Dust of History Chapter 15: end start (up)
"Master Duke Mrak..." Geffenhardt XVII rubbed his red eyes and nose from crying. Although he was extremely angry and sad, no matter how hard he tried, his face couldn't pretend the majesty and momentum that an emperor should have, more like an over-excited child. "There is also the enmity of Bishop Ronis, I must make this murderer pay the price. There is also the Necromancer Guild, I will write to the Holy See to ask for their support, the empire's 100,000 troops must razed that valley to the ground !”
Xiao Yi secretly sighed. There is no need to guess the result, and the whole country is devoted to attacking Di Yagu, and the argument of such combat power is ignored for the time being. The key point is that this kind of thing is impossible to happen. To use the power of the country to carry out an expedition that will not have any actual political benefits, as long as there is a little bit of rational ministers, will not approve of this impulse.
And even if everyone is as sad and indignant as the young Emperor, and confirms such a plan, it is still only a plan. Except for the barbaric nomads, the war of the country is only the last resort of politics and strategy. According to what I heard from Sandro and Asa, almost every necromancer in Diya Valley has a pivotal position in human society . Influencing a country's political environment, economics, and diplomatic situation is so easy that any war plan against them can be aborted. And without Bishop Ronis, no one has the ability and influence anymore, let alone the determination and courage to gather all forces to deal with them.
And most importantly, she knew that her father had caused all of this, and she would never let the whole country pay an inexplicable price for her father's sins.
The young emperor took a breath, calmed down, looked at Xiaoyi and said, "You did not disappoint me. I knew that you would never have any collusion with the Necromancer Guild."
"Thank you, Your Majesty, for your trust." Xiaoyi replied with her head bowed.
"Captain Roland has already told me all the ins and outs of the incident. I never expected that the Duke and you would be so well-intentioned, that you endured humiliation and were willing to go to jail and suffer, just to lure that spy out. Unfortunately, in the end The success fell short, not only did the murderer not be brought to justice, but also the Duke was imprisoned... Captain Roland has already told me that the last wish of Duke Mrak is for you to inherit his title and position. Although there was no such thing in the Empire before It is a precedent, but this is the Duke's last wish. The ministers have always praised your ability, and Captain Roland supported you on behalf of the military ministers. There should be no problem. With someone as capable as you Not only do I feel more relieved to assist the state affairs, but the spirit of the Duke must also feel relieved."
Finally, the tearful young emperor spoke to Xiao Yi, whose face was as calm as water, in a comforting tone. "I heard that your husband also passed away in an accident...I can see that you are a very strong person, and tears are streaming from your heart. Don't be too sad. Don't worry, the soul of the Duke will definitely go to heaven, And the murderer will eventually be punished with justice."
"Yes." Xiaoyi answered with her head bowed, calm and sad, as if she was indeed a strong person who hid all her sorrows in her heart, as His Majesty had expected. 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 already called her 'Master Duke' or 'Master Prime Minister'. She smiled back with a grace befitting those titles.
Although it was just a small rumor that came out from nowhere, everyone knows that with the support of the military ministers and the trust and love of His Majesty the Emperor, the younger sister is very likely to become the imperial concubine, the key is her own shrewdness No less than his father, the position of prime minister is already a certainty. Even the palace guards looked at her with admiration and worship.
A female prime minister who is only in her early twenties is not only unprecedented in the history of the entire continent, but probably also unprecedented. This is what she inherited from her father. Xiaoyi secretly smiled wryly to herself, without the slightest sense of accomplishment, but more with responsibility and pressure. This is no luck.
At the gate of the palace, a carriage is waiting for her there.
The car is exquisite and luxurious, and the horse is also a good one among four. Even the driver who drives the car has a lean figure, with a straight waist. Even if the magnificent palace is next to him, he doesn't look sideways, just looks at the front with a blank face, holding the rein in his hand, as if he only lives to drive. The quality of the people in the duke's mansion is well known in the king.
Xiao Yi got into the car. The driver shook the reins, and the four horses started at the same time, leading the carriage forward quickly but steadily. After a while, he returned to the Duke's mansion.
It has only been two days since Duke Mrak was assassinated, but everything in the Duke's mansion has returned to normal. The good quality of the servants and the strict requirements that the Duke had maintained before made them not appear depressed because of the change of master. Although Geffenhardt XVII had intended to honorably bury the Duke of Mrak, a teacher who served the country and the people forever, but the Duke's two daughters insisted on rejecting His Majesty's kindness. The funeral was very quiet, low-key and quick, even a bit secretive. There were no unnecessary ceremonies, and it carried out the style of the Duke himself. Everything focused on efficiency.
As soon as Xiaoyi got out of the carriage, a servant came to report: "Miss, Captain Roland and all the ministers have delivered the official documents, and they have all been sent to your study. Also, come from the School of Magic I met a pastor and said that I have something confidential to discuss with you."
