"Are you alone? You can't break through the protection circle of the Imperial Knights by yourself..."
"No, it's not." The ranger pointed at the air around him. "His Majesty the Regent and his team are also here."
"His Majesty?!"
The presiding judge's face suddenly changed. Before she could shout out something in excitement, Yang Hao stepped forward and covered her mouth, removing his invisibility and slightly loosening his disguise.
In front of the excited Natalia, Yang Hao gently signaled her to be quiet. They needed more information, especially the information about the number of imperial knights who were staying in the palace. If Natalia knew it, it would be of great help.
Natalia took several deep breaths to calm her inner excitement, then she gently took Yang Hao's hand away. Then she looked at the black shadow in front of her that had once again turned into air and said in a suppressed voice:
"Your Majesty... Anna's situation is not bad. There are only 40 imperial knights guarding the door. If it were you and your elves, you would definitely be able to break through their defenses... But the Night Witch is nearby. I can't guarantee whether she will do anything when we rescue Anna."
"We won't teleport in the Queen's bedroom. After rescuing Anna, we have to go to the Memorial Hall—it's spacious and has only one entrance and exit, so the mages can make all the preparations for teleportation. Natalia, you take the ranger there first. I will rescue Anna. I promise."
Natalia and Yang Hao were both pragmatic people. After finalizing their respective plans, no matter how excited the presiding judge was, she still chose to accept the mission and act accordingly.
After adding invisibility magic to them again and letting them leave, Yang Hao brought the other elves back to the corridor in front of the Queen's bedroom.
There are about 40 Imperial Knights guarding here. Judging from the medal stripes on the shoulders of the Imperial Knights, Yang Hao tentatively believes that those guarding here are basically elite veterans under Knight Robert.
The Queen is protected by a group of veterans, and one can imagine how much Gasson values Anna. Yang Hao is very clear that the elves now only have the Gappa 1404 rifle, which has the ability to penetrate the shields and armor of these knights. Moreover, he would never let the small number of elves engage in hand-to-hand combat in a narrow terrain, which is a loss of his ability.
He decided to let the elves use rifles, because there was no need to hide any longer.
Once the little queen's position is moved, Priscilla will definitely know what this means - instead of letting her prepare bit by bit, it is better to do it like this...
"Aim your gun..."
Let Priscilla lose his intention to interfere in the roar of gunfire—
Then, taking advantage of the fact that she had no chance to gather her courage, he rushed in at full speed, rescued Anna as quickly as possible, and then escaped.
Yang Hao's thoughts at this moment were very clear. Not only that, at that moment, he also recalled the "corpse soldiers" that appeared during the Parish War...
He recalled the place where he escaped, and the bodies of his brother and sister-in-law were still placed in the memorial hall.
"Fire!"
Bang-
The elves shot.
The roaring salvo directly woke up everyone who was still in the Roman Palace, everyone who could hear the thunder coming from the Roman Palace, and also stunned Priscilla who was observing the external situation on the Mage Tower.
"Are they here already?" she murmured. After clearly observing the heavy casualties of the Imperial Knights in front of the corridor of the Queen's bedroom through magic, she stood up with her staff. "It's time to finish my last work in the capital. Next... I'll go find Cecilia."
But before that—she had to buy herself time to leave.
With this thought in mind, Priscilla slowly left her own mage tower. She already understood her position.
And in the corridor in front of the Queen's bedroom.
The Imperial Knights suffered heavy casualties. They tried to launch a fierce attack on the invaders, but Yang Hao, who was familiar with the Imperial Knights' drill, had already ordered the elves to start shooting in batches.
If the Imperial Knights suffered ten casualties in the initial volley, then in the second round of continuous shooting, only a few of them would be able to stand on the ground, raise their shields and continue to launch a futile charge.
Times have changed - if the elves still hold longbows at this moment, they may find themselves in a hand-to-hand combat where they are at a disadvantage.
But the elves were holding rifles.
Faced with the knights who came back, they just fired at them again, turning them into a hornet's nest, and then protected His Majesty the Regent and rushed to the Queen's bedroom as quickly as possible.
Without bothering to explain his identity to the people inside, Yang Hao just kicked the thick door open.
Then an elf master rushed in and dismembered the two servants behind the door who were armed with swords and trying to kill the queen into dozens of pieces. Then Yang Hao rushed to the edge of the bed and hugged the little girl who was coughing inside in his arms.
"Anna, it's me! It's me!" Yang Hao tore off all his disguises and hugged his brother's poor daughter. "Let's go home - Natalia has been rescued, let's go!"
