Chapter 1241: The Struggle for Imperial Power; Guanlan Sword Master
Almost with a cold face, Helen barely calmed down the anger in her heart, looked at Zhou Chen, who was still breezy with a pair of lake-green beautiful eyes, and explained softly: "Lord Chen, let you see it, I am also to offend the temple so quickly, so as not to startle the snake." β
After all, the lord of the city asked himself that if he refused, then the matter would definitely reach the ears of the magistrate named Konstantin, which would be too offensive.
"If you can't bear it, you will make a big plan, you did it right." Hearing Helen's words, Zhou Chen raised his eyebrows and said lightly.
Before he finished speaking, Zhou Chen left the deck straight and returned to his luxurious bedroom......
The red-clothed magistrate Konstantin did not let Helen wait long, and after less than two hours, he arrived at the port with his entourage.
As a magistrate in charge of the supervision of several provinces in the empire, the arrival of Konstantin naturally made the local officials and nobles who had been waiting on the docks a little uncomfortable. Chaos, followed by all sorts of mental and material sycophants, much better than the attitude towards Helen!
Now that the empire is weak, the identity of a temple inquisitor in red is better than the name of Helen, a princess.
What's more, Konstantin not only mastered the elite powerhouses of the Temple Inquisition of several surrounding provinces, but he was also a senior Saint-level powerhouse, with a top position and strength.
However, such a righteous and awe-inspiring man who should have his back to the temple is not as arrogant as Helen imagined.
Surrounded by the timid lord of the street and the local officials and nobles, the magistrate and his retinue boarded the ship and met Helen in a friendly manner.
Magistrate Konstantin was a middle-aged and elderly man with an extraordinary temperament and a calm mountain, who looked to be in his fifties.
He was dressed in the cardinal's blood-red robes, which represented the authority of the Inquisition, and his long, black-and-white hair, which was slightly gray, was draped over his shoulders. His wrinkled, red-faced face always had a warm and loving smile, and he didn't look like a high-ranking red-clothed magistrate, but more like an ordinary kind old man.
The only difference may be his deep and shrewd eyes.
"Your Royal Highness, thank you for allowing me to take your ship back to the imperial capital, and thank you for waiting."
Konstantin owed Helen a slight debt and said with a smile.
Hearing this, Helen's eyes flashed, and she secretly scolded in her heart, this old guy is a traitor. Cunning, instead of mentioning her identity as the princess of the empire, she mentioned her identity as the saintess of the temple.
At this point, Helen's deep sense of righteousness and the joy of helping others became a normal hospitality for her fellow people in the temple.
However, although she was unhappy, Helen did not show any of it, but returned the salute with a smile and said, "Your Excellency, you are too polite. It is also an honor for me to have a distinguished guest like you on board. β
So saying, Helen introduced John and Lady Alice to Constantine, although she estimated that the magistrate had already heard of their names.
After a few pleasantries, Konstantin also took the initiative to introduce his attachΓ© to Helen and others.
Coincidentally, Helen also knew most of these Constantine attachΓ©s.
Many of them were priests or knights who had served on Mount Hailar, such as the three knights in golden armor, who were the masters of the Knights Templar who guarded the headquarters of the temple and served the gods.
This made Helen's heart tighten, it seemed that Konstantin went to the imperial capital to carry out some peaceful and friendly mission.
Thinking so, Helen prepared to welcome Konstantin into the reception room, which was called hospitality, which was really a spying.
However, before she could speak, suddenly, two groups of knights in silver thorn flower armor jumped onto the ship from the harbor, and then spread out to both sides, holding their heads high. Breasts, as if greeting someone.
From the first glance at these somewhat rude silver-armored knights, Helen recognized their identities. These knights are also from the Knights of the Thorn Flower, and the people they protect must also be royalty!!
Sure enough, in the next moment, everyone near the port heard a deep and high-pitched voice announce:
"Your Royal Majesty, Your Highness Oberon Moon is here!"
Suddenly, there was silence, and almost everyone including Helen and Constantine stopped talking and looked at the source of the sound.
Soon, on the deck of the ship, a slender figure slowly stepped in.
