Kingdom’s Bloodline

Thales jumped down from the black coffin, staring blankly at everything in front of him.

Flying ashes are gone, and there is no flesh and blood left.

The stumps all over the ground gradually shrank and turned to ashes, blending into the snow under the moonlight.

it's over?

Giza - the blood fel mage, that madman...

Disappeared?

The tentacles of the hydra loosened and shrank, and both Katerina and Serena fell to the ground, coughing violently.

In the jungle on one side, Ada helped the ashen-faced Rolf out.

"There are at least a hundred of those branches," Ada said with lingering fear, "Why are they all withered all of a sudden..."

But Ada was taken aback immediately, and exaggeratedly pointed at the female warrior and shouted: "Ah! Weird woman, you are here!"

The female warrior put the shield back on her back and laughed, "I haven't seen you for many years, forgetful Ida!"

Ada's face darkened immediately.

The female warrior pulled out the two-handed saber, and swung it twice with one hand, shaking off the blood on it. Her face was calm but her eyes were sharp.

She immediately turned around and looked at Thales.

Thales also looked curiously at the man who suddenly appeared to save his life.

There is no doubt that she is a soldier - Thales told himself so.

The armor all over her body was full of bloodstains left by the magician, but she had a calm and resolute aura, without any embarrassment, but it made people feel that this was the appearance of many battles.

She has neatly shaved short brown hair, but there is no need to describe her heroic face too much, because when she appears, the aura full of iron and blood makes you only notice her warrior side, and forget about her Pure looks.

They stared at each other for a few seconds.

The female soldier grinned suddenly, boldly thrust her two-handed saber upside down on the ground, and knelt down on one knee.

"So you are Thales, my child——My Highness?"

"Yes,

I'm Thales Canxing," Thales smiled, "Thank you..."

Thales had a strange feeling. Although they all knelt down to the prince, Gilbert was full of politeness and respect, and Yodel gave him a sense of trust. But the female warrior in front of him was full of blood. Yes, it turned out to be a kind of casual and unrestrained.

The next action of the female warrior confirmed his conjecture.

Because she actually raised her blood-stained hands wearing iron gloves, and rubbed the hair of the second prince of the Star Kingdom twice fiercely!

"Good job, kid!" She laughed loudly, her voice was sassy and sharp: "Many recruits under my command might have been scared to throw up when they encountered that kind of situation!"

Thales was rubbed until his eyes stared, feeling the greasy blood on his hands, and said awkwardly: "Uh, this lady..."

The female warrior interrupted him with a laugh:

"I'm Sonia Sutherley, little lord," Sonia's words didn't have the slightest sense of "little lord". She was in a good mood and even thumped Taylor's shoulder to make the weak latter Coughing hard:

"Temporarily guarding the Broken Dragon Fortress on the border between the two countries!"

Thales came back to his senses: "Ah!"

"You, you are the 'Fortress Flower'?"

Although he had already prepared for it when he was on the mission, he was still slightly excited when he actually saw Sonia.

Fortress flowers.

During the courses in Mindis Hall, Gilbert would occasionally intersperse with him to explain the current situation of the Star Kingdom, such as the most famous "Three Handsome Stars".

In the disaster of the Bloody Year, although Xing Chen suffered heavy losses, he also gained talents in many fields in this nightmare, such as government affairs and diplomacy, such as military and war.

Under such a background, many royalists and new aristocrats have changed from unknown pawns to pillars of the stars - "Cunning Fox" Gilbert Cassel is such an example.

And between the blood and the fire, facing Exter, the orcs of the West Wilderness and the bone men, as well as the battlefields of the Southwest Rebels, there were also many young people who were born civilians who rose from them and were granted titles.

King Kessel expanded the royal standing army after the Scarlet Year, and even recruited many civilians and young people into it to guard the kingdom.

These people are basically soldiers washed up on the battlefield, and they have shined brilliantly on the battlefield.

Twelve years have passed, and their circumstances are different, but three of them have stood the test of time and grown into military commanders capable of acting on their own—that is, the "Three Marshals of the Stars" who shocked the kingdom. .

The subjects of the kingdom gave them their own resounding nicknames, and even their real names were rarely mentioned:

Kingdom Wrath.

Legendary Wings.

Fortress flowers.

Among them, the flower of the fortress, Lord Sonia Sutherley, set foot on the historical stage of the Kingdom of Stars when she followed Duke John to conquer the southwestern rebels.

