[Slow Wear] Assassin System

whale song parting

After Miao Xuan left the bridge, he headed directly towards the direction provided by the small system. His small map did not have such a large range, but now the entire ship is under the surveillance of the system.

The system buzzed and reported: [Brother Miao, I have sealed all the compartments, and the starship can be dismantled at any time. It has been detected that the royal family's army has arrived in the Nezhvoro universe, and we are surrounded. 】

Miao Xuan had already guessed that there would be such a situation: Then prepare, the will and message will be sent as soon as I complete the assassination.

System: [Okay!The check again has also passed! 】

Miao Xuan sighed lightly.

He left as soon as he left, but what happened next was likely to cause great psychological harm to Vladimir, and this Her Majesty the Empress...would never hire a psychiatrist for her son.

And when he left, there was Mikhail left. For this friend, Miao Xuan really had no way to deal with it except to refuse, and could only hope that time would bring him relief.

[We have been targeted by the weapon of the Ursus army, which seems to be a brand new weapon with a high risk factor] The system issued an alarm, [Second brother!Goal three is ahead! 】

At this point, Miao Xuan's small system has clearly marked a red dot not far away, it appeared brightly, and then stood still.

Miao Xuan understood, and pushed open the hatch.

Behind this hatch is the observation platform and the inner port of the starship. This area is directly connected to the outer space, and as Miao Xuan and the system detected, there is already an enemy waiting here quietly. , it was Saltykov who had been deprived of the title of elector.

The former duke was wearing a thick exoskeleton. His exoskeleton was snow white all over, with blue patterns tattooed on his armor. He had a back wing and tail in the shape of a griffin, which was gorgeous and strict.

After Miao Xuan entered the cabin, neither of them spoke. They observed each other, and finally Saltykov raised his hand first.

The battle-hardened warrior first saluted with his hands on his chest, and then a half-handed sword appeared in his palm. He raised the sword and made a clean and graceful movement.

This is the signal for a duel between the Ursus, for honor and duty, life or death.

Miao Xuan smiled and replied with the same gesture.

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"why……"

Vladimir supported the handle of the seat beside him, raised his head, and looked at his majestic and honorable mother in the light screen: "Why?"

The empress explained in a warm voice: "Being an emperor means you have to make countless harsh decisions. This is just the first choice you need to face."

"Choose to shoot Alexei, then you have completely eliminated a competitor, a source that may bring turmoil to Ursus, saved your mentor, and repaid his love for you; At the same time, you broke the law for your teacher, killed your savior, and killed your only blood sibling."

"And what Alexei did was just to avenge his father, and he also chose the most honorable duel. His behavior does not seem to be a big mistake from the perspective of most people."

"Choose to shoot Saltykov, then you have completed part of your revenge for Ivan V, ended your teacher's life of self-blame and guilt, saved your brother who was homeless without any fault, and then Get his help; but at the same time, you killed your mentor for a brother and competitor you have never met before."

"If you choose to do nothing, the outcome will inevitably be that Alexei beheads Saltykov, which is no different from your direct choice to kill your teacher."

Olga I used her calm and cold voice to describe her choice of heir, and at the end, she even gently reminded: "This choice is not difficult, Vova, it only requires you to make up your mind. "

"Your Majesty." Vladimir heard a hoarse voice overflowing his throat, "If I give up the right of inheritance, can I stop their duel—oh, let me put it more thoroughly, if I die ?”

The queen was not offended by this answer, she even expected this question a long time ago, she laughed softly, and said softly to the point of pity: "Vowa, my little Vowa... you think, such a naive answer Is it possible to avoid the choice?"

"You don't have to be the heir. I still have a lot of time to raise more children. Are you threatening me who has the right to judge with all your bargaining chips?"

The Queen's voice became more severe: "Do you know what you are giving up? You are giving up the only right to interfere with their death fight, you are evading responsibility and bearing their lives, you are admitting your weakness and vulnerability. Of course you You can do this, but you and I know what the outcome will be - the energy-focused sniper gun is the right of the Prince of Moscow, and you gave up the right of inheritance and right, and then you can only watch your mentor die at the hands of your brother ! Then your brother died on my order!"

