Claudia's eyes narrowed slightly and she looked at Emperor Aubrey.
She leaned back slightly, trying to escape.
but......
The moment her body moved slightly,
An air-piercing force tore open the space, and the sharp stabs made the air make a whirring sound.
Even though he was wearing a mask, he still felt the strong wind blowing towards him.
Claudia quickly turned back.
On the ground, a very ordinary spear had completely penetrated into the ground.
Half of the spear's body was completely embedded in the earth, and dozens of cracks opened around it, gradually spreading out in all directions, like a long tooth biting the entire earth.
The huge fissure is even buried several meters deep into the ground.
Among them, the largest crack twisted crookedly, gradually extending from the gun body to the front of Oberly.
How far is this...?
She didn't even see clearly.
Aubrey, is there any action?
The emperor slowly walked up to the wall of the palace, and once again picked up a spear.
He just put his hands behind his back and put the spear behind his back.
The cloudy eyes looked at Claudia quietly, but those eyes that looked like they were staring at prey burst out with powerful pressure, making Claudia feel even more terrifying oppression again.
She was obviously one of the top demon hunters, but under the gaze of the emperor, the hair on her body couldn't help but stand up, and even beads of sweat appeared on the back of her neck.
"do not move."
Her limbs began to twitch slightly, as if she was being pinned down by a giant beast's claws, and the fear under her eyes gradually began to magnify.
"I don't want to see the witcher's dirty blood dripping all over the ground."
"So, don't move."
Claudia looked at Oberly with a pale face, extremely silent.
Finally, as if she recognized some reality, she suddenly laughed out loud.
"Haha...hahahaha."
The aura that was originally pressing on her body seemed to be pushed away by her.
With an indifferent look, he turned to Oberly and said:
"Aubrey, if my blood is dirty, then... who are you?"
"Do you think you are noble?"
Having said this, Claudia put her hand on the mask on her face and lifted it suddenly, revealing a young and beautiful face.
But on the other half of the face with delicate features, there is a mysterious black and red line attached to it, which extends to the base of the ear.
One eye became extremely scarlet, as if there was a stream of blood flowing under the eye, and the blood vessels around the eyeball gradually gathered toward the center.
Claudia smiled and pointed to half of her face covered with lines:
"Don't forget this place."
"Thanks to you."
She put the mask on again, turned around, and said to Victor in a calm and soft voice:
"Sorry, I scared you."
"It doesn't matter."
Victor shrugged and put his hands in his pockets.
Leaning against the wall, showing that it doesn't matter.
Claudia Stork,
In the background setting, she is the only remaining female member of the Stoker family in the empire.
After Claudia became queen, the entire family was supposed to prosper.
However, this family was completely wiped out in an unexpected way.
Claudia is the only one left as the only remaining bloodline.
The reason is because of this queen.
After Claudia became queen, she spent more than ten years gathering evidence and betrayed her family.
He was charged with colluding with foreign forces and amassing a large amount of money in the empire.
Eventually, with the help of Queen Claudia, Aubrey completely annexed the Stoker family.
Many players speculate that the reason Claudia did this was because she loved Aubrey so deeply that she was willing to betray her family.
But in fact, the emotional interaction between the titular empress of the empire and Oberly has never been shown in the game.
Because, until Aubrey died, the queen did not appear.
When the players meet her, they are at the Witcher's base camp.
She is one of the seven leading members of the Witcher organization.
If the identity of Claudia, the Queen of the Empire, was not mentioned in the later story, no one would even know about it.
At this time, Victor happened to see this scene that could be called a royal secret.
Naturally, you have to appreciate it.
He would also like to thank Kefla for providing him with such clues.
So that we can see a good show.
After Claudia put on the mask again, her mood calmed down slightly.
"Okay, Aubrey, what are your next choices?"
"Kill me directly? Or continue to imprison me like before."
The violent aura on Oberly's body gradually became indifferent, like an abyss.
But the still terrible sense of oppression carries a biting coldness, as if it can completely freeze a person's soul to pieces, and the voice is extremely cold:
"Claudia, you should know why."
"Of course I know, for that woman."
Claudia shrugged, as if looking away from death under the chill, showing no fear at all.
"The funny thing is that you are so infatuated that you end up with nothing, Aubrey."
Whoosh!
The spear turned into a white light, piercing the space, and the sharp impact struck again.
It was heavily nailed into the surrounding ground.
The cracks caused by this terrifying force became more serious, the surrounding ground completely sank, and the huge palace also trembled.
What a terrifying power.
And this was even just a casual blow from Oberly.
Claudia gave this evaluation.
but……
"Impotent rage."
"You only need to lean a little and you can penetrate my body directly."
