Chapter 52: The Bloody Night of the Imperial Capital (2)
"Her Majesty is here. Don't stop yet!" Christina rushed into the courtyard first, shouting at the fighting twins.
Catherine followed closely and appeared in front of everyone, and the soldiers who were ordered to take over immediately set off a commotion, Catherine's appearance had long been remembered by all the soldiers and civilians in the imperial capital, and now that she appeared in front of everyone, those ordinary soldiers did not dare to make a move against Her Majesty the Empress no matter what.
Seeing that his subordinates actually stopped the offensive and slowly retreated, the officer who led the team was very anxious, he was one of Chad's henchmen, otherwise he would not have been sent to control Queen Catherine, and now there is still no way out, even if those soldiers can be pardoned in the end, a squad leader like him will definitely not be able to escape punishment.
"Tell me your identity!" Christina said coldly, "Do you dare to attack His Majesty's bedchamber and want to rebel?"
The squad leader was in a hurry, if Christina was allowed to continue, he was afraid that his soldiers would have to deal with him in turn, he didn't care about weighing it, and shouted loudly: "Jesse, the leader of the thirteenth squad of the Norn Legion, is ordered to take over the defense of the dormitory. His Majesty the King was assassinated tonight, and every one of you is suspicious!Please lay down your arms, or you will be killed!" After speaking, the squad leader named Jesse raised a token in his hand and added: "This is the token of the royal magician de Silva-Velázquez, and those who violate the order can be executed on the spot!"
"What!" Christina's hand trembled involuntarily when she heard the bad news, and she almost couldn't even hold the long sword in her hand, and she looked at Catherine beside her in confusion, and the latter was expressionless, with an angry look in her eyes.
"Enough!" reprimanded Catherine, "I command you, in my capacity as Empress, to leave the palace at once and return to your camp." His Majesty was just entertaining guests in the Royal Ballroom, Jesse, how dare you spread rumors?"
Jesse sneered and said to Catherine: "Do you still think you are the queen? I have seen the body of the king with my own eyes, and you are no longer dead, you are only a widow now! Soldiers, obey my orders, and immediately take down all those who dare to disobey the order, except for this Catherine, the other women are at your disposal! Everything in the dormitory is at your disposal!"
Jesse's soldiers also heard the king's bad news for the first time, and they didn't know what to do, but Jesse had always been their commander, and more importantly, with the token of De Silva-Velázquez Archmage, it didn't matter if something happened to them, and their commander made a promise to do whatever he wanted, for these soldiers, His Majesty's palace was naturally full of wealth, and there were more than a dozen young and beautiful women, what could attract them more than this?
If Fernando XIII was here, but with his majesty it would be enough to scare off these soldiers, but Catherine has been in the emperor for less than 1 year, although she won the royal competition and became the queen, but in the hearts of many people, this is just a woman who pleases the emperor with her own appearance, and does not have much prestige.
"Go on!" I don't know who shouted, and the defeat that had already retreated rushed up again brandishing his weapon.
"Protect Her Majesty!" Christina shouted, raising her sword to meet her.
A soldier bullied Christina but a young woman, who was afraid to take the lead, raised the long sword in his hand and slashed at Christina, he was afraid of killing Christina with a sword, and deliberately deflected the blade of the sword a little, ready to stab Christina's shoulder holding the weapon.
Christina has undergone all the training of holy knights, and her strength is even far superior to that of her peers, otherwise Orlando would not let her lead the team to participate in the Royal Athletic Tournament, seeing this cowardly guy in front of her, Christina showed no mercy in her hand, and the long sword in her hand stabbed out quickly, leaving a deep cut in the soldier's throat.
"Ahh Christina kicked him in the face, kicking him a few meters away, crashing into the two soldiers running up from behind, and falling out together.
According to the rules in the palace, a large number of guards will follow His Majesty the Emperor to move, so there are only normal mission guards in the palace, and there are only a few female knights who protect Catherine, and the rest are ordinary maids who do not have the ability to fight, so in terms of numbers, Jesse's subordinates naturally occupy an absolute advantage.
Several soldiers bypassed Christina and pounced directly on Catherine, these ordinary soldiers had never seen the power of magicians at all, although they saw that Catherine was blessed with a lot of magic protection, but they didn't care at all, in their hearts, Catherine was just a weak woman.
