"Okay, I'll grant your request. $100 + degrees + search + small + say + net + see + most + new + chapter + section ****"

Lin An thought for a moment, and felt that Marcus's statement was not flawed, so he nodded.

Marcus didn't expect things to go so smoothly, which made him even more cautious.

Because Lin An's attitude only explained one thing, what seemed to him to be quite troublesome was not worth mentioning in Lin An's eyes, so he would easily agree.

The more such people are, the more cautious they must be in dealing with them.

But since he had already sent it under the fence, he had to bow his head, "Thank you for your help, and if there is any dispatch, please don't forget us." ”

Lin An nodded and accepted it, exchanged some messages with Marcus, and soon after, Marcus said goodbye.

John came back with two unconscious men in his hands, his clothes were covered with darkness, the weapons and other things on his body were gone, and the shadow lynx slowly appeared behind Titi, and a faint smell of blood floated in the air.

"These two seem to be the leaders, and a few of them are more resistant, and I didn't have time to catch them, so I died."

As he said this, John looked at the Shadow Lynx, who was languidly lying beside, licking his large paws, still bloody, and the tips of his ears twitching.

Because of the presence of outsiders, stood as straight as a wallflower, still looking cold and cold, but with her hands behind her back, she secretly scratched the chin of the shadow lynx in the blind spot of John's vision, making the latter's throat gurgle.

"Two is enough," Lin An thought for a moment, "send one to Byron." ”

These two people are not non-masters, and the level of fighting spirit is not high, one is in the late stage of the silver rank. One is the Golden Rank, which is no different from the mercenaries walking all over the streets in this town.

Now that the town is full of people, there is a large influx of strange faces, and no one cares if there is a group of strangers. If it weren't for Marcus's warning, Lin An would not have thought that his party had fallen under the surveillance of others.

There is no mouth that can't be pried open with magic, but Lin An didn't use magic to directly wake up the devil who fell asleep in the corner.

Fan Duosha was extremely obedient at this time, and obeyed orders without saying a word, and after a while, he sent back the information leaked by the other party's heart, and then Lin An said a word, and it obediently continued to go to sleep, which surprised Lin An.

"Sure enough, it's Odin."

Lin An learned the result. Surprise and not surprise:

In her mind, the one who knew her and Byron's whereabouts and had the motive to spy on them was none other than the Emperor's family, of which the Emperor and Odin were the most likely.

Soon after, Byron's men came to invite Lin An. When Lin An arrived. The group of Meryl's nobles had left, a pool of blood on the ground, and a few torture instruments beside them.

Lin An was very surprised by his efficiency.

For the efficiency of peeking people's hearts, Lin An doesn't think that there is anyone in this world who is higher than the devil, even if Byron has a master of torture, but the secret spies cultivated by Odin are not vegetarians, even if they are good at mental control, it is unlikely that they will resist the will of the other party in a short period of time.

"Among the few dead people, there happened to be a familiar face that my men recognized. It's Odin's people. Byron explained.

Lin An knew that since he recognized his identity, he broke the wall of the secret spy's heart, and it was not difficult to get a confession later.

Like this kind of secret spy, it is common to have bones and cheeks and disguises, and it is not easy to recognize from the face alone, but since Byron is developing dark forces, it is normal to collect some of the brother's personnel information, just like when Lin An contacted Amani before, he didn't expect that Byron's organization was behind him, which shows that he has considerable means and a group of capable subordinates when developing this aspect of power.

"Do you have any thoughts on this?"

Lin An asked Byron.

Presumably he would not have thought that Odin had sent someone to spy on them in order to give them a Winter Festival gift.

"I feel that something is not quite right."

Byron's face was very solemn, he remembered that when they left the fleet, the good news about the battle on the southern front and the obituary of the eldest princess and Odin's young daughter had not yet spread, so he hesitated for a moment and said it to Lin An.

