When the woman in front of him appeared, seeing that familiar face, the masked man stabbed out almost without thinking, he was absolutely sure of his blow, and at the same time saw the expression of the woman in front of him in an instant of horror and despair.

This blow was silent and abrupt, even if the woman on the other side seemed to have good skills, but because of the suddenness of the incident, she would definitely not be able to react.

The masked man let out a low roar of joy in his throat, a reaction that had finally given instant catharsis to the suppressed resentment in his heart.

The dagger stabbed the woman, and the screams to the masked man were the sounds of heaven and the joy of revenge.

But why is the assassination of the short sword accompanied by a deafening loud noise?

In particular, this loud noise was still in the almost closed corridor, and along with the loud noise, there was also a thick smoke that instantly filled the entire corridor.

The masked man could even feel the numbness of half of his body as if he had been suddenly punched, and the short sword in his hand involuntarily slashed downward, and with another cry of pain from the woman, he realized that something seemed to be wrong.

The Masked Man turned his head, he knew that someone was attacking him from the side, at least the right half of his body, which was almost completely unconscious for now, let him know that he was in danger, and when he turned his head, he saw something that made him unbelievable.

A familiar face, or rather the owner of the one he had wanted to kill countless times even in his dreams, stood in front of a half-open door at the other end of the hallway.

She was wearing a dressing gown that was a little too large, but now it was slightly skewed, and what was coming out of the torn gap of the robe was not the seductive carcass that should have fascinated the man, but a faintly visible metallic glow.

That woman isn't in this guarded room? Out of the corner of the masked man's eyes, he had killed the guards who had fallen in the corner.

That woman is right in front of me right now, but she has a musket in her hand? The masked man's gaze fell, and he saw his right hand, which had two fingers blown off and was bloody.

That woman actually put a piece of armor under her dressing gown? The thought was still rolling through the masked man's mind, but his body had already reacted.

He threw away the blood-stained dagger in his hand without even thinking about it, and before the smoke had even cleared, his figure had disappeared into the corridor around the corner.

At this moment, Ulliu, frightened by the sudden sound of muskets, crawled out of the living room and slammed open another door.

All he could see was the acrid smoke filling the hallway, and Sophia, who was still smoking, rushing towards the opposite room with a smoking musket.

Seeing the guards lying crookedly in front of the door, Uliu shouted again, and he was a little dazed. 、

If it weren't for Sophia, he wouldn't even have the strength to lift his legs.

When he rushed to the door of the room and looked at the bloodstained woman who was held in Sophia's arms, Uliu's head slammed into the sky!

His first thought was: it's over, the Queen of Naples was attacked in Marino Palace!

The chaos unnerved the Queen of Naples, who did not feel safe in Lucrezia's palace, and the fear of being assassinated and abducted haunted her.

Joanna needed someone to protect her from someone she could feel safe, at least for now.

So even though Lucrezia assured her that her Palazzo Potico was the safest in all of Rome, and Giulia Farne warmly invited the queen to continue as a guest, Joanna still wanted to come to Palazzo Potico to accompany her.

Not only that, but after seeing her lover, Joanna simply offered to return to Marino Palace with Nashan.

Of course, this request will not be easily granted, and both Lucrezia and Giulaffa Farne are well aware of the importance of this former queen, who is already angry, but still cannot be ignored, so they refuse Joanna's request and send someone to inform Caesar of the matter.

Lucrezia may not have realized it yet, but Giulia Farne had already vaguely sensed that something seemed to be wrong, and the woman in front of her, who had always seemed to be obedient, seemed to be showing signs of getting rid of the Borgia family.

Caesar didn't have time to pay attention to Joanna at this time, he was overwhelmed by the sudden turmoil, and after hearing the news from Julia, he pondered for a moment but noticed something else.

"Did the bohemian with a squad of cavalry?" When Caesar answered in the affirmative, he immediately made a condition: "If the Bohemian is willing to help me quell the riots, I will agree that he will keep the queen safe." ”

Nashan immediately agreed to this condition without hesitation.

