Chapter 165

At this moment, Levi felt that the whole world had become quiet, and he could clearly hear his rapid breathing and violent heartbeat.

That sound also seemed to be...the countdown to death.

"Ah-Gah!!"

Levi didn't even have a chance to say anything else, just as Ash said, he was embedded in the wall by the invisible gravity on his fingertips.

With the tap of his fingertips, real death was sent into his body.

His body began to deform under the invisible weight, and his bones made a creepy "gurgle" sound.

His vision gradually blurred, and Ash's figure in front of him became distorted. He wanted to shout, but found that he could no longer make a sound. Finally...

Bang! A sound.

Levi's body, starting from his head, was completely crushed and turned into a ball of flesh, embedded in the sunken wall.

The brief scream before became Levi's last voice.

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The group that pressed the bottom of the box picked up a card and played it for a long time (it came out, but it was like five stones) and it sank into the sea, and Lin failed to create a ripple of hope.

The mistake of the ancient magician made this dark situation even worse. Although the timing of the use of the ancient magician was not accurate, given the situation at the scene... there was nothing that could be done.

The death of the empire's strongest warrior was like a bell announcing the end of the world, hitting everyone's heart heavily.

The picture of the magic tool still shows the cold gaze of Ash looking up after killing Levi.

Just like this, despair overflowed into everyone's hearts like a tide, making everyone in the audience hall feel as if they had fallen into an ice cave, and their whole bodies were as cold as ice.

The emperor fell back to his throne, his body even trembling slightly uncontrollably. The majesty and dignity he once had completely disappeared at this moment.

The Crown Prince also lost his former calmness, his legs became weak, and he would have collapsed to the ground if it were not for the support of the noble attendants beside him.

The ministers looked at each other with panic and uneasiness in their eyes.

In the silent audience hall, heavy breathing came and went. Finally, the prime minister broke the silence. His voice was hoarse and trembling:

"Your Majesty, we are helpless. If this continues... everyone will be buried with him."

The emperor was stunned for a moment when he heard the words, but then he understood the meaning of the words. He glared at his loyal prime minister with wide eyes and shouted:

"——I usually treat you well, but now in this critical moment, how dare you say such rebellious words!?"

Normally, everyone would fall to their knees as soon as he said these words.

However, his anger at this moment did not make the ministers back down.

A military general stood up, looked up at the emperor on the steps, and asked loudly:

"Your Majesty, can't you see the situation clearly now? The empire is over, we must find a way out for ourselves!"

"Stop arguing! No one will survive if you delay any longer! Tie up your majesty and the princes and sacrifice them to the evil... Ah, the intelligence seems to be named Ash, right? Tell your majesty and the princes to hand them over to Lord Ash. , maybe we still have a chance!”

An anxious minister turned red in the face and shouted desperately, which attracted many people to join him.

"S-survive? You are treason!!" The emperor was so angry that he was trembling and pointed at the prime minister below: "——Come here! Kill all these rebellious and unrighteous people!!"

"Yes!" Several knights who were closely guarding him heard the sound, drew out their swords from their waists, and rushed towards the ministers.

But the generals were on guard and immediately rushed forward to fight with them.

Although the knights were extremely skilled, the generals were still bare-handed, but they were all nobles and enjoyed the best resources of the empire.

After a few rounds, those knights fell under the nobles one after another, and the emperor who watched his knights being killed in turn had eyes filled with disbelief and horror.

During the process, many nobles who were clearly loyal to him or were tied to death by him were attacked from behind.

But the remaining people rushed up directly and wanted to tie him up.

"You, you... these traitors and traitors!! You are worse than a pig or a dog! I am the emperor, and I am the master of the empire!!"

The emperor, who was extremely regretful as to why he had sent all his men out, cursed crazily, but several military generals swarmed up and tied up the emperor and the princes forcibly, regardless of their struggles and resistance.

The Crown Prince, who was so arrogant, couldn't help but cry: "You bastards! Are you still subjects of my empire?! He is a demon clan, do you think he will let you go?!"

"Your Highness, it's important to save your life now. His Majesty's stubbornness has brought the empire into the abyss. We can't be buried with him, and it's not like the demons can't negotiate. At least judging from the intelligence, his behavior is no different from that of humans, and he still has a relationship with the kingdom. What a strange relationship, if that’s the case, then it’s someone we can communicate with.”

The prime minister responded directly to the crown prince with a seemingly respectful sentence.

....Originally, the prime minister was a little worried about making these moves, but now that the matter has been done, he doesn't care now.

But the emperor's face was full of sorrow and anger. He looked at the courtiers who once flattered him, but now they pushed him into despair like wolves. Then he looked at the few knights who were still on his side but were picked up. The minister who was hacked to death with a sword felt only despair and sadness in his heart.

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After killing the group of ancient magicians and shadow warriors, the fleeing troops did not appear again, and the entire road was extremely smooth.

