Chapter 1500: The Fall
"Escape...... I, how am I going to get out?" Hefimie was flustered and completely lost her cool, she suddenly thought of her father, and hurriedly said, "My father, my father is still in the banquet hall!
"Princess, speak quietly. The maid was really worried that someone outside would hear them, so she kept her voice as low as she could, "I saw quite a few pirates coming out of the banquet hall just now, and they may have completely controlled it. It would be dangerous to stay here for a while longer, Your Highness Princess, you must get out quickly, and it will not be good for them to search for you later. ιxiΓ ...... There are expert guards around you, and you will be fine. β
Having said that, the people who were cleaning outside had shifted from the direction of the banquet hall to the entire palace to check it, and no matter how ignorant people were, they should know that the situation in the banquet hall was not good, these pirates were slaughtering indiscriminately, and before hearing the screams of many people and beasts coming from the banquet hall, the maid already had an ominous premonition in her heart. But she couldn't talk to the princess who was completely at a loss, so she could only try to persuade her to leave first.
Hefimi has experience in dealing with big things, but she must still be young, and when she encounters this catastrophe in front of her, she has already lost her heart, she almost instinctively looks for something to rely on, in order to stabilize the panic in her heart, and asks her maid: "How to escape? outside...... It's all killers out there!...... Can we kill it?"
"I have long heard that the robbers of the West Sea are fierce and cruel, and I never imagined that they were really as strong as the legend. Even the palace guards couldn't resist them, and it was hard for us to force our way out. In this moment of great calamity, the maid tried to calm herself. Thinking carefully about all kinds of feasible methods in her mind, she suddenly thought of something, and asked the princess: "Your Highness, the secret path, do you know what the secret path is? I heard someone say that there is a secret passage in the palace that leads to the belly of the mountain, and you can escape from the palace, I wonder if there is really such a secret passage?"
Hefimi remembered immediately after her reminder, and nodded hurriedly, "Yes, yes." There is a secret passage. When I was sixteen years old, one day my father took me there. In a coup d'Γ©tat in the country, the former king and his relatives were imprisoned in the underground prison of the palace, and with the quiet help of loyal palace guards, the imprisoned king spent three years digging a tunnel to escape from prison. Succeeded in regaining power. pacified the usurpers. The secret passage was built and preserved. Chengzhong is a secret passage to protect the royal family. My father told me that I, as the heir to the throne, needed to know this secret passage, but it had not been used for a long time. β
"Where's the secret passage?"
"The prison has been converted into a utility room. It's on the basement level of the Royal Palace. β
"One basement, so far away!"
The seventh floor of their current palace banquet hall is the seventh floor, and the negative floor below the palace castle is eight stories away, which is too far, and now there are pirates outside, and they will be discovered if they can't run far away.
Hefimi had no idea now, and her heart was all counting on this only maid she could rely on, hoping that she would come up with a solution to the current predicament.
The maid looked at Princess Hefimi's gorgeous clothes, and saw that her eyes were full of tears and anticipation, and her heart was sad, as if she had made up her mind, and gritted her teeth, "I have only one idea, but I have to take a risk." β
It didn't take long for Hefimi to change into the costume of a maid, and the maid had changed into the princess's dress. Hefimi felt guilty and asked in a trembling voice, "You...... Do you really want to do this?"
The maid nodded affirmatively: "Only then can there be a chance." She hurried to the door, listened to the movement outside, opened the door again to reveal a small slit and looked, until she was sure that there was no one nearby, and quickly dragged the body of the palace guard at the door in, and took off the deceased's weapon and some hidden weapons and props that she didn't have time to use.
She took the sword, took all the hidden weapons with her, gave Hefimi a short knife, and said, "I have practiced some self-defense skills, although they are useless, but they should be able to lure them away." I'll keep running downstairs to attract all the pirates, and if you go down while no one is looking, princess, you might be able to escape." β
"This ...... You ......" Hefimi was still a little scared, even more worried about her.
The maid made up her mind and said, "Don't hesitate, princess, this is the only chance." As she spoke, her eyes turned red and moistened, and she said, "I only hope that if the princess escapes, she will be able to take care of my parents and family in the future." After saying that, he opened the door, shone out the lion mastiff, and ran out.
"You ......" Hefimie didn't have time to say the last thing he wanted to say, he raised his hand in the air to take her hand but didn't hold anything, only to hear the vicious shouts of the pirates coming from the outer door.
"This person must be a princess, don't let her run away!"
"She's running downstairs, chase ......"
Hefmi's hand hanging in the air was put down, and it seemed that something was missing in her heart, and she stood behind the door for a few seconds, only to close her eyes helplessly, and then opened the door and rushed out......
The faithful maid rode on a snow-white mastiff shaped like a lion cub, which she had tamed to amuse the princess, but had now become her last companion. She grabbed the fur of the lion mastiff and ran downstairs desperately, and the seven steel ball-sized thunderbolts she took from the guards were thrown behind her from time to time, exploding a lightning wall to block the pursuers behind her. The mastiff seemed to have sensed the mortal heart of its master, and ran extremely hard, running downstairs with all his might.
