Am I going to be controlled by the players too?

The palace guards surrounded him and pinned the deranged Harari to the ground.

Not long ago, this group of people obeyed the prince's orders and followed Harari's lead, but now they raised their halberds as if they were prisoners.

"Pfft!"

Harari was executed on the spot, and the false king's blood served as a salute for the new king's coronation.

Cheng Cheng controlled Freya's body, feeling the spotlight on everyone, but instead of walking to the throne, he came to Sylvia's side.

Those light blue eyes looked at Sylvia kneeling on the ground, and then spoke:

"Jade pendant".

Sylvia paused for a moment, then removed the jade pendant shaped like an ouroboros from her neck. The silver chain glittered in the moonlight, and the jade pendant fell into Cheng Cheng's palm.

The jade still carried Sylvia's warm body temperature.

Cheng Cheng grasped the jade pendant and infused it with magical power.

The jade floated up from his fingertips, suspended in mid-air, and cracks spread from the snake's tail to its head, as dense as branches of lightning, before exploding into fragments!

Light surged from the shattered jade pendant, and then a giant mercury serpent rose from the burst of light!

The silvery-white scales were covered with dense runes. The snake's body coiled around the spire of the palace. The giant snake lowered its head and bit its own tail.

Connected end to end.

To form a perfect circle.

"clang--!"

The bell rang out from the center of the circle, and the entire palace trembled at the sound.

As if time had reversed, the nobles and reporters all stood up. Harari, whose head had been chopped off, came back to life on the spot, then flew high into the air and rolled back onto the steps. Even the shadow that had just melted into the cracks in the stone slabs seemed to be pulled out of the ground by something and reformed into a human shape.

The prince returned to the palace with a blank expression, a look of astonishment still lingering on his face.

Backtrack!

Cheng Cheng used the jade pendant of the Holy Maiden of the Church to restore the timeline to before the Prince fled!

This is the turning point!

Villette said that the prince was dead and that the prince in front of them was just a disguised demon—but wasn't Cheng Cheng and the others' goal to kill this demon lord, seize the "Hanged Man" fire, and reverse the attributes of the source?

When Freya ascends the throne, she will no longer have to worry about amnesia and can become a legend in one fell swoop—the perfect opportunity is right in front of her. Vilette was worried that the battle with the demon would affect the princess, so she did not go all out and let it escape. But Cheng Cheng will never let the opportunity slip away!

Today, right now, we must kill this demon, reverse the source, and change the course of fate!

Seeing Vilette prepare to attack again, the inverted demon was startled and immediately tried to flee once more, taking a step forward—

The moment my feet touched the ground, my body returned to its original position.

Take another step.

Back to where we started.

He raised his head.

At some point, the creature in the sky was no longer the mercury serpent summoned by the jade pendant, but a true legend spanning a thousand years.

Saintess Serafina of the Holy Kingdom is hovering above the royal palace.

A white silk blindfold covered her eyes, and her long silver hair reached her waist. She stood barefoot in the moonlight, her toes barely an inch from the spire of the tallest tower—that inch was like an invisible wall separating her from the spire.

She lowered her head.

With the blindfold facing the prince, the corners of his mouth curved slightly upwards.

“Long time no see,” she said, her voice descending from mid-air like moonlight falling on a stone slab. “The Upside-Down Demon—or do you prefer the title ‘Your Highness’?”

The prince's shoulder twitched slightly.

He had no idea that Serafina had already been living in the capital for some time, in order to investigate the death of the Obsidian Bishop and to verify her "prophecy"!

Just now, sensing that the jade pendant had been used, she immediately stepped into the palace under the moonlight!

Now, it's Legends vs. Demons!

"I thought I had set a trap..." the inverted demon chuckled, "but it turns out I've fallen into it instead, hahahaha..."

This time, his smile was no longer gentle and refined; his lips split open, and countless distorted laughs poured out of that split mouth—men, women, the old, children, all kinds of sounds overlapped, like a chorus that was out of tune.

"But are you really confident you can kill me?"

He sneered.

The ground of the palace began to shake.

One by one, the stone slabs on the ground rose up and floated in mid-air, constantly distorting the concept of space, and everything in the world began to turn upside down.

The top and bottom started to get mixed up, and the left and right started to switch.

A realm that turns the world upside down has unfolded!

"Shikai - Fall down, Reversal!" The inverted demon laughed. "Welcome to the inverted world!"

"clang--!"

The mercury serpent bit its tail again.

Time rewinds.

