Kingdom’s Bloodline

"Don't move around, ma'am," Nicolai said coldly to Kashan in front of him, "I'm very nervous, and I'm also afraid that you will bring out some special alchemy ball—so I'm ready, Open your throat."

He tapped the back of the knife with his index finger.

The Scarlet Witch lowered her shoulders and fell silent.

Thales looked at Nikolai who suddenly appeared in surprise, and then looked at the other White Blade Guards.

"Nikolai?"

He looked suspiciously at the meteorite who was holding the Scarlet Witch hostage: "Why would you..."

But Thales' words could not continue - Tuleha's hand holding his shoulder tightened suddenly, and Thales hissed in pain.

Seeing the situation of the prince, Huai Ya clenched his sword tightly in anger.

Tuleha dragged around Thales' neck with the back of his knife, forcing Thales to raise his head to the highest point.

Thales observed the situation in the field painfully: Tuleha and him were standing on the inner floor of the cell, and the little slicker was still behind them.

Everyone in Xingchen stood in front of them, looking nervously at the kidnapped prince.

Nicolai restrained the Scarlet Witch and stood behind the stars.

Behind Nikolai is the white-bladed guards, who resisted stubbornly by the thick door, staring at the soldiers outside the door vigilantly.

"A beautiful move, Meteorite," the Fire Knight of the Black Sand Collar calmly said to Nicolai, "But don't forget, I hold a more important bargaining chip."

The meteorite turned his head and glanced at Tuleha with disdain.

"Then let's do it, kill this prince," Nicolai snorted lightly, "Anyway, I haven't liked him for a long time."

Thales' eyes widened.

Wh-what?

Tuleha frowned.

"After you're done," Nikolai's soul-breaking blade swayed slightly on Kashan's neck, reflecting the light of the eternal lamp, and he smiled slightly: "Maybe they can give you a different one." Nicknames, like..."

The meteorite glanced at Thales, and grinned slightly at the flame knight:

"Meteor II?"

Tuleha stared at Nicolai fiercely, his eyes almost burst into flames.

"That's our prince," Cohen observed the deadlocked situation, exchanged a worried look with Wyatt, and said in a low voice, "Just look at it like this?"

"Otherwise?" Miranda looked at Raphael next to Nicolai, looked at Tuleha and Thales behind him, and glanced at the confronting White Blade Guards and enemies, and sighed slightly: "This is no longer Our battle is over."

At this moment, the kidnapped Scarlet Witch spoke.

"White Blade Guard, Exeter's Dragon Guard." She said softly.

"You are on the wrong side." Kashan didn't seem to have the slightest awareness of being pressed against the carotid artery by a blade, but she smiled naturally and smoothly: "Your opponents are those behind you, those imperial people. "

Nicolai raised his eyebrows slightly.

The Scarlet Witch sighed softly,

It seems to be extremely regrettable: "It was their secret department who planned all this - such as disasters, such as the death of the king."

The faces of the stars, including Thales, also changed.

Well... Kashan is right - Thales thought anxiously.

The second prince glanced worriedly at the White Blade Guards present, but their expressions were all hidden behind the mask, leaving only a pair of cold eyes.

Raphael, who was standing beside Nicolai, sighed slightly: "Oh, this question—it's very complicated to say."

"But now..." He walked up to the two of them, looked at Nikolai seriously, and looked at the blade in his hand that was forcing Kashan: "Should we find a way to get out first?"

Nikolai suddenly turned his head to look at the young man in the secret department, his eyes were cold.

Raphael endured the knife-like look, and he showed a pretended relaxed smile: "You know, Walton's heir is also here."

"Maybe it's not a good time to chat—especially with the Scarlet Witch who lies so many times."

Nicolai looked towards the innermost part of the cell.

Xiao Huatou was taken aback for a moment, and then realized that it was him who was talking, and his face turned pale.

"If you really want to help, kid from the Secret Department," Nikolai said with a cold light in his eyes, "don't block my way."

Raphael sighed slightly.

"Otherwise," the meteorite continued sharply, "do you want to be trapped here? Maybe they will bury your ashes under the city gate."

Raphael was silent for a second. He looked at Tuleha and Thales behind him, then at Nicolai and the Scarlet Witch in front of him, and raised his eyebrows slightly: "I understand."

