The soldiers of the Seven Hills Empire entered Antilia.
The scene she saw from the Eye of Hermes made Amy tremble.
"Your Majesty...soldiers from the Seven Hills Empire are...plundering Antilia."
She reported to Ella tremblingly, fearing that Ella would suddenly get angry.
"How can the soldiers of the Seven Hills Empire be like pirates... This must be an illusion that the devil's eye allowed me to see? Your Majesty, is this true?"
However, Ella didn't pay any attention to Amy's report. She leaned her head on the crowbar given to her by Jabir, frowned, and thought hard about a crucial thing-why the Seven Hills Empire's fleet was here.
Appearing here at this kind of time?
Ella tried to piece together the known information in her mind.
One thing Jaber was right about was that the ships of the Seven Hills Empire that appeared at sea were all offshore warships. These ships were larger than the long ships of Hestein and could not pass through the Volga River. Those who wanted to reach the other side of the continent
Antilia can only cross the Strait of Gibraltar and use the sea route to circumnavigate half of the entire continent.
No matter how crazy Su Cornelius Scipio was, there was no way he would allow the Navy of the Seven Hills Empire to use offshore warships to conduct such ocean voyages. In other words, the Seven Hills Empire really used the magic of the Tianfang Empire.
But why do they come here?
In the Empire of Seven Hills, not to mention the specific location of the island of Antilia, even the legend of Antilia is rarely known. They would never come here for the Golden City like Hestein did.
To say that there is something in this location that interests the Seven Hills Empire, there are only two possibilities: one is Hestein who sacked Brusis, and the other is herself, the current nominal ruler of the Seven Hills Empire.
Ella Cornelius Scipio.
Hestein had already escaped by boat, but the fleet did not pursue it. Instead, it landed in Antilia, which means that their purpose was the latter. And the soldiers were looting Antilia, which means - they were not
He came to take her back, but to kill her?
But even so, there is something unexplainable: if it was just to kill her, Baselisa, who had lost her power, the array used by Su. Cornelius Scipio would be too big.
Ella roughly counted and found that there were hundreds of warships appearing on the sea. This was almost the entire navy of the Qiqiu Empire!
There must be something that Ella didn't think of, and there must be some information that Ella ignored.
This month's experience has taught Ella that danger is often hidden in this ignored information.
Thinking about it, Ella closed her eyes. The place that used to be the Wang Family Library has now become a huge puzzle. Parts of the puzzle have been put together piecemeal - that's what Ella's reasoning just said.
Completed. But more parts of the puzzle are still blank.
Ella looked up in front of the puzzle and saw snowflakes falling from the sky. She stretched out her hand to catch one of the pieces, and the snowflakes melted in her palm, and a voice immediately sounded in her head:
"I heard that the merchants on the street are talking about it, saying that a group of fierce pirates have attacked several nearby cities one after another and are approaching the capital. Why haven't I received the report?"
——It’s Ella’s memory.
One piece, two pieces, three pieces, ten pieces, twenty pieces, sixty pieces... The snow fell faster and faster, and the snow fell heavier and heavier. In the blink of an eye, it spread a thick layer on the ground. Soon, within a month,
All the memories were spread on the ground, and even more distant memories were falling in the sky. Such a scene made Ella surprised and scared - there were so many memories stored in her head!
She stepped on the white snow one footprint after another, looking for the puzzle pieces she needed.
She quickly found a clue: a month ago, the Tianfang Empire secretly sent an envoy to Constantiniya.
The Tianfang Empire and the Qiqiu Empire are old enemies, and the envoys can basically only be used to declare war and cease war. But if this is the case, then there is no need to "secretly send" the envoys.
The Tianfang Empire must have other things to deal with, and they are things that Ella Cornelius Scipio cannot let her know.
In addition, there is a possibility that Qiqiu Empire will agree to this matter.
Then, there are needed pieces of the puzzle in the current situation of the Tianfang Empire.
The same is true of the current situation of the Seven Hills Empire.
Then comes the second clue: the character of Sue Cornelius Scipio.
It's easy for a person to fake his loyalty, but it's hard to fake his character. Especially when the other person is Ella's uncle, whom he has been with since childhood.
What proposal would the Tianfang Empire make? How would her arrogant, arrogant uncle respond? What would he do?
Finally, the third article: Tianfang Empire and Qiqiu Empire are old enemies.
This is not really a clue, but it is the most basic rule of the entire puzzle.
Ella groped in the snow, repeatedly assembling the puzzle pieces she found, and constantly eliminating impossible answers. After countless attempts, a complete and perfect puzzle appeared in front of Ella's eyes. Watching
After seeing the appearance of the puzzle piece, Ella suddenly opened her eyes and stood up with a leap.
"Amy, we need to leave the cave right away!"
"Your Majesty... the soldiers of the Seven Hills Empire are killing people everywhere on the island! We will be killed together when we go out!"
"I have to get out."
Ella stared into Amy's eyes and heavily described the patterns she saw displayed by the puzzle:
"The Seven Hills Empire is in danger...it may even perish."
I don’t know when the door of the cave was opened. I don’t know if it was opened when Jabir walked in from the outside, or whether it was opened by Aila after she unlocked the secret of the astrolabe. As soon as she came out of the cave, wailing and crying came from all directions.
, fires were everywhere, and thick black smoke covered the sky. It seemed as if the step just now was not walking out of the cave, but walking into the underworld.
Amy hid behind Ella in fear. Ella supported her body with a crowbar and mustered up the courage to walk in the direction of the loudest noise. Every time she walked, she could see people lying dead on the streets, including young people and others.
There were old people, women, and babies. Ella felt her body getting cold, and the eyes of the dead seemed to be staring at her, staring at Baselisa who ruled the Seven Hills Empire.
An arrow flew past Ella's eyes and hit the body of a child in the distance. A soldier raised his sword in front of her and wiped away the neck of the girl he was pressing under his crotch.
Ella had no ability to prevent this from happening. She could not catch the flying arrow, nor could she block the sword before it struck. Any soldier, or even an islander, could easily pin her to the ground.
She is so weak.
But if she continues to run away out of fear, she will never grow.
——And it’s not like she can’t do anything.
She resolutely walked into the vortex of violence that was spreading outward in front of her.