When the woman in front of him appeared, he saw the familiar face, and the masked man stabbed him hard without thinking. He was absolutely sure of his blow, and at the same time he saw the instant horror and despair expression of the woman in front of him.

The attack was silent and abrupt. Even though the woman on the opposite side seemed to have good skills, she would never be able to react because of the sudden incident.

The masked man let out a joyful growl in his throat, which was the resentment that suppressed his heart and finally received a reaction to instantly venting it.

The dagger stabbed the woman, but the screams sounded like the sound of heaven from heaven and the joy of revenge.

But why is the assassination of the dagger accompanied by a deafening loud noise?

Especially the loud noise was still in the almost closed corridor, and the loud noise instantly filled the smoke throughout the corridor.

The masked man could even feel the numbness after a pain, as if half of his body was suddenly punched hard. The dagger in his hand couldn't help but slash down. With another painful cry from the woman, he realized that something seemed to be wrong.

The masked man turned his head and knew that someone had attacked him from the side. At least now, the right half of his body that had almost completely lost consciousness made him know that he was in danger. When he turned his head, he saw an incredible scene.

A familiar face, or the owner of the face he wanted to kill countless times even in his dreams, stood in front of a half-open door on the other side of the corridor.

She was wearing a pajama that was a bit too big, but now the pajama was slightly crooked. What came out from the torn gap of the pajamas was not the seductive body that should have made the man fascinated, but the vaguely visible light with a metallic luster.

That woman was not in this room guarded by guards? The corner of the masked man's eyes flashed past the guards who had already been killed by him before they fell to the corner of the wall.

The woman was in front of me now, but she was holding a musket in her hand? The masked man's eyes fell and saw his right hand whose fingers were blown away.

The woman actually put an armor in her nightgown? When the idea was still rolling in the masked man's mind, his body had already reacted.

Without thinking, he threw away the blood-stained sword in his hand. Even before the thick smoke had disappeared, his figure had disappeared into the corridor around the corner of the corridor.

At this moment, Uliu, who was frightened by the sudden muskets, rolled and crawled, and knocked open another door from the living room and ran out.

What he saw was the pungent smoke all over the corridor, and Sophia who was rushing towards the opposite room with a musket that was still smoking.

Seeing the guards tilted in front of the door, Uriu shouted again, and he was a little confused.

If Sophia hadn't run over, he wouldn't even have the strength to lift his legs.

When he rushed to the door of the room and looked at the woman who was hugged by Sophia in her arms, Uriu's head thumped wide!

His first thought was: It's over, the Queen of Naples was actually attacked in the Palace of Marino!

The chaos made the Queen of Naples uneasy. Although she lived in Lucrezia's palace, she did not feel safe, and the fear of being assassinated and hijacked had been lingering in her heart.

Joanna needs someone to protect her, at least in her mind, this person is Nashan.

So even though Lucrezia assured her that her Potico Palace was the safest in Rome, and Julia Farne enthusiastically invited the queen to continue to visit, Joanna still wanted Nashan to come to Potico Palace to accompany her.

Not only that, after seeing her lover, Joanna simply proposed to follow Nashan back to Marino Palace.

Of course, this request will not be easily allowed. Both Lucrezia and Juliafa Farnay knew very well that the importance of the former queen, although they were out of date, could not be ignored. So while they rejected Joanna's request, they also sent someone to notify Caesar of the matter.

Lucrezia may not have realized it yet, but Julia Farne had already vaguely realized that something seemed wrong. The woman in front of her, who had always seemed to be very obedient, seemed to have signs of getting rid of the Borgia family.

At this time, Caesar had no time to care about Joanna. He was frustrated by the sudden chaos. After hearing the news from Julia, he thought about it and noticed another thing.

"Did that Bohemia bring a team of cavalry?" When answered with a positive answer, Caesar made a quick decision to put forward the conditions. "If the Bohemia is willing to help me calm the riots, I agree that he will protect the queen's safety."

Nashan immediately agreed to this condition without hesitation.

