Irian is the biggest victim of gender change, and his hostility towards Isabella is obvious. Melusina asked hesitantly: "Will he really kill his own relatives?" "Yes, as far as I know, that princess has not given up on having children. She has even consulted our king (of the 'magician' realm) about the maximum childbearing age for witches. Everyone has selfish motives. If Isabella really gave birth to a child, regardless of the reaction of the Triple Alliance, Alfonso would probably lose his position as heir. Losing his power and wealth would be as good as losing his life." "But Mithra forbids those who possess his magic to harm each other?" "So, this magic worked on Selina. What's more, Her Highness Isabella is a witch, so maybe the judgment mechanism will change." Cecil replied. "I'll go and tell His Royal Highness first, Doctor Cecil, don't leave tonight. I want to borrow your carriage tomorrow." "Okay, Diaz, we'll sleep together tonight... um." Corneille reached out and held Cecil's face: "Doctor, considering your age and the strange smell on your body, no child would want to sleep with you."
The next morning, Corneille came to Isabella's palace and used the Black Eagle Knight's Ring to reach the meadow without any hindrance and see Isabella riding over on horseback. Isabella invited him to breakfast, and the menu was unexpectedly simple: fried sardines, grilled meat, fried eggs, croissants and shaved ice with maple syrup. She ate elegantly, but her orders to Corneille were harsh: "Try to get some truth out of that witch named Selina. Don't be afraid of hurting her. If she dies, I will negotiate with Amalashunsa and ask for more compensation. I will pay for it," she said. But I have to bear the blame for killing him. Corneille thought, at this moment, aren't we really paying tribute to the first Duke of Alva? García Alvarez Toledo, the first Duke of Alba, had a more legendary experience than his contemporary Corneille or Don Rodique. This cowherd boy was knocked unconscious by human traffickers when he was a teenager. When he woke up, he was already in the White Mercenaries, and their employer was the Trastamara family. The first mission of the White Mercenaries was to suppress the rebellion in the secular territory of the Trastamara family, the State of Origin (also known as the State of Ivrea). Garcia performed well in the mission and was recommended by local officials. He was funded by the Trastamara family to become a transcendent. Afterwards, Garcia fought many battles in the south and the north, and his career rose rapidly, becoming one of the most trusted generals of Isabella's father, Enrique IV. Garcia was an extremist and iron-blooded member of the royalist party, advocating the use of violence to quell local separatist tendencies and eliminate the poisonous republican ideology circulating in the city. Henry IV initially agreed with his proposal and provided funds to allow him to prepare an armed force of 20,000 people to go to the local area to suppress the separatists. In order to make an example of someone else, Garcia first targeted the Knight States, which did not have strong separatist tendencies but used funds to fund rebellions in various places. The Knights' State was just a loose alliance of cities at that time, so when Garcia's army entered the state, they were unable to organize troops to intercept it immediately. After entering the state capital, Garcia announced that he would take over local power and set up an anti-rebellion committee. In just one year, the committee executed 1900 dissidents and confiscated their property. The killing frightened the merchants, but the confiscation of their property gave them the courage to resist, and an undeclared war broke out. Garcia's army was invincible on the front battlefield, but he suffered a lot from the guerrillas who relied on the support of local people. The emperor's orders to suppress the rebellion became more and more urgent because the empire's finances could no longer sustain it. The confrontation escalated, with Garcia beheading captured rebellious nobles and, after capturing a city that had put up strong resistance, massacring thousands of residents who had laid down their arms. In horror, the armed resistance of the Knights' cities stopped, but Garcia was dismissed from his post by the emperor and returned home unemployed for the crimes of atrocities against the nobles and massacre. At that time, he left behind a statement that was indignant, but later generations believed it to be the truth:
"The emperor of the Trastamara family used people like oranges, squeezing out their juice and then throwing the peel aside." Corneille felt that if he killed Selina, he would probably become the discarded "peel", and might even be squeezed out of the "juice" that he would not have given before by the greedy Isabella. However, on the surface, he expressed his loyalty to Isabella. "Oh, if only the other Black Hawk Knights were as decisive and capable as Mr. Corneille." Isabella happily took off the sapphire earring on her left ear and gave it to Corneille. If it was a piece of jewelry that had never been worn before, Corneille would have accepted it, but Isabella had already worn it, and according to the unwritten rules of the federal social scene, there was some ambiguous meaning here. "What evil thoughts are you having, Monsieur Corneille?" Isabella held the earrings in her palm and handed them to Corneille: "This is Werther, we follow Werther's rules. I gave you the earrings, first, to reward your hard work and loyalty, for I said, if you please me, I will give you good things; Second, it is for self-defense. Selina was treated like this, she must have key information. When you face