The wind whistled through the white arch bridge, messing up Lucy's hair, but not the firm look in her eyes.
Franco no longer had a smile on his face. Originally, according to his plan, if Lucy refused to accept his proposal, he would use force to force a relationship with this stubborn princess. Admittedly, it was a crazy idea. However, it was precisely because it was crazy that no one would think of it, so the chances of success might be quite high. If the plan went smoothly, even if Orfasis pursued it later, in order to take into account the royal family's face, they would only compromise and marry Lucy to him in the end.
Their clan could use Lucy's identity to enter the royal court and come into contact with the royal family, which would bring great benefits and more opportunities to the clan. When Alisa told Franco about Lucy's whereabouts, he quickly made the plan and won his father's support.
However, Franco did not expect that Lucy had already awakened the second stage of the Golden Rose and had a killing machine like the Silver Winged Killer by her side. According to the information he received, Lucy shouldn't have broken through to Level 20 yet. If he had known that Lucy already had her current strength, Franco would never have dared to act rashly. After all, facing the second stage of the Golden Rose and the Silver Winged Killer, with his strength, it was still unknown whether he could take down Lucy. Moreover, the Golden Rose's Origin Energy attracted the attention of Orfasis. Every second that passed was more disadvantageous to him.
All of a sudden, he knew that he had lost.
"Haha …" Franco laughed dryly and shook his head as he retreated, "Sorry, sorry, I was just joking with Your Highness."
"A joke?" Lucy still pointed at the man with the Golden Rose, "Then tell me, Sir Franco, should I believe you?"
"Of course, but my joke is a little too big. So Your Highness, if you allow me to leave, I will make up for it later. "
Lucy nodded, "Then I'll wait."
Only then did she put down the Golden Rose. Franco looked at her, his eyes still hesitating. In the end, he gave up on the idea of taking a risk, because this was Golden City, if he failed. Not only him, even his father, even the entire clan would be implicated. The stakes were too high, so high that even someone as crazy as him didn't dare to bet lightly. He smiled, bowed, and left the white arch bridge. A moment later, he completely disappeared from Lucy's sight.
Lucy finally heaved a sigh of relief. She put away the golden rose and stared at the palace in the distance.
Today was just the beginning. Troubles like this would come one after another in the future. In fact, Franco was right. She lacked a strong backer in the palace. Now that Orfasis' gaze was on her, even if others had any thoughts, they had to be cautious. But once the King of Justice ignored her, then in this palace, she would become isolated and helpless. At that time, there would only be more and more people like Franco, and their methods would be dirty.
However, she was no longer the royal court noblewoman who only knew how to cause trouble. During her days of adventuring with Allen, she had also learned a lot, including patience, limited compromise, and the use of benefits to gain some allies.
This was growth.
In the universe, everything was relative. If there was a bustling star field, there would be desolate space. The Garter Domain where Adahua Planet was located was undoubtedly bustling. Then, this space was desolate. Looking around, apart from a few scattered planets, there were no other planets. These few planets were either devoid of life or unsuitable for habitation. The colors of these planets were gray, so even this space appeared lifeless.
However, it was in such a lifeless space that streaks of light flashed through from time to time. It wasn't a natural landscape, but starships traveling between the stars. If one looked closely, it wouldn't be hard to see that they were all heading for a grayish-white planet. This gray star was not suitable for habitation. It might have had a glorious era. But now, it was dying. The planet's internal energy was almost completely exhausted. Without the protection of the atmosphere, the planet's matter was constantly leaving its body, turning into dust and flying into space.
Strangely enough, even so, there were still starships entering and exiting it.
This jade-green starship was one of them. It was a small ship, and it was the smallest kind. Usually, this kind of starship could only accommodate three to five people, or even fewer. Those who could use this kind of starship were either experts who dominated a region or lone travelers. Their identities were also varied. They could be notorious interstellar pirates, or they could be hunters who worked with bounties.
