The next day, when the brave man was about to leave, the great sage came down from the upper floor, and after staying up all night, he had already studied a feasible plan, and had already carried out an experimental purification.

The magic power of the Demon King's horn is not so easy to purify, according to the Great Sage, it will take at least three months or more, and it will be purified every day according to the method he has researched to completely eliminate the magic power and the will of the Demon King.

The Great Sage told the brave the method, and knowing that the brave could not use magic, he deliberately changed the purification plan, so that the brave who could not do magic could also purify the Demon King's horn by himself.

The brave man took the demon king's horn and took the sleepy-eyed Ainia to the gate of the palace at dawn.

Since taking office, King York IV has made great efforts to start small, such as meeting two hours earlier in the morning than during the reign of the previous king, and when the brave man arrives at the door, it is the time for the ministers to discuss the affairs of state in the palace.

But when the brave man saw the king, the ministers were almost gone, and he was embarrassed for a while by the guards who did not recognize him, and finally entered the palace with the help of a departing minister.

According to his original thoughts, as long as he entered the palace early while the ministers were discussing state affairs, he would definitely not meet the princess, first, the princess must be more squeamish and get up very late, and secondly, the princess is not an official official after all, and cannot sit in the state parliament.

It's just that the plan can't catch up with the change after all, and after being entangled with the guards for a long time, he has long forgotten his original plan, and only thinks about going in, and when he really enters the palace and remembers, he has already stepped into the main hall with one foot.

The princess and the king and a few ministers who had not yet left the palace were there, and they had already heard from the guards that the brave man was coming, and they were looking forward to it.

"Uh......" Seeing that the princess's brave man was a little panicked, he smiled awkwardly, "Everyone, morning, have you eaten? If not, please invite me to dinner by the way." ”

"If you don't dislike the brave, I will command the kitchen to prepare breakfast for you. The king, who knew that the brave man had killed the demon king, smiled happily, although the reconstruction project after that was still a long way to go, but it was a good thing that the demon king was eliminated after all, so he rarely responded to the brave man's boundless nonsense.

"I'm just saying it's polite, I don't really need to prepare breakfast for me. The brave man waved his hand, it was not for nothing that the apprentice of the great sage only Li Ke Ang remained here, Li Ke Ang was a good family man, and he had prepared breakfast early, and he had already used it before he came.

"Okay. So isn't there any good news for the brave man to come back suddenly?"

"Shouldn't you already know the good news or something?" the brave man looked at the Minister of Finance Andri, who had not left, and Andrie smiled kindly at him.

In fact, even if Andri didn't say it, the intelligence agent sent back from the front line yesterday evening had already informed the king of the news that the brave man had killed the demon king, and now all the ministers already knew the news.

"Hehe, I did hear about it from Andri, but I still want to get more accurate information from you, the brave. The king didn't care about the attitude of the brave, and still smiled.

"Why do you like to talk nonsense and listen to nonsense, it's all things that you already know and people have to repeat them, but the things that need to be explained are always half-said and concealed, so people can't understand it......" The brave man complained a few words, and then replied to the king's words, "That's right, the demon king has been killed by me, and now the demon king's army has fallen into chaos, and it is no longer possible to attack the city and plunder the land like before." ”

"It's really good news, good news for everybody to know. The king glanced around, and everyone was smiling, even the princess, who had been cold-faced since seeing the brave man, had a smile on the corner of her mouth, and he stood up and waved his arms to express his excitement, "I will issue a proclamation to tell all the people the good news!"

"Well, I think you forgot anything else before this?" said the brave man raised his hand, and when he saw the king standing up and saying that he was going to send a notice, he thought that the king was about to leave, and quickly reminded him, "I remember that you posted a notice before, saying that the person who killed the demon king had a huge reward, and you won't forget, right?"

"Of course not. The king smiled and sat back on the throne, before the brave man arrived, he had already discussed how to deal with the brave man's gratuity, so he was not nervous now, and the reason why the princess was here now was part of the plan, and even yesterday the princess went to the brave man was also the king's order, in order to give him enough time to think about how to deal with the brave man's gratuity.

"Actually, I was discussing this with the ministers before you came. The king said directly that they had consulted.

"How can we repay the debt?" the king's smile made the brave man's heart a little furious.

"How is that possible!" the king immediately denied, he really didn't think about repaying the debt, he just kept thinking about how to delay the payment, "It's just that 500,000 is not a small amount after all, even if the country wants to take out 500,000 gold coins at once It takes a few days to prepare, not to mention that now after several years of war, the people are not rich and the country is naturally not rich, and it is not so easy to prepare 500,000 gold coins, so I was discussing with the ministers how to quickly make up the 500,000 gold coins." ”

"That's for the best. Most people have a natural distrust of politicians, and they always feel that what they say is a lie, and many times this view will be proved right in the end, "In order to defeat the demon king, I have given my most precious youth, and even the life of my friend - do you see this cute little girl next to me? This is my friend's daughter, and now she has become an orphan, for her sake, don't lie to me." ”

The brave man's words are not a lie, he lurked around the demon king for a while before killing the demon king, and the two even became friends. It was in this way that he would know what the Demon King had said to Ainia, and Ainia was only a little scared but did not desperately resist and struggle, you must know that she is the daughter of the Demon King, although she has not yet begun to learn magic, but it is not really that she has no combat power at all.

"Don't worry, brave man, we will never treat the descendants of every fallen hero. ”

The king's serious words almost made the brave laugh, if the demon king is a hero, is the person who fights against the demon king a bad person?

"Then how soon will you be able to get enough payment?" Although he didn't really laugh out loud, the brave man inevitably had some smiles on his face.

"Well...... It is still necessary to convene a parliament to study and study to be sure, after all, the treasury is now empty, and if you want to make up for the 500,000 yuan, you may need to increase the tax to make it up quickly, so you need to ......," the king said as he observed the face of the brave man, and found that the more he said it, the more ugly the brave man's face became.

"Then how much money can you come up with now?" This statement is unreliable when he hears it, even if it can be collected in the end, it will take a long time, not to mention the possibility of a tax increase, even if he wants to collect taxes successfully, it will take at least half a year later, but he feels panicked when he sees the princess now, and he is even more panicked when he thinks about the saint, and he doesn't want to stay in the imperial capital for one more minute at all.

"Now that the treasury is empty, the salaries of the soldiers on the front line have not even been paid for two months, and now I can scrape together a hundred gold coins for you at most. Seeing the face of the brave man, it was difficult to see the hideous, and the king hurriedly explained, "This hundred gold coins is also the money I used to sell the queen's jewelry, this is the queen's last few pieces of jewelry, and the other jewelry is sold to pay the salaries of the front-line soldiers, this hundred gold coins I originally wanted to give the queen and the children a good meal, and I haven't seen meat in the palace for a year......"

"Okay, okay, don't talk about it, I know. Although he had thought about the possibility that the king would repay the debt, he had never considered this reason, and now he was really embarrassed to urge it after hearing the king say so badly, "You can take the hundred gold coins yourself, just hold a meeting to discuss it as you said, and then tell me when you have discussed it, and I will go first." ”

The brave man did not wait for the king to speak before turning his head and leaving, but fortunately, everyone present already knew that his character was like this, and no one cared about his rudeness.

Seeing the brave man leave, the princess immediately said goodbye to her father, and then chased after her: "Where are you fleeing, brave man!"