Part Three Light and Darkness Chapter Fifteen End Begins
"My Lord Duke Mrak..." Geffenhardt XVII rubbed his eyes and nose that were red from crying. Although he was extremely angry and sad, no matter how hard he tried, his face still showed
He does not have the majesty and momentum that an emperor should have, and is more like an overly excited child. "There is also the hatred of Bishop Ronis, and I must make this murderer pay the price. And the Guild of the Dead, I want to pay the price to the Holy See."
Write a letter asking them for support. The empire’s 100,000 troops must raze that valley to the ground!”
Xiao Yi secretly sighed. There is no need to speculate on the outcome. He will use all the strength of the country to attack Diya Valley. Ignore the argument of whether it can be conquered or not. The key point is that this kind of thing is simply impossible to happen. To carry out it with all the strength of the country.
An expedition that would not have any actual political benefits would not be approved by any minister with any sense at all.
And even if everyone is as sad and indignant as the young Emperor and decides on such a plan, it is still just a plan. Except for the barbaric nomads, the country's war is only the last resort of politics and strategy.
According to what Sandru and Asa heard, almost every necromancer in the Diya Valley has a very important position in human society. It is easy to influence the political environment, economic status and diplomatic situation of a country, and can make any target against them
Their war plan was aborted. And without Bishop Ronis, no one had the ability and influence anymore, let alone the determination and courage to assemble all forces to deal with them.
And most importantly, she knew that all of this was actually caused by her father, and she would never let the entire country pay an inexplicable price for her father's sins.
The young emperor took a breath, calmed down, looked at Xiao Yi and said, "You really didn't disappoint me. I knew you would never collude with the Guild of the Dead."
"Thank you for your trust, Your Majesty." Xiao Yi lowered his head and replied.
"Captain Roland has told me everything that happened. I didn't expect that the Duke and you have such good intentions. You endured the humiliation and were willing to go to jail just to lure the spy out. Unfortunately, you failed in the end.
The murderer was not brought to justice, and the Duke was also implicated... Captain Roland has told me that Duke Mrak's last wish is for you to inherit his title and position. Although there is no such precedent in the empire,
This is the Duke's last wish. The ministers have always praised your ability. In addition, Captain Roland supports you on behalf of the military ministers. There should be no problem. With someone as capable as you to assist in national affairs,
Not only am I more relieved, but the Duke’s spirit in heaven will also be pleased.”
Finally, the tearful young emperor said in a comforting tone to Xiao Yi, who had a calm face. "I heard that your husband also passed away in an accident... I can see that you are a very strong person, and I shed tears in my heart.
Liu, don't be too sad. Don't worry, the Duke's soul will definitely go to heaven, and the murderer will eventually be punished by justice."
"Yes." Xiaoyi lowered her head and replied, calmly and sadly. It seemed that just as His Majesty expected, she was a strong person who hid all her sorrows in her heart. In fact, in her heart, she really didn't know whether she should cry or laugh.
.
On the way out of the palace, two or three officials who came to see the emperor saw her and saluted her respectfully, but they addressed her as Duke or Prime Minister. She smiled and responded with a demeanor befitting these titles.
Although it was only a small rumor that was leaked from nowhere, everyone knew that with the support of the military ministers and the trust and love of His Majesty the Emperor, my sister was very likely to become the imperial concubine. The key was that she was as shrewd and capable as ever.
For her father, the position of prime minister was already certain. Even the palace guards looked at her with admiration and admiration.
A female prime minister in her early twenties is not only unprecedented in the history of the entire continent, but also probably unprecedented. This is what she inherited from her father. Xiaoyi secretly smiled bitterly to himself, without any sense of accomplishment.
, more responsibility and pressure. This is not a kind of luck.
At the palace gate, a carriage was waiting for her.
The car is an exquisite and luxurious car, and the horses are also the best of four horses. Even the driver who drives the car has a strong figure and a straight waist. Even if there is a splendid palace next to him, he does not look sideways and only looks at his face.
