The Mythical Path of a Princess from a Destroyed Kingdom

No secrets stay hidden forever. They had learned of the news not long ago and were determined to fight to the death against the person who tried to kill their family.

If possible, Lin Qi would naturally not want this to happen, but the situation was beyond his control. They were forced to accept the challenge and had no choice but to comply. It was a completely open conspiracy.

Looking at his silent family, Walker couldn't help but stand up from his chair: "Father, I can fight too."

“If we die, the future of Imperius will be in your hands. Don’t say such reckless things.”

Lynch interrupted him, saying that everyone except Walker was a consumable in this battle, including him, the king. He had already considered the worst-case scenario.

If Walker is the only one out of everyone who survives, he is hope.

"And what about your younger sister? You should send her to Inser's mansion!"

“Walker,” Beth interrupted her brother, clenching her fists, “Insel can no longer be trusted. We can’t be sure if she will do anything to Maggie. The new plan is to have Susan take her away through the cemetery.”

Looking at his children, who had come to their senses, and his wife beside him, Lynch couldn't help but apologize to them: "I'm so sorry, my children, and to you both, because of my failure..."

"Saying all this is useless. Let's see if we can get through this difficult time. It's just a pity that we can't celebrate Maginus's birthday."

Hilda and Sylvia held Lynch's hands, while the eldest prince, the eldest princess, and the second prince looked at their younger brother, nodded to him, as if entrusting their future to him.

Chapter 16 Coming for the Treasure

Four days later, on a night when Maginus was sitting in his bedroom as usual, he was still sighing.

Tomorrow is her birthday, but unfortunately she can't have a big celebration like before. She can only celebrate by herself, and at most she can have some maids and servants celebrate with her.

Even Susan didn't know where she had been called; she was all alone in the room, whereas in the past everyone would come together to celebrate her birthday.

"I wonder what's going on outside... No, no, I can't think about these things."

Lynch naturally didn't forget to tell his daughter about the possibility of a general offensive by the enemy. Maginus already knew that the allied forces might launch a decapitation strike. She patted her cheeks and looked at the magical equipment all over her body. These items gave her some confidence.

Should we use some divination spells to scout out whether everyone can survive?

Maginos thought to herself that she should try to find something to do to ease her fear, but she was also worried that she might be predicting things would not go well.

Her divination skills weren't very good; at most, she could tell whether things would turn out well or badly, but just knowing whether they would turn out well or badly was enough to cause her emotions to fluctuate even more.

Just as the girl hesitated to take a set of tarot cards from the drawer, an explosion came from not far from the palace. Startled, she immediately jumped up from her chair, opened the window and looked into the distance, where a plume of black smoke slowly rose from outside the palace.

"Enemy attack!"

A series of angry roars rang out, and footsteps and commotion appeared outside the door. In Maginus's view, the entire palace was instantly thrown into chaos. The faces of the maids and servants were filled with panic, and the guards rushed to various places, having no time to attend to them.

Where is Susan? Where is the King? Where is the Queen...?

Faced with the enemy's sudden attack, Maginus instinctively wanted to rely on her closest people and stood there at a loss. Just then, the door opened and the blue-haired knight appeared beside her in the nick of time.

"Su Wuyi Qiba's dad, Leng Qiliu Yiling H Mengshan!"

“Your Highness,” Susan calmly extended her hand, with a group of resolute soldiers behind her, “we should go. The enemy’s offensive is very fierce.”

As if she had found a pillar of support, Maginus quickly placed her right hand on it, and Susan pulled her into her arms as they ran toward the cemetery, witnessing a great deal of chaos along the way.

Maids and servants were grabbing valuables from the palace, trying to carry the valuables out of the palace. Some tried to seek help from the guards protecting Maginus, but were knocked to the ground by the soldiers.

They didn't intend to stop the servants from causing chaos, but they also didn't want to become a burden.

"Susan, how are my father and the others!?"

Upon witnessing the chaos and evil of humanity for the first time, Maginus instinctively hugged Susan tightly and loudly inquired about the whereabouts of her loved ones. Susan simply replied, "The situation is not optimistic."

