Chapter 618: Martial Artist
Above the auditorium is where many important figures are.
There is an anti-gravity platform suspended alone on the upper level, where the queen and a group of ministers are.
Since the auditorium has no roof and the top is empty, one can see what is happening below even if one is at the very top.
Logically speaking, when Elena and her men sealed off the auditorium, the ministers above should have reacted.
But the reality is that the "viewing platform" above fell faster than the auditorium.
If you want to know the reason...it lies with the second prince.
"This is really..." The queen was still sitting on the throne, wearing a golden and red crown on her head and holding a golden cane like a scepter in her hand. There was a red gem on the top of the cane, making it look like a magic wand.
Looking at the crowd that split into two groups, the Queen smiled and said softly:
"Although I expected that some people would betray me, I didn't expect... that there would be half as many. I remember that some of them didn't seem to be your subordinates? Grisis?"
The Queen said, turning her gaze towards the leader of the group.
The young man who looks similar to the Queen but is much more sinister is the Second Prince Grisis.
Grisis was wearing a white dress with blue stripes, and she stood there as elegantly as the queen.
In his hand he held a decorative cane, which stood on the ground, with his palms placed on the top of the cane, looking up at the queen who was still sitting on the throne.
Hearing the other party talking about himself, Grisis smiled and said, "My eldest brother is too cowardly. In recent years, he has neglected those who are loyal to him in order to make a breakthrough. So it is not surprising that these people are looking for another wise leader."
"Grisis, a minister who repeatedly betrays you cannot be trusted. I think you should know this."
"No, no, no, they just found someone more worthy of their loyalty, so it's not considered betrayal."
Grisis smiled, raised his right hand and shook his index finger.
The Queen's smile deepened upon seeing this. The smile on her face was as gentle as the one when Li Qi saw her. However, the words that came out of her mouth had nothing to do with gentleness: "Shouldn't the person you should be most loyal to be me? You mediocre person who can't even understand this, you might as well commit suicide."
The Queen put emphasis on the word 'suicide'.
The ministers who had rebelled against the eldest prince were instantly panicked, and one of them quickly looked at the second prince:
"Second…Second Prince! We betrayed the Crown Prince for you, you can't just leave us alone!"
“…”
The man's words made Grisis's mouth twitch involuntarily.
That's true, but saying it in public is a bit thoughtless.
The Queen was right, these people were truly mediocre and could not judge the situation.
But there was no way. Although there were many ministers participating in the wedding, there were actually not as many as imagined.
The entire empire covers one-third of the universe. With such a vast territory, there are almost tens of thousands of important officials.
Even if we only count those officials with titles such as duke, earl, and viscount, there are at least several thousand people.
Of course, it is impossible for all the thousands of people to come and celebrate the Ninth Princess' wedding. Only a few dozen people at most can come.
Although most of these dozens of people are important ministers of the country, these ministers... are on the Queen's side. Except for a 'Minister of Transportation' who stands on the side of the Second Prince, most of the remaining officials on the Second Prince's side do not hold very important positions.
Therefore, in order to increase the momentum of his side, the second prince used threats or inducements to attract a lot of people to his side.
But with so many people not having been screened, their abilities are bound to be mixed. This isn't a big deal at all. At most we can find a way to slowly eliminate them later.
But who would have thought that there is actually a guy here who tells everything when something happens.
Grisis was somewhat dissatisfied with the minister who was speaking, but after all, he was one of his own, so Grisis had no choice but to tap the cane in his hand.
Boom.
Invisible ripples spread forward from the cane and seemed to collide with something, and strong winds blew in all directions with that as the center.
"My Lady Queen Mother, this is my subject after all. I should have the final say on how to deal with him."
Grithis raised his head and said to the Queen.
The Queen's smile remained the same, even more gentle. She tilted her head slightly and said softly:
"That's true. After all, you've grown up... But——"
At this point, the Queen smiled and turned to the ministers who had betrayed the Crown Prince, and said softly:
"No one can change the order given by this emperor, so please kill yourselves."
The Queen's calm words seemed to carry some kind of power, instantly breaking through the barrier created by Grisis with his cane!
A gentle breeze caressed the people she ordered to commit suicide. After a moment of shock, they each took out their weapons and stabbed themselves.
Phew!
Blood splattered on the spot, and several bodies fell to the ground, lifeless.
They lost not only their physical lives, but also their consciousness, which was equivalent to the scattering of their souls! Seeing that all the people who followed him had turned into corpses lying in a pool of blood, Grisis's expression became very ugly, and the smile on his face disappeared, forming a sharp contrast with the queen who was still smiling.
A cold voice came out of his mouth: "Mother Queen, do you feel that you have won the victory?"
"Oh? Aren't you the one who rebelled today? You should have prepared everything, right?"