He looked blankly in front of him, holding the reins in his hand, as if he lived just to drive. The quality of the people in the Duke's Palace was well known in the royal capital.
Xiao Yi got on the carriage. The driver shook the reins, and the four horses started off at the same time, leading the carriage to run forward quickly but steadily. After a while, they returned to the Duke's Palace.
It had only been two days since Duke Mrak was assassinated, but everything in the Duke's palace had returned to normal. The good quality of the servants and the strict requirements that the Duke had maintained before meant that they would not be depressed by the change of master. Although Geffenhardt
The Seventeenth Emperor had intended to bury Duke Mrak, a great mentor for the country and the people, in a grand ceremony, but the Duke's two daughters resolutely rejected His Majesty's kindness. The funeral was quiet, low-key, fast, and even a little secretive.
What unnecessary rituals are in line with the Duke's own style during his lifetime, which focused on efficiency in everything.
As soon as Xiao Yi got off the carriage, a servant came to report: "Miss, Captain Roland and the ministers have sent the official documents and they have been sent to your study. There is also a person from the Magic Academy.
Pastor, I have something confidential to discuss with you."
"I know. You ask him to come to the study." Xiao Yi was slightly startled, nodded, and walked towards the study.
The study is still the Duke's study. This is the secret place where the Duke handles affairs. It is deliberately surrounded by three empty rooms and does not even have windows. The servants will never approach it unless there is an emergency. Xiao Yi walked in
When I entered the study, I saw the pile of official documents piled up on the desk. I sighed, walked to the desk and sat down.
A young pastor was also led to the study by his servant. The servant turned and left. The pastor closed the door behind him.
"How is it? Is everything going well in the palace?" The priest took off his mask, revealing Asa's thin and chiseled face.
"Oh? I have been in the magic academy for the past two days, and I am not very clear about his arrangements. What kind of story is it?" Asa walked to the desk.
"A thrilling story about the confrontation between a great duke's family and a Necromancer Guild spy who sneaked into the royal capital. It reasonably connects the current situation with everything that happened before, using many plots from knight novels...
After the vampire appeared in the hunting ground, the Duke suspected the priest because of some clues he discovered accidentally, so he conducted a secret investigation. After many thrilling intrigues, he discovered that he was probably sent by a guild of the undead.
The undercover spy of the church. It’s a pity that all these are just reasonable suspicions, and no evidence has been found. Like the twists and turns of all novels, the spy fell in love with the Duke’s daughter..." Xiao Yi looked at Ah with a half-smile.
Sa glanced at him. "However, this princess has a devout faith and a firm will, and has not been tempted by evil. At this moment, the spy finally revealed his ferocious true face. It turned out that the vampire that time was his accomplice, and he
He eliminated the vampires and saved the emperor just because he wanted to use it to achieve meritorious service, so he went to get close to Bishop Ronis. The spy assassinated the bishop and escaped. The Duke regretted it and vowed to catch the spy and bring him to justice. So he
He and his daughter staged a realistic trick, trying to use the spy's love for the princess to catch him. Everything went well, but unfortunately the success fell short at the last moment. The spy killed the Duke and escaped. The Duke
When the Lord was dying, he left his last words to his daughter, hoping that she could take over his job and continue to serve the empire. That's probably it."
Asa was stunned for a long time, then he sighed and put on a weird wry smile: "It is indeed a good story. Is this... really made up by Captain Roland?"
"How is that possible?" Xiao Yi also laughed. "It was Captain Roland who asked my sister to make it up."
"It's her? No wonder." Asa smiled bitterly and nodded.
"And if she tells His Majesty such a story, the effect will definitely be much better than if it comes from Captain Roland and me."
"Does that kid, the Emperor, completely believe it? I think there will be flaws after careful consideration."
"Men conquer the world, and women conquer men." Xiao Yi smiled slightly. "This is what my sister said she read from the book."
"A man who can be conquered is not a real man." Asa smiled and shook his head. "No matter if he is conquered by a woman or anything."
"Then what do you mean by a real man?" Xiaoyi looked at him with a smile.
"I don't know either." Asa shrugged.
