My Little Pony: Changelings

Chapter 266 The Storm Emperor (2)

"Duchess of Maritonia, please get up. What happened?"

The Duchess fainted before she could explain anything, and when Princess Celestia saw this, she was about to summon the royal physician when Radiant Hope came over and said to Princess Celestia.

"She was just too tired. She hadn't had a good night's sleep for a long time and fainted due to exhaustion."

"Hope, long time no see, do you know what happened?"

"Teacher, it's been a while since we last met. I don't know the details, but there is some bad news... We have confirmed it."

"What bad news?"

Radiant Hope looked around and shook her head, and Princess Celestia immediately understood what she meant, so she asked the guards to take the Duchess to the room to rest, while she and Radiant Hope found out what had happened in detail.

In the castle hall, the four princesses stood there, Radiant Hope and Sombra stood together. Sombra walked up and spoke to Princess Celestia and the others.

"The story has to start from before..."

As Sombra slowly narrated the story, the details of the story emerged in their minds.

Above the endless sea, a black and white hot air balloon was floating in the air. Radiant Hope poked its head out of the hot air balloon and shouted towards the sea.

"Sob Crystal, come and look, the sea is so beautiful!"

"Yeah yeah."

Sombra was lying lazily in the basket, answering with his eyes closed. He didn't like the ocean very much, everything around him looked the same, and after looking at it for a long time, it became the same. Seeing Sombra like this, Radiant Hope pouted and said with an unhappy look on his face.

"Why are you like this~"

Suddenly remembering something, Hope Radiance pushed over the lying Sombra, and then took out a satchel from where Sombra was resting his head. There were quite a few stones in the satchel. Hope Radiance was obviously a little confused. Wouldn't it be a headache to have such stones as a pillow?

"How much have we collected?"

"More than half of it, now we are left with..."

Sombra took out a map from another bag, looked at the maze-like markings on it, and said to Radiant Hope.

"Besides the southern part of the Dry Bone Desert, there's only the continent in the southeast left. We're only missing a dozen or so fragments."

"Ah! Why did you get Princess Amore all over the place?"

"Hey... didn't we agree not to talk about this? Just treat it as a world tour. Wait, is that the mainland?"

"Yes, it's the mainland!"

So, Sombra and Radiant Hope arrived at the Dry Bone Desert from the Zebra Continent. After getting off the hot air balloon, Sombra used magic to seal it in a crystal as usual, then sank it into the ground, and climbed the mountain with Radiant Hope.

"Why is there sand everywhere here?"

"Desert, desert. Can it be called a desert without sand?"

Sombra comforted Radiant Hope, then squinted his eyes and looked forward, and saw a strange city.

"I hope you see, there is a city there, but I feel something..."

"weird?"

Radiant Hope followed suit, she felt the same way, but there were no other villages around, so they had to go in. As soon as Sombra and Radiant Hope stepped into this place, they felt something strange.

"What it is?"

"I don't know, but I saw something not so friendly."

Green magic flashed in Sombra's eyes, and through simple magical perspective, Sombra could see that in the center of the town, under the strange building, a steady stream of negative emotions seeped out from the ground and were then sucked into the building.

Just as Sombra was wondering what that was, he heard Radiant Hope's voice. She pointed at a brown cat wearing a red jacket not far away and said.

"what are you doing?"

Sombra looked over and saw the cat stealing from a large turtle. When the cat heard itself being accused, it suddenly said.

"What am I doing? I'm doing a routine inspection. I'm an investigator for the Storm Legion. This is the most important industrial mining area for the Storm Legion. If any suspicious creature sneaks in, I won't be responsible for it."

Caper was not afraid of being discovered, but pretended to be in a state of being like this, swinging the wallet back and forth, and opening it to check. After finding nothing wrong, Caper took out a few storm coins from it and threw the wallet to the giant turtle.

When the creatures around heard Caper's explanation, they were shocked for a moment, and then they all looked at him with envy. Caper, on the other hand, acted indifferent and said to the creatures around him.

"Alright, alright, everyone disperse. As for you... follow me. I've never seen you before, which means you're suspicious. I need to investigate you."

In the windmill house, Caper was kicked to the ground by Sombra. Before Caper could react, Sombra threw a note at him. Caper realized at a glance that it was the letter he had given to other gangsters.

"You want to sell us out? Are you kidding me!"

Black Crystal was very annoyed. It was true that his evil aura had been purified by the Crystal Love, but that didn't mean he had become a saintly white lotus.

The three names of King Sombra, who ruled the Crystal Empire and buried it for a whole thousand years, resounded throughout Equestria. Everyone knew that he, a mere kitten, actually wanted to sell himself and his hope?

Hissing black smoke was billowing on the unicorn horn, and black crystals were growing around Caper. When Caper first saw these black crystals, his first impression was that he was going to get rich, and then a feeling of fear spread. Was he going to end his life here?

At this moment, Hope interrupted Sombra's anger and pointed out the window with a look of horror.

"Look over there, Sombra, it's Pony!"

"what?"

Sombra turned her head and saw a storm trooper. A unicorn with a broken horn was walking in front, and behind her, the storm soldiers were surrounding several cages, and inside the cages were a group of Equestrian ponies.

"Sob Crystal, what's going on?"

"Another batch of poor slaves? But why are they creatures we haven't seen before?"

Before Sombra could speak, Caper stood up and spoke involuntarily. After Sombra heard it, he pressed his horn against Caper's chest and spoke.

"Tell me in detail what is going on!"

At the same time, in the Storm Empire in the far south, a unicorn with blue-brown fur and silver mane was lying by the fireplace, wearing a jeweled nightgown and cutting an apple with a knife.

The crisp apple crackled in his mouth, and the warm stove crackled in the rainy weather. The blue unicorn stretched his hooves, then tilted his head and spoke to the creature in the iron cage next to the corner.

"What a good trick to divert trouble to others. You are worthy of a queen who has lived for a thousand years. However, you are still one step behind. I have already sent troops to intercept them. I believe it won't be long before they send those ponies into the 'Abyss Mine'.

And you will be used as an object to trade for the magic pearl. Of course... this is also a conspiracy... your daughter will definitely be fooled. Do you want to know what the plan is?"

"No, this is not about diverting trouble, this is about asking for help from the ponies. You... deceived us, and now I just want to know who you are? Are you the Duke of Sapphire... or... Commander Storm!"