Catherine sneered and shook her wrist, the whip of flame wrapped around her arm was like a poisonous snake about to burst into flames, the tip of the whip was abruptly cocked, when the soldiers stepped into the distance of 5 meters in front of her, Catherine's whip of flame moved, due to the existence of mirroring, a full 9 dark red shadows surrounded Catherine's body, a soldier stretched out his weapon without care, trying to block the looming whip, but the whip of flame seemed to have a life-like dexterous twist, dodged his weapon, and then wrapped around his wrist。
"Ahh
Several other soldiers also ran into Catherine's other flaming whips, and one soldier raised his shield to block it, only to find that he was blocking a void, and the flaming whip was nothing more than a phantom. The other soldier beside him was not so lucky, his neck was strangled by the flaming whip, and then he twisted so hard that his neck bones made a strange noise, and then his neck and head were also charred by the heat of the magical flames attached to the flaming whip.
The soldier with the shield was startled, he subconsciously looked at the first soldier who was entangled by the whip of flames, but found that the whip wrapped around his hand was long gone, and before the soldier could figure out what was going on, he felt a tightness under his feet, and then pulled him with a strong force, making him unstable and falling to the ground.
Catherine's flaming whip was like a nimble python, wrapping around the shield-holding soldier's ankle and pulling him down, and then Catherine's wrist was forced, and the flaming whip dragged the shield-wielding soldier into the air. When the soldier flew in the air, Catherine's flaming whip loosened its restraints, then retracted it, and then quickly pulled it out, hitting the waist of the soldier holding the shield, pulling the soldier out more than twenty meters away, and smashing directly on the wall of the courtyard of the dormitory, seeing that he was not alive.
Catherine's performance shocked everyone present, even Christina was surprised, she never dreamed that Catherine, who looked delicate, actually had such a terrifying hand-to-hand combat ability, even if she was against herself, she was probably not an opponent, Christina sighed secretly in her heart: "The god of light is above, has the glorious holy knight lost your favor? Why can even the most fragile magician surpass us in hand-to-hand combat!"
For some reason, Christina suddenly remembered Ryan, the young magician, who, like Catherine, not only had great magical powers, but also had good melee abilities. A soldier saw that Christina was a little distracted, so he raised his spear and stabbed at her, and although Christina was thinking nonsense, she still instinctively swung the long sword in her hand, pulled away the spear that stabbed her, and then rushed forward, slammed the soldier's chest with her left shoulder, spurting blood from his mouth and falling out.
Jesse saw that these two women were very powerful, so he ordered: "Fence up, fence up, we are so many of us, and we are tired and tired to death!" Before he could finish speaking, he saw a bright red fireball smash into him.
"Boom!", Jesse's body turned into thousands of fragments, spraying on a dozen soldiers around him, and these soldiers were also within the explosion range of the fireball spell, their bodies were ignited by the scorching magic flames, and the raging flames immediately engulfed them all.
More than ten soldiers were killed in the explosion, but a few others who were a little further away were set on fire and struggled desperately, rolling on the ground in the hope of extinguishing the flames. It's a pity that this flame is not an ordinary flame, but a magical flame produced by Catherine gathering the fire element, let alone rolling on the ground, even if dozens of buckets of cold water are poured on it, it may not be able to extinguish it.
Listening to the screams of their comrades, the remaining soldiers no longer had the intention of fighting, many even dropped their weapons and turned to run, they did not belong to the most elite army, these people were just reserve soldiers with a certain amount of military training, how could they have seen this scene in front of them.
"Boom!" Another fireball flew out of Catherine's hand that was not holding the whip of fire, and crashed directly into the fleeing crowd, engulfing more than a dozen soldiers. The flames of the fireball explosion flew high and lit up the entire dormitory. By the time the flames had cleared, Jesse's entire squad had become an insignificant number in the Imperial Capital's Bloody Night.
When De Silva hurried to the dormitory with 4 magisters and 200 elite warriors, there was no living person to be found here except the corpses of those soldiers, De Silva stomped his feet vigorously, annoyed by his wrong order, he was busy controlling the nobles in the royal banquet hall at the beginning, and he couldn't get away at all, and at the same time ignored the fact that Catherine was a magician, and actually sent only ordinary soldiers to arrest her, although he quickly discovered this mistake and rushed over immediately, but now Catherine is gone。
De Silva knew that Catherine and the others must have gone to the barracks through the teleportation magic array in the dormitory, because no matter what happened, the Holy Knights were the most loyal to His Majesty the Emperor. Now that the news of the king's assassination may have leaked out, it is useless to be annoyed, only to blame this Catherine for not using any magic after the Royal Athletic Tournament, and to be her personal advisor to His Majesty the Emperor in peace, so that everyone slowly ignores her other terrible identity - a magister who can unleash level 8 magic.