the "Imperial Killer", those conspiracy forces will attack you—— After all, it's easier to kill you than me. If I lose you, it will probably take a long time to advance the clues again - so long that I might be killed before that. You have three divine arts, elven arts, divinely blessed weapons, and...but the more ways to save your life, the better, right?" Corneille carefully picked up the earring from Isabella's palm without touching her skin, but Isabella's ring finger curled up and slid across his palm. Her sharp nails cut through his calluses like a knife, spreading the itchy and slightly painful feeling. Isabella introduced: "It is a magic item, connected to my magic power, and when you activate it by kissing it, it will turn into a whip blade. The lingering magic will grant you a speed boost, a short distance travel, and a basic shield, and every time you draw an enemy with it, you'll gain a healing effect, as well as a shield that reduces the enemy's physical and magical damage." "Acceleration, displacement, treatment, and protection. These are very solid life-saving items." Gao Naiyi commented. "Try it." Corneille nodded. He left the table and walked to a distance to kiss the blue earring. He felt that it smelled a bit strange. Perhaps it was because of the hair oil? Behind him, Isabella folded her hands on her thighs and shivered slightly. Corneille's attention quickly shifted from the smell to the abundant magic power. The light of the transmission magic illuminated the earrings from the inside, and a huge amount of magic power was transmitted over. The gem shattered, and transparent liquid magic gushed out from it, wrapping around Corneille's palm, and a warm feeling, almost similar to body temperature, spread. Liquid magic with temperature? Cornell waved his arms, and some of the dissipated liquid magic power fell on him. The magic that enhanced his physical condition was cast, the shield condensed, and even the road under his feet became...silky. The main body of the liquid magic turned into a transparent whip blade. When Cornell swung it, the fluid magic was locked tightly in the outline of the whip blade like a solid. The moment it touched the grass, it hardened into a solid, leaving a jagged cut mark. The energy was absorbed, the grass withered, and at the same time the energy returned to Gao Naiyi's body along the whip blade. However, because the absorbed energy was insufficient, it was unable to form a shield and the healing effect was very weak. "How?" Isabella asked excitedly. Gao Naiyi was also somewhat pleased: "It works well!" "I have learned your taste, my dear Monsieur Corneille. Titles and fame do not impress you at all. Money has a limited appeal to you. Extraordinary props are most to your liking."
"Thank you, Your Highness. The first lesson I learned in battle is that you can never have too many things to keep yourself alive." Gao Naiyi swung the whip in his hand: "How can I change it back?" "The old way, kiss it." Gao Nai did as he was told, the wet and hot touch soaked his lips, and the whip blade shrank in his kiss and turned back into a blue earring. Isabella pressed her legs together and twisted them a little, and when Corneille came over, she said: "Then my safety will depend on you." "You will definitely live up to your destiny." Isabella held her chin in her hand and watched Corneille leave. He left faster than he came. Seeing his excitement, she remembered when she was young and she and a group of friends who liked to play with machinery, tinkering with new things. "Oh, that's really easy to understand. Deep inside every man lives a boy who never grows up." She smiled and stood up. Something fell to the ground. When her skirt brushed past it, it turned out to be a wet horn. Isabella picked it up and wiped it clean: "You actually used this thing to 'entertain' me, then, in return, let me 'entertain' you as well." Chapter 129: Flower of Knight At 11 ., Corneille reunited with Josephine, who said, "My colleague has found the type of that thing in the archives." "I know that, too. Mithraic magic." "It seems that you know quite a few well-informed people. So, before?" "I went to visit Her Highness Isabella." "What did she say?" "She wanted me to investigate it, but she pretended not to hear anything about the Mithraic art," replied Corneille. "Are you sure you can remove the magic spell from Ms. Selina?" "I'm not sure, but I have to take a chance. Please prepare the paramedics." At 11:15 am, Corneille saw Selina in the room. The security personnel of the Discipline Tower, the mercenaries and witches under Josephine, and the doctor of the Discipline Tower were all waiting outside the door. The Discipline Tower was still relatively cool, but the corridors were crowded with so many people that even those who were least tolerant of heat had begun to sweat. Someone used magic to lower the temperature to a pleasant level, and everyone breathed a sigh of relief. Corneille carefully examined the room to make sure it was free of any traps or the possibility of enemy interference from outside. He said to Josephine through the door: "Okay." Josephine waved her hand, indicating that a barrier should be set up outside the room and at a certain distance from the room to prevent interference from Corneille's magic. When Corneille saw the dark blue barrier from the only window, he looked at Selina and asked, "Why were you able to tell the truth to Mr. Don Rodick on the night of his last battle?" "Use your magic on me." Selina replied. Corneille used divine magic, and Selina saw a red light filling his body, but it was not the divine magic she had seen before - The red energy was woven into a filter with a very small mesh and hit her body.
