Novel & Cerita The Masked Empire

Kael’s voice came through my earpiece. “Yes,” I whispered. “Don’t be afraid. You’ve trained for this.” His words steadied me just enough. Putting on a masquerade mask as I climb the stairs to the banquet hall. My expression settles into something calm and controlled. A smile, just convincing enough. A security attendant stopped me. “Your name, miss?” “Amy Jefferson,” I said, giving my alias. He checked his tablet, frowning slightly. For a second, my pulse spiked. Did Kael get me in or not?

"We also found something else." Damian's eyes narrowed. "What?" The director opened the folder. Removed a photograph. And placed it on the table. The moment Seraphina saw it, her breath caught. Because the photograph showed Marcus Holloway. Alive. Smiling. Standing beside Thomas Vale. Standing beside Evelyn Blackwood. And standing beside a fourth person. A man neither of them had ever seen before. A man whose face had been violently scratched out of the photograph. As if someone desperately wanted to erase his identity.

she called softly. The man came out to face Emily. When the sunlight revealed his figure, Emily's breath hitched. The man was wearing a mask with a stick in his left hand!

He shouldn't be. But who else wears a beast mask in the empire to hide his face? No one. No one else does aside from their new emperor. The audience were about to flee, but blocking the doors were the imperial knights who were loyal to Carzus. Even if they happen to know any of them, they will still be captured no matter how they try to negotiate. Because their current emperor was someone who never got swayed by money. The knights captured all the guests and eventually put them in a carriage towards the palace's jail; there, they will have to wait for the Emperor's judgement before they will be able to return home. If they still have a house to return to.

Wayne explained as I nodded "The theme of today's ball is--" "Masquerade. We know, since he held it, he wants it to be a masquerade so people wouldn't know who he is." Read cut Andrew off "Is this Emperor a villain or what?" They all looked at me as I raised my brow expecting an answer. "This guy is evil, Inka," Wayne emphasizes "He literally stole a lot of shipments from the others so that he could have a lot of weapons" Josh stated as he rolled his eyes

Shortly after Princess Astrid and the others left, a flying vessel arrived and stopped in the void beyond the planet. The vessel’s cabin door opened, and more than a dozen people in black robes disembarked and stood in the void. “Come out! Palace guards, I know you are here,” said the black-robed man in the lead. At this time, the space ahead shook for a while. A man wearing a white mask with the word ‘Empire’ embroidered on his clothes appeared in front of the man in the black robe.

Pockmark Mask now. ***

*** It was almost evening in Country Y while Country X was still at noon. Prison cell 404, Municipal Jail. “Pfft… You and your mother are rubbish!” Emily Quest was taking a nap in the cell before a cold, gravelly male voice awakened her. Her eyes snapped open instantaneously. The first thing that came into her sight was a tall man wearing a black robe and a golden mask. The golden mask had perfectly covered the man’s face. Emily could not see his features at all. Emily sprang from the bed as soon as she saw him. She knelt in front of him, her limbs trembling in fear. “I’m sorry… I’m a failure! I’m a loser!”