Since the Scarlet Year, she has led the royal family's standing army, and has been guarding the bitterly cold northern border, watching out for every move of the northern dragon.

Many people in Xingchen believe that if the flowers of the fortress are still blooming in Broken Dragon Fortress, then the northern border of Xingchen will stand firm.

Of course, there are also many noble ladies in the capital who are always talking behind their backs: they behave like a man in every move, and it deserves the lady who wields a knife to fight, and she can't get married until she is in her thirties.

And now, the legendary Fortress Flower herself stood in front of Thales.

"Ha, Araka will definitely regret not leading troops to rescue you," Sonia smacked her shield triumphantly, "I am the first among the three to seal a magician..."

But the next moment, Thales saw Sonia's face change!

"What's wrong?" Thales asked in surprise.

"No!" Sonia clenched her fists tightly, raised her shield, and looked around vigilantly: "She wasn't sealed!"

"boom!"

Before Thales could react, Sonia hugged him abruptly, jumped up from the ground, and avoided a bloody tentacle protruding from the ground!

Thales looked at the tentacles in disbelief: Didn't Giza already be...

The tentacles suddenly split into dozens of small tentacles, Thales only felt that at the moment it split, his whole body lost his feeling as if he had been anesthetized!

This is... the feeling of being controlled by the body?

Thales let go of Sonia's arm tremblingly.

But the latter didn't seem to be affected at all. He stretched out his arms and hugged him even tighter!

Sonia gritted her teeth, roared and took off the two-handed sword behind her back, and swung one arm, drawing a magnificent knife light, cutting off countless split tentacles in a flash!

Several of them rolled towards their original place - the black coffin of the dark night!

Many tentacles had just touched the black coffin, shrinking and withering as if they had just touched the Supreme Shield, and then turned into fly ash.

But more tentacles rolled onto the black coffin "regarding death as home", and between withering and continuing, they unexpectedly lifted the black coffin against the corrosion of the legendary anti-demon forces!

"Black coffin!" Katerina saw this scene in the distance, and the queen shouted anxiously: "We can't let her take it away!"

Sonia was as calm as before, with a rush of wind under her feet, holding Thales with her left hand, and throwing the big knife far away like a boomerang with her right hand!

"Crack!"

Severely cut off the tentacles wrapped in the black coffin.

"Boom!"

The black coffin fell to the ground again.

Sonia stepped on her feet, quickly jumped onto the black coffin, put Thales down, took off the shield behind her, and looked in front of her vigilantly—two tentacles protruded from the darkness in front of her again.

"impossible!"

Thales saw the situation in front of him clearly and screamed out.

Under the protection of the two tentacles, Giza Trillman still appeared in front of them with a smile on her face as a naked girl covered in blood.

Thales shuddered, but Sonia stepped forward with a shield calmly, protecting him behind him.

Sonia frowned.

Thales was dumbfounded.

how she...

Nothing at all?

Didn't Serena tell him that the legendary anti-magic weapon can deal with magicians?

He clearly remembered that when Yordle sealed Ashida back then, he just pierced his back with a surprise blow, which turned Ashda into a burst of white light and disappeared without a trace.

Yordle and Morat both call that... a seal?

Thales thought he had some knowledge about the weaknesses of magicians...

However, Giza in front of him...

Why?

"Why, do you find it strange?" Giza chuckled, "How come the legendary anti-magic weapon doesn't work for me?"

Sonia raised her hand abruptly, stopping Ada and Katerina who were about to rush up:

"Stand back!" she said loudly, as if she had the authority to order and prohibit.

Ada and the queen stopped abruptly.

Sonia stared at Giza in front of her with serious eyes.

"About you, I have heard two legends from the secret department."

Sonia looked at Giza resolutely:

"One, the more enemies the blood magician faces, the stronger the destructive power and vitality, because the enemies will become your nutrients."

"To deal with you, the biggest misunderstanding is that 'the more people, the better', that will only make you stronger as you fight... The best way is to be a dexterous and fast extreme master with a legendary anti-magic weapon, and You are fighting alone in a dead place where there is no living thing."

Giza's smile softened a little.

Mystery.

It's still as annoying as it was hundreds of years ago.

"A good choice," Giza nodded with the corners of his mouth bent. "No wonder I feel that there are many humans hundreds of meters away—you left all the people there and came alone?"

Sonia snorted: "It seems that your probing power is also very strong."

