The Mythical Path of a Princess from a Destroyed Kingdom

Watching Maginus's departing figure, Jess felt a pang of emotion, wondering just how far this princess of a fallen kingdom could go.

After all, she has too many enemies, so many that if Jess were to put himself in their shoes, he would feel utterly hopeless.

"That's probably why she didn't want to involve Miss Lenya."

As Maginus walked further and further away, Jess turned his gaze back, carefully placed the powerful armor pieces, and returned to his "post" to observe the situation outside the city.

One day after Maginus left, on a battlefield not far from the capital, the army of Benedict II and the capital's army were still fighting.

The army of Ted is currently at an extreme disadvantage. Although the royal army has suffered heavy losses, it has gained the upper hand. With the addition of the armies of other lords who have come to help, victory is practically assured as long as there is no additional interference.

Just then, a rather inconspicuous piece of news arrived: several armies from Gold and Silver City were on their way to the capital.

Wang Dujun didn't pay much attention to this new information, but they soon regretted it.

Three days after Maginus left, several armies from the City of Gold and Silver arrived near the capital but instead of coming to help, they stationed themselves near the capital, and some even stormed into the capital.

At this point, some people realized that something was amiss, while others still believed that they had only been sent by Elliott to help Ronald and were currently waiting for orders.

On the fifth day, the troops dispatched by Gold and Silver City in batches suddenly surged towards the capital and completely occupied it, and the news that shocked all the troops finally spread.

Benedict, who sparked the civil war, is dead, as is Ronald Faston, the designated prince.

At this point, the entire Crystal Salt Kingdom was plunged into chaos. Elliot then revealed his true colors, having somehow entered the capital through magic and secretly met with the other lords.

No one knows what they talked about, but the result was that in the following days, the armies of the various earls who had joined the royal army suddenly rebelled and frantically besieged the remaining royal loyalists.

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While chaos reigned outside, Sleeping Beauty Lenia finally woke up slowly, looked at Catherine who was waiting beside her, and then looked around the unfamiliar room.

Her consciousness was still stuck in the time when she was sleeping with Maginos, and she had no idea what had happened.

Sensing the movement, Catherine opened her eyes and looked at Lenia, then stood up with a guilty expression and said, "Miss... you're awake."

"Catherine, where is this place? Where is Mine?"

Lenia frowned slightly; her sixth sense told her that something significant seemed to have happened while she was asleep.

Catherine opened her mouth, but she couldn't quite put her finger on what had happened so far. After a moment of hesitation, she finally spoke and recounted the whole story.

This was Elliott's instruction to her: to make sure she told Lenia the whole truth, and then give her the letter left by Maginus.

After hearing the whole truth, Lenia felt a little unreal. Her father had used her to befriend Benedict and Ronald Faston, then used that as an opportunity to make them fight and kill each other...

It's strange, she felt that she was responsible for the deaths of Benedict and Ronaldo and everything that followed, yet she also felt that... she didn't seem to be that important.

Without her, time might have been delayed, but the two, with their irreconcilable differences, would still fight to the death under Elliott's guidance.

In fact, Elliott only wanted Lenya as insurance, to ensure that if the prophecy failed and one side won, he would be on the winning side. Lenya's idea that "everything was her own doing" was completely overthinking.

After a brief moment of stunned silence, Lenia didn't dwell on the past or feel sorrow for her friend Benedict and her fiancé Ronald. Instead, she took Catherine's hand and asked with concern:

"What about Mine! Where did Mine go!? Could it be..." Could it be that Father killed her?

Seeing the young lady's anxious expression, Catherine immediately admired the Earl and handed the envelope to Lenia: "Miss Mine has left. This is the letter she left for you."

Chapter 223 Letter

Lenya took the envelope and opened it, finding a row of very neat handwriting.

Dear Lenya Silvers:

Seeing this letter is like seeing you again.

By the time you read this letter, I will have been gone for a long time. You can treat this letter as my rambling thoughts and don't take it too seriously.

I'm sorry, I've never told you my real name before. My name isn't Mine; it's Maginus Imperius. I suppose you should know that first name or last name.

After finally escaping the dangers of Nesserai, I met the person who recommended a quest to me, and that's how I met you.

It all started with a mission and the benefits behind it, but as time went by, spending time with you helped me rediscover the feeling of "being alive."

Do I consider you a friend? I think I do. I've pondered this question several times, and the final answer is "yes."

However, during our time together, I also sensed your unusual feelings for me. I don't know if it was a sudden thought of yours, or if you might suddenly change like my former fiancé and guardian.

So I'm sorry, I've never dared to respond to you and have been pretending not to know anything while being with you.

I really don't want to lose anything more. As an Avenger, I don't want anything to hold me back or tug at my heart.

As for whether I have any special feelings for you, I don't even know myself. Maybe I do, maybe I don't. It's meaningless for me to say these things, but maybe you want to know them, so I've told you everything in this letter.

