Chapter 91
Rong Yuan said he was relieved, but Leopold was willing to admit that he was a little bit better than himself, but he did not regard him as an omnipotent god. Most importantly, his family was still in Ice City.
Leopold glanced at Rong Yuan, then walked aside and started to connect the communication. He clicked the communication number over and over again, but he could only hear a familiar piece of music repeated over and over again, and it was not connected for a long time. The general's resolute face became paler and paler, his lips trembled, and his shaking fingers tried several times before he finally clicked the communication number again.
“Dangdangdang…dangdangdang…dangdangdangdang…Daddy!”
Ten or so seconds later, a crisp cry came from the communication bracelet. Leopold seemed to have received some kind of redemption. His expression was filled with joy and sorrow, and tears welled up in his eyes.
Through his tearful eyes, he heard the clear childish voice shouting joyfully, "Flowers! Daddy, what big, beautiful flowers!"
"……flower?"
Seven minutes ago.
A huge pillar of light descended from the sky, carrying with it the power to destroy the world. People in the Ice City stopped what they were doing and looked up.
The threat of death made it almost impossible to breathe, but at this moment, only a very small number of people looked at the beam of light with despair and fear. Because the vast majority of people seemed to have been deprived of the ability to think by the beam of light, they stood there like statues, watching, without any reaction or thoughts, silently welcoming the sudden arrival of death.
How fast is the speed of light? Apollo's attack is the most irresistible in the world, because the light can reach you in an instant, and when you see it, it has already destroyed you. But the Imperial Star has placed Apollo in outer space, so it is not completely without precautions. When Apollo's attack was launched, it had already activated the protective shield outside the Ice City. In addition, the Blue Grass was well prepared for this, and it instantly opened all the defenses that could be opened, which bought time for the Landians in the Ice City to look up.
However, the energy of that beam of light was far beyond the defense limit of Landia. The protective shield was broken layer by layer. In two or three seconds, the attack would land on the ground of the Ice City.
Even the person with the fastest reaction only had time to let out a short, terrified scream.
The miracle happened at that moment.
In a certain family's greenhouse, a white flower with an elegant posture and a long-lasting fragrance seemed to have heard some kind of call. The white flower suddenly twisted against common sense without any wind, as if there was a flexible little snake inside trying to get out. In the blink of an eye, the flower exploded, and a tender green vine suddenly shot out, piercing the greenhouse like a sword, and shooting towards the light column in the sky like a moth to a flame. In the process of rising, it became thicker and longer, and the color changed from tender green to a dark green that was so dark that it was almost black. Like a giant python or a blue dragon, it twisted and jumped up quickly, even passing through the protective shield of the Imperial Capital Star. While bathing in the light column, it was not destroyed, but seemed to have received some kind of nourishment. Large flowers bloomed in the air like exploding fireworks. The scene was extremely bright and beautiful.
At the same time, in all directions of the Ice City, there were vines like swords flying into the sky, and countless flowers bloomed in the light column. The layers of petals were originally transparent and colorless, but after the refraction of light, they turned into thousands of colorful and gorgeous colors. Even the orchid could not count how many colors . The most gorgeous and magnificent scenery imagined by humans in the virtual space was not even a fraction of it.
Upon closer inspection, there were actually only seven vines, standing on all four sides of the Ice City like the giant pillars holding up the sky as rumored. The huge flowers blooming from the vines blocked out the sky and actually enveloped the entire Ice City. The devastating beam of light was actually blocked by the thin petals, and the light in the Ice City was dimmed. Looking up, one could only see the colorful lights flowing on countless petals.
However, this magnificent scene only lasted for a few seconds. After a few seconds, the pillar of light in the sky disappeared as if it had been swallowed up, and the flowers in the sky withered as if they had lost all their energy. The petals curled and withered at a speed that the naked eye could not accurately capture. In a moment, they turned into something gray and white and fell off the vines. In mid-air, they broke into tiny gray flakes like snowflakes, falling from the sky in a flutter, turning the ground into a dull gray.
As for the seven vines, they also withered at a very fast speed. When the earth turned into a vast expanse of gray, only seven pillars about 100 meters tall remained around the ice city. The patterns of plants could be vaguely seen on them. A light touch would cause a large area to collapse into ash. Even if no one touched them, a strong wind would blow all the pillars away.
Emilida sat by the window, looking at the greenhouse that was torn to pieces by the suddenly grown vines. The exotic flowers and plants inside that the Right Prime Minister loved like treasures were almost frozen to death in the cold wind, but everyone was only focused on marveling at the rapidly disappearing gray pillar, not even caring about the flying ash covering their heads and faces.