Lin An didn't say that she had already known from Lancet, and even what Byron didn't know, Lin An knew better than him, Byron was close to the truth, in fact, only the puzzle pieces of the matter between her and Odin:

It can be said that it was from that incident that Odin's position in the emperor's mind began to shake from the foundation - if it was before, Charles would never have dared to kill Odin's son and daughter so boldly, and the emperor would not have wiped it off lightly and calmed down.

Although it is not clear where the emperor got Odin later, Lin An knew that with Odin's injuries at that time, it would never be Odin himself who rushed to the southern front with the royal guards, just as she realized at the first time after hearing the good news on the southern front that the imposter in the rock castle was finally replaced by a real person.

But about the incident in the palace, Lin An will never tell anyone.

"I also feel that something is not right,"

Lin Anyi pointed out, "First the second son and eldest daughter, then the wife and the young daughter who has just been born; He had just won a great battle on the front line, and he must have learned the obituary, and learned that he only had one son left...... There are so many things waiting for him to be distracted, and he is in the mood to send someone to follow us, huh! ”

Byron sensitively sensed her unkindness to Odin from Lin An's tone, Lin An didn't hide this at all, which couldn't help but think of him more, there was a feeling that a certain piece of the puzzle was not put together, and this situation was out of control, which made Byron impetuous.

"There is only one son left......

Byron muttered to himself, something flashed in his mind, but he couldn't catch it for a while.

He returned from Lin An's side, and his conversation with Lin An told Master Green.

Master Green was not only Byron's advisor to the mages, he was also a minor lord in Byron's fiefdoms, and he had been a member of Byron's cronies since he came of age.

"There is only one son left!"

Master Green was not as obsessed as Byron, and when he heard Byron relay Lin An's words, his eyes suddenly lit up, and he felt like the thick fog had been removed.

"yes. Why didn't I expect that His Royal Highness Odin now has only one son, the Saxon Viscount! ”

Master Grimm paced back and forth, excited as if he had been beaten with blood.

"Grind, stop, you're shaking me dizzy!"

Byron propped up his head. His injuries are not healed, he saw two more groups of people just now, and he has not been rested, and his mind is in a mess, "The Saxon is already the only seedling of Odin, don't we already know this, what are you excited about?" ”

"No, no, Your Highness, the problem is not that the Saxon baron is already a lone seedling, but why he became a lone seedling!" Master Green said excitedly. "What caused His Highness Odin to lose his children and wives one after another!"

Isn't it very clear?

The autumn festival ball, Byron still remembers vividly, although he suspects that it was the hands of other brothers, but so far, he has not found any clues. A qiē does seem to be a revenge assassination by the mountain people.

As for the eldest princess and Michelle. To be honest, although their death was surprising, it was not very unexpected, Michelle's premature birth and weakness and the fact that the eldest princess was seriously ill due to the death of her children and premature birth were no secret in the upper echelons of the imperial capital.

"No, no, you still don't understand? Assassination, serious illness, it is true that they are the direct cause of their death, but they are not the root cause! ”

Master Grimm exhaled vigorously, excited by his conjecture:

"If there is thorough and meticulous protection, there is the love and deterrence of the other. So why did His Royal Highness Odin have to face obituaries one after another when he was fighting abroad?

This is a big taboo, even if it is not His Royal Highness, when something happens to the family of an important general, His Majesty must give an explanation and appeasement, but although His Majesty's attitude is strict, compared to his previous attitude towards the Great Prince, it is still too light - the root cause of the bad news of the Grand Princess and several His Royal Highnesses is that they have lost the protection of His Majesty! ”

Byron stood up in horror, his body shaking violently, but he didn't care about it at all, because Master Green's conjecture was too shocking:

"You mean- no! This can't be, this can't be! ……”

Byron kept shaking his head, unable to believe Master Green's earth-shattering guesses!

It was a shock to him!

