The Eastern Roman Empire, also known as the Byzantine Empire, has gone through 12 dynasties and 93 emperors during its existence, and is the oldest monarchy in European history.

On January 17, 395 AD, the Roman Emperor Theodosius I died. On his deathbed, he inherited the eastern and western parts of the empire with two sons, of which the Western Roman Empire soon fell to the barbarians, while the Eastern Roman Empire lasted for a thousand years.

With the collapse of the Western Roman Empire, the Eastern Roman Empire naturally inherited the reputation of the Roman Empire, but compared to the traditional Rome, this Roman Empire gradually replaced Latin culture with Greek culture.

For example, in 620, Emperor Heraclius made Greek the official language of the empire for the first time, replacing Latin, making the Eastern Roman Empire a different state from the ancient and Western Roman empires.

At its peak, the empire regained some of its lost provinces in the west: most of Italy, North Africa, and Spain, but with the outbreak of the Great Plague of Justinian between 541 and 600, the empire began to decline.

Especially after the Crusaders conquered and sacked Constantinople in 1204, the empire was completely devastated, and although it was restored, it has been in decline ever since.

And when Liang En met the self-proclaimed Alini. When Palaiologos became an imperial princess, a vast empire spanning Europe, Asia and Africa had become a vassal of the Ottoman Empire.

The empire's lands were also reduced to Constantinople and nearby suburbs, part of the Peloponnese, several Greek islands, and other places that the Turks allowed them to continue occupying.

Yes, in this world of extraordinary power, as the direct successor of the Roman Empire, the Eastern Roman Empire once had great extraordinary power, but their habitual court struggles and civil wars ruined everything.

A large number of practitioners and those who had attained supernatural powers were either killed or wounded in civil wars or went into exile, so that the country today is in the same decline as Eastern Rome at the same time in the other world.

If you look at the timeline of the modern world, the little prince born last year should be the last emperor of this empire - Constantine XI.

The newly acquired 176 Luck Essence proves their identity, and through chatting, Liang En learns that the princess is the youngest sister of Manuel II, who was supposed to marry Khalil, the son of the Ottoman emir Orhan as a marryman.

But just three years ago, on her way to get married, a group of mysterious assassins assaulted the bridal party and severely injured Aleni with a poisoned dagger. Palaiologos.

"This may have been done by someone in the Ottoman Empire who opposed marriage, or it could have been done by my relatives, after all, my succession to the throne is a great threat to many people."

As a nobleman of the purple family, even if she has only lived in the court for 14 years, the intrigues in the traditional Greek court are also well known, but even if she knows, there is really nothing that can change this fate.

"And how did you survive?" Hearing this, Ao Lei pretended to be a white face and asked a question, "You said that you were an ordinary person at the time, and the dagger was smeared with almost incurable refined Chimera poison—"

"I was sure I was dead, because the toxin was so special and violent, and I couldn't have an antidote to it in my ranks. Luckily, Uncle Andronicus had just killed a vampire prince and had disposed of the other's heart as a trophy—"

Andronicus was the leader of the Roman Praetorian Guard, and although the Praetorian Guard had long since disappeared for various reasons, the position of head of the Praetorian Guard was retained as a title for the strong.

Aware of Eleni. After Palaiologos was almost certain to die if he was not rescued, Andronicus, who was in charge of protecting her at the time, fought between the heavens and the people, eventually replacing her heart with the heart of the vampire prince that he had captured.

As for the reason why Andronicus did this, it was also very simple: he was Eleni's uncle and a representative of the power of the relatives behind the other party, so at this time he didn't have much choice but to try to gamble.

"- At that time, it was actually a helpless move, because the survival rate of replacing the heart was only one percent, but I don't know if it was a blessing or a curse, I succeeded." Eleni. Palaiologos stretched out his hands and sighed.

It is said to be a blessing because this heart saved her from a near-death state and gave a young girl who had little to no supernatural power to have great power.

It is said to be a curse because even if the heart belonging to the Blood Prince has been disposed of before, its essence has not changed in any way, so Alini will inevitably transform into a vampire.

The transition was slow and incomplete due to the previous heart being processed, but even then she was transitioning faster and faster into a vampire.

So when they were just halfway there, the vampire traits became more and more pronounced. Palaiologos had to go into exile with his few cronies at the prompting of Andronicus.

Unfortunately, vampires were not welcome wherever they were, so after years in exile they had to choose to sail out to sea in an attempt to get away from the dangerous Mediterranean coast.

Luckily, as a princess of the Empire, even if it is a princess of the declining Empire, Eleni's cronies are not something that the street ruffians can deal with.

In the course of several years of exile, instead of becoming less numerous, they attracted a bunch of these chaotic fellows, and eventually, they all boarded a ship and sailed towards the mysterious East.

The reason for choosing the Far East is also very simple, because a traveler named Marco Polo spent more than ten years in the East a few decades ago before returning to his homeland, and wrote the Far East as a paradise.

So when the exiled princess really had nowhere to go, she finally chose to follow the guidebook to the Far East. I hope to find my home in this paradise on earth.

It's just that what they didn't expect was that when they were about to reach their destination, they encountered a collision between two powerful forces, resulting in serious damage to the ship.

If it hadn't happened that the migrant boat had passed by, they might not have escaped from the badly damaged ship as they did now, almost all of them were intact this time—

Transcendents are much more powerful than ordinary people, but they are not omnipotent, for example, in the stormy sea, except for a few powerful transcendents, everyone else has only a dead end.

"As long as people are okay, it's not a big problem, after all, after so many years on the run, I don't have any wealth to lose." After listening to Liang En's comfort, Aleni smiled and said.

"All my fortune has been exchanged for supplies and this ship, except for the only crown to prove my identity, and now that I'm almost at my destination anyway, the supplies and the ship are gone."

"You're optimistic." Liang En smiled and said, "Can you ask where you plan to go next?" If you're going to the capital, we can bring you there. ”

The royal families of various countries who have come to Huaxia to fight the autumn breeze over the years can be said to be carloaded, so Huaxia also has a standard process for the reception of this kind of person, so Liang En naturally mentioned this matter to the other party.

"Is it the capital of your Celestial Empire? It must be a bustling city like paradise. Aleni smiled and shook her head, "But I think I'd better not go to places that are too busy." ”

With that, she pointed to her unusual skin, which had turned burgundy, and was visibly white. Obviously, the vampire's traits make it impossible for her to blend in with normal humans.

"I've heard that you have a large territory, please accept me and my subordinates, of course, I promise that we will swear allegiance to you."