Elite Mages’ Academy Chapter 517: The King
The rebels have surrounded the capital city!
The moment when he heard the news, Xiao Lin thought that Liang Taibai was joking with himself, but the other party's bloodshot pupils and the haggard and anxious face made him understand that today is not April Fool's Day, and it is not the time to make a joke.
Xiao Lin put on his clothes as quickly as possible, and then followed Liang Taibai into the palace in a hurry.
"During the day, it doesn't mean that the rebels are still a month away from us, and there are also troops sent by the royal family to intercept them. How can they be here now?"
"We are also working hard to investigate, but now is not the time to consider these." Liang Taibai sighed.
"How many troops does the king have?" Xiao Lin guessed something from Liang Taibai's face.
"Three thousand people are left."
"Where are the rebels?"
"The details are not clear, but according to a rough estimate of the guards at the head of the city, the number is at least 20,000."
"I rely on it!" Xiao Lin couldn't help but explode. Even if defending the city is more advantageous than siege, the difference in the number of people is a little too big.
Liang Taibai strode forward, while continuing to say the worse news: "The 3,000 people defending the city are basically old, weak, sick and disabled, because the main force was sent out by the king to intercept the rebels not long ago. The ghost knows that group. What did the idiots do along the way? You know they just left a few days ago!" Even Liang Taibai, who has always been gentle and elegant, couldn't help yelling out loud, despising the combat effectiveness of the principality's army.
Xiao Lin stunned slightly, and fell silent thoughtfully.
A quarter of an hour later, the two had arrived directly at the palace. Although the king had imposed a curfew for a long time, under the privilege of the special pass of the Embassy of Dawning College, the road was unimpeded, let alone obstruction, and no one even dared to interrogate them.
In the magnificent palace, Xiao Lin saw the king of this duchy. Although the previous **** list included almost all of the king's children, only the king himself was excluded.
According to the plan of the military, as a sincere negotiation with the rebels, this unlucky king had just voted for his name, and Xiao Lin had heard from Liang Taibai that many senior officials of the Shuguang Academy were dissatisfied with this king. , Not only because Qiangwei’s civil strife caused a lot of extra troubles for Dawn Academy, but also the relationship between Qiangwei and Dawning in recent years was not very good. Even in the first two years when Dawning proposed to build more resurrection towers in Qiangwei’s territory, he was actually The king also refused with prevarication.
Obviously, even without this incident, it would be difficult for Dawn Academy to tolerate this guy continuing to sit on the king’s throne, and this was the first time Xiao Lin saw this guy who dared to fight Dawn Academy after coming to the capital. The king, before the **** set off, they went straight to bypass the king.
The king's sideburns are pale, and his sparse beard looks very old, but in fact, Xiao Lin has long known from intelligence that this king is only in his forties. In formal occasions, he wears a crown on his head, but it is not very luxurious. Only eight rose-shaped red diamonds are inlaid on the crown.
In the palace is a huge round table. The ministers are sitting near the round table, while the king sits high on the front steps overlooking the crowd. Of course, as the ambassadors of the Dawn Academy, Xiao Lin and Liang Taibai don’t need to sit. On the seat that was overlooked, two extra stools were set up beside the throne, which was regarded as equal to the king.
Since the civil turmoil has intensified, the ministers of the royal capital have ran and hid a lot. There are only seven or eight people still present in this palace. They are all waiting, but for the arrival of Xiao Lin Somewhat unexpectedly, but for them, what they need is a representative of the Dawn Academy, and it doesn't matter who they are.
After Xiao Lin and Liang Taibai sat down, this temporary meeting officially began. First, a man armed with a general like a general stood up and reported the current situation.
"Shortly after nightfall, there was movement in the automatic guard tower at the East City Gate. Of course, the soldiers who were in charge of the city thought that there was a malfunction, so they went out to check, and then there was a brief conflict... I happened to be nearby at the time. Then I found something was wrong, turned on the searchlight funded by Dawn Academy, and discovered that a large army is approaching, and it has basically formed an encirclement..."
Liang Taibai immediately asked and asked a lot of information in detail, such as the number of enemies and their forces, including formation and equipment, etc. However, because of the rush, this general did not have much information, and he was shocked at the time. Immediately ran back to report the matter first, and waited for the king's decision.
"It must be a rebel army, don’t think about it!" Some people were a little dissatisfied with Liang Taibai’s questioning, but they couldn’t express this emotion too blatantly, so they turned to the king anxiously and said: "His Royal Highness, take advantage of this. As the enemy has not yet completely encircled, plus night cover, please immediately organize troops to carry out an assault!"
"Yes! Please leave now! Only your Highness can never be caught, otherwise our Qiangwei will have no future!"
"His Royal Highness, please leave immediately! Now the king has almost no defensive strength. As long as we break out and join the army dispatched two days ago, we still have a chance!"
Several ministers spoke earnestly. They were all persuading the king to immediately, and when they spoke, they would cast an angry look at Liang Taibai. Of course, they also knew that Dawn Academy deliberately removed the king from the **** list. It was intended to let the king die.
The king waved his hand slightly to signal the ministers to be quiet~IndoMTL.com~ and turned his head to look at Liang Taibai's side, and asked slowly: "I don't know what suggestions and opinions you have on this?"
The king’s old face was very calm, and he didn’t panic at all because of the siege. He didn’t know whether he was pretending to be calm, or he knew that he had become an abandoned son of the Dawn Academy and had no escape, so he abandoned himself.
Xiao Lin speculated to himself, but no matter what the reason, he absolutely did not have any good impression of the king who met for the first time. This has nothing to do with Dawn Academy, this Principality, and the hunger and cold in the Principality. It doesn’t matter to the poor, just because the man sitting on the throne is Ibea’s biological grandfather!
Although Ibea’s cute little loli’s words are true and false, making it difficult to identify, but in terms of her life experience, Ibea has basically no lies. Lin also obtained confirmation from various quiet investigations.
Ibea is indeed a mixed race of humans and vampires. Her biological mother is the eldest princess of the Duchy of Rose, which is the daughter of the king in front of him, so Ibea is naturally his granddaughter.
But Ibea’s childhood was very miserable. The San Carlo family bloodline in her body made her doomed to go with the danger. His father was hunted and killed because of this, and the Rose Royal family never Acknowledging her existence, and even forcibly expelling the princess from the palace. After the princess lost too much blood and died after giving birth to Ibea, Ibea lived with his uncle, that is, the old man. (To be continued.) Ps: Book friends, I am the cabbage of the end. I recommend a free novel app that supports novel downloads, listening to books, zero ads, and multiple reading modes. Please pay attention to the WeChat public account: dazhuzaiyuedu (long press for three seconds to copy), book friends, hurry up and pay attention!