Novel Full Chapter 436: Solid Evidence
Boom!
The special prison door, made from refined steel, was kicked away by a burst of violent demonic energy.
Henry, whose hair was a mess and whose body was covered in blood, suddenly raised his head. A wild, beast-like light flashed in his eyes.
"Go!"
One of the black figures reached out and grabbed Henry. Another tore open another Legendary Rank targeted Teleportation Scroll.
A space passage formed in an instant and swallowed all four of them.
From the moment the barrier broke to the moment they escaped with Henry, the whole thing took less than thirty seconds.
Rumble!
A blinding bolt of golden lightning suddenly lit up the sky.
"You vile demons! How dare you cause trouble in the Sovereign City!"
A furious roar shook the sky.
James, the War God of the Great Shaw Empire, descended in a blaze of golden light.
The full pressure of his level 95 Venerable power burst out without restraint, shattering the heavy rain in the air.
But all that waited for him were the bodies of the prison guards scattered across the ground, and the sharp, choking stench of the Abyss demonic energy still lingering in the air.
"Damn it!"
James stared at the empty Abyss death prison, his face dark with anger. He punched a nearby boulder and smashed it to pieces.
...
At the same time, outside the Sovereign City, inside a hidden underground chamber.
Candlelight flickered, lighting up two cold and twisted faces.
"Henry. It has been a while."
Felix, the First Minister of the Great Shaw Empire, stood with his hands behind his back. He looked at the miserable Henry, a faint smile on his lips.
"Felix! You finally made your move!"
Henry gritted his teeth. His eyes were blood-red, and he looked like a vengeful ghost.
"That little bastard Aiden, and that bitch Eira... They turned my son Logan into a vegetable and destroyed the future of my bloodline!"
"If I don’t take revenge, I am not worthy of the name Henry!"
He clenched his fists so hard that his knuckles turned white. His nails dug deep into his palms, and blood dripped down.
"Don’t worry. We have the same goal."
A cruel light flashed in Felix’s eyes. He slowly took out a delicate black wooden box from his robe.
The box opened.
Inside lay a vial filled with a strange dark-red liquid. It gave off a sickening smell of blood and violence.
"This is a forbidden secret drug sent by the Evil Demons Guild. It is called the [Demon Blood]."
Felix stared at the vial, his voice low and tempting.
"It can awaken the hidden power inside your body in an instant, and push your strength to a whole new level."
"But the price is this: your lifespan will be cut by ninety percent. And once the demonization begins, it can never be reversed."
"Henry, do you dare to use it?"
"Hahaha! Lifespan? I don’t even care about my life anymore. What use is lifespan to me?"
Henry laughed like a madman and snatched the vial of Demon Blood.
Without the slightest hesitation, he drove the vial hard into his own chest and injected all of the dark-red liquid straight into his heart.
"Ahhh—!!!"
A terrible scream echoed through the chamber.
Henry’s body began to spasm violently. In an instant, black demonic lines like worms spread across his skin.
Boom!
A wild, chaotic, bloodthirsty surge of the Abyss demonic energy exploded from his body, shaking the stone walls of the chamber and leaving countless spiderweb-like cracks.
His level began to rise like crazy.
Level 70...
Level 75...
Level 80...
With the power of the Demon Blood, his aura finally stopped at a terrifying point—
Level 85!
"Hah... hah..."
Henry slowly stood up.
His pupils had completely turned a strange blood-red, and two black demon horns were faintly breaking through the skin on his forehead.
Feeling the violent Strength surging through his body like an ocean, he gave a twisted smile.
"This is Strength... Aiden, let’s see how you stop me this time!"
"Good."
Felix looked at the demonized Henry with satisfaction. A hint of fear flashed in his eyes, but it was quickly replaced by deep ambition.
"The plan stays the same. I will turn some officials against the crown in court and hold back the loyalists. That will completely paralyze the Great Shaw Empire from the inside."
"As for you, lead the elite forces of the Evil Demons Guild and strike the imperial palace directly!"
Felix raised his right hand and clenched it in the air, as if he already held all of the Great Shaw Empire in his grasp.
"We attack from the inside and outside at the same time. First, we kill Eira. Then we kill Aiden!"
"The Great Shaw Empire will return to our hands in the end."
Inside the chamber, the laughter of the two traitors overlapped, dark and terrifying.
At the same time, on a wasteland thousands of miles away from the Sovereign City, a black dragon shadow tore through the void.
It was moving at a terrifying speed, carrying an aura of destruction as it rushed toward the Sovereign City.
It was one of the Four Heavenly Kings of the Evil Demons Guild.
A super powerful being above level 90—
Dark Dragon Heavenly King!
...
Heavy rain poured down.
The night sky above the Sovereign City was completely covered by thick dark clouds.
Inside the secret chamber, Aiden stood tall, his eyes as deep as an abyss.
"Buzz!"
In his mind, powerful soul Strength surged like a raging tide.
[Ding! Detected that the host is using soul perception. Successfully triggered a 10,000x critical hit!]