At this moment, Thales raised his eyebrows.

He saw Rolf make a covert sign language gesture towards him.

[Back. 】

Thales was slightly taken aback.

"For His Majesty's sake, Lord Nicolai," the Scarlet Witch said slowly, "Don't do anything stupid."

Nicolai glanced around the audience, and his gaze stayed on Raphael and the Scarlet Witch for a second respectively.

"You don't need to tell us what to do, Ms. Kashan," the meteorite snorted coldly, with a fierce look in his eyes: "The shame of the white blade can only be washed away with blood."

In the hands of the White Blade Guards, there was the sound of friction between palms and handles.

Kashan's eyes sharpened, and he shouted: "Then what are you going to do now?"

The Scarlet Witch's words were rarely tinged with coldness: "After the king passed away, Exeter experienced a rare disaster—you should stand on the side of the kingdom and the people of the North!"

"Instead of collaborating with our enemies, fly camp dog dog!"

Kashan's words echoed in the cell.

Thales breathed out tremblingly under Tuleha's knife.

Nikolai suddenly laughed.

His laugh was grim and sarcastic.

"The catastrophe of Exeter? Our enemy?" The Meteor gritted his teeth, and his eyes were cold: "Don't pretend to be righteous, hypocritical old woman."

"When your people started to falsely spread the news of the so-called Sword of Disaster, and started to draw His Majesty's attention because of Luba's actions, you betrayed him!"

The Scarlet Witch narrowed her eyes.

"You and your eyes and ears, you join forces with His Majesty's enemies, you play deaf and dumb to the actions of the black sand leader, until His Majesty dies in a shameful assassination, until they stand here," Nikolai said coldly in Kashan He whispered in his ear: "Who do you think these brothers of the White Blade Guard escaped with their lives?"

tread!

The soldiers of the White Blade Guard all changed their steps and faced the enemy sideways. The sudden movement made the soldiers of the black sand collar even more nervous.

Cassan sighed.

"About this, if you wish," the Scarlet Witch said flatly, looking at the blade on her neck, "I swear in the name of the dark room, I can explain."

Nikolai made a nasal sound of unknown meaning.

"Why don't you explain to His Majesty," the meteorite narrowed his eyes:

"Oh, I forgot—he was killed by you and Rumba."

As soon as these words came out, the atmosphere in the cell became more tense.

"Don't be so narrow-minded, Lord Nicolai." The Scarlet Witch showed a mournful expression, her eyes glanced at Tuleha and Thales: "The White Blade Guard has never been the private weapon of a certain person, and you should be loyal to the entire Aix Special, loyal to the North..."

Nicolai interrupted her.

"The narrow person is not me."

The meteorite's tone was cold: "If you and your dark room, if you can't even be loyal to one person..."

"Don't falsely claim that you are loyal to Exeter."

Ms. Kashan frowned slightly: "You..."

At this moment, a sudden change occurred!

I saw Nicolai's left hand pressing on Kashan's back - pushing her out!

Tuleha's pupils suddenly tightened.

how……

Raphael, who was standing in the middle, suddenly sent his hands away, pushing Miranda, Cohen, Wyah and others away, avoiding the path where the Scarlet Witch was pushed!

The shocked Scarlet Witch was pushed to the innermost layer of Tuleha and Thales.

Thales looked at Ms. Cassan who was staggering towards them, and at the Starmen on both sides who avoided him, and suddenly realized: He remembered the conversation between Raphael and Nicolai just now.

That was the planned exchange between the two of them: 【If you really want to help... just get out of my way. 】

Tuleha watched in surprise as the figure of the Starman separated, and watched as the figure of the Scarlet Witch got closer.

He hesitated for a moment.

Until Nicolai with a cold expression appeared behind Kashan.

"call--"

The Meteor's weapon blew a knife wind, without any restraint, and slashed at the top of the Scarlet Witch's head from top to bottom!

It was as if taking her life here.

Tuleha didn't hesitate any longer.

Still holding Thales tightly, he headed towards Nicolai and the Scarlet Witch.

"clang!"

The Flame Knight's left hand held Thales tightly, and his right hand firmly blocked the deadly stab of the Meteorite who attacked the Scarlet Witch.

