Ultra: Dark Shadow Mage, Founding a Magic Empire

Chapter 37 Internal and external troubles, a sign of impending demise

"Father, are you okay?"

Catalina looked at her father anxiously.

Although Lanster and others were taken away in time, King Lanton was so angry and in poor health that he fainted!
If their doctors hadn’t been so experienced, they would have saved him in time.

I'm afraid that before I can even avenge myself, I'm going to have to hold a funeral for the king!

But even so, King Lanton was in a coma for five days!
As the eldest daughter of the empire, Catalina naturally stayed by her father's side.

"Water, water..."

"Bring water quickly!"

Catalina shouted anxiously, and then the servant handed her a cup of water, and Catalina carefully fed her father to drink.

"Father, are you feeling better?" Catalina waited for King Lanton to calm down for a while before asking again in a low voice.

She is very worried now. After all, King Lanton has more than one daughter, and he also has more than a dozen sons!

Although her eldest brother, the undisputed heir, is dead, she is now in favor and is ruling the country on behalf of King Langdon.

But that doesn't mean she is the heir!
If King Langdon died, all her previous efforts would be in vain.

The revival of the Landon Empire will fail at the last moment. Her brothers and sisters will become independent overnight and bring their armies to the Landon Royal City to seize control of the water source!
What awaits them then is endless war!

"Those, those arrogant guys, are they dead...dead?"

When King Lanton opened his mouth, the first thing he thought of was not the country or his daughter, but those "bastards" who offended him.

Catalina's eyes flashed with sadness, but she still comforted him: "Don't worry, father, your daughter will keep them for you. You can supervise the execution in person after you have recuperated for a while!"

"Okay, okay." King Lanton's face showed joy and his complexion became much redder.

"You are worthy of being my good daughter. Come on, help me up and call a beauty over."

Katrina: ...

"Yes."

Catalina hid the disappointment in her eyes, responded and stepped back.

Soon, obscene sounds were heard in the palace.

Catalina just shook her head and walked out of the royal city and into the city.

As soon as she walked out of the royal city, she saw a group of city defense patrols driving away farmers.

The farmers were ragged and pale, yet they carried huge rocks and various supplies that were several times their own weight.

"Come on!"

Snapped!
"If you dare to procrastinate again, I will beat you to death! Hurry up and get to work, strengthen the city defenses!"

Catalina stepped forward, stopped the patrolmen who were driving away the farmers, and asked, "What are you doing? Why are you strengthening the city's defenses?"

"your Highness!"

The patrolman saluted hastily and then replied, "We are building the city defense. According to the scouts on the front line, there is a strange-looking cavalry charging towards us."

"Strange cavalry? Coming towards us?"

Catalina was a little surprised. "We have four checkpoints ahead of us and more than a dozen marquisates. How could cavalry run to our place? If there is a war, why didn't anyone come to report it?"

"I don't know about this little one..."

Just as Catalina was surprised, a terrified scout covered in blood suddenly ran in from outside the city.

"Get out of the way! Everyone, get out of the way!"

The scout rushed forward, and even Catalina did not dare to stop him.

After watching the other party rush into the palace gate, Catalina hurriedly picked up her skirt and followed. Then, she understood why she had not received any news in the past five days——

She saw that her father's favorite concubine, with a team of eunuchs, stopped the scout who came to report.

The woman took a look at the letter, tore it up, and said, "Another traitor. The world is peaceful, how can there be such troubles? Don't disturb Your Majesty, drag him away and bury him."

The eunuchs took action and easily killed the scout, put him in a sack and sent him to the harem.

Seeing this scene, Catalina felt cold all over.

This woman, how dare she do this?

In such a critical moment, she was still playing palace fighting here? Didn't she know that if she harmed the empire, she would suffer the consequences?

Just as Catalina was furious, a burst of shouting and killing suddenly came from outside the city.

Then, from the palace and the magic sanctuary in the city, several figures flew out and headed towards the city gate.

"The clan elders and the magicians from the holy land have all gone! What happened?"

Catalina's face suddenly changed, and she hurried back to the palace, took the military token, and brought it to the military camp to mobilize troops.

"Everyone follow me!"

Catalina changed into military uniform, rode on the giant beast unique to the planet Lanton, and led the army to the main gate.

When she arrived with her army, what she saw was a scene she would never forget.

The corpses of the soldiers defending the city were scattered all over the ground, the city gate had been broken, and even half of the city wall had been blown down!

It was raining blood. The elders of the Lanton royal family and the magicians of the Holy Land of Magic who had just flown out, their bodies fell from the sky like rags...

And floating in the sky is a dark army!

The general wearing a green-faced, fanged devil mask was in suspended control, with a ball of blood in his hand.

As the thing he built took shape, the blood rain that was originally falling downwards actually flowed upstream and all gathered in his hands.

Just at this moment, his voice rang out.

"These eleven men fought bravely for their country. They were loyal and brave. Their bodies were intact and they were buried with honor."

As his voice rang out, a man in a robe walked out, waved the magic wand in his hand, and directly condensed eleven coffins. He collected all the corpses and buried them underground outside the city wall.

"This, this is a magician!?"

Everything before her was beyond Catalina's understanding.

As the eldest princess of the only empire on the planet Landon, she naturally has some experience.

No matter how powerful the magicians or magic warriors on the planet Landon are, it is impossible for them to gather earth and rocks out of thin air, let alone build them into a coffin with a pattern on it!
Where on earth are these guys from...

and many more.

They won't be...

Catalina had a bad premonition in her heart, and the next moment, her premonition was confirmed!
Alexander looked at the breached city walls and the completely wiped out city defense troops and smiled disdainfully.

When he landed, he saw Catalina coming with her army.

"Oh? There are reinforcements."

"Then let me introduce myself. My name is Alexander, and I am the Great Northern General under the great Black King!"

"You disrespected my king and imprisoned my king's envoy! By my king's order, I will conquer you, destroy your country, and destroy your ancestral temple!"

Alexander shook his head, raised the sword in his hand and pointed it at Catalina, saying, "Forget it, there is no point in talking any more!"

"Suffer to death!"

　Um, I forgot about the anti-crime campaign. This is the second update today.
　　
　
(End of this chapter)