"Whew~"

"The annual Magic Association Grading Exam has begun! Today's newspaper has the time and place of the exam! One serving only costs 1 nali inch! ”

"Woo~"

"A new mechanical design mod that can be used in combination with any number of rings of magic if you have the ability."

"Toot ~"

"Hurry up! Hurry up and get in the car, no! It's about to depart and I'm still here! ”

Passing through the wide ocean, the midday breeze that rose unevenly from the sea landed on the western continent, taking in the bustling land that seemed to be paved with gold.

Cities are getting wider and wider, and the sound of machinery running, regular signals, and the sound of people talking and hurrying.

On top of the building, countless flags engraved with the gold-colored "Godling Coat of Arms" were attracted by the passing sea breeze and showed their faces, and the buildings here were dyed with a layer of golden brilliance.

This is St. Nari, the jewel of human civilization, perhaps from a long time ago.

Many years ago, even travelers who traveled in the bitter cold and wilderness would have been nostalgic for this wonderful place, but even so, after Empress Elizabeth ascended the throne, the light of this place could no longer be summed up as a "pearl".

Just like the golden light emanating from the dazzling flag, this is the sun, the sun of the western continent, the sun of the whole world.

The sea breeze then moves forward, through dense commercial and residential areas, and along the central axis of Saint-Nari into the hinterland, where a golden-colored palace comes into view. This is the center of St. Nari and the center of power for the whole of Nari.

"Click!"

The gates, guarded by armoured men, did not stop humans from all over the world, who often appeared outside the Golden Palace, trying to observe the Empress's thoughts and admire her virtues and wisdom through the buildings a little distance from them.

“.”

"Schwali felt that since they had also contributed to the coalition forces of the Southern Continent at that time, it was natural that they should also have their share in the development of the New Dragon Court, no matter how big or small."

In the outer court, in a spacious room, an elderly gentleman in a black suit stroked the neatly combed white "V" mustache on his lips, and looked at his colleague beside him and the empress who was drinking tea at the top.

It has been more than five years since she ascended the throne, and the empress's city has become deeper, which makes the new prime minister feel quite stressed.

Elizabeth, the empress who combed her long golden hair neatly and turned it into an elegant bun, glanced at the prime minister and said lightly,

"What do you think, O'Oni?"

At this time, they were discussing daily matters, and the theme was, as the prime minister said, related to the division of interests in the southern continent.

To understand the stakes, then we have to specifically understand the previous relationship between Nari, the countries of the Western Continent and the Green Dragon Court.

In the past, the development of the Southern Continent has always been authorized by the Western Continent by default to the merchants and nobles below. After all, the rulers of various countries have not finished their own backyards, so how can they have any leisure to engage in the southern continent far away in the sky.

As long as those merchants and nobles hand over enough money, they can get the tacit approval of the countries of the Western Continent to develop the Southern Continent, as long as they bring back those valuable resources and subhuman slaves, who cares what they go there for, and can alleviate the contradictions in their own families, why not?

This is also the source of so many cities and city lords in the Southern Continent that were different and independent, like isolated islands, which was essentially a kind of colonial plunder.

But on the surface, the officials of the several countries that signed the "Regulations on the Protection of the Southern Continent" do not support this kind of plunder, but anyway, the southern continent is full of scattered sub-humans and human natives, even if they do something, people will die, and those who have become slaves will become slaves, and no one will run to the Western Continent to cry out for injustice.

It's just that none of the humans expected that something had really happened before.

The city lords who ran over to develop were chased and beaten all the way by the local dragons in the southern continent, and they rolled back to their hometown with a stream of urine and a swollen nose and a swollen face, which was more troublesome.

Everyone is not very good in terms of face and morality, but one thing is clear: it is necessary to find the field.

But to be honest, both Schwali and Kado seem to be a little stretched thin on this matter.

Coordinating army and navy operations across continents will consume a lot of their own resources and energy, and Schwali and Kado officials don't really want to pay this money, not to mention that from the mouths of those guys who fled for their lives, they can also know that the dragon queen who beat them is not a good stubble, not only is her own strength very strong, but also robbed a lot of things from their western continent, if you really want to fight, the dragon queen relies on the mountains and the sea to eat the sea, and I don't know when she will fight.

The matter was so deadlocked, and to sum up, the situation in the Western Continent at that time was as follows: the crowd was very angry, the transfer of troops was immediate, the money was not in place, but the progress was not made.

Just when the two countries were babbling, the thunder was heavy and the rain was small, Queen Elizabeth, who was far away in the west, suddenly handed over a step, it turned out that there was an indigenous dragon man from the southern continent, and the dragon queen was of the same root and came to convey the meaning of peace.