The guy looks to be around forty years old, standard middle-aged. His face is softly contoured, his complexion is pale, he is handsome, his long golden hair is as dazzling as the sun, and his lake-green eyes are slightly blue.
Of course, this appearance looks a little similar to Helen, a great beauty, and little John.
The Prince of Oberon walked over slowly, with a warm and lazy smile on his face, and his appearance was very charming, which made many aristocratic women around him immediately feel good, and some even put out a pair of flowers. Idiot.
However, even so, this prince gives people the feeling that it is not so feminine, but more yang. Rigidity.
He walked as calm as a mountain, not in a hurry or slowly, faintly with a kind of awe-inspiring momentum like a dragon walking and a tiger's step, between rigidity and softness, so that everyone could feel his strong personal charm. Force.
If you don't know that he is not an emperor, but just an idle prince, just this appearance and momentum, everyone will probably think that he is the current emperor, His Majesty Odysseus VII himself!
The arrival of the Prince of Oberon immediately became the focus of attention in the audience. The port, which was originally silent, immediately became lively again.
Many local officials and nobles took the initiative to come forward to greet the prince. Of course, those who can talk to His Royal Highness the Prince are at least figures above the viscount, and some of them are almost identical, and they are not even qualified to get up.
Of course, like Konstantin and his entourage, they will naturally not get together with their own identities. And Helen's face is not very good-looking, and anyone with a discerning eye can see her unhappiness.
"That's what it is...... The two or five boys in the royal family? β
Deluxe bedroom in the cabin. In the room, Zhou Chen, who didn't go out, muttered.
He was lazily lying on a wicker chair, using the Divine Mind Detection through the wall, and he could still see everything, as if he was watching a live broadcast of surveillance video.
The situation of this Prince of Oberon, he also knew about Helen before. According to Helen, the Prince of Oberon, though about the same age as her father, the current emperor, was a generation older.
In other words, Prince Oberon, and Helen's grandfather, the Predator who turned the tide after the catastrophe more than sixty years ago, are the sons of the Predator's uncle.
In other words, Oberon is the cousin of the Iron and Blood Emperor, the cousin of the current emperor, and the cousin of Helen.
Of course, this identity is not important, the important thing is to listen to what Helen said, this Oberon has no small ambitions and intends to usurp the throne.
Of course, the so-called prince who doesn't want to be an emperor is not a good cousin, and Zhou Chen can fully understand Oberon's determination to "progress". However, it is also what Helen said, Oberon is a guy who eats inside and out, and in order to expand his powerful position, he actually colludes with the temple!
That's kind of awesome.
You must know that the royal family and the temple have been mortal enemies for so many years, and even if there is occasional harmonious coexistence, it is all pretended. The positions and interests of both sides, as well as the blood feud forged over the years, have determined that only one of the two sides can survive in the end.
But even this state of life-and-death struggle can't stop Prince Oberon's determination to eat inside and out, as a member of the royal family.
For so many years, this Prince Oberon has always intended to have a good relationship with the temple, not only secretly communicating with the high-level officials of the temple, eyebrows, and even openly accepting the temple's baptism of him, and recognizing the son of the god of the temple as his godfather.
This act of confessing the thief as a father is not the most important thing for him. The most terrifying thing is that Prince Oberon has built dozens of Bright Temples at the level of the main city for the temple in his own fiefdom. He even had a faint rumor that as long as he became the emperor, he would fully support the Lord of Dawn and let every small village in the empire have a temple!
That's not all, as soon as the temple has any important action, this prince is like licking. Dogs generally get up and give money and food...... This time, the red-clothed magistrate Konstantin went to the imperial capital on a mission, and I am afraid that the money and food needed are also this lick. The dog prince came out.
If it weren't for the fact that the temple had been sheltering this prince, I am afraid that he would have been killed by the emperor a long time ago.
Of course, as the saying goes, listening is clear, and partiality is dark, and Zhou Chen didn't fully believe what Helen said.
At the very least, as far as Zhou Chen is now observing, this Prince Oberon's words and deeds are very decent, he smiles calmly, and treats everyone who wants to befriend him very kindly, without the slightest kind of brainless licking. The appearance of a dog.
Even those small officials who did not even have the status of nobility came forward to talk to him, and he was smiling, without any disdain or impatience.
