The Mythical Path of a Princess from a Destroyed Kingdom

"Still no way to contact the outside world?"

Susan turned away from the balcony and went to the captain of the palace guard to inquire about the situation. The captain couldn't help but shake his head. As a high-level professional, he actually showed fear and apprehension towards the unknown, gasping and shaking his head.

"No, all magic capable of transmitting messages and intelligence cannot leave the palace by more than 500 meters; it can only spread within the palace walls. The people I sent out..."

The captain was pale, as if he had seen something strange: "None of the men I sent out have come back. They all stopped contacting me after walking more than 500 meters away, and walked further and further away with strange smiles on their faces."

The entire palace was turned into an isolated island, where no messages could be sent out and no information could be sent in. The sense of isolation made everyone feel uneasy. Some spellcasters tried to resolve the situation, but the final result was that there were no problems.

There were no unusual energy fluctuations in the area 500 meters from the palace walls; everything was normal, almost too normal. People would enter without any problems at first, but once they walked far away and around the corners of the streets, the explorers would completely disappear.

Not many people could do this; it must have been Maginus's doing, just to see their expressions of despair.

Holding the sword gave her courage. Susan worried about her family and her mother, and returned to the main hall to watch Whitney direct everyone to continue building the magic circle.

The enormous array has been completed, and the evil aura emanating from certain items has been contained within the magic, awaiting the moment it will be activated.

A priest hidden in a black robe stood beside Whitney, extending his long, withered fingers to give instructions. The blue-haired woman closed her eyes to sense the immense danger posed by the magic circle.

Just as she was about to speak, the urgent alarm sounded, startling everyone. The fear priest, dressed in black robes, immediately hid behind the throne.

The alarm sounds are different, and they represent different things. This urgent sound means that the most dangerous thing has arrived.

Maginus Imperius, here we come.

With a light touch, Maginus lifted the seal on the palace that had fallen behind and strode towards it. The squad members following behind her stood in place, waiting. Due to their captain's instructions, they had no intention of following and could only watch from afar.

Chapter 712 Two Stray Dogs

The enormous palace came into view, and Maginus walked inside, gently rubbing the hilt of her sword with her palm. The "Blood Gathering" sword, which had once been her protector, seemed to sense that the person who had abandoned it was close at hand, and the flower bud on the hilt rotated slightly, as if it was about to bloom.

With each step she took forward, her body shrank a little. Her already small body, created based on the blood lake, became even smaller. All the negative emotions that had been sealed inside surged out, covering Maginus, who had returned to her petite form, with a layer of black and red flames.

"Open the door."

Standing before the gate, she looked up at the palace gate, signaling for everyone to open it. The loyal guards did not respond, and countless arrows shot towards her, each one creating a violent gust of wind. The assault team standing in the distance even had to activate their defenses.

"Nizmor's elite forces are all in the palace, just to fight against one person."

The warriors marveled, while the spellcasters were unsurprised, instinctively inhaling and exhaling as they watched the figure gradually emerge from the smoke and dust.

"You've got it wrong. The one in front of us isn't human."

The attack and suppression lasted for five minutes. The rangers, having exhausted their arrows and magic power, leaned against the palace walls, panting and staring at the smoke and dust. When the smoke and dust cleared, Maginus, completely unharmed, was standing in the middle.

The flames on her body showed no sign of extinguishing. She symbolically patted her clothes, which were free of dust, looked up at the wandering knights, and lightly snapped her fingers. The blood in everyone's bodies immediately surged and wanted to burst out.

Upon seeing this, the rangers immediately inserted a needle into their bodies. Maginus could sense that some of their needles contained specially diluted negative energy, while others contained magic with barrier properties.

As the injections flowed into their bodies, their life force was imbued with negative energy or magic, barely forming a protective layer, presumably to test which method could resist her ability to draw blood from their bodies.

Maginus knew that negative energy was not an option, as guiding life force never relied on life force itself, but on psychic energy. However, magic with blocking properties could effectively resist and control it.

It's a pity that that only applies to the efforts of ordinary professionals.

With another snap of his fingers, the rangers who had blocked the attack on the city wall suddenly swelled to several times their original size, then exploded, the energy injected into their bodies dissipating into the air, and blood splattered all over the ground.