Olga paused slightly, then she took a deep breath and snapped: "Vladimir! You actually want to escape the difficulties in front of you by giving up the power in your hands-this is the most despicable, most ineffective, and most pathetic way, It won't do anything, it'll just make you regret it!"

Vladimir slowly sat down on the seat. His deputy could no longer give him enough support. He felt that the strength was being stripped from his body inch by inch. In the end, there was nothing left, only an empty shell .

The queen's chest heaved slightly due to the reprimand, and she lowered her eyes to restrain the expression that was too terrifying for her. Although this choice was a cruel torture for Vladimir, it was inevitable for her to lose her composure.

After a few short breaths, Olga smiled again, her smile seemed to be covered with a layer of ice: "Vladimir, I know you are in pain now, so as my heir, I can help you Lower the difficulty a bit—look at it, this is the duel that's happening right now."

Another picture appeared on the light screen. This is the scene of the duel between Miao Xuan and Saltykov. Although the picture is not very clear, it covers the whole situation, and people can tell the trend of the battle at a glance. .

The outcome is already obvious. Alexei has a complete advantage, his attack is like a storm, while Saltykov has no power to parry at all, and can only dodge exhaustedly.

Yes, everything was being rehearsed according to what the queen said, and Alexei had no intention of showing mercy.

Vladimir stared closely at the scene on the light screen, and the queen didn't speak anymore, she just lowered her eyes quietly, waiting for the choice of heir.

Olga I has already selected her successor, and without accidents, her core candidate is her youngest son Vladimir.

In contrast, the eldest son who was living outside was the one she gave up.

Alexei was not fit to be her successor.

Yes, he is gentle, magnanimous, and kind, he is modest, flexible, and tenacious... It seems that all beautiful words can be used on him, but he is just not suitable to succeed the emperor of Ursus.

Alexei was more like his grandmother Lyudmila II than his romantic father. This empress known for her kindness never ordered anyone to be killed in her life. Her most severe punishment was exile , she is conservative and gentle, and everyone who has been with her has offered praises. However, this queen can only barely maintain the stability of Ursas, and the indicators of the entire society are declining slightly. The power of Fan VII will only increase but not decrease, and the battle of the Dragon Kingdom is aggressive...

Ursus is a galaxy of ice and snow, and the emperor of Ursus is also carved from ice and snow.

Lyudmila II was very aware of her limitations, and she made up her mind to put herself into the army alone. She did temper the sharpness of Ivan V, but it was too easy to break, and Ivan V died on the throne.

Olga I looked at her youngest son who had just grown up, and the emerald green eyes that were exactly like hers were covered with haze. She looked at the light screen again, and the duel in the light screen had reached its most intense moment.

A bunch of orange energy stamens exploded in the center of the light screen. Under this gorgeous light effect, it was a cruel confrontation. The Frost Snow Griffin could no longer resist the sharp attack. When the energy covering the sight dissipated, the dazzling scarlet Turned into blood mist in the air due to high temperature——

Saltykov had his arm cut off along with his left shoulder.

Olga watched this scene indifferently. She didn't even blink because of it, but she knew that it was almost time.

Sure enough, as Olga expected, a hoarse voice sounded from the bridge——

"Start it."

Olga turned to look at Vladimir: "Give me complete instructions."

Vladimir was expressionless, his face was as pale as a corpse, and he said word by word: "Please activate, energy, focus the sniper cannon."

"To whom?" Olga was still not satisfied, and continued to ask, "Who are you going to shoot?"

"Please activate the energy-focused sniper cannon to shoot—" Vladimir stood up, "Shoot—Alexey."

A faint smile appeared on the Queen's face, and she said softly, "As you wish."

The next moment, a rainbow light shot straight from the side of Nezhvoro Star. From a distance, it was thinner than a hair, but it was this rainbow light that split the light screen and split Vlaky's body. Mir's vision tore open the outer wall of the starship and penetrated the cabin.

Immediately afterwards, a silent explosion exploded in that part of the screen, and the smoke and dust exploded, covering the vision in the light screen.

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For Miao Xuan, there was no suspense in this battle.

Miao Xuan really doesn't know why Olga is so sure that he wants to kill Saltykov... Maybe she doesn't know, but Saltykov will still help her create such a situation, but these are not important anymore, Miao Xuan is now a ruthless mission machine.

