Act 246 Mortal Veil IX

The leaves hanging on the branches drooped, and the insects also stopped making noises. In the courtyard of Nuo Da, one could actually hear a needle drop.

Everything happened so fast that the nobles had no time to react. As if in the blink of an eye, their supreme Majesty the Queen knelt on the thirty-one steps of the Saint-Contibe Palace. Most of the empire's most powerful men were killed or injured. The White Rose Garden was in a mess, the Forbidden Army was swaying here and there, and the Flame Familiar Knights were unconscious.

The descendant of Sword Master Darus was still standing at the main entrance intact, not even moving a step.

The Silver Queen has ruled the empire powerfully for decades, which may not be satisfactory to the nobles. Although the previous emperor was strong, he always gave the nobles some respect. Her Majesty the Queen treated the nobles like her pet dogs. The nobles The harmony with the royal family has long since disappeared.

But the opponents had already left the scene, and all those present were the queen's close associates. The nobles could not accept a foreigner being allowed to show off in the empire - even if this person was the grandson of Sword Master Darus.

However, the problem is that no one dares to take action. With the strength shown by Brando, what can they use to oppose it?

There was an embarrassing silence for a while.

Until the sound of sheathing the sword broke the silence——

Brando put away his sword and walked slowly into the White Rose Garden. After he sneered at the Silver Queen, he didn't even look at the latter and just walked straight towards the mountain girl who was standing there blankly.

Akane looked at him blankly, her expression dull and a little funny. She seemed to be under some kind of magic and stood frozen on the spot.

Until Brando walked up to her and reached out to tidy the messy hair on her forehead behind her ears. Said to her: "I'm sorry, I'm late, Akane."

Hundreds of people watched the scene in silence.

The imperial nobles looked at each other speechlessly.

Medisa's eyes were full of relief and a little envious; Ciel and Morpheus both smiled slightly; Faina bit her lower lip; Andrigue looked aside in boredom; Old Nidwin and the Grand Duke Huaye shook their heads. They shook their heads, unlike young people who showed their emotions openly. But there is something hard to express in my heart.

On the one hand, they witnessed the birth of a legend, but it was the empire that served as a stepping stone. If this incident had happened in Faenzan, even the two old men would have been able to talk about it for quite some time.

But it happened to be in the empire.

Delphine watched this scene with a complicated expression.

Everything she knew. It was as if everything had been completely overturned in the previous moment.

The prime minister's daughter's mind went blank at this moment. She suddenly felt some unspeakable pain in her heart, and even her fingertips turned slightly white.

Akane couldn't see clearly her inner thoughts, but the shyness on her body gradually faded away, after such a long journey. She also matured rapidly. When Brando swept her hair behind her ears, she felt the heat coming from the other person's hand. The mountain girl shivered slightly. She lowered her head silently and leaned into the warm chest of the lord.

She burst into tears.

This was completely beyond Brando's expectation. The boldness of the mountain girl hit his heart like a sharp arrow, but he didn't even have time to feel caught off guard, and deep heartache surged into his heart. He could clearly feel that the girl was so thin and weak in his arms. Her shoulders were trembling slightly, as if countless days and nights of restlessness and sleepless fear were infiltrating his heart.

The helplessness and sadness of having one's destiny dictated by others. It is so profound and heart-stopping that only people who have experienced it personally can understand it, but those high-ranking figures have no way of understanding it.

At this moment, Brando only thought of the burning Eruin. Their fate at that time was so similar to that of this girl. He and others who had lost the support in their hearts were even more confused and helpless than Akane at the moment.

silently. He couldn't help but hate the Silver Queen even more.

But it was at this time that he felt something cold and soft touch his lips. This surprise was no small matter, and Brando's eyes widened. However, she found that Akane's arms had wrapped around her neck at some point. She raised her head, her closed eyelashes were trembling slightly, and the cute and tiny fluff on her cheeks was clearly visible.

Brando seemed to be under a strange spell and couldn't move at all.

