The Mythical Path of a Princess from a Destroyed Kingdom

What's wrong with me? Is it because I haven't been eating more lately?

Closing her eyes and trying to savor the inexplicable sensation, Maginos didn't know why. Just as she was about to force herself to endure it, her brother's voice reached her ears: "Sister..."

The girl suddenly opened her eyes and stood up. She scanned her surroundings but noticed nothing amiss. Just as she was about to sit down again, she heard a voice calling in her ear, "Sister..."

Her heart clenched suddenly, and Maginos looked up at the doorway, realizing that she seemed to have felt this way before.

It seems so, when a loved one was killed.

Realizing this, the girl slightly opened her mouth, inwardly crying out that it was impossible. She walked to the door, trembling as she opened it, her gaze unconsciously drifting towards the alley.

The darkness and rain couldn't obscure her vision at all; she saw it—she saw Walker lying on the ground.

Why is this happening!

"Ah ah ah..."

Her throat was sore that she could no longer speak, just as she had when she saw the corpse of a loved one. In a panic, the younger sister tried to run towards her last remaining relative, but her toe accidentally got caught on the threshold and she fell to the ground.

A disheveled Maginot scrambled to her feet and rushed toward the boy in disbelief. The boy met her gaze and slowly reached out his hand, as if to grasp hers.

Running to Vokri's side, Maginus saw that his brother's body was in a terrible state, covered with scars, and the blood had long since dried up, with only a little black energy leaking out.

“Maggie…I’m sorry…I can’t take you with me…” she said as she left.

"Brother Wang, stop talking! I... I... Let's hurry and find the priest! There's still hope for you!"

The girl, who felt she had grown up a bit, suddenly reverted to being the helpless princess. She hugged her last remaining relative, trying to lift him up and take him to the temple for treatment.

Chapter 42 Falling into the Abyss

In the deserted, rainy night, Maginus lifted Vokri with all her might, disregarding whether they would be discovered by the enemy; she had only one thought in her mind.

We cannot let my brother die.

Walker didn't move, but simply reached out and pressed his hand against the girl's back. His pupils were dilated to their limit, and his body was ice-cold.

“Maggie,” the prince of the fallen kingdom smiled sadly and called out with all his might, “Maggie!... Listen to me.”

Maginos ignored him and tried to drag him forward, but it was all in vain. The boy grabbed the head of his last relative and forced her to look at him.

Their pale red and scarlet eyes met, and the younger sister knelt on the ground, pleading, "Don't leave me, don't leave me."

The older brother stroked his younger sister's cheek, his empty eyes filled with apology: "I'm sorry, I can't take you out anymore. From now on, you'll have to walk your own path."

"But I can't live without you all. I'm stupid, I can't live alone..."

Maginot choked back tears, her face streaked with rain as if she were crying, but no tears actually came out; it was as if she had run out of tears.

"No, you did a great job. You survived without me, didn't you?"

Walker comforted his sister, then noticed that Maggie had somehow regained her former beauty. His expression turned serious, and he pressed his hands tightly against the girl's cheeks.

"Please promise me one thing."

"I'll agree to anything you ask, Brother Wang. Please don't die. Stay by my side."

O light of endless suffering, O goddess of wealth, O suffering soul, whoever he may be, please save him!

The breathless girl could not shed a tear; the excruciating pain in her heart struck again. She begged her brother not to die, but in this rainy night, no god answered her prayers.

The black aura emanating from the wound diminished, and he looked at his still beautiful sister before him, a warm smile appearing on his face.

"Promise me, okay? Don't seek revenge, don't commit suicide, find a way to leave here or hide yourself, and live a good life."

"Take our place, and live well, as long as you're safe...promise me...promise me..."

Walker's voice grew softer and softer, and his words became incoherent. The faces of all his loved ones appeared in his vision, and they all seemed to be waving to him.

"I promise you, I promise you, I will live on... Don't die, brother, please..."

His hands slid from the girl's cheeks; Maginus grabbed one hand and pressed it to her face, pleading incessantly. Walker, still smiling, tried to stroke her hair with his other hand, leaving behind his final words: "Maggie, we are all..."

“Love you, Lingmeng Wuyini Baba.) Abandoned Lily 1.”

The last trace of black energy dissipated from the wound. Walker opened his eyes and stopped speaking. He tried to place his hand on his head, but instead slammed it into the muddy road, completely losing his ability to move.

Watching her last remaining loved one die before her eyes, the girl's face went blank, and after a long while, her hands also fell to the ground.

There were no screams, no wails; she sat quietly in the rain like a soulless puppet.

Without fear or anger, her heart sank deeper into emptiness and despair, where there were no positive emotions, only nothingness and hopelessness.