There were seven vines that saved the Ice City. One came from the Right Prime Minister's house, one came from the imperial palace, and the other five were distributed almost evenly in the center and around the Ice City.
Needless to say, the origin of the vine was the pot of white magnolia that Amirida brought back from Rongyuan's flower shop.
Thinking of that small flower shop, thinking of the man sitting among countless flowers yet seeming to be out of the world, thinking of his doting smile, thinking of his parting instructions for her not to be too close or too far from the pot of flowers, what else did Amirida not understand?
Rong Yuan had just set foot on the Imperial Capital Star when he was attacked by Apollo. With his preparedness, he quickly prepared for Apollo's second attack.
No Saint Seiya would fall to the same move twice, and Rong Yuan certainly wouldn't either.
He sold dozens of pots of flowers, but only seven of them contained the strange flowers that would grow rapidly under the stimulation of strong light and devour the light. Emilida had never heard of or seen such strange plants before, and she thought that their source must be the unspeakable secret of Rong Yuan.
Looking at her father-in-law, husband and others with faces covered in thick dust, they surrounded the gray pillar which was only half left in a short time with amazement and solemnity. While they had people quickly build a high wall around it to protect it, they carefully collected some dust in thin test tubes and put them inside. This scene made Amirida inexplicably feel a little funny.
As she laughed, she wiped her face and found that her hands were filled with cold tears.
——【Goodbye, goodbye, never see you again...May all your wishes come true and you be free from now on...】
No one noticed that when those huge flowers disappeared, some extremely tiny crystals also fell down. It was not their fault for being careless, but because those crystals were too small, so small that it was difficult to see them clearly with the naked eye. So those crystals were buried in the snow and mixed in the water, and no one had ever discovered them.
But after that day, the temperature in the Ice City inexplicably rose a little, and even the cold winter was no longer so unbearable. The Landians tried every possible way, but they could only slow down the speed at which their home planet moved away from the star, but they could not completely stop it. However, the degree of climate cooling was much lower than people expected. Many people in the Landian scientific community were scratching their heads and could not figure it out.
After the death of Princess Tanada, a thorough review and purge was carried out in the army and official circles of Landia. However, the new queen was obviously much softer than the previous emperor. Many people were only demoted or exiled, and only a few paid their lives for this. Nothing can resist the power of time. After many years, Princess Tanada's influence eventually faded away.
Not many people know that at that time, a duke named Dumont, after learning of the princess's death, tried to take revenge but failed, and shot himself.
The Princess Planet, which was turned into a military fortress, was also sealed and became a military restricted area of the empire. There were many studies that were forbidden by law, and some inventions that were beyond the current level of the empire. The empress sent the 13th Army and the Academy of Sciences to deal with it. Seven years later, the Princess Planet was renamed "Phinubeva" and reopened to the public as a scenic tourist planet. At this time, there were more than 100,000 "indigenous people" on the Princess Planet, and its planetary governor was a young man named Zeruo.
Ten years later, a war broke out on the border of the Empire. A dozen pirate groups united and marched straight into the Empire. They appeared and disappeared in the dark space. After invading a planet, they quickly disappeared before the Imperial Army arrived. The Empire was helpless. But soon after, the leaders of the pirate groups were assassinated, their stealth systems were cracked, and their hiding places were leaked. They were defeated under the attack of the Imperial Army, and almost no one escaped. Some people said that when the pirate group was defeated, the governor of the planet Fenubeva and some of his confidants were seen among them. They sneaked in and assassinated the leader of the pirate group; others said that it was just nonsense.
Decades later, Queen Serinda's prestige and power reached the peak, even surpassing her ancestors. No matter those cunning old ministers, scheming officials, or unruly generals, they all bowed to her. However, at this time, the Queen announced reforms. The empire reduced the privileges of the royal family, nobles, and officials from top to bottom, and gave civilians more fairness, justice, and freedom. The Queen's reforms were met with countless oppositions, triggering several rebellions, and some people even colluded with foreign forces to overthrow the Queen's rule. When the empire was in a precarious crisis, two young generals emerged and led a legion of only 20,000 people to fight north and south, winning every battle and defeating all the rebels and the imperial army.
These two generals, one named Mu Xiaohu and the other named Luo Er Dumont, are collectively known as the Twin Stars of the Empire.
The empire's reforms were eventually carried out unswervingly, and the once distinct class differences gradually disappeared. The Landia Empire was rejuvenated. In this era of turbulence and change, many outstanding people emerged, leaving a great reputation in later generations.
However, these have nothing to do with Rong Yuan, who had already left the Milky Way by then.
