When Ella woke up, she found herself lying in the girl's cabin. Amy was squatting by the bed and wiping her forehead with a wet towel. Rurik and Hezekiah were sitting on the chairs talking.
What? And the pirates who fainted seemed to have just woken up and were sitting against the wall to recover their strength.
"Your Majesty, are you awake?"
Hearing Amy's voice, Rurik and Hezekiah turned their heads together. Rurik yelled and laughed: "King of Sweden, you owe me a huge favor this time!"
Although Ella had already fainted when Rurik arrived, Ella could still roughly guess what happened. She propped up half her body from the bed and bowed slightly towards Rurik to express her gratitude.
She soon discovered that the girl was not in the house
"Where's Paracelsus?"
Ella cast a questioning look at Amy.
Amy replied with some embarrassment: "She was taken away by the magician. Rurik and I chased them far away, but we didn't find any trace of them."
A trace of gloom passed over Ella's face. Just when she was about to say something, countless footsteps suddenly came from outside the house. She heard someone shouting outside: "The lights are on! The intruder is here! Seize the house immediately."
Surrounded!"
"Don't move! Put down your weapons and surrender!"
Several soldiers from the island republic kicked open the door and rushed in. But when they saw the Grand Duke of Novgorod and the Khan of the Khazar Khanate sitting upright inside the room, they threw away their weapons in fright and behaved obediently.
He exited the wooden house again and closed the door behind him.
This attitude was completely different from when they surrounded Ella before.
"I stripped them all and threw them into the sea this afternoon," Rurik said. "I just went for a walk in their military camp, and they came around and pointed their swords at me!"
"I'm not that rude." Hezekiah shrugged, "I just took off Rurik's clothes and burned them on fire."
After a commotion outside the house for a while, it was Giovanni who opened the door and walked in. Seeing Ella, he asked unhappily: "King of Sweden, why are you here? Is this an illegal invasion?"
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"I have graduated from the University of Alchemy and have obtained the qualification of a tutor according to the regulations, so I can naturally enter and leave the university." Ella simply dismissed Giovanni's question, "And the intruders are not us - you came at the right time, go there immediately
Your governor reported that magicians from Tianfang Empire have sneaked into the capital of the Island Republic!"
"A magician from the Tianfang Empire?" Giovanni glanced at Ella and the pirates lying against the wall, and smiled sarcastically, "Did you get beaten up by a magician from the Tianfang Empire?"
As soon as Giovanni finished speaking, he heard a "Boom!" and a bolt of lightning fell very close to the outside of the wall, making a huge noise. Rurik pointed at himself, then at Amy and Ai
Pull, and then yelled at Giovanni who was frightened by the thunder and lightning: "It took us together to fight off the magician! Before you laugh, you should estimate yourself. If your governor is attacked by the three of us, what will happen?
How about it? Then the magician will attack the King of Sweden, but he will not attack you? Is your relationship with the Tianfang Empire that good?"
Giovanni's face suddenly turned pale: "I will inform the governor immediately to strengthen the defense of the capital! What does that magician look like?"
"It's a man, so tall, in gray robes, with an accent from the Tianfang Empire. Because he has his face covered, I only know so much." Ella gestured for Giovanni on the bed, "Please block the port immediately
!One of my companions was captured by him!"
After asking for more details, Giovanni left in a hurry with the soldiers.
"I want to try a fight with that magician!" Rurik said, "I'll go around the streets, maybe I can meet him!"
"Be careful." Amy said with caution, "That magician is more powerful than me."
"I think I'm better than you!" Rurik waved his hand backwards, "If I really can't beat you, I will release ten or eight mines in the air at the same time. You or the King of Sweden will come to save me!"
After saying that, Rurik dragged Hezekiah away.
"Amy," Ella said on the bed, "just leave me here, and you can also go find the whereabouts of the magician and Paracelsus!"
However, Amy shook her head firmly.
"If I leave here, His Majesty's safety will not be guaranteed at all."
"But……"
Ella lowered her head in frustration.
Although she initially went to treat Avicenna in order to save the captured alchemists, her purpose quietly changed after discovering that the critically ill noble was Anna. The girl she worked for
The doctor Anna hired was taken away, so no one could treat Anna's illness.
Amy saw Ella's thoughts and sighed.
"Obviously, Your Majesty can ignore the life and death of His Royal Highness Anna... Let's rest for a while. Your Majesty, the Island Republic and Rurik have already been dispatched. By dawn tomorrow, we should be able to get news about Paracelsus."
It's dawn.
The magician is still missing.
Ella led a group of guards into the governor's mansion and yelled at Patisipaccio who was lying lazily on the balcony basking in the sun: "Why don't you conduct a carpet search door to door throughout the city?"
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"That will cause dissatisfaction among the citizens. With all due respect, King of Sweden, the magician is currently attacking only you and will not cause harm to the island republic. Moreover, this is peace time, and we are still doing business with the Tianfang Empire.
of."
Ella walked out of the governor's mansion helplessly.
In the sky, there is a long-lasting dark cloud.
"Amy... I want to see Anna again and talk to her."
Ella sat next to Anna all day long. But her wish was not fulfilled - for the whole day, Anna was in a coma due to high fever and did not wake up.
Anna's entire body had swollen, and pus, blood, and hair formed into ugly little patches, sticking everywhere on her body. Ella took the towel soaked in cold water from Amy's hand and wiped it over and over again
He wiped Anna's body again and again. But no matter how many times he wiped it, pus would flow out of the wound immediately, staining Anna.
Dast came to Ella with his bloodshot eyes open.
"The King of Sweden..."
He shouted in a thirsty voice, and the rest of his words were evaporated like water in the desert.
Ella turned to look at him, and forced a smile on her face: "My sister ran away from Constantiniya this time. You have been taking care of her, right? Looking at your face, you should be the type she likes.
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Unexpectedly, after hearing this, Dast fell to his knees in front of Ella with a plop. He lowered his head and tried his best to suppress the sadness in his voice:
"I'm just a liar. I bought this hotel with her wallet, hired a cook with her money, and even the money I spent to hire a doctor to treat her was the bounty she got in Azov City. I shouldn't have taken her with me.
It was out of Constantiniya. After she was injured, I should have taken her back immediately. Then she could find better doctors to take care of her. I have never taken care of her. I thought I could protect her, but step by step I harmed her.
She became what she is now."
Although Dast was very restrained, this long series of words still made his eyes wet. He wiped his eyes and calmed down for a while before continuing: "Look, when something happens, I
I can only cry here. But why should I cry?"
He looked up at Ella with red and swollen eyes, like a sinner longing for God's redemption in the abyss:
"King of Sweden, since Anna believes in you, I believe in you too. I'm afraid she won't survive for a few days, but as long as your doctor brings the medicine, she will recover, right?"
Ella sighed, threw down the towel, and closed her eyes.
It was pitch black ahead and there was no road in sight.
Ella bit her lip, but she didn't control her strength well, and she actually bit her lip and drew a trace of blood.
"Of course it will be cured," she replied, "We will send the medicine right away."
