Her voice was like a steel knife immersed in icy water, and it swept across her back inch by inch, which made Master Rice, who didn't know how many winds and waves she had seen, feel a little frightened in his heart.

There are no less than three master-level powerhouses under Lin An, and they have faced more than ten legends, and even demon emperors like Hades the Great and Kronos have also had close contact-

The threat from the flames of anger in her heart naturally had a power that even Master Rice could not ignore.

Master Rice knew in his heart that Lance's act of threatening her made Lin An really angry!

At the same time, he also secretly raised his vigilance in his heart.

Sure enough, in addition to her own strength, she also has other hole cards in her hand.

Having determined this, Master Rice was even more certain about what would happen tonight.

"I don't doubt the veracity of your words."

The Archmage's will is extremely strong, and he will not be easily deterred.

If he retreats temporarily, it will only be a strategic compromise, for the sake of that ultimate goal.

Just listen to Master Rice:

"After that night not long ago, even if you sue me that you can raze the palace to the ground at any time, I will not doubt it."

"However, I must tell you that even if you kill me on the spot now, there will still be followers after that."

This attitude changed too quickly, literally, it looked like a show of weakness, but Lin An heard what Master Rice said and frowned:

"......'That night not so long ago'?"

Master Rice smiled meaningfully, "The traces left by the conflicting laws of the realm, it is impossible to hide the eyes of us old fellows in a short period of time. ”

"What do you mean?"

Every sentence of the conversation between the two and several unexpected turns passed through his mind one by one, and Lin An vaguely understood something.

"Please stop pretending you don't know."

Master Rice said coldly:

"What we want is just to go further, not to cholera people, originally, our purpose is not contrary to the interests of secular rulers."

"But the Merlin royal family has been fishing for this hope for too long, so that we, the old fellows, have ...... Lost patience. ”

“…… The royal family has not treated you badly! ”

Behind the maple grove not far away, an old but sonorous response came out.

With a slight thud, the Emperor stepped out.

He was wearing a big coat, and the clothes under the big hat were not neat, and it was obvious that he had gotten up in a hurry to come here in his sleep.

To the left and right of the Emperor were Master Wofjo and Master Don Quixote, and behind him was Master Alberta, who was looking at Master Rice who was standing opposite Lin An in the confrontation with a complicated gaze.

Neither Lin An nor Master Rice had any surprises.

It is impossible for the perception of a half-step legend to make people lurk in the vicinity of Wuzhang and still be unaware, not to mention that it was Lin An himself who woke up the emperor.

Worf Juggernaut stood in front of the Emperor.

Master Don Quixote and Master Alberta are in a triangle with Lin An, surrounding Master Rice in the middle.

Master Rice's face did not change, and he did not seem to see the immediate crisis in his eyes.

He just looked at the emperor.

"Yes, Your Majesty, in terms of resource supply, the royal family has not treated us court archmages badly. However, what the Merlin royal family has received because of us, you have paid far less. ”

The emperor looked at him quietly, and did not mean to give the order to do it, waiting for the following.

"What Merlin can give us, the Pere Empire and the Holy Empire can do the same, if not more."

"But why for nearly a thousand years, Merlin's high-level powerhouses and the other two countries have been so disparity, and they need to unite to defend against Merlin, you should be well aware."

Master Rice looked around at the crowd around him and smiled slightly:

"For thousands of years, the strong people on the continent have changed from generation to generation, and one after another has been co-opted by the Merlin royal family. Even those who did not defect to the Merlin royal family, most of them did not defect to the other two countries, and some chose Merlin's vassals, and even the largest of them, simply established the Mage Tower in Merlin. ”

"Successive emperors have seen this obedience, but they have also seen the discontent that has gradually accumulated under this appearance—"

"Therefore, the Sword Saint Mountain came into being."

Master Rice said calmly:

"How many years has the Sword Saint Mountain existed, and how many years has our secret struggle with the royal family lasted."

Lin An's heart shook slightly.

Unexpectedly, the establishment of Sword Saint Mountain has such a background hidden in the long history.

She looked at the Emperor and the Wolf Sword Saint and the others, and there was no objection on their faces.

It can be seen that what Master Rice said, even if it is not entirely accurate, is true.

It can be seen that behind the mutual support between the Merlin royal family and many strong people, the secret struggle has never subsided.

Lin An remembered that he had faintly felt it as early as the time when he was in the ice field, the suppression of the Mage Group by the Merlin royal family, and now that he thought about it, he was probably just a part of the secret struggle between the royal family and the master-level powerhouse.

“…… The Court Mage Regiment, it sounds good, but how many people still know that when it was first established, the number of the Court Mage Group was actually ten? ”

Master Rice snorted faintly, and Master Alberta's mature and graceful face also revealed a complex meaning.

Lin An already understood.

Pentagram.

