"I'm asking you!" The noble lady was very angry at Abu's wandering gaze. "If you don't say anything, I'll throw you into prison." Then the noble lady waved to the soldiers behind her, and immediately two soldiers came over.

  "I found it." Abu said calmly. Now he could clearly feel that the noble lady in front of him seemed to be a magician too, but just a beginner. He was now one hundred percent sure that he could kill this noble lady and the two soldiers who were coming over. But the mage in the carriage must be difficult to deal with, and the swordsman on horseback was also hard to handle.

  "Pooh!" The noble lady looked at Abu viciously. "The calling bracelet of the Hanyida Church. Can someone like you find it? Do you think noble lords will also be like you, strolling on the street every day and accidentally losing their bracelets?" The noble lady's voice got louder and louder, and the two soldiers had already reached Abu. It seemed that they were going to arrest him.

  Abu took off the bracelet and handed it to the noble lady, then said very respectfully: "Since it's the noble lord's thing, then please return it to him, miss. I just found it by accident, and I don't know what it's used for."

  The noble lady snatched the bracelet: "Of course you don't know what it's used for. But don't think that just because you return the thing to me, I will let you go. Well, you take him away." The latter half of her sentence was directed at the two soldiers.

  Abu was originally very short. The two soldiers needed to bend down to hold his arms. Just as the two soldiers bent down, Abu suddenly squatted down and quickly retreated backward from between the two soldiers. The two soldiers didn't expect to catch nothing. They squeezed together and almost fell on the noble lady.

  In just such a short while, everyone was surprised to find that Abu had disappeared. The old man who was originally sitting in the carriage suddenly got out of the carriage and stood at the place where Abu had just stood. His eyes were full of disbelief. Then the old man looked back at the swordsman on horseback. The swordsman lowered his head and said: "I'm sorry, my lord. I didn't see how he left either."

  The noble lady was a little afraid and pulled the old man's clothes: "Grand Duke Sirima, is he... is he a demon? How could he disappear suddenly?"

  An unprecedented tension appeared on Grand Duke Sirima's face, but he still gently patted the noble lady's hand: "Don't be afraid, Your Highness. With me here, no one can hurt you. Let's leave here immediately and go to Lion City. We can arrive at noon." After the princess entered the carriage, Grand Duke Sirima walked to the horse of the swordsman and said in a low voice: "Send someone to Lion City immediately and ask them to send two hundred soldiers to meet us and protect the safety of Her Highness the Princess."

  The swordsman was stunned: "Grand Duke Sirima, is it necessary for us to do this? With a great mage like you here, we still..." Before he could finish speaking, Grand Duke Sirima interrupted the swordsman's words: "General Niyol, I want to remind you that the safety of the princess is the top priority. And here you should follow my orders." Perhaps it was the serious expression of Grand Duke Sirima that had an effect. General Niyol immediately nodded in agreement and called two soldiers to go to Lion City immediately. Then he hesitated and asked: "Grand Duke Sirima, if there is really any danger, we might as well wait until the reinforcements from Lion City arrive before setting off."

  Grand Duke Sirima shook his head: "In this way, it will cause unnecessary panic to the princess's psychology. And I am just taking precautions. Of course, I hope my guess is wrong. We set off as planned!"

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  When Grand Duke Sirima sat back in the carriage, the princess was playing with the calling bracelet: "Grand Duke Sirima, this seems to be the bracelet of Marquis Sallans of the Star King Empire, right? Why is it in someone else's hands?"

  Grand Duke Sirima looked at the bracelet: "Yes, it is indeed the marquis's bracelet. I can't figure out why it is not in the marquis's hands. Only this time we came and heard a lot of things about the Star King Empire. It seems that the marquis is also in a bit of trouble now. Please forgive me, princess. There are some things I have to say. As a princess, you actually don't have to come to such a poor place as the Star King Empire in person."

  The princess had heard this sentence thousands of times along the way. Now she even covered her ears: "Okay, Grand Duke Sirima, I know. I will never dare to go out with you again." She didn't admit that she shouldn't come to the Star King Empire, but said that she shouldn't go out with the grand duke. Grand Duke Sirima sighed. In the entire Sunrise Empire, even the king had to be polite to him. Only this princess made him helpless.

  The convoy slowly left the city and headed for Lion City, the capital of the Star King Empire. Although the war had not spread to this place on the edge of the continent, it was impossible for this place to be completely immune to the war. It was hard to see anyone in the wilderness. Whether voluntarily or not, at least one-fifth of the people in each country were pulled onto the battlefield. Large tracts of fertile fields were slowly deserted. Villages one after another were deserted. Even the birds were caught and used as military rations. After the trees were cut down, the bare ridges were exposed. Although it was a mountain road, there was no shady place to be found. The destruction of nature would of course be punished by nature. In a few years, this place would also become a desert.

  The scenery outside the carriage couldn't attract the princess's interest at all. After playing with the bracelet for a while, the princess was a little tired and slowly closed her eyes. Grand Duke Sirima seemed to be thinking about something. It only took less than half a day from Shepan City to Lion City, and reinforcements would come soon. There should be no problem, right?

  But Grand Duke Sirima still didn't dare to be careless about that young man who had suddenly disappeared. He just kept thinking, could that profession that had disappeared on the Malaia Continent appear again? If that was really the case, Grand Duke Sirima couldn't help but think of a person. That person had disappeared for five years!

  Although it was morning, the violent sun made people drowsy. General Niyol, who was walking at the front, felt that Grand Duke Sirima was a bit overly cautious. As a high-level swordsman, General Niyol really didn't see clearly how that young man disappeared just now. But he believed that if that young man appeared again, he would definitely catch that person. And the fifty soldiers behind him were all the most elite royal guards of the Sunrise Empire. He believed that he and his fifty soldiers could hold off thousands of troops. Not to mention that Grand Duke Sirima himself was also one of the famous great mages on the Malaia Continent, even more advanced than upper-level mages. General Niyol had never seen him so nervous.

  Just as he was thinking, suddenly there was a certain vibration on the ground. General Niyol, who was rich in combat experience, immediately drew his sword and ordered the team to stop advancing. At this time, a soldier behind him shouted: "General, there are stones rolling down from the mountain!" Looking in the direction of the soldier's voice, sure enough, on the mountain to the south, a large number of gravels were rolling down. General Niyol shouted: "Protect the carriage!" The soldiers, who were well-trained, erected high shields about twenty meters in front of the carriage.

  General Niyol hurriedly ran to the front of the carriage and said as he ran: "Your Highness the Princess, Grand Duke Sirima, it seems that there are some fallen stones on the mountain. There will be no danger. Please stay in the carriage, Your Highness and my lord..." Before he could finish his latter sentence, he was stunned. Only then did he see that a person wearing a clown mask had somehow entered the carriage and was holding a black dagger against Grand Duke Sirima's neck.