At this moment, the frowning Scarlet Witch managed to gain a firm foothold by his side.

But at the next moment, Nikolai's eyes suddenly burst into an unprecedented look!

"Ah!" The Meteor roared angrily, with enormous power pouring out of his hands.

There was a sharp sound of metal friction on the golden saber of the Flame Knight!

The face of Tuleha, who was defending against the enemy with one hand, changed.

At that second, he decisively let go of Thales, grasped the handle of the knife with both hands, and resisted the huge force that Nikolai erupted.

Thales, who was out of control, ignored the signal Rolf gave him just now, gritted his teeth and closed his eyes, and rolled back!

He bumped into the little slippery guy behind him who was helping him, and the two hit the wall together.

Thales, who was in an embarrassing figure, didn't go to manage the situation in the field anymore. He was thinking about the conversation between Raphael and Nicolai just now.

They said more than that.

【Do you want to get stuck here? 】

Stuck here?

The moment this idea just popped up, Thales felt a shock in his body!

"What's wrong?" Xiao Huatou hugged him and asked in surprise.

He didn't know how to answer.

No chance to answer either.

"boom!"

There was another loud explosion of earth and rock.

The ground under Thales and Slippery suddenly sank, and then split open.

again?

This thought came to Thales' mind.

In the next second, they both fell into the cracked underground.

I don't know if it's Rolf's ability or the impact of the explosion, the air in the room started to roar again, and the dust rose up, captivating the sight.

Thales hugged the little slippery head tightly and closed his eyes tightly.

"boom!"

He only felt a pain in his butt, and then fell into a pile of soft sand with the little slippery head.

It was dark all around.

Thales stood up with difficulty, and beside him, the coughing of the little slippery head kept coming.

Overhead—there was the sound of fierce fighting in the cell they had just been in.

They were not the only ones who fell down.

"Your Highness!" A figure pulled him up, and Wyatt's voice came anxiously: "Are you alright?"

Before Thales could answer, more than a dozen figures fell from the sky and hit the sand.

In the dust, Thales tightly covered his mouth and nose, endured the severe pain in his buttocks and pulled up his little slippery head, feeling depressed: Why do these people like to play this game so much!

"According to the plan, let's go!"

Nicolai's voice came from the darkness: "At the end of the secret road, there will be someone to meet you!"

"Our people are coming!"

Before Thales had time to complain, he and the little slippery figure were hugged by the waist, one by one, by a tall and muscular figure.

Little Slick exclaimed.

"Damn it!"

Cohen's exasperated voice sounded above Thales' head: "It's too dark, I can't see the way clearly!"

In the chaos, the sound of human bodies falling and the sound of fierce weapons clashing could be heard continuously from above.

Soon, the voices got closer and closer.

"Meteorite!"

Following another loud crash, the angry roar of the Flaming Knight Tulehan came from behind: "Stop them!"

A fierce metal strike sounded.

"Throw down a few torches!" This was the voice of the Scarlet Witch. After experiencing such a big accident, she still calmly ordered: "Before this—anyone who wants to move is an enemy!"

Thales felt a chill in his heart: the pursuers are coming.

"Follow that masked mute!" In the darkness and chaos, Nicolai roared while fighting the enemies in the darkness: "He can feel the direction of the wind at the exit!"

"The mute?"

The security officer took two steps and said impatiently, "I can't even see where he is!"

In the dark, Thales only felt that Cohen's arm was about to strangle him to faint.

His crime of prison river was launched without warning.

Waves flooded Thales' eyes, and a strange color suddenly appeared around him.

"Shut up, big guy!" Thales gritted his teeth and tapped Cohen's arm angrily: "Listen to me!"

The security officer who was holding him immediately gave a meal.

Thales forced himself to calm down. He found Rolf in the cluttered field of vision——the figure with blue light, and then said to Cohen: "Five steps forward—no, your words are two steps —and turn left!"

"Go!" Thales urged anxiously without feeling any movement, "Don't be dazed!"

It was only then that Cohen seemed to come back to his senses, and followed Thales' steps.

"Wow," the security officer stepped forward cautiously, feeling the firmness under his feet, and asked in surprise, "You—you can see it?"