When he came to the solemn audience hall, he was originally prepared to be forced to resist and planned to directly kill some knights and nobles who did not know whether to live or die, but...

The door of the audience hall was opened, and a group of nobles and ministers all knelt down on the ground. Behind them were a group of men in fine clothes who were tied up.

On the gorgeous red carpet, more than twenty people were even hacked to death with random knives. It was almost impossible to distinguish the original appearance of the officials and knights.

As an expert in combat, Ash can naturally clearly tell that many of the injuries on the corpses are from swords and swords... It is clear that these rebels are trying to unify the camp and let him see their sincerity. do.

The once glorious and majestic audience hall has now become a shura field of betrayal and despair. The oath of loyalty in the past was easily shattered by the desire to survive, leaving only the chilling tragic scene of betrayal and separation, which made Ash couldn't help but feel a little bit. Sad.

The prime minister ran over quickly, then knelt on the ground with a plop, his knees hitting the ground with a dull sound, his forehead pressed tightly against the cold floor tiles, his voice was trembling and sharp:

"——Lord Ya, Ya Xiu! We are willing to do our best for you! The fatuous king of the empire has already made us miserable. He could even do something like assassinate the sage mother of the empire. It is really stupid and ridiculous! So we We have been waiting for a strong man like you to appear and save us from the fire and water!”

A tall and thin minister next to him also hurriedly agreed: "Yes, we are loyal to the empire, but His Majesty is always doing the opposite, so we are really helpless! We can only choose to abandon the darkness and turn to the light. Now you are our hope, as long as we With your order, we will go through fire and water without hesitation!”

There was another general who was hunched over on the ground, with his hands clasped in front of his chest, and said flatteringly: "We all know the treasure house and secrets of the empire, and we will definitely tell you everything we know. I just ask you to spare us a moment." Life, spare our family, give us a chance to atone for our sins, and we will definitely prove our worth!"

As he spoke, he nodded and bowed, his eyes full of prayer.

The other ministers gathered around one after another, shouting words of surrender.

Some of their faces were flushed and they were so excited that they couldn't control themselves; some of them had choked up voices, as if they were crying for their "helplessness".

Throughout the audience hall, the ministers were full of ugliness. Their loyalty to the emperor had long been forgotten. Driven by survival and profit, they were vying for mercy from Ash.

The tied emperor and princes looked at this group of traitors, their eyes full of anger, sorrow and despair, but they were powerless.

"..."

Good guy, do these people feel that they have no responsibility at all and blame it all on the emperor? Although this emperor is definitely not a good person, now this should be regarded as dog eating dog? ——Facing the flattery of everyone, Ash looked around, but his eyes finally fell on the emperor whose mouth was half gagged.

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Although he had seen the emperor's portrait from the intelligence, when they met for the first time, he looked disheveled and embarrassed, which really made Ash feel a little sympathetic.

"That's all...I'm not a murderous person, so that's about it for today." As he said that, he walked forward, stretched out his hand and brushed the emperor's Tianling Cap with his fingertips.

This made the emperor, who had seen him crush people into pulp with just a light touch, was so frightened that he trembled once, closed his eyes suddenly, and began to wait for death.

And those princes were all crying and howling, but unfortunately their mouths were gagged and they could only howl "Woo!"

But in fact, the princes who couldn't bear to look at this scene did not see the scene of flesh foam flying, and the ministers who had the instinct to look away also did not hear the sound of people being crushed.

Ash really just brushed the top of his head gently, read the emperor's memory, and got a rough idea of ​​the situation here.

In fact, his attack was a bit too sudden, and the planned assassination would still be carried out.

Many loyal shadow warriors are still scattered across the country. The Magical Agents, which are also directly under the emperor's orders, have not yet been recalled, but orders have been issued. Many magicians and shadow warriors have passed by. He will arrive in the Imperial Capital in two days and participate in the assassination of Celie.

As for the Holy Scepter Court, which is parallel to these two organizations...for some reason, its actions suddenly became strange. There was no rebellion but there was a sense of being submissive and disobedient. The emperor planned to deal with it after a while.

The emperor didn't know the reason, but when he saw the controller of the Holy Staff Court from the emperor's memory, Ash roughly understood why.

It became clearer that many of the mechanisms expected by the emperor in this imperial city could not be activated for some unknown reason.

The emperor and his ministers thought that it was too old and had lost its effect, but in fact it might be because...

"....Milly."

Hearing the footsteps, he broke away from his memory and subconsciously looked back behind him.

Slowly walking from behind was a tall, short-haired elf with the temperament of a royal lady but a somewhat barren chest.

And this person was his friend from the Elf Village a thousand years ago, and he was also a pretty good drinking buddy.

She is also Frilian's good friend - an elf girl whose full name is "Milli Alda".

