My Endless Life.

Chapter 618 Martial Artist

Above the auditorium was the space where many important figures resided.

The Queen and her ministers were all suspended on the upper anti-gravity platform.

Because the auditorium has no roof and the top is open, you can see what's below even from a very high place.

Logically speaking, when Elena and her men sealed off the hall, the ministers above should have reacted.

But in reality, the 'viewing platform' above was captured even faster than the auditorium.

The reason lies with that second prince.

"This is truly..." The Empress remained seated on her throne, wearing a golden-red crown and holding a golden staff that resembled a scepter, topped with a red gem, making it look like a magic staff.

Gazing at the crowd divided into two groups, the Queen's smile remained unchanged as she softly said:

"Although I anticipated some betrayal, I never expected... that half of them would betray me. I remember some of them weren't your subordinates, Grisis?"

As the queen spoke, she turned her gaze to the leader of the crowd.

The young man who resembled the Empress but appeared far more sinister was the Second Prince, Grisis.

Grisis, dressed in a white gown with blue patterns, stood there with the same elegance as the Queen.

He held a decorative cane in his hand, which stood upright on the ground. He placed his palms on the top of the cane and looked up at the queen, who was still sitting on the throne.

Upon hearing the other person mention himself, Grisis smiled and said:
“My eldest brother is too cowardly. In recent years, he has neglected those who are loyal to him in order to break through to higher levels. So it is not surprising that these people have sought a wise ruler elsewhere.”

“Grisis, a subject who betrays you repeatedly cannot be trusted. I think you should know this.”

"No, no, no, they just found someone more worthy of their loyalty, so it doesn't count as betrayal."

Grissez smiled, raised his right hand, and wagged his index finger.

Seeing this, the Empress's smile deepened. Her smile was as gentle as when Li Qi had seen her, but the words she uttered had nothing to do with gentleness:
"Shouldn't the person you should be most loyal to be me? A mediocre person who can't even understand this should just kill himself."

The Queen emphasized the word 'suicide'.

The ministers who had defected from the First Prince's side panicked instantly, and one of them quickly looked at the Second Prince:

"Second...Second Prince! We betrayed the First Prince for your sake, you can't just abandon us!"

"..."

The man's words made Grisis's lips twitch involuntarily.

That's true, but to say it directly in public is a bit thoughtless.

The Queen was right; these people were truly incompetent and unable to read the situation.

However, there was nothing that could be done; although there were many ministers participating in the wedding, there weren't actually as many as one might have imagined.

The empire encompassed a third of the universe, a vast territory with tens of thousands of important officials.

Even if we only count those officials who hold titles such as duke, earl, or viscount, there are at least several thousand of them.

Of course, not all of the thousands of people could come to celebrate the Ninth Princess's wedding; at most, only a few dozen could attend.

Although most of these dozens of people were important ministers of the state, these ministers were all on the Empress's side. Apart from the Minister of Transportation who was on the Second Prince's side, most of the other officials who were on the Second Prince's side did not hold very important positions.

Therefore, in order to boost his own morale, the Second Prince used both threats and inducements to recruit many people to his side.

But with so many people not having been vetted, their abilities are bound to vary greatly. That's not a big deal, though; we can always find a way to gradually weed them out later.

But who would have thought that there really was a guy here who would blurt out everything when something happened?

Grisis was somewhat displeased with the minister who had spoken, but since he was one of his own, Grisis had no choice but to tap his cane.

thump.

Invisible ripples spread forward from the cane, seemingly colliding with something, and a gale blew outwards from that point.

“Your Majesty, he is, after all, my subject. How to deal with him should be up to me.”

Grisseth raised his head and addressed the Queen.

The Empress's smile remained, even more gentle than before. She tilted her head slightly and said softly:

"That's true, after all, you've grown up... but—"

At this point, the Empress, her face beaming with smiles, turned to the ministers who had betrayed the First Prince and said softly:

"No one can change my orders, so please commit suicide."

The Queen's calm words seemed to carry some kind of power, instantly breaking through the barrier created by Grisis's staff!

A gentle breeze caressed the people she had ordered to commit suicide. They paused for a moment, then each drew their own weapon and plunged it into their own bodies.

Pfft!

Blood splattered on the spot, and several bodies fell to the ground, lifeless.

They lost not only their physical lives, but also their consciousness, which was equivalent to their souls being scattered!
Seeing that his few followers had all turned into corpses lying in pools of blood, Grisis's expression turned ugly. His smile vanished, creating a stark contrast with the still smiling Queen.

A cold voice came from his mouth: "Your Majesty, do you seem to think you have victory in your grasp?"

"Oh? Aren't you the one rebelling today? You should have been prepared for everything, right?"

The Queen was not in a hurry at all, and looked at Grisis with a smile, as if she were looking at a naughty child.

