Kingdom’s Bloodline Chapter 3: Play chess (play)

In the Palace of Heroic Spirits, after parting with the strange-looking Putilai, according to the habits of the past three years, Thales walked out of the narrow and desolate courtyard of blood with a book, and walked directly to the stables accompanied by the entourage. .

Wiya followed behind him helplessly, and Rolf seemed to have been used to this scene a long time ago, just quietly following the prince's footsteps.

Behind them are the few star soldiers. Most of the dozen or so people were recruited from Broken Dragon Fortress and the old guys who had overcome many difficulties with the prince all the way, including veteran Jenard, and those who are no longer recruits. Recruit Willow.

Furthermore, the guards of the Grand Duke of Longxiao City and the court guards passed the news back and forth like the enemy. From time to time, teams of soldiers set out to make way, and the head of Lord Justin was even more black. His expression was tense, but he still performed his duties meticulously.

After all, this is the order of the Grand Duke.

"For the sake of safety, I sincerely recommend that you postpone your stay for a few days, at least until the grandfather’s hearing day is over," Huaiya seemed unable to stand the second prince’s leisurely pace: Guards... I mean that the Grand Duke’s guards have enough manpower to protect your travel, instead of focusing most of their energy on the Hall of Heroes like now."

The attendant of Huaiya glanced at the surrounding Northland soldiers. The prince’s manpower was at least half less than usual. Many of the vassals of Longxiao City visited before and after Hearing Day. Most of the Duke’s guards in Longxiao City , Both the remaining former Blade Guards and the new soldiers trained by the meteorites in recent years have been mobilized to the Grand Duke's side.

Tyles pulled out the brown book under his arm, flicking the words "The Knights of Human Light: The Beginning and Ending Temple" on the cover, and indifferently blew the whistle that Rolf taught him.

Wya Casso, in Exter's six years of serving the prince, he has only returned to the country twice, and each time he returns, he has become a lot more mature, but he is as serious and " Excessive force", the tight string on the body has never been relaxed.

That won't work.

Especially... facing such an opponent.

Thyls kept smiling and said silently in his heart.

Just listen to the prince easily said: "Assassins and other security issues Northlanders are not idiots, even children who have been burned are afraid of fire, let alone a country where the king has died."

Former Blade Guard, Lord Justin walking nearby unabashedly hummed, and muttered something. To Thales, who had a good hearing, it seemed to be "The stars are too embarrassed to say so ".

Thyls pretended not to hear, and shrugged: "Besides, it's already a tragic thing to be placed under house arrest in an enemy city like in jail. Don't deprive me of the little fun left."

"Misery? I think you are enjoying your current life in jail." Huaiya rolled his eyes, and he rarely sneered at the prince who was familiar with him: "Besides, there has never been a prisoner or the'warden' The relationship is so good that she can promise you that you can freely choose the time of'release' every month."

"Don't put it that simple, go out and play chess..." Thales laughed, and he waved his hand to Huaiya without looking back: "That's because I endured the humiliation and worked hard to face Longxiao City. The pitiful rights fought for by the owner and Earl of Brisbane."

Tolerant of humiliation and hardship?

Huiya's face suddenly became as black as Lord Justin next to him.

Does it mean that you dragged the grandpa to skip class countless times, causing trouble up and down in the Palace of Valor?

"Do you really want to be today?" The innate character made Wiya hold back the continued complaining. The attendant said with a stern face: "If it doesn't work, just stay in the palace and play chess. Download it yourself."

Under King Chaman’s eyes and ears, in the treacherous atmosphere of Longxiao City, before the prince’s identity as a heavy burden, apart from deliberately looking for trouble and ulterior motives, which nobleman of Exter dared to share The only heir of the Star Kingdom sitting at the opposite table and playing chess?

"The focus is not on playing chess, but on'playing the wind,' Huayah," Thales kept under his feet, and the book in his hand slowly slapped his left palm: "I don't expect you to be able to go in and out of the dragons freely. People in the city can understand the feelings of the prisoner himself."

Wiya shook his head helplessly, waiting to speak again.

"Okay, okay, Huayah, do well, just say a few words," Thales put his index finger back, and ended the conversation lightly: "Learn from Midira next to you, he Never talk too much."

Wiya frowned, his skeptical gaze on the ghost of the wind, Midila Rolfe turned back and forth.

Sure enough, Rolf, who was a mute, didn't say a word, and held out a defiant **** to Wiyaa blankly.

"I can't deny this," Huaiya sighed in pain, lowered his head and rubbed his forehead: "I hate you, Your Highness."

Thyls whistled.

At this moment, a young and exaggerated female voice sounded from the top of the head:

"Oh! Little Thales, are you leaving the palace again?"

