"It's almost...daybreak!"

Feeling the faint change of light in the forest, Valentina jumped lightly, like a lynx, and climbed up a big tree. She landed on the treetop and looked at the eastern sun.

Her figure swayed with the tree crown, undulating, as light as a ghost.

After taking off her luxurious palace attire and putting on a simple hunting attire, how could she still have the elegance of a lady princess?

She moves her hands and feet like a hunter's daughter in the mountains.

But the peaceful temperament between her eyebrows and eyes cannot be concealed by her simple hunting clothes.

She looked around at the crown of the forest, where green waves rolled like the ocean.

"Pullingleng——"

A night owl rushed out of the forest, like a flying fish, flapping its wings and landed on Valentina's outstretched arm.

It tilted its head and showed off the mouse in its mouth to Valentina.

"Okay, okay, I know the little civet cat is very powerful. It's almost dawn, so go home quickly!" Valentina patted the night owl's head and praised it with approval.

No one who saw her indifferent smile could imagine her panic when she saw a night owl coming with a mouse in its mouth for the first time.

"flap--"

The night owl seems to understand human speech. It spreads its wings and flutters a few times as if to say goodbye. Then it spreads its wings and dives into the endless green waves.

As night falls, the sun rises in the east.

Vallentina looked at the trace of fish-belly white emerging from the sky, looking sad and lonely.

"homesick?"

A sigh came from behind.

I saw a middle-aged man in luxurious clothes emerging from the green waves and standing on the canopy of the tree.

He is about fifty years old, with wavy curly hair, pale sideburns as delicate as a knife, and a strong face, which makes him look more dignified, and his movements are full of aristocratic elegance.

His name is Adelaide, Valentina's biological uncle.

However, compared to his status as a member of the royal family, his most prominent title is that of a five-ring transcendent, who is only one step away from being a demigod!

Unfortunately, as a member of the royal family, he will never be able to serve in the Church of Dawn.

Otherwise, at least he would be a bishop on the pastoral side.

"I thought you were stupid."

Valentina did not look back, and the look of despair on her face solidified, converged, and disappeared.

"Please forgive me, my dear little niece, I don't know how I should meet you." Adelaide walked among the tree canopies and came to Valentina's side in a few steps, looking apologetic.

"Hypocritical! Disgusting!"

Unexpectedly, Valentina let out a low scolding, unwilling to stay with him for a long time, and her body suddenly fell off the tree crown and fell into the still dark forest.

Adelaide froze, looking very annoyed.

At this time, his identity is not so much Valentina's biological uncle, but rather her monitor, prisoner, and protector.

"Valentina, it was not me who decided to exile you, but your father!" Adelaide also fell down, a little angry.

"But it was you who changed my father's mind!" Vallentina walked towards the wooden house with an indifferent expression.

"No! It's not us, it's your bloodline! It's a pity that your birth was a mistake." Adlet sighed.

"Really? As the legitimate daughter of the noble Harrington family, isn't my blood noble enough? Was Queen Margaret a mistake?"

Vallentina suddenly turned around and looked at her uncle Adelaide with a sneer of disdain.

"My dear uncle, don't think that I don't know your purpose. Rather than being a supporter of the Salic Code, you are paving the way for your descendants, or even yourself."

The ancient Salic code stipulated that women had no right to inherit land, and this law eventually became the authoritative basis for women not to inherit royal power.

The Kingdom of Harrington practiced the ancient Salic code for a long time.

However, it was precisely because of the code's deprivation of women's inheritance rights that the struggle for royal power in the royal family was extremely cruel, and there was even a phenomenon of royal power being lost to brothers, and it was eventually abolished.

However, as the oldest code of law, the Salic always shows signs of rising up every once in a while.

Especially with the birth of Valentina, the calls for restoring the Salic Code are getting louder and louder!

It has become a powerful weapon for Prince Luke to inherit the throne.

"Valentina, greed and jealousy have twisted your mind, and you are out of control."

Adelaide shook her head with a ridiculous look on her face.

"Then you kill me."

Valentina kept walking. She didn't even show basic courtesy to her uncle. She didn't curse him, which was her greatest kindness and tolerance.

"Bang bang bang!"

Unexpectedly, as soon as she finished her voice, the sudden sound of gunshots broke the silence of the forest in an instant!

Valentina turned to look at Adelaide in astonishment.

At this time, there were three extraordinary projectiles floating in her temple, heart, and tip of her nose!

——These projectiles were suspended through the extraordinary item Mechanical Death created by the mechanical expert.

"who?"

Adelaide was so frightened that she suddenly snapped her fingers.

In an instant, the rolling flames took him as the center, spread and burned in all directions, wrapping him and Valentina in it.

It looks like the forest is flooded and the sky is burning with fire.

But this blazing flame floats on the surface of the object, distinct from the material, clear and unmixed.

【Fire Thief】

——The thief of fire, the controller of light and heat, the despicable jester of the fourth state of matter.

"Bang bang bang!!!"

A series of gunshots came from outside the flames.

Valentina and Adelaide suddenly looked around and saw a bloodless young man hanging on the edge of the flames.

He was holding a revolver and shooting wildly at Valentina.

"Damn it!"

Adelaide was furious, and the blazing flames enveloped his body, and then he suddenly rushed towards the young man.

The speed is so fast that it is almost like teleportation.

【Bright Knight】

——Born in the light, died in the light, glorified in the light!

"Zizzi!"

The sound of high temperature piercing through and burning flesh could be heard almost as soon as Adelaide scolded him angrily.

That was the sound of the bright dragon spear piercing the young man's abdomen.

"Giggle...you've been fooled!"

At this moment, crisp laughter suddenly echoed around Valentina.

At some point, a woman wearing a riding suit ignored the fire thief's flame domain, jumped in the flames, and landed next to Valentina with a snap of her fingers.

Green-white fingers, like eagle claws, clawed at Valentina's neck!

"No, you were the one who was fooled, the gravekeeper."

Adelaide's sneer could be heard in the ears of the woman in the riding suit. The bright knight who penetrated the young man in the distance was still blazing into the sky, as bright as a god.

He could tell at a glance that the young man outside the flames was a zombie. In that case, how could he personally assassinate a zombie?

The woman's expression froze when she heard this, not because of shock, but simply because she lost control.

"well!"

A sigh came faintly.

——He was lamenting that he had to use the rapidly weakening power of the plague.

'Is there anyone else?'

Adelaide's face changed slightly, flames suddenly appeared on her body, and she was about to merge into the blazing heat.

He succeeded.

He quickly turned into a bunch of inconspicuous flames and was about to merge into the realm of flames.

But this wisp of flame suddenly and uncontrollably rose into the air, and the blazing flame field around it suddenly lost control at this moment. It was no longer distinguishable from matter, but burned in all directions.

Valentina's face changed drastically when she saw this scene.
To be continued...