The key is that this easy-going and infectious way of dealing with people, as far as Zhou Chen is concerned, is not deliberately pretended by Oberun, he is probably really so modest on weekdays.
And such a humble and courteous person with an outstanding temperament is difficult to compare with the one Helen said. Broken licking. Dog associations.
However, to be reasonable, Helen deceived him and deliberately added fuel to his blindness. Say, it's not very likely.
There must be something wrong with this.
Zhou Chen, who was monitoring all the movements in the port through his divine thoughts, soon saw that the Prince of Oberon smiled and said a few words to the nobles around him, and then got out and walked towards Helen and Constantine's side.
The Prince of Oberon walked up to a few people, and did not ask either Helen or Constantine first, but smiled at John first, and said, "Yo, this is not Little John, I haven't seen you for a long time, and it is really gratifying to hear that your father has recently defeated those Semitic bandits who are not capable of doing anything in the Northwest Ice Field." β
Hearing this, Little John's expression was obviously happy, but he quickly straightened his face again, and said to Prince Oberon with some embarrassment: "Your Highness has won the award, and it is the honor of my generation of soldiers to be loyal to the empire." β
"Haha, little John, what you said is very true, when I return to the imperial capital, I will definitely visit Lord John in person."
As he spoke, Oberon turned to one side, looked at Konstantin again, and said with a smile: "Your Excellency the Magistrate, this time is really a coincidence, I just wanted to take my niece's ship to the imperial capital, and I actually met you." β
As soon as these words came out, Helen suddenly rolled her eyes in anger. This Oberon is clearly in the same group as Constantine, and Oberon has been living with Constantine all these days.
However, this guy actually dared to talk nonsense in broad daylight, pretending to be unfamiliar with Konstantin.
Zhou Chen also saw this scene. If he hadn't heard the street lord mention that this Prince Oberon and Konstantin were in the same group, he would have thought that this guy was really not familiar with Konstantin.
This Prince Oberon is really an actor, an actor-level actor!
I saw that this prince and the "unfamiliar" Konstantin exchanged pleasantries for a while, and then the old god looked at Helen and said with a smile: "My dear niece, you are better than the last time we met. The material is much better. It seems that the cultivation of Hailar Mountain has given you a great exercise. β
"Hehe, thank you Your Royal Highness for the compliment."
Helen obviously doesn't want to be with this none. What kind of kinship does the shameful person have to do with it, it is very angry.
However, as the so-called Hades is better, licking the dog is difficult, seeing Helen so faceless, Prince Oberon did not care, but continued to say with a kind expression: "Yo, my dear niece, I haven't seen you for a few years, you have a lot of life with my uncle and grandfather!" β
After a pause, without waiting for Helen to answer, His Royal Highness the Prince said to himself: "Not long ago, I heard that you were assassinated by a group of stupid thieves in the Thorn Forest, and Uncle and Grandpa I have been worried about you for a long time, and I couldn't sleep for several nights, until I knew that you were okay, I could sleep peacefully. β
Hearing this, Helen was speechless for a while. After a long time, she replied coldly: "Oh, thank you Your Royal Highness for remembering." β
"Haha, sure enough, it's my niece and granddaughter, and they all know how to thank their uncle and grandfather."
Prince Oberon shamelessly took Helen's sarcastic words as a compliment, and then his face suddenly changed, and he said with that kind of vigorous curiosity: "Dear Princess Helen, I heard that the reason why you were able to avoid assassination was because you met a strong man who saw injustice, right?" β
Hearing this, Helen's heart was shocked, and then she secretly sneered a few times, and sure enough, she said, well, this guy who has always looked at her unpleasantly, finally showed the fox's tail.
The corners of Helen's mouth, who had a bottom in her heart, twitched and said lightly: "His Royal Highness the Prince is very well-informed, that's right, there is a kind Sage Lord who pulled out his sword to help me solve those assassins who don't know whether they are alive or dead!" β
"Haha, that's great."
As if he hadn't heard the shock in Helen's words, Oberon laughed, and suddenly said in a funny tone: "Then how is the strength of this Sage, compared to the Guanlan Sword Saint sitting in my Prince's Mansion?" β
(4,500 words, 500 words as a gift, 2-in-1 super chapter)