"Understood. Tell him to come to the study." Xiaoyi 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. Surrounded by three empty rooms, even without windows, the servants will never approach this place unless there is an emergency. Xiaoyi walked into the study, saw the piles of official documents piled up on the desk, sighed, went to the desk and sat down.
A young pastor was also led by his servants to the study. 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 the mask, revealing Asa's thin and well-defined face.
"Oh? I've been in the Magic Academy for the past two days, and I'm not very clear about his arrangement. What kind of story is it?" Asa walked to the desk.
"A thrilling story about the confrontation between a great duke family and a necromancer guild spies who sneaked into the capital. Reasonably connect the current situation with everything that happened before, and use a lot of plots from knight novels …Just after the vampire appeared in the hunting ground, His Excellency suspected that he had fallen in love with the priest because of some clues he discovered by accident, so he secretly investigated. After many thrilling intrigues, he was actually found to be a dead spirit The spy sent by the guild to teach the undercover agent. Unfortunately, all of this is just a reasonable suspicion, and no evidence has been found. Just like the twists and turns of all novels, the spy fell in love with the Duke’s daughter..." Xiaoyi smiled with a half-smile He glanced at Asa. "However, this princess has a pious belief and a firm will, and has not been tempted by evil. At this time, the spy finally revealed his true colors. It turned out that the vampire was his accomplice, and he eliminated the vampire to save The emperor was only because he wanted to make meritorious service to get close to the bishop of Ronis. The spy escaped after assassinating the bishop. The duke was so remorseful that he vowed to catch the spy and bring him to justice. So he and his own The daughter staged a realistic plot to catch the spy by taking advantage of his love for the princess. All went well, but it fell short at the last minute, when the spy killed the duke and fled. The duke is dying At this time, I left a last word to my daughter, hoping that she can take over my job and continue to serve the empire. That’s probably it.”
Asa was stunned for a long time before he let out a long sigh, and put on an extremely weird wry smile on his face: "It's really a good story. This...was really made up by Captain Roland?"
"How is that possible?" Xiao Yi also burst into a smile. "Head Roland asked my sister to make it up."
"It's her? No wonder." Asa nodded with a wry smile.
"And if she tells such a story to His Majesty, the effect will definitely be much better than telling it from Captain Roland and me."
"The emperor's child completely believes it? I think there will be flaws after careful consideration."
"Men conquer the world, women conquer men." Xiaoyi 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. "Whether it's conquered by a woman or something."
"Then what do you say is 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, he is more willing to follow his own mood to accept such a story than to spend his energy trying to figure out the facts. As long as He believes that with the help of Captain Roland, everything will be under control."
"Does anyone else believe it?"
Xiao Yi smiled. "Others? Who? Other ministers? Your Majesty has already believed it. How dare they believe it? Captain Roland is obviously on my side. They are not fools and know what to believe or not to believe. As for the common people, they Originally, they didn’t know the complicated cause and effect. They just need to know what is a good person and what is a bad person. So everything is fine. I just need to wait for the ceremony and formalities in a few days, and I will be completely official. I have inherited my father's duke title and the position of prime minister. This is something that Captain Roland entrusted to me, asking me to regain my father's position to stabilize the situation. I also feel that this is my responsibility."
Asa stuck out her tongue, and looked at Xiaoyi up and down again. "Then you are the prime minister of the empire? Returning to the duke... probably counts as one person under one person and above ten thousand people?"
"It's very tiring." Xiaoyi sighed. "Your Majesty said that in order to prevent you, an evil fellow, from coming to trouble me in the future, he ordered the Paladins to strengthen their protection for me in the future."
"So that's it. The most capable, youngest, and most beautiful prime minister of the empire, just like this grandly stepped onto the stage of history." Asa remembered the stories he had heard before and the novels he had read , it seems that there will always be a similar discourse above to express what happened and what will affect the future. "It must be written like this in the book."
"At the same time, it will also read: The most dangerous and most wanted criminal on the mainland escaped from the capital. Since then, all mercenary organizations and bounty hunters on the mainland have gone crazy for this man. The era of killing." Xiaoyi smiled and sighed again. "Actually, this is really unfair to you. You have to bear all the crimes alone, assassinating a bishop who is famous in the history of the mainland, and assassinating a prime minister who is dedicated to the country and the people. In the future...maybe you He is a great sinner who is reviled by thousands of people."
"Whatever they want, just scold them. Anyway, I have a lot of meat 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. I will wear this kind of thing peeled off from the face of the dead at any time in the future."
Although Captain Roland once promised to help him get rid of his crimes at the right time. But even the most ignorant of the world can now see that this is almost impossible. The prime minister is playing with the whole country and the emperor in his hands. It is absolutely 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, "I'm sorry."
