Volume 8: The Clever Girl and the Imperial Tool Chapter 020 Calling
The night passed quickly.
The next morning, residents living in the imperial capital soon discovered that a huge platform for ceremonies had appeared in the Imperial Square.
This tall altar obviously could not be built in a day , but the residents of the imperial capital clearly remembered that as of last night, there was still nothing here.
But this morning, the altar was already here, as if it had suddenly appeared overnight.
At the same time, the area around the altar was protected by a group of soldiers, and no one was allowed to approach.
This made the residents who witnessed this scene extremely curious. What on earth was this altar? Why did it appear overnight? Why did it stand here?
The residents gathered in groups of three or five and whispered to each other.
The soldiers protecting the altar seemed to have seen nothing. They neither drove the crowd away nor explained anything. They just guarded the altar indifferently.
In fact, they didn’t know what was going on.
Anyway, this morning, General Bud suddenly issued an order, asking them to protect this place and not leave without permission.
The soldiers could only obey.
Soon, the news about the altar began to ferment and spread throughout the streets and alleys of the imperial capital. Many people rushed to visit this sudden altar out of curiosity.
"So, what exactly is this thing?" In the crowd, a woman in a hooded robe looked up at the sudden altar with an expression of disbelief.
And under the wide hood of the dress, the woman has beautiful blonde hair, golden eyes, and a look of unyielding determination.
"Well, who knows." The person who answered her question was a girl with long pink hair tied in twin ponytails, pink eyes, and wearing a light pink dress.
The twin-tailed girl casually glanced at the people around her and said, "We shouldn't be doing this kind of thing now, Leona. We should have more important things to do."
The blonde woman called Leone patted her companion on the shoulder and said, "Don't be too nervous, Myne. If the person Akame met yesterday was really an enemy, how could she have been so calm last night? Maybe the other person was really a traveler passing by."
Marin couldn't help but want to spit at the other person, "Whose traveler can fly?"
"Perhaps the other party is just an ordinary imperial weapon user."
“You bastard…”
Maine really wanted to beat the other person up, but considering the surrounding environment, she could only sigh helplessly. Yesterday when they were practicing at the base, Akagi suddenly ran back and told them that she met a flying guy in the forest.
This guy is most likely an enemy sent by the Empire.
They all knew what this meant, they were exposed.
So after some discussion, their leader Nadezhda planned to move the base, but before leaving, she set traps around the base in an attempt to ambush the enemy.
As a result, everyone waited from yesterday morning to last night, and then from last night to this morning, but the enemy did not show up.
This shocked them greatly.
If the person who discovered their base was really from the Empire, the Empire's response should not have been so slow.
Nadezhda was puzzled and finally sent Maine, who had not been exposed yet, to the city to inquire about the news. Who knew that Leone would follow them halfway.
Main knew that she couldn't drive this guy away, so she could only bring Leone to the imperial capital to find out what happened. As a result, she saw this thing that attracted Leone's attention and he was unwilling to leave no matter what.
This made Myne so angry that her teeth itched.
Just as Main was thinking about how to pull Leone away, a noise suddenly came from a distance, attracting her and Leone's attention.
What happened over there? Ma Yin didn't understand.
Yet at this moment, the crowd parted like Moses parting the sea.
Maine and Leone followed the crowd and retreated to the left. Leone asked in confusion, "What happened?"
Ma Yin rolled her eyes and said, "I still want to know."
Soon, there was a huge commotion and people knelt on the ground one after another, as if to welcome the arrival of some important person. Maine and Leone did not want to attract attention, so they knelt down as well.
Soon, shocking news spread among the crowd.
It turned out that the reason people knelt was because the supreme emperor of the empire appeared.
When Maine and Leone heard the news, they could hardly believe their eyes. The emperor of the empire actually left the palace and came to this place at this time.
"This is a good opportunity." Leone reacted immediately, biting Myne's ear, lowered his voice and whispered softly: "If the two of us can..."
"I know what you want to say." Marin shook her head and asked, "Do you think we can really kill that person under heavy protection with just the two of us?"
