After choosing to leave, they regretted it.

However, the scars on Heidi's body had increased tenfold, and the torn flesh was spread over almost every part of her body.

Due to her amazing defense, these wounds were not fatal, but the pain they brought was like cutting flesh with a blunt knife, like the torture of slow slicing.

Blood also gushed out, soaking every corner of the armor. The physiological reaction of excessive blood loss also made Heidi gasp for breath.

This scene made Arthur very satisfied.

After another round of attack, he lowered his weapon slightly and a smile appeared on his face.

He said slowly:

"Let's stop here, Your Highness. I've watched you grow up, and from what I know about you, you have no chance of winning. There's still time."

"Oh, understand?"

Heidi responded with a contemptuous sneer - and then she pulled off a small piece of flesh that was half cut off and hanging on her leg in the previous battle and threw it aside.

"If you knew me, you would know how I feel right now, and you wouldn't say such disgusting words to persuade me to surrender!"

Pain and death may be the things that Heidi cares least about - this has been fully verified in the Tafia incident and in her previous process of seeking help alone.

"And, if you really understand me, you would know why I would fight you like this."

"...Oh?" Arthur frowned slightly. "I wonder, Your Highness, where do you get this from?"

"What did you just say? The brave Aize and his men are trapped in the tunnel and can never get out? Heh-"

Heidi sneered again and wiped the blood from the corner of her mouth.

"You don't understand me, Arthur, especially not me now. Because if you really understand me, you should also understand the Aize I know. And would the Aize I know be trapped for life by a booby-trapped tunnel?"

In other words, it would be best if he could capture Arthur on his own.

Can’t catch him? That’s okay, just hold him back.

Delay him and Aize will definitely come.

Arthur laughed disdainfully at this:

"Princess, are you overthinking this? Or do you really take that lowly commoner hero seriously? This is not the attitude you, the heir to the throne, should have."

"Let me tell you, this workshop has been around for two hundred years..."

Before he finished speaking, the light symbolizing magical power gathered in the huge crystal in the center of the room suddenly began to flicker amidst a crackling sound like an electric leak.

Arthur's expression froze on his face instantly. He didn't care about Heidi anymore and rushed over to check in a panic.

"The collected magic power is being drained and destroyed!!! How is this possible? How could this happen..."

boom! ! ! ! !

Before he could finish his words, there was another loud boom like an earthquake, and the entire facility was shaking.

"Everyone, listen up! Attack and clear out! Don't let anyone escape!"

"Yes!!!"

The voice of Aize giving orders and the knights' orderly responses came from the direction of the workshop.

Chapter 116 Return, Resurrection

Along with the noise made by Aize and others, the sounds of fighting and weapons clashing instantly began to echo in this narrow and depressing underground space.

Those half-bloods who had not participated in the siege of Heidi, as well as the spellcasters who had been hiding and working with this workshop, began to resist the invasion.

However, one can tell without even watching that the battle was one-sided.

The sound of fighting quickly came from far away and approached the room where Arthur and Heidi were currently.

"This is impossible……"

Arthur was slapped in the face before he could finish his words, and his expression instantly became extremely ugly.

In contrast, Heidi, covered in scars, smiled with satisfaction and nodded:

"What are you saying now? You're the one who should surrender now. Put down your weapons now, quick!"

"Tsk——"

Arthur curled his lips and waved his hand violently.

The remaining half-bloods in the room immediately rushed towards Heidi and attacked her recklessly, trapping her in place and making her unable to move.

He threw away his weapon, ran into the room as fast as he could, opened a secret door, and then quickly disappeared into it.

"Don't run away, stop... Ugh, you're in the way!"

Heidi wanted to chase after him, but was surrounded and instantly had several more wounds on her body.

At this moment, the tightly closed iron door of the room was directly hit by the blasting spell, turned into a ball of scrap metal and flew out, heavily hitting the crystal in the center of the space.

Several knights and Alicia rushed in instantly and immediately started fighting with the half-bloods who surrounded Heidi.

Aize then appears:

"Heidi, are you okay?"

After escaping, Heidi wiped the blood off her face and nodded vigorously:

"It's okay, how did you find this place?"

"Well, it's a long story."

During the preparation period before entering the tunnel, Aize made some preparations for various common and uncommon traps that might be encountered.

As they advanced, at every distance, the knight at the end of the team who was responsible for maintaining the formation would leave marks on the walls and the ground to indicate that they had passed by.

After Heidi was swallowed by the white light and disappeared without a trace, Aize immediately discovered that the previous mark was gone.

Therefore, they quickly determined that they were not in the previous tunnel, but had triggered a trap containing space magic and were teleported to another identical tunnel deeper underground.

This tunnel forms a loop over a very large area, so that people inside it will never find the exit without noticing.

So far, this is just child's play.

The greatest danger comes when those trapped inside try to escape.

When entering the tunnel, the main body of the tunnel is only two meters deep from the ground.

