Sophia II put on a white gown with simple lace trim and draped a black Cloak over it, hiding her face deep within its folds. Then, she took a sword-shaped pendant from a box sealed with numerous runes and solemnly put it around her neck.
The pendant was actually the Grade 0 Sealed Artifact, Sword of Eternal Sleep.
Beyonders of the Corpse Collector Pathway held absolute dominion over those below them. After Emperor Sophia II had switched Pathways to become an Undying, she always carried the Sword of Eternal Sleep whenever she went out, lest someone easily control her.
Fortunately, after layer upon layer of seals had been placed on the artifact, its negative effects were no longer particularly obvious in pendant form.
At least, it would not suddenly erupt in the short term and kill Heinrich.
As her thoughts turned, the empress bowed to her "personality avatar" beside her, then opened the window and leaped out.
Next, she carefully avoided the guards, lifted her skirts, and ran toward the Palace gates in the posture of a charging knight.
In midair, the royal Angel, the Weather Warlock Fries Einhorn, stared with sky-blue eyes at the faint orange-yellow glow before him. An elderly man with cold eyes stood to his left.
"Boris, what did you want us to see? How our nation's empress is having an affair?" Fries asked with a frown.
The orange-yellow light in the distance condensed into a human figure, who smiled gently. "Gentlemen, wait a little longer. I suspect someone will try to make a move against the empress after she leaves.
"Heh, don't you think Her Majesty the Empress is acting a little too urgently?"
Fries shook his head. "It was only after she advanced to Demigod of the Corpse Collector Pathway that she changed like