The Way of the Empress

“But, I don’t want to die. I really don’t want to die, Your Highness… Forgive me, please forgive me.” Zhuo Yang breathed a sigh of relief. He didn’t even think about whether Moodys really believed him or was cooperating with his acting, as he struggled to reach the door of the spaceship with his hands.

Moodys hugged him, and grabbed his hand that went to the door. “I won’t let you leave me, I won’t let you leave me…”

Everyone in the escort stared at the pair of them speechlessly.

One was trying to reach the door, and the other was stopping him from leaving.

They really delayed a long time.

“The two of you acting together, are you delaying time?” While the two continued to drag, Felman’s expression suddenly turned cold as he asked the pair.

Even if Zhuo Yang is just a guide, he has already arrived at the door. It is not so difficult to open the door.

Everyone in the escort was shocked when they heard Felman’s words.

Moodys’ expression also changed from holding back to cold and solemn.

On the contrary, Zhuo Yang reacted very quickly, and immediately pretended to be in a panic, and said, “How can it be? General, I don’t want to die, I want to live, I want to live…”

He said, reaching out and ignoring Moodys’ struggles and reached the door of the spaceship.

But it didn’t open…

Zhuo Yang knew that even if he delayed the time, he could only delay until here.

The rest can only be left to fate…

“It’s too late, Your Royal Highness.” Felman sneered as he watched Zhuo Yang play, and said coldly. “It’s a pity, even if you delayed for so long, your reinforcements have not come yet.”

“I’ve changed my mind. Although you are beautiful, and it would be a pity to kill you, but – you should go to hell with your sentinel.”

“How could that be? General, I don’t want to die, I I want to live… I just, I just didn’t open it with my hands shaking for a while, give me another chance.” Zhuo Yang said in a panic.

He wanted to drag things out  a little longer.

But this time, Felman’s patience was completely gone, and he directly cut off the communication.

At the moment when the communication was cut off, the warship of the Vulture Legion sent out a row of missiles without saying a word!

“Boom—”

The entire spaceship trembled violently.

Although the spaceship they were riding was made of the best protective materials in the military and could withstand heavy blows, under the heavy siege of missile and artillery fire, it was bound to be wiped out soon.

The tremor this time was stronger than any previous one. It was enough to see Felman Dawson’s determination to wipe them out.

Zhuo Yang fell directly to the ground and almost rolled in this crumbling space.

Fortunately, Moodys quickly helped him up with his hands and eyes. The two of them looked at each other, unable to say anything, and their eyes were full of mixed emotions.

“Your Royal Highness…” The guards had complicated hearts watching Zhuo Yang, and panicked from the current situation. “Your Royal Highness, what should we do now? At their speed of attacking, we will be destroyed in less than ten minutes.”

The captain of the escort suddenly thought of something, and suggested: “There is an escape pod in the spaceship, and we all have mechas on us. Why don’t you sit in the escape pod, and we will deploy the mecha to cover you… You think of a way to escape first. Let’s talk about it. You can’t be in trouble, Your Royal Highness…”

He was determined to use his life to cover Moodys.

“Yeah, Your Highness, let us cover you as you escape in the  escape pod.” The captain’s words  immediately aroused a response across the team.

“Yes, Your Highness, Osphia can’t do without you!”

…

All the members of the escort team are willing to risk their lives to cover Moodys, even if it is only a chance!

“The Heart of the Rose may be the place where I fall.” Moodys let go of Zhuo Yang’s hand. “As a soldier, a sentinel, even if I die, I will not let you cover me… I won’t give up hope and will fight until the last moment.”

He looked at everyone present. “Even if I die, I will die in a mecha, not in the escape pod.”

As soon as he said that, he already showed his determination.

“Your Royal Highness…” Although the hearts of the guards were complicated, they still did not dare to disobey.

Moodys said word by word: “You will use your mechas later, and listen to my orders. Even if we die, we will bury the rebels and their lives!”

Everyone in the escort said in unison: “Yes!”

His decisions and orders are omnipresent. They all know that in the current situation, even if Moodys is sent to the escape pod, he may not be able to live!

It’s better for everyone to fight to the death and fight to the end!

“Jason, I remember that your mental strength is not up to the standard. You are not qualified and authorized to drive mechas, so you don’t have a mechas, right?” Moodys glanced at the time and estimated how long the spaceship could last for as he talked to the young man who punched Zhuo Yang.

Although Jason didn’t know why Moodys asked this question, he still replied: “That’s right, Your Highness.”