[Critical hit successful! Your soul perception range has instantly expanded by 10,000 times and now covers the entire Sovereign City!]
In an instant, every corner of the Sovereign City appeared clearly in Aiden’s mind. Even the faint breathing of someone a hundred meters underground could not escape him.
Together with the massive intelligence network provided by "the Tyrant" Luke, a huge web of treason was fully revealed before Aiden’s eyes.
"I found them."
A cold smile curved at the corner of Aiden’s mouth.
Whoosh!
His body vanished from where he stood. He turned into a blur and sped through the rainy night.
In the eastern district of the Sovereign City, inside a dark and narrow alley, a man in a black raincoat was hurrying forward with his head lowered.
A faint trace of the Abyss demonic energy surrounded him.
He was a top-secret messenger of the Evil Demons Guild.
"Who’s there?!"
The black-clothed messenger seemed to sense something. He suddenly raised his head, and his pupils shrank.
In front of him, a young man stood quietly in the rain.
Not even a single drop of rain could fall within three feet of him.
"The dead don’t need to know my name."
Aiden’s face was calm and cold. He gently pointed with the index finger of his right hand.
Boom!
A dark-red beam, formed from terrifying killing laws and flames of destruction, pierced through the void in an instant.
Before he could even scream, the level 80 messenger of the Evil Demons Guild was burned away into nothing.
Only a secret letter wrapped in black demonic energy remained, floating in the air without a single mark on it.
Aiden reached out and took the letter.
With a slight movement of his fingers, his powerful soul Strength forcefully erased the Demon seal on it.
After reading the contents, a bone-cold light flashed in Aiden’s eyes.
"Well done, Felix. A perfect inside-and-out attack."
The secret letter was filled with the names of high-ranking imperial officials involved in the rebellion.
In the imperial court, a full seven top-ranking ministers with great power were part of the plot.
Even more shocking, among the imperial guards protecting the palace, two captains had already become spies for the Evil Demons Guild.
And the most important piece of information was this—
One of the Four Heavenly Kings of the Evil Demons Guild, the Dark Dragon Heavenly King, would personally move to assassinate Empress Eira!
The coup was set for three days later.
"We can’t wait three days."
Aiden placed the secret letter inside his robe. Then his body flashed and turned into a bolt of lightning, shooting straight toward the depths of the Great Shaw Empire palace.
...
The Great Shaw Empire Palace, Imperial Study.
Empress Eira wore her phoenix robe and quietly looked at the heavy rain outside the window.
Around her, a faint golden Golden Dragon of National Destiny roared and circled.
"Your Majesty."
The void trembled slightly, and Aiden’s figure appeared out of thin air.
"Aiden? You came to the palace so late. Did you find something?"
Eira turned around. A trace of surprise flashed in her proud, majestic eyes.
Aiden did not waste words. He directly handed over the secret letter stained with the smell of blood.
"Your Majesty, take a look at this."
Eira took the letter.
When her eyes passed over those familiar names, the temperature in the entire imperial study seemed to drop to freezing point.
Boom!
A terrifying pressure burst out from her body, impossible to hold back. The space around her cracked inch by inch.
"Seven important ministers of the empire. Two captains of the imperial guards..."
"I gave them supreme power and trust. Yet they want to push the millions of people of the Great Shaw Empire into the Abyss, into a place of no return!"
Eira’s face was as cold as iron.The killing intent in her eyes almost became real.
She took a deep breath and forced down the rage in her heart. Then she took out a golden secret order marked with a dragon pattern.
"Aiden, take my secret order. Mobilize the shadow guards and the Taylor family army."
"Before dawn, everyone on this list..."
Eira’s voice was so cold that it carried no warmth at all.
"Leave none alive."
"What about Felix?" Aiden asked calmly.
"Felix must be dealt with by my own hands."
A flash of hatred crossed Eira’s eyes.
"That old traitor has caused the deaths of too many heroes of the Great Shaw Empire. I will make sure he understands why he dies. I will make him kneel before the Imperial Ancestral Temple and pay for his crimes!"
"Good."
Aiden nodded slightly, put away the secret order, and turned to leave.
But then—
At that exact moment—
"Woooooo—!!!"
A sharp, mournful horn suddenly exploded through the night sky, echoing across the entire Sovereign City!
It was the highest-level alarm horn of the imperial guards, used only when the palace was under enemy attack!
Rumble!
Right after that, in the northwest of the Sovereign City, endless black demonic energy shot into the sky and dyed half the heavens a strange ink-black color.
"What is going on?!"
Eira’s face changed at once. She pushed open the window and looked toward the place where the demonic energy had erupted.
Aiden narrowed his eyes. His powerful soul perception instantly sent back the latest scene.
"Felix is more alert than we expected."
Aiden’s voice was low, but it carried a killing intent that made the air feel cold.
"He noticed something was wrong. So he moved the coup..."
"to tonight!"
Above the Sovereign City, countless rebel battle cries suddenly rose from every direction.