The sound of arrows breaking through the air sounded again. Those present couldn't even see where the arrow came from, and the cultist who rushed towards Princess Derell had already been shot. His throat had been pierced by a special elven arrow, but he hadn't completely lost his breath for a while, like a pheasant that had been choked by the throat, and he let out a few dissonant syllables with a "ho-ho" before he fell to the ground, interrupted in convulsions.

The only one who can shoot two shots in such a flash of lightning is, of course, Nicole, who is the elf of Nolda. She first used the guiding rifle "Tianteng" given to her by Lu Xi, and seriously injured the ironclad giant Khan whose strength had reached the 4th level of gold, and then quickly switched the weapon to her beloved elven bow.

An excellent Norda elven marksman is required to be able to complete at least 4 accurate bow shots within 5 seconds, and in the moment just now, from Lu Xi smashing the forbidden crystal to Nicole finally shooting the guard, it took a whole chapter of nearly 5,000 words to describe things, in fact, it was completed in just five seconds. In what was just a few deep breaths, villager Grant and the star archer Robin had only completed one shot, while Elf Girl had completed three shots - one for the guide gun and two for the bow and arrow - Nicole was not yet the top elven archer, but she was on the path to join them.

(System: Your subordinate Nivea?) Lin Ge killed an elite disciple of the Flame Sect and gained 499 experience points. ）

So, when did Nicole become my subordinate? What is the standard for systematically defining "subordinates" or "teammates"?

But what we need to know is that Nicole's profession is a druid after all. The skills of an archer can only be counted as part-time. Indeed, there are some Norda archery masters who can shoot several or even a dozen arrows with a bow at once. And every shot is guaranteed to be powerful and accurate, but at this time, Nicole has not fully mastered this magic skill. With a single arrow, she takes down the enemies attacking Delelle and Eleanor. Naturally, he couldn't pay attention to the one who swung his sword and slashed at Princess Yoanna.

All the masters present could no longer stop the long sword from piercing Princess Yoanna's chest...... Except for one person, the Emperor Iken, who had been regarded as a waste by both sides.

Emperor Iken, who had obviously devoured half of his soul by the golem, didn't know where the power suddenly burst out, and he used all his strength to push his two daughters, who were holding him left and right, to Lu Xi's side, but his body lost its balance and could no longer stop the swing of the long sword.

The steel sword stabbed him in the back and out of his chest, and his father's blood splattered on the faces of the two princesses who had not yet figured out the situation. They stared blankly at what had happened suddenly, and for a moment it seemed as if even their souls had drifted away.

This is for several children. It's just brutal...... Did they just learn that they had lost their mother, and now they were about to watch their father die in front of them?

Lu Xi took a step forward and held up the emperor, who could no longer stand at all. Familiar footsteps rang out behind him at the same time—by this time, villager A, who had finished releasing the arrows and dropped his longbow and flashed his sword, and villager B, who was carrying a battle axe and a war hammer, had quickly caught up.

"Boole! Grant! Take them to safety right away! Lu Xi ordered loudly to the two subordinates.

After all, this human and a minotaur are good friends who grew up together, and they only need a look to achieve tacit cooperation. Villager B, who had grown to two meters and was no different in size from an adult minotaur, stretched out two arms that seemed to be twisted together. Picked up the two older princesses; As for villager A, Grant picked up the two smaller ones one by one, turned around and ran.

The strength of the two of them has now reached the middle of the silver level, one is 4th and the other is 5th, and in front of the two strong female bosses on the opposite side, they are naturally just miscellaneous soldiers. But the strength is already much stronger than the group of cultist elites they carry. At least, the foot ride is not bad, under the cover of Lu Xi. It was quickly out of the danger zone.

Lu Xi must have breathed a long sigh of relief in his heart. Anyway. At least these children, who have a lot of appetite for themselves, have escaped.

(System: Completed the urgent mission "Future of the Holy Springs Royal" and gained 25,000 experience points.) Attribute points 20, skill points 5, Oakland Empire opinion +1. ）

This so-called emergency mission is that the "queen" jumped out when the princesses and the little prince appeared, and the victory condition is to safely rescue all the bear children of the Dimahia family, and the failure condition is "the death of the little prince and any two or more princesses", and the punishment is "Auckland Empire favorability -1, the royal fertility rate of the Holy Spring -90%, and the duration is 50 years". Lu Xi had to admit that as he slowly grew up, the tricks of system task punishment were really getting richer and richer, and he really didn't know how powerful it was compared to a certain ball of light who only knew how to erase. However, after thinking about it again, this was clearly to force the rhythm of the Holy Spring Royal and Emperor Knous the Great to cut off their children and grandchildren, and he immediately felt a deep depression.