“Since there is no mecha, you can stay in the spaceship with the crown princess.” Moodys ordered: “After we go out, the Vulture Legion should target us instead. I don’t know how long I and the others can last, but if my mecha blows up and something goes wrong… you will immediately send the princess to the escape pod. Don’t send it out yet, and send it out with the debris when the spaceship is blows up, so the chances of escaping are higher…”

Zhuo Yang’s acting skills are really good. Jason couldn’t tell whether what the crown princess words just now were true or false, whether he was delaying time, or whether he really wanted to flee.

Hearing that Moodys wanted to leave the only escape pod to Zhuo Yang, he immediately disapproved: “Your Royal Highness…”

“As a sentinel, protecting the old and weak, women, children, and guides, it is our duty to leave a chance for them to live. The crown princess is the only guide in this spaceship.” Moodys said in a deep voice.

Jason was speechless even though he still wanted to complain.

Moodys walked to Zhuo Yang and touched his face lightly, as if saying goodbye. “I hope you live. Even if I die, I also hope you have a chance to live…”

“I love you, little madman.” He whispered in Zhuo Yang’s ear.

Zhuo Yang moved his lips, his heart was very complicated, and he wanted to say something to Moodys. “Your Royal Highness…”

He just created a misunderstanding and didn’t have time to explain it clearly. He didn’t know whether Moodys was clear in his heart or believed him… He had too many things to say to Moodys.

But Moodys had no time to listen. The moment Zhuo Yang opened his mouth, Moodys withdrew his hand and ordered all the members of the escort: “Everyone pretend to cover me to escape. Enter your mechas and move in the direction of the nearest transition point!”

All the escort members were ready in two minutes.

The door of the spaceship was opened by Moodys himself, and more than a dozen combat mechas rose into the sky under the cover of the king of mechas, Lucifer. They left the spaceship and fled towards the nearest transition point.

It looked like he was trying to escape.

“They want to escape, hurry up!” Felman looked at the crown prince’s guard mechas like a bereaved dog, and disdained the legendary mecha king Lucifer.

Thousands of mechas disembarked from the Vulture warship, like chasing beasts teasing chickens, and soon caught up with the guards and Lucifer.

He wants to catch a turtle in a urn and annihilate them all.

At this moment, Lucifer, the king of mechas driven by Moodys, suddenly turned around with a dozen mechas. Just when the enemy mecha pilots were distracted, Moodys actually used Lucifer as a hub and sent out a spiritual net, causing many mecha pilots to lose consciousness, and directly fire dozens of luminous energy cannons and missiles at their own troops!

There is a signs that all their ammunition has been shot out towards their own comrades.

Why is Lucifer the king of mechas? Why is Moodys the strongest sentinel of the empire, and how did he do it?

Felman did not understand before, and even suspected that this was an exaggeration by the royal family in order to shape the image of the crown prince. But he finally understood it today.

It turned out that Moodys’ strength and spiritual strength were so powerful that he could manipulate hundreds of enemy mechas at the same time with Lucifer’s help.

In just a moment, tens of thousands of mecha fleets of the Vulture Legion were blown up by their own mechas controlled by Moodys. Their entire formation became chaotic.

In an instant, he blew up half of the Vulture Legion.

By the time these mecha drivers regained their sanity and hadn’t tragically died under the fire of their comrades, it was too late.

Lucifer, driven by Moodys, led more than a dozen escort mechas to take advantage of this delay, and they spewed out monstrous flames and unstoppable light energy cannons.

He forged a bloody path in the huge army.

But even so, he was already exhausted.

The number of mechas and numbers of the Vulture Legion were too many. Being outflanked by the remaining mechs, Moodys was almost forced into a desperate situation.

“Boom- boom- boom-”

Light cannons, electric cannons, and missiles shot out together. The explosions illuminated the entire Heart of the Rose like dazzling fireworks blooming in the dark.

When the smoke dissipated, Lucifer immediately issued a harsh alarm. As the driver, cold sweat oozed out of Moodys’ forehead and he vomited a mouthful of blood. He was mentally burned out from exceeding the upper limit.

At this moment, he thought that he might be really done this time.

It’s ridiculous.

In this expedition, he did not die at the hands of the Alliance, but at the hands of his own.

It’s just that Zhuo Yang…

 

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Because in the previous scene, Jason was very dissatisfied with Zhuo Yang. The two of them sat in the spaceship relatively silent. The atmosphere was very awkward as they stared at the screen closely watching the image of Moodys and the escort team fighting outside.

Before he knew it, Zhuo Yang’s fingernails were pinched into his flesh. Blood pooled out, but he didn’t even realize it. His black and white eyes stared at Lucifer on the screen without blinking.

Even if he is not a soldier or a sentinel, he can easily see that Moodys and the others are in a very dangerous situation.

Being able to survive for so long and fill so many of them is not easy.