As the palace exploded, the army outside the city also mutinied at the same time. Although Kadenor Imperis was prepared, he was still shocked by the number of rebel generals, which was more than he had discovered.

As he stepped out of the camp to command his troops in a counterattack, the sense of danger ingrained from years of combat made him realize the peril. He dodged a crossbow bolt that flew from the shadows and shouted, "Assemble! Protect me!"

Kednor's personal guards immediately formed a square to protect him. He looked around and saw a light appear in the darkness. Twelve people were already standing near him.

The spellcaster, dressed in black robes, raised his staff and struck the ground. Instantly, a transparent wall formed by a magical force field enveloped Kadenor, his guards, and all twelve of them. The soldiers outside tried to enter but could not break through the wall.

Sensing the danger emanating from the newcomers, Kadenuo snorted coldly: "Ha, ten mid-level, two high-level, and two spellcasters, you really think highly of me."

Meanwhile, the spellcasters in his team tried to dispel the force field wall, only to find that the opposing spellcasters were far stronger than their own, and the force field wall showed no sign of breaking under the influence of multiple army spellcasters.

"After all, Kadenor Imperis is the most promising candidate to become a legend, so we have to be cautious. Besides, there are so many soldiers. As the saying goes, many ants can kill an elephant."

The spellcaster leading the group of twelve chuckled, then introduced himself, displaying a badge: "The Bloodstained Society, nice to meet you. As for who hired us, we won't say. We hope Prince Kadenor will surrender or be killed by us."

Before he could finish speaking, the spellcaster's pupils contracted slightly. Kadenor had appeared in front of him without him noticing, raising an extremely heavy longsword to slash at him, his pale red pupils tinged with crimson.

……

Where are the enemies?

Beth Imperius looked around but found nothing unusual.

After the explosion, she immediately led part of the palace guard into the palace to reunite with her parents, while the rest remained outside to defend the palace. Strangely, she waited for about ten minutes without seeing a single enemy.

"Senor, can you take a look and see what's going on?"

At this moment, Lynch, clad in armor, looked at the child. The second prince, Senor, had just closed his eyes, about to cast a spell to investigate, when he sensed the fire elemental energy in the air flying towards the outside of the wall. When he opened his eyes, a ferocious expression appeared on his face.

"Oh no, their target is the army outside the palace!"

By the time Senor discovered it, it was too late. Eight fireballs, each two meters in diameter, rose into the sky from two different directions in two groups, their intense light illuminating the night. Seven of them fell outside the palace, while the other one flew straight toward it!

Meteor Explosion!

This spell can condense four compressed fireballs. The high temperature and pressure of the spheres can cause a blast radius of more than 20 meters in the instant of explosion, which also means that there are two high-level spellcasters facing their opponent.

No, these eight fireballs are super-magical.

Seno raised his hand and cast a dispelling spell on the fireball to neutralize it. As he did so, he discovered that the fireball's magic and composition were much more tightly packed, indicating that it had definitely undergone a super-magic effect.

The army outside the palace had no time to dodge, and the few spellcasters within the army were powerless to stop it. The seven fireballs exploded after falling into the army, with each one causing a blast nearly a hundred meters long, resulting in heavy losses for the army in an instant.

Looking at the flames burning outside the palace and the figures entering the palace, Lin Qi couldn't help but smile bitterly: "What merit does our small country have to attract so many high-level professionals who are close to legends?"

"Of course it's not because of you or this country, at least not me."

The leader who had previously held secret gatherings was also among them; he removed his black robe, revealing a handsome face.

“Your Majesty Lynch, I am very sorry, but I am actually here for the treasure left behind by the Imperius family. Oh, by the way, you yourselves don’t even know about it.”

Chapter 17 Underground Tomb

Lynch Imperius scanned the people in the palace. He recognized most of them at a glance, but he didn't know who the young man in the lead was until he saw the badge on the young man's chest, at which point his expression changed.

That is the royal emblem of Nizmor, the largest country closest to Nesser.

"No wonder they united to attack my country; it turns out you were the ones pulling the strings behind the scenes."

