, aren't you tired of chasing me for so long!"
"Lord Levi, if you don't go back with me, I won't be able to explain to Your Majesty," the black-robed figure Errima said with a charming smile as she took off her hood.
Erema took out another dagger as she dealt with Levi, and this time she saw the direction of Rivi's horse and threw it out.
"What's going on?!"
As a high-level assassin, Erima's secret weapon skills have reached the first-class level, and the dagger blade slashed through the hooves of Rivi's horse without slanting, and the frightened horse threw Rivi out with a backward tilt.
As Levi gritted his teeth and prepared to withstand the impact of falling to the ground, he found that what was waiting for him was not a kiss from Mother Earth, but Erima's body full of wild beauty.
Levi is very depressed, today he first carried him on his back, and now he is being held in the arms of Erema in the way of a princess, is this identity a little wrong?
He's not much of a prince charming, but he's even worse off than a princess!
"Long time no see, Lord Levi" Erima's slightly curly white hair scratched at Rivi's face, unlike Noshi's long silver hair, Erima's hair color was more in line with Rivi's definition of "white".
"It's not the best" Errema didn't get angry at Levi's cold words, but just smiled, and then stopped the horse and put Levi on the ground.
This time Levi didn't run either, he had seen Erima's strength, but he was afraid that it was a little stronger than the current Noshi, especially speed, as the assassin Errema was best at speed, suddenly changing direction in high-speed running, emergency stops, dodging, etc.
Slapping the dust on his body, Levi noticed that there were a few more cuts in his robe, and the last time he slashed the robber, he had asked Madame Roni to help him put on a stitch, and now it was tattered again.
didn't tie up Rivi forcibly, Errema got off the horse and actually saluted Rivi respectfully, "Lord Rivi, it's a subordinate who is rude, please forgive me."
Levi was not surprised by this, he knew that Erema would salute only because Rivi still had the title of royal advisor on his head.
And all this was given to Levi by the emperor, and if the emperor wanted Rivi to die, then Erema would not hesitate to stab the dagger into his lower abdomen.
"If you really want to listen to me, let me go now," Riverpi said with a smile.
"You also know that this is impossible, and my mission is to bring you back to Your Majesty," Erema refused with a smile.
"I've already promised him that he won't make alchemy weapons for other countries, can't he let me live, I just hope to live this life plainly!"
The anger that had been suppressed in his heart for a long time made Rivi roar, but Erima's expression did not change in the slightest, and he still wore that strange smile.
"I don't know why Your Majesty thinks so highly of you, but you certainly have talents that we don't have, and that can't be changed," Erema said without humility or arrogance.
Levi understood the meaning of Erima's words, if this could be changed, then he was now a dead man, the country has been the most powerful force on the continent since ancient times, there is no one, and the emperor is the one who rules this force, and there is no other possibility for the country to resist the country except for another country.
It's not a fictional story to challenge a country as a person, and Levi doesn't think he has that ability, he's a man who is afraid of death, so all he can do is escape.
"Lord Levi, I heard that you were staying in the house of the mayor of Jotun some time ago," said Erema.
"You're threatening me with them?" Levi's face sank and he looked at the other party, this was the first time he had seen Erima, and he actually looked a little uncomfortable.
"The subordinate is just reminding the adults not to do stupid things," Erema bowed her head.
Silence brewed between the two, and perhaps even Levi himself didn't know how similar his eyes were to the nine alchemists in the past, and indifference was the main color.
"I don't need you to remind me, but I'm going to tell you two things right now," Levi said to Erima.
"First, I guess your majesty gave you an order to kill me unless I took refuge in another country, and not while I was still on the run, right?"
Erema didn't answer, and kept her head down.
"Second, let me tell you, if you dare to hurt even one person in that town, then your allegiance to the Emperor should not expect to get any knowledge I have learned in this life, remember, any knowledge!"
Knowing that Levi will not give in and be firm in principle, Erema she... Don't dare to bet that once Levi really completely severs ties with the Kaos Empire because of this incident, then she will be the eternal sinner of the empire.
In fact, with the methods of the assassin organization to which Errima belongs, it is very simple to deal with ordinary people, but what they have to deal with is Levi, and arresting and torturing may indeed make Rivi temporarily succumb, but Erema doesn't know if Rivi will really give up all his knowledge after being tortured, if Levi doesn't say half of his knowledge and hides it, none of them can see the truth.
And Erema couldn't be sure that torture would really work for Levi, because as long as it involved Rivi's principles, it was really too difficult to make him bow his head, which even His Majesty couldn't do.
She still remembered that last time His Majesty had decided to marry his sister to him, just in exchange for Rivi's technical support for the Empire, and he actually looked at Her Royal Highness with a ball of paper to plug the nosebleed in his nose, and then ran to the aisle to sleep for the night, and the next day he was sick and feverish...
Levi knew how important his knowledge was to the emperor who had made expansion his life's pursuit, and it was his value, but it was also a means he could use to blackmail the other party at this time.
"So when you catch me next time, I'll consider going back with you."
Erema might have pretended not to hear the previous words, but this sentence was not, so Erema raised her head suddenly.
What appeared in front of her was a huge compound alchemy array, and Errema knew that it was not good when she saw this alchemy array, but no matter how fast her speed was, it was not as fast as the alchemy array flashed.
As soon as the seven days passed, Rivi was able to open the library, and the golden alchemy array of Levi disappeared in an instant, and Erema reached out and grabbed the air in vain.
"Meow?"