Struggle in the Steam Age

The current Emperor Joseph I of the Holy Visby Empire has made a lot of contributions to unite the political forces of various factions in the country and reduce differences, such as when he was young, especially before the victory of the Great Restoration War. When he was unstable, he married many wives.

But for some reason, the emperor's heirs are not particularly numerous. Only three sons and two daughters survived to adulthood. And the shock that these people have brought to everyone's hearts after they fell into a coma today is naturally incomparable.

It was at this time that the second prince, who usually used the excuse that he liked to have fun and didn't want to disturb others, suddenly appeared and became the leader of the group of imperial guards and asked to discuss with the emperor about whether the imperial guards should be disbanded.

Of course, because His Majesty the Emperor suddenly fell into a coma before, it is naturally impossible for someone to come out to face the Imperial Guards to solve these problems. The prime minister tried to persuade the imperial guards to return to the barracks, but the second prince killed him. At this time, the emperor and other members of the royal family had been placed under house arrest by these royalist officials, and ordered the imperial guards gathered by him to attack the palace.

Fortunately, at this time, the palace also got rid of the chaos caused by His Majesty the Emperor's coma. At the same time, the guards, under the command of Prince Eugene, successfully blocked the rebels who tried to rush into the palace with the help of the defense of the city wall.

"Thanks to His Royal Highness Prince Eugene, the group of rebels should not be able to enter the palace for a while." Seeing Lawrence bandaging his wounds, the senior judge who came out to investigate the current state of the palace just said to him Said, "But the problem now is that the elite artillery of the rebels and those powerful transcendents are all concentrated near the palace. I worry that the defense of the palace won't last long."

"Shouldn't we remain neutral in this political change?" Lawrence felt a little strange about the judge's words, because listening to his words now, he felt that he supported the emperor's coup against the second prince.

"I don't think you were on the ground just now, right? Because I haven't seen you just now." After listening to Lawrence's question, the senior judge looked at his face and carefully identified it before saying affirmatively. "That's how it should be. Otherwise you wouldn't be asking this question."

"Yes, I operated on those wounded in the underground medical room just now." Lawrence nodded slightly and said, "But what does this have to do with the referee's tendency?"

"Of course it has something to do with it, because the guards outside demanded to take over our archives and question our personnel. This was an absolutely forbidden behavior in the treaty signed by this intelligent race."

"Not to mention that we have found a lot of evidence that the senior generals of the Imperial Guard have colluded with evil forces, and their request to take over our archives at this critical time is very suspicious. According to the judges who stayed behind Guessing based on the facts, the second prince is very likely to be the one behind the senior military officers involved."

"I see." Lawrence nodded. After all, the second prince is likely to be involved in some conspiracy to betray the entire human race and even the civilized race, so it is very normal for the tribunal, which is the guardian of civilization, to oppose him.

The reason why the rebels wanted to attack the tribunal was also for the same reason. As an emperor, he was legally exempt from most crimes. But it absolutely does not include any crime of betraying the civilized world and taking refuge in other evil forces. Therefore, if the second prince wants to achieve his goal and secure the throne in the end, he must take advantage of the current chaos to enter the court and destroy the evidence that he has committed such crimes.

"Besides, although it is true that I should not have political inclinations as a judge, I always have my own personal inclinations as a person." Seeing Lawrence's thoughtful expression, the senior judge He pointed to a building that was burning in flames in the distance and said. "After all, my home has been set ablaze by the guards under the second prince's command. If I hadn't brought my wife and children over, what I'm facing now is probably not just the loss of my family's property."

After speaking, the judge picked up the rifle from his side and walked towards the battle station. And Lawrence began to treat the wound of the next wounded person who had just been sent.

Just when Lawrence finished treating the fifth wounded, Yagoda suddenly came to the first aid point clutching his waist. Some clothes were wrapped around his waist indiscriminately, but a lot of blood still seeped out from his waist, staining the bandage covering the wound red.

"Sit down." Lawrence hurriedly arranged for his friend to sit down, and then untied the torn clothes used to block the wound. After the last circle of clothes stained purple-black by the blood from the wound was removed, a wound that was one palm long and two fingers wide at the deepest point appeared in front of Lawrence.

"Did the enemy attack the city wall?" Lawrence asked nervously, because the wound on Yagoda's waist was obviously cut out by the enemy with some kind of sharp instrument during hand-to-hand combat.

"How is it possible?" Yagoda smiled heartily, "Since the grassroots commanders in the rebel army have been killed one by one, the opponent has been unable to organize a decent attack for a long time, let alone attack the city wall. .And their superhumans can't rush in under the defense of our superior superhumans without the support of the army."

"As for my wound, it was purely from the assault when I was out of the city just now—hiss! Can you be gentle?" Yagoda took a sharp breath, because at this time Lawrence took a few cotton swabs soaked in alcohol Holding it in his hand, he inserted a cotton swab into the wound and scraped vigorously. He felt that he didn't feel so much pain when he was cut just now.

"It's good to know the pain, which means that the other party's knife is not poisonous." Lawrence said after teasing, "Also, do you say that you went out suddenly because of some mission? Of course, if it involves confidentiality, just treat it as me." did not ask."

"Of course this is not a secret. We are mainly going to investigate the battle situation at the palace." Yagoda raised his finger and pointed in the direction of the palace in the distance. At this time, the shelling of the rebels seemed much more ferocious than before. As a result, magic barriers had to be raised in the palace to deal with these attacks that did not come from extraordinary powers.

From the current position, Lawrence could clearly hear the thunderous cannonball explosion coming from the direction of the palace. At the same time, one after another cannonballs could be seen flying directly in the direction of the palace with flames.

But not all of these cannonballs hit the palace. Except for some high-level extraordinary people in the palace who intercepted the next part of the cannonballs, many of the cannonballs fired at the palace's vital points collided with those one or two meters in diameter that suddenly appeared in midair. The blue transparent energy barrier was then detonated to form a burst of fireworks in the air.

"What a smart defensive barrier." Lawrence murmured subconsciously after seeing this scene. Unlike the defensive barrier that looked like a half-egg shell flipped upside down in his imagination, this magic barrier can actually be precisely in the Spread out a small piece at the front of the cannonball to block the flying cannonball. Although this is not a small technical difficulty, it can greatly save energy.

"Of course the magic barrier of the imperial palace is powerful, because it is controlled by the tower spirit of the magic tower of the royal family." Yagoda, who is a Transcendent, has very good ears, so he naturally heard Lawrence muttering. "But the problem is that if there are too many shells entering the palace, it will definitely not be able to handle it. At that time, it is time to fully raise the magic defense barrier."

Before his words fell, a hemispherical barrier like soap bubbles glowing with blue light rose from the palace, enveloping the entire palace. It seems that because the firepower of the rebels reached a certain intensity, the palace had to adopt this kind of energy-intensive comprehensive defense to deal with it.