He adjusted the mini-mecha Moodys gave him for self-defense to a state of readiness. If Lucifer couldn’t hold on, he would rush out and prepare to die with Moodys.

If Moodys is gone.

Then, his life would be meaningless.

“Signal… The signal is linked.” At this moment, Jason yelled. He turned the direction of the real picture with a smile, and pointed to the two massive warships quickly approaching. “It’s Dawn and Glory… Major Generals Gu Che and Ding Hui are here.”

He almost cried with joy.

Zhuo Yang looked at the two warships that were getting closer to them in disbelief. Seeing that Dawn and the Glory Legion were coming at the speed of light, he suddenly let out a long sigh of relief.

They… they were saved…

Moodys relied on his strong spiritual strength to firmly protect the dozen mechas behind him. He held on, not letting Lucifer burst, but Lucifer’s shell, which has always been indestructible, was violently attacked by the Vulture Legion. Cracks appeared, and the outer casing and wings were even black, and even the temperature inside was very high.

Anyone with combat experience could see that Lucifer couldn’t hold on anymore.

Moodys was almost exhausted at the moment. He insisted on dragging the Vulture Legion with him, frantically squandering the remaining energy in his mecha. For a while, fire was everywhere, and explosions continued.

Just when he was almost desperate, an escort sent a voice through the link channel: “Look! Your Highness, it’s the Glory Legion and the Dawn Legion, Major General Gu and Ding have arrived!”

For some unknown reason, the Vulture Legion threw a missile at a cosmic wormhole very close to Lucifer!

The violent explosions was like a firework – brightly lighting up the entire galaxy!

Even the surrounding Vulture Legion was bombed to the ground.

“No, it’s a space tear! Let the Dawn Army and the Glory Army run! Don’t come here!” Moodys said quickly in the communication channel as he watched what was happening in front of him.

Aroused by the missile explosion, the vortex-like space tearing spread from the center of the wormhole, and began to rapidly expand.

There are many cosmic wormholes in Heart of the Rose star field. Once the space in a wormhole is torn apart, even the most powerful mecha will pulled in and cannot escape.

Even in a mecha, there is a 70% chance of being torn into pieces, with death at the end.

No bones will remain, and no one knows where the wreckage will be tossed out.

Normal people and military combatants will choose to avoid wormholes, to not create space tearing and vortexes. Otherwise, both sides will suffer and be submerged.

The Vulture Legion wanted to kill him, and they would not hesitate to drag the entire legion to bury him!

The Dawn and Glory Legions immediately stopped after receiving the alarm. The space tearing tornado will swallow as many people as possible. If they rushed over, they will also be swallowed up.

In an instant, Lucifer, where Moodys was located, and the mecha where the escort was located, and a large number of Vulture mechas who were close to the wormhole were all swept down, engulfed by the endless space vortex, without a shadow.

Their signal vanished.

“Withdraw!” Gu Che tearfully looked at the direction where Lucifer disappeared, and announced the withdrawal in order not to destroy the Glory and Dawn legions.

In order to avoid the space tearing the vortex, the two warships turned back as fast as they had arrived.

“Your Highness, let’s go quickly. A space tearing vortex is coming, His Royal Highness hopes you live!” When the vortex started, the two legions already arrived near Zhuo Yang’s spaceship and began to battle the Vulture Legion.

The vortex was torn apart in space, and they wanted to take Zhuo Yang away together.

However, at the moment when Zhuo Yang saw Lucifer being swept away, he rushed out in the mini-mecha, having the courage to die as he plunged to the location where Lucifer disappeared, and plunged into the terrifying whirlpool.

No matter what happened, he will always be with Moodys.

Moreover, there is still a misunderstanding between them that has not been explained clearly.

“Your… Your Highness…” Seeing Zhuo Yang, Moodys’ guard, and the Vulture Legion being swallowed whole, the people of the Dawn Legion immediately panicked.

It happened so fast that they didn’t have time to react.

Jason was stunned, and then came back to his senses. He then immediately slapped himself in the face: “It’s my fault, it’s because I didn’t watch over His Royal Highness. I’m sorry!”

Ding Hui watched Zhuo Yang enter the whirlpool helplessly. As the vortex grew closer and closer to them, he immediately ordered: “Withdraw the army! Immediately jump back!”

Jason was still in a state of ignorance, but he was dragged away by the people of the Dawn Legion, and jumped back with them.

Everything around the spaceship was chaotic and the Vulture Legion that had not had time to leave was swallowed up.

After a while, the space tearing vortex blew away and disappeared-

The wormhole became quiet again, leaving only an empty vastness  in the Heart of Rose star field. No living beings could be seen.

The dazzling Heart of the Rose was as beautiful and dazzling as it was before the war.

 

Dun, dun, dun…

 

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