Heart of the Castle

Chapter 527 War Burns the City, Death God's Scythe

When the sky in the north of the royal capital was dyed blood red by the flames that soared into the sky, Queen Liraya, the widow of Arthur XII, stood quietly behind the long windows of the Ash Fortress, holding on to the beautifully carved railings, Staring at the sky thoughtfully.The majestic Sir Magellan was wearing the gray heavy armor of the Knight of the Iron Guard, standing silently behind Her Majesty the Queen Mother, holding the helmet engraved with the coat of arms of the double swords and crown in his hands.

"It seems that the battle at the north gate is not going well. I'm afraid you underestimated the fighting determination and strength of the northern coalition forces after the loss of Levi Ston, right?" Queen Mother Lilaya withdrew her gaze from the window, and pointed out in a calm tone .

"It is in the hands of His Royal Highness the Prince Regent," replied Sir Magellan. "Although the northern coalition forces have a slight upper hand now, the capital of Fermeyer is not so easy to be breached. After the arrangement of His Royal Highness the Prince Regent is fully launched, none of them will be able to escape."

"Is everything under control?" Queen Mother Lilaya's mouth slightly outlined a charming smile, and she squinted at Sir Magellan. "Including what happened in the oath square?"

"Your Majesty, did something happen in the Oath Square?" Sir Magellan asked with some confusion, "His Royal Highness placed all the jailers of the Dreadfort there, a total of 500 people, and the person who commanded them was a ruthless kingdom enforcer. That is, Marquis Edwin Reeves, who has a feud with Li Wei... Could it be that such a careful arrangement can't deal with a young boy whose magical power has been imprisoned by the fire magician?"

"It seems that you don't know yet..." Queen Mother Lilaya's smile became even more alluring. Even with Sir Magellan's hard heart, she still dared not look directly at her. "Forget it, what's the situation with the Regent?" He heard Her Majesty the Queen Mother continue to ask, "Hasn't the fire magician cleaned up that housekeeper yet?"

Sir Magellan subconsciously twirled his mustache, which had been carefully maintained and trimmed into an upturned look. "Your Excellency the Fire Magician has not yet won the final victory, but he has already gained the upper hand in the magic confrontation. That housekeeper is hard to fly," his voice deliberately remained calm, but Queen Mother Lilaya still tasted uneasiness from it.

"Your report 10 minutes ago was overwhelming. It sounds like nothing has changed now?" Queen Mother Lilaya's voice contained only a slight sarcasm. Sir Magellan couldn't even tell whether it was intentional or unintentional. coincide.

"Your Majesty, I don't know much about the mysterious power of magic, but..."

An earth-shattering thunderbolt exploded, as if right next to his ears, the ground of the Ash Fortress seemed to be shaken, and dust fell from the ceiling. "Father God, what happened?" Sir Magellan's expression changed suddenly, he walked quickly to the window, and leaned out half of his body to look out.

A dazzling electric light soared into the sky, followed by a figure wrapped in a mass of flames. The two entangled and collided with each other, bursting out golden red and blue-white light spots, which looked like a magnificent scene of falling stars.The speed of the electric light is so fast that it is difficult to catch it with the eyes all the time, and the speed of the fireball is not inferior in comparison, or even surpassed.It's just that when turning the direction, the fireball was a little stagnant, so no matter what, there was no way to intercept the swift and agile lightning.

"The fireball behind is Lord Juno Ameriste, the fire wizard!" Sir Magellan rubbed his eyes in disbelief, and exclaimed with a horrified expression, "What is that flash of lightning in front...could it be Li? The old butler under Weston?"

Queen Mother Lilaya narrowed her eyes slightly to cover up the flash of surprise in her eyes.She had seen a description of this old butler from the information passed by Manager Bamili Yang. This old butler named Frederick should be a great magician or magister with extraordinary strength, but with Sir Rodriguez, who is as powerful as the Earl of Sword, is also unknown, which also makes the original shallow life experience of the Griffon Lord confusing.

Queen Mother Lilaya thought of far more than the information above. She even guessed that the magician named Frederick might be more powerful than the surface, but no matter what, she never thought that he could match the famous magician. The fire magician fought head-on, and it didn't seem like he was even losing the wind.

The lightning and fireball collided violently again, the roar was deafening, and a large canopy of light spots splashed and collapsed in all directions. The appearance of these light spots was magnificent and magnificent, but actually hidden a terrible crisis.Since this collision was located obliquely above the right side of the Citadel of Ashes, many spots of light fell on the solid gray rock, unexpectedly making a violent hissing sound and emitting a large amount of blue smoke.

Sir Magellan withdrew his head as fast as he could, then turned to Queen Lillaya and said, "Your Majesty, I think we should leave here immediately."