In the eyes of the gypsies, this was really a chance to make a fortune from God, and in Joanna's eyes, this man was willing to take risks for her, which moved the young widowed queen almost to offer her lips in front of the people next to her.

Joanna was quietly sent to the Marino Palace, which Caesar had proposed to do so, nominally for the safety of the queen, but in fact he was not willing to let anyone else know that Joanna had left the Potico Palace at this time, because this would surely attract all kinds of unwarranted suspicions.

But no one expected Joanna to be attacked!

Sophia didn't seem very happy about Joanna's arrival, but she didn't look angry, she seemed to have accepted Nashan's father and noblewoman's killer identity, only when Nashan was about to take Bohemia to quell the riots, she was a little nervous.

Nashan comforted her daughter by telling her to take care of the queen and to protect herself.

"Put on your armor when necessary, at least an inner armor," Nashan was not as relaxed as he seemed on the outside, he knew that what had happened tonight was much worse than the previous one, and although Marino Palace was strong, he still gave his daughter a few words.

To the Masked Man, Sophia was undoubtedly the most important woman in the palace, and he didn't see Joanna's carriage entering the Marino Palace from the back garden, so when he sneaked in through the secret passage, he immediately took the room for Sophia's bedroom when he saw a guard guarding the door of the room.

Cleanly took out the guards, and when he knocked on the door and saw Joanna for the first time, the hatred gathered made him raise his sword and stab him before he could even react to that face.

Then, before he could react from the stunned horror of killing the wrong target, he was shot off two fingers with a musket.

The masked man rushed into the corridor desperately, and as soon as a guard on the other side who heard the gunshots and heard the news appeared, he immediately held the sword in his left hand and slashed upwards without hesitation.

The figure swayed, and more and more soldiers came downstairs, but the masked man was undaunted, his only fear was that the terrible woman behind him would catch up.

He couldn't forget the moment when the woman shot his beloved woman directly with a short crossbow, but the woman's act of breaking two of his fingers with a musket just now shocked him even more.

However, when the pale Uliuu crossed the corridor from the other side with a musket, he saw only a group of guards with the same blank faces as him.

"Where's that guy?"

Ulliu shouted angrily at the guards, his whole body trembling and his teeth chattering.

Joanna was assassinated, what the consequences would be, Uliu didn't know, he only knew that things must be bad, maybe he would soon be unlucky, after all, it was his duty to protect Marino Palace.

Imagine what would have happened in the palace of the Grand Vizier, where the heads of the captain and steward would immediately be hung in cages outside the city walls, and then a large crowd would lose their lives.

But that's not for Ulliu, because his own head is almost gone.

"Call the doctor, and all the people who can use it, go and call them all!" Ulius shouted like madness, his whole body trembling and his speech slurred, but his eyes were still alert.

"How did that guy escape?" Uliu suddenly screamed, and he looked at the guards vigilantly, as if to find some imposter or traitor among them, but when he learned that the guards had rushed upstairs together, and that no one had a chance to hide the assassin, he immediately began to circle around the corridor, "He has a place to hide, that guy can't just disappear." ”

Uliuu was anxiously turning back and forth as several maids rushed into Joanna's room in a panic.

"I'm going to be beheaded." Uliuu let out a wail, desperately slamming against the wall and the floor, trying to find a flaw, while his ears nervously listened to the sound coming from the direction of Joanna's room.

Joanna's stab was not very serious, and when the masked man immediately attacked her, the instant surprise at the sight of a familiar but unexpected face saved Joanna's life.

The short sword that was originally stabbed in the chest was stabbed under the ribs because of a deviation, and it was Sophia who shot instantly with a quick hand that really saved Joanna's life.

No one would have thought that there would be a ready musket at the table at the door of a girl's room.

Sophia obediently listened to her father's instructions and put on inner armor in her dressing gown, although it was a little uncomfortable, she also listened carefully to Alexander's words, and had a weapon to protect herself in her room at all times.

