The sound of iron boots on the stone slabs echoed across the empty hall, and a court attendant walked from far and near with a fixed frequency.

"Your Majesty, something has happened to the Twilight Forest."

The attendant's words made Rhine's heart skip a beat, and he said secretly: It's coming.

Ever since the decision was made to take action against Ainan, Rhine knew that the kingdom was in for a storm. Although he felt that he had the ability to suppress everything and solve everything, when it really happened, he was uneasy and worried.

The city of the Rhine was not yet able to show the worry in his heart, and he waved his hand calmly, signaling the guards to speak in detail.

"A group of barbarians escaped from the depths of the Dark Swamp and plundered several villages in the Twilight Forest. The Council of Nobles was very unhappy with this, believing that it was your Majesty's orders that had caused a hole in the defense of the border, and many people were clamoring for you to be held responsible. ”

The violent rise and fall of his chest showed that the master's mood had fluctuated violently at this time, and Rhine couldn't help but be angry. Thinking that he, Rhein Ureon, as the king of the Stormwind Kingdom, the king of a country, would dare to openly say that he was responsible for something. Don't think he doesn't know the purpose of those nobles, they just want to put pressure on the royal family to back down.

I will never give up if I think about it. The more you do this, the more you prove that you are afraid of it. When I get rid of that Elam in Karazhan, you guys will be comfortable.

"Noble Council, hum!"

Rhine snorted coldly, venting the anger in his chest. The biggest obstacle to him in the kingdom of Stormwind was neither the remote Karazan nor the Grand Duke of Lothar, who controlled the granary in the western part of the kingdom, but the Council of Nobles.

Due to the fact that the royal family of Ureon needed the strength of the nobles to stabilize their rule at the beginning of the founding of the country, a large amount of authority belonging to the royal family was divided by the noble council when they asked for the other party, and many places only knew that there was a noble council but did not know the royal family of Ureon.

This situation has continued from the beginning of the founding of the Stormwind Kingdom to this day, especially in the Twilight Forest, as a territory controlled by the noble council, the foolish people there have long been brainwashed by the nobles, and they have been noble slaves for generations, they have not even the slightest fear of the royal family, they only have their own noble lords in their hearts.

It is with such a foundation that the noble council will be so arrogant, and once the king does not follow their heart, they will embarrass the royal family in various ways.

The one that the Rhine hated the most was the lord of Karazhan, the Count of Neras Elam.

I think that the mage lord drove his army directly to Stormwind City, and forced his father outside the palace gate, forcing his father to bow his head. As soon as he thought of this, Rhine couldn't help but be angry, it was his father, not someone else, if he didn't solve Elan, and didn't let Elan know the power of the Urion royal family, this matter would become a stain on the royal family, so that the descendants of the Urion family couldn't raise their heads.

Rhine looked at the squire and asked coldly, "What does Vortagan say?" ”

If the so-called snake has no head, if the noble council is compared to a snake, then the head of this snake is Vortagen, the strong man who always has the impression of being full of energy. It was under the leadership of Vortagan that the originally scattered noble council was twisted into a rope, so that the political structure of the Stormwind Kingdom continued the three-legged situation of the royal family of Ureon in the Elwyn Forest, the Grand Duke of Lothar in the Fertile West, and the noble council in the Twilight Forest, just as the ancestors of the Rhine did during their reigns.

Now, someone in the noble council is clamoring and trying to provoke himself, and Rhine's first reaction is whether or not Vortagan is involved in this matter.

The squire observed Rhine's face and said cautiously, "Sir Vortagen didn't say anything. ”

didn't say anything, just watched his subordinates make trouble, what is the difference between that and default.

Rhine turned red with anger.

"I knew they were going to stop me, I'm not angry, I'm going to calm down."

No matter how withdrawn the lord of Karazhan is, he has not attended a meeting among the nobles since he joined Karazhin, has not shown up for many years, and has a very distant relationship with the other nobles. But his identity doomed him to be a member of the aristocracy, and Rhine's attempt to deal with him was to provoke the Noble Council, which was the beginning of a attack on the Noble Council, and the nobles were of course not happy, trying to beat him back when Rhine just stretched out his hand.

Calming down his anger, Rhine instructed his attendants: "You go and tell them, just talk about the losses and talk about the losses after the war is over, and the priority is to deal with the invading barbarians." I will order the army to enter the Dark Swamp, and no one shall obstruct it. Remember, this is the king's command, disobedient, kill! ”

Previously, in order to deal with Karazan Rhine, many civilians were recruited into the army, and they were quietly transferred to the kingdom's army in the Red Ridge Mountain, and the latter was stationed at the junction of the Twilight Forest and the Elwyn Forest, preparing to enter Karazhan when the time was ripe and destroy Ainan with a large army.

Rhine's idea was very good, he thought that Ainan would not dare to openly disobey the king's orders, and his own actions in the name of the king were enough to suppress the other party. Unexpectedly, Ainan didn't reply to him at all, just played a small trick.

What barbarians in the dark swamp, most of them are ghosts made by Ainan. Otherwise, why didn't they show up sooner or later, but they showed up when they were about to do something to Karazan.

In Rhine's mind, these marauding barbarians may not be real barbarians, but may also be disguised as Karazan's soldiers. Taking a step back, even if those guys were really barbarians, how could a group of uncivilized primitives be able to defeat the heavily armed regular army of the kingdom?

"You thought you were underestimating me by thinking that this little trick would stop me, Count Elam. The fools of the Council of Nobles can't stop me, neither can Vortagen, and Lothar won't clash with me head-on over this, as long as I'm tough, they won't help you. ”

Seeing through Ainan's trick, thinking that the other party wanted to use the barbarian invasion to put pressure on him through the noble council, so that he would not dare to act with some concerns, Rhine strengthened his determination to do it.

I don't want you to do what the enemy wants, so that it can make you uncomfortable and in my interests.

Against the uncivilized races, Rhine asked himself how experienced his army was. This army has fought the gnolls in the Red Ridge Mountains for hundreds of battles, and has never lost, and it is not a problem to deal with the barbarians of the Dark Swamp. After all, the gnolls and the primitive people in