Several of the newly-arrived guards raised their crossbow arrows upward nervously, but the others seemed to be free and accustomed to them. Wiya and Rolf rolled their eyes almost at the same time.

With a plop, a short figure wrapped tightly in a cloak jumped down from a tree on one side, followed the footsteps with one hand on his hips, and extended a thumb with one hand: "Don’t worry, I’m here. He will never have a safety problem!"

"Why do you always like to lie on the branches, Miss Edda?" Wiya asked dissatisfiedly with Miss Cloak, who should be the prince's first guard.

"Such a big sun, of course you need to find shade!"

Huiya looked up suspiciously, unable to figure out what "shade" and "branch" had in common.

"Sorry Edda, I just want to go to the spear area to play chess." Thales sighed, and replied unhappily: "I'm not going to hunt rabbit meat in the suburbs."

"Huh?"

Ada put her hands on her back and walked backwards in front of him. The cloak covering the upper half of her face could not conceal the disappointment in her voice: "Can't you take two more steps?"

"From the Palace of Valor to the suburbs, are you talking about the dragon's'two steps'?"

Ada said pitifully: "The food in the Palace of Valor is always cold when it is served, don't you think...boy, think about it, hot rabbit meat!"

"That is for your safety..."

"Speaking of safety," Edda clenched his fists and sighed bitterly: "As your personal guard, I fought **** and wounded all over my body and rescued you from the enemy's hands and finally saved you. The whole Longxiao City... But you even have this little request..."

"You said that you rushed to the Palace of Valor with a mouthful of greasy mouth six years ago, but found that everything was over, so you happily asked me to pay the bill to prove that you were not a certain lady who robbed the house. Huh?" The prince replied without a stir.

The next second, Thales turned his footsteps, tilted his head skillfully, and passed the furious Miss Elf just right, and avoided her protruding fingers.

"Hey, eh, eh, you actually flashed by again! The third time!" The lady in the cloak was dazed in place, holding her right index finger, trembling:

"Why are you so skilled!"

Why are you... so skilled?

Listening to this line that seemed to have been heard somewhere, Thales let out a sigh, shook his head, shook off a faint fragment of memory, and continued on.

Leave behind the helpless Edda ("Where did the cute little Thales who could not avoid my death finger before?"), and the countless soldiers and guards who ignored her and went forward: Wya responded with sympathetic eyes, and Rolf simply blew a whistle with a fading bass and a trembling sound to set off her mood at this time.

The prince recalled the special waves gathered on the soles and sides of the neck, feeling the faint fatigue of the tendons, and frowned.

He seriously thought of what the man with the black sword said on a **** night long ago.

[This is a cursed power...you can only improve it through special methods...]

Sure enough, it's been six years...

This thing...

I didn't make any progress.

Tyles walked into the stable on the side of the Hall of Valor and kicked his boots on a horse bench to cover up his purpose of relaxing his tendons.

The prince flocked down to the stables he was familiar with. A sturdy black horse stuck his head out of the fence and protruding his nose affectionately.

"Did you treat her well?" Thales smiled and scratched the dark horse's chin, looked at her teeth, and said to the groom beside him:

"You know, Jenny likes to be clean."

The full-time groom in the Palace of Valor patted his chest proudly and promised the prince that his mount had never been so healthy.

Prince Dark Horse Jenny’s exclusive mount was brought to Longxiao City by the mission of the Star Kingdom three years ago. It is reported that she is a good girl carefully selected from hundreds of mounts. The mixed race of the horse inherited the violent temper of his mother and the strength of his father at the same time, and he was scornful of many riders who tried to surrender her.

It is surprisingly rare that Thales, who has never been talented for riding horses, gets along well with Jenny. This is even surprising to Viscount Connie, who led the mission at the time.

Tyles smiled lightly, stuffed the book in his hand into the saddle bag, and untied Jenny's reins. At the same time, Wiya and the other soldiers also began to look for their mounts.

Just now.

"Dear Prince Thales, good day."

A melancholy and peaceful female voice came from outside the stables: "As a fifty-six-year-old elder, I must remind you of the safety of this trip."

The soldiers and guards stepped aside and bowed to the visitors, while the stars frowned.

Thyls closed his mouth opened with a smile, turned his back to the new lady, and sighed.

"Good day, Mrs. Jinx," he didn't look back, still doing the preparations before departure, "I thought you should stay with the grandfather at this moment, and help her show grace and grace to the vassals. Show your style."

Jinx, one of the close female officials next to the Grand Duke: a noble woman in her fifties who looks like her in her thirties. She is simple in dress, simple in hair accessories, well-mannered, and always stern. Zhang has a more serious face than Huaiya, but he is impeccable in language and etiquette.