"But at least we don't need His Majesty to be a real man, as long as he believes it. For a person like him, rather than spending energy to scrutinize the facts, he is more willing to accept such a story according to his own mood. As long as he believes it,
With the help of Captain Roland, everything is under control."
"Does anyone else believe it?"
Xiao Yi smiled. "Others? Who? Other ministers? His Majesty has already believed it, do they still dare to believe it? Captain Roland is obviously on my side. They are not fools and know what to believe and what not to believe. As for
Ordinary people, they don't know how to distinguish the complicated cause and effect. They only need to simply know who is a good person and what is a bad person. So everything is fine, just waiting for the ceremony and procedures in a few days.
I have fully and officially inherited my father's title of Duke and the position of Prime Minister. This is something that Captain Roland entrusted me with, asking me to stand in my father's position to stabilize the situation. I also feel that this is my responsibility.
.”
Asa stuck out his tongue and looked at Xiao Yi up and down again. "Then you are the prime minister of the empire, aren't you? Also the Duke... you can probably be considered as one person below ten thousand people?"
"It's so tiring." Xiao Yi sighed. "His Majesty said that in order to prevent an evil guy like you from coming to trouble me again in the future, he ordered the Holy Knights to strengthen their protection of me in the future."
"So that's it. The empire's most capable, youngest, and most beautiful Prime Minister, just like this, grandly and magnificently stepped onto the stage of history." Asa thought of the stories he had heard before, and the novels he had read, it seemed that the above
There will always be a similar passage to express something that happened that will affect the future. "It will definitely be written like this in the book."
"Then it will also read at the same time: The most dangerous criminal with the highest bounty on the mainland escaped from the royal capital. From then on, all the mercenary organizations and bounty hunters in the mainland went crazy for this person. Entering an era of hunting.
." Xiao Yi smiled and sighed again. "Actually, this is really unfair to you. You have to bear all the charges alone. To assassinate a bishop who is famous in mainland history, to assassinate a bishop.
Prime Minister who works hard for the country and the people. From now on... maybe you will be a big sinner who is reviled by thousands of people."
"They can scold them as they please. Anyway, I have a lot of flesh on my body." Asa smiled faintly and raised the mask in his hand. "Not only will there be no less, but there will be more of this kind of thing. In the future, there will be more.
You have to wear something like this peeled off a dead man’s face at any time.”
Although Captain Roland once promised to help him clear his name at the right time, even the most unsophisticated people can now see that this is almost impossible. The prime minister will bring the entire country and the emperor together.
It is impossible to tell the world just for the sake of one person's innocence.
Xiaoyi walked up to Asa, put her arms around him, buried her head on his chest, and murmured in a low voice: "I'm sorry."
Asa smiled and said, "That's strange. When and where did you feel sorry for me? I did all this just because I wanted to do it myself." He picked up Xiaoyi's forehead and kissed it gently.
Sighed. "Now that everything here has been arranged, I can leave with peace of mind. I actually came to see you today to say goodbye."
Xiao Yi looked up at him in surprise and asked, "So soon? Don't you... stay for two more days?"
"General Gru has sent a message to urge me. He said that if I don't go, he will come directly to catch me on a flying dragon. It's a pity that I have been captured by the old man Sandro in the past two days, and I have no time to take care of myself.
Accompany you.".
Sandru has now become an ordinary priest in the Magic Academy through the arrangement of Captain Roland. After calling Asa to the Magic Academy in the past two days, he taught him about magic almost day and night.
Asa asked him why he continued to stay at the Magic Academy. Sandro sighed and said, "Now that Ronis is dead, I can't leave. We stay here together to guard one thing."
Otherwise he might have become the pope long ago."
"Something? What thing?" Asa asked.
Sandro's eyes widened and he said: "Anyway, it's something that has nothing to do with you, so don't ask around." He paused, frowned and said, "Although this matter seems to have been resolved now, I always feel that there is something wrong.
Something seems to be wrong, so I can't leave. Since you want to go to that orc city, you must hurry up now. Don't sleep for the next two days. Even if you don't understand what I tell you,
, you also have to memorize it for me..."