Instead of absorbing the life force, she swung her sword at the city gate a few times. The dazzling silver light lingered in the air, and the air waves rolled around. Several sword marks appeared on the palace gate and walls, and the defense that had been painstakingly built was easily broken.

Both the defensive magic and the materials used in its creation are top-notch; even a legendary figure would have to put in some effort. Maginus simply made it look too easy.

"This is a god."

Some people remarked that they didn't know that the person standing there was just an incarnation.

Upon entering the city, countless spells imbued with negative effects rained down, along with negative energy spells that caused direct damage. Maginos remained calm, inserting her sword into the ground and gently twisting it, causing a crimson wave to spread outward from her center.

All the spells froze in mid-air, colliding with the life force and psychic energy. All the energy contained within was completely consumed by the two, thus rendering them unable to have any effect on the girl.

"If that's all they've got, they might as well all die."

As Maginus drew her Blood Gathering Blade, her fingertips tapped the blade, sending sound waves and unique spiritual energy radiating outwards, along with crimson and purplish-black spiritual energy.

Fear aura, killing aura.

The two spiritual energies mixed together and spread out, merging and integrating with each other, finally forming an energy aura that emitted a black and red spiritual light, enveloping everyone around.

After the fusion, the new spiritual energy carried a terrifying sense of death, inevitably leading all those enveloped by it toward death.

A few hallucinations flashed before their eyes, and Maginus became extremely terrifying, her mind in turmoil, wanting both to escape and to pick up a weapon to attack her.

Caught in this dilemma, they did not move. Their bodies also suffered greatly due to the disorder in their will. Their life force, no longer under the continuous influence of Maginus's psychic energy, began to rebel on its own.

Simply put, their immune system recognized themselves as foreign substances, resulting in an extremely severe rejection reaction.

While it might not affect the physical body, even the ethereal undead creatures were affected. The summoned ghosts' souls became disordered, the aura of the deceased intensified, and negative energy was expelled.

It was incompatible with the prime material plane and seemed destined to be sent to the underworld.

A faint spatial fluctuation appeared, and the powerful ghost disappeared; it had truly been completely sent away.

The "life" of a living being is the journey from life to death. Maginus killed many divine abominations and many legendary beings who lived for a long time. He had previously killed ancient evil creatures and gained a deeper understanding of life and death.

The new skill she acquired, the Death Aura, essentially drastically shortens the time from birth to death for living beings. In reality, it manifests as the body becoming uncontrollable, the will becoming uncontrollable, and the spirit and flesh separating, bringing them closer to their own death.

Being in the spiritual energy requires a physical constitution and willpower assessment. If the physical constitution assessment fails, the life force inside the body will go berserk. If the willpower assessment fails, one will see terrifying scenes. A ghost without a body will lose its negative energy.

This technique also works on constructs, but of course, it's when Maginus herself uses it. The divine being can identify constructs as living beings, and the "death process" naturally involves the loss of magic power and the accelerated decay and wear of the metal body.

It has no effect on things with immortal properties, such as gods, ancient evils, divine abominations, and soul cores. There are quite a few of them, similar to the Death Hand Decree: Death, which is specifically used to crush weaker opponents. However, it can be taught to priests in the future.

The group was in grave danger, facing the fear of death. They were powerless to stop Maginus. Surrounded by fallen guards, the girl entered the palace and approached the throne room step by step.

She kicked the door open, sending two door panels crashing towards Whitney. The sword flashed and shattered the door. Susan stared at the petite red-haired girl as if in a dream, her hair standing on end. Feeling extremely threatened, she gripped her weapon tightly.

I'll die, I'll die, I'll die...

The Sword Saint's heart pounded. Ignoring the wary high-ranking professionals around him, Maginus looked at her and Whitnet on the throne, grinding his teeth before finally revealing a ferocious smile, his voice sweet:

"It's been a long time, you two stray dogs."

Chapter 713 Shifting Thoughts

Upon seeing the two people directly, Maginus's previous thoughts were completely forgotten.