It is said that she is the widow of a powerful vassal of the late King Nunn. Six years ago, she was invited into the Palace of Valor by the Regent of Lisban. She took care of the female grandfather’s daily life and taught her the corresponding etiquette. She should have been like a Fuxing Palace. Just like Gini Barkovi in ​​the movie, she is an excellent and competent female officer. If she didn't ask the star prince who used to read leisurely, she must follow the etiquette class in Shangbei.

By the way: She was also one of the reasons why Thales skipped class for the first time with a grandpa.

Ms. Jinx still spoke in the voice that made people unconsciously nervous: "In addition, I also brought the words of several other adults."

"I suggest you listen carefully even if you are from the south."

Hearing this, Thales reluctantly stopped what he was doing, turned around and bowed to her.

Ms. Jinx nodded with satisfaction, raised her neck, which was at an angle comparable to a swan neck, and cleared her throat.

"Your Excellency, the Grand Duke of Longxiao City, ask me to remind you that while she is in charge of politics," the lady said proudly: "The new books in the palace..."

"Okay, Ms. Jinx," Thales scratched his ears with a headache: "Excuse me, please report to the Grand Duke. I will wait until she returns to open the present."

Ms. Jinx narrowed her eyes. Although her expression remained unchanged, Thales knew that she was dissatisfied with the prince's interruption.

But a few minutes later, the lady spoke again.

"The Earl of Lisbane also asks me to remind you that when he is with the grand duchess regent," the female officer lowered her posture a little this time, but still looked directly into Thales' eyes: "For your safety and The reputation of Longxiao City, please abide by the king’s edict..."

"Okay, Ms. Jinx," Thales stroked Jenny's horse head, soothing her upset that the master was slow to unravel her restraint: "Thank you for me, thank you for being busy with the regency, and taking time to care for me, Reese Lord Ban, and told him: I will not run out of the axe zone and spear zone."

Jin Kesi frowned slightly.

"Finally..."

"Captain Sereni Cole asks me to remind you that because the political day is particularly special, please be sure to cooperate with Lord Justin and the guards when you go out." The lady's voice eased, but it still makes people nervous: "Also Yes, because of your bad record of returning only after 8 o'clock two months ago..."

"This time, once you return more than six o'clock in the evening, he is going to lock the city gate and recommends that you spend the night in the post at the gate."

Thyls frowned, took a deep breath, and exhaled it long.

He pushed aside the fence, stepped on the horse bench, and saddled the horse.

"Okay, Ms. Jinx," the prince murmured for a few seconds before facing the serious female officer: "Thank you again, to Nico... to the dead face..."

The female officer Jinx raised her eyebrows.

Thyls sighed and said seriously:

"Let him die early."

The next moment, Thales swung the horse's rein without hesitation, and rode out amid Jenny's loud neigh!

The prince rushed past the female officer without looking back, and the soldiers and soldiers following him followed him, including the helpless Wiya, the calm Rolf, and the sulking Edda.

He shakes the rein of the horse in his hand, rushes out of the square in front of the Palace of Valor, towards the first city gate.

The road from the Palace of Valor to the Spear District did not take much time, especially with the concerted efforts of the Grand Duke’s guards and patrols, the streets and roads were unobstructed.

In just ridiculing Wiyah, there is one thing that he didn't lie: Thales won this hard-won opportunity to play chess in the spear area not far from the Palace of Valor.

Thyls, who was bumping right away, controlled the ups and downs of his body, looked at Jenny's ears and her cheerful pace from behind, while bending his mouth.

In the past six years, at least his riding skills have advanced by leaps and bounds. Exter may not be culturally inferior to the inheritance of special stars, but when it comes to the importance of military skills, even the most rude and lowest-ranking Northland nobles To get rid of the stars' colleagues.

Tyles still remembers that in his outdoor course with the Grand Duke (this is a polite name), when Nicolai, who was in charge of the "class", discovered that his only two students, Thales, were allergic to horses. And when the riding skills are not good, when the Grand Duke resists to mount because of fear in her heart...

The expressionless meteorite directly asked for a thick rope, tied them firmly to the horse, and then lit the horse's tail.

Once a day, every two hours.

Ten days after the effect was immediate, both he and the girl became equestrian "masters" amidst vomiting and dizziness, or at least a familiar one.

After finishing this step, Nicolai untied the rope, began to leisurely correct their riding posture and skills, and introduced the harness.

Then picking up weapons...and then horse hunting...

Later, a former blade guard told Thales in private: multiplying the duration and frequency by two, and then turning the torch that ignites the pony tail into a honeycomb is the standard riding training of the blade guard.

The prince sighed as he thought of this.

