Claudia's eyes shrank slightly, and she looked at Emperor Oberly.

Her body leaned back slightly, trying to escape.

But......

At the moment when her body moved slightly,

A force-piercing force tore through the space, a sharp stab that shook the air with a whirring sound.

Even though he was wearing a mask, he still felt a strong wind blowing in his face.

Claudia quickly turned back.

On the ground, an extremely ordinary spear had completely pierced the ground at this time.

The body of half of the spear was completely embedded in the earth, and dozens of cracks around it cracked open, gradually spreading out in all directions, like a long fang biting the whole earth together.

The huge fissure even buries several meters deep into the ground.

The largest of them was crooked, stretching from the body of the gun to the front of Aubery.

This...... How far is it?

She didn't even see clearly.

Oberita, is there a move?

The Emperor walked slowly to the walls of the palace and, once more, picked up a spear.

He turned his back and put his spear behind him.

The cloudy eyes looked at Claudia quietly, but those eyes that seemed to be staring at the prey burst out with a powerful coercion, making Claudia feel even more terrifying oppression again.

She was obviously one of the top demon hunters, but under the gaze of the emperor, the hairs on her body couldn't help but fall upside down, and even the back of her neck had beads of sweat.

"Don't move."

A weakness that seemed to be pressed by a giant beast under its claws, her limbs began to twitch slightly, and the fear under her eyes gradually began to magnify.

"I don't want to see the filthy blood of the witchers spilling all over the ground."

"So, don't move."

Claudia looked at Oberly with a pale face, and was silent.

Finally, as if she had recognized some reality, she burst out laughing.

"Huh...... Hahahaha. ”

The breath that had been pressing on her body was as if she had pushed it away.

With a look of indifference, he said to Oberly:

"Oberly, if my blood is filthy, then ...... What are you? ”

"You think you're noble?"

With that, Claudia stroked her hand over the mask on her face and lifted it suddenly, revealing a young and beautiful appearance.

But the other half of the face on top of the delicate facial features has a mysterious black and red pattern attached to it, which spreads all the way to the root of the ear.

One eye became scarlet, as if a stream of blood was flowing under the eye, and the blood vessels around the eyeball gradually gathered towards the center.

Claudia smiled, and she pointed to the half of her face, which was covered in lines:

"Don't forget, this place."

"Thank you."

She put her mask back on, turned back, and said to Victor in a calm and soft voice:

"Sorry to scare you."

"It doesn't matter."

Victor shrugged his shoulders and put his hands in his pockets.

Leaning against the wall, it doesn't matter.

Claudia Stoker,

In the background, she is the only remaining woman of the Stoke family in the Empire.

After Claudia became queen, the whole family should have risen to prominence because of this.

However, this family was completely wiped out in an unexpected way.

Only Claudia remained, as the only remaining bloodline.

The reason for this is because of this queen.

After Claudia became the queen, she spent more than ten years finding all the evidence and betraying her family backhandedly.

colluding with foreign forces, and accumulating a large amount of wealth in the empire, etc.

Eventually, with the help of Empress Claudia, Aubery completely annexed the Stoke family.

Many players have speculated that Claudia's reason for doing this is because she loves Oberly so much that she is willing to betray her family.

However, in reality, the game never shows the emotional interaction between the nominal Empress of the Empire and Oberly.

Because, until Oberly's death, the queen did not appear.

When the players meet her, they are in the witcher's home base.

She is one of the seven cadres of the Demon Hunter Organization.

If it weren't for the mention of the identity of the Empress of Claudia in the later stories, no one would even know about it.

At this time, Victor happened to see this scene that can be called a royal secret.

Naturally, you have to take a good look at it.

He also had to thank Kevlar for providing him with such a clue.

So much so that you can see a good show.

After Claudia put on her mask again, her mood calmed down slightly.

"Alright, Oberly, what are you going to do next?"

"Kill me directly? Or continue to imprison me as before. ”

The violent momentum on Auberly's body gradually became indifferent, like an abyss.

But the still terrible feeling of oppression carried a biting cold, as if the soul of a person could be completely frozen, and the voice was extremely cold:

"Claudia, you, should know why."

"Of course I know, for the sake of that woman."

Claudia shrugged her shoulders, and under the chill, as if she had seen death, she showed no fear.

"It's ridiculous that you've gotten so infatuated that you've ended up with nothing, Oberly."

Sou!

The spear turned into a white light, piercing the space, and the sharp impact struck again.

It was nailed heavily into the ground around it.

The cracks caused by this terrifying force were even worse, and the surrounding earth completely sank into pieces, and the huge palace trembled with it.

What a terrifying power.

And this is even just a casual blow from Oberly.

