Azur Lane: I Crossed the Graduation Port Area

Chapter 1279: Imperial City, Blood Clan, War (3000 words)
The Natlan Imperial City was quiet at midnight.

Except for the imperial guards patrolling the streets and the monks of the Yantian Division patrolling the air, almost every household had closed their doors.

Due to the recent destruction of the Wu family and the arrival of the disaster beast in the sky, the imperial city has been under a curfew for nearly half a month in order to quell the turmoil as quickly as possible.

Although the Wu family was destroyed, the imperial court never stopped clearing out officials who supported the Wu family.

Many imperial officials had their property confiscated in recent days. Without the suppression of the Grand Master Wu Pengcang, the Imperial Emperor Li Zifei was finally able to start a series of reforms in a drastic manner.

Except for a small number of officers and soldiers who were transferred to the West Province and the South Province, the vast majority of officers and soldiers who were transferred by the Wu family to the North Province returned to the Central Province to launch the operation to eradicate the evil cultivators.

With the death of the Grand Master who held the military command, the Emperor's will naturally became the supreme command of the Natlan army.

The Yantian Division also began to reorganize under the emperor's order, selecting from the Imperial Guards and Zhongzhou sects.

But even so, after retiring from court, Emperor Li Zifei of Natlan, who was alone in his bedroom, still looked worried.

Although the Wu family, which once had great power in the imperial court, was destroyed by the powerful man from Donghuang.

But after the fall of the Wu family, she discovered that of the five states of the empire today, except for Zhongzhou, the other four states have completely escaped the control of the court.

According to the intelligence sent by the spies, Nanzhou was brutally massacred by the evil cultivators, thousands of miles of land were deserted, and the counties were deserted;
The climate in Xizhou changes dramatically, and the Blue Cult attacks the state palace;
Although Beizhou is the birthplace of the Spark Column, there are a large number of steel legions suspected to be from the foreign country of Oran displayed on the banks of the Duanzhou River in Beizhou, because they are hostile to Wu Pengcang because of what he had done in the past.

Only Dongzhou, perhaps because it is controlled by the powerful person who saved her from the fire and water, is the only state where she feels relatively at ease.

Li Zifei took off her yellow robe, sat on the bed, and carefully took care of her soft long black hair.

Apart from a few senior ministers and personal maids, only a handful of people in the court knew that she was a woman.

She should not have become the emperor, but after her brother's curse broke out and he committed suicide for his country, her brother and sister went to the foreign country of Oran and have not returned yet.

Li Zifei actually knew very well that if she calculated the time, her second brother and sister had both died in a curse outbreak in a foreign country.

The youngest of them is now nearly twenty years old, and it is time for her to think about how to continue the royal bloodline before the God-killing curse breaks out.

But when she glanced at the exquisite wooden box beside the pillow, she secretly told herself that maybe she should really trust the commander.

According to the rules summarized by countless generations of emperors, she still has two or three years before the God-killing Curse breaks out.

What if a miracle really happens?

Li Zifei took a deep breath, suppressed all of this in her heart, and called out:
"Yuanyang, you can turn off the lights for me."

However, her personal maid, who always waited outside the bedroom and responded quickly, did not respond this time.

This made Li Zifei instinctively realize that something was wrong.

Although she was captured by Wu Pengcang in Dongzhou and brought back to the palace, she had not been used to the palace maids' meticulous care for such a long time.

However, according to the harsh laws established in the imperial city since ancient times, the emperor's personal attendants and palace maids would be tortured if they responded too slowly.

Li Zifei carefully lifted the curtain beside the bed, held her breath and observed quietly.

Soon, her face turned pale.

The footsteps of the guards who were supposed to be patrolling outside the palace... disappeared.

The entire bedroom seemed to be shrouded in soundproofing, and not even the slightest sound could be heard.

But just as she took the wooden box beside her pillow, which she regarded as a talisman, and stood up barefoot, intending to retrieve the Emperor's Spirit Sword that she hung in her bedroom study...

"boom!"

The tightly closed wooden window was suddenly pushed open, and dozens of black bats flapping their wings swept in like a gust of black wind.

"Which monster dares to trespass..."

Before Li Zifei could finish her cold shout pretending to be calm, this group of strange bats gathered rapidly in front of her.

The next second, a slender arm wearing a black silk long-sleeved glove tightly grasped her neck and lifted her up from the ground with irresistible force.

Under Li Zifei's incredulous and painful gaze, the bats gathered into a white-haired, red-eyed girl wearing an elegant white and black silk dress.

Her harmless and tender face is delicate and cute, even stunningly beautiful.

However, when Li Zifei looked at the other person's pointed ears, she finally endured the suffocation and squeezed out a few words from between her teeth:
"Saint Lothal... The Blood Clan's Royal Court..."

That’s right, as the emperor of the empire, Li Zifei has read a lot of information about the foreign races in the Saint Lothalon Teaching Country.

The young girl who broke into the imperial city and attacked her, whether in her clothing or in her behavior of transforming into a bat, clearly showed that she was a vampire from a foreign country!
But Li Zifei just couldn't figure out how the other party could quietly pass through the formation and spiritual consciousness set up by Yan Tiansi and the Imperial City Guards.