"But I don't believe this is because you are soft-hearted."
Claudia looked at the stern Oberly in front of her and smiled lightly:
"You never loved me, never."
After finishing her words, Claudia struggled to pull out the spear nailed into the ground.
Holding it tightly in his hand, he looked at Oberly again with a provocative look.
Then, the spear was turned in his hand and pointed at his body.
Poof——
The silver cold iron penetrated Claudia's flesh and blood.
An astonishing amount of bright red blood suddenly gushes out, completely covering the entire ground.
There seemed to be some black lines mixed in between the blood, which was extremely weird.
But Victor and Oberly just watched Claudia's self-mutilation silently, and no one stepped forward to stop her.
Watching Claudia commit suicide.
Finally, Claudia's body lay on the ground.
The body and blood began to gradually merge, intertwined, as if they had become one body.
The bright red blood gradually solidified, flowed along the cracks in the ground, and dissipated.
"she left."
Aubrey looked at the blood that was still disappearing in front of his eyes and said calmly.
But his voice seemed much older.
"It seems that you are not in a good mood, Your Majesty."
"Do you need to talk?"
Aubrey glanced at Victor, turned and walked towards the royal passage.
Victor followed closely behind him, listening quietly to Oberly's voice echoing again:
"Claudia Stoker, my first wife, before I was on the throne..."
This was a necessary marriage related to politics. At that time, the Stoker family had not yet fallen and could be regarded as a noble and prestigious family.
The previous emperor arranged a marriage for Aubrey to marry Claudia.
Only in this way can he inherit the throne.
After Aubrey ascended the throne, Claudia gave birth to two sons in succession for Aubrey.
They are the eldest prince Albany and the second prince Oweise.
Originally, Oberly lived a very comfortable life after becoming emperor.
Eating, sleeping, practicing martial arts, and ransacking homes.
But this kind of stable life lasted until the Kingdom of Kanter came to show its goodwill.
The Grand Duke of the Kingdom of Cantor met with Aubrey and wanted to give his daughter to Emperor Aubrey for marriage.
The moment he saw her, Aubrey was stunned.
only because……
"She is my true love."
Although Oberly is so powerful that he can slay a dragon by himself at the age of seventeen.
But at that time, he was not so powerful that he could cover the sky with one hand.
During a war, he met the girl from a neighboring country.
The two fell in love.
He had never liked someone so much.
But he is the heir to the empire and cannot specify his own marriage.
Not to mention that the other party is from another country.
As a result, he missed the love of his youth.
Until fifteen years later.
Aubrey, who was already in his thirties, met her again in his own country.
She is the daughter of the Grand Duke of the Kingdom of Cantor. She has never married just to wait for him.
But this time, Oberly, who was already the emperor, had the ability to make his own decisions.
That year, Aubrey truly experienced the taste of love.
until……
"I saw with my own eyes that Claudia killed her."
"When I stretched out my hands to embrace her, I could only take out the child bathed in the sea of blood in her arms full of blood."
At this moment, Victor heard it.
Aubrey's voice was full of long-lost sadness.
"Aurelion, in her mother's corpse, was born absurdly and tragically."
…
Claudia left the palace and fled outside the capital.
She was shaking all over, and blood flowed from her chest.
At the last moment, she used the demon hunter's blood secret technique and escaped on condition of self-mutilation.
Aubrey got stronger.
But Claudia wasn't surprised.
From the time she met Oberly, Oberly seemed to have no upper limit and kept getting stronger.
She collapsed on the grass, took out a bottle of light red potion from her waist, and drank it slowly.
Throwing the bottle away, she breathed weakly, quietly feeling a warm current enveloped in her body.
Life is slowly recovering.
However, the recovery was still too slow.
In a daze, she heard a sound of rushing air.
Claudia quickly became alert, supported her body with both hands, and tried to stand up.
When the flapping of the wings gradually stopped, she could clearly see the appearance in the darkness.
Suddenly, he breathed a sigh of relief:
"It turned out to be a crow."
The black figure was standing on the grass, combing his feathers carefully, as if he was not afraid of humans at all.
Claudia didn't take the crow seriously. She leaned weakly on the stone, raised her head and looked at the stars in the sky.
Wait, crow?
Zila——
Suddenly, an electric noise began to echo in Claudia's ears, making her eardrums feel the sharpness of overclocking.
The starlight was instantly swallowed up, and the surroundings became extremely dark.
Claudia's body froze.
what happened……?
Before she could react, a burst of laughter gradually sounded from the darkness.
It seemed like it was dragging her into the abyss with endless ridicule:
"Don't leave in a hurry."
"Someone asked me to arrest you. How about you cooperate with me?"