Milly also smiled when she saw him, and raised her hand to say hello:

"Long time no see~ Ash, I really didn't expect to meet again here. How long has it been since we last met?"

"...We haven't seen each other for a thousand years, right? I really didn't expect that the mysterious ruler of the Holy Scepter Court is actually a drunkard like you..."

"Haha~ It's awesome~"

"...It's true that I was scared." Ash looked at Milly walking over and shook his head helplessly.

The elf girl came to him with brisk steps, a faint smile on her face, but her eyes were a little unfocused. She put her hands behind her back, tilted her head slightly and said, "I have helped you a lot~ In the Imperial City But many mechanisms and magic traps have been destroyed by my people. How are you going to thank me? Even if they are not destroyed, they may still not be able to stop you, but you will probably be seriously injured, right?"

There was a hint of asking for credit in her tone, and she was smiling, but she didn't seem to care much about it.

This made Ash couldn't help but sigh: "Compared to these... How could you, an alcoholic, get involved in these things? I thought you would choose to stand by and watch."

"What are you talking about~" Milly blinked, but said seriously: "Aren't we friends?"

"What else?"

"Well~ And this emperor is getting worse with each generation. Now that you are here... I will leave it to you~" She put her slender fingers on her chin and thought: "I don't think they can kill him either. Seriai, after all, humans have their limits~ I don’t want to go to hell together because of some people’s ridiculous ideas.”

The emperor, who was still waiting for death, slowly opened his eyes after hearing their conversation.

Milly's words made his eyes filled with shock and anger. He struggled on the ground with all his strength and kept whimpering.

Milly noticed the emperor's reaction, but knelt down in front of him, and said with a smile: "Your Majesty, I'm sorry... Although I want to help you, there is nothing I can do. I am a friend on one side, and I am a fool on the other. , can’t I only choose my friends~?”

"Woo! Woo hoo——!!!" The emperor twisted his body desperately, stared at Milly with his eyes wide open. If eyes could kill, Milly would have been cut into pieces by a thousand knives.

But Milly didn't care. She stood up and clapped her hands. She looked at Ash again and smiled: "You have successfully killed the emperor and completed a great deed that no one has been able to achieve in the past thousand years. Next - let's go together. Let’s celebrate with a drink!”

"...This atmosphere says this?"

"Actually, don't look at me like this. I'm quite sad, but these emperors will die in less than two years. I have so many algebras that I can't even remember their names, but it doesn't matter if it's earlier or later. Life is always about it. Looking forward, maybe it will be a better empire in the future?”

As she spoke, she walked around Ash, shaking her head and talking clearly.

But the content is embarrassing to listen to.

But as elves, it is really difficult to be loyal to an organization... After all, for them, all countries are basically organizations that disappear after a while. In the process, the leader is changed every few days, and most of them Most elves have a very cold personality.

The elves in the elf village all have a sense of laziness and lack of motivation, and Milly is also quite lazy... She used to be in a daze with nothing to do all day long.

As for the elf with a somewhat off-kilter personality and a strange and evil sense of humor, Ash didn't want to continue on her previous topic. He put his hand on his forehead and thought for a long time before sighing:

"Please be quiet first. I have something to communicate with them. If you are really busy...just find a place to play first."

"Tang um? I am a neighbor who was beaten by more than 80% of the people? After a long time, I was thrown away. You are not even willing to drink with me?"

"--no!"

Why would a guy who couldn't be serious appear in such a serious situation? ——Originally, things were coming to an end and he should have celebrated properly, but now he had an inexplicable headache.

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After spending some time driving away Milly, who had been really idle and bored recently and wanted to find something to do or find someone to chat with, Ash finally adjusted his mood again and looked at the ministers.

The ministers who had previously wanted to have a relationship with Milila became nervous at this moment, and all looked at him again, looking pitiful and begging for mercy.

To be honest, the way these people are groveling... is really disgusting, but... at least they still have value now.

"I already know what I should know, but I also understand that you just want to survive and hope that your family can continue to develop and not be purged... I can understand all this."

As Ash said this, he climbed the stairs, sat on the throne, and looked down with one hand on his chin.

His eyes swept over the flattering ministers, and the coldness in his eyes seemed to freeze the air, making the ministers' flattery gradually weaken.

They looked at Ash nervously, their throats seemed to be strangled by an invisible hand, and they dared not breathe.

After a long time, Ash raised his chin slightly and slowly spoke again, his voice low and cold: "I can understand your behavior, but I can't believe your loyalty, so - show me your loyalty."

The ministers below the stage were all shrewd people. Although he didn't say it too thoroughly, they all immediately understood Ash's implication.

After a short silence, several ministers exchanged glances, their eyes full of determination and ruthlessness.

They knew that if they did not take action at this moment, a catastrophe would be waiting for them. For the sake of their lives and the future of their family, there was no reason to hesitate.