Her original plan was to toy with them, deliberately give them a glimmer of hope, and slowly plunge them into despair, while simultaneously creating wounds on their bodies to keep them from dying.

Maginus felt happy and pleased just thinking about the wonderful scene of his enemy struggling on the edge of life and death and finally sinking into utter ruin.

But despite her thoughts, when she actually saw the two of them, a surge of murderous intent and hatred welled up inside her, filling her heart. The idea of ​​toying with the enemy was suppressed; now she had only one thought.

Kill these two people quickly; death is the most severe punishment.

Cracks appeared in the hard stone. Maginus used Blood Slash to strike Susan, but before the blood-stained blade could even hit her, a defensive spell was activated. A bouncy orb blocked the fatal attack for her. Before she could even react, she staggered backward, pale-faced.

Whitney was in the same situation; the seemingly invincible bouncy ball protected him, and he stared at Maginot with a gloomy expression.

Suppressing her initial anxiety, she gritted her teeth and said, "It seems you haven't been doing too well lately, your mental state has deteriorated to this extent. Are you dreaming about me coming to seek revenge?"

Maginus sneered. Whinet, seemingly trying to stall for time, said sternly, "You can still leave now, or this palace will be your burial ground, Maginus Imperius."

Unaware of the problem, the girl, whose senses had spread outwards, turned her gaze to Susan: "We've finally met again, my dear guardian knight, Susan..."

Susan stared coldly at the Queen, her extreme tension evident in her heaving chest and flustered gaze.

Maginus simply smiled and looked at her, taking down a magnificent dimensional bag from his waist. Susan stared at the bag and suddenly felt that the patterns on it seemed somewhat familiar.

Since there was no response, Maginus muttered to herself, chuckling as she opened her dimensional bag and tilted it slightly:

"Speaking of which, according to the intelligence, you came to infiltrate my side and eventually killed me in order to save your family. I can understand you, especially after losing all your family."

Overjoyed, Maginot twisted her neck, and with a cracking sound from her cervical bones, her head turned ninety degrees. Her smile was urgent; she couldn't wait to see her next expression.

"However, since you betrayed me and dared not stay by your family's side or bring the most important person in your life with you, I suppose you are already prepared, my dear Susan."

Before Susan could react, Maginus turned the dimensional bag upside down and swung it forcefully, and some dark figures were immediately flung out. Susan's pupils contracted slightly, and with her current dynamic vision, she could naturally see that all the falling figures were heads.

Moreover, it was the heads of all her family members, men, women, young and old, all present, except for one or two who seemed to be missing.

"Magnus, what are you doing!" Although he was somewhat prepared, the swordsman's expression turned pained upon seeing it. His anger was mixed with a hint of relief and smugness. "My family is innocent!"

"It's as if anyone's family isn't innocent."

Discarding the empty dimensional bag, Maginus lightly clapped her hands, a sinister smile flashing across her face:

"Ah, speaking of which, I discovered that some things were missing, as if they had been sent to another dimension, so I made a special effort to look for them again, and sure enough, I found them high above the manor."

Her words made Susan's heart pound even harder, and she instinctively pressed her hand firmly against the protective shield formed by the magic orb.

"No, it's impossible, it's impossible to find!"

"So, is it really okay to treat me, a god, the way you would treat an ordinary legend? Even veteran legends might not be able to fool you."

Maginus chuckled, and a demiplane appeared behind her. She pulled out the figure inside, and the middle-aged woman was grabbed by the hair and slammed to the ground. Many strands of hair were torn from her scalp, and her entire head was covered in blood.

She screamed in agony as the life crystal enveloping her body shattered, her back slammed hard against the ground, and she suffered multiple internal injuries.

"Mother!"

Susan let out a mournful cry, truly panicked, but didn't know how to beg Maginus for mercy. Or rather, it was clear that the scarlet girl, now restored to her former form, only meant one thing.

She will not let any of them go; she will torture all her enemies mercilessly.

Maginus looked at the ordinary woman lying on the ground in front of her. Bullying the weak didn't really bring her much joy, but Susan's expression was just too moving, making her fingers twitch.

Reaching out, Maginus used his life force to grab the woman. Too lazy to do any preamble, he forcefully pierced through her chest with one hand, ripping out her heart and kneading it in his hand.