Lynch gripped his longsword and stood with his daughter, while his two wives and son prepared to cast a spell: "So what treasure does Imperius hold that would make the royal family of a great nation like yours come to search for it?"

“It’s a great pity, I can’t say that,” the prince of the great nation said, glancing at the group of helpers around him who were listening intently. He raised his longsword, and incantations flashed on his wrist. “After all, I don’t want these people around me to fight me for the treasure. Although they are afraid of the country behind me, what if they do?”

His tone was full of arrogance, and the powerful generals from the small countries around him did not refute him; some even showed the kind of obsequious smiles that are usually reserved for flattery.

"Alright, according to the records, I need the blood of your Imperius royal family to open the treasure gate. At the same time, they also want your royal family to disappear completely. So please die for us, Your Majesty Lynch and all of you."

A glint flashed in the handsome man's eyes. Lynch, his muscles taut, burst through the floor and charged forward, his longsword gleaming brightly. Beth followed suit.

It seems we're not going to escape. Walker, Maggie, you two must survive.

Sensing the level of threat from the enemy, the eldest sister silently recited the names of her two youngest children. Her, Senor's, and Lynch's eyes, like those of Cadeno, began to glow with a touch of crimson.

A massive magic array appeared over the entire palace. The three spellcasters, the Queen, the Princess, and the Second Prince, wore resolute expressions. This was their home turf, and even if they had to die, they would take some of Jun Jiu's people with them!

When the explosion occurred, Maginus and her team of protectors had already run to the cemetery behind the palace. The girl jumped down from Susan's arms, recalling the map her mother had given her, and pushed open the gate leading to the royal cemetery.

The cemetery gate was pushed open. Maginos looked down at the stairs and the dark path, feeling the strong negative energy within. She took a deep breath and stepped inside first, followed by the soldiers behind her.

As everyone entered the cemetery, the heavy stone gates of the tomb closed tightly again under the influence of magic, and the doors disappeared. However, the guards did not notice that a small magical mark was drawn on the ground nearby, seemingly guiding others to this place.

Once the stone door behind her was closed, Maginot snapped her fingers to light a torch on the wall beside her. The small flame moved forward and lit up the torch, revealing the entire quiet and dark tomb chamber.

A relatively clean cemetery came into view. They continued to walk down the stairs, and after reaching the top, they saw a large door.

The emblem on the door is a golden scale supported by an arm bone. This emblem symbolizes a gift from the current God of the Dead, the King of the Dead, to the slumbering souls on the continent of Knoil. People usually paint it in places like cemeteries to pray that their loved ones will not "rise from the dead."

"Then I'll push it in."

Maginus told Susan to remove the seal on the gate and push it open. Inside was a very spacious cave. Not far away, there were a large number of stone coffins arranged in a regular pattern. Inside were members of the Imperius royal family from the fifth generation onwards.

As for the ancestors from the first to the fourth generation, they seem to have been placed in a deeper tomb chamber, but that's none of Maginot's concern now. She needs to continue forward and leave through the secret passage of the tomb chamber.

As Maginus walked deeper into the tomb, he suddenly stopped and turned back in fear.

Susan and the soldiers were the same. The blue-haired girl, as the head of the guards, raised her longsword and pointed it at the steps: "Prepare for battle."

The open underground space amplifies many sounds. They heard knocking and destructive noises coming from above, clearly indicating that someone had found the place and was about to open the tomb.

Maginus reached into the small pouch at her waist, the dimensional bag her mother had prepared for her, and took out several magic scrolls. She tore them open and chanted incantations, granting amplification effects to the soldiers in front of her, including Susan.

The strength of the bull, the resilience of the bear, dark vision...

As she finished buffing the guards, a loud bang came from the distance above, followed by the sound of footsteps and armor clashing. A group of enemies dressed in exquisite armor appeared in their sight.

This also meant that they were seen by the enemy. The warriors smiled excitedly when they saw Maginus, and the leader shouted, "Magninus Imperius is right here! Capture her and kill the rest!"

"Your Highness, protect yourself, the rest of you follow me."

Gripping her guardian spirit, which radiated magical light, Susan took a deep breath and charged toward the strongest one. The warrior, who looked extremely fierce, raised his greatsword and clashed it with the longsword, both of which glowed with a faint light.