Moreover, if you think about it carefully, Her Royal Highness the World's No. 1 Princess is also a member of the Holy Spring Royal, if this mission fails, wouldn't it mean that the possibility of having children between herself and Karin in the future is similar to winning the jackpot?

Emotionally speaking, although Lu Xi doesn't want to have children now, this is just because he simply feels that he hasn't played enough, which doesn't mean that he hates children. Like most people, he also felt that such a life would be perfect if he could see his children grow up in the days to come. In addition, intellectually speaking, if Her Royal Highness the World's First Princess does not have her own direct descendants, there will be certain hidden dangers in the future inheritance of the Holy Spring Dynasty, which is not good news for the Auckland Empire or even the whole world.

Well, all of the above is Lu Xi's brain hole in a few seconds. To put it more directly, Lu Xi, who has a slight obsessive-compulsive disorder, unless it is the kind of task that is obviously malicious to the trick, such as "saving Dicks" - that is, dancing with the Toman boy next to him. Even if he encounters D-level or even E-class tasks that have no nutritional value and no cost performance, he is happy to complete them. Not to mention this kind of urgent task that is very much to your own appetite.

However, if it is really just himself and Lim. Even if Lu Xi had great ability, it was impossible to rescue four powerless girls and a little boy whose physique was weaker than ordinary people in the midst of so many enemies...... Of course, the so-called righteous and unrighteous are more helpful, and a protagonist like Lu Xi, who has a good character and a clean face, can naturally meet his friends everywhere who save him. At the moment when the two sides were still facing each other, he received a message from the Star Spirit Assassin Anji.

Lu Xi assigned the mission to the Star Spirit Assassin to find and rescue the Toman boy who had been imprisoned by the Emperor in the Yongchen Palace, and then learn more about the situation from the other party. Of course, since Lu Xi then met Prince Kalman, this mission naturally lost most of its significance. But Lu Xi didn't order Anji to retreat - as soon as he heard that there was no use value, he didn't even bother to confirm the safety of others, and Lu Xi still couldn't do such a thing of losing character. He takes Lim to the Luna Hall to stop Miss Bellotina's brainwashing, while Angie continues to search for Tommen's trail.

As more and more people from various forces arrived, turning Yongchen Palace and even half of the imperial capital into a battlefield, the patrols and guards in the palace naturally became chaotic. Angie quickly found the place where Tomman was imprisoned, took advantage of the chaos to kill the few soldiers who were still in the chaos, and released the prince, who had been imprisoned for nearly ten days—of course. The original person in charge of imprisoning and guarding Tommen's boy was the barbarian gladiator named Ofron, one of the "Four Monsters". But this guy may have been transferred away by the "queen", and he was not in his post at that time.

Angie gets orders to ensure the safety of Tomman Boy. At the moment, he wanted to protect the other party and leave the palace first, but this young man, who had been weak all his life, burst out with unprecedented determination and courage at this time, and was bent on ensuring the safety of his parents and younger siblings. If you follow the usual Buddhas. The Star Spirit Assassin was originally going to just knock the boy unconscious and take him away, but he happened to encounter several griffon knights who had arrived from the Dragon Castle.

Under siege by multiple enemies. With Anji's strength, he can naturally get out, but he can't break through with a scrap boy who is almost helpless. Suddenly there was a stalemate again. But the sound of their fight attracted another group of people—Nicole, villager A Grant, and villager B Bull, plus Tomenan Boy's close knight, Sir Tyrell, the son of the Duke of Lancaster.

This, of course, cannot be entirely blamed on luck. What we need to know is, as the next supreme leader of politics and religion of the Norda Elves, Nivea? Miss Lin Ge's main profession is actually an elf druid, and she is a spellcaster with strong spiritual power, coupled with her innate perception ability given by the bloodline of the ancient elf king, she can easily feel a wide range of magic and life fluctuations around her. Lu Xi's breath, the breath of the friends who fight side by side, and the breath of the star spirit Anji that Lu Xi often releases as a scout, the fluctuation of these magic power sources is as familiar to the elf girl as a colleague who meets every day. With three boys whose strength and perception were far inferior to hers, she carefully bypassed several large-scale battles, and finally made peace with Anji in time.

