Chapter 27
The war always comes very suddenly, although this is not a rare thing in Anka.
But no one likes war, especially the poor who have no way to leave Anka and live elsewhere and can only live in fear here.
The street, which had not received much traffic, was now deserted. Only a few soldiers responsible for raising the alarm quickly walked in from the corner and left from the other side.
The shop was closed, the wooden shutters were locked, and the iron lock hanging on the door had obviously been used many times. The stalls in the market that were previously filled with all kinds of goods have now disappeared, and some only leave an empty table that is difficult to move, with leaves blown by the wind on it.
Of course, everything is soaked in rain now. The sound of rain is the only music on the street, and the foggy sky is the background color of Anka City.
"Your Highness, we have informed all civilians not to go out."
"Yes."
Nalia put on light clothes suitable for combat, and looked at the somewhat depressed streets in silence.
The rain an hour ago came too suddenly, interrupting her plan to punish the impostor.
But I didn't expect that the rain has not stopped until now. The fake Sirius is the ultimate trash. He just cleaned it up twice and screamed non-stop and was so injured that he couldn't get out of bed.
It was even more troublesome now, because the latest battle reports from the front line had reached her.
The surging lizardman army was still one of them. The most critical thing was the sudden rain, which directly made the battle more difficult.
Originally, humans were at a disadvantage when directly confronting the lizardmen. They did not have many elite soldiers, nor did they have many city defense equipment and elite magicians.
Therefore, the best tactic is to exploit the opponent's weaknesses to attack.
Lizardmen's weakness is naturally their fear of fire. Although they are tall and have scales on their bodies. But these guys can't stop the invasion of fire, so the best way to deal with these lizardmen is fire magic, or simply light a fire manually and set the forest on fire.
The problem is that it's raining heavily now. She's okay, she's very adaptable to bad weather.
But this makes it difficult for the fire attack method to be effective, and under environmental conditions such as heavy rain, it will give these lizardmen a positive improvement.
"Have our people set off yet?"
After calming down, Nalia stood in front of a closed grocery store holding an umbrella and asked the men next to her.
"Yes, but there are not many people we brought here this time, and they may not play a key role."
"What about Luther? Didn't he say anything?"
Nalia frowned, obviously right. The impression of this person is very bad.
"Back to Your Royal Highness, Earl Luther is ill and is recuperating at home..."
The more he talked about it, the less he dared to continue. Because at this time, Nalia's expression was so cold that it could freeze. In this cold weather, which was already raining heavily, it looked very frightening.
Get ill?
How could Nalia believe such a nonsense reason? She even felt that this man Luther was deliberately pushing her into such an embarrassing position. As for who gave the instructions...
"Your Highness, this is a matter of civilians here. It's been dealt with..."
"Let's go, pull a war horse over, we'll go to the front line now."
Before leaving, Nalia suddenly thought of what Sirius mentioned about the lizard people's true intentions that day.
But the next moment she shook her head.
It's not that she is so arrogant that she can't listen to anyone else's thoughts, but she feels that the intelligence coming from the front line shows that it is already difficult to deal with the frontal battlefield, so it is even less possible to face such injustice in this case. It's definitely possible. All she can do now is bet. The bet on the impostor will never come true. Only in this case can they win this battle.
"Her Royal Highness, you have such a distinguished status, how can you personally..."
"Don't let me remind you of your duties."
"Yes, Your Royal Highness, my duty is to obey Her Royal Highness's orders. Let's go to the front line now."
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In a dark and damp basement, the dim light barely illuminated the mottled water stains and spreading mold spots on the walls.
The air is filled with musty smell and long-term occlusion stuffiness, which makes people feel suffocated. However, in this depressing space, there is a figure huddled in the corner, that is Liz who is imprisoned here.
She was already a little delirious, and the plain cloth on her body was stained with dust and blood. Her hair hung loosely on her shoulders, partially covering her pale and painful face.
Yes, she failed... She
originally planned to use the drug she bought from the black market to knock her father out, and then use the kitchen knife at home to stab the scumbag to death bit by bit, but right before her She made a fatal mistake when her father was unconscious and "passed" on the bed.
——She hesitated.
After taking action, she will definitely fall into a desperate situation. No matter how much she refuses to admit it, she cannot deny that she is the person who killed her biological father.
In a sense, she was even involved in disposing of her mother's body.
Is it possible for her to exist brightly in the world like this?
So at that moment, the knife in her hand fell to the ground without holding it tightly, and then she fell to the ground with her.
What she didn't expect was that her father actually woke up at that moment, and then looked at herself angrily as she tried to kill him.
"Good girl, it's time to eat."
"..."
Liz's consciousness wandered back and forth between the past and the present, and then she saw through her blurred vision that the person approaching the basement was her scumbag father who had not been successfully solved.
"You should be lucky that you have such a good father like me, who has taken care of you for so long.
When you do something wrong, I just beat you to vent your anger. I don't do it too harshly, just because I'm afraid of you. I can't get married in the future.
Am I good enough to you?"
After saying this, his face immediately turned and became extremely angry.
"But what about you?!
How did you repay me? You fed me low-quality sleeping pills and tried to kill me? Are you a bitch still human?! Fortunately, you hesitated in the end and did not lose the last bit of humanity, otherwise No matter what, I'm going to beat you bitch to death today!"
"...*"
"What?"
Liz's voice was very vague, so her father could only lower his body and stick to her mouth to listen carefully.
"I said... I shouldn't regret it at that time."
(End of chapter)