At present, the number of people in the palace mage group and the pentagram is exactly ten, and what Master Rice said to Lin An before actually hinted at the deep relationship between the court mage group and the pentagram.

There is no doubt that with the help of the pentagram secret method, the royal family has successfully divided the potential alliance of the master-level powerhouse once.

The current state of the pentagram and the court mage regiment is only a legacy of that victory.

In fact, as long as the secret method of the pentagram still exists, only the pentagram has been a half-step legend, and there is always the possibility that the master alliance will be shaken by the division of the royal family.

Lin An sighed.

Good methods are not afraid of repetition.

Dividing it into this, the royal family used this method, coupled with the preservation of the Sword Saint Mountain, to suppress this undercurrent in the circle of masters who had been closed for many years.

It's just that the hidden danger is like a bomb, which has always existed, and today, it has finally exploded.

“…… So, you choose to attack tonight. ”

After listening quietly, the emperor said in a deep voice:

"You don't need to dwell on the past, you don't need to describe any grievances, and even if you don't have that, you won't take advantage of the royal family?"

Master Rice was silent for a moment, and under the gaze of everyone, he nodded and admitted:

"You're right."

"Even without this history, what we want will not change."

Lin An secretly praised in his heart.

is worthy of being an emperor who has been engaged in politics all his life, if Lin An is not shrewd enough, he may not be able to understand the far-reaching meaning behind these two dialogues.

For the royal family, order is the basis of their rule.

And most of the time, order is often expressed as two sides, one side is law, and the other side is morality.

The so-called morality means that the teacher is famous.

Regardless of the purpose of the alliance between Master Rice and the alliance behind him, the royal family must first occupy the banner of morality in this heavyweight tear.

Otherwise, even if tonight's troubled mess is resolved, it will leave a huge negative impact in the future, causing the Merlin Empire to lose its reputation, making it difficult to recruit strong people, and then shaking the foundation of its rule.

What's more, the scourge of the demon disaster is imminent, if the Merlin royal family loses its centripetal force because of this and can no longer become the core banner that unites most of the forces, then in the demon disaster, the royal family is also likely to become the abandoned son of the legendary powerhouses and Lin An, and at that time, it will be the disaster of destruction.

Therefore, as soon as the emperor appeared, he didn't ask anything else, first asked Master Rice the reason for his trouble, and then quickly made a decision about it.

Master Rice is certainly not stupid.

This is not an individual behavior, but a group change, and it may even have a huge impact, and by extension, it will involve hundreds of years later.

If possible, of course he also wants to have the moral upper hand, so he has the previous long talk in front of Lin An.

However, the people present are all clear-eyed people, and no matter how well they say it verbally, they can't change the essence of the facts after all.

The Merlin royal family has been inherited for thousands of years, and as the first empire of the Muse Continent, the longer its history and the stronger its heritage, it means how many potential enemies lurk in the dark.

They coveted the male lion and waited for it to pounce on it as soon as it showed signs of weakness, and divide its share of it.

As Master Rice said before, under the civilized order of this world, the essence has always been the survival of the fittest.

The strong have a qiē, and the weak have nothing.

In the final analysis, there is no deep and irresolvable thousand-year-old grudge between the strong men represented by Master Rice and the royal family.

A simple personal grudge is simply not enough to condense so many strong people into one, and it lasts for hundreds or thousands of years, secretly communicating with each other, connecting as one, and eyeing the royal family.

It is only because they have the same interests and goals that they urgently possess the secret method of promotion to the legend possessed by the Merlin royal family that they can form an alliance.

So Master Rice had to admit this fact.

This moral confrontation is not ridiculous, nor is it a meaningless political performance, let alone for everyone present, but a reason to explain and appease the outside world in the future.

This is the political zhì.

Dousheng Xiaomin can treat it as a burlesque, making fun of it wantonly, and it has nothing to do with himself;

But if the person who is in it takes the political zhì as a joke, the political zhì will also treat you as a joke.

The Emperor was the one with the lowest combat power of all the people present, but as an out-and-out political creature, on some levels, his attack power was greater than the sum of all of them.

Lin An deeply felt his shortcomings.

Compared to the emperor, her previous focus was still on finding the leaker and Master Rice's alliance.

This means that she has not really adapted to the height that is now standing above the whole race, and has not really realized that she should, and must be, think and solve problems at this level.

Thankfully, she didn't make a mistake tonight.

If she hadn't secretly informed the Emperor that she had chosen to compromise privately with Master Rice in consideration of the current situation on the mainland, things would have turned into a different situation.

It's not a big deal if the secret law doesn't leak out.

The master powerhouse is the true backbone of the human race under the legend.

If the Merlin royal family loses its prestige because of this, so that this backbone can no longer have a single and unified voice, and they go their own way, it will be the destruction of the human race!

In this regard, even the legendary powerhouse cannot replace the role of Merlin's royal family.

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