After discovering that they couldn't escape by walking normally, the first reaction of anyone who hadn't noticed they were teleported deeper was to break through the ceiling and go straight to the ground.

Once they did so, the massive amount of quicksand soaked in monster venom that filled the tunnel above would immediately surge in and bury the invaders forever.

Similar to the quicksand trap used in ancient tombs to prevent tomb robbery.

If it came to this, even a brave warrior or demon leader with incredible strength would not be able to break through the thousands of tons of mud and earth pressing on them, and would be buried alive.

Simple and crude chain tricks, without complex mechanisms, are less likely to arouse vigilance.

Unfortunately, Aize saw through his plan at the very beginning and responded quickly.

The teleportation techniques in this world, especially those that teleport multiple people at once, can only be activated at fixed points.

Therefore, after prying open the ground beneath their feet, everyone immediately found the space teleportation mechanism hidden by bricks and stones mixed with anti-magic materials, which even Villian failed to notice at first.

As a product of witch technology from 200 years ago, Villian cracked it with almost no effort and quickly teleported everyone back to their original place.

Continuing along the original path, he cracked several more conventional mechanisms such as flying arrows and falling rocks, easily killed the defensive puppets placed in them, and then arrived in front of the workshop.

At this time, Arthur was entangled with Heidi and did not notice this situation.

Then the next step is simple demolition work.

Under Aize's command and the joint attack of elite knights and high-level vampires, the defense line inside the workshop could not even hold out for a minute before they were completely killed inside.

At the same time, Villian immediately intervened in the opponent's magic control system and hijacked the opponent's stored magic power to ensure that no matter what experiment the opponent was conducting, it could no longer continue.

Then killed here.

It’s not difficult, but it does take some effort to explain the process clearly.

Now is certainly not the time.

"I'll tell you later. How's it going on your side? Is Arthur and his men here?"

"Yes, he escaped, I'm going to chase him!"

After Heidi finished speaking, she ran to the wall where Arthur had just disappeared without looking back.

Without time to find the switch, he raised his battle axe and split the wall, falling into the secret passage.

There was no chance for Aize to stop him.

"What an energetic princess! If all human nobles were like this, we might have had more fun in the previous war~"

Charlotte walked over and stepped on the neck of a half-blood on the ground, breaking his neck lightly and gracefully.

"What should I do? Do you want me to chase after her?"

"No need. I'll take the others. In return, I'll leave the task of clearing this place to you."

"No problem, haha, that's perfect. I'm going to extract all the blood from these bastards who tainted the True Ancestor's bloodline one by one."

After saying that, Charlotte turned happily and walked towards the high-level vampires.

With a slight raise of his hand, the blood flowing all over the ground gathered together as if under his control, turning into countless blood blades, instantly piercing several half-vampires into sieves.

Their corpses exploded, and every drop of flying blood came under Charlotte's control the moment its former owner died.

Transform into more deadly blood blades, or even gather into a giant snake to engulf more enemies in order to further increase its size.

This is Charlotte's power to manipulate blood.

When fighting alone with elite soldiers, it is difficult to make the opponent bleed, so you can only use your own blood, so the power is insufficient.

But once it enters the blood-soaked battlefield, its power is destructive.

So when it comes to the ability to fight in group battles, Charlotte might even be more terrifying than Villian, who is proficient in large-scale destructive techniques.

It should be fine to leave this to her.

Aize called on his subordinates to prepare for pursuit, but when he was about to enter the secret door, he noticed the rectangular objects fixed on the wall.

The magic power extracted from the Omni-Kingdom flowed into these objects through the crystal in the center of the room.

It can be said that the core of the entire Royal Capital Incident may be hidden in this.

"Go, open them."

Knowing yourself and your enemy is the key to victory in a hundred battles. Heidi's side should be fine for the time being, so we should check here first.

The two knights immediately ran to one of the objects, drew their swords, cut open the buckles that secured the object on both sides, and lifted and removed the lid.

The rectangular object turned out to be a coffin.

Lying among them was a corpse dressed in gorgeous clothes, but already turned into bones.

Under the influence of the magic power flowing into the coffin, some new flesh and blood was wriggling and growing on the long-withered bones, looking extremely disgusting.

The same thing happened in the other coffins.

Someone is indeed being resurrected, but who are these people...

Putting all the experiences of the past few days together, Aize suddenly thought of something:

"...We are currently located southeast of the capital, right?"

"Yes, Lord Aize."

A knight replied.

"No, no! Hurry up and catch up with Heidi. We can't let her solve this problem. Hurry!"

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The secret passage on the other side of the wall was not much bigger than the ones we had walked through before.

It was still an oppressive space, with magic circuits filling every corner visible to the naked eye.

All I can say is that the witch who designed and built this facility really doesn't have any artistic talent.

This journey did not last long. After going down a short flight of stairs, a larger space soon appeared before our eyes.

Compared with the previous dark and simple underground workshop, the style here is completely different.

The light was unusually bright, with a large number of torches and oil lamps on the walls on both sides providing plenty of light.