Even in the heyday of his youth, Saltykov was slightly inferior to Miao Xuan, not to mention his current state is extremely bad.

Facing such an opponent, all Miao Xuan needs to do is output, and he doesn't even need to dodge, because Saltykov can't even completely dodge his attack, and counterattack is completely a daydream.

Both of them in the duel understood the current situation, and Miao Xuan was even more aware of what he was going to do at the moment—hurry up, decide the winner before Olga I intervenes, and leave this world quickly.

While thinking this way, Miao Xuan played another set of smooth moves. When the light, shadow and energy of the third skill dissipated, he smelled an ominous smell of blood.

The exoskeleton "Frost Gryphon", which has been away from the battlefield for many years, was hit by too many attacks, and it finally could no longer withstand more damage. Countless cracks invisible to the naked eye piled up, and finally broke, losing the protection of the exoskeleton. The human body inside is as fragile as a layer of paper.

This blow almost caused Saltykov to be split in two. He managed to avoid the vital point, but it didn't help, and he could only lose his entire left arm.

The fresh blood gushing out from the artery immediately boiled after leaving the force field, and permeated the limited space in an instant, as if it was going to stain the vision of the two of them red.

Saltykov backed away violently, the severe pain made him almost faint, he leaned against the inner wall to barely stop the bleeding, and looked at his preset procedure.

Miao Xuan turned his gun around, and just as he was about to make the final blow, a strong intuition warned that lightning passed through his body. At the next moment, he almost instinctively violently retreated, and he retreated instantly. The force of the explosion was too great, and it actually forcibly pierced through the inner wall of the multi-layered starship!

At the same time, a huge energy suddenly pierced through the cabin, such a mighty force like the sanction of the gods melted all the obstacles on the passage, and directly penetrated the ship. Annihilate everything there.

The violent explosion and smoke filled the air together. Saltykov, who had escaped from the catastrophe, looked at the upheaval in front of him in shock. Soon he realized that this feeling was meaningless.

Energy focused sniper cannon?Why is it here?Why did the queen arrange such a plot?Just to kill that young man?

Saltykov leaned against the inner wall in a daze. The smoke and dust in front of him gradually dissipated. After a long time, his vision finally became clear. At this moment, he could clearly see the energy cannon passing through the orbit of the ship.

What's the next step...suicide?

Saltykov was stunned for a long time, and then laughed at himself, but at this moment, there was another movement from the broken bulkhead. A figure was suspended behind the bulkhead, and he came from the space outside the ship. Gradually approached, and finally returned to Saltykov.

It was the star hunter, his exoskeleton was covered with cracks, as if they were about to be smashed together in the next moment, but he still stood tall and straight, looking down at him, Saltykov saw his blue His eyes—clear, peaceful, even gentle.

No, no, the kid didn't hate him, and he didn't take Vowa for it.

Saltykov finally laughed, he was delighted, relieved, admired, and relieved and sorry like never before.

When the beautiful and sharp spear pierced the Duke's heart, he activated the arrangements he had made.

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"Failed."

The queen was silent for a moment, and continued to state, "As expected of Alexei, he dodged the energy cannon—so fast that he couldn't even match the energy beam."

Vladimir took a few steps back abruptly, leaned against the wall and slowly slid down, finally leaned against the wall, and sat down on the ground as if he was barely alive.

Olga sighed softly: "Vova, what is your choice next...?"

Vladimir gasped for breath, shaking his head as if to resist every syllable his mother said.

"Really... have you let it go..." Olga closed her eyes and put one hand on her chest, "This is your choice..."

Vladimir has reached his limit, he cannot make a second choice.

Olga understood what Vladimir was thinking. He was thinking that the energy cannon hadn't killed Alexei. He was thinking that both of them were still alive. He was thinking that maybe Alexei would escape because of this. Spare Saltykov's life.

But my child, in this world, luck is not allowed.

When Vladimir raised his head again and the Queen opened her eyes again, the scene in the light screen had returned to clarity. The one-armed Duke was leaning against the inner wall, and the young man who had been shaken out of the ship resolutely returned. Lance, thrown through the chest of the enemy.

