Milian closed the door, and the luxurious violet-branched thick solid wood shut out the hustle and bustle he hated.

No one in the mansion made a loud noise, but the whispers of the ministers and nobles gathered in groups were far noisier to his ears than the vulgar public cabaret performances. To make matters worse, he had to join them every now and then with a smile on his face, pretending to be interested in their clumsy tricks or cover-up schemes.

He had just pulled away from a pile of Charles Sánchez, who was muttering about lifting the enemy's sea embargo and restoring trade, and with a smile on his face he promised that he would consider the pros and cons of the proposal, and in his heart he was eager to pick up the huge plaque of the Starr Bank and knock him on the head.

Wouldn't he be instigating another person who had nothing to do with Starbank to say this to himself?

Milian was then stopped again by Riker Faska and the ministers beside him. Just seeing the elite standing next to Lake and the Holy See envoy made Milian almost laugh.

Isn't this group of wretched creatures who are not satisfied with their identity want the empire to abolish the image of the empire and the blessing of the divine light of the main god, and want the empire to abolish the armies of the savage conquerors, and learn from the neighboring countries, and switch to sea knights and chartered privateers.

Why haven't these people been scolded enough by the royal staff?

After listening to their expected nonsense, Milian stepped up the stairs, and as soon as he reached the door, two more people met him in the middle of the road.

The words of these two people are kind of interesting, but they feel like they are looking for the wrong person. One of them was the new Minister of Industry that Milian didn't have time to know, and the other looked like he wasn't going to know Milian at all.

They wanted to get a special permission so that the Witcher's Guild could be established with the right to dispose of the game, rather than being left to the church and the organizations licensed by the church to recycle it. According to the two men, the large number of carcasses of prey that the witchers had painstakingly preserved contained something of great value, and the church almost destroyed them as contraband.

I have to say that even Milian has a hard time figuring out how to negotiate and discuss this matter. After reassuring the two of them, he suggested that he would take the time to talk to the church about them.

Maybe I should talk to Eles, he seems to be more interested in that. If I remember it later......

Inside, the room, which was as bright as day, was silent, and Milian relaxed for a moment. Immediately I was overwhelmed by a greater sense of tension.

A pair of gray and black eyes, like high-speed stabbing swords, pressed against Milian's neck.

The eyes of the owner of these eyes softened in an instant, and he removed his sword and said, "Why are you here?" Why didn't you speak, thinking that you were another fool who had messed up things. Come here. ”

The voice is low and hoarse and warm, but it is more solemn and upright.

Zelos III, owner of the Hispano Empire, Emperor, King of the Holy Curia, Grand Duke of the Duchy of Vesbar, Divine Blessing of the Lord God Gian, Rightful Ruler of the entire continent of Elado, Protector of millions of people, and conqueror of the southern shore of the New Land of Juno, is calling on Milian to approach the Emperor's desk in this mansion.

He hurriedly bent his head and walked forward in small steps, as if he was afraid of making a sound on the thick blanket.

The small room is extraordinarily luxurious due to the dark striped ebony bookshelves, as well as the elaborate wallpaper and utensils. However, on the armchair next to the thick silk trimmed curtains, the cushions with silk leather have not even a trace of wrinkles, and there is no trace of lying down on them.

In contrast, the desk top, which is covered with a layer of rhinoceros leather, has some traces of grinding. Twenty or thirty documents were piled up on the outside of the table, and three or four of them were spread out in front of the emperor, pressed tightly by the two open books.

"Your Majesty, I wish you eternal prosperity and good health. ”

Milian straightens his left leg forward, his left arm outstretched, and his right wrist twists in front of him, and finally bows with his palm facing inwards and his fingers in front of his chest.

"And I wish you the next time you do such an ugly gesture to your monarch, you will be hung up and paraded through the streets. Ji'an is above, I really want to replace these ugly salutes with military salutes. Behind the desk, a man dressed in a black purple trimmed gold-trimmed robe stood up, the private garment did not show much of the master's noble position, but only the gold and purple royal sigil tattooed on the shoulder—a male lion standing in a sea of flowers, with a wonderful fish dorsal fin on its back.

The emperor's emaciated and hard face was almost unclear, but his slightly thin lips were full of sarcasm. It is hard to imagine that a thirty-four-year-old man with no less strength than an active non-commissioned officer could have such a thin and melancholy full head on top of his majestic physique. However, the premature receding hairline and the slightly tapered hair loss style did continue the style of Zelos I II, and many of the vicious distant words born because of his mother were self-defeating.

Milian smiled slightly: "Your Majesty, I hope I can see you accomplish such a feat before I am hoisted up and paraded through the streets." ”

"Heh, my father's imperial expedition has pacified most of the apostate fanatics on the mainland, but he can't do much about etiquette. It was only after I conquered more land than the empire in Yuno New Land and killed the great traitor Blescha that I realized that I could not do even as much as my father. ”

"Your Majesty, reform is not an overnight thing. I will also do my part to make it a difference. Milian said with a smile, shaking his head in his heart, "In the Duchy of Zalahod, there are preliminary findings into the major and vicious incident that occurred in the town of Chahe, formerly the city of Koblenz. I think there's something you need to know, Your Majesty. ”

The slightest smile on the lips of Zelos III suddenly disappeared, and the room with the fire seemed to drop a few degrees in an instant.