Like a videotape playing in reverse, the raised stone slabs fell back to the ground one by one, and the concept of space returned to normal. The saintess drew a circle in the air with her finger: "Don't even think about escaping!"

"Again!" the inverted demon roared, "Shikai - Fall, Reversal!"

"clang--!"

"Shikai - Fall down, Gyōfuku!"

"clang--!"

"Shikai - Fall down, Gyōfuku!"

"clang--!"

Inverted Demon: "..."

Serafina: "..."

Realizing they couldn't defeat each other, the two looked helplessly at Vilette: "What are you doing? Why aren't you doing anything?"

“I’m setting rules that favor us while preventing it from escaping,” Vilette said helplessly. “I have no authority to attack; on the front lines of the Legendary Battle, I’ve always been in a supporting role!”

In fact, he had a sure-fire move: to directly execute the demon.

But this is the Inverted Demon, which is best at reflecting attacks back. If I use this ultimate move with its extremely long wind-up on it, am I just asking to commit suicide?

“It seems we still need a legendary character specializing in offensive combat to kill it,” Serafina sighed. “I can only keep rewinding to prevent it from escaping or harming anyone…”

Just then.

"boom--!"

The ground in the capital shook once more, and in the distance, the gate to the underground city of Silvershine City exploded open!

"Waaah—"

Amidst the deep, resonant sound of horns, Peng Longteng charged forward, emerging from the ruins. Brandishing his longsword, he roared, "My comrades! With the throne vacant, Karen distracted, and Vilette the only legend in the entire city, let's skip the looting today and head straight for the palace! Strike while the iron is hot!"

"His Majesty has decreed that whoever enters the palace first will be granted the title of Marquis of Ten Thousand Households!"

Behind her, countless elven soldiers emerged from the pit, armed with guns, cannons, tanks, and magical arrays—Peng Longteng had actually led the entire elite of the Imperial Expeditionary Force through the underground city and stormed into the capital within just one hour after the news of the Queen's death spread!

Then, she saw the saintess, the inverted demon, and Vilette confronting each other.

"Wow, everyone's here."

Peng Longteng is considering retiring.

Chapter 98, The Final Battle at the Top of the Royal Palace

One hour ago.

The border of the Kingdom of Konomah, across from the Kingdom of Aka.

The military camp was brightly lit. Karen leaned back in a tiger-skin chair, holding a wine bowl in one hand and tapping the rhythm on her knee with the other. Below the tent, several dancers twirled to the beat of the drums, their skirts billowing and silver bells jingling from their ankles.

"General!" The adjutant burst through the tent flap. "The Queen has passed away! Harari is broadcasting her coronation live!"

"what?"

Karen stopped her drink at her lips, quickly put it down, and grabbed her phone from the table.

On the screen, Harari stood in front of the palace gates, and the live stream comments scrolled wildly at the bottom of the screen. Karen dialed Villette's number, but all she heard was a busy signal.

I dialed again, but it was still busy.

"All go out."

He slammed his phone down on the table and immediately flew out of the military camp!

The moonlight was perfect, and a river breeze was blowing. Karen was just about to hurry to the capital when she suddenly saw an old man emerge from the military camp on the opposite bank of the river. He was a dwarf with white hair and a white beard, only up to Karen's knees. He stopped at the riverbank and looked at Karen across the misty river.

Then the dwarf raised his right hand, put it in his mouth, and bit his index finger until it bled.

"boom--!"

A bolt of lightning struck out of nowhere, and in the golden flash, a dwarf as huge as a mountain appeared out of thin air. His head pierced through the dark clouds, his feet touched the ground, his white hair stood on end in the lightning, and the blood beneath his skin surged like magma.

“Dain…”

Karen called out his name.

The former king of the dwarf kingdom of Zhourao, a legend who wielded the "Strength" card, submitted to the empress after the dwarf kingdom was conquered by the empire, becoming the empire's god of war.

Karen gripped her sword tighter and tighter.

The one confronting him should be "Chariot" Peng Longteng, not "Power". Dane suddenly appeared and used his authority to manifest heaven and earth, looking like he was about to attack. Was it because... he wanted to hold him back and buy time for Peng Longteng's actions?

"What's the rush?"

Dane chuckled, pulled a wine flask from his pocket, and tossed it across the river to Karen: "I just like the perspective after I've grown up. Karen, you don't want to initiate a legendary battle and start a war, do you?"

Karen did not take the sword, but instead slowly drew the holy sword from the giant.

The next moment, another legendary battle quietly began.