But this look only fueled Grisis's anger. His elegant expression vanished, replaced by a grim one. He then pointed to the sky:
"Yes, Your Majesty, I have prepared everything." As soon as he finished speaking, countless warships suddenly appeared in the sky.

The inscriptions on the silver-white warships revealed their identities.

Fuxing Society.

"The Revival Society? That's not enough."

The Empress's smile remained unchanged.

Grissith stared intently at her: "Then...what about adding this one?"

As soon as he finished speaking, a thick, ten-meter-long metal silver needle appeared out of thin air and fell towards the Empress's head!
The silver needle, made of some unknown material, broke through several layers of protection around the Empress in an instant and arrived at the top of her head in the blink of an eye!

The Queen remained motionless, her eyes still fixed on Grisis, but just as the silver needle was about to pierce her crown, it was caught by a hand.

It was called a 'needle', but it was actually a metal object that looked like a huge stick, held in a slender hand.

The Empress glanced to the side and smiled slightly at the person beside her: "Lady Zelia, I'm entrusting her to you."

"Ah."

Zelia's expression remained unchanged as she vanished from beside the Queen in an instant.

The Queen then looked at Grisis:

"The pantheon of the darkest star sea, well, it is indeed a very strong aid, but... it's not enough."

"What if I were added to the list?" A magnetic male voice rang out from the platform.

The nameless man, dressed in a silver-white knight's outfit and wearing a mask, stood before the Queen.

He simply stood there, and the Queen's smile vanished; that gentle smile that had been hanging there disappeared without a trace in the blink of an eye.

The empress turned to the nameless one, gazing at him silently for a long time without uttering a word.

……

"The control room... seems deserted?"

Meanwhile, Sophie, who had sneaked into the control room, frowned as she looked at the sparsely populated room.

Li Qi touched the helmet on his chin and asked:

Do you know what the control room looks like?

"..."

Sophie remained silent.

Li Qi also remained silent.

The two of them were the kind of people who didn't have much contact with the grassroots level. Moreover, Sophie was a mecha pilot, and although Li Qi was once a mechanic, he switched to something else midway through his career. Therefore, the two of them didn't really know much about how the floating city's control system worked.

Perhaps... the central control room is unmanned?
Or perhaps it doesn't need anyone else to control it at all?

What about the knights fighting on the road they passed by?

Li Qi didn't quite understand, and was about to go with Sophie to find the control system in the main control room when suddenly, their expressions changed at the same time.

Sophie reacted even faster. She ran to Li Qi and hugged him. At the same time, she put on her special mecha. The golden mecha hugged Li Qi and was lifted off the spot in the blink of an eye!
Then there was a loud bang.

The spot where the two had been standing suddenly shattered, and the broken metal and the dust that rose up obscured the view.

When the smoke cleared, the two saw a martial artist dressed in simple martial arts clothes, with a spiky hairstyle and a red bandage on his head, looking like he had stepped out of an arcade game, crouching in the huge crater in the center of the smoke.

Clearly, this is a martial arts practitioner.

"Oh, it actually dodged it? It's only a sixth-tier... Tsk, that's really unfair."

The martial artist raised his head, revealing a face with chiseled features.

His tone was tinged with jealousy and resentment, and his expression was slightly distorted as he looked at Sophiuna, who was dressed in mecha.

Clearly, he is another pure martial arts practitioner who despises mechs and machines.

"A seventh-tier martial artist?"

Sophiuna discerned the opponent's level of strength. She set Li Qi down and shielded him behind her, her words cold and sharp:
Are you all alone here?

"Of course not." The martial artist spoke his mind: "This place is so important, how could I be the only one here, but..."

His voice suddenly intensified, and he vanished from his spot in an instant. When he reappeared, he had already raised his leg high towards Sophiuna:
"—I'm enough to deal with you all by myself!"

As the martial artist spoke, his leg struck down with lightning speed!
boom! ! !
The metal mecha clashed with the flesh and blood of the martial artist, and the impact of the collision caused Li Qi to involuntarily take a few steps back.

There is a suppression above the Imperial Star, so neither mecha pilots nor martial artists can use moves that are as powerful as the laws of heaven and earth.

Even so, their punches and kicks were genuine seventh-level attacks!
"Is Sophie about to break through?"

From the impact of their exchange, Li Qi discerned Sophiuna's current bottleneck. He was no longer worried about Sophiuna fighting a seventh-level martial artist, but instead turned his attention to the depths of the control room.

It's not that there's no one here; it's just that apart from the guards in the outer passage, everyone here is an elite. There are probably a few seventh-tier experts, and maybe even some eighth-tier experts.

But they're not here right now, so they must be in that room deep inside the control room.

And barring any unforeseen circumstances, that is the true core of the entire floating city!
With that in mind, Li Qi quietly crept towards that spot.

(End of this chapter)