Not to mention that there are several Yantiansi Yuanyings in the imperial city!
As if she had read what was in her mind from the surprise on her face, the vampire girl smiled brightly and revealed her sharp fangs:

"This is Sevastopol. The Emperor of Natlan has successfully taken control of it. Have you solved the problem in Poltava?" "Oh~ It seems that you still have a while to deal with it. Remember to remind the White Cavalry not to be too ruthless. I don't want to see a pile of wasted food when I go out later."

As if she had finished speaking to her companions through some kind of spiritual voice transmitter, the vampire girl finally introduced herself to Li Zifei with an elegant smile:
"Ahahaha~ I'm so sorry, I forgot to introduce myself to you, the 'honorable' emperor. This is not in accordance with etiquette.

"I am indeed a vampire, but I am not from any vampire royal court.

“I am from Sevastopol, a member of the Northern Union, a pioneer of the revolution, and the executive captain of the Saint Lothal Soviet Union Committee.

"So, ruler of the old world, do you have any last words?"

The third Gangut-class battleship, flagship of the Blue Star Northern United Black Sea Fleet, Sevastopol.

When she heard the other party's identity, Li Zifei struggled with all her strength and made a painful sound:

"I...can't die..."

"If possible, I don't want to be so cruel."

In response to the sound made by the Emperor Natlan who was being held in his hand, Sevastopol smiled helplessly:

"But there is no other way. In order to find our lost comrades in Zhongzhou as quickly as possible, the Soviet allies can't wait any longer."

After saying this, Sevastopol gradually increased the strength in his hands.

If possible, she didn't want the Northern Union and Natlan to go into a full-scale war under this situation.

However, the whereabouts of Mercury Ji Nian and Kirov are still unknown, and the Spark Column search and rescue team of Zhongzhou has been repeatedly arrested by Yan Tiansi and Natlan officers and soldiers.

This completely exhausted the last bit of patience of the Soviet Alliance, and they finally approved the war mobilization order against Zhongzhou.

The heavy factories in various county towns throughout the Northern State have now begun to operate at high speed. Countless tanks, bombers and rocket launchers are assembled on the assembly lines and rush to the banks of the Duanzhou River via the extensive railways and highways.

The army composed of countless Northern Province monks and demons who joined the Soviet Union has prepared to cross the river, waiting for them to complete the decapitation operation and launch a full-scale offensive against Zhongzhou.

To be honest, Sevastopol never expected that the emperor of this country would be such a young girl.

At the same time, she was somewhat dissatisfied with the Soviet alliance's initiative to start a war without the consent of the commander.

But in order to conduct a carpet search for companions in Zhongzhou, she and her comrades from the Northern Alliance had to do so.

Even though Sevastopol knew that the emperor had different ideas from the Grand Master of the Ukrainian family who seized power a few days ago, it was very likely that they would accept their idea of ​​a northern alliance and carry out a peaceful liberation.

But time eventually forced all of this to slide towards war.

"Click."

Just as Sevastopol was sighing and planning to give the emperor a quick death, the crisp sound of a wooden box falling to the ground attracted her attention.

The familiar light blue cube that rolled out of the wooden box made Sevastopol almost unable to believe his eyes.

"What is this?! W-Where did you get this from?!"

The Northern Alliance's blood clan battleship girl finally revealed an expression of disbelief on her calm face, and released the girl emperor who had almost fainted.

The opponent fell to his knees limply on the ground, but to Sevastopol's surprise, he bit his tongue hard, spit out a mouthful of blood, and then stood up staggeringly.

And that lingering fear on his face, as if something terrible would happen if he fainted.

"You... ahem, are you and the Northern Alliance and Spark Column all crazy?
"If I die, or even fall into a coma, all living beings in Natlan will instantly become evil puppets!"

Under Sevastopol's surprised gaze, the young emperor let out a hoarse roar with blood at the corner of her mouth, almost roaring.

After taking a few deep breaths to calm herself down, Li Zifei carefully picked up the Mind Cube and said to Sevastopol, who was stunned after hearing the truth about Natlan, seriously and anxiously:
"This item should be called the Mind Cube. It was given to me by a commander who claimed to be from Donghuang.

"Can you please tell your companions to stop their actions and sit down and have a good talk with me?"

Li Zifei's two sentences were like a heavy hammer, forcing Sevastopol to take two steps back involuntarily.

"You mean... Donghuang's commander..."

It was not until then that Sevastopol finally realized that the situation had completely gone beyond their plans.

It can even be said that they almost caused a huge disaster!
When did Comrade Commander arrive in Natlan?

Why would the entire Natlan be destroyed instantly when the Natlan Emperor died?

All these things were beyond Sevastopol's comprehension, and finally made the vampire battleship girl make up her mind. Without hesitation, she used the ship's communication to urgently shout to her two companions:

"Sister! Chapayev! Come to the Imperial Palace as soon as possible! Something big has happened!"

(End of this chapter)