The "Split Skull Gate" is the southern gate of the imperial capital and the oldest of the four gates of this eternal capital.

This city gate is most praised by mainland people because there are three giant dragon skulls hanging on the top of the gate as decorations.

The dragon skull on the left side of the city gate was plucked from the neck of a wind dragon that was entrenched here by the legendary female mage "Star Glory" Dolores Papanicolaou in the early days of the empire - now

The original site of the glorious and prosperous human imperial capital was built on the dragon's lair, which also earned the imperial capital the reputation of "the land of the crouching dragon";

The giant dragon skull in the center is the epic dragon knight Norman under Count Olaf, the famous "Light of the Empire", who rode his mount and fought a black dragon for three days and three nights in the "Doomsday War" era.

dragon-slaying trophies;

As for the giant dragon skull on the far right, its origin is none other than the swordmaster "Thunder Dragon" Samuel who had previously wanted to take Alice as his disciple - this man married a dragon and killed another.

The legendary hunk of dragon also donated his collection of dragon skulls to the Imperial Capital Guangyao Menlin...

Of course, don't get me wrong, the skull belongs to the dragon he killed, not the dragon he married.

The three giant dragon skulls hanging high on the vault of the Imperial Capital's "Skull Gate" have become a noble symbol of the martial spirit of mankind in the empire, as well as an immortal testimony of the conquest of wild nature by humanoid creatures.

However, the name "Skull Gate" has less to do with dragon heads and more to do with human heads:

Ever since an imperial emperor in ancient times had his head smashed by rebels under this gate that had not yet been named at the time, this gate has become a place of extremely unfavorable misfortune for the head - according to statistics, in "

There are no less than twenty dignitaries who have suffered disaster (literally) under the "Skull Gate".

Even the most miserable warchief in the history of the orcs, "Shameless" Goodman, was taken to the "Skull Gate" and executed with an ax gun after being captured by the Imperial Army.

Generally speaking, when outsiders come to the imperial capital, if they enter the city through the "Skull-Splitting Gate", they must constantly recite prayers to the Supreme Holy God in order to ward off bad luck and ensure safety;

However, a certain Lord of Frost Maple Ridge who traveled from Earth was definitely not so superstitious.

While he and several senior family officials were queuing up to wait for the city defense soldiers to inspect the convoy, the Xiahou official was listening intently to his sister's story about Countess Isa Sandria.

At present, his only impression of this beautiful girl is that her lips are very soft and her lipstick is very sweet.

However, whether it is Katarina, Alice or Knight Commander Cousins, when the name Isa Sandria is mentioned, the emotion is not so much resentment as...

fear.

Listening to his sister Catalina's narration, Xia Houyan suddenly remembered that he had actually met Isa Sandria.

As early as more than ten years ago, Isa Sandria, who was born in her family's territory, the Stigma Land in the eastern border of the empire, lost her parents and all the land in the Stigma Land due to the attack launched by the orcs;

However, Isa, who was five or six years old and had only the empty title of "Countess of Stigmata", was sent to Eagle's Rest for temporary foster care by the knights of the Sandria family.

The knights swore to the Duke of Eagle's Rest that when they found a way to regain the Stigmata, they would take Isa back to the east to inherit the territory. However, it didn't take long for these knights to lose their lives to the orcs.

Under the sword of the Wolf Cavalry, the recovery of the Stigma Land was completely hopeless.

Therefore, the lonely Isa Sandria lived in Eagle's Rest Castle until she moved to the Imperial Capital two years ago.

Counting this way, both Catalina and Alice are actually companions who have played with Isa since childhood.

On the contrary, the Lord of Frost Maple Ridge was sent to the academy to practice magic since he was a child. The last time he saw Isa was when he came home during the holidays when he was a child. Naturally, he could not have had any impression.

"Then...in that case, isn't Isa Sandria an old acquaintance of our family?" Xia Houyan said blankly, "Why do you have such a bad attitude toward her?"

"Lord, you only know one thing but not the other..." Cousins ​​saw Catalina's sullen face and did not want to speak, so he had to explain bitterly, "Well, let me ask you a question... Guess, at that time

Eagle's Rest, who can top the list of 'people you least want to see'?"

"Master Laurie?" Xia Houyan's first reaction immediately aroused the anger of his chief mage.

"Not entirely accurate." Cousins ​​rolled his eyes at Master Lowry and shrugged, "Master Lowry is ranked third."

"Who is second?" Xia Houyan asked.

"Bob Brook," Cousins ​​replied.

Xiahou Yanxin said that the ranking of this list makes sense.

"Guess again, who is No. 1?" Cousins ​​asked.

"It can't be Isa, right?" The lord opened his mouth.

"Exactly!" Cousins ​​held his forehead and smiled bitterly, "When I watched her being sent to Eagle's Rest, Isa Sandria was still a harmless little girl, but within a few years

, she turned the territory upside down..."

"No...it will be..." Xia Houyan was dumbfounded, "She's just a little girl, how can she be so capable? And I think Isa is pretty and pretty... uh... quite polite...

"

——After noticing his sister’s dangerous gaze, the lord cleverly corrected his wording.

"Those are all appearances!" Cousins ​​shook his head and said, "Let me give you an example... Look at Isa Sandria, is she as beautiful as a rose now? You can definitely imagine it.

, when she was at Eagle's Rest five or six years ago, she had already become a beautiful woman!"

"Yeah... quite beautiful..." Xia Houyan licked his lips unconsciously.

Knight Commander Cousins ​​had a wry smile on his face:

"At that time, this girl didn't know what she was thinking. She posted a marriage notice outside the gate of Eagle's Rest Castle, saying that she wanted to marry the bravest young man in Igor's territory... What do you think will happen?"

"Damn, aren't all the young men from Eagle's Breath gone crazy?"

It’s enough to make people flock to it!”

"Right?" Cousins ​​sighed, "But you know what else Isa's marriage notice said? 'The way to prove your courage is to jump from the highest tower of the castle'!"

Xia Houyan was dumbfounded.

According to his extremely thin memory, the tower of Eagle's Rest is dozens of meters high, right?

Alice Comstock couldn't help but shudder when she heard this:

"Knight Commander Cousins, I still remember those days. Every morning under the tower, you would find a bunch of corpses of young men who jumped down from the top of the tower..."

"Normally, our young people at Eagle's Rest are not that stupid. We can really dance..." Knight Cousins ​​sighed, "But at that time, Isa Sandria seemed to have sent her servants to pretend to pursue her.

Those who fan the flames of trouble, Lord, as you know, young people are so proud of themselves but can’t suppress their anger, so they all rush to the top of the tower and jump off the building..."

Everyone present seemed to have forgotten that the Lord of Frost Maple Ridge was actually a "young man" in his early twenties.

"Co-author Isa Sandria killed more than a dozen people with a marriage notice?!" Xia Houyan was really shocked, "This girl is so cruel? But those young men are really stupid, the most beautiful in the world

Don’t you have enough girls? Aren’t we, Alice, also in Eagle’s Rest?”

Alice smiled sweetly, lowered her head and whispered:

"I am yours..."

Cousins ​​hurriedly cleared his throat, interrupting the flirting between the couple:

"Lord, you may not think that Isa Sandria is beautiful, but this little girl's mind is like a damn snake! Do you know how she got along with Vincent after this 'marriage announcement' incident?

Did someone explain the situation?"

Knight Commander Cousins ​​paused, held his butthole between his legs, and imitated Isa's tone and said sharply:

"Uncle Vincent...those fools always send me love letters, and I act like a follower when I go out for an outing. It's so annoying! You see, after they die, don't they become pure all of a sudden? You can't

Blame me, they were stupid and had to jump from the tower..."

Katerina snorted angrily.

"Elliot, the most important thing is..." Alice whispered, "...Isa is still a legitimate imperial noble, and she was fostered in Eagle's Breath in the name of Stigmata... Even if she causes trouble...

If it's a big disaster, your father can't do anything to her. The most he can do is make the tutor copy the paper a few times..."

"In short, Isa Sandria has done a lot of similar 'good deeds'." Knight Commander Cousins ​​said with a bitter face, "The day she left Eagle's Rest and moved to the Imperial Capital, you must not have known in the school city that Eagle

The people of Xibao Town set off fireworks all day and night!"

Master Laurie on the side shook his head and said:

"I made those magic fireworks myself! The day the little goblin got away, Mayor Joel and I drank until dawn..."

Xia Houyan couldn't help but shiver:

"Holy shit...then...how could this kind of femme fatale be my fiancée?"

"One day at the dinner party, Isa got your father drunk." Cousins ​​said concisely.

Xia Houyan cursed silently.

Catalina, who had been silent for a long time, finally rubbed her brow and said slowly:

"Father agreed to get you engaged to Isa because he was drunk and fell in love with this bitch... bitch..."

After all, the gentle and polite Catalina couldn't curse, so Master Laurie quickly did it for her:

"...bitch!"

Catalina shook her head and sighed:

"...It was the drunken words he said after he was drunk and was induced by Isa Sandria. Although we knew it, we never took it seriously... But we didn't expect that after meeting Isa this time, she would actually

Bring it up again..."

"Damn it!" Xia Houyan's voice changed. "My father drank too much and was talking nonsense. He didn't ask for my consent at all. I'm not responsible for this, right?"

"Theoretically, the marriage contract openly spoken by the nobles does have certain legal effect..." Master Laurie held up his sleeves and said strangely, "Well... Lord... I wish you and Miss Isa a happy marriage...
To be continued...