Chapter 4 Bloody Stars (Part 2)(1/2)
Torus, help me.
"Powerless."
I know you can do it, you are the strongest among us. And I still have consciousness, which means that this seal is not complete...
"Why."
Because you have to help me. I must restore my physical state immediately and return to the stars.
"I can't obey my duty."
Toros, you are not the will of the world, nor those stupid gods, why should you be as stubborn as them?
"ignorance."
Please, Toros! I met a child who may be the only freshman magician for a thousand years.
"What do you have to do with me?"
Why can't you understand? He, me, you, the fourteen of us - plus he is fifteen - magicians, we are all one!
"Integrated?"
Toros, believe me, we coexist and coexist, maintain each other, even if the road is different...
"Dragon Knot, have you ever remembered?"
That's different, those two - they betrayed us!
"Everyone has a choice, that's all."
We are not humans!
"Select an unrelated race."
Then I have made a choice long ago! I chose the magician! Don’t you want us to stand freely in the world?
"I also have a choice, just like that."
Toros! That child needs guidance! Otherwise he will sooner or later...
"So fate."
Third-class apprentice at Soul Tower, Toros Mill! Don’t forget! You killed the mountains and Muhai first! You were the originator of the war! You were our first role model! If it weren’t for you, nothing would have happened!
"..."
Toros, help me.
"..."
help me.
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"Wait!" Tailes raised his hand and interrupted Kilbert's slightly sad statement.
"The blood of the Canxing family was almost slaughtered?"
"Who did it?"
But Kilbert just looked at him with sad eyes.
Tailes narrowed his eyes.
Just the first two sentences, there is a problem.
"You say Eddie II, my grandfather, who had a long and stable rule, and was known as the 'King of Constant Rules'?"
"What happened to the rebellion of the 'Bloody Year'?"
"Dazhi brought about rebellion instead? This is illogical."
Tailes looked at Kilbert, but the other party just slapped the book in his hand and frowned slightly.
The gray-haired middle-aged nobleman said calmly:
"There are many reasons for the Year of Blood and are very complicated, and some are top secrets that can only be seen by senior management. You will learn these in later courses, and even after you become a formal heir, you have the power to get in touch with these secrets, and it is not too late to study them."
"Now, I can only tell you that Your Majesty has avenged all the revenge you can. The hidden dangers have been basically resolved. The remaining revenge can either be abolished or cannot be achieved."
Tailes' eyes narrowed.
Basic solution?
He had a premonition that the events twelve years ago were extremely important to him.
Kilbert continued his narrative with a little compassion and pain:
"That year, the five leaders in the central region suffered natural disasters and died. The rebellion in the six cities in the southwest was rebelled, the rebels failed and mutiny, the wild bone tribe rebelled, the Exeter invaded, the northern line was in a hurry, the sea blockade, the supply line from the royal capital to the south was cut off, the rebels even besieged Yongxing City for a time, and the nobles in the city even joined forces to force the palace, and everything happened so suddenly."
"Every day, bad news comes from the palace, territory falls, enemy invasions, army failures, allies break contracts, nobles are killed, slaughtered, everyone is panicked, praying for tomorrow, but receives worse news the next day."
"The people in the city were ragged and struggled to survive under the breeze of the army. It was difficult for those who did not join the army to obtain food. The nobles below the earl were as lowly as beggars. The former authority was like dirt, and no matter how many gold coins were, they could not exchange for even a loaf of bread."
"Thieves, robberies, mobs emerge in endlessly, and even the army cannot suppress them. In the army, more and more people die of illness, starvation and battle are getting more and more dead, and even the moats are blocked and smelly. The citizens outside the capital are even more miserable. Many people become refugees or mobs, drifting with the wind, have no support, robbers appearing in the wild, and criminals are rampant."
"Many lords were hung in their territory, and some officials were even skinned in government affairs halls. People could not survive without taking up weapons. I heard a knight who went out of the city to report that there were piles of corpses every few steps in the wild, and horses could not even run freely for half a quarter of an hour. There were fewer than five knights traveling, so refugees and mobs dared to rush over."
“It was a prison river year.”
Kilbert looked out the window, his tone calm, but Tails could hear the desolation and resentment in his words.
"The misfortune of the Canxing royal family is the biggest footnote."
The time traveler did not speak.
Kilbert sighed and continued:
"The king touched his white hair day after day and sat in the city of distress. The lamp oil at the imperial front meeting almost never stopped. Every brother and prince of the Canxing family was assigned tasks, either supervising the logistics, winning over the nobles, or even sending the front line to lead the battle."
“Until they were ruthlessly slaughtered.”
"His Majesty the former king was beheaded on the throne, the princesses were strangled to death in their sleep, the princes were burned to death in the castle, and the princes were even dead in their infancy, and the former king and his majesty was—ah."
"The brave eldest son of the king held the sword alone and did not take a step back. He eventually died in front of the palace gate with his guards. The king's brother, Duke John, was the most unfortunate. He encountered a shameful sneak attack from behind on the southwest battlefield, the moment before he was about to win."
"The princes on the front line, one was pushed down from the highest room in the castle, one was poisoned at the nobles' banquet, and one led his troops into the encirclement of Exeter, and for three hours, they were wiped out, and they died in a fierce battle. His Majesty Cathel even encountered a professional army of five hundred people while traveling in the wild, and only Jodel was beside him at that time."
"The death and bloodshed that year spread across the country, from princes and nobles to wealthy families in the past, from knights and merchants to ordinary people, all suffered heavy casualties. That was the page of history that Xingchen refused to reveal the least."
Tailes took a deep breath.
Before I traveled through time, did this country experience such terrible turmoil?
Kilbert calmed down his breath and said seriously:
"So, please follow the answer to the Year of Blood in the future."
"At the same time, please be prepared. The bloody year is just the tip of the iceberg - the history of the stars has never been short of blood."
Tails nodded, pressed his curiosity and excitement, and numbered the questions of the Blood Year and stuffed them into his heart.
Kilbert looked at Tails' cautious expression, nodded slightly, turned his head and continued:
"Tyles, the search for your bloodline begins from now on."
"Although your father, His Majesty Kathel, survived, he also lost all his relatives, including his children, that year, your brother and sister."
"Among them, 1-year-old Luther Canxing suffered misfortune in his infantile life, and the assassin was found on the spot. In the chaos, 4-year-old Lydia Canxing was taken as a hostage."
Speaking of this, Kilbert gave Tailes a complicated look with deep meaning.
"Tyles, child," the middle-aged nobleman said slowly: "That lamp was not used to find you at first."
Tailes lowered his head and looked at the wound on his hand.
I see.
"After His Majesty was crowned, the priest Li Xiya of the Sunset Temple personally performed the magical arts to find any living creature in the world with His Majesty's bloodline."
"Just, when we find Princess Lydia-"
"In short, Your Majesty and the Canxing family lost all their orthodox heirs, and they lasted for twelve years. During these twelve years, Your Majesty did not give birth to new blood."
"For the past twelve years, the stars have only had the supreme king, no prince or princess, and even the external political marriage has selected the children of the six wealthy families."
"Until one day, that blood light comes back on."
I was silent in the study for a long time.
A scene from last night appeared in Tailes' mind.
He must confirm one thing.
"Your Majesty probably in the fifth or sixth year after his rule—"
So, when Kilbert continued, he interrupted the middle-aged noble without hesitation.
"—The royal family was slaughtered in such a plan," said Thales softly: "Who is the most direct murderer?"
Kilbert closed his eyes and was silent for a moment, but he still spoke:
"It's the Saritun family, and there's the Shadow Shield."
To be continued...