strokinit #323 - Section 323
#323 - Section 323
His own stepdaughter?
The kingdom's sole heir?
Matthias looked at the queen's cold, arrogant face and slowly lowered his head.
He was a knight who served the queen.
Now that the queen had ordered him to kill Snow White, he had no choice but to let Snow White die.
"Yes, Your Majesty, I will retrieve everything you desire."
He bowed his head in agreement and quickly retreated from the royal palace hall.
Chapter 248: The beautiful Snow White! An exciting night!
Was he really going to kill Snow White?
"Hey, look, a deer!"
Snow White hummed a little tune, suddenly stopped her comfortable voice, and innocently turned her head to look at Matthias, her fingertips pointing to the ~ deer that was popping its head in the jungle.
Her eyes were so pure and innocent, her long eyelashes blinked constantly, and she was not annoyed or angry when she saw Matthias ignoring her, but she was full of interest and cautiously approached the deer, stretching out her white and tender fingers to land on its head.
The deer neighed softly, stretched out its head and nudged Snow White's palm, turning its head to look at Matthias along with Snow White.
One big and one small, equally innocent eyes just quietly looked at him.
In that instant, Matthias instantly lost all hostility and aggression.
Of course, he knew that Snow White would threaten the queen's position. Think about it, a legitimate heir to the kingdom, except for being a princess, has no problems.
A princess ascending the throne would certainly not be accepted by the ministers and nobles, but compared to the queen, the princess is naturally better.
He thought that perhaps this was the reason why Queen Franney wanted to kill Snow White.
Perhaps he only needed to make Snow White die in the literal sense.
Matthias took a deep breath, drew his long sword from his waist, and swung it directly towards where Snow White was!
Poof!
The sound of a sword piercing flesh and blood rang out, and blood gushed out from the cut, splashing on Snow White's skirt.
She looked at Matthias in astonishment, with the elk already fallen beside her.
Matthias didn't look at her, he stepped forward two or three steps with his sword, cut open the elk's belly and dug out the bright red heart from inside.
Blood dripped from his hands.
"The Queen needs me to kill you and retrieve your heart," he said in a low voice, glancing at Snow White out of the corner of his eye, seeing that she seemed to be stunned, he snorted again.
"What are you still standing there for? Run!"
"Go in the direction of the Kingdom of Doragon, and never return to the Marquis of Chris in this life."
After speaking, Matthias took the heart and turned and left without looking back.
Inside the Royal Palace of the Marquis of Chris.
Franney looked at Matthias below with a gloomy expression, beckoned her finger, and two or three crows picked up the heart that Matthias was holding in both hands and threw it straight at the magic mirror.
The middle of the magic mirror cracked open a huge opening, swallowing the heart in one gulp.
Pui!
It immediately vomited the heart out, opened its mouth and roared loudly, and the bursts of black wind emanating from its mouth overturned Matthias to the ground.
"This is not Snow White's heart at all! Your Majesty, your knight has betrayed you!!"
As soon as the voice fell, the magic mirror showed the scene of Matthias and Snow White talking outside the city.
Matthias did not even have half a chance to speak, and met the queen's indifferent gaze.
Queen Franney's eyes were cold. She had always been intolerant of betrayal. No matter what the reason, Matthias had indeed betrayed her.
She would never leave such a person to work for her.
In an instant, a large amount of dark origin gathered behind her, and several shadow soldiers walked out from inside, and the dark long knives in their hands directly divided Matthias kneeling on the ground into several pieces of flesh and blood.
Scarlet red stained the hall.
But Franney's eyes flickered with black light, and the expression on her face was still cold, as if she did not notice how terrifying and bloody a scene had happened before her eyes.
"Go and hunt down Snow White and bring back her heart."
Snow White was running away in the forest in a panic, passing through the low bushes, and the originally large and exquisite dress was torn and scratched in the running, and in the end only the thin clothes were still firmly wrapped around her body.
Fortunately, this would be much lighter, at least not because the dress was too bulky, and was hung in the bushes and could not escape, the fabric of the skirt was also enough to maintain her dignity as a princess, protecting every inch of her body, so as not to be embarrassed to be exposed outside.
Her pure and innocent face was full of fear and doubt.
Unlike Franney, she didn't think that she and Queen Franney had anything wrong with each other. Some time ago, the maid also sent her the dress that she was wearing today—
Although it was only sent by the maid, if Queen Franney and her had a bad relationship and wanted to be harsh on her, the maid would not take care of her at all, let alone send her various dresses.
But Matthias was indeed his stepmother's confidant, and it was impossible to lie about this kind of thing.
Any knight with chivalry would not be able to slander the queen they are loyal to.
Her expression was extremely flustered, but she didn't know where to go, and she didn't even know where the Kingdom of Doragon that Matthias had mentioned was, or which direction it was in.
She could only run away in this forest in confusion.
There were some rustling sounds from the surrounding trees. Because of Matthias's words, Snow White no longer dared to recklessly check where the sound came from as before, but inexplicably felt a little scared and frightened, instinctively avoiding the sound and shadows.
She fled into the depths of the forest, feeling utterly exhausted, her legs aching incessantly. Just as she was exerting all her strength, she suddenly saw a small, rather exquisite house in front of her.