Oh, it turns out that the Southern Continent doesn't really want to fight us to the end!

The days still have to pass (face still has to be wanted), let's turn the page about the past (turn the page of the era of development together in the past), as long as you don't bully us in the future (as long as you follow Narigan in the future), we can cooperate well (just develop the southern continent well).

Although Schwali and Kadu are still hungry for the resources of the Southern Continent, they can't afford so much military spending for the time being, and only Nari can afford it, so it's almost like drinking soup with Elizabeth.

What's more, according to their calculations, maybe they can take advantage of this opportunity to use troops against the Southern Continent to drag Nari into the quagmire of unlimited investment to curb Elizabeth's expansion, why not?

Therefore, whether it was Schwali or Kado, the decision at that time was to watch the fire from the other side, and wanted to watch Nari suffer a big loss, and the Isel Green Dragon people in the Southern Continent, as long as they were not fools, knew that it must be the people Nari had found, and they had no foundation at all, let alone any troops.

The main composition of the so-called "Southern Continent Human and New Dragon Court Alliance" is actually a new army trained by Nari, with a little armies from other countries and subhuman armies as embellishments.

This obvious use of troops and the incalculable outcome of the war led to widespread opposition to Elizabeth's decision in the Parliament and all levels of society at the time.

But Elizabeth did it stubbornly, and Nari's army showed courage and good fighting in the southern continent, defeating the so-called "dragon queen" in one fell swoop, and beating back to the deep mountains in the south and hibernating, all because of this

Hearing the voice of the empress in the distance, the prime minister named "O'Oni" touched his beard again, and then said,

"At that time, His Majesty made a surprise move to buy Blackbeard, the legendary pirate who recruited the Eastern Ocean, and pocketed all the ancient relics and technologies of the Storm Sea; When making decisions on the use of troops, it is even more forceful to override public opinion, select meritocracy, reform the army's shortcomings, and supervise the war in real time; The soldiers and the people of Nari even served the country with their lives and goods. All these things are the work of us in Nari. Even if Schwali and Kado are interested in seeking cooperation, they should wait a little longer and dry them out.

"I think it's best to have an official reply that: 'Nari has reached an agreement with the New Dragon Court that he will no longer interfere in the affairs of the Southern Continent. All cooperation matters, please discuss with the new dragon court in detail, Nari will not participate. ’”

The ministers next to him were speechless to the new prime minister.

The previous prime minister was a newcomer, and although many things still had to be done, many things conflicted with Queen Elizabeth's decision-making, so His Majesty changed to a griffon prime minister, and wanted the new prime minister to be a little more obedient.

But as the saying goes, the extremes of things must be reversed.

This one is really too good at sycophancy, in fact, he only needs to say the last sentence, and the previous burst of praise is all nonsense.

And this is already a refined version of Elizabeth's warning, you must know that at the beginning he could use this kind of "implicit praise" for several minutes as a justification, and the emphasis was on a boast.

Above, Elizabeth, who was sipping tea, slowly lowered the teacup, and then slowly stood up, revealing her elegant white and gold dress.

Seeing that Her Majesty had all risen, the ministers below were about to get up, but Elizabeth only walked to the maid who was waiting beside her with a warm towel, and wiped her hands with the towel as the end of her lunch.

Then, she waved them back down.

"That's it. And, the pirate woman. When will the things of the Sardinian women be in place? Princess Isabel is still with her, do you want my sister to be eaten by a shark one day? ”

All the ministers were silent, and at the same time looked at Malix, who was in charge of the Hidden Affairs Bureau.

He looked at his colleague beside him with a blank face, and then said,

"When the Black Chief was bribed by us the year before, he originally wanted to bring Princess Isabel back as a proof of friendship with us. Or chips. So without our permission, he took the first step and backstabbed the Sardinian pirate. Although the pirate suffered heavy losses and was even seriously wounded, she was allowed to escape. But the Black Chief said it was because of Princess Isabel. Escort the pirate captain to escape. He didn't dare to fire, for fear of accidentally injuring Princess Isabel, so this made Her Royal Highness the princess"

Maliks is too old and may be the least intimidating of them.

The meaning of this sentence is so obvious that it doesn't need to be obvious, and the translation is,

"Don't blame us, it's not your sister yet, she doesn't want to come back at all!!"

