"Please forgive us!"

A group of civilians behind him also humbly pleaded. This caused all the New Army soldiers from the slums to look at each other and hesitantly put down their rifles.

"City guards? I didn't hear from the battalion commander what the city guards would do tonight...... Never mind...... Let's go! Cross the alley behind us and keep going left to get back to the central side, but you have to be careful!"

Lamber frowned and thought for a moment, but did not come up with any answer, seeing that this group of civilians did not seem to be anything special, and looked as afraid and humble as he had seen the city guards before, he couldn't help but soften his heart a little, and after letting this group of civilians leave, he led the team to continue to the destination with some anxiety.

But it wasn't long before they stopped again. For not far from their hideouts in the lanes was a large, well-armed army marching eastward along the deserted road.

"It's ...... Troops of the Guards Division!"

The knights of the palace guards in the ranks recognized the shape of the armor worn by the soldiers who passed through the street leading from this alleyway, and immediately whispered to the new army soldiers around them in some surprise.

"Guardsman? Isn't that our enemy? Why are they here now? Could it be that the city guards enforce the curfew to allow this army to pass?"

Lamber took out the map in shock, they were still two streets away from Stronghold 22, and the defense had not yet been established, so how could they deal with these large Guards?

"Squad leader, let the mage summon the message! According to Deputy Head Xia Lin's explanation, this is an unplanned sudden situation!"

Roberts, the deputy squad leader, said with a solemn expression.

"You really should do this, Master Mage, please summon the message to Deputy Commander Xia Lin, just say that Class 2133 encountered the Guards Division troops on Jinhuicao Street in advance, and the number is ......."

"At least 1,000 people! And they're heading towards the southeast gate of the Dragon Sleeping Palace!"

The knights of the palace guards in the team added with a serious expression.

"I see!"

The Royal Mage nodded, took out a magic crystal from his bosom, and sent a message to the owner of the spiritual power stored in the crystal.

Xia Lin, who got this unexpected news, was suddenly shocked, and a large number of Guards Division troops appeared on the streets of the south block of the Eastern District? And still heading towards the Longmian Palace?

Damn, he forgot one thing, that is, since the conservatives also had the same idea as them, they would definitely send the 2nd Guards Division in advance to control the situation as soon as possible.

The city guards who were responsible for providing information in the pearl capture plan did not have any news in the face of such a large army, and it should be that the conservatives used their remaining forces in the city guards.

Xia Lin immediately issued an order to Fatlan, who was leading the 2nd Infantry Battalion, to end the original plan, shrink back to the West Gate and enter the interior of the Dragon Sleeping Palace before coming to support his group.

He led this new army, which had already passed through the west gate of Longmian Palace and entered the interior, turned to the southeast gate and marched at full speed, hoping to prevent the Guards Division from entering Longmian Palace.

At the same time, let the subordinate mages of the palace guard at the west gate give an early warning to the subordinate mages at the southeast gate, so that they would not let go of any army that tried to enter the Longmian Palace in vain.

However, this warning came too late, and the captain of the Fourth Brigade of the Palace Guard, Elsie Harrison, looked at the palace gate that had been violently damaged by the disguised messengers at his feet, and looked at the shadowy army that suddenly appeared outside the palace wall, his expression was full of shock.

It wasn't until he received a summons from the palace guard mage beside him that he understood what was happening, and in a flash of thought, Elsie immediately pulled out the long sword at his waist and shouted:

"Knights of the Court Guard! Prince Fairmod rebelled with Earl Hurt and General Bonofo! Now all we have to do is hold on! Reinforcements are coming soon! We believe that victory belongs to justice!

Now, the mages go and open the protective circle, and all of us will hold the palace gates!"

……

"Uhhhhhh

！

！」

"Father! Father!"

At the moment of tension between the two sides, in the Aram Hall, Emperor Pulit, who was lying in the arms of the Empress Dorothy, suddenly let out a hysterical howl.

The princess Dorothea hurriedly and anxiously stroked his face, but there was no way but to watch as Emperor Plitt was tormented by the power of the curse.

"Put away ......"

After a long wail, Emperor Plit's voice gradually weakened, and he endured the terrible curse's devastation on his body, and with a trembling right hand, he took something out of his bosom and tried to shove it into Dorothy's hand.

Seeing his feeble appearance, the princess Dorothea hurriedly took the object in his hand, and found that it was actually a symbol of the royal authority of the Ahelika - an amber seal the size of a finger.

「……」

Seeing that the Empress Dorothea took the seal, Emperor Plit's painful and distorted face faintly revealed a bit of relief and remorse, and he stretched out his hand as if he wanted to touch the face of the Empress Dorothea, but then the various emotions contained in his golden twin children suddenly stagnated, and then dissipated with the soul of his master, turning into an empty dead silence.

"Father?? Father?!"

The cry of grief was not answered, and in the face of her father, who had died in her arms in agony, the princess Dorothea clenched his palms covered with black curse lines, and tears of pain and powerlessness flowed down her beautiful face.

The Emperor who had ruled the Sassen Empire for nearly fifty years came to an end today, and the Dorosia Empress wept silently for a while, gently placed her father's body on the floor of the Aram Hall, and got up to look at the gloomy look of the Imperial Brother Fairmod opposite.

Witnessing the death of Emperor Plit, Prince Fairmode did not feel the excitement and pleasure he had imagined, but had some inexplicable boredom and manic depression in his chest.

Just when the brother and sister looked at each other for a while, wanting to say something to each other, a wave of earthquakes that were more violent than before came from the underground of the Dragon Sleeping Palace.

"Damn! What are those guys at the Hand of the Dead up to?!"

In the fierce and continuous shaking, the gloomy face of Prince Fairmode shouted angrily.

Immediately afterward, a terrible sound of "boom" was heard outside the hall, and the earthquake gradually subsided, and a bad feeling arose in everyone's hearts.

"No! What's that!

！」

After the earthquake subsided for a moment, there was a sudden hysterical exclamation from outside the temple, and a knight wearing the Mithril armor of the palace guard staggered into the Aram Hall, and shouted incoherently:

"Giant ...... Dragon!

Her Royal Highness! A white bone dragon has appeared outside!

」

"Bone Dragon?!"

When people on both sides heard the news, they were all dazed and shocked, the giant dragon has almost become a legendary existence in this world, and when they heard the idea of "bone dragon" at first glance, everyone's first reaction was naturally disbelief and surprise.

"It was the necromancer of the Hand of the Dead who invaded the Dragon's Sleeping Treasury and desecrated the remains and dragon crystals left behind by His Highness Linasis Clumberwell, the dragon companion of the Emperor Albis!

The Dragon Crystal is the key to His Majesty's life, and after the Dragon Crystal was contaminated by the terrible and evil necromancy, it lost its effectiveness, which is why His Majesty Pulit lost the power to suppress the curse."

Archmage Strach, who had always maintained communication with several other court archmages, quickly realized the origin of the bone dragon and explained with an ugly face.