Then Asa hardly slept in the past two days. Sandro first talked nonsense about the corpse poison he used in the execution ground, and then learned that Asa had used almost all his magic power to repeatedly catalyze the three of them.
After adding poison to the corpse dug out from the cemetery, he was asked not to use this kind of magic in the future, so as not to lose the face of necromancy magic. Then he explained to him day and night how to operate the corpse and how to use it.
The knowledge of using body magic and so on made him dizzy. It was not until this morning that a messenger came to the magic academy to find him, and he was freed from Sandro.
"Why do you have to go to Oufu?" Xiaoyi asked.
"Actually, the Lord of Cedros was opposed to my coming back here at the time. Fortunately, Lord Borugan, the former magistrate of Brakada, and General Gru were willing to help me, so I finally negotiated with them.
Okay, as long as they help me, I will work wholeheartedly for Ou Fu for a year. Although things are not as we expected, after all, we have to do what we promised them. And there is no need for me to do it.
Worried about being wanted."
"What about one year from now? What are you going to do after you finish helping Oufu do the work?"
"Of course I want to travel around the world. This has been my long-standing wish. Now that things are basically settled, I can go with peace of mind."
Xiaoyi pondered for a moment and then asked: "What about after you travel around the world?"
"I don't know..." Asa thought for a moment, then looked at Xiao Yi and smiled. "I want to bother you for a while, okay, Prime Minister."
"That depends on whether I'm free or not." Xiao Yi smiled softly.
"If I don't have time, I'll wait until you are free..." Asa's voice became deeper and deeper as he buried his head in kissing Xiaoyi.
A rush of footsteps approached the study. The two of them quickly separated. Asa took out his mask and put it on.
The commander of the Royal Guards walked into the study, saluted Xiao Yi, and said in an anxious and firm tone: "Princess, it is reported that a two-legged flying dragon is circling over the Royal Capital.
It is very possible that the murderer from the past few days has returned. We have already sent people to notify the Holy Knights, and I have sent people to protect the Duke's Mansion. Please don't worry, we will definitely catch it..."
"Of course I won't worry." Xiao Yi snorted coldly.
The officer in charge of the Guards looked at the princess's ugly face in astonishment. In fact, no one could have guessed that the wanted criminal with a reward of five thousand gold coins would never approach the royal capital so brazenly, and Captain Roland had already warned them,
Sooner or later, someone from Oufu will explain the problem of the murderer's flying dragon. This officer also heard that the princess was about to inherit the title of Duke and the position of prime minister, so he rushed to show his loyalty. But now this is the case.
Reflecting, he really didn’t know how his flattery landed on the horse’s leg.
"There is no other way." The princess sighed deeply and said to the priest. "Under such circumstances, it seems that the only thing I can do is ask you to drive away this bipedal dragon."
"Please don't worry, Miss. Maybe it won't take long." The pastor nodded. "Then, I'll leave."
"You must be careful," the princess said softly. "Goodbye."
"Goodbye." The pastor replied softly, turned around and walked out.
The princess kept her eyes on the priest's back until he disappeared, then she sat down and took a long breath. Suddenly she turned her head and glanced at the Guards officer who was in a daze, frowning coldly.
Said: "What are you still doing here? Do you still want me to reward you?"
"I don't dare in my humble position, I don't dare in my humble position. I will resign from my humble position and resign from my humble position." The Guards commander almost escaped. He regretted his complete failure this time.
There were crystal balls densely placed on the large conference table. Each crystal ball reflected a different scene. An old man with a dark face and curly hair was guarding the conference table, scanning each crystal with a pair of bloodshot eyes.
ball.
In the image of one crystal ball, the shadow of a bipedal flying dragon hovered close in the sky. In the other crystal ball, a priest rode out of the Duke's Palace and ran straight out of the city.
The old man's eyes lit up, and he waved his hand at the two crystal balls, and the images inside became larger and clearer. He looked at it intently, thought about it, sighed, and murmured: "Standing back and waiting really works.