Elizabeth sat back in her seat, and there was no extra expression on her face, but she asked,

"Marix, I remember that you have a granddaughter who is still a minor. I would like to ask, if your granddaughter rebelled and ran away from home, would you, as a grandfather, bring her back or let her wander outside? ”

Malix didn't answer, but said,

According to our intelligence, the pirate captain has been adrift at sea. Some of the shores that she stopped before were intercepted by us and caused some losses, and now she may still be wandering in the North Ocean, or she may have landed in the North If she has landed in the North Border, then she will definitely die and have no place to be buried, and the Turan family will help us keep an eye on it. But it seems that there is also a little trouble to face on the side of the Turan family, they didn't elaborate, but it may be related to Sema Snow Mountain"

"I know, it's up to you. I'm going to see my Isabel back in three months, is there anything else you want to tell me? ”

"No, Your Majesty."

Elizabeth nodded, then stood up with a blank face, and walked out of the place of the meeting first, towards the inner court where she had lived in the sun.

She was now the only one of the Godling royal family in the inner court, and she had two half-siblings, but Elizabeth sent them all out of the palace and sent them to the rest of the world.

I couldn't understand whether it was the rejection of any other possible power or Elizabeth's devotion to the family's bloodline, in short, she didn't kill them, but she didn't give them any chance.

The inner court of the Golden Palace is the same as the outer court, there are many inner court officials and maids who serve her, but she still feels empty, as if she is the only one in the entire Golden Palace, and those ministers, inner court officials and maids are just her cold external tools and puppets.

Especially in front of her own pair of eyes that can see through desire, all relationships are only cold interests and desires for her.

It is precisely because of this that she is becoming more and more reticent.

Even though there are more and more precious dogs from all over the world in the Golden Palace, it is strangely becoming more and more deserted and quiet.

She lived like this for five years.

The maid behind her followed her from the outer court to the inner court, and many of the maids who were cleaning next to her lowered their heads, and the maids who followed behind her also dragged their bodies silently and followed her as if they had been deprived of the right to make sounds, until Elizabeth returned to her bedroom alone.

"Go and rest, there are other things to do in the evening."

"Yes, Your Majesty."

The maid behind her retreated, and Elizabeth was the only one left in the huge palace, and she glanced at the desk full of official documents, and wanted to move there and do things as she had expected.

But halfway through the footsteps, he stopped where he was.

For some reason, she was in no mood today, not irritable, just a little feeling that she didn't want to do anything.

She may need a vacation, but she is not a tense queen all the time, she knows the truth of combining work and rest, so in the midst of high-intensity work, she will also arrange a short time to rest.

But even so, it seems that no matter what, it is not enough, and even only constant busyness can fill the void that cannot be relaxed.

After a moment's hesitation, she walked straight to her dresser, and after sitting down quietly, her expressionless face was reflected in the mirror, no different from five years ago. No, even a more youthful face.

She looked at her majestic self in the mirror, and for a long time she didn't make any extra moves, only knocked on the prosthetic eye in her socket, waiting for it to give a crisp response.

"Prosthetic eye."

During this period of time, her strength will increase, and her body will not weaken.

Since her accession to the throne, she has been so young, so bright as gold, that the only time she fell ill was four and a half years ago when Fisher had called her and not heard from her.

"Buzz"

The eyes sent back an incomprehensible response, as if asking "what", but Elizabeth didn't ask anything.

She only rang the bell on the dresser, as if waiting for something.

"Squeak"

A moment later, the door of the dormitory suddenly opened, revealing a smiling middle-aged beauty outside the door.

The middle-aged woman was soft-looking, wearing a pale gold slim dress that was different from other maids, and her long blonde hair was tied into an elegant bun.

"Your Majesty, I'm here, do you have any orders?"

"Diane, help me comb my hair."

"Ah, that's weird, there shouldn't be a dinner on tonight's agenda."

Having said that, Diane walked over and reached out very familiarly to stroke the golden hair ornament that had been tied on Elizabeth's head, and methodically removed the intricate hair ornament from her head one by one.

Elizabeth glanced at Diane, who was serving herself behind her, and her expression didn't change much in response to her question,

"I just thought about it suddenly."

"Is there something about it, Your Majesty?"

"Nothing."

"I see, it's because of some reasons that I can't understand."

"There has to be a reason?"

"That's inevitable, Your Majesty, anyone has a reason to do anything, and you are no exception."

Elizabeth glanced at the gentle Diane behind her through the mirror again, but did not deny her statement again.

With Pandora's prosthetic eyes and the ability to see through everyone's desires, she certainly knows that everyone has their own purpose for everything they do, and that is, of course, desire.

Even Diane behind her is like this, she entered the Golden Palace to serve herself only in the hope that her younger brothers and sisters who are not successful can have a place to live. Although Diane did not mention it to herself, Elizabeth read her request with her prosthetic eye.

But after all, she has never spoken out, and probably thinks it is inappropriate, so she just uses her salary in the Golden Palace to subsidize the family.

