A dreamlike voice sounded from beside her, and Najenda subconsciously relaxed, only realizing afterwards who had arrived.
The Captain of the Royal Guard under Empress Cerydra, the Daughter of the Sea, Hysilens!
Since their first meeting, she had left a very deep impression on Najenda, and she hadn't expected that even Esdeath, who had defeated her, would respect this person so much... Her strength must not be simple!
Unfortunately, Najenda had never had the chance to witness Hysilens's power, as they were not even on the same battlefield.
But now, although the situation was very critical, Najenda finally had the chance to see her power!
After pumpkin was deactivated, the scarlet lightning rushed towards Najenda with incredible speed, almost about to make contact with her.
However, at that moment, some abnormalities appeared in the air, just like throwing a stone into a lake, stirring up a circular ripple that was expanding at a speed visible to the naked eye.
Boom! The lightning struck the blue ripple just like that, but surprisingly, the lightning could not break through the ripple's defense at all.
"What is this?"
After retreating to a safe place, the soldiers finally had a chance to look back, only to be surprised to find a black-haired girl standing beside Najenda, having appeared out of nowhere...
She merely extended her right hand and summoned countless blue raindrops that floated in mid-air. It was these blue raindrops that blocked the powerful scarlet lightning.
"Is that the Daughter of the Sea?"
"The Daughter of the Sea has come to save us!"
Hearing the cheers from behind, Hysilens only smiled slightly, then focused all her attention on the scarlet lightning before her.
"The scent of blood, what a loyal fierce fish, Great General Budo..."
Pouring his own body and spirit into the Teigu, at the cost of being pulverized, to unleash the Teigu's maximum potential. In this way, he could unleash power greater than ever before, destroying more enemies!
At the same time, the overloaded Teigu would be completely shattered due to being unable to withstand the excessive pressure, making it impossible to pass on to the next user.
Budo knew he was going to lose, so he intended to maximize the benefit of his own death, ideally dragging all the surrounding enemies into hell with him!
It's just that Budo probably didn't expect that there would be someone in the world capable of blocking his desperate final counterattack...
The blue water droplets had long since covered the entire battlefield, simultaneously compressing the scarlet lightning within a certain range to prevent the remaining soldiers from being struck further.
But Najenda frowned as she watched the contact point between the scarlet lightning and the water droplets; as if she had thought of something, her eyes suddenly widened.
"Is this pure water?"
Pure water does not conduct electricity, so ordinary lightning cannot break through Hysilens's defense, but that's not right either?
The scarlet lightning also contained the blood energy from Budo's body, which could completely ignore pure water, but it still hadn't broken through. Unless Hysilens's pure water wasn't ordinary pure water either!
Seeing the scarlet lightning getting smaller and smaller, and the cheers of the surrounding soldiers gradually growing, it wasn't until Empress Cerydra's triumphant army appeared from the distance that the battle finally came to an end.
"Although it's a pity we couldn't obtain 'adramelech', fortunately, we have already received the best reward."
As Hysilens's voice faded, the soldiers who were still cheering gradually looked in a certain direction, their pupils even constricting.
"Hey, look, what is that?"
"Stupid, the Daughter of the Sea is already here, so Prince Caesar's army must have successfully subjugated the Super Danger Beast, right?"
"What's appearing here now is definitely the Empress's army..."
However, just as the soldiers turned their heads to look into the distance, a certain huge object suddenly attracted their attention.
At the front of the army was naturally the little Empress Cerydra, but among those Golden Descendantss, there was an extremely obvious object.
A giant egg!
Meanwhile, in the Empire thousands of miles away, because of the previous incident where Cerydra had blocked intelligence, Minister Honest had specifically strengthened the Empire's intelligence agency so that he could know as quickly as possible exactly what had happened in the Northern Country.
"Wuwu... Great General, you died so miserably!"
The news of Budo's death soon reached the Empire, causing a tremor throughout the entire Empire; both the military and the public erupted because of this incident.
The military was fine; after all, most of them were people who had received some training, and although they were also very surprised, they were able to control their fear.
The Northern Country, no matter how powerful, was far away in the north and couldn't come over and kill us immediately... On the other hand, Minister Honest was right beside us; if he wanted to, our heads would roll the next second!
But the situation among the public was completely different. With the fall of the Great General, some people began to cheer, while others began to feel fear...
Under this huge disparity, a riot, which hadn't happened in years, actually broke out in the Imperial Capital!
As long as you walked on the streets of the Imperial Capital, you could basically hear the gossip on the roadside, causing the situation to deteriorate further.
In order to prevent those rumors from continuing to affect the Empire's rule, Honest immediately ordered a suppression.
Although the Empire had lost its strongest Great General, Budo, the remaining strength was not to be underestimated, especially since the personnel suppressing the Imperial Capital this time was Minister Honest's son, Syura!
What kind of things the son of a piece of scum would do—although the anime didn't broadcast this part, the original work of akame ga kill had already revealed it.
This scum Syura would use his position to wantonly investigate beautiful women within the Imperial Capital with his subordinates, and even went as far as forcibly abducting women in broad daylight.
If it weren't for Wave, I'm afraid even Akame's younger sister, Kurome, would have suffered!
At that time, at least the Jaegers could stop Syura a little, but now... without the obstruction of Budo and those loyalists and conscientious factions, no one could stop anything Syura did.
The bustling Imperial Capital had, at this moment, become a hell on earth that no one knew about!
But Minister Honest didn't care about this; instead, he continued his fake crying...
And a few seconds later, the crying stopped.
"Continuing to cry here won't solve anything."
"I have already mourned for you in my heart, Budo; I believe you will understand me, right?"
Taking another bite of the leg meat beside him, the Minister's brain began to spin rapidly, thinking about how to deal with the Northern Country.
"Not only did they take out Budo, but they even killed a Super Danger Beast? Isn't the growth rate a bit too fast?"
If we don't use the supreme imperial arms, it seems that conventional means simply can't deal with them?
"No, I still have to try."
"Let Gozci go; the Empire's elite assassination unit should be able to kill Cerydra, right?"
"But I still need to make a backup plan..."
"If the assassination is not successful, I will have to find a third party to cooperate with."
Honest's eyes were extremely deep as he looked at the night outside the window, wondering if that so-called "third party" would understand?
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