Hundreds of imperial nobles watched this scene play out. They looked at the two young men kissing each other and were unable to make a sound.

What a beautiful scene this is for the nobles. The knight saves the princess, which perfectly fits the pursuit of beauty and romance by the upper class of the empire.

But what makes them feel embarrassed is that they don't know how to face this scene. They don't even dare to look at Her Majesty the Queen, lest the other party see the wavering in their hearts.

"Akane is so brave." Medissa sighed softly.

"But even I have to admit," Charles replied: "This is the reward that the lord deserves. This miracle is worth a kiss. It's really hard for me to tell which one is more valuable between the two. "

"Mr. Charles, please be careful what you say." Medissa glanced at the inconspicuous wizard Mr. Angrily.

"Don't worry, I will keep it a secret in front of Miss Roman, but I think she probably won't care much." Charles replied with a wink.

Even Medisa couldn't say anything now, because her face was also red.

The old prime minister Niedwin did not express his position. He seemed to be more rigid when he was young. The late emperor also liked his stability, but he was still tolerant and tolerant towards young people. However, Grand Duke Huaye chuckled, as if remembering his youth. Romantic and uninhibited at the time, he gently patted his daughter on the shoulder: "He is a good young man."

"Father," Faina snorted fiercely, "I'm going to run away from home."

"Are you running away from home again?" Grand Duke Huaye couldn't help laughing.

The girl rolled her blue eyes. It was difficult to explain clearly what she was thinking.

The Silver Queen also looked at this scene——

"He is completely different from his grandfather..." At this moment, Her Majesty the Queen had such a strange idea in her heart, and even the frustration and pain of failure dissipated mostly.

She knelt on the cold marble floor, and the shiny floor almost reflected her beautiful face, a face that was not eroded by time. From that face, she saw herself as a princess.

What a time it was...

It's a pity that I almost can't remember it.

When did things start to look different?

She thought silently.

It was a dark and deep corridor, with arched windows on both sides. Many memories of the past were reflected in the arched windows, and she could see the four realms. Seeing the bright spring light, seeing the sunny courtyard, seeing myself with my sisters, seeing my elder brother, and seeing my father, Emperor Grantuo.

It seemed like something happened in another dream, hazy. Like the moon in the mirror.

She saw countless banners, the glory of the empire had just begun, her father passed the throne to her, she passed the throne to her brother's first son, she saw the glorious palace. All nations came to visit, and under her gaze, the territory of the empire expanded in all directions. Then war broke out, and the knights heroically launched an attack on the undead army.

In the decades since, she has aged and her face is covered with wrinkles. The empire was getting stronger day by day, and she could no longer remember what happened when she was young, but there was still a fire burning in her heart.

Father's instructions. I didn't violate it after all.

She stood in the darkness and saw everything that happened in her dream. She stepped on the cold floor with her bare feet and looked at her old self, dressed in white and eternally young. But he was so helpless as if he had been abandoned by the whole world.

Why?

Why is this happening?

She looked at her hands, which were slender and slender. Decades of time have not carved a single texture on it. But it was so pale that it looked like a ghost.

Snap, a drop of ice-cold liquid fell on her palm, and Constance realized that she was actually crying.

How many years ago was it when you last shed tears?

She couldn't remember clearly.

This dream shattered like an exploding mirror.

The shining fragments cut her skin, and blood flowed out, shining with golden light, but she was completely unaware of it.

She finally remembered everything in that distant dream.

At the end of the corridor, she saw the mysterious altar, which was exactly the same as it was sixty years ago. Even the surrounding furnishings had not changed at all.

She saw her sixteen-year-old self, saw the Dragon Queen Gwendolyn, and saw that tall and handsome figure.

Three men fell down beside the altar.

On the altar, there is a baby girl with picturesque features, so perfect that she seems to be a masterpiece of the Creator.

"Your Highness, you can't do this!"