Thales was slightly taken aback.

"Go straight ahead—just eat more animal livers and fruits," Thales lied without changing his expression in the sight of Hell River Sin:

"In the dark, you can also find the light!"

In the darkness, Cohen nodded suspiciously.

In a state of bewilderment, Cohen followed Rolf along the path pointed out by Thales.

The sounds of fighting behind them became more and more intense.

In Thales' vision, a dozen of them followed Rolf and ran into a narrow tunnel in the dark.

"Nikolai!" Tuleha's roar came again: "Don't even think about it!"

The next moment, a bright light suddenly shot from behind, illuminating their surroundings clearly.

Thales narrowed his eyes and looked around clearly.

The tunnel they were in was very narrow, full of dust, and even the ground was uneven dirt and stone roads.

Rolf took the lead, his posture was like the wind, Thales and the little slippery head were taken by Cohen, Miranda and Wyah followed closely, and everyone was running nervously.

The white blade guards guarded closely behind.

Only the Meteorite and Raphael were missing.

The light behind him grew brighter.

Thales couldn't help but grabbed Cohen's arm and turned his head.

Then he froze.

There is nothing behind them.

There was only a raging fire.

It was like an invisible huge fire snake rushing into this small earth-stone tunnel and devouring them.

The surrounding temperature suddenly rose.

"This is the Rising Sun Saber!" The Meteorite roared from behind, "Damn it, secret science, get out of the way if you don't want to be roasted!"

In the flames, two figures appeared in the eyes of Thales who had been transformed by the crime of Hell River.

One of the figures, the light on the body is like countless needles, scattered out.

He pushed away another gray figure.

Then, the hedgehog-like figure—presumably Nikolai—slashed down the back of the tunnel.

The next moment, Fire Snake seemed to have hit an invisible barrier, and was firmly blocked in front of the two of them.

Like a vertical wall of fire.

This reminded Thales of the air wall of the magician of air.

But he could see clearly in his vision: What blocked those flames was another strange invisible barrier that glowed yellow.

It is connected to Nikolai's Soul-Breaking Blade, which also glows yellow.

"You can't run!" The Flame Knight roared angrily from behind the flames.

"Are there any alchemy balls? The ones that explode?"

Before the flames, the gray figure turned around and asked Nicolai who was beside him, "How long can you hold back, they will catch up sooner or later!"

Thales recognized it: that's Raphael.

"It's the last stock of the guards just now, use one less!" In the vision of Hell River Sin, Nikolai, who looked like a glowing hedgehog, held up the blade of the broken soul, firmly blocking the growing flames.

"Really?" Raphael's voice came.

"Do you think it's a snowball?" Nikolai turned his head and said angrily to the staff of the secret department, "Can you just take one out?"

Raphael didn't speak.

He turned around abruptly, and raised his left hand in the direction of the fire.

A ball was thrown by him.

"Damn it!" Seeing the ball, Nicolai yelled angrily, "You should have said it earlier!"

Then he and Raphael both turned around and rushed to save.

The moment the meteorite turned around, the turbulent flame seemed to have lost its barrier and surged fiercely.

next second.

"boom!"

With the violent explosion, Thales felt a sudden shock in his vision!

Another burst of dust.

Everyone couldn't help coughing, their feet were unsteady.

"boom--"

Rumbling explosions, accompanied by the sound of countless earth and rocks pouring, continued to come.

Everyone couldn't help but stopped and turned their heads to look behind them.

The flame gradually diminished until it completely disappeared.

Then disappeared, and those two figures.

Thales squinted his eyes and opened his mouth in surprise. He knew: the tunnel behind him had collapsed.

The surroundings returned to darkness and silence.

Only the gasps of the crowd remained, one after another.

"Oh My God!"

This is Huai Ya's panicked voice: "They...they..."

"Don't stop, no matter what happens next, don't stop." It was an unfamiliar voice, probably from a white-bladed guard, and his words carried long-suppressed anger.

"You go!"

Miranda's decisive voice sounded in the darkness: "I'll go find them!"

Cohen was taken aback: "But——"

In the next second, Miranda's light footsteps had gone away.

"Don't stand still!"