In the eyes of the gypsy, this was really a chance to make a fortune given to him by God. In Joanna's eyes, this man was willing to take risks for her, which made the young widowed queen so moved that she almost offered her lips in front of the people next to her.

Joanna was quietly sent to the Palace of Marino. Caesar proposed this, nominally for the safety of the queen. In fact, he was not willing to let others know at this time that Joanna had left the Palace of Potico, because this would definitely attract all kinds of unreasonable suspicion.

But no one thought Joanna would be attacked!

Although Sophia did not seem very happy with Joanna's arrival, she did not look angry. She seemed to have accepted Nashan's identity as a father and a noble lady killer. However, when Nashan wanted to take Bohemia to calm the riot, she showed some nervousness.

Nashan comforted her daughter in addition to telling her to take good care of the queen, she also told her to protect herself.

"Wear your armor when necessary, at least put on an inner armor." The scene he saw along the way to Potiko Palace made Nashan not as relaxed as it looked. He knew very well that what happened tonight was much more serious than the previous one. Although the Marino Palace was very strong, he still told his daughter a few words.

For the masked man, Sophia is undoubtedly the most important woman in the palace. He did not see Joanna's carriage entering the Marino Palace from the back garden, so when he sneaked in from the secret passage, when he saw a guard guard guarding the door of the room, he immediately regarded the room as Sophia's bedroom.

He killed the guards cleanly. When he saw Joanna for the first time after knocking on the door, the gathering hatred made him raise his sword and stab him when he saw that face before he even reacted.

Then before he could react from the shock of killing the wrong target, he was broken by a musket.

The masked man rushed into the corridor desperately. When a guard on the opposite side heard the gunshots and heard the news, he immediately raised his sword in his left hand without hesitation. The man raised his head and fell down the stairs next to him before he could scream.

The figure swayed, and more and more soldiers came downstairs, but the masked man was not afraid. The only thing he was worried about was that the terrible woman behind him would catch up.

He could not forget the scene where the woman shot and killed his beloved woman with a short crossbow, but the woman's actions of breaking his two fingers with a musket just now shocked him.

However, when Uriu, who was pale-faced, walked through the corridor from the other side with a musket, he only saw a group of guards with a confused face like him.

"Where did that person go?"

Uriu shouted angrily at the guards, his whole body trembling and even his teeth were trembling.

Joanna was assassinated, and Uriu didn't know what consequences would have. He only knew that things must be bad. Maybe he would be in trouble soon. After all, protecting the Marino Palace is his duty.

Think about what would happen if this happened in Master Vizier's palace. First, the heads of the guard and the butler would immediately hang in the cage outside the city wall, and then a large group of people would lose their lives.

But that's not what Uliu should care about, because his own head is almost impossible to save.

"Go and call the doctor, and everyone who can use it, call them all!" Uriu shouted madly. His whole body was trembling and his mouth was unclear, but his eyes were still clever.

"How did that person escape?" Uriu suddenly shouted, and he looked at the guards alertly, as if to find a fake or a traitor from them. However, when he learned that these guards were rushing upstairs together and no one had the chance to hide the assassin, he immediately began to circle around the corridor. "He has a hiding place, and that guy couldn't have disappeared."

Uriu turned around anxiously, and at the same time, several maids rushed into Joanna's room in panic.

"This is to make me beheaded." Uriu wailed. He smashed desperately on the wall and the ground desperately, trying to find out some flaws. At the same time, his ears were nervously listening to the sound coming from Joanna's room.

The stabbing of Joanna was not very serious. When the masked man immediately launched an attack as soon as he saw her, he was surprised to save Joanna's life when he saw a familiar but unexpected face.

The short sword that had originally stabbed into the chest stabbed under the ribs due to deviations, and the one who actually saved Joanna's life was Sophia who shot in an instant with a quick hand and eyes.

No one would have thought that there would be a musket at the table at the door of a girl's room that could be used at any time.