Drops of crimson liquid dripped from Maginos's face; it was blood flowing from her eyes, which had never produced tears.

At this moment, only Maginus Imperius remained of the Imperius royal family.

Five hours have passed.

Two hours passed.

Three hours passed.

On the streets where only the sound of rain remained, a lantern wandered through the slums, its restless sound echoing in the rain.

"What a hassle, having to patrol even in this heavy rain."

"What, you want to go to the Wang family cemetery to fight the undead? Then you can go."

"Then patrolling is still the best option. Sigh, why don't those former royal members, Maginus and Walker, just die already? They've even created so many undead creatures."

"Stop complaining. Maybe we can find their trail. Capturing those two would be a great achievement."

"But we were assigned to the slums..."

As the view drew closer, two soldiers carrying lanterns came into view. They and others were ordered to patrol the slums in pairs to better locate the royal siblings.

They chatted with each other while holding umbrellas, casually glancing at every corner of the street. When they passed a small alley, the soldiers near the alley glanced at them as usual and prepared to leave, but stopped after taking only a few steps.

Seeing this, his teammates turned around and asked, "Hey, what's wrong?"

There seems to be someone in the alley.

The soldier pointed to the alley and gestured. His teammates frowned as they listened. "It's raining so hard, and people are still getting soaked outside. Something's definitely wrong."

They took a few steps back and stared intently at the kneeling figure. Gripping their longswords, they cautiously approached. One of them raised his lantern to illuminate the alley, allowing them to see the situation inside.

A thin, short-haired beggar was kneeling on the ground. He swayed slightly, whether from the wind or the light. Beside him lay a man covered in wounds, whose tattered clothes still gave him a certain air of importance.

The two of them remained motionless, as if they were completely dead.

"Hey, what are you doing here?"

Sensing something was amiss, the soldier stopped his teammate from advancing. The two stood at the edge of the alley, calling out to each other, while the teammate stared at the face of the person lying on the ground, finding it increasingly familiar.

The soldier who quickly noticed the suspicious detail suddenly had a look of wild joy on his face. He tugged at the other man's clothes and said in a low voice that he could barely contain himself, "Don't you think the one lying on the ground looks familiar?"

The soldiers who hadn't noticed yet looked over and quickly frowned. The first one to notice tightened his umbrella and shouted, "Walker Imperis!!"

The man who was slow to realize what was happening immediately widened his eyes and showed the same expression as his companion. Although he didn't know that Walker Imperius would be lying here, even if he was dead, bringing him back would be a great achievement.

The only thing that made them wary was the identity of the little brat kneeling beside him, but driven by profit, all other questions were forgotten.

"Wait, could it be Maginus Imperius kneeling there?!"

The man holding the umbrella spoke again, and the two men's eyes became greedy and fanatical. They moved closer, and one of them tentatively called out, "Hey, are any of you still alive?"

Hearing the shout, the kneeling "corpse" finally reacted, turning its head to look at the two soldiers. Its lifeless eyes startled them.

Chapter 43 is broken.

Maginus stared blankly at the two soldiers not far from her, remaining motionless, her mind racing.

If I get caught now, I'll probably die with my brother and never have to suffer again, right?

Don't seek revenge... just live well...

Walker's dying words echoed in his ears, and the fire of resentment that had been covered by the ashes of despair in his heart quietly reignited.

The same old questions kept replaying in Maginos's mind.

Why must they suffer this calamity? Why must she endure all of this?

The girl's lips twitched, and the veins on her neck bulged outwards. The two soldiers were startled by her sudden ferocious expression and immediately reached for the hilt of their swords at their waists.

Maginus's hands moved faster to her waist, and with a swing of her left arm, a dark shadow was cast toward the two soldiers. The soldiers immediately turned to the side to try to dodge, but she was not aiming at their bodies, but at the lantern that illuminated the night!

A shattering sound rang out as the thrown dagger broke the lantern, striking one of the candles. It slowly flipped over from the cut, falling through the gap in the lantern and gently landing on the muddy pavement.

The only light source on the street disappeared, and everything was plunged into pitch-black darkness. The soldiers, unable to see anything, panicked instinctively, immediately discarding their umbrellas and useless lanterns and drawing their longswords to prepare for the impending attack.

clap clap clap...

The sound of footsteps in the water rang out in front of them, and the soldiers could even imagine the skinny guy rushing towards them, so they began to swing their swords forward recklessly.

Maginus did indeed charge toward the two men, her expression like that of a wild beast. At that moment, she was thinking of nothing but killing the two soldiers in front of her!

Kill them!

As they began wildly slashing through the alley, Maginus showed no sign of stopping. Her path veered off course, and she crouched down against the wall just before she reached the soldiers.