Joanna's injuries were not serious, but the shock was so unclear that she huddled into Sophia's arms in fear, not caring that this was not what a queen should be like at all, let alone the girl she sought to protect, or even her daughter.

Because she was so excited, Joanna didn't even allow anyone else to come close, she grabbed Sophia's hand with surprising strength, her lips trembled and she couldn't help whispering something, and when she couldn't hear Sophia's response, she looked up nervously, as if she was afraid that she would suddenly disappear.

Sophia looked at the lady in front of her with some impatience, she had never been in contact with such a woman, she knew all those savage and fierce women, they were never afraid of knives, and once they fought, they were sometimes crazier than men.

And even among the Gajie people I know, there is still a woman who is also very powerful.

Sophia disliked Alexander's annoying sister, but she couldn't help but admit that Josha was at least better than those more annoying Gajay women.

At least the woman doesn't pretend when she's angry, but she's actually timid enough to only use cynicism to deal with people, but in anger she grabs a musket and fights with people.

But Joanna in front of her was the kind of woman that Sophia didn't like the most, which made her even feel a little strange about Nashan, because she really didn't understand how her father could be interested in these women.

Because Joanna was so emotional, Sophia had to bandage her wounds herself.

The sword was not heavy, and although it bleed, it actually only cut a hole in the ribs.

Sophia first tore open Joanna's skirt, breathed a sigh of relief when she saw it, and then cleaned her with the water sent by the maid, and then pressed Joanna's wound with a cloth, and then ignored Joanna's screaming in pain, and wrapped her wound around her waist with the sheet that the maid hastily ripped off.

Sophia's face was rare to look serious as she did all the work, and when she stood up to leave, Joanna immediately reached out and grabbed the corner of her skirt in pain.

Sophia broke Joanna's fingers very lightly but resolutely, and under the uneasy gaze of Joanna and the maids around her, she ripped off her nightgown, revealing the inner armor inside, and then she grabbed the empty musket on the side, looked at it in disgust, and threw it away.

There were already guards guarding the door of the room, and when they saw Sophia coming out, they immediately surrounded her.

Ignoring the guards, Sophia walked back to her room with a serious look on her face, and walked through the living room to pick up her crossbow from the table next to the bed in her bedroom.

Expertly strapping the belt of the crossbow around her arm, Sophia moved her arm and grabbed the quiver on the table when she was satisfied, and walked out of the room past the guards who looked at each other and didn't know what she was going to do.

Uliu, who was still tossing and turning in the corridors, ordered his soldiers to bang on the ground and walls without sparing any corner, while he himself kept an eye on each soldier, trying to see any signs of flaw in their faces.

Sophia's appearance caused a commotion, and the soldiers couldn't help but stop to look at the girl standing at the bright entrance to the corridor in front of the corridor.

A sturdy inner armor worn on Sophia's body, a short crossbow tied to her arm, and a quiver hanging from her waist made Sophia different from any woman they knew.

She made a gesture towards Uliu, and seeing the Moor's inexplicable dazed look, Sophia simply ignored him.

Under everyone's puzzled gaze, Sophia walked back to Joanna's room, picked up the basin of water left over from cleaning Joanna's wounds, walked back into the corridor and threw her hand on the ground.

"I'm stupid!" Uliu slapped his head hard, "Go and bring more water, splash it on the ground and on the walls, and dig it for me to see where there is water seepage, and make sure to find that nasty fellow." ”

The secret passage was soon discovered, and when the marble that covered the entrance was lifted, Ulliu eagerly ordered the men to go down and chase after him.

But before his people could go down, there was already movement in the secret passage.

Just as everyone was staring at the entrance for a moment, a head popped out of the entrance.

Looking at the white-haired head, the Moors couldn't help but exclaim in surprise: "Why are you?" ”

Surprisingly, this man was the well-fed priest in the church of Cardinal Monteiro.