Lenya, I really envy you. Your loving parents, your protective maid, and me... Hehe, please allow me to brag a little. I hope you can live a good life.

As for myself... although it sounds like a morbid self-awareness, I am an avenger, and I don't know when I will die on the road to revenge, after all, I have too many enemies.

I can't promise you anything, but if I live, I will one day return to Nessere and reclaim everything that's mine.

It may be a long time, but when that time comes, I will meet you again. If, when we meet, you still have feelings for me, I will choose to reciprocate.

But that possibility is very small; I'll probably still die on the road to revenge in the end.

Yours sincerely.

Your friend Maginos Imperius

The letter ended there. The few hundred words blurred Lenya's vision; tears dripped onto the paper. She sobbed softly, muttering curses under her breath.

"Who likes you? Who has feelings for you? You self-centered bastard!!"

Despite saying this, Lenia carefully folded the letter and put it away. She stood up, looked out at the still somewhat dilapidated streets, and asked Catherine beside her:

"Can she come back?"

Catherine did not reply, and no one would know the outcome of this matter. From the maid's silence, Lenia sensed the possibility and clasped her hands tightly in prayer to the Moon Maiden.

She prayed that Maginus would be safe and sound in the future, and that when they met again, the girl would not have turned into a monster.

A month later.

As the weather begins to warm up and the snow shows signs of melting, many farmers have begun preparations for planting, and agile adventurers have shed their heavy clothing in exchange for more practical garments.

In a small country called Arans, a caravan slowly drove into a town called Maoshuling and stopped to rest.

A red-haired girl, about 1.5 meters tall and wearing a black cloak, jumped off a carriage from a caravan. After thanking the driver, she began looking for an inn on the street.

Some people on the street looked on with curiosity when they saw the beautiful girl carrying a sword, and some even couldn't wait to get closer and ask what was going on.

However, just as they were about to approach, the red-haired girl's gaze swept precisely over each of them, and the murderous intent in her eyes made those with ill intentions freeze in place, not daring to move an inch.

Turning her gaze away, Maginos walked down the street, raising her eyes to look at the castle on the hillside. Excitement and bloodlust flashed in her eyes, her fingers twitched slightly, and her neck twitched gently.

Having left the capital of Crystal Salt, she spent over a month arriving here, in the lush territory of the Kingdom of Arans, simply because this is the burial place of her elder sister, Sissia Imperis.

Maginus came here to kill the baron. The situation is completely different from that in the capital. Here, Maginus's strength is second to none.

The way the surrounding residents looked at me changed a lot. Was it because I had grown taller?

Suppressing her excitement, Maginus noticed that the curiosity in the eyes of those looking at her gradually diminished, while admiration and desire began to increase.

If you do the math, it's been almost a year since she left the capital of Nesser. Maginos has grown taller, from 1.48 meters to 1.55 meters, which is a whole new level.

Ignoring the stares of those around her, Maginus found an inn near the Church of the Endless Light and entered it. After renting a room for an extended period, she sat in a corner of the tavern, listening to the gossip and recalling information about her sister's lover.

He is the lord of Maoshu Territory, named Addisonsio. He has a considerable army under his command, and the castle should be heavily guarded, but his own strength is probably not at the mid-level.

The most important thing now is to find a way to get close to him, find an opportunity to assassinate him, and then escape from Maoshu territory.

It sounds simple, but getting close to him is a problem. However, on the way here, Maginus had already heard that Maoshu Territory seemed to be in big trouble recently, and Addisonsio was looking for someone to deal with it.

She vaguely remembered something about "tree spirits causing trouble in the forest," so she wanted to find professionals to help clean it up. However, all the professionals she found so far were incompetent fools, and she hadn't even seen a single tree spirit's corpse.

Maginus only knew the general outline, which is why he was gathering information in the tavern now.

"Damn it, is the matter of those tree spirits still unresolved? What if we die?"

An old farmer, who was drinking, complained to his friend. Maginus listened and frowned. The story was simple: something was killing people, and people suspected it was a tree spirit living in the forest.

Chapter 224 Information Delivered to Our Door

About a month ago, some problems arose in Maoshu Territory. Residents in the territory were dying one after another, and there were some plant remains at the places of death. People believed that this was the work of tree spirits in the forest, and they were very certain of it.

Speaking of these tree spirits, Maginus looked into it and found that they were actually the original inhabitants of the Flourishing Tree Territory, and they could not leave that forest, which was clearly separated from the human activity area.

If a farmer went in, those who wanted to cut down trees would be frightened out or killed, while good-looking people would be thrown out with empty faces. Many people even died from exhaustion.

Over time, the place acquired a name: the Ancient Tree Spirit Forest. As for how many tree spirits there were, no one knew. Some said there was one, some said there were two, and some said there were more than five.