Selina screamed as she watched the chains that symbolized magic being squeezed out of the filter. After leaving the body, the chains wanted to return to the body, but were held back by the filter maintained by Corneille. Corneille's clothes were soaked with sweat. He stretched out his hand and cast a second spell. The brutal and violent force hit Selena's head, shattering the spell maintained in her body. Selina felt as if her body had been hollowed out by a knife and burned by fire. However, until she saw the pure white lines on her body that symbolized divine magic being destroyed, Mithraic magic did not trigger the mechanism that led to the disorder of her magic power... It was the first spell! The first spell Corneille cast stripped her of her magic, so when he cast the second spell to shatter the magic in her body, even if the mechanism was triggered, there was no magic left to kill her. However, the stripping of her magic power weakened her, and the shattering of the magic spell also damaged her heart and lungs. Selina fell to the ground, watching Corneille release the magic spell, and the chains that suppressed her returned to her body. The magic power began to effectively nourish her severely injured body. Corneille made a gesture to the outside, and Josephine signaled her men to lift the barrier so that the medical staff could treat Selena. The moment the barrier was lifted, Cornell suddenly raised his head, rushed to the door, grabbed the first doctor and pushed her to the ground, and the "Flying Lion" stabbed straight into the throat of the nurse behind him. The nurse's left hand turned into a steel claw, blocking the "flying lion" and clamping it, while the magic hidden in the palm of her right hand was aimed at Corneille's face. Corneille let go of the hilt of the sword and turned to the left. The enemy's close-range magic hit "Sulena", causing him to crash into the wall on the other side. He grasped the bullet materialized by the spirit magic, covered it with rock in his arm, stretched out his hand, and an arrow that broke through the window and pointed at Selina's heart was blocked by his arm. The nurse wanted to finish off Selina, but was knocked down by Josephine, and Josephine herself was pushed out of the corridor by a rotating pale cross and submerged in a pile of rubble. "Why?" asked Corneille. "I am here to pick up my subordinates." Sabina, the former Queen of the Forest, appeared in Corneille’s vision: “The people of the Three Kingdoms Alliance want to kill her and silence her. You can’t protect her, and you don’t want to protect her. I don't care what you two do, Selina is still useful to me, but because of the constraints she is under, I can only wait patiently." Selina looked confused, and when Sabina walked towards her, she quickly gave Corneille an address. Corneille recovered the "Flying Lion", but he could not expect more help: Josephine's subordinates and the guards of the Discipline Tower were all frozen outside, while the archers outside were still persistently shooting arrows into the room one after another. "Are you in league with that archer?" "No, she is a transcendent of the Knights' State - the most famous of the Spirit Blade Knights, 'Flower of the Knights' Atrina Dreyfus. We had a brief partnership before she entered the room. Atrina wants Selina's life, and I want to take Selina away, so the three of us form an unstable triangle." "None of you will get what you want." Corneille used his last magic. He and Sabina fought against each other, cut off the incoming arrows, cut the floor of the room, and dragged Selina downstairs. He didn't know to what extent the "White Order" had infiltrated, nor did he know how many people related to the "Justice" field were inside and outside the Discipline Tower, so after he came to the second floor, he directly broke the glass and fled into the town with Selina. Sabina was chasing closely behind him, and at the edge of Corneille's vision, he could see another jumping shadow, shooting towards him at the speed of an arrow. Atrina Dreyfus, now a disciple of Santillan Cid, the King of the Forest in the realm of "Justice". She is not the most powerful Spirit Blade Knight. The title of "Flower of the Knight" describes her appearance and figure rather than her strength. To put it bluntly, the Knight Nation launched an idol-like extraordinary person for the people to worship, so that she can be used as a propaganda tool to manipulate public opinion, guide the public's attention and values, etc.