In the hall, there was silence, save for Claudia's footsteps and the snort of Duke Aldous.

Aristocrats usually call themselves gentlemen.

So even if there is a contradiction, the nobles can generally get by on the surface, and a direct slap in the face like Claudia can be said to be the most merciless insult, not to mention that in such a large public, most of the secular nobles of the kingdom are present.

In normal times, someone would have come out to stop Claudia, even if she was the regent.

However, today's situation is different after all, the blood stains in the throne hall have not dried, Claudia is famous, and the nobles are afraid of the matter of the black dragon princess one by one, so for a while, no one dares to come up to stop it.

"The queen can't be allowed to fight like this again."

After Claudia slapped Duke Aldous like a dead dog, Duke Visak finally couldn't help it, although Aldous was young and stupid, but he was still a member of his small circle of noble councils, and if he was beaten like this, his face would be dull.

At the behest of Duke Vyshak, Baron Julius took a step forward and swallowed with difficulty:

"Your Majesty, I don't know what Duke Leskova has done, you see, he is also a nobleman, what's wrong......

"Aristocrats?" Claudia let out a sneer, but finally stopped, and stretched out her hand to point at Aldous, who fell to the ground: "Just because he is a mess, he is also worthy of being called a nobleman?" ”

"Your Majesty, the Duke is naturally a nobleman......" the Baron replied in a low voice.

The queen asked coldly: "Then answer me, Julius, what are the rules of nobility?" ”

Julius stretched out his hand to his chest and recited fluently: "Blood is not enough to be proud, virtue and honor are above all else." ”

"Very well," said the queen, nodding her head, "Ladies and gentlemen, are you not curious about what crime he has committed?" Then I will answer you, just during the day, the Duke of Leskova raped one of my female mercenaries who was powerless to resist, or a commoner, and I wonder which of his actions can be related to the virtue and honor in the code? ”

There was an uproar among the surrounding nobles, and even those nobles who were usually friends with Duke Leskova looked at him with ridicule, disgust, or contempt, and the little sympathy they had just had was gone.

Rape? Or civilians? This kid wants to be crazy about women, right? It's really uneducated!

This was the unanimous idea of the surrounding aristocracy.

In this era, there are indeed small lords in the countryside who have never seen the world to do such a thing as raping commoners, but it is very rare, in fact, the nobles have very high standards for female companions, and they don't look down on commoners at all, in their opinion, it is another species at all, and it is impossible to even use it to extinguish fire.

Take Claudia as an example, although she is good-looking and noble, she is actually similar to a commoner before she undergoes etiquette training, so whether it is Lordaeron or the Stormwind Kingdom, most nobles also disdain her at all, thinking that she is a veritable dirt bun, and at that time, every banquet and dance party ridicule was endless.

And putting aside the civilian status of the victim, rape is also an act that is shameful by the surrounding nobles.

The aristocracy did have illegal acts, but most of them were carried out to protect the interests of the family, such as abusing power for personal gain and embezzling state property, which was a state thief, not a ruffian, and as for rape, it was not necessary for the nobles at all.

With their background, it is determined that they have a lot of beautiful women to enjoy, usually the resistance to beautiful women is relatively high, even if they meet the object of the love of the hunt, they can also use the pursuit, persecution, trading and other means to force the other party to obey, there is no way to refuse to obey, rape is very out of status, that is not what a cultured gentleman should do, it is done by a ruffian.

So now, the dignified Storm Kingdom famous family and the current duke have been exposed to rape of civilian women, or in public, which has seriously damaged the reputation of all the nobles, how can they not be despised by the nobles, they want to be embarrassed, they all whispered about it, disdainful, and they can't wait to quickly draw a clear relationship with Duke Aldous.

Even Duke Visak was no exception, and with disgust on his face, he took a step back.

Amid the chatter of the people around him, in the eyes of disgust and contempt, Aldous, whose face was swollen into a pig's head, was ashamed to die, and bowed his head to walk outside the throne hall.

The queen's voice came coldly from behind him: "You want to leave?" Duke, you haven't given an account of your crimes! ”

"I'm going to plead guilty and lose money now!" Aldous yelled angrily, "I'm willing to pay that lady's worth of gold to exonerate me of my crimes, that's enough!" ”

Claudia looked at him coldly for a long time, and finally said coldly: "Get out!" ”

Claudia has no choice, and this is the sadness of the existing legal system of mankind, because the existence of immunity and redemption regulations, with the title of Aldous and Claudia's status, this is indeed the only step that can be done.

Even in the eyes of other nobles, what she did was outweighed by the losses, for a mercenary to completely offend a big nobleman to death, how could it be cost-effective to let the other party pay more benefits in private, it is estimated that Aldous thought so at the beginning, but he didn't expect the queen to be so ruthless.

It seemed too much to others, but Claudia was still angry, and she was gritting her teeth with hatred.

Saili has followed her since the beginning of the Northern Rift, serving her and her sister for five years, not so much an employment relationship as a friend relationship, but she didn't expect to be tainted by such a waste, just a little gold coin, how can she relieve the hatred in her heart, and even let the other party become the laughing stock of all the nobles in her opinion.

‘…… How ridiculous, as a strong man, you can't do anything with such an ant-like mortal......

"What are you trying to express?"

‘…… Why don't you kill him, believe me, a problem that can be solved by just a Void bug, silently, unnoticed, a perfect accident......

"You're trying to lure me, as a defender of the law, into breaking the law on purpose."

‘…… No, we didn't seduce you, it was you who wanted to kill him, and we gave this little advice, and besides, don't you wonder why that ant raped your friend? ……’

Claudia was silent, the whispers of the void were not wrong, she had indeed moved to kill, but first, she was still hesitant to cause trouble to others, and second, and more importantly, she also needed to know the thoughts of the person concerned, Seli.

‘…… That ant has been trying to get your sister all along, and during the three days she was imprisoned in Stormwind Fortress, he had repeatedly coerced and lured her to no avail, and yesterday after the mercenary helped your sister escape from Stormwind, he insulted the mercenary out of revenge......

I see.

Claudia's hatred grew.

Now, even if Seliken let this duke go, she would have to kill him.

Of course, the Void Bug will definitely not work, and when the time comes, assassination or MI7 will definitely solve the problem, although it is not perfect, but it is better than using depraved means.

In addition to this, during the conversation, Claudia noticed another thing.

"Can you please not snoop on my mind in the future?"

‘…… Of course, we can make a deal with a request like this, and as long as you meet our request, we will give you what you want......

"What do you want me to do?"

‘…… Fetch the Eye of Sargeras, it's half-repaired, and now it's in a treasure chest in the Forge Hall, and you can use the Shadows to erode it......

Before the whisper of the void was finished, Claudia changed her color and said, "Don't even think about it!" ”