The next moment, two tentacles suddenly reached out to Sonia!

At the same time, more than a dozen tree roots exploded on the ground, pulling towards Sonia and Thales!

An attack with no dead ends.

The fluctuation surged into Thales' limbs, and he was about to dodge it.

But at that moment, he only felt another force blooming on Sonia's body!

I saw her turn around, unbelievably exerting the inertia of her body to the extreme, and the shield in her hand hit the tentacles hard!

"bump!"

Smash Giza's tentacles into fly ash.

The female warrior let go of her hand during the turn, and miraculously grasped the edge of the shield in mid-air, using it as a sharp blade, then turned around and slashed out horizontally, majesticly smashing the edge of the shield under her feet. More than a dozen tree roots were all smashed to pieces.

"Hey! La!"

Sonia stood on the ground unscathed, and counterattacked with a defense without dead ends, completely crushing the attack of the blood mage.

Thales looked at Sonia in astonishment.

The fluctuations in his body had already surged into his eyes, and he could only see a forceful colorless energy filling Sonia's whole body.

That is something completely different from the dazzling light in the magician's body and the exuberant flesh and blood on the vampire.

This was the first time he used this wave vision to observe normal humans other than magicians and blood races.

"It's a good response, and it's rare among humans in the extreme." Giza nodded appreciatively: "There is also the familiar extraordinary power—one of the four original extraordinary powers, famous for taking advantage of the trend' Glacier Melt'."

"It's called the power of the end now," Sonia said disdainfully, "To commemorate us, I beat the shit out of you more than six hundred years ago."

Thales suddenly realized.

It turns out that the colorless energy in Sonia's body... is the power of termination?

"I didn't know that you could still control the trees." Sonia exhaled and looked around vigilantly: "There are so many surprises for me."

"Why, in your understanding, only the red liquid in animals can be called blood?" Giza smiled lightly.

"About your second legend, it's a bit unreliable." Sonia moved her wrist cautiously: "Until today."

In Giza's smile, she spit out the legend word by word: "Legendary anti-magic weapons, can't seal the blood magician?"

Thales looked at the blood mage in shock.

Unable to seal?

Then... isn't she invincible?

How was the endgame won?

"Impossible!" Katerina exclaimed, "Legendary anti-magic armed forces are the bane of disasters—everyone who knows is taught this way!"

There was silence for a while.

Giza first showed a smile, then sighed:

"Legendary anti-magic armed forces - the end of the magician, the nemesis of disasters, just a light touch can make us irreversible."

"Is it."

I saw Giza said indifferently:

"Lebla, Arik, and even 'Brother Truth' were terrified of that weapon and never let anyone get near them—that's how Lebla was sealed."

But at the next moment, Giza chuckled with a deep chill and said:

"But I'm the only exception."

"A magician who relies on the 'entity state' to fight."

Thales was shocked.

He felt that these nouns that he didn't understand for the time being should be the knowledge he would learn in the future.

Even if it's not for becoming a magician, even if it's just for yourself.

Giza continued to smile and said:

"It is also one of the only two magicians who are not afraid to fight with the legendary anti-magic armed forces."

"I don't refuse even close injuries... People who are close to me are often close to their own death."

Thales frowned slightly: There are only two, not afraid of close combat?

Who is that other?

So...there is such a big difference between a magician and a magician?

Curiosity and fear of magicians tormented Thales at the same time, making him extremely hesitant.

Giza smiled and said, "Even if the legendary anti-magic weapon hits my physical form, it will only hurt insignificant flesh and blood, and it is impossible to seal me."

Thales frowned.

No.

What's wrong.

He was puzzled until Sonia raised her eyebrows and snorted confidently: "Really."

She took a step forward, as if she had found the enemy's weakness, and raised the supreme shield at the magician.

"Then what were you running for?"

"Or... what were you hiding when you disappeared?"

Giza's expression changed.

Thales also reacted.

Yes, the shield was still effective against Giza's flesh and blood just now - it lasted for a while after she turned to ashes for the first time, before reappearing.

During that time, whether she was healing, recovering, escaping or hiding, it represented...

She is by no means without weaknesses!

"The reason why legendary anti-magic weapons are so rare and precious is that countries compete with each other," Sonia said calmly, "Not only because it can seal magicians, but also because each legendary anti-magic weapon has its own unique and powerful force. Ability, allowing the user to reborn in battle."

