Arianne left quietly with the three princes and princesses of the empire, and some high-ranking officials of the empire also disappeared.
The audience and some nobles at the tournament even looked confused, wondering why they left midway.
However, then the news came that the Prime Minister Willas Tyrell was assassinated outside the tourney, and people finally understood what had happened.
In the Red Keep, Arianne received the news of Willas's assassination, and hurriedly returned to the Red Keep with her three children, Diana, Heros, and Yin Meng.
King's Landing is not a peaceful city. After the establishment of the empire, many turmoils and crises have broken out in King's Landing, including attacks by followers of the Seven Gods, cholera by followers of the Red God Cult, and riots caused by people's dissatisfaction accumulated under the long night.
Among the turmoils that occurred in just a dozen years, the riots during the Long Night during Arianne's reign were the most serious, and some thugs even rushed into the Red Keep.
Fortunately, the Kingsguard followed Arianne. She blocked the door and killed the thugs with the Dragon Slayer Sword, thus protecting the safety of Her Majesty the Queen.
But Arianne still accumulated a deep psychological shadow because of this incident, so this time when Arianne heard that something like this happened again, she quickly set off and returned to the Red Keep.
After returning to the Red Keep, where there were countless loyal Unsullied soldiers guarding her, Arianne felt a lot more at ease.
Then she took Sansa to visit Willas who was assassinated. In fact, Willas himself was not seriously injured, but was a little frightened.
This well-planned assassination came relatively suddenly, but the guards of the Prime Minister's Tower resisted tenaciously, and there was also the City Guard not far away to maintain order.
Seeing that more soldiers were surrounding them and unable to succeed, these killers dropped the corpses on the ground and fled in all directions. They are now being hunted.
The Princess of Dorne, who was wearing a crown, looked slightly ugly after hearing the cause and effect. This tournament was a grand event in King's Landing, but she didn't expect that something like this would happen.
"Qianbain, find out thoroughly what is going on."
So she spoke to Maester Qyburn, who had now succeeded Ramsay Bolton, who was burned to death, as the head of the Ministry of Home Affairs.
The Ministry of Internal Affairs has entered the era of Qyburn from the era of Ramsay. Qyburn is actually just a bachelor who is good at dark magic and some research. He does not have the terrifying methods like Ramsay and is not good at playing with people's minds.
But who knows, Qyburn has deep qualifications in the Ministry of Internal Affairs and has made many contributions. He was once the number two figure after Ramsay. Now that Ramsay has died, Qyburn naturally took over everything.
Qyburn's style of running the Ministry of Internal Affairs is also completely different from Ramsay. The empire has now been established for more than ten years and has overcome the unstable foundation in the early stage.
So perhaps Ramsay's horror mode is no longer needed.
The Ministry of Internal Affairs run by Qyburn is not as ruthless as during Ramsay's time, but its work efficiency is obviously much higher, which may be suitable for the current situation of the Valyrian Empire.
"Yes, Your Majesty."
The white-haired old maester wore a dark gold Bloody Hand badge on his chest, which was somewhat similar to the Emperor's Hand medal that Vilas wore on his chest.
This symbolizes the high status of the Ministry of Internal Affairs now, almost the 'Hand of the King' on the dark side of the Empire.
Coburn bowed slightly and saluted, then turned around and retreated, preparing to track down the whereabouts of these killers and find the masters behind them.
As long as he can catch a living person, Coburn is confident that he can ask who is the mastermind behind them.
Because in addition to creating some short-lived "beggar's version" cloned deep divers, Qyburn also developed a "truth potion" through the "magic" carried by Victarion in recent years.
As the name suggests.
Once a prisoner drinks this potion, he will uncontrollably reveal all the truth he knows.
Because this potion is not very tasty, soon after drinking it, it feels like countless ants are constantly gnawing in the body. This feeling is not severe pain, but slight pain plus unforgettable itching.
However, the prisoners could not relieve the itching even if they scratched themselves.
However, Cobain had an antidote potion, and after one sip, all these painful symptoms all over his body disappeared completely.
Therefore, now the Ministry of Internal Affairs has caught some prisoners who are quite strict with their mouths. After almost once or even several times, they seem to have had their brains corroded and are constantly twitching on the ground. All the truth is revealed at once.
Qyburn turned around and left the Red Keep. On the other side, Sansa's eyes were slightly red and she was holding Willas's hand and kept saying something.
Sansa was indeed frightened.
She has determined that Vilas is her ideal man. Although her fiancé is a cripple, she likes Vilas' rich talents and has completely devoted herself to him.
However, today she suddenly received the news that Vilas was assassinated. She was like a thunderbolt, thinking that she might never see him again.
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And after something like this happened, the atmosphere in King's Landing suddenly became tense.
After the tournament ended, that afternoon, all the gates of King's Landing were closed, and the city entered the lockdown phase ahead of schedule. There were also many soldiers on the streets looking for the killer.
The purpose of this tournament is to recruit the Kingsguard. Since the establishment of the Kingsguard, the full number has been seven, which coincides with the name of the Seven Gods.
Although the empire has begun to suppress religion from top to bottom and continues to establish people as the mainstay, religious beliefs and various rules that are integrated into all aspects of society are not so easy to ban.
There are now two Kingsguard in name, one is Governor Pentos, but in fact they are no longer the Kingsguard.
The other one is the female knight Mia brought back by Viserys. It is said that the two have a fatal friendship, but almost no one knows how they met and how they became friends?
This paragraph will also be blank in future history books, like a person falling from the sky.
Therefore, there are already two people in the Kingsguard establishment, and the next step is to select five people from all the players.
Arianne initially selected two young ladies, Arya Stark and Brienne Tarth.
Then she brought Gendry and the giant prince Attis together, because Gendry and Attis had been living in the Red Keep a long time ago and could seamlessly integrate into their new responsibilities.
However, for the last spot, Arianne hesitated for a long time, and finally decided on Edric Dayne, Sword of the Dawn.