Vanessa looked around, there were no less than a hundred people in the cabin, all of them were dressed in soft armor, and their expressions were excited, some of them she didn't recognize from Ben, and some of them were as familiar as her left hand and right hand—the fat knight with fiery red hair, the middle-aged lord with a stern and angular face, they were all from the Knights of Neverwinter! They were all loyal to the royal family of Midsummer and followed Solandar on their expedition to the land of sand riders, why did they end up here? What really happened between them and Sorenda? Vanessa looked at Matt suspiciously, and the latter was even more dazed, it was clear that Solandar was not as open to him as the prince had imagined, and this was a good opportunity, as long as he could grasp it.

Vanessa forced herself to compose herself, and she continued to walk down the gangway, her head held high, maintaining the dignity of a princess, and waited for them to finish scolding before she spoke, "I have been looking for your whereabouts," which provoked another round of curses, but the princess's majestic voice drowned out their humming, "You have reason to blame me, but please after we have worked together to get through the crisis at hand." ”

With a word, the Summer Knights fell silent, and Vanessa scanned the crowd, all of them looking up with bated breath, waiting for the princess to alert them to this "crisis". Vanessa walked into the crowd and looked them in the eye without flinching: "I have received news that my little sister Elija is carrying out a terrifying tyranny in Crescent City, and if it is not stopped, the consequences will be unimaginable. When you left Neverwinter, Ilia was just a kind and happy little princess, and now she kills a child every day to make dolls for her own amusement, and it is my fault that she has become like this, so I am planning to go to Crescent City to make amends, this ship will take us back to the Land of Midsummer, I beg you, you are all knights and lords who have sworn allegiance to the royal family, please help me to fulfill my wish, and I am willing to accept any punishment when I ambush Illya and rescue my people. ”

"Is this true?" People questioned loudly.

"No one believes you anymore! Do you want us to die for you? ”

"Think about what happened to Banksys!" (The Knight of Banks, who was killed by the Blood Wolf Guard Viru during his expedition to the Sand Knights, ordered Viru to be executed, causing dissatisfaction and conflict between the Blood Wolf Guard and the Summer Knights).

"Let's go to your Blood Wolf Guard for help!"

"Either draw your whip and sword! Even if we drift with the waves to the land of ice swamps, we will not follow you again! ”

What did Solanda's stupid do to make everyone so resentful of her? Vanessa gritted her teeth and resisted the boiling water-like scolding, "This time I'm not for myself anymore!" It's the children of Crescent City! Think about it, Illya's magic is so powerful that it can make the whole city obey her, if I have selfish intentions, why don't I stay away from her, but run away and risk my life? Believe me, I just want to fix the mistakes I made. ”

"My daughter and grandson live in Crescent City," someone shook and whispered, "I wonder what happened to them." ”

"I know the old lord Gauwen, and his daughter Polly is very good," Sir Donald, who had been watching Vanessa cautiously, suddenly spoke, his gaze as sharp and even more so as when he left Neverwinter, "this is not a failure like our previous queen. ”

"My mother has three children," Vanessa did not back down, "and it is impossible for each of them to take a detour like mine." ”

"Yes, there's also Princess Vanessa, whose whereabouts are unknown." The knight beside Donald said hatefully, "Thank you for reminding me, she, Ilia, and we are all thanks to you!" ”

"But now even Poli? Gauvin is also dead," Vanessa ignored the knight's provocation and got back to the point, "she was burned alive by Elia!" ”

"Polly is dead?" Sir Cedric's tongue on the side spurted, and he turned to Donald and said, "She's a virtuous lord, and she has taken care of all the affairs of Crescent City in the late days of old Gawain's bedriddenness, and she is really dead?" What's going on here? ”

"So, only the death of an important person is enough to get your attention?" Vanessa scoffed. "Because she refused to mobilize manpower to find Illya's doll in the ruins of the arena, she was 'persuaded' by my sister into the burning pyre, and there are many people like this, if you want a name, please find it yourself on the tombstones of the lords."

"What do you want to say, Your Highness the Princess?" Donald stopped Vanessa, "Prove that each of your sisters is worse than the other?" His well-trimmed beard reminded the princess of her first mercenary leader, Other, and with the same sharp edges and the same unyielding hard-workingness, it would be a tough bone to gnaw.

"One is more pitiful than the other!" When necessary, add some acting skills to your speech so that the audience will accept you more quickly. Vanessa said in a trembling voice, "I left Neverwinter at the age of fourteen and was thrown hostage to the enemies of the Sand Knights, who knows what I've been through!" "Indeed, even I don't know, but I know that I have experienced something more terrible," Vanessa was taken captive by the Sand Riding Nation and her whereabouts are still unknown, and who cares how much she has suffered? I mistrusted Koeman and handed over Neverwinter to his rule, leaving ten-year-old Ivan alone in a foreign land, and how much of her personality was distorted by displacement? ”

The knights' gaze softened, and some even lowered their heads in contemplation, and began to blame the princesses' life for their own failure to protect themselves.

"Life is like this, only when you have nothing, can you let go of a qiē, look at the past, and face yourself." Am I repent of Solanda? Perhaps, perhaps, she will be grateful for what I have said for the rest of her life, and perhaps it will only be in exchange for another ridicule from her, but I must speak out, and make her sins known to the world, and her confession will be remembered in everyone's hearts: "There is no doubt that I was so wrong in the past, and I should not have provoked a war, under any pretext." I believe that in the near future, after I have made up for the mistakes I have committed, I will let everyone fall, kill and survive, and I will pay off the sins of the world in my own way, in order to prove the name of the princess of Midsummer! ”

"I believe her." After a long time, Donald's words shattered the terrible silence in the cabin. His eyes were like torches, and he didn't stop staring at Solanda from the very beginning when he saw her appear, "I believe she is no longer the same as before." Besides, we have no other choice," he said, turning to the Knights, "We are all sworn knights, and we have an obligation to protect the weak, and we must return to Crescent City to settle this matter." ”

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