The queen was stunned for a moment. After seeing Yang Hao's face clearly, she hugged Yang Hao's shoulders and cried, but she couldn't even utter a clear sound.
The elf wizard on the side said that the tongue could be treated immediately, but Yang Hao said it would be better to leave here first.
"We can't waste the remaining magic power here! Quick! We must make our preparations before Priscilla drains all the magic power in the capital area - let's go!"
They left the Queen's bedroom as quickly as possible, and the moment they left, the head maid who realized that the judge's tracking technique was in the wrong location came here with the rest of the imperial knights and guards.
The two sides met each other, and the elves directly stopped the knights' charge with a round of volleys, and then released invisibility on all members, and escaped from here in the smoke.
The gunshots sounded like thunder, and as the entire Roman Palace was awakened, they had to hurry.
The head maid looked at the dead body beside her and the empty Queen's chamber with a grim face.
She cursed twice, waved her hand to remove her magic barrier, and immediately ordered the imperial knights to move towards the memorial hall and the cafeteria:
"After they come in, they can only escape through magic! Only these two places have enough space to prepare group teleportation spells! Send troops there immediately, and have the mages on the city wall come over to support us!"
"But head maid, the wizard on the city wall is fighting the black dragon!"
The head maid glared at the waiter fiercely, and then did not forget to say:
"You're wasting magic power by letting the mages fight against a black dragon that is almost immune to magic. It would be better to let them raise their hammers and fight the black dragon hand-to-hand right now. Order them to come here immediately! And where is Priscilla?"
"The witch is on her way..."
"Let her come with us immediately."
The Maid Commander ordered the Imperial Knights to split into two groups and head to two locations to intercept the intruders. On the other side, Black Dragon also noticed that the "mages have left" signals were appearing one after another on the mage towers. Not only that, the garrisons that had been running around behind him were also on their way to the palace.
Combined with the deafening noise we just heard, it seems that Yang Hao and his team have successfully completed their work
"So the next step is to wait for them to teleport back? I have to pretend to get hit here, so that I won't be able to make him owe me a favor."
Black Dragon smacked his lips as he noticed a group of people passing by the street in front of the nobles’ gathering area, which was indeed within the range of the crossbow launchers…
Nia cheered and whistled down, ignoring the countless magical shadows following behind her, and directly blew a breath of dragon's breath at the garrison team supporting the palace and the noble mansion next to it.
Huh—whoosh!
"Haha! I hate you Roman nobles the most!"
Wherever the dragon's breath went, the place was engulfed in fire. Nia cheered and deliberately exposed her belly to the crossbow on the city wall.
She had calculated that a single crossbow arrow would not pose a fatal threat to her. It would only make her look more miserable - but that was all.
The Black Dragon looked expectantly at the crossbow on the tower of the distant city wall that was already aiming.
She used magic to protect her head, wings, and limbs, and even protected her spine and back, leaving her abdomen without any protection.
Not to mention that she deliberately let the magic power show a glittering special effect in front of the barrier! If you don't know where to aim, then Nia can only say - rubbish!
Fortunately, the ballista operator was not that stupid, and Nia was so happy about it that she was even prepared for the pain.
She saw with her own eyes the operator pulled the trigger of the crossbow, and the ferocious crossbow arrow flew towards her abdomen.
Her body had reached its most relaxed state. She had even begun to think about how miserable a scream she would have to make when the crossbow arrow hit her so that the regent in the palace would hear it and make him feel even more ashamed of himself.
She had even planned how to pretend to be dying when the time came.
And at the moment when the crossbow arrow was about to hit her, Nia's whole body became excited.
Come on! Go through me!
Nia roared internally.
In her expectation.
The crossbow arrow, which was obviously worn out and not even very sharp, hit the hard dragon scales on Nia's abdomen.
Then, as Nia stared blankly, the arrow rubbed against the dragon scales and turned abruptly, leaving a white mark on the black dragon scales.
…
It just fell.
The black dragon was suspended in the air, and the crossbow operator was angrily slapping the outdated and too small crossbow.
Faintly, Nia seemed to hear the other party say "The distance is too far, we have to fire another shot!", but more than that, Nia knew very well that it was not because of the distance or the short range...
"Oooooh?!"
She let out a full-throated roar in frustration.
Have you Romans' city defense equipment become so shameful? ! How can it be that the range is insufficient? ! Even if I stand in front of that crossbow, your crossbow arrows can't break my defense, right? !
(A bunch of barbarians who are proud of using outdated weapons from decades ago?!)