The next second, Thales pulled the rein in his hand, slightly hard, and at the same time, he sat back deeply, sliding his legs back gently to a relaxed position.

The wise Jenny immediately started to slow down. Thales, who confirmed this, also released the reins in time to show encouragement, soothing the excited, passionate and eager pretty girl who was eager to vent her dissatisfaction. Hum.

Jenny's horse hooves focused, and a few seconds later, she stopped in front of their destination.

The mounts of Wiya and Lord Justin also stopped.

Thyls admired the triumphant Jenny with caress and screams. She recently got the bad habit of using dissatisfied coquetry to attract the attention of her master. He sighed that horses are no less difficult to deal with than humans. He thought of the black collar Who knows how much time and energy it takes to train a skilled cavalryman.

Tyles stepped off the stirrups, handed the reins to Genard behind, and looked up at a chess and card room in his destination spear area.

I heard that this was originally a well-decorated aristocratic hotel, until the sole owner, who was killed by robbers in the catastrophe that swept Longxiao City six years ago, one of his fellow Kangmas I invested in this place and changed it into a recreation room for the nobles according to the original decoration. I heard that the business is pretty good.

Of course, the word "business is good" is not related to it today. Since three years ago, Prince Star chose this place as his fixed point for his monthly trip. This chess and card room had to accept the monthly clearance. Quiet Waiting for the fate of the prince, but obviously this is not a bad thing, because after that, its business has risen instead of falling. Everyone is scrambling to see the "fighted place" of the mysterious prince who has been in the palace for a long time.

Tyles stepped into the chess and card room amid the flattery of the boss: Hundreds of Duke’s guards and patrols had already searched this place thoroughly and isolated the adjacent area.

The prince sighed while looking at the empty hall.

He slowly climbed the steps and came to the box on the second floor. The guards from Justin to Wiya and Rolf kept up.

Under the boss’s lead, Thales skilfully crossed a gate and came to the largest box. This is a semi-outdoor box with a large area. One terrace faces the downstairs Spear District street, Prince The chess seat is on the edge of the terrace, from here you can have a panoramic view of the street.

Tyers walked through the terrace, and it was not surprising to see countless guards and patrols guarding the vital points from the street to the nearby buildings. At least two hundred people were wounded with bows and crossbows and patrolled regularly to prevent death. Uninvited guests, almost everyone stared at themselves on the terrace.

With this kind of formation and atmosphere, coupled with martial law, even if the number is reduced by half, the tragedy of six years ago will not happen again.

I was bitten by a snake...

The prince shrugged, sat down in his seat, and put down his books.

He turned his gaze to the chessboard and chess pieces in front of him. Starting from the Kingdom of Ellenbia, the seat opposite to "The Rise and Fall of Empire", which had been circulating in Westland for nearly a hundred years, was still empty.

"Okay," Thales looked at the standing red king on the chessboard, while looking at the familiar and unfamiliar black and red chess pieces in the chess box with a little emotion, while still relentlessly checking against it. Wiya and Justin all around said: "You can go out, anyway, neither the door is closed, but there is also a terrace. It is the same for you to guard outside the door and on the street."

"As before, I want to stay by myself."

Behind Wiyaa, Rolf nodded slightly. After putting down a tray of checked food and water, he grabbed the boss who was ready to please a few words and headed to the first floor. Edda had long been missing and probably was in the room. Top it.

"Prince Thales," Lord Justin of the former Blade Guard cautiously said: "Old rules, three hours, if you need anything..."

The prince let out a breath: "I will let you know as soon as possible."

Lord Justin nodded, looked at each other with Wiya, and walked to the door ten meters behind Thales, guarding the entrance, and staring at the prince who was reading and playing chess at the same time.

"Every time it is like this." Thales shook his head and smiled softly, and continued to take out the chess pieces from the chess box, and began to put them on the chessboard one by one.

The box and the block all replied to be quiet~IndoMTL.com~Only the footsteps from the soldiers from time to time, and the faintly murmured voice from Wiya to Rolf.

Guards, catapults, shield warriors, pawns...

Just when Thales placed the penultimate piece and was about to get the last piece.

Two slender, white fingers with beautiful nails appeared suddenly.

Finger dropped from the sky, grabbed the black king, and gently placed it in Thales’ chess formation, placed it, straightened it, and even aligned with the chess grid, turning the front face perpendicular to the red square.

Meticulous and extremely delicate.

"Thank you."

Thyls raised his eyebrows, and he raised his head, nodding slightly to the unexpected guest who suddenly appeared.

The prince’s long-lost friend, the magician of Qi, Ashida Sakorn sat on the opposite seat gracefully and quietly, staring at the chess pieces on the chessboard, and slightly raised his mouth.