Suddenly, a pirate flashed from under the stairs in front of him, and without saying a word, he killed the maid, and the lion mastiff roared angrily, and the tiger pounced on his whole body with magical brilliance, and threw the pirate to the ground.
Knock down a pirate, and more pirates on this level hear the shouts from upstairs and follow. The maid didn't wait for them to get closer, and threw out the last two thunderbolts.
The two thunderbolts of lightning stopped the pirate, and the mastiff ran around the corner of the stairs and continued to run down, but at that moment a sharp arrow flew out of the curtain of thunder and lightning and hit its owner on the shoulder.
The maid snorted in pain and rolled down the stairs, but she had already made up her mind to die, and just rolled down the stairs and got up again. Jumping on the mastiff, the mastiff drew his sword and continued to flee. But this time she was not so lucky, these 'pirates' were all severely trained, and how could she run a little maid out of a floor or two, but how could she run farther?
A black demonic beast figure, bouncing quickly between the staircase corridors, chased after the maid in a few clicks. When the maid heard the wind, she reflexively swung her sword to slash, but before the sword could be swung, the person had been pounced on by the demonic beast.
The mastiff is extremely loyal to its owner, and it is pounced on along with its owner. Immediately jumped up and pounced on the beast that was about to harm its master. was originally a pretty face, but at this moment, he showed a fierce appearance, and he opened his teeth and bit the evil beast. The black beast was supposed to be stronger than the mastiff, but the mastiff was already fighting for his life. Instead, he crushed the black beast under him. After a while, a few large pieces of meat were bitten off.
The maid crawled out of the fight between the two monsters. She kicked too hard and slammed her head into the wall, knocking her head over. Muddleheaded. She stumbled downstairs against the wall, and there was only one belief in her heart, that is, to run down, desperately run down, how to create an escape passage for the princess.
"Where are you going!" the pirate's athletic skills quickly chased down the stairs again, and the slightest lightning bomb couldn't stop them. They stepped on the walls and the barricades of the stairwell and jumped over the fighting mastiff and slashed the mastiff on the spot with a backhand.
Although the maid was still a little dizzy in her mind, as soon as the guard died, she was immediately shocked in her heart, and looked back at several pirates who were bouncing and flying, and the one who jumped in front had already raised his knife, and his face was full of bloodthirsty ferocity. The maid's heart sank, and she said secretly: "It's over." β
But at that moment, a sharp javelin with a green poisonous mist flew through the air, hit the pirate in front of him in the chest, pierced through the chest, and nailed him back.
"Princess!" the six men wearing the armor of the palace guards immediately hugged the maid in gorgeous clothes: "Protect the princess!"
One of the guards protected the 'princess', and the other five led the guardian beast to fight the people who rushed down from the upper floor. When the man saw that the 'princess' was not a princess, he was stunned for a moment. The loyal maid reacted immediately, glanced at him, and hurriedly shouted, "Protect me and go downstairs." β
The guard immediately understood the maid's intentions, and could not help but feel respect, and immediately shouted to his companions: "Don't entangle with them, protect the princess and leave!"
Six guards and one 'princess', seven of them fought and retreated, and fled downstairs again, which was now on the third floor.
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Princess Hefimi escaped from the room, and when she came all the way to the stairwell, she was startled when she heard the sound of people shouting upstairs and downstairs, but at this time she could not help but be timid and cowering, so she could only run downstairs with courage.
The pirates on these floors near the corridor were indeed attracted by the maid, and she trotted all the way downstairs with a short knife in her hand, listening to the voices of each floor from time to time to judge the distance of the pirates. When I came all the way to the second floor, I heard the fierce shouting and killing sound downstairs.
The maid and several guards dressed in princess costumes have been surrounded by a large number of pirates, these pirates have no mercy, they do not want to catch alive at all, their purpose is only to empty the whole palace of all the people, leaving no one alive.
Fighting, cruelty, one by one the guards fell, leaving only the blood red in front of his eyes, Hefimi hid behind the wall and secretly stared at the bloody and cruel scene, tears fell from the corners of his eyes again.
"These guys are quite ruthless, send them on their way!" The pirates pounced on them one by one, and the loyal maid with the last sword and the last two guards who could still stand resisted the most stubbornly, and she suddenly saw behind the pirates, Princess Hefimie poking her head out from behind the wall of the staircase, and immediately screamed wildly, and rushed towards the horde of pirates.
No matter how the sword was added, no matter how the blade penetrated her abdomen and cut into her body, she just rushed forward hard, the sword in her hand slashed forward desperately, and her intestines were rotten, still exerting her last strength to fulfill her last loyalty for the princess and the royal family.
Hefimi was already in tears when she saw this scene, and she couldn't help herself, she suppressed her voice vigorously, didn't let herself cry, and turned her head and ran. At this moment, however, the pirate seemed to be aware of it, and turned around to find the fleeing Hefiumi, and shouted, "There are still people!"