Claudia gave this assessment.

But......

"Impotent rage."

"You just need to lean a little bit and it goes straight through my body."

"But I don't believe it's your soft-heartedness."

Claudia looked at the cold Oberly in front of her and smiled faintly:

"You've never loved me, never."

As the words fell, Claudia struggled to pull out the spear that had been nailed into the ground.

Holding it tightly in his hand, his gaze looked back at Oberly with a defiant look.

Then, the spear was reversed in his hand and aimed at his body.

Puff –

The silver iron pierced Claudia's flesh and blood.

Astonishing bright red blood poured out, completely covering the ground.

There seems to be a slight black pattern between the blood, which is extremely weird.

But both Victor and Oberly just watched Claudia's self-harm, and neither of them went up to stop her.

Watching Claudia commit suicide.

Eventually, Claudia's body lay on the ground.

The body and blood began to merge and intertwine as if they were one.

The bright red blood gradually coagulated, flowed down the cracks in the ground, and dissipated.

"She's gone."

Oberly looked at the blood stains that were still disappearing in front of him and said calmly.

But his voice seemed to be much older.

"It seems that you are not in a very good mood, Your Majesty."

"Need to talk?"

Oberly glanced at Victor and turned to walk into the royal passage.

Victor followed closely behind him, quietly listening to Oberly's voice echo again:

"Claudia Stoker, my first wife, before I ascended the throne......"

It was a necessary marriage of politics, and the Stoke family was a prestigious and noble family before it fell.

The previous emperor arranged a marriage for Aubery to marry Claudia.

Only then will he be able to inherit the throne.

After Oberly ascended the throne, Claudia gave birth to two sons in succession for Oberly.

They are the eldest prince Albany, and the second prince Oweyser.

Originally, Oberly lived a very comfortable life after becoming emperor.

Eat, sleep, practice martial arts, and raid homes.

But this period of peace lasted until the Kingdom of Kanter came to show goodwill.

The Grand Duke of the Kingdom of Kante met with Aubery and wanted to give his own daughter to the Emperor Aubéry for marriage.

And the moment he saw her, Oberly was stunned.

Just because ......

"She is my love."

Although Oberly is strong enough to slay a dragon alone at the age of seventeen.

But at that time, he was not strong enough to cover the sky with one hand.

In the midst of a war, he met the girl from a neighboring country.

The two fell in love.

He had never liked such a person so much.

But he is the heir of the empire and cannot specify his own marriage.

Not to mention that the other party is from another country.

So, he missed this youthful love.

Until fifteen years later.

Oberly, who was already in his thirties, once again, met her in his own country.

She is the daughter of the Grand Duke of the Kingdom of Canter, and she has never married all her life just to wait for him.

And this time, Oberly, who was already emperor, had the ability to make his own decisions.

That year, Oberly truly experienced the taste of love.

Until......

"I saw with my own eyes that it was Claudia who killed her."

"When I stretched out my hands and wanted to embrace her, I could only hold the child bathed in blood in her blood-soaked arms."

At this moment, Victor heard.

Oberly's voice was full of long-lost sadness.

"Aurelian, in her mother's corpse, was born absurdly and tragically."

……

Claudia left the palace and fled outside the royal capital.

She was trembling, and streams of blood were pouring from her chest.

At the last moment, she used the witcher's blood secret technique to escape on the condition of self-harm.

Oberly got stronger.

But Claudia wasn't surprised.

From the time she met Oberly, Oberly was like there was no upper limit, and he was getting stronger all the time.

She sat down on the grass, pulled a reddish potion from her waist, and drank it slowly.

The bottle was dropped, and she breathed weakly, quietly feeling a warm current in her body.

Life is slowly recovering.

However, the recovery was still too slow.

In a trance, she heard the sound of fluttering air.

Claudia quickly became alert, supporting her body with her hands and trying to stand up.

It was only when the flapping of her wings gradually stopped that she could see clearly what it was like in the darkness.

Suddenly, I breathed a sigh of relief:

"It turned out to be a crow."

The black streak stood on the grass, carefully combing its feathers, as if it was not afraid of humans at all.

Claudia didn't take the crow seriously, she leaned feebly against the stone, raised her head, and looked at the starry sky.

Wait a minute, Raven?

Zila-

Suddenly, the noise of electricity began to echo in Claudia's ears, causing her eardrums to feel the sharpness of overclocking.

The starlight was engulfed in an instant, and the surroundings became extremely dark.

Claudia's body paused directly.

What happened......?

Before she could react, a laugh began to sound from the darkness.

As if with endless mockery, as if dragging her into the abyss:

"Don't be in a hurry."

"Someone told me to arrest you, why don't you cooperate with me?"