Even though he had a vague intuition before, because of what he had seen and heard all along, even if a flash of inspiration flashed in his mind, he subconsciously rejected that possibility and didn't dare to think deeply in that direction:

After all, since birth, he and Odin have been like a control group, how neglected Byron is, how much Odin is valued, Byron's growth history from childhood to adulthood is to witness the process of his father pouring his heart and soul into cultivating Odin, all the prestige of Odin and the suppression of other brothers were all given by his father at the beginning.

When the brothers after Charles were sensible, Odin no longer needed the support of his father, and they had never seen the price that his father poured into Odin, so they were young and vigorous, and danced very happily, thinking that they could shake Odin's position;

But for Byron, he was the closest to Odin, and the more he watched, the more he remembered, and this deep memory had long since become his shadow, and for a long, long time, it put a lot of pressure on him, making him lie dormant deeply, suppressing the innate ambitions and intentions of being a prince:

Outsiders were surprised by his low-key and forbearing, and those who knew him sighed at his forbearance and cover-up, but no one really understood what kind of pressure he was so depressed!

Was that pressure on him from Odin?

No, it's the Father!

His father cultivated Odin for forty years, almost from the birth of Odin, and even longer than his father's accession to the throne, and he continued to tell his son and his subordinates in various ways that Odin was his preferred heir.

Want Byron to believe that his father gave up on Odin?

This is simply a rhapsodic fallacy for Byron, and all cognition is turned upside down!

But when Lin An hinted vaguely and Green also said it explicitly, Byron couldn't help but face the situation in front of him:

There have always been vague signs of this qiē, but Byron didn't dare to think about it, because if this was the case, it would be incredible, Byron couldn't think of any reason to let his father give up the eldest son he had cultivated for forty years, which was like making a fanatical believer accept that the supreme god was the mother, and it made people's heads explode!

"Yes, yes, this qiē is too useless!"

Byron's reaction also made Master Green hesitate, and his conjecture was indeed shocking:

If it was His Majesty's deliberate disregard that led to the successive deaths of the eldest prince's wife and children, then His Majesty's attitude towards the eldest prince. How shaken it should be, it is almost no different from directly removing the inheritance of the eldest prince!

This is not a trivial matter for a peasant to change to another son to inherit his land, but a major event that shakes the foundation of the empire at every turn!

Even a person like Master Green, who was bent on hoping that this was the truth, felt that it was too much to fight when he thought about the impact of the heir change. In the case of the emperor himself, he will only be more cautious in the face of the country he has ruled for more than thirty years and the heir he has cultivated for forty years.

In fact, the change in the emperor's attitude towards Odin is not completely unaware of outsiders.

But everyone thought that it was still far from that point, the father was aging, and the son was in the prime of life, and the emperor no longer trusted Odin as much as before, and it was normal for him to be on guard, and no one would guess it. The emperor would give up the heir he had cultivated for forty years.

They had only been excited about the gap between the Emperor and Odin, and they were about to dig the rift even bigger with a hoe, but Green analyzed it. Only then did the rift between the emperor and Odin be discovered. It is likely that it has far exceeded their original expectations.

I have to say that Lin An's hints played a big role in it.

"The reason for the rift between His Majesty and His Royal Highness Odin will only be in the incident before the Purple Rose Lady left the palace, we have not yet found out the inside story, if we know, we may be able to know how far this rift has reached!"

Master Green clenched his fist with his right hand, struck it in the palm of his left palm, and said:

"No wonder His Highness Yorkiadan became even more high-profile after that, I am afraid he knows a lot of inside information-Your Highness. The relationship with the Purple Rose Lady is correct, if she is really the fuse that led the shaking of the position of Her Royal Highness Odin, then her position is far more important than we think! ”

"No, it's too late!"

"What? Your Highness? "Master Green suspects that he has the wrong ear.

"I said, it's too late." Byron sighed and shook his head.