With Nicole and them on board, the danger was quickly lifted. Everyone discussed it carefully, and felt that it was safer to make peace with Lu Xi first, as for the opinion of the Tomman boy himself, it was naturally ignored magnificently - this young man who had been weak all his life, in the principle of the minority obeying the majority, usually did not dare to express any opinions. Just now, he argued with Anji, which can be regarded as a manifestation of explosive seeds.

Ni used druid magic to buff everyone with a hidden aura before touching it. The two bosses of the other party, Miss Belutena of the Dragonborn Bloodline, were seriously injured, and their own perception was badly affected; As for the half-blood succubus's Furrada Warlock, perhaps because all her attention was focused on Lu Xi, or maybe it was because the dark magic she used was more focused on curse and corruption than perception, and she didn't even notice Nicole's existence.

Nicole's magic can't support the spiritual connection with Lu Xi, but the star spirit, who is born with spiritual communication with his master, can act as a communication channel for his friends.

As a result, the classic hostage rescue operation, which can be called a textbook, began in this way, and it was a complete success......

If it weren't for the sacrifice made by Uncle Iken in the end, it would have been a textbook success. As a father, this very failed emperor was naturally successful, but his self-sacrifice seemed a bit redundant. You must know that the princess and prince present have all been engraved with a holy shield mark on their bodies, and once their lives are threatened, their bodies will immediately activate an extremely stable holy light shield. With the swords of those two cultist "miscellaneous soldiers", it was impossible to pierce the protection of the holy shield, and it was even possible to be automatically burned by the holy light.

This shield mark was indeed very hidden, so hidden that even the powerful Vrada's warlock did not notice it. In fact, if Lu Xi didn't have kryptonite dog eyes, he wouldn't have noticed it at all—this should have been the handiwork of Miss Aether, the priest with the knife, right? At least before Lu Xi left, the princesses and the little prince did not have this magic mark on their bodies.

Although her person is no longer there, at the end of her life, she still left the last life talisman for her students. It was precisely because of this mark that Lu Xi dared to take a risk.

Lu hoped for the dying emperor in front of him, and listened to the princesses who began to cry loudly behind him, and decided not to tell them about it...... At the very least, to leave a majestic father figure in the hearts of the children, right?

"Ahh What the hell did I do? My greed and obsession have almost led the entire empire into the abyss! Generals, are the Imperial generals alright? The emperor's mouth coughed up blood, and his face continued to turn gray at a speed that was almost visible to the naked eye, but his eyes were unprecedented and clear as Lu Xi had seen: "What about Toman and them?" What about Yoanna? And Kalman, my little Kalman......"

He had obviously been mortally wounded, but his hands were tightly gripping Lu Xi's wrists, as if they were iron tongs.

"Your Majesty...... Your Majesty, the children are fine, don't worry! "Comforting an uncle is really not my forte! Lu Xi thought so, but said stubbornly: "Baltoli...... Well, the cultists' conspiracy didn't succeed either! The generals are all right. And, well, the army of Her Highness Katerina has already entered the city, and the civil war is over! The empire will soon return to the peace and prosperity it deserves! Your Majesty! ”

"Yes, give the country to Karin! She's going to do so much better than I do, and she's even better than my father! The emperor's face suddenly flashed with a brilliance that was impossible to look at. Anyone with a discerning eye knows that this is the so-called return to the light.

"I am a failed emperor, but I can't be a failed husband and father, promise me, promise me, rescue my wife!" The emperor used his last strength to squeeze Lu Xi's hand, almost pinching him a little painfully.

"Your wife...... Your Majesty Selenthea? But ......"

"She's alive, she's alive, I know, she's alive......," the Emperor's voice was extremely high and low, and then he died in this staccato rhythm. He didn't let go of Lu Xi's hand until he died, and he maintained a standing posture until he died.

The era of the Sun King ended in the late autumn two years ago, and the era of Emperor Iken ended before it began, but Lu Xi had to admit that this reign must be ranked in the top ten of the last emperors of the past dynasties, and the king of the Holy Spring Dynasty, who seemed to be a great failure in all aspects, was like a real Dimahia when he died.

"Your last wish, I received it! …… Even if Her Majesty is really gone, I will burn the culprit down on your grave. Lu Xi said solemnly, and then, he looked at the emperor who had lost his life and closed his eyes. (To be continued.) )

PS: Okay, Uncle Iken is officially leaving, give the ticket