Susan's mother let out an even more severe scream, her eyes filled with confusion, seemingly unaware of why she and her entire family had become like this.

"Magnus Imperius, release my mother! She knows nothing!"

Susan shouted, her aura suddenly surging, seemingly having successfully broken through the legendary barrier with the help of anger and hatred. This was quite normal for a somewhat idealistic profession like the Sword Saint.

“Your daughter says you know nothing? That’s really terrible.”

Maginus nodded slightly, then gripped the heart tightly, squeezing it until it burst. Her scream was incredibly high-pitched. Whitney was unaffected and continued with the final construction.

She came too fast; there wasn't enough time, so we had to keep delaying.

Having your heart blown off doesn't mean death; a brand new heart is created, but it looks utterly withered and can barely sustain life.

With a blood-soaked spike plunged into the woman's neck, Maginus ripped open her stomach, venting all his anger on her without bothering to explain why.

If this guy shows an understanding expression, then I'd really be too embarrassed to take action. So it's best not to ask. Just let this woman die in ignorance and resentment. She'll probably turn into an evil spirit or something.

However, her anger came and went quickly. Maginus was not cut out for interrogation and torture. In just two or three minutes, she lost interest in Susan and her mother’s resentment and became emotionally exhausted. She raised her hand and lightly smashed the woman’s head in front of her.

Grabbing and kneading her soul, Maginus waved his hand, opening a passage to the lower realm, tossing the soul, whose destination was unknown, down into it. Turning to the silent Whitnet, he uttered words that shocked her:

"You're not ready yet? If you don't finish soon, I'll tear the whole castle down."

Chapter 714 The revenge drama came to a peaceful end.

Having already noticed Whinet's movements, Maginus just wanted to see what he was up to. However, even after giving him almost five or six extra minutes, he still hadn't completed his plan.

Impatient Maginot is now planning to violently dismantle all of Whitnet's preparations in order to achieve another kind of despair.

Well, the first kind of despair arises when a plan is completed but easily thwarted by Maginus. The second kind arises when a plan is nearly completed but ultimately fails to be launched due to lack of time and is directly destroyed by Maginus.

The girl found both kinds of despair quite appealing. She glanced symbolically at the moonlight outside the palace, then stretched out her hands, revealing her ten fingers, and slowly began to close them:

"nineteen……"

The meaning is quite clear: count down to the tenth, and if things still don't go well, Maginos will completely destroy the palace and bury everyone there.

"Is it done yet? Hurry up!"

Whitney turned and shouted, and the fear priest who had been hiding behind the throne stepped forward, no longer hiding behind the throne. He continued to draw lines with his hands, and Maginus could feel the magic in the air being drawn, and a huge magic circle covering the entire palace enveloped her.

As the countdown ended, Maginus gripped the Blood Gathering Technique, ready to unleash its power. It was at this crucial moment that the Fear Priest let out a heavy sigh of relief, retrieved a black orb radiating divine aura from his dimensional pouch, and roared at the girl:

"Damn you wicked god, become the sacrifice for my lord's resurrection!"

The magic circle suddenly activated, and the orb flew up and crashed into Maginos. She tried to attack the black orb with her blood-gathering technique, but the orb instantly became ethereal to dodge the attack. The next second, it embedded itself directly into the girl's neck.

The reason it landed on her neck is because she jumped a little; it should have been set between her eyebrows.

The magical crystals scattered around the palace injected a large amount of energy into the magic circle. The orb, as the core of the array, emitted extremely terrifying pressure, and black lines spread out from it toward Maginus's body.

"It's starting! It's starting! My Lord is about to descend upon this place, hahahaha!"

The priest of fear laughed wildly, watching with anticipation as the divine power within the orb thoroughly corrupted Maginus's soul.

Whitney and Susan, their faces contorted with resentment, also stared intently at Maginot, wanting to witness her death.

However, just after the neck was stained black, the spread of the purplish-black color suddenly stopped. The pearl seemed to have crashed and could not start up, as if it could not find the normal software installation location.

In layman's terms, there's no host computer; the USB drive used to install the software is inserted into the monitor.