All good things were ruined, and the Black Dragon could only vent all his anger on the crossbows guarding the royal capital before leaving.
On the other side, the angry roar of the Black Dragon could be heard through the thick wall. Yang Hao muttered, "Could it be that the Black Dragon was hurt by someone?" as he rushed into the memorial hall with others.
After cooperating with the ranger and Natalia who had been waiting here for a long time to block the entire gate, he ordered the masters to place the Gappa 1405 heavy machine gun in front of the gate and ensure that the shooter was ready to shoot at any time. Then he handed Anna, who was tired of crying in his arms, to the care of the anxious court president.
"Take her with you. Don't leave our formation. We are leaving soon." Yang Hao comforted him, then immediately turned around and shouted to the Archmage: "Archmage! Can you take these two coffins with you? Just take our people, our machine guns, and these two coffins!"
He pointed to the two coffins in the memorial hall—the coffin of his brother-in-law Benjamin Roman and the coffin of his sister-in-law.
The archmage took a quick look and said it was okay, but it might take a little longer to prepare.
"It's only changed from half an hour to 31 minutes, which is acceptable. Now we just need to guard the only entrance and exit! Please focus on preparing for the transmission!"
"Understood..."
The archmage nodded and began to talk eloquently about gathering the magical resources in the royal capital area.
Once a certain amount of magic power is bound by elven magic, this part of magic power cannot be used by people other than elves - this is also a reflection of the elves' attainments in magic.
As for the Imperial Knights and Mages outside, after they discovered that the tracking techniques on the Chief Judge and the Little Queen had converged at the Memorial Hall at some point, they immediately realized that the Chief Judge was not a bait.
"Hurry to the Memorial Hall, hurry to the Memorial Hall! We must stop them before they use teleportation magic to leave!"
The fully armed guards shouted as they approached the corridor where the memorial hall was located through the narrow passage, but in the end they were unable to use their fists or feet due to the narrow terrain.
At this time, Priscilla also came over. She held her staff, and under the gaze of the head maid, she just shook her head and said: If you don't open the door, I can't cast magic on the precise person inside.
"After all, this is the limitation of my night magic. So, what do you mean?"
"Break open the door of the memorial hall."
The head maid was helpless because no one at the scene had a higher level of magical attainment than the witch.
She could only order the Imperial Knights to use benches brought from other rooms as battering rams, and let them try to break open the door that was blocked from the inside little by little.
Dong-dong-
The heavy door of the memorial hall continued to shake off dust and debris under the impact of the imperial knights. Just as the imperial knights were preparing for the third round of impact, a strange sound came from inside...
The head maid's face changed drastically, and she subconsciously cast a magic barrier on herself - while the Witch of the Night wisely hid aside and behind a stone in the courtyard.
Bang, bang, bang—
A thunderous sound was heard again in the memorial hall, but unlike the previous regular and discontinuous sound, this time there was almost no gunfire.
The knight carrying the bench battering ram was caught off guard and hit by bullets, and countless blood flowers burst out. Some bullets happened to hit the head maid's surroundings, but were finally "slipped away" by her magic barrier.
"What the hell is this?!"
The head maid looked at the finger-sized cone-shaped object that slipped away from her barrier with a grim face.
She watched the conical weapons slide away, and immediately realized that these things were the culprits that caused the tragic casualties among the Imperial Knights.
But just because she can see these things clearly doesn’t mean that the guards and knights can see them!
To them, their comrades-in-arms were covered in blood mist at the sudden noise.
They couldn't see the arrows, the magic, or the existence of the enemy, and their comrades died in obscurity!
All they could do was to immediately move away from the main entrance of the gate. Once they moved away and became timid, no one would dare to take the risk of carrying the bench, and no one would dare to take the risk of breaking through the gate that had several holes in it!
The knights and soldiers just looked at each other. Some tried to block the holes with their shields, but were killed again by the people inside with unknown weapons.
This further dampened the morale of all the warriors. The head maid turned pale, and she also moved away from the shooting range of the gate, and then quickly ordered the Witch of the Night:
"Priscilla! Hurry up! Now's your chance to cast a spell!"
"yes."
The Night Witch nodded.
She looked at the hole in the gate in the distance and realized that there seemed to be someone inside looking for her with an unknown weapon.
She chuckled twice, and then she released the magic she had prepared long ago -
But this magic was not thrown into the memorial hall.
Instead, she smashed it directly in front of the surrounding soldiers.
In an instant, black fog enveloped the entire Roman court.