In a flash of lightning, he suddenly thought of what happened when his father left the three brothers behind in private before he was deprived of the right to lead the troops:

At that time, he chose to admit it, Douglass chose to waver, and Charles chose to flatly deny it-

So after this, Charles replaced him, and he was driven far out of the fleet by his father, and came here:

In fact, after that, Byron was constantly reflecting on his choice, he vaguely felt that he seemed to have done something wrong, but he couldn't be sure, and his heart was uneasy.

Now that I think about it, if my father really secretly decided to give up Odin, then that choice may have been a test for them by my father, and his choice was very wrong from now on!

For a time, Byron's face was like ashes.

……

"With the death of his three children and his wife, Odin will definitely do something."

Lin An held on to the window lattice, quietly looking at the dusty people on the mud-compacted road below.

"But he shouldn't be trying to keep the Saxon baron now, why did he send someone to track us down?" John said suspiciously behind Lin An, "Does he think that the death of his wife and children has something to do with us?" ”

"Perhaps."

"But even so, I can't figure out why he's tracking us, and unless he wants to do something to us right away, what can he do even if he knows where we're going?"

For Odin, now is the time to try his best to secure his position, and it is the emperor's side that he should really work on, unless he ......

The association in his head startled John:

"Does he want to ......"

Lin An raised his eyebrows slightly, he didn't expect John's to think of going with him.

"No, it's unlikely, the success rate is too low, as a wise-minded commander, he won't not know that this is a dead end, there are several masters and so many troops here, he can't succeed, even if he succeeds, he can't return to the imperial capital, he is not the only heir, those nobles will not allow a prince who kills his father to take the throne......"

John muttered to himself, shaking his head repeatedly.

As the enemy who threatens Lin An with the greatest personal threat at the moment, John has always been on high alert to Odin, but he really can't believe that Odin will make a desperate decision:

Not because of other factors, but because the success rate is too low.

And for Odin, whose position as the first heir has long been very secure, even if the emperor's attitude towards him is shaken, his prestige among ministers and nobles for many years. It can't be changed all at once.

If the emperor forcibly overthrew Odin, it would also cause a lot of turmoil to Merlin, so the emperor could only slowly cut off Odin's wings and slowly weaken them, and at the emperor's age at this time. Odin is likely to survive the emperor-

If it weren't for this reason, why would Lin An agree to give Byron a piece of the pie in this exploration:

Lin An didn't want the emperor to live a long life, but he didn't want him to die too soon.

Johanm's idea, which is also Lin An's idea, unless there is a special reason to add decisive weight to Odin's desperate choice, Odin should not act in a hurry.

What's more, if he wants to do it, he shouldn't show up on the southern front and make any good news for the emperor to know. If the gods sneak into the palace unknowingly, maybe they can have a three-point success rate.

After all, the emperor is not a vegetarian, since there is a clear rift between father and son, the emperor will not be unguarded, otherwise there will be no good news and obituary. Send Byron out at once.

Lin An pondered on the road for a few days later. At this time, I had a flash of inspiration, slowly figured it out, and found that the emperor seemed to be setting up a game and testing Odin:

If Odin crashes headlong into it, the emperor will naturally uproot him, clearing the way for future heirs;

If Odin doesn't move, then with their father-son relationship and Odin's prestige, the emperor may not have completely given up on this son, after all, from Lin An's point of view, Charles, who is the most suitable for objective conditions, is too poor-minded. It's enough to be an emperor, but he can't support Merlin, and Byron has enough software, but the hardware is insufficient.

There are too few emperor's sons, otherwise he would not be like a seed, it is not enough to leave a guaranteed Yoke Yadan in the imperial capital, and he is afraid that Byron will be cannon fodder, so he will be sent far away at once.

"Sure enough, it's an old fox, I said that this palace move is so abrupt! If this is the layout that the emperor started after the incident in the palace, then his sons and ministers, including me, would have been played around! ”

For the abruptness of this palace move, many people are as puzzled as Lin An, after all, the emperor is stuck on the front line and the other two empires are eyeing each other, and he brought his family and ministers out to take risks, which is incomprehensible.