The jade-green starship flew towards Gray Star. The star continued to expand on the screen, and a pair of eyes took in the entire scene. The alien wore a dark close-fitting battle uniform and a yellowish-brown leather armor outside. The leather armor had many pockets. He didn't know what he was using to store it, but he actually needed so many pockets. He had light green skin covered in dark brown patches, just like the skin of a frog on Earth. This humanoid alien had a jade tentacle on both sides of his head. The tentacle poked out of his dark yellow hair and trembled gently from time to time in the air.
He was engrossed in the screen in front of the console.
On the screen, Gray Star continued to expand in his eyes. Because there was no atmosphere, entering the interior of the planet became an easy task. Soon, he saw the surface of the planet. There were many complicated ridges on the surface of Gray Star, and there were huge cracks on the ground. They crisscrossed like wounds on the planet. Gray dust pillars rose from those wounds. They were fragments that had left the planet's body. Under the influence of space gravity, they rose like tornadoes. The starship had to be careful to avoid these gray dragons. Even though they were only insignificant fragments to the planet itself, to a starship, especially such a small one. A fragment weighing several tons could cause fatal damage. He maneuvered the starship around a few pillars of dust. The joystick suddenly pressed down, and the hull sank into the ground.
The starship directly drilled into a huge crack that was nearly wide and unknown in length. A row of pillars of light lit up at the front of the ship, illuminating the darkness in the crack. From the screen, one could see that this was a deep and vast space, as if the interior of the planet had been hollowed out. Of course, this was not the case. It was just that this was a lightless world, so it appeared vast. In fact, a few kilometers into the crack, a complex cave area would appear. This was simply like a beehive magnified countless times. The starship drilled into the cave, and under his control, the starship nimbly drilled through the complex passageways inside the planet. A moment later, light actually appeared in front of the ship!
In the blink of an eye, the jade-colored starship had already flown out of the cave. Below was the planet's core, where the environment was even more complicated. There were smooth cliffs that rose into the sky, countless ridges crisscrossed, and occasionally, a bottomless Earth Stinger would faintly glow with flames. However, in this vast core world, there was something that could never appear on such a dying planet.
City!
A city was located deep in the earth's core, with a layer of Origin Energy Shield covering the sky above the city. The gravitational device located deep in the city provided gravity for the city. As for the steeple-like buildings, they were actually oxygen generators. They provided the entire city with the oxygen that life relied on to survive.
One could see starships appearing in the sky above the city from time to time. In stark contrast to the deathly stillness of Gray Star, the city was unexpectedly full of vitality.
It has many names for this city.
Ugas Bazaar, Gray Gate, Lost City, and so on. No matter which name it was, it pointed out its neutral nature. It was one of the few neutral zones in the universe. Whether it was the Order Alliance led by Adahua Planet or the chaotic races of the Yordon Domain, none of them could affect the operation of the city. Therefore, this place has become a gathering place for interstellar pirates, bounty hunters, merchants, slave traders, criminals, and all kinds of people.
This is heaven.
This can also be hell.
He took a deep breath and calmly steered the starship closer to the city. After a series of formalities, he was able to enter the city. After parking the starship in a temporary harbor that was billed by the hour, he left the starship with a bulging backpack and walked into the city alone.
The city is prosperous and complicated. There are no so-called main roads here, only long streets and alleys that are convoluted and complicated. When they first came to this city, even a person with a good memory would get lost, because the city itself was a huge maze. Of course, for the current him, there was no such problem. He walked into a remote alley with ease. There were only a few shops operating in the alley. They purchased items from all over the universe, but they also sold many strange items. Apart from the shops, most of them were aliens with malicious eyes squatting in the shadows of the alleys. They watched every passerby and weighed the weight of the target. If they felt that it was easy to pinch, then there would be another corpse in a corner of the alley in a moment.
There was no legal protection here. Only strength could protect oneself, no matter what kind of strength it was.
He didn't care about the gazes that swept across his body and his backpack. He believed in his strength, and it had always been like this. In the shadows, an alien covered in pus took two steps forward. His gaze fell on the green-skinned stranger's backpack, and just as he was about to attack. Someone tripped him and he fell to the ground. The pus on his body splashed onto the ground, causing a few strands of green smoke to burn out of the ground.
He looked angrily at a figure in the darkness. The other party said unhurriedly, "I'm saving you, if you know who he is?"
"Who is he?"
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