"Mr. Darus, this is the trouble I caused, and I must take responsibility for it. Do you want to watch the whole world bury us together?"

"Miss Gwendolyn, you must stop Her Royal Highness!"

"Gwendolen, you are the court warlock. You are responsible for the survival of the empire. Come and help me complete this ritual."

"But... Your Highness the Princess..."

"Gwendolyn, there are many princesses in the empire, but there is only one Wander."

"Your Highness..."

"I have made up my mind. If I can protect the empire and this land that I love deeply, it is also the biggest wish in my heart."

The Silver Queen stared blankly at her sixteen-year-old self, and at the Silver Princess of the Empire, tears could not stop falling from her eyes.

The memory became so vivid and profound that all the fragments of the past that had been abandoned by her for decades seemed to come back to life at this moment.

She finally remembered that was the beginning and the end of everything.

And the picture in front of him began to change.

That is a long-lasting scene from countless eras ago——

Meteorites falling from the sky burned through the clouds, leaving streaks of light on the golden-red sky. Countless people fled across the endless plains.

Sporadic battles are still taking place above the elemental realm, with occasional flashes of explosions dotted around the 'Babel' fortress.

She saw a giant dragon covering half of the sky, its spread wings extending from the south to the north of the entire Great Plain, across the sky, and its curved neck seemed like a giant tower on top of the clouds.

The whole body exuded endless coercion.

There was a rumble among the clouds, and the shining tower was falling apart——

She saw another image.

The blood-like setting sun passed through the twelve obsidian pillars and reflected into the hall, and the crystal lattice network on the smooth ground shimmered.

People in robes are slowly entering the hall.

One of them raised his head and looked around. There were thirteen people around him, wearing robes of the same style but with different colors.

"I propose to open the Parliament of Truth."

said a voice.

"agree."

"The truth will agree."

"The Ring of Ash agrees."

"agree."

The person she saw was wearing a red robe on the left and black on the right, with a dark gold stand-up collar standing at the collar, and an ouroboros snake called ouroboros wrapped around the robe.

Another voice spoke:

"Silver Eyes is responsible for recording the meeting and does not participate in voting."

The speaker is wearing a gray robe with a silver stand-up collar. The emblem on his body is a giant door. A long and narrow eye grows out of the door, as if looking down at the sky and the earth, looking at everything.

A voice arose in the Silver Queen's heart, the Eye of Quinine, the Silver Council.

The people on both sides of this person are all in the same attire, but the patterns inside the giant door are different. One person is an evergreen spear, and the other is a silver scale.

“The administrator of the Arbitration Gate is absent,” one of them said.

"Then the judge will not express his opinion." Another person agreed.

"The arbitral tribunal has withdrawn from the meeting -" the person in charge of Silver Eye said immediately.

"Agreed." The person presiding over the meeting said.

"The Earth Legion appoints Odin as the plenipotentiary representative." The two people on the right spoke. They wore black robes, golden stand-up collars, and their emblems were all seven stars in the ring, but the shining stars were different.

Two voices sounded in her mind, the dragon of rage, Alpheus; the dragon of wisdom, Crystal.

"So--"

The next moment, the Silver Queen actually saw everyone looking towards her.

"I agree." She replied subconsciously.

"pass."

The host raised his hand.

"An absentee vote will follow -"

"The opponents step forward."

There was dead silence in the hall.

"Full vote."

"Project name."

"Surface."

"serial number."

"ae973034x."

"Code name."

"Project Warnd."

The voice gradually became louder and buzzing, and she seemed to be in a busy city, participating personally and watching indifferently. Some words became clear in her ears, and some words became low and then intermittent.

The Silver Queen stood numbly among the crowd, as if she finally remembered that she had experienced all this personally.

That might have been countless eras ago, or it might have been decades ago.

She suddenly became frightened and shook her head slightly.

"Master Martha..."

"don't want……"

"Please."

But the brilliance was still lost before his eyes, and everything became pitch black.

The sound of a girl crying softly came from the darkness.

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