Elizabeth knew early on that many desires were hidden in her heart, and many had not been transformed into action; But on the other hand, what is transformed into action must also be desire.

"Do you want me to guess Your Majesty's reasoning?"

"Heh, I didn't expect you to have such a guess in addition to being serious?"

"Thanks for the compliment, but I haven't lost a riddle with my siblings in the past."

Diane stroked Elizabeth's hair, and used the comb to sort out the broken hair that had just been scattered again, and Elizabeth did not refuse, only said lightly,

"Oh, guess what."

"Well, I guess. It's because of that Lord Fisher Benavides. ”

"Smack!!"

The expression on Elizabeth's face faded slightly, and then she suddenly reached out and slapped the other hand's hand away from her hair.

This time, although the voice was not heavy, Diane took a step back and looked down to see that her palms were already blue.

looked up again, but saw that Elizabeth's face in the mirror had become extremely cold, only to see her sneer, and said without looking back,

"Why, after hearing the story of my past with Fisher, I think I have seized the opportunity of speculation, but is it too late to say it now? You've been working here for four years, don't you know what to say and what not to say? ”

"Don't dare, Your Majesty"

Diane smiled wryly and clutched her wounded, bruised palm into her arms, having worked with Elizabeth for so long, and of course knew that many speculators had speculated on the story of Her Majesty Elizabeth and the long-lost Fisher.

But Diane knew that by the time Her Majesty had sent the Captain of the Sardinian Lady to the Captain of the Sardinian Lady with the request that "only Princess Isabel should be returned, and that she could exchange it for gold and knighthood", she had not been troubled by any lady who might have had an affair with Fisher.

She may not have cared from the bottom of her heart, but the gentleman who had not been heard from had told her that he would definitely return.

And once again, the empress chose to believe in the other party.

So, over the years, she no longer had any personal feelings in anything but about Princess Isabel, and it was only measured by Nari's interests.

"Are you seeking death by saying these things today, Diane?"

After Diane's palm was hit hard behind her, Elizabeth didn't stop, she looked in the mirror, stretched out her hand, combed her hair, and asked in a cold voice.

"Of course not, Your Majesty just asked us about the progress of the Cardinal Factory in Longting City in the Southern Continent earlier, and General Barbatos, who was stationed there, brought a message. I just wanted to check with Your Majesty, but I didn't expect that."

"Message?"

Elizabeth's eyes moved slightly, but the combing of her hair stopped.

Through the mirror, her golden eyes reflected the figure of Diane behind her, and the other party's desire was instantly revealed.

She. There is no desire for speculation.

Well, that message is

"Your Majesty, the news brought by General Barbatos may be related to that Fisher Benavides."

"Possibly?"

Elizabeth then brushed her hair, her eyes back in front of the mirror.

"Yes, said the General, who had discovered that a gentleman of Nari, who was adept at using magic to block attacks, had broken into our factory where the cardinals were produced. He was unfamiliar with Mr. Fisher's appearance, but he had only heard the lady next to the Nari gentleman call him 'Fisher'. General Barbatos couldn't be sure either, so he had to let me. Escalate to you"

Elizabeth was still combing her hair, but her movements were getting slower and slower.

That is, everything is uncertain, everything is just his guess? I didn't personally visit the Southern Continent to confer Barbatos' military position, but I know that he is brave and good at fighting, how can you guarantee that he is not an opportunistic person? ”

"Regrettably, Your Majesty, I can't guarantee it either. That's why I brought General Barbatos's words word by word, hoping that Your Majesty will make a decision, of course, I also reported a little luck, maybe Your Majesty can be in a better mood because of this? ”

Diane endured the pain on her hands, reached out again to take Elizabeth's unfinished blonde hair, and slowly tied her up, she also whispered,

"Your Majesty, the intelligence finally said that the gentleman, with a strange female companion, went to the south of the Southern Continent."

Behind her, Diane lowered her head after the debriefing, took a step back cautiously, kept her distance, and waited for her order.

In the mirror, Elizabeth's hair ornament has changed, she is still so beautiful, she is the queen of the whole Nari rising like the sun.

She was so majestic, with an unmistakable indifference and ruthlessness in her hollow golden eyes.

In the past years, she has always been like this with power in her hands, and anyone and even herself has become accustomed to it.

But under the grooming mirror, a slightly yellowed photograph still sits in the frame.

In the photo, Elizabeth and Fisher, dressed in royal academy costumes, stood side by side at the door of the royal academy at a very close distance.

On the screen, Elizabeth's smile is bright, her eyes are bright, and her hands are tightly interlocked under the slender scholar's robe.

Elizabeth looked at the picture with a blank expression, except for the hand that was about to break the back of the court official's hand behind her.

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