Thales took a breath.

Legendary Anti-Demon Armor.

Unique and powerful ability?

He looked at the dark night coffin under his feet.

Thinking of Yordle's gray dagger again—what power does that sword have?

Thales suddenly realized that the dagger was so similar in tone to the gray shield in Sonia's hand?

Giza pursed her lips, and the tentacles under her body trembled uneasily.

I saw Sonia knocking on the Supreme Shield: "You probably haven't seen it—it was made together with the Supreme Sword when you all started running for your life in the later stage of the War of the End, so you also will not understand its capabilities."

Giza finally changed color.

"That's what they told me when I received the shield," Sonia snorted softly, "The name of the ability of the Supreme Shield is full of Queen Helan's personal characteristics."

The face of the blood magician became more and more serious.

Thales felt that Sonia had found her weakness.

The female warrior grinned, "The name of its ability is..."

"'Hunting'."

The next moment, the magician with a cold face waved his hand violently as if remembering the most terrifying thing!

"boom!"

A flood of sound erupted!

Under everyone's vigilant eyes, the huge tentacles instantly dissipated into blood and severed limbs.

And then disappear into the air.

Giza was hidden in the darkness, and a pair of eyes took a deep look at Thales.

Leave a faint sentence:

"We'll see each other again."

Thales was shocked.

There is a chilling indifference in Giza's words:

"Never, let you suffer."

Thales was pale and worried.

【Never let you suffer】

Damn.

etc.

He suddenly woke up.

Blood Mage...

Scared away?

"She's gone." Sonia said quietly:

"It's a pity," she tapped on the shield regretfully, "I really want to chase it down."

Thales took a deep breath.

"Selina!"

Thales turned his head and saw Katerina gnashing her teeth, staring at an empty corner:

"She ran away!"

The sound of hooves came.

Putilei, Wyatt, and Genard, escorted by a group of cavalry, came before them.

Thales felt relieved when he saw them.

However, it seems that there are not many private soldiers left by Canxing.

this night.

It's over again.

The cavalrymen came before them and bowed their heads to Sonia.

The leader was a female swordsman with a cold face. When her eyes swept across Thales, the latter only felt a chill.

I offended her?

Thales touched his head inexplicably.

At this moment, a call full of complex emotions sounded.

"team leader!"

Sonia trembled all over, and turned her head to look at the person who spoke.

Thales was taken aback.

Could it be... that she who uses a shield is really "Captain Star"?

Under the surprised gazes of the crowd, Genard, a thirty-year-old veteran, kicked off his horse.

He shrank slightly, and walked slowly in front of the female warrior, looking at Sonia with an excited but embarrassed expression:

"team leader……"

His lips trembled, but he couldn't speak.

"I……"

Genard bowed his head deeply, gritting his teeth.

"I……"

Sonia looked at the veteran with a complicated expression.

"Jenard."

But the female warrior let out a deep breath.

She raised her eyes, eyes full of momentum.

"Look at me, soldier!"

Sonia shouted loudly.

The veteran shuddered and instantly stood up straight.

He took a deep breath and looked directly at Sonia.

After a few seconds, Genard swallowed and took a deep breath.

"I'm back."

The veteran said firmly.

Sonia studied him closely.

for a while.

She immediately punched Genard on the shoulder, showing a restrained smile:

"Return to the team."

Genard shuddered.

He gritted his teeth and fought back tears.

The veteran shouted with all his might:

"yes!"

"With all due respect, Your Highness." Sonia turned her head and looked at Thales, who was carefully inspected by Wyatt for damage.

She frowned, but then sighed deeply: "Although you have experienced a lot today, you still have to rush to Broken Dragon Fortress as soon as possible."

Thales was a little puzzled, but still nodded.

Only Putilei, the experienced deputy envoy behind him, pressed his wound, but his expression changed.

"Lord Sutherley," he asked gravely.

"What happened?"

Everyone was silent for a second.

Sonia frowned, then looked directly at Thales.

"The Grand Duke of Black Sand in Exeter, Charmain Rumba, has... sent a small group of troops to cross the border between the two countries without any scruples a day ago."

Sonia was expressionless, but replied with solemn eyes:

"They began to clear the surrounding areas of the Broken Dragon Fortress, especially the roads from Cold Castle and Lonely Old Tower."

Thales' pupils shrank.

Sonia nodded and said seriously:

"The northern border is no longer safe."