"Are you going to continue this farce, Sir Magellan?" Queen Mother Lilaya said unceremoniously to the Knights of the Iron Guard, "Everything is under control? No matter how well prepared you are, from Grand Duke Raul Since the time when the fire magician was entangled by the old butler, everything is out of control, right? The duty of the iron guard knights was originally to protect the safety of the palace and His Majesty the king, and the post is in the Ashes Fortress. Now you want to Where are you going?"

"Your Majesty, this place has become unsafe." Sir Magellan said with a stiff expression, "There are too few people protecting the palace now, and His Excellency the Marquis Osiris, the sky knight, has fallen into the camp of the Northern Alliance Army, so I suggest that Your Majesty He and His Majesty the King are temporarily taking shelter at the mansion of His Highness the Regent, the guards of the Grand Duke’s mansion and the guards of the palace must gather together to ensure safety, not to mention..."

"What's more, the safety of His Royal Highness the Regent is more important than that, isn't it?" The Queen Mother Lilaya smiled and took it for him, then the smile disappeared, and a cold sarcasm appeared on her face, "Sir Magellan, you are really serious. He is a loyal and good man, but it is a pity that the object of allegiance is not His Majesty the King, but the Grand Duke Raul Adams!"

A thin layer of sweat appeared on Sir Magellan's forehead in an instant. The expression of the iron guard knight became a little distorted, and the veins on his forehead were exposed. His hand subconsciously grasped the hilt of the sword tightly. So that the body is trembling slightly.

"Your Majesty, you have misunderstood." Sir Magellan defended himself, "His Royal Highness is now in charge of the kingdom, and we Iron Guard Knights must fully cooperate with him to better protect the safety of His Majesty..."

"I'm afraid I didn't misunderstand anything." Queen Mother Lilaya bluntly interrupted his defense, "Sir Magellan, what did Grand Duke Raul do, and those people gathered around him may not be a secret to me. .My eyes see farther and deeper than you can imagine, but most of the time, I can't speak clearly."

"My loyalty to His Majesty the King..."

"Now you can go to your true loyal master, Sir Magellan, but you are the only one, and there must be no one guard in the palace." Queen Lilaya waved her hand impatiently. She looked at the windows that exploded from time to time The heavy rain of light, his face looked cloudy and uncertain, but his voice was as cold as ice. "As for the safety of His Majesty the King, you don't need to worry about it. I know the character of the Griffin Lord better than you. As long as he is not mad, he will not take this place as the target of attack."

"...Your Majesty the Empress Dowager!" Sir Magellan's face turned blue with anger, but when the Empress Dowager Lilaya turned around and looked at him with cold and stern eyes, the raging anger that filled the chest of the Knights of the Iron Guards was not It melted as quickly as ice and snow under the hot summer sun. "Understood, then I will follow your instructions... Your Majesty the Queen Mother, please be careful, I will take my leave."

As soon as the words fell, the iron guard knight hurriedly bowed to Lilaya's chest, and then walked quickly to the stairs leading down, pulling out the saber at his waist while walking.

Listening to the sound of clanging steel boots fading away, Queen Mother Lilaya turned her eyes to the sky outside the window again, but this time there was a hint of sarcasm in her eyes, and the voice that came out of her mouth was like raving, subtle Almost only she can hear it.

"What a stupid human being, the self-righteous griffin and the sinister poisonous snake, which side will be the final victor? Hee hee hee, I'm really looking forward to it..."

The magical confrontation in the sky became more intense. The fireball launched a series of fierce impacts on the electric light, and the heat wave overflowed, melting the snow on the tops of many high towers in the capital into water, which dripped down along the eaves.And the electric light responded with a dexterous circulation and hovering, turning most of the attacks into invisible, and only occasionally counterattacked.It seems that the fireball has the upper hand, and the lightning that chases it can only wander in all directions, but the two sides who are fighting don't think so.

The fire wizard Juno Ameriste is very convinced that the old butler he is facing now is the most difficult opponent in his life.In order to obtain the secrets of Li Weiston, and for the agreement with Grand Duke Raul, the fire magician has already taken out his trump card at the bottom of the box at all costs.

This trump card is not complicated to say. The fire magician used a kind of alchemy secret method to construct an energy circulation channel between himself and the magic pool of the Archmage Tower, allowing him to extract the magic power accumulated in the magic pool to his heart's content.After making such preparations, it can be said that the magic power of the great magister Jono Ann Merister is almost endless, even compared with those magicians who have entered the legendary realm, the total amount of magic power will not be obvious. slightly weaker.With his inexhaustible reserves of magic power and skilled spellcasting skills, the fire magician even has the confidence to deal with three great magisters of the same level at the same time.

However, Frederick's butler's performance surprised him greatly.

It was not unexpected that the teleportation circle was seen through.After all, although this magic is cumbersome to set up and concealed enough, once it is activated, it will never be hidden from the eyes of a magister.It is not surprising that his invisibility barrier was removed, because although this magic looks quite magical, it is not considered a high-level magic, and a magister has plenty of ways to solve it.The fire magician even watched calmly as Butler Frederick destroyed the magic in the final stage of the teleportation, cutting himself and Levi Stone.