A white-bladed guard said coldly: "We are not out of danger yet!"

Cohen let out a breath unwillingly, and Thales felt that he was turning his head and staring at the darkness behind.

"If you're worried," Thales sighed, "then go and have a look."

Thales felt Cohen's arm tighten.

"Let me take His Highness with you," Wyatt gasped, "He can't get stuck here."

Cohen shuddered slightly.

After a few seconds.

"Fuck!" A foul word came out of the police officer's mouth.

In the next second, Cohen stomped his feet fiercely, then turned his head and took a step forward.

A group of people followed Rolf and hurried on their way in silence.

They keep running.

In a tunnel that seems to have no end.

In seemingly endless peril.

In the bottomless darkness.

To the only way of life.

Thales stared blankly at the darkness behind him, and the crimes of Hell River kept gathering in his eyes.

Several minutes passed.

Finally, Thales' eyes moved.

In the deep darkness behind him, a figure glowing like a hedgehog appeared.

Then came a gray figure.

And a figure emitting white light.

"Because there is only one, of course we must be cautious," Raphael's voice came faintly in the darkness: "I don't have the habit of swinging around with an alchemy ball."

Nicolai, Raphael, and Miranda followed.

"God! Oh!" Cohen heard Raphael's voice. He turned his head and didn't even care if his feet tripped: "I thought you were really buried in it!"

Beside Raphael, the meteorite muttered something in a low voice.

His voice clearly entered Thales' ears amidst the chaotic footsteps - it seemed to be "stinger".

Thales breathed a sigh of relief.

They escaped.

"Okay," Nicolai's words came, much calmer than before: "There should be no danger."

"We are in the secret passage after all."

A group of people probably knew they were out of danger, and their steps slowed down and turned into walking.

Thales and the little slippery head were let down.

Thales leaned on the wall, subconsciously slapped his chest, his mind was empty, and he felt that he had passed another level.

"Speaking of..." In the darkness, Cohen's doubtful voice came.

"Why don't you light a fire?"

The security officer said impatiently: "Are you going to run like a blind man?"

"The ventilation here is not very good," Nicolai said lightly, "If you want to suffocate, of course you can."

Cohen fell silent for a moment.

"By the way." In the darkness, Huai Ya leaned on the wall, panting slightly: "Isn't this city gate the defense line of the Heroic Spirit Palace... how can there be... a secret passage that can sneak in?"

There was a moment of silence in the tunnel.

"The Third Continental War," Nicolai's voice came slowly: "The Nightwing King has occupied other cities, leaving only the Ax District and the Palace of Heroes."

"In the situation where the Heroic Spirit Palace is isolated and helpless, blocked on all sides, and supplies are cut off-this is the last chance dug out by the people of the Northland."

"Huh," Cohen let out a breath, his tone full of gratitude for getting out of the catastrophe:

"Thank you Lord Nightwing - you are truly great."

Everyone is silent.

Even if he couldn't see it, Cohen felt the murderous gazes from the Northland people at that moment.

In the darkness came the sound of Miranda's elbow.

And Cohen's cry of pain.

"Um, I just..." A few seconds later, the police officer's embarrassed voice sounded: "Are you kidding me?"

"After the war, this secret passage became top secret, and even the dark room had to be kept secret," Nikolai snorted coldly, "Only the commanders of the White Blade Guard of the past generations know about it."

In the darkness, the footsteps of the people from the stars suddenly stopped together.

Even the footsteps of the White Blade Guard stopped.

Thales was stunned.

"etc!"

The prince raised his head and looked at the needle-like figure in his field of vision, his tone full of surprise: "You mean, the commander of the White Blade Guard in the past?"

Nicolai said indifferently, "Yes, what's the matter."

Cohen gasped.

Miranda sighed.

"All generations, all generations of commanders," Thales let out a painful breath: "Is the one before you considered 'all generations'?"

Nikolai's breathing stagnated suddenly: "Huh?"

Raphael felt something was wrong, and his questioning voice sounded behind him:

"Any questions?"

Thales turned his head and looked at the front of the tunnel in the field of vision given to him by the crime of prison river.

There is no end to the dark front.

As their only way forward.

"have."

In the darkness, Thales said weakly: "And..."

"The problem is huge."