"I remember you're the head guard of the palace, right? Let's see if you can protect your master!"

A ferocious smile appeared beneath the nearly two-meter-tall warrior's helmet. Greatswords and longswords clashed repeatedly, and the battle between the two mid-level warriors stirred up a strong wind in the tomb chamber. Stone coffins were occasionally struck, resulting in missing corners.

After the soldiers on both sides left a fighting area for the mid-level warriors who were close to high-level, they clashed together. Maginus watched the intense battle and kept casting spells on his own members.

Haste, Heroism, Giant Transformation...

Her personal guards were enhanced by different spells; some grew nearly twice their size, while others gained increased speed in all aspects. Susan received the most buffs, and thus quickly suppressed the unknown warrior who was slightly stronger than her.

"Go, Susan!"

Maginus watched these people with hatred in her eyes, and cheered on the blue-haired knight.

Upon hearing Maginus's angry roar, which sounded like a delicate shout, the warrior fighting Susan burst into laughter. His muscles suddenly bulged, straining against his slightly oversized armor. The immense force of his sword strike nearly made Susan kneel.

The two sides continued to fight, and the battle was deadlocked for a time, with neither side able to gain the upper hand. However, the mid-level warriors sent by the allied forces noticed something amiss. The captain of the guards in front of them seemed to be holding back, as if they were just stalling for time.

No, it must be an illusion!

Shaking the thought from her mind, the warrior's magical greatsword continued to strike the protector. Susan carefully retreated, but suddenly stopped, a murderous glint flashing in her eyes.

At the same time, Maginus clutched his chest, his face pale, as if he had lost something important.

Chapter 18 Betrayal

The enemy leader suddenly felt the force in Susan's hand increase dramatically. Before he could even react, he was sent flying by a sword and crashed straight into the wall.

How could he suddenly become so strong!

The warrior, who had smashed a large crater in the stone wall, saw Susan charging towards him through the fighting soldiers. He mustered all his strength and worked his muscles to swing his sword in a seemingly powerless posture.

However, the greatsword swung in this manner created a strong gust of wind, just like usual. Using a technique called "Tides of Movement," he could unleash a full-force attack in this state.

To his complete surprise, Susan blocked the attack. Just as the dazzling sword was about to pierce his helmet, he realized that the guard had been hiding his strength and stalling for time during their fight.

The sound of metal scraping against metal rang out as the protector tore his helmet apart, piercing his left eye and penetrating his brain!

Moments after his brain was pierced, a fierce glint flashed in the mid-level warrior's other eye. In a final burst of energy, he raised his greatsword once more and slammed it down on Susan, unleashing his last and strongest attack.

Unfortunately, the blue-haired girl, who had just landed her attack, drew her sword and jumped away. The greatsword, which she had swung in vain, crashed into the stone wall, wedging the warrior's corpse above it.

"call"

Susan exhaled deeply, nodded slightly to Maginos who was still standing there in a daze, and walked towards the enemy soldiers who wanted to flee when they saw their captain.

……

In just a few moments, all the enemy soldiers were killed. Susan wiped the blood off her bodyguard with trembling hands. Her own guards were panting, but they knew this was not the time to rest.

Those still able to move bowed to the severely injured members who were unable to move, then tried to end their suffering. The princess, clutching her heart, saw this and cried out, "Wait! I have a magic scroll here..."

“Your Highness, don’t waste this precious scroll here,” several soldiers interrupted her, their eyes resolute, before plunging their longswords into their comrade’s heart. “Just leave the scroll to the captain.”

Watching the severely wounded soldiers being led to their deaths by their own comrades, Maginus swallowed hard and could only nod vigorously, saying to Susan who had walked up to her, "Susan, let's go out."

"..."

Susan didn't reply. Sensing the danger still lingered, Maginus just wanted to leave as quickly as possible. She turned and headed towards the secret passage. She calculated the time...

It's only an hour until her birthday, and here she is on the run. How ironic.

Maginus was completely unaware of the sadness and struggle in the blue-haired girl's eyes when she turned around.