Snow White was simply too tired. She cautiously stepped forward and knocked on the door, but received no response. Not caring too much, she pushed open the door, bent over, and went inside.
Although the house was a bit small, it had all the essentials. Several small beds were placed in the room. Snow White rubbed her tired eyes, unable to wait for the owner of the house to return. She collapsed onto a bed, curled up, and fell into a deep sleep.
The rustling sounds in the forest grew louder, constantly converging towards the house.
Several shadow soldiers appeared in front of the house, the dark membranes on their faces contracting slightly, as they began to approach the house.
"Oho, what's this? A bunch of black magic creations, disgusting, inferior magical creatures!"
A dwarf wearing a pointed straw hat jumped out from the top of the house, glaring at the shadow soldiers that had appeared around them.
The shadow soldiers all looked up.
"Who allowed you to set foot in this territory?"
A dwarf holding a magic wand also jumped out from a corner, along with the remaining dwarves, surrounding the shadow soldiers with imposing momentum.
"That damned evil Queen, she must have sent you here!"
Mentioning Queen Franney clearly made the dwarves more vigilant. They gripped their magic wands tightly, watching the armored shadow soldiers in front of them seriously.
"Get out!"
They shouted in unison: "We will guard the Chris Kingdom here and will never allow the evil Queen to destroy the birth of the savior!"
The shadow soldiers were merely mindless creations, naturally unable to converse with the dwarves.
Their only purpose was to serve their creator and obtain Snow White's heart.
The shadow soldiers held dark, sharp long knives, attacking the dwarves with almost the same murderous intent they had shown towards Matthias.
The long knives were imbued with wisps of black magic. The dwarves used magic to block the attacks that would have easily sliced through humans.
These dwarves were all incredibly strong and had magical talent. Although they couldn't compare to the powerful Queen Franney, they weren't so weak that they couldn't deal with a few shadow soldiers.
If more shadow soldiers were sent, their strength would probably be insufficient to resist.
Fortunately, Queen Franney underestimated Snow White, and didn't send too many shadow soldiers.
However, the dwarves were unaware of this. They simply believed this was a sudden test by the evil Queen, perhaps because the evil Queen had also learned of the prophecy.
They had heard that the evil Queen had obtained an even more evil creature a few years ago, which might have told the Queen everything.
Now their hiding place had been discovered.
After dealing with the evil Queen's people, they would temporarily find another location and then try to continue waiting. Although it would involve some risk, it would be better than being directly defeated.
After a half-hour stalemate, the seven dwarves finally dispersed all the shadow soldiers.
They wearily pushed open the door and immediately saw Snow White curled up on the bed.
"It's Snow White!"
They never expected such a beautiful woman to be in the house, and couldn't help but cheer in unison.
Snow White curled up her body on the bed. The small dress completely enveloped her, seemingly because of fear, or perhaps the sudden sound, made her frown uncomfortably.
Her fair and beautiful face was filled with tension and unease, as if she was being constantly chased and murdered even in her dreams.
The dwarves quickly covered each other's mouths, making silencing gestures, nervously watching Snow White on the bed, afraid of disturbing her sleep.
"Heavens, she is so lovely, there is no more beautiful girl in the whole world than her!"
They lowered their voices and whispered: "This is the Snow White of the prophecy. If we didn't know she would come here and were worried about disrupting the prophecy, we should have taken her out of the castle long ago!"
"The future savior depends on her, we must protect her well."
"Prophecy? Savior?"
A strange voice came from behind them.
The seven dwarves were still oblivious, nodding happily, and saying incessantly: "Yes, yes, we finally waited for her. We originally thought we would have to wait a long time, and we were worried that we wouldn't be able to wait for Snow White after moving away!"
The dwarf who had taken the lead at the beginning was the first to react.
"Damn it, who is speaking?!"
The dwarves were so scared that they gasped, looked at each other, and quickly turned to look outside.
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A tall, strong, and handsome man was looking down, quietly watching the room.
"It's a stranger!"
The dwarves couldn't help but shout again, nervously looking at the man who had appeared before them.
Very few people usually came here, but there were too many people coming now!
Could it be that the prophecy had already begun to turn?
Then they should protect Snow White even more.
"This is not a place for you to come, leave here and don't come back."
The dwarves pushed Roderick together.
Although their attitude was much better than their attitude towards the shadow soldiers, they still kept pushing him out.
They believed that their strength was extremely great, not weak compared to some magical creatures, let alone humans.
But now, all seven of them were working together, and none of them were holding back, but they hadn't pushed Roderick even half a step.
The seven dwarves looked at each other in dismay, all suspecting that each other hadn't used their strength.
For a time, everyone exerted all their strength, desperately trying, their faces flushed red, countless small pits were kicked out under their feet, but they still hadn't pushed the man out even one step.
"You should leave on your own, otherwise, you'll be in trouble when we get serious!"
The dwarves awkwardly withdrew, panting heavily, and angrily scolded him.
"Leave what."
The man shook his head, pointing to Snow White in the room: "I came for her."
In an instant, the dwarves on the scene felt their hair stand on end.