The queen was not in a hurry at all. She looked at Grisis with a smile, as if she was looking at a naughty child.
But this look made Grisis even angrier. The elegant expression on his face disappeared, and instead became very gloomy. Then he pointed to the sky and said, "Yes, I have prepared everything."
As soon as he finished speaking, countless warships suddenly appeared in the sky.
The symbols engraved on the silver-white warship let people know their identities.
Renaissance Society.
"Fuxing Society? That's not enough."
The Queen still smiled.
Grisis stared at her intently: "Then...what about this one?"
As soon as he finished speaking, a thick, more than ten meters long metal silver needle appeared out of thin air and fell towards the Queen's head! The silver needle was made of unknown material, but it broke through the layers of defense around the Queen in an instant and reached the top of the Queen's head in the blink of an eye!
The queen did not move, her eyes still fixed on Grithis, but the silver needle was caught by a hand just as it was about to pierce the queen's forehead.
It was called a 'needle', but in reality it was a metal object that looked like a giant stick, and it was held in the slender hand.
The queen looked to the side and smiled at the person beside her: "Lord Zelia, I'll leave her in your care."
"Um."
Zelia's expression remained unchanged and she disappeared from the Queen's side in an instant.
The Queen then looked at Grisis:
"The Ten Thousand Gods of the Dark Sea, well, are indeed a very strong helper, but... it's not enough."
"What if I'm included?" A magnetic male voice sounded on the platform.
Wuming, dressed in a silver-white knight outfit and wearing a mask, stood in front of the Queen.
He just stood there and the Queen's smile faded. The gentle smile that had been on her face disappeared without a trace in the blink of an eye.
The Queen turned to Wuming and looked at him silently for a long time.
…
"The control room... seems to be empty?"
On the other side, Sophie sneaked into the control room and frowned as she looked at the sparsely populated control room.
Li Qi touched his helmet under his chin and asked:
"Do you know what the control room looks like?"
“…”
Sophie was silent.
Li Qi was also silent.
The two of them were the kind of people who didn't have much contact with the grassroots, and Sophie was a mecha master. Although Li Qi used to be a mechanic, he switched to repairing something else in the middle. Therefore, the two of them didn't know much about how the floating city's master control system worked.
Maybe... the control center is unmanned? Or maybe it doesn't need anyone to control it at all?
Then what about those knights from both sides who were fighting on the road they passed by?
Li Qi didn't quite understand, and was about to go with Sophie to find the control system in the main control room when suddenly, both of their faces changed at the same time.
Sophie's reaction was faster. She ran towards Li Qi and hugged him. At the same time, she was wearing her exclusive mecha. The golden mecha hugged Li Qi and got away from the spot in the blink of an eye! Then there was a loud bang.
The place where the two had been standing suddenly shattered, and the broken metal and stirred up dust blocked the view there.
When the smoke cleared, the two saw a warrior wearing a simple martial arts uniform, with a hedgehog head and a red bandage on his head. He looked like he had walked out of an arcade. He was half-crouching in the huge pit in the center of the smoke.
Obviously, this is a martial arts practitioner.
"Hey, he actually dodged it? He's only a level six... Tsk, this is really unfair."
The warrior raised his head, revealing a face that looked as if it had been chiseled by a knife or an axe.
There was a hint of jealousy and resentment in his tone, and his expression was slightly distorted as he looked at Sophie Yuna in the mecha.
It is obvious that he is another pure martial arts practitioner who hates mechas and machines.
"Seventh-level warrior?"
Sophie Yuna saw the opponent's level of strength. She put Li Qi down and protected him behind her, saying coldly: "Are you the only one here?"
"Of course not." The warrior said what he thought: "This place is so important, how could I be the only one here, but..."
His voice suddenly became heavier, and he disappeared from where he was in an instant. When he reappeared, he had already raised his leg high towards Sophie Yuna: "——I am enough to deal with you alone!"
As the warrior said this, his leg fell down like lightning! BANG!!! The metal mecha collided with the warrior's flesh and blood. The impact of the collision made Li Qi couldn't help but take a few steps back.
There is suppression above the Emperor Star. No matter whether it is the mecha master or the warrior, none of them can use moves like the Law of Heaven and Earth.
But even so, their punches and kicks were all at the seventh level! "Is Sophie about to break through?"
Li Qi saw Sophie Yuna's current bottleneck from the impact of the fight between the two. He was no longer worried about Sophie Yuna fighting against the seventh-level warrior, but turned his attention to the depths of the control room.
It's not that there are no people here, but apart from the guards in the outer passage, everyone here is an elite. There are probably a few seventh-level strongmen, and possibly even eighth-level strongmen.
But they are not here at the moment, so they should be in the room deep in the control room.
And if nothing unexpected happens, that is the real core of the entire floating city! Thinking of this, Li Qi sneaked over there quietly.
(End of this chapter)
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