Creon. Vanessa's eyes darkened. Whenever she thought of the name, she felt extremely uncomfortable.

"Mees," Vanessa tilted her head in the direction of the Grand Mage, "you said you could control Creon in the Land of the Vale. ”

"Yes." Meese looked at the banquet and immediately understood what Vanessa wanted to say, "I'll do it." ”

"Wait," Vanessa pressed down, stopping Mees, "I want to wait for someone to decide whether he lives or dies." She gestured to Reina, "Go and call the teleporter to the Long Night Hall." Then the queen toasted the nobles and commoners again, and then left the banquet hall.

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"Brandt!" Vanessa suppressed the excitement in her voice, trying to make her breath seem calm and natural, "Is that you?" ”

"It's me, my dear princess." Far away from the sea, Brant turned from the walls of Neverwinter, looking much more mature, with a thick silver beard on his face and a burlier build. "Congratulations, today is the day of your coronation, but please forgive me for not being able to come to you because I still have a lot of politics to attend to." His dark blue eyes looked greedily at Vanessa's face, not wanting to take his eyes off her face for a moment.

"I know, I know." Vanessa looked at him intently. May you also know that I love you too. We've been separated for so long that I don't know how to describe how I want to see you! But there are always things in the world that are more important than romance, such as Creon's life and death. "I think it's time to fulfill the promise I made to you." Vanessa turned to look at Mees, "My archmage reversed Creon's magic, and now, his life is in Mees's hands. What to do with this person, I think it's best for you to decide. Speaking of this, Vanessa happily added, "Don't let him die too easily." ”

"Creon," Brandt frowned, "he deserves death for what he's done." But if he dies, the country of Sakatani will fall into chaos again. ”

"You can choose a smooth transition of power or you can take it over by force," Meese said confidently, "and the initiative is in our hands." ”

"What about Winterfell?" Brandt asked rhetorically, "I am the second son of Winevalley, a patricide rebel who was expelled from Creon, and I don't know how many supporters and allies I will have in my homeland. Now that Creon's rule is secure, and the country of Châteaux is not rich or declining under his rule, I have no legitimate reason to usurp him for the throne. ”

"We can force him to tell the truth of the matter." Vanessa is desperate to get justice for Brant, "That's obviously his fault!" ”

"You know he won't do what you want, even if you kill him." Brant looked into Vanessa's eyes, "He's bad, he's stubborn too." ”

"Just like you." Vanessa said deflatedly.

"Listen to me," Brandt knew that the magic time was almost up, and the teleporter couldn't support it for long, "as long as he doesn't commit adultery and doesn't mutilate people's lives, I still hope that he will continue to govern, as long as he knows our bottom line, he can live as long as he likes, believe me, letting him live is more painful than killing him." ”

At this point, the conversation was interrupted, and the mage could no longer support the long-distance teleportation of light and shadow, and the teleportation circle was closed.

"He's as naïve as Katrina." Vanessa looked distractedly at her lover's disappearing aperture and muttered to herself.

"From the few minutes I have been in contact with the King of Creon," the archmage reminded Vanessa meaningfully, "he is not like a man who casually ignores the threats of others. He didn't come to your coronation right now, and he must be planning what to do with you. ”

"There's no doubt about that." Vanessa nodded, telling Meate and Pan about her experiences in the Vale, and finally said, "Brandt's chivalry has flare up again, and we can't allow Creon to remain on the throne." ”

"But, on Brant's side—" Meese could see Prince Brant's special relationship with Vanessa, and was hesitant to veto the prince's decision.

"I promised him that I would give him back a kingdom." Vanessa raised her face, "It won't be the Land of Midsummer, he doesn't belong there." "As an aside, Brant must return to the Land of Wine Valley to continue his rule, and besides, as long as Creon is in power, he will inevitably have a dispute with the Flame Country, and putting such an unstable volcano by his side is tantamount to raising a rat to bite a bag of rice.

"Actually, we can borrow someone else's hand to get rid of him." Reina, who had not spoken, suddenly opened his mouth, he must remember the days when his heart was so painful, it was all thanks to Creon, so he hated him so much.

"That's right." Meate agreed, "The country of Winevalley has always been at odds with the country of the mountains over the border, and if they were to fight openly and secretly, we would not be blamed for the death of Creon." ”

"That's the way to go." Vanessa walked around the long table and walked to the map, "Since we released Duke Muton and his biological mother, the whole Mountain Country seems to be much quieter, and Queen Camilla is no longer angry at the Burning Country, and this time she has specially sent Duke Muton himself to attend my coronation. ”

"That's just right, we can tell Muton to do what he has to do." Reyna said.

"I'm afraid it's not that simple." Vanessa smiled negatively, "As far as I can tell, he's more brainy than Brandt, and if we told him to murder Creon, he wouldn't." She rolled her eyes and smiled, "Actually, we don't have to give him such an important task, as long as he can provoke a war with the wine valley country, and the rest-" Vanessa glanced at Mies, "we'll do it ourselves." ”

Mies and Reina understood at the same time, and they both nodded and retreated in silence.

A day later, news came from the border of the mountain country, a team of soldiers under the banner of wine valley ransacked the village of the mountain dwarfs, wounding countless people, livestock and livestock, fortunately there were no casualties, the queen of the mountain country Camilla immediately sent border guards to pursue, and severely condemned the illegal acts of the wine valley country, the king of wine valley Creon did not know what was going on, as proud as ever, issued a statement that he swore to defend his territory to the death, and would not make concessions on the border issue, and both countries were never able to catch the wine valley guards who often harassed the border, so the conflict escalated, war seems inevitable.

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