Asa smiled and said, "That's strange, when did you ever feel sorry for me? I did all this because I did it myself." He cupped Xiaoyi's forehead and kissed it gently After a moment, he sighed. "Now that everything has been arranged here, I can leave with peace of mind. I actually came to say goodbye to you today"
Xiaoyi looked up at him in surprise, and asked, "So fast? You...don't stay for two more days?"
"General Gelu has sent a message to urge me. He said that if I don't go, he will directly catch me on a wyvern. It's a pity that I have been caught by that old man Sandro in the past two days. Time to accompany you well."
Sandro has now become an ordinary priest in the Magic Academy through the arrangement of Captain Roland. After calling Asa to the Magic Academy these two days, he taught him about magic almost day and night. Asa asked him why he continued to stay in the Academy of Magic. Sandro sighed and said: "Since Ronis is dead, I can't leave. We stay here together to guard something. No, he might have been pope long ago.”
"Something? What kind of thing?" Asa asked.
Sandro stared, and said: "Anyway, it's something that has nothing to do with you, don't inquire about it." He paused and said with a frown. "Also, although this matter seems to have been resolved now, I always feel that there is something wrong, so I can't leave. Since you are going to go to that orc city, you must hurry up now. Don't sleep these two days, even if you don't understand what I tell you, you have to recite it for me..."
Then Asa almost really didn't sleep in the past two days. Sandro first said that the corpse poison he used in the execution ground was shit, and after learning that Asa used almost all his magic power to catalyze the three corpses dug out of the cemetery to attach the poison, It is even more important for him not to use this kind of magic in the future, so as not to lose face of necromancer magic. Then it was day and night explaining to him how to manipulate corpses, how to use body magic, etc., which made him dizzy. It wasn't until a reporter came to the Magic Academy this morning to find him that he was freed from Sandro.
"Why do you have to go to Oufu?" Xiaoyi asked.
"Actually, the city lord of Sedros opposed my coming back here at that time. Fortunately, Master Borugan, the former magistrate of Bracada, and General Gru were willing to help me, so it was not easy for me. Discuss with them, as long as they help me, I will wholeheartedly help Oufu work for a year. Although things are not as we expected, after all, we must do what we promised them. And there, I also You don’t have to worry about being wanted.”
"What about one year later? What are you going to do after you finish the work for Oufu?"
"Naturally, I want to travel around the world. This has been my long-standing wish. Now that things are basically settled, I can go there with confidence."
Xiaoyi pondered for a while, and then asked: "Then what happens after you travel around the world?"
"I don't know..." Asa thought for a while, then looked at Xiaoyi and smiled. "I want to disturb you for a while, can you please, Mr. Prime Minister."
"That depends on whether I'm free or not." Xiaoyi smiled lightly.
"If I'm not free, I'll wait until you're free..." Asa lowered her voice as she buried her head in kissing Xiaoyi.
A burst of hurried steps approached the study. The two separated quickly. Asa took out the mask and put it on.
The chief of the imperial guards walked into the study room, saluted Xiaoyi, and said anxiously and firmly: "Miss Duchess, it is reported that a two-legged flying dragon is circling over the imperial capital. It is very likely that the murderer came back a few days ago. We have 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." Xiaoyi snorted coldly.
The chief of the guards looked at the princess's ugly face in astonishment. In fact, no one would have guessed that the wanted criminal who offered a reward of 5,000 gold coins would never approach the capital so ostentatiously, and Captain Roland had already reminded them that sooner or later someone from Oufu would come to explain the murderer's feet. Dragon problem. The officer also heard that the duchess was about to inherit the duke's title and the position of prime minister, so he rushed to show his loyalty. But now it's such a reflection, he really doesn't know how his flattery got on the horse's leg.
"There is no other way." The princess said to the priest with a long sigh. "Under such circumstances, it seems that you have no choice but to drive this Wyvern away."
"Miss, don't worry. Maybe it won't take long." The pastor nodded. "Then, I'm leaving."
"Be careful." The princess said softly ~IndoMTL.com~ goodbye. "
"Goodbye." The priest replied softly, turned and walked out.
The princess kept her eyes on the pastor's back until he disappeared, then she sat down and took a long breath. Suddenly she turned her head and glanced at the guard officer who was in a daze, frowned and said coldly: "What are you still doing here? Do you still want me to reward you?"
"I don't dare to be humble, I don't dare to be humble. Resign from humble positions." The chief of the Guards almost escaped. I regretted my complete failure of flattery this time.
Crystal **** are densely placed on the large conference table. Each crystal ball reflects a different scene. An old man with a dark face and curly hair was standing by the conference table, his bloodshot eyes scanning each crystal ball.
In the image of a crystal ball, the shadow of a Wyvern hovers and approaches in the sky. In another crystal ball, a priest rode out from the Duke's mansion and ran straight out of the city.
The old man's eyes lit up, and he waved his hands at the two crystal balls, and the images inside became bigger and clearer. He looked at it intently, thought for a while, sighed, and murmured: "It's really effective to wait for the rabbit. I will never bet with that kid Inham again...."