The emperor pursed his lips: "Hmph, I've heard a little bit." That guy from Eles really annoys me and gives me a headache. But what should I do, he's the only one of my staff who is genuinely committed to reform. It's not like you, who speaks better than anything else, but behind the scenes, you do something else. If it weren't for the fact that I have been close friends with you since childhood, I really want to lock you up with those die-hards. ”

Milian secretly licked his dry lower lip, and hurriedly lowered his head and said, "Your Majesty......"

"Don't he know that I'm not really going to lock up the diehards? He always likes to figure out what I think, and I'm right, it's just that some of the methods are a headache! You see, he turned around and put all the people in Goslar in prison, and the charges are getting bigger and bigger. At this time, some people speculated that Goslar had completely lost power, so he committed crimes against his family's ancient bloodline. ”

"Your Majesty Shengming!" Milian buried his head a little deeper, agreeing with the emperor's opinion, "Although most of the circumstances of the incident that are now filed as 'Night in Chahe Town' are unknown, this very influential and secret incident is most likely aimed at the youngest daughter of the Goslar family. ”

"Heh, you start researching this first. Whether it was Eles' man who killed the little girl or not, you will deal with me severely. These involve extraordinary fields, and it is necessary to make great efforts to rectify them in the future. In order to maneuver among many enemy powers, the founders of the empire opened a large back door to these so-called transcendent affairs and provided a lot of convenience. Now I see that there is only one good in a hundred disadvantages. ”

Milian raised his head and smiled awkwardly, "What Your Majesty said is extremely true. But... Charlotte Goslar, the person who was supposed to be the victim, was not killed. ”

It was extremely rare for the Emperor to make a stunned look in front of Milian: "Can she survive such a strange and vicious incident?" Is it just an exaggeration that the local church is unable to resist as previously reported, and that almost all of the 80,000 people in the town have been affected?"

"The state of affairs is not exaggerated. But she did survive the incident. An investigation is currently underway by the church and the local sheriff and commissioner, and the preliminary conclusion is that it may have been caused by a fight between the two factions at the scene, but most of the evidence does not support this - the evidence shows that both sides were ritual-succulent, and were brutally killed by ritual-summoned demons and monsters in extremely secret and narrow places, and the bodies were almost impossible to identify. We suspect that there is some kind of power or individual force far beyond the church that is involved in this matter, but it leaves no trace. ”

The Emperor understood what Miriam meant: "Well, the survival of this little girl has greatly eased the situation—we are the beneficiaries of this situation! You want to set up a charter search team and more resources, don't you? There is a need to figure it out. If you can, bring this force or this body to me.

"If such an extraordinary power exists, it must only be available to the royal family. ”

"Your Majesty Shengming ......"

"However, the reform of the security system will be discussed at a later date. Not the time. Don't look like that, I'll be able to guess you want to mention this when you walk in. ”

Zelos III simply extinguished what Milian wanted to say next, and chuckled softly as he watched Milian lose his soul. The Emperor stood up and walked to the other side of the study, a few steps away, with a full prism projector.

"You should be done talking, right? ”

The runes hidden in the room lit up faintly, and it was not the first time that Milian had seen this set of runes that blocked sound and light, but he still had palpitations-

When this set of runes to prevent external eavesdropping and prying eyes is lit, if it is not lifted within ten minutes, the emperor's security will rise to a state of emergency. The guards on duty will break down the door and kill everyone in the room except the Emperor, depending on the situation.

Subsequently, the prism projector projected a confidential three-dimensional image of the rune in the air:

The viewpoint seems to have been recorded halfway up the mountain, with a mutilated color, light, and image, and a hazy layer of haze over the image. But none of this prevented the main content of the video from being broadcast.

On the vast land, a towering high castle and its heavy iron-inlaid walls stand tall. Regardless of the arrow holes in the wall, the towers behind the wall, and the advantage of the high ground on the hill, no one would dare to attack such an easily defended fortress.

"It's... The famous Fort of Branie in the Eastern Continent?"

Milian is completely indifferent to military intelligence and geography, but Fort Branie is a common-sense being. Located at the confluence of the Eastern Continent (the Eastern Continent people call themselves Burles) and the Hellado continent, this fortress supports as many as seven strategic points in front and behind. Because of its existence, the seven strategic points together with them have been forged into an impregnable wall.

This bridgehead must be captured if the golden kingdom that stood in the way between the Eastern Continent and the continent of Elado had been conquered by barbarians for 300 years and had previously prided itself as the "center of the world". However, this bridgehead could not be attacked, and there was no way to bypass it and capture all the other places first. This has become a huge unsolved problem.

"Not bad. It's the Castle of Branie. Its own topography has advantages, and the city defense building has made it a miracle that has stood for thousands of years, and its own city has a lot of fertile soil, and the surrounding fortresses form horns with each other, the entrances and passages on both sides of the sea and land are narrow, and it is difficult to transport large-scale siege weapons and a large amount of food for the siege of the city. It's just... It seems that the gods deliberately set up this place to block the communication between the two continents through land. ”

Speaking of this, a trace of excitement flashed in the emperor's eyes: "However, the fortress with the name of 'Unfallen Hill'. It's not in this world anymore. ”

Milian was about to ask a question, but saw an uncountable huge airship gradually approaching the fortress on the clouds, and bombarded it downward!!

His gaze met the emperor's gray and dark eyes in great astonishment, and he only heard the latter's voice:

"This is the only benefit after all the disadvantages!"