Chapter 106 The Doomed Empire

The warm light of the bedroom seemed to block all the shadows and the chill of late autumn outside the door. The moonlight softly spilled onto the knight-patterned carpet and the luxurious furniture.

Across the long table, Princess Alexia, the Third Princess of the Kruitian Empire, still sat there. Her brown hair fell naturally over her shoulders, and her eyes were like a deep lake, but they lacked luster as if she were already drowsy. Her cheeks appeared pale and translucent in the moonlight.

She seemed to have met with utter despair after struggling with all her might, and so hope had finally shattered all over the floor, never to be pieced together again.

"So, in Your Highness Princess Alexia's opinion, there is absolutely no sign that the Kruitian Empire has been eroded in the slightest?"

Lanqi confirmed with Alexia again, as if relieved.

"No."

Alexia's tone was short and firm.

However, Lanqi's words only felt like repeated torture to her.

Although Alexia knew that Lanqi didn't mean to, because he didn't know anything.

But if he had deliberately asked again, then this person's personality would be too terrible.

Alas.

She wouldn't dream of "having an omniscient and omnipotent national hero come to save her and her country." That was a story that only appeared in fairy tales.

"..."

Hyperion dared not speak to the side, always keeping tense and carefully paying attention to every possible piece of information.

She could see that Princess Alexia had a particularly tough mouth.

Under the influence of the Great Poet, the princess's mood fluctuated obviously.

At this moment, Hyperion was also full of calculations in her heart.

She didn't want to be seen through by Lanqi and Princess Alexia.

Only she knew that the disappearance of her father, Duke Mikaiah Alanzal, was related to the Kruitian Empire.

This Miss Alexia, as a princess, probably knew some crucial information!

But Hyperion would never want to drag Lanqi into the water, so she could only listen like this, hoping that Lanqi could unintentionally help her ask for some information that would help find Duke Mikaiah.

However.

Even though Hyperion behaved as usual, Lanqi still looked at her.

He smiled but did not speak.

This startled Hyperion!

She felt that there was clearly no problem with her acting.

Why did Lanqi's sudden gaze make her feel inexplicably like her thoughts had been seen through?

"Hyperion, don't worry. We subjectively recognize her as an accomplice of the Resurrection Church. Therefore, before confirming her identity, maintaining vigilance and even detaining and controlling her will not violate the international laws of the Southern Continent."

Lanqi just said gently.

His words relieved Hyperion.

Sure enough, she was just overthinking it.

"..."

Lanqi turned his head with a smile and said nothing.

He seemed to be laughing at Princess Alexia's stubborn attitude.

In fact, Hyperion didn't know that he already knew many things, and even what Lanqi had told her before, "I will rescue Mikaiah," she still regarded as a joke.

To retrieve Duke Mikaiah, he really had to hurry before the Ninth Progenitor, Marquis Bernhard, lifted the seal and killed Duke Mikaiah to obtain the [Primordial Tablet - Dark].

The [Primordial Tablet - Dark] was a top-level magic card that every bloodkin could not refuse; they were naturally affinity to the dark attribute.

In the era when the bloodkins were sealed, the [Primordial Tablet] series of items seemed to have not yet been born, so none of the bloodkins who had just been unsealed possessed the [Primordial Tablet]. Even in the main story a year and a half later, the bloodkins launched a hunt for tablet holders.

The [Primordial Tablet] series had the characteristic of "dropping upon the death of the holder," but for bloodkins with immortality, obtaining the [Primordial Tablet] was almost equivalent to permanently possessing it.

Since the [Primordial Tablet - Dark] would be obtained by Marquis Bernhard of the Ninth Progenitor in the future, and Lanqi knew that the Third Progenitor, the Seventh Progenitor, and the Eighth Progenitor had all been unsealed earlier but did not obtain Mikaiah's [Primordial Tablet - Dark], it was highly probable that Mikaiah was still alive.

According to Lanqi's plan, after visiting the Northern Continent to search for the [Primordial Tablet - Seal] and preparing for another challenge to the Shadow World, he would go to the Kruitian Empire's bloodkin lair with Hyperion for an ecological balance survey.

If he could obtain an assistant from the Kruitian Empire before that, it would definitely be the best.

As long as this Princess Alexia was an enemy of the bloodkins, they would have the same goal.

So Lanqi decided to probe her slightly.

"Your Highness Alexia, according to your answer just now, allow me to presume: the current predicament of the Kruitian Empire is not the Resurrection Church, but rather a creature far more terrifying than the cultists that would make you so afraid."

Lanqi put down his teacup, his gaze already shifting away from the princess, his eyes calm, but his tone was firm.

"...What are you talking about? I don't understand. And the Kruitian Empire doesn't have any predicament at all. You don't need to speculate!"

Alexia's shoulders trembled slightly. Although she was still refuting Lanqi, even Hyperion could tell that she was being stubborn.

Lanqi's words seemed to be able to accurately break her defenses.

"With the Twelve Guardian Generals, why are you afraid? Are you no longer able to distinguish which of them have been manipulated?"

Lanqi chuckled and said to himself.

"Every word you say now involves serious crimes. Stop, and I can let bygones be bygones."

Alexia's lowered voice was short and cold, desperately trying to restrain her chaotic emotions.

Originally, she could have maintained her acting skills to answer Lanqi from the very beginning, but in the end, under the influence of the Great Poet, she couldn't control herself!

She didn't know why Lanqi was probing again and again, as if he could see all the thoughts in her heart!

"Recently, have there been any figures in the palace that have frightened you?"

Lanqi didn't give her a chance to stop, and new words followed.

"I warn you, don't ask any more questions!"

Alexia's voice was obviously wrong, trembling like a little lion with ruffled fur.

"There's at most a year and a half left..."

Lanqi tapped the table, as if giving Alexia the final answer.

His voice was as firm as the ringing of the clock tower of fate in the dark night.

"The Blood Moon will completely envelop the entire Kruitian Empire, Your Highness. Your country is doomed."

The short words resounded like thunder in Princess Alexia's ears.

"!!"

Accompanied by the sound of the table and teacup colliding, Princess Alexia finally took a half step back in panic and stood up.

In the dark night, she was like a girl who had been frightened by thunder.

She stared at Lanqi, wanting to explore something from the depths of Lanqi's eyes, but she could never find any answer from those natural emerald green eyes.

Even if Lanqi could deduce some clues from her performance and words.

But looking at the current North and South Continents, absolutely no sane person would think that a behemoth like the Kruitian Empire would perish due to the bloodkins in just a year and a half!

"What exactly... what do you know..."

Her eyes, with that resentful and unwilling emotion, as if the already dried tears, began to flow again.

(End of Chapter)