Leone was slightly stunned and couldn't help but sigh.
Yes, when the emperor leaves the palace, the palace must be heavily guarded. With the strength of the two of them, can they really kill the emperor?
The answer is quite obvious, impossible!
But if she didn't try such a good opportunity, it would be a waste of this God-given chance, so she had an idea and left Maine behind, sneaking out of the crowd and hiding on the rooftops on both sides of the street.
Soon, Leone saw a group of people and horses slowly approaching from a distance.
Walking in the front was a group of fully armed soldiers. Leone took a look and knew that they were a group of battle-hardened soldiers. If he was surrounded by such soldiers, he would be in trouble.
And among this group of soldiers, there is a carriage that is extremely gorgeous. Both the workmanship and materials of this carriage are very exquisite, and it can even be said to be luxurious.
If nothing unexpected happens, this is the emperor's carriage. The emperor of the empire is very likely sitting in this carriage.
Leone felt murderous intent in her heart, but she did not act rashly. Instead, she waited patiently, waiting for the moment when the emperor got off the carriage so that she could punish him from heaven.
After a while, the carriage finally stopped and the door slowly opened. Leone's murderous intent reached its highest point. However, at this moment, a tall man in armor walked down from the carriage.
He was clearly not dressed like an emperor.
But a general.
General Budd, who holds the title of the strongest in the empire.
The moment he saw the other person, Leone got goose bumps all over his body, his heart started beating fast, and he felt an unprecedented danger.
At the same time, she saw that General Bud seemed to react to her gaze and turned his head slightly, as if he was about to look towards her. So Leone subconsciously lowered her head and hid her body, not daring to expose herself to the other's sight.
Because she had a hunch that if she was exposed to the other party's field of vision, she would most likely die.
Sure enough, the emperor is not so easy to kill.
After a while, Leone's violently beating heart slowly calmed down. She changed her position and quietly popped her head out, just in time to see General Bud protecting a little child and climbing up the high altar.
And that child was obviously his target, the Emperor of the Empire. But unfortunately, with General Budd by his side, Leone had no way to kill the little emperor.
She could only helplessly watch the little emperor standing on the podium and speaking nonsense.
"Citizens of the Empire, as the emperor of this country, I have something very important to tell you."
"Just yesterday, our empire finally ushered in an earth-shaking change."
"A goddess came from heaven to earth yesterday and landed in our country."
Leone was confused, the goddess is coming?
What a mess this is. How can there be gods in this world?
"People of the Empire, the name of this goddess is Hephaestus, the forging god of the heavens. She was entrusted by our ancestor, the First Emperor, to come to the human world and will help us build a better empire."
Leone rolled her eyes. What he said was getting more and more outrageous. The first emperor who founded the empire had been dead for thousands of years. How could he have a relationship with the goddess?
Was the little emperor kicked in the head by a donkey? He actually believed that there are gods in this world.
Or is this another incident caused by the minister?
"Citizens of the Empire, let us now shout out the name of the goddess and welcome her arrival."
Leone sighed. She was now certain that the little emperor's head had been kicked by a donkey. Thinking that the emperor of this country was such a guy, Leone felt that the country was hopeless, but on the other hand, she was secretly glad.
Because only in this way can they win.
At the same time, the residents of the imperial capital who were kneeling on the ground began to shout Hephaestus' name. After all, this was the order of His Majesty the Emperor. No matter what the residents thought in their hearts, they had to shout at this time.
At first, the residents cheered in chaos.
But soon, the residents of the imperial capital found the right rhythm and cheered together.
"Hephaestus, Hephaestus, Hephaestus..."
The shouts of more than tens of thousands of people resounded throughout the imperial capital, and the calls reached the sky. At the same time, Minister Ernest, who was standing below the ceremony platform, slowly narrowed his eyes and looked up at the little emperor.
The next second, the sky shook.
A brilliant light descended from the sky, flattening the dust for thousands of miles. The clouds in the sky were easily pushed aside by the terrifying force. The sky above the imperial capital was cloudless, like a bright blue gem.