She pressed her empty left hand to the ground, leaned forward, her thin, seemingly powerless legs tensed, her scarlet pupils looked as if they were about to bleed, and the faint outlines of two soldiers appeared before her dark eyes.

Ignoring why she could vaguely see things, the girl took advantage of the enemy's panic and blindness, keeping her body as low as possible, and rushed towards the corner of the wall that they were wildly swinging and could hardly hit!

Kill them!

The soldiers felt the splashing water pause for a moment, then there was an even louder sound than before. Immediately afterwards, one of them felt that the longsword he was wildly swinging had hit something in the corner of the wall.

He instinctively looked towards the corner of the wall, and a dazzling white light suddenly flashed by. The darkness was illuminated by lightning in an instant, and the soldier saw that a beast ready to devour its prey had come to his side.

What a gaze it was! Beneath the brutality, anger, and resentment lay absolute cold-bloodedness and ruthlessness.

Boom!

Thunder rumbled, and before he could react, Maginus, who was in the corner, lunged at him, her dagger already piercing the soldier's waist and penetrating deep into his kidney!

The girl twisted the hilt to widen the wound, pulled out the dagger, and continued running forward. She picked up another dagger from the ground and threw it at the leg of the uninjured soldier. Only after running out of the attack range did she turn around immediately.

Everything happened in an instant. The pain from his kidneys forced the soldier to clutch his lower back. The extreme pain prevented him from making a sound, while the pain in his legs caused another soldier to let out a short howl.

The blurry outline had vanished, and Maginos, unable to see anything, strained to listen for the location of the wounded soldier, while taking deep breaths to alleviate the weakness brought on by the sudden outburst.

Lightning flashed through the alley once more, and a longsword slashed a gash across the girl's waist, revealing flesh but not damaging her internal organs, yet she felt no pain.

No, she felt it, but the pain felt "wonderful" to her. She wanted it to hurt more, because only in this way could she alleviate the pain of her broken heart.

"Hiss~..."

With a long breath, she inhaled a few drops of rainwater. As Maginus prepared to erupt once more, a faint outline appeared before her eyes again.

With a whooshing sound, the dagger sliced ​​through the rain and was thrown at the soldier with a leg injury. Hearing the whooshing sound, the soldier endured the pain and forcefully turned to the side to dodge the dagger, while at the same time thrusting his longsword toward the spot in front of him where the sound of water splashing had come from.

Maginus easily dodged his feeble counterattack, pushed away the soldier's hand holding the longsword with her left hand, and raised her dagger to stab at his neck!

The dagger plunged into her neck. The girl pulled it out, blood splattering on her face. Without pausing, she walked to the immobilized soldier and delivered another blow to his neck.

Old Velen's feeling was right. The princess, who had never killed anything before, mastered combat skills on her own after less than a month of basic training, without any instruction from anyone.

With her lightning-fast thinking, she analyzes the optimal solution, extinguishes the light source when they are off guard, and launches a surprise attack in the darkness to severely damage the enemy. Her killing is efficient and concise, as if she was born with it.

After dealing with the enemy, Maginos slowly rose, lightning flashing continuously. Covered in blood, she stood in the rain like a monster, her expression a mixture of laughter and tears.

She slowly raised her head, rain pattering against her face, her pain and despair slowly transforming into the exhilaration of killing her enemy.

Hahaha... Hahahaha!

After dropping the two daggers, Maginus walked to the body of Walker and knelt down again, pressing her hands to her face, trying to close her clenched mouth and smooth the sneer on her face.

She laughed silently, but there was no joy in her laughter.

Her heart was still filled with the ashes of despair and grief, but beneath these ashes, the seeds of resentment and tyranny, nourished by the blood of two soldiers, finally broke through her sense of emptiness and self-destruction.

She's completely broken.

"Yes, I want to live a good life."

A shrill voice came from Maginot's mouth, and she repeated it in a low, siren-like voice:

"Father, Mother, Brother... I will definitely live well, and then kill all my enemies, and all their relatives and friends."

If she loses her purpose in life, she can just kill. Whether she dies on the road to revenge or finally gets her revenge, she can feel happy and joyful.

Fresh blood flowed from the recently deceased corpse, but it was not completely washed away by the heavy rain. Crimson mist rose from the blood and continuously poured into Maginus's body, which was kneeling on the ground, making his withered body look more like a normal person.

The two corpses decayed at an extremely rapid pace, eventually turning to ashes along with their flesh and bones, which were then washed away by the rain and disappeared.

The feeling of fullness in her body brought Maginot back to her senses. She finally realized this and gently raised her hand to look at the scarlet mist swirling around her fingertips.