Sophia obediently listened to her father's instructions and put on an inner armor in her nightgown. Although it was a bit uncomfortable, she also listened carefully to Alexander's words and prepared a weapon in her room at any time.

Joanna was not seriously injured, but she was frightened. She tightly curled her body into a ball and snuggled in Sophia's arms because of fear. She didn't care about the girl she was looking for protection, and she could even be her daughter.

Because she was too excited, Joanna didn't even allow others to approach. She grabbed Sophia's hand with amazing strength, and her lips trembled and whispered in a low voice. When she couldn't hear Sophia's response, she raised her head nervously, as if she was afraid that she would suddenly disappear.

Sophia looked at the noble lady in front of her impatiently. She had never interacted with such a woman. She knew all those savage and tough women. They were never afraid of knives. Once they fought, they were sometimes even more crazy than men.

And even among the people I know, there is still an equally powerful woman.

Although Sophia doesn't like Alexander's annoying sister, she can't help but admit that Ruosha is at least better than those more annoying Gary women.

At least that woman would not pretend when she was angry, but in fact she was as timid as a mouse, but she dared to use sarcasm to deal with people. Instead, she would catch muskets and fight with people desperately in anger.

But Joanna in front of her was the kind of woman who was the one who was least fond of Sophia, which made her even feel that Nashan became a little strange because she really didn't understand why her father was interested in these women.

Because Joanna was too excited, Sophia had to bandage her wounds herself.

The sword was not very heavy. Although it had shed a lot of blood, it was actually just a cut under the ribs.

Sophia first tore Joanna's skirt open, and breathed a little relieved when she saw it. Then she cleaned her with some frivolous water from the maid. Then she pressed Joanna's wound with a cloth, and then shouted without thinking that Joanna was so painful that she couldn't help but shout, and used the sheet that the maid had torn off in a panic and wrapped her wound around her waist.

Sophia's face was rarely serious when she did these jobs. When she stood up and wanted to leave, Joanna immediately felt uneasy and reached out to grab the corner of her skirt.

Although Sophia was very light, she firmly pried away Joanna's fingers. Under the uneasy gaze of Joanna and the maids around her, she pulled off the nightgown, revealing the inner armor inside. Then she grabbed the musket without ammunition on the side, looked at it, and threw it away casually.

There were already guards guarding the door of the room, and they immediately surrounded him when they saw Sophia coming out.

Sophia ignored the guards and walked back to her room with a serious expression, walked through the living room and picked up a short crossbow from the table beside the bedroom bed.

Sophia skillfully tied the belt of the short crossbow to her arms. She moved her arms, and when she felt satisfied, she grabbed the arrow bags on the table, then walked out of the room and walked through the guards who looked at each other and didn't know what she was going to do.

Uriu was still struggling in the corridor at this time. He ordered the soldiers not to let go of any corner of the ground and walls, while he himself stared at each soldier, trying to see some flaws in their faces.

Sophia's appearance caused a commotion, and the soldiers couldn't help but stop and look at the girl standing at the bright entrance of the corridor in front of the corridor.

A sturdy inner armor that was not very fit but was worn on Sophia. The short crossbow tied to her arms and the arrow pouch hanging around her waist made Sophia different from any woman they were familiar with.

He made a gesture to Uriu, and seeing the Moor's inexplicable confused look, Sophia simply ignored him.

Under everyone's confusion, Sophia walked back to Joanna's room, picked up the basin of water left for Joanna to clean the wound before, walked back into the corridor and raised her hand and poured it on the ground.

"I'm so stupid!" Uriu slapped his head hard. "Go and bring more water, splash it on the ground and on the walls, and see where there is water seepage and dig it for me. You must find that hateful guy."

The secret passage was soon found, and when the marble covering the entrance was lifted, Uriu couldn't wait to order people to go down and chase.

But before his people could go down, there was already movement in the secret passage.

Just as everyone stared at the entrance with great confidence, a head emerged from the entrance.

Looking at the head full of white hair, the Moor couldn't help but scream in surprise: "Why are you?"
Chapter completed!