Apart from those few situations, the two sides had been at peace for a very long time, probably one or two hundred years. The countries had changed, and in short, the so-called tree spirit killing people only occurred a month ago.

If that's the case, it's debatable whether the tree spirit actually killed anyone. It could be a rumor spread by someone who wanted to capture the tree spirit to do this or that, and they might even be the ones who killed the person.

In a better scenario, other monsters have arrived here and have started feeding on humans.

Having figured out the whole story, Maginus decided to go to the commission office to gather some information from Addison's chief advisor, and then bring a treant or a treant's corpse with her to try and meet Addison.

Instead of rushing to meet them, Maginus spent the entire day wandering around the wilderness, trying to ascertain the terrain and building distribution of Maoshu Territory.

When night fell, Maginos took precautions to protect the room, closed her eyes, and fell into a deep sleep.

When she opened her eyes again, she was once again in the black and red dream world, but this time there were some different things in the dream.

Beneath Maginot's feet was a space she had cultivated herself. The soil, the withered grass, and even the sky were all in normal condition. The area was circular, with a radius of about ten meters.

Compared to this vast expanse of heaven and earth, it is indeed insignificant, but no matter what, it is still a transformation from nothing to something, from zero to one.

With her eyes closed and her hands gripping the longsword formed from her thoughts, Maginus took a deep breath, allowing her soul energy to flow into the soil.

The edges began to expand at a speed imperceptible to the naked eye, and wisps of black and red slowly transformed into golden particles that shimmered with two-tone light, flowing into the girl's body.

However, her cleaning work was soon interrupted. Hearing the faint sound of bells in her ears, Maginos, who was lying on the bed, instantly exited her mental world and opened her eyes, seeing the guy trying to sneak in through the window.

The shifty-eyed thief stared into eyes that gleamed with a crimson light in the shadows. He froze, unsure what to do. Maginus, leaning against the bed, spoke in a calm yet undeniable tone:

"Will you come in by yourself, or should I invite you in?"

"I intend to start a cage?" Qi Yingjie had barely finished speaking when the thief, realizing what was happening, cursed inwardly at her caution in tying bells to the window and door, and turned to flee. Maginos stood up from the bed, stretched her waist, and then picked up her bodyguard.

"Just consider it a workout. There haven't been any dangers along the way that require my intervention."

Muttering something to himself, Maginus's lips curled into a predatory smile, contrary to his words.

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"Hey, why did you come back!"

Several thieves at the street corner noticed their companion returning empty-handed. One of them asked a question with obvious displeasure. The thief who had broken into Maginus's room overheard this and immediately glared at the person who had spoken.

"Damn it, you said that kid was just an easy newbie to handle, but he had bells tied to the windows and doors! And you're telling me he's a newbie!?"

Hearing his companion say that, the person who said it subconsciously scratched the back of his neck and apologized, "It's on me this time. She looks very weak. Maybe she was just bluffing by tying the bell on her neck."

The thought that this was indeed possible made the thief, who was running extremely fast, regretted his actions when he recalled Maginus's behavior. Why didn't he test the brat's strength earlier? Maybe he could have tied him up directly.

Someone this beautiful must be worth a lot of money.

But since they'd already escaped, there was no use in regretting it. The thief who broke into the house shook his head and said, "...Never mind, we'll just go check the situation again next time."

"It's a pity you won't have a next time."

A melodious voice came from the alley entrance. The wary thieves jumped up in fright and looked toward the source of the voice, their hands already gripping their poison-stained weapons. They looked toward the dark alley entrance, where two red lights were approaching them.

As the light drew closer, they realized it was the eyes of the woman they had been eyeing.

She came all by herself!

Upon discovering that no one was behind Maginus, the group of thieves, after their initial fear, became more cautious. The thieves who had initially fled, however, felt extremely nervous when facing her.

Observing the thief's reaction, the girl raised her eyebrows. The guy who first entered her room seemed to have high perception and could sense the danger she posed to them.

Sensing danger, the thief was about to order his accomplice to escape when someone whispered, "Grab her! Don't let her get away!"

"Being good-looking always means you'll get targeted."

Maginus muttered to herself, watching the thieves rushing towards her as she gently raised her hand. A pale blue light gathered in her hand, and the thieves saw a short sword appear out of thin air in the girl's hand.

Spell caster!

Their initial confidence turned to terror, but it was too late for them to escape; they had delivered themselves to their doorstep.

The short sword flew out of his hand in an instant and struck a man. Maginus lunged forward, his left fist hitting the thief's wrist, and his right fist clenched and punched him in the chest!

A fist pierced through the chest, and the unarmored thief died at her hands. She casually tossed aside the corpse, whose life force was being absorbed and which was beginning to turn to ashes, and turned her gaze to the thieves who had turned and fled.

Fearful aura.

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