"I... I just want my people not to get involved in what's happening here. I also specifically warned them not to get involved with Javier. I really want to help you reduce various uncertainties!" Liu Pengfei stood up from the ground tremblingly, and just as he was about to approach the princess, he was hit by an electric current.
He let out a scream and took two steps back, only to find that there was a magic circle drawn on the ground. He was in the middle of the magic circle. As long as he moved out of this range, he would be blocked by an invisible barrier and then attacked by electric current.
The princess continued, "Also, Gabriel, Mei, and Anar's escape can also be blamed on you. If Mei hadn't picked them up, they would have been buried with the Shining Wing Tower that night! You have to know that this made the people in the Temple of Nature and the Royal Magic Tower extremely unhappy."
Liu Pengfei smiled bitterly and said, "I know. I am the scapegoat you need most now. Not only did Saint Gibran die this time, but the masters of all parties also suffered heavy losses. Although you also killed Saint Sasuo and defeated the Tower of Shining Wings and the Tower of Refining Spirits, it is more of a lose-lose situation than a victory. Therefore, you need a sinner so that those guys can have an explanation. Before throwing me out, you asked me to kill the queen, which was just a waste of waste."
"You are not wronged. Even if I didn't use you, others would not let you go if they knew the truth. If at that time, you were still my staff or even my lover, how could I explain to those people? On the contrary, if you were a criminal executed by my own hands, it would be very different."
"I see!" Liu Pengfei lowered his head and stared blankly at the ground. "Why can you switch between the innocent girl and the cunning conspirator so easily?"
"Alas, why do you always think that I am a girl who knows nothing? At the age of sixteen or seventeen, I can already be a general who can take charge of a matter independently and an official who manages the city. Why can't I be a qualified queen?" Princess Laura put on a harmless expression. "But, the innocent girl is actually the real me. When I don't think about so many things, I am like this. You are lucky to see another side of me, you should be proud."
She turned her head to one side. "Actually, I still like you a little. After I found out about you yesterday, I shed a lot of tears, but I told myself that crying for a man once is enough. Maybe we loved each other before we cried, but what happened after the tears... has nothing to do with love."
"Bitch! Shameless! You despicable villain!" Liu Pengfei raised his head and stared at Princess Laura with bloodshot eyes. He wanted to jump out and strangle this woman to death, but his punch on the barrier only brought the pain of electric shock.
Princess Laura turned a deaf ear and walked out the door. She knew Liu Pengfei was not a very brave man. All he could do was curse. "Just stay here. Your life is still useful now. There will be a grand performance waiting for you in a few days. Then you will get your own destination."
"Asshole!" Liu Pengfei roared with all his might, then sat down dejectedly.
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The next day, the defensive barrier outside the royal capital was still not lowered, and the city was still hunting down the remnants of the Twin Towers, but the huge royal capital could not be cut off from external resources for a day, so a hole was opened at the gate of the royal capital to allow caravans transporting various goods to enter and exit.
However, now all goods must be transported to designated unloading sites and sold to specific merchants, who then supply them to various shops in the capital. The entire process is patrolled by teams composed of the Royal Guards, the Magic Association, and the Temple of Nature to prevent any wanted people in the city from escaping through the caravan.
Therefore, every caravan's vehicle leaving the city must undergo the most stringent inspection.
However, the control for vehicles coming into the city is relatively less strict. As long as it does not look like a large number of warriors or mages are entering the city, the guards will not interfere too much. This gives those who are trying hard to sneak into the city enough opportunities.
There was a small caravan with only two carriages, waiting in line at the gate to enter the city. Sitting in the front carriage was Xiao Chen, who had been away from the capital for a long time. Next to him was Li Tianrui, who had returned. In the back carriage were Roger and Kalanda. Kalanda had Glade in the form of an earring on his ear.
After Xiao Chen settled the first batch of dark elves who immigrated and helped Peng Ziyi lock down Chang Lin, he left the school and headed for the royal capital. He had had the bottle of sap from the World Tree for some time, and now he had the chance to give it to Luo Ling.
One day before leaving the capital, they met Li Tianrui's convoy on the road. After exchanging information, Xiao Chen thought the current situation in the capital was very dangerous and decided to go to meet Luo Ling and others.
Li Tianrui knew the location of the safe house, so he volunteered to lead the way. It took them a day to reach the vicinity of the royal capital, but they found that the royal capital had now turned into a tortoise shell. Except for the necessary caravans, no one else was allowed to enter.
Xiao Chen managed to stop a small caravan transporting flour, offered a very generous price, bought the caravan's vehicles and goods together, and then disguised himself as a flour merchant and came to the city gate.
Xiao Chen and Li Tianrui both dyed their hair and changed into linen clothes, making themselves look a bit unkempt. They were already dusty, and they looked like traveling merchants.
"Don't be nervous." Xiao Chen saw Li Tianrui holding the reins tightly and knew that he was very nervous. The guards, accompanied by the mages, checked very carefully and they would randomly select some coachmen to ask questions.
"Those guys can't see the problem. I have secretly used magic to conceal us, so that they can ignore our flaws." Xiao Chen continued.
"There is such a spell? But won't the magic fluctuations attract their attention?" Li Tianrui asked.
"This is the advantage of the Origin Tower. I broke down and referenced some structures of the Concealment Technique, and just picked out some magic with concealment effects to cover us. There won't be any fluctuations, but it can make us very inconspicuous." Xiao Chen thought of a metaphor and said, "If casting a spell is like building a house, then the Origin Tower's method is like hiding in a cave. The movement caused by the two is incomparable."
Sure enough, just as Xiao Chen said, when the wizard holding the Eye of Truth led a group of soldiers to check their carriage, he didn't spend much time looking at their faces, as if they were all annoying people who would be annoyed if they looked at them for a second. Instead, he spent most of his energy on checking the flour. The goods on their carriage were turned upside down, but naturally nothing was found. After the inspection, Xiao Chen and others successfully sneaked into the capital.