He had every chance to prevent such a thing from happening, but he hesitated before making the move.Time flies, the bluish-white light fragments of the teleportation circle dissipate, and then violent space shocks strike. The sky and the earth seem to be reversed countless times in an instant, making people feel dizzy and terrifying.

A crimson protective mask emerged from the fire magician's body, and the flames flew up and rolled up, shielding all the power of space vibration outside, and could not hurt his body in the slightest.The old magician who claimed to be Frederick's butler also put up a protective mask, but it was a blue light with a hint of chill.

Only Grand Duke Raul was more unlucky. Although he used the power of grudge to protect his body, it was far from the convenience of magic power.When the shock in the space finally stopped, Grand Duke Raul staggered back a few steps, covered his chest and coughed a few times after standing still, raised his head again, and a streak of bright red blood slowly flowed from the corner of his mouth.

"Your Excellency Fire Demon, please kill him immediately, kill this man!" Grand Duke Raul said hoarsely.

"Raul Adams, you have no right to give me orders!" Juno Ann Merister raised her fiery red eyebrows, and replied unceremoniously.Then he turned to Butler Frederick, who was removing the blue mask. "Major Frederick, shall we begin now? Or can we have a good talk first?"

Butler Frederick raised his right hand expressionlessly. He didn't chant any spells at all. A ball of dazzling lightning appeared in his palm, and then a thunderbolt exploded across the air, shooting straight at the flames. The chest of the magician.

A smile mixed with disdain and excitement appeared on Fire Magician's face, his hands slowly closed in front of his chest, two red rays of light appeared on both sides of the ball of lightning, and then squeezed towards the middle.When the hands of the fire magician were tightly closed, the two red rays of light also merged on the electric light, and accompanied by a roar, they were annihilated invisibly together.

What followed was a magical confrontation between the two magicians. This confrontation was originally expected by the fire magician. He also planned to take this opportunity to find out some unique spellcasting methods of Butler Frederick.However, just after the fight, the fire magician had to be taken aback.

The magic power on Steward Frederick's body was obviously far inferior to his, but the technique he used was unbelievably subtle.Every gesture and movement he made seemed uncomplicated, and the magic he cast was also very ordinary, but it happened to be able to restrain the high-level magic cast by the fire magician.Monster phantoms, magnificent lightning and fire, and magical energy full of destructive power neutralize and repel each other. Huge ice guns fall from the sky with a flash of cold light, and swirling pillars of fire roll up black smoke into the sky. Loud noises and suffocating winds.

The fire magician's confidence in victory declined rapidly in the magical confrontation with Butler Frederick, from a slight disdain at the beginning, to a correct attitude after a few rounds of magic being transferred and suppressed, to the next all-out effort... The fire magician's attitude has undergone three full-scale changes, but he still can't take advantage of Butler Frederick.

The battle between the two magicians was even more intense than the battle between the two knight orders. Although Archduke Raul had the strength of a viscount with a sword, his actual combat experience and courage were far inferior to those experienced knights. The meaning of helping the fire magician, but under the pressure of the aftermath of magic energy, he retreated step by step, almost leaving the battlefield.His cowardly approach almost twisted the nose of the fire magician, and there were slight flaws in two consecutive spells, which made Steward Frederick take the opportunity to counterattack. He was swallowed up in it.

"Lord of the Elements, I can't go on like this!" the Grand Magister Juno Anmerist muttered to himself. He was surprised to find that he had already lost a bit in the magic confrontation. Steward Terry's counterattack. "Since I'm a bit inferior in the way of casting spells, I can use my own advantages to make up for it."

Thinking of this, the fire magician suddenly let out a roar, and flames erupted from his eyes, mouth, nose, ears, and every pore, making his whole body seem to be bathed in flames.

It seemed that the fire magician had been swallowed by raging flames, but Butler Frederick had a solemn expression on his face, which was an expression he didn't show when the magic confrontation was the most intense just now. "Fire Elemental Fit?" There was subtle vigilance in his voice, ten fingers made a series of dazzling gestures, and then chanted a unique mantra for the first time.

"Extend your fingers, weave icy threads, soaked in death!"

The instant dark blue light was so dazzling that Grand Duke Raul had to turn his head away. "Your Excellency Merister!" He couldn't help but screamed, but when the light disappeared and his sight was restored, the flames surrounding the fire magician's body remained unchanged, as if those ice rays had never appeared at all. .

"Sure enough, it's this kind of physique. It seems that it will take a lot of work." Butler Frederick shook his head, his body shook suddenly, and then the clothes of the handsome butler turned into pieces of flying ash, and the buttocks exposed under the clothes It was not the haggard body of an old man, but a crystal clear white skeleton with strands of tiny lightning coiled around it!
"Thunder Elemental Fusion Body!" The voice of the fire magician was somewhat hard to conceal, "And you are not a human being, but an exalted lich!"

(End of this chapter)