Vladimir watched this scene numbly. The gun seemed to be tearing into his own chest at the same time, making him feel like he was dying bit by bit.

"...Saltykov is dead." The queen also watched this scene happen before her eyes, and she said softly, "Vova, this is your choice, your teacher is dead."

"Your teacher, the duke who betrayed and killed Ivan V, died because of your choice."

Vladimir leaned against the wall with a cold face, he could no longer feel any emotions in his almost numb mind, he thought, whatever his emperor mother said, nothing could make him more excited Desperate.

"Alas..." Olga I sighed long, she turned to her heir, and said in a strange tone, "Vova, there is one last piece of bad news."

"Evgeny Syanovich Saltykov, he is not only your teacher, he is actually your biological father—yes, your father is not Ivan V, your father is Saar Tikov."

Vladimir spent a long time thinking about this sentence, and when he could understand it, he was a little surprised to find that his body could still raise his head and look in the direction of the emperor.

"Yes, the only child of Ivan V is Alexei, you are the result of my cheating, your black hair is not from the Black Eagle royal family, your black hair is from your teacher, and you have always admired' Father 'Ivan V loathes you, hates you, he wished he could kill you with me when you were still an embryo."

The queen looked down at her second son, and kept pouring out heart-wrenching words, like a thug holding a knife and killing innocent people, letting the blood stain the two of them: "Your biological father loves you like his life, he The resistance back then was because Ivan knew of your existence, and his long-term tolerance was for your legal succession. He was willing to make all concessions for you, even if he was asked to give up his military power, even if he was asked to come here Death—yes, maybe he betrayed Ivan and me, but he gave you everything he had."

"Now, your father is dead, and died under your choice."

In the Queen's soothing voice, Vladimir looked at the light screen, watched the corpse pierced by a spear slowly slide down, watched his brother go forward to draw out the spear, restrain the corpse, and then——

Saltykov's exoskeleton Frost Griffon exploded, and the terrifying air waves and energy flooded the corpse and the body collector.

"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!"

Vladimir made a strange sound, which shouldn't be coming out of a human's throat. He staggered to his feet and almost threw himself onto the light screen.

At the same moment, the cosmic whales on the bridge uttered a long cry together. They seemed to have noticed something together. Countless ethereal and melodious voices gradually sounded, and finally gathered together, interweaving into a whale song that humans cannot understand .

Olga silently watched what happened in the light screen, she watched every movement of Vladimir, and she analyzed all the expressions expressed by the child.

She knew that the child had not been defeated, but he had been slain once, and now the living soul in this body would become the real Vladimir, the future emperor of Ursus, the ruler of the world.

When you donate enough to the Kremlin, you can reap the power of the empire. Olga gave all her youth, love and enthusiasm, and she wanted her successor to be more thorough and more powerful than her. powerful.

Vladimir has given enough, and he will be a more decisive and ruthless king than her in the future.

I don't know how long it has passed, when the tears on the young man's face completely dried up, he raised his head and looked at his mother.

This time, the two pairs of identical thick blue eyes looked at each other, like mirror images of each other.

Vladimir asked gently: "Your Majesty, what are you doing for?"

Olga nodded: "Good question, what I want is supreme power and the powerful Ursus that I created, I want this star field to expand to every corner of my sight, I want to let My name will always remain on the monument of this nation, and I want even if there is only one person left in this nation, he should be proud and proud of saying my name."

"So you need an heir." Vladimir continued calmly, "You need an heir who will continue everything and share the prosperity, no less than your heir."

Olga: "Yes."

Vladimir: "So when will I be able to kill you?"

Olga: "Wait until you have enough power, please."

The cosmic whales in the starship are no longer subject to any constraints, and they overflow the small starship melodiously. This group of colorful spirits will never stop cruising in the torrent of the universe until they are annihilated.

Their melodious whale song is accompanied by a long farewell. Their lonely kind is about to reach the other side of the galaxy, and the road ahead of him has no end in sight.

These whales set off a tide of energy in the universe. The countless energies mixed the light into wonderful colors that cannot be distinguished by the naked eye, and then swayed and laid out in the universe without restraint, making them form a stream of light Waterfall, as a farewell, as a sacrifice.

Just like their whale song, it is music that cannot be understood by all languages, it is... a blessing of parting.