"Run, princess, run~!run~!!!" The maid's voice was almost hoarse, so terrible and terrifying that even the pirates were startled by her miserable screams. At the end of this shout, the maid in the princess's dress fell into the sword of the 'pirates' with terrible eyes, and never moved again.
The pirates reacted and hurriedly said, "That's the princess." Chase!"
Several pirates hurriedly hurried and chased after the real princess, and the rest of the people took out the last two guards with a few swords and followed suit.
Hefimi ran wildly, listening to the miserable cries of the maid behind his ears, and his heart shrank tightly, and he could only run forward desperately. The staircase on the basement floor was not in the same place as the previous one, and she turned back to see that the pirate behind her was fast approaching, turned and broke into a room, locking the door. But such a door could not stop the pirates at all. She immediately ran to another door in the room.
She was born and raised in this palace. I've hardly ever left here, and although I'm not familiar with every place in the palace, I know the layout of the rooms here very well. She knew which rooms were connected by doors, and in the blink of an eye she had passed through several doors. Gone.
The pirate door forced his way in. After breaking into this room. He didn't chase far before he was dumped by Hefimmi. Each room here has several doors, door to door, and the room is as dense as a spider's grid. Let the intruding pirates completely disorient.
Hefimi jumped through the corridor from one spider house to another, and took advantage of the familiar path to avoid several waves of pirates. This spider lattice was originally built many years ago when the king ascended the throne to renovate the palace, and it was a labyrinth built in an artistic way, and when she was a child, Hefmi often played hide and seek here with the maids who accompanied her, but now it has become a tool for her to escape from the pursuit.
After a lot of shuttles, Hefimi came to the entrance of the basement level, and she saw that no one had fled to her left and right......
After searching for a long time, the princess was never found, and after two hours, the palace was basically completely cleared, and the gorgeous palace hall changed color overnight, and it had become a bloody hell. After listening to the reports of his subordinates, Berwick was very angry and scolded: "The first mission at the beginning of the big war went so bad, even a princess in her twenties couldn't solve it, and let her escape, it's really useless!"
Several of the reported 'pirate' leaders bowed their heads in front of him, not daring to make a sound. The little demon mage Donovan on the side walked over and said, "Berwick, although they have been training on the island for a long time, many of them are on a mission for the first time, and it is normal for them to be inexperienced and negligent. Besides, there is no need to be angry about this matter, what kind of turmoil can she make as a little princess? Now it is important to report the situation here to the marshal as soon as possible, and try to grasp the situation in Adria. β
The creation kingship has long been in operation in Adriatic and surrounding countries for many years. Many of the officials and soldiers here were bribed by them, including the defenders of the capital city of Lumina, who were also the targets of their corruption. Although the people who were bought did not know their true identities and thought that they were just pirates, the slightest threat and lure them would be driven by them, which was of great help in quickly grasping the political situation of the country.
Under this operation, Fried's 3,000 men and horses took charge of the city of Lumina that night, and then he ordered martial law throughout the city, and began to control other officials, so as to truly control the country. Ten days later, with the cooperation of the Tsar's men, all the troops of the Adriatic territory were brought into the control of the creation kingship, and the borders of the country were blocked. In this way, the second step of the temptation of the creation kingship before the official start of war has been completed.
Temptation, of course, is to test the reaction of the countries and organizations on the mainland, including the Holy Garden, the General Guild of Magic, and the GITW, if these countries and organizations are aware, resistant, or even oppose and investigate their 'invasion', then they are using the banner of piracy as a bargaining chip for them to retreat without attracting attention. Before the Lord of the Sand did not recover or the six-month deadline did not arrive, the Holy Emperor asked them to take a cautious attitude of intrusion and not to attract the attention of world powers and large organizations too much.
However, their caution seems to have been overly preoccupied, and the great powers on the continent are completely unaware of what is happening in the small coastal countries on the western border, and the organizations have not turned their attention to it. With the natural barrier of the Forgotten Sea from the western edge of the continent and the central part of the continent, coupled with the border control of the Creation Kingship, the news blockade, and the orderly organization, except for a few small countries bordering Adria, others are still living their lives as usual.
But the next action of the creation king will not stop there, starting from Adria, the several countries that radiate outward are already within the plan of the creation kingship, which will be used as the front line of their invasion of the continent, and the springboard of their creation war, and their next goal is to let these countries that have long been decayed and vulnerable fall one by one!
At this time, Hefimi was wanted by the whole country, the border had been blocked, and she had no way to escape from the country, so she could only hide in Tibet and wander around. A princess who once had no worries about food and clothing, and who could still hold the power of a country in the future, is now like a rat crossing the street, wandering around.
In the wilderness, she cried, I don't know how many times she cried, I felt like an abandoned girl in this world, she had nothing but tears......
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(2-in-1 Chapter~!) (To be continued......)