And when Lin An figured out the general layout of the emperor, he had to sigh that Jiang was still old and spicy:

In order to get out of the way, you must first settle inside.

The emperor's lifespan and the war situation did not allow the heir's affairs to drag on for too long, and in order to cut through the mess quickly, the emperor even attacked his own sons and grandsons.

But Lin An also had to admit that it was the emperor's ruthless action that could keep the possible turmoil to calm down in the shortest possible time, so he sat back and watched Odin lose his son one after another, forcing Odin to make a choice, taking advantage of the opportunity that the nails of the other two empires had recently been pulled out a lot and were not well understood, and the turmoil caused by the heir was resolved with the fastest efficiency.

Otherwise, whether it is several princes fighting in the same room, or father and son turning against each other, once this kind of royal dispute breaks out, coupled with external pressure, Merlin is likely to fall apart.

This is the emperor's mental technique, which is always unpredictable, and occasionally glimpses a corner, but it makes people feel frightened-

From Lin An's point of view, in order to protect his son, the emperor hurriedly sent Byron away and put Yorkiadan in the tortoiseshell-like imperial capital, all of which showed his fatherly heart and long-term planning for his son, even if Lin An had a bad impression of the emperor, he had to sigh for his good intentions as a father;

But turning his face, he sat back and watched Odin's wife and children die one after another, and even forced Odin to face a desperate choice, which made people feel chilling, so that Lin An couldn't imagine that this was the same person as the loving father who had tried his best to protect his son before.

Such contradictory feelings appeared in a person, and then thought of the body and face of the drooping old man, Lin An felt both admiration and horror:

Now that I think about it, she was able to walk out of the palace with all her beard and tail under the emperor's killing machine, it was indeed thanks to the deterrent power of the legendary powerhouse, otherwise under the emperor's city, she would have to shed her skin if she didn't die.

"Worthy of a loving father, even if disappointed, he still leaves a little room for Odin,"

Lin An muttered to himself lightly, a cold light flashing under his eyes, "But to you, he is a son who has been cultivated for a long time, but to me, he is an enemy who must be put to death!" ”

Now that she knew the emperor's layout and saw Odin standing on the cliff, how could she not push it?

Lin An stared at the building opposite for a long time, then turned around and said to John slowly:

"Send a summons to Bishop, and tell him to tell him the male bird he caught, if the female bird continues to be healthy and beautiful—"

Lin settled,

"In three days, kill the Saxons!"

(To be continued)

ps：

Thank you for the pink tickets! o(n_n)o~ About this copy of the highest dynasty in this volume,A lot of foreshadowing was laid before.,A lot of foreshadowing was buried.,As a result, when the book review area,,I found that everyone didn't seem to have any feelings.,So this chapter will be the foreshadowing of the previous plot.,Let everyone be clear.,In addition, about the emperor's adventure to move the palace.、Foreshadowing such as grandson's inaction is also explained:Overall,The emperor is forcing Odin to force the palace.,The previous one qiē old dog Pattis.、Odin's stand-in.、Autumn Festival dance party turmoil and follow-up, Moving to the palace, the choice of three sons, etc.,It's all in the service of the plot line of this layout.,If you feel confused before.,I hope this chapter can be explained.。 Well, no emperor wants his son to kill his father and grandson to die, the emperor actually has normal feelings, he will also hope to live a long life and pay attention to power, but he is not a pure scum emperor, in terms of the identity of the emperor, he is still very competent, under the premise of taking into account the overall situation, the emperor still leaves room for his son, but for Odin, the emperor is very abusive and sadistic, so I said at the beginning, the emperor is the **oss of this volume, but other branches such as Lin An, Ludwig and the emperor's other sons, etc., It will also affect the plot of the final dungeon.,The key to the connection.,Of course, it's the heroine.。 l3l4