Previously when the beast wave destroyed the front line and the imperial army was completely defeated, Leopold ignored Brenda’s dissuasion and urgently activated the protective magic circle of the five main cities. This was a life-saving method left by the ancestors, and only the blood of the Roland imperial family could activate it.
The situation was critical and he could no longer care about anything else.
What’s more, besides him, there were only two young children left in the Roland imperial family. One of them was only two years old, and the other was an ordinary person with no elemental talent. It was impossible for him to let them sacrifice themselves to open the protective barrier.
At that time, due to the level limit, Leopold was only two stars in strength. He was at the ceiling level even in the entire Roland Empire.
However, the lifespan of a two star elementalist was only 300 years old.
After consuming his lifespan to open five main cities in succession, his lifespan suddenly came to an end. The emperor who was once famous for his handsomeness quickly aged into a skinny and wrinkled old man.
He had consumed almost all of his vitality in a very short period of time, so he was much weaker than an average old man. After activating the protective magic circle of Imperial City, he collapsed completely.
Even water healing couldn’t treat him. It could only slightly alleviate his pain. He was in a daze and awake for only a short amount of time every day. Once awake, he couldn’t do anything and it was difficult for him to say a word or two.
After three years of persistence, Leopold finally used up his last bit of life and was about to die. At the last moment, he passed the throne to his only remaining son, Snow Roland.
Silver hair and purple eyes were the symbols of the Roland imperial family. Snow was the only Rolander with the purest bloodline left in the world.
At that time, Leopold felt some regret.
After he discovered that his youngest son had no elemental talent, he raised the child in the deep palace. As an ordinary person, he enjoyed the fewest imperial benefits. Similarly, he didn’t need to go to the battlefield or shoulder any heavy responsibilities.
He only had a short lifespan of 100 years, so Leopold hoped that the child could grow up safely and live an ordinary but stable and happy life under the protection of his father and siblings.
However, in the beast wave, Leopold lost his eldest son and second daughter, and his own life was about to end prematurely. In the end, this heavy burden fell on this ordinary child.
If he had known the result earlier, he would’ve treated the child differently.
But it was too late.
He didn’t even get to see the child ascend the throne, and he didn’t get to say the last words he wanted to say before he closed his eyes completely.
What Leopold didn’t expect was that he would have a chance to open his eyes again.
After completely falling into darkness, his most loyal guard and the best friend who grew up with him, Brenda, actually took him away from Imperial City.
This fool actually wanted to die with him.
Unexpectedly, during the flight, they were caught in a special magnetic field and came here accidentally through a space crack.
The moment they fell in, the level restriction suppressing them was lifted. The two extremely talented people broke through directly. Leopold even rose by two stars and his lifespan was extended to 800 years, so he survived.
Leopold felt very complicated when he woke up again and understood what happened.
He was naturally happy to be alive, but there was one thing he still couldn’t let go of.
“Brenda, Snow shouldn’t find that secret room, right?” Leopold whispered.
Facing the man’s serious and somewhat melancholy gaze, Brenda pursed his lips. “Marshal Si Sheng is there… and you also gave him a game cabin…”
Before he could finish, the silver-haired man sitting opposite him silently turned around and covered his ears with his hands.
Brenda, “……”
He tried to hold back, but finally, he couldn’t help asking the question he had always been very curious about.
“Is there anything in your game cabin that you can’t let His Majesty see?”
The man put down the hands covering his ears and responded in a cold voice, “No, there are only some things that cultivate sentiment.”
Brenda was deeply suspicious, but he didn’t dwell on the issue since he noticed that the tips of Leopold’s ears were turning red.
Leopold would definitely get angry if he continued asking.
Then he looked at the colorful crystal above them and changed the subject. “Your Majesty Leopold, what is that golden light?”
The golden light could destroy interstellar beasts and even eight star beasts couldn’t resist it. It could also help them recover their physical strength and heal their injuries. From this perspective, it shouldn’t be a bad thing.
However, the appearance of the golden light intensified the shattering of the colorful crystal and made the barrier unstable, which made people love and hate it.
In the past few years, they tried to return to Escher Star through this colorful crystal but failed every time.
Leopold couldn’t explain it clearly, but he had some vague feelings.
“Perhaps those who stayed on Escher Star did something.”
The elders said that this golden light hadn’t appeared in the past one hundred years, so it must be the result of something Roland’s people had done after they left.
In fact, with the protective magic circle he left behind, the people of Roland should be able to develop peacefully for a period of time as long as they didn’t commit suicide.
As for reclaiming the land outside the magic circle…
To be honest, Leopold wasn’t very optimistic. Perhaps it would be possible after developing for a hundred years, but it was difficult for Roland to become powerful in the short term.
It was because the remaining elementalists were too weak. Si Sheng was unfathomable, but he was the type who didn’t want to fight.
He wouldn’t take action unless it was a critical moment, a matter of life or death.
“I hope Snow can hold on…”
Leopold shook his head and stopped thinking about it since there was no point in thinking too much.
For those who stayed on the land, the chances of returning to Roland were very slim.
As the two of them were talking, the salted fish lying on the ground gradually recovered and started cleaning the battlefield and cooking.
Thanks to the presence of the wood elementalists, they had no shortage of fruits and vegetables. The interstellar beasts that came regularly also provided them with enough meat, so they had no worries of starving to death after staying here for a hundred years.
In other words…
“If I can return to Roland, I must go to Glass Sea City and get some seafood to eat.”
Another young man with silver hair and purple eyes walked slowly to them and sat down. He casually threw an apple to each of them and took another one out of his pocket to eat.
They had no worries about food and drink, but these old guys had no seasonings and no time to study cooking. They really missed the delicious food of the past.
The taste of birds was about to disappear from their mouths!
Leopold held the apple and looked at the young man sitting on the ground, who looked younger than him.
“Uncle Ivis, the ocean had been occupied by interstellar beasts and is much more dangerous than the land. Even if you go back, I’m afraid you will find it difficult to eat normal fish and seafood.”
In fact, Leopold and Brenda were born in the era of interstellar beasts and had never eaten the seafood mentioned by Uncle Ivis.
They had also never eaten the various delicacies he mentioned.
In the age of interstellar beasts with scarce supplies, being able to eat and dress warmly was already very good. Even the emperor wouldn’t waste people’s time and money to pursue the desire for food. The quality of life couldn’t be compared with the most prosperous period a hundred years ago.
“Everyone should have dreams while they are alive.” Ivis took a bite of the apple with a crunch.
He also learned from Leopold and Brenda about what happened on Escher Star after they left Roland and came here, and other high level elementalists also knew about it.
The truth was so cruel that it was hard to accept, but they were all old people who had fought side by side for hundreds of years. In the end, those elementalists whose countries had been destroyed still chose to continue fighting.
Half of these high star elementalists were Rolanders, and Ivis was the only member of the Roland imperial family. He took good care of Leopold and Brenda after they mistakenly entered here.
In other words, these high star elementalists were very kind to both of them and always treated them as grandsons.
The higher the strength, the harder it was to have children, not to mention that in such an environment, no one could think about reproducing. It was hard for fresh blood to join, and two younger generations at that, so the old people were naturally very happy.
Leopold had been a leader for many years and was one of the strongest people in the empire, so it took him a long time to adapt to this. Now he could accept so many powerful elders and an uncle who looked younger than himself.
It was just that this uncle was sometimes really unreliable.
He was caught in a whirlpool while sailing on the sea and was thrown here. As for the reason why he was keen on sailing on the sea…
Leopold sighed and patted Ivis’ shoulder gently.
Perhaps there were still survivors of the sea elves?
They always had to believe that miracles could happen, or what was the point of living?
So the things in the game cabin must not have been seen by that kid Snow, right?
After upgrading Imperial City to lv 6, Xu Sili stopped going out to clear monsters in the wild for a while.
He upgraded the other cities one after another. Then he took a vacation and prepared to have a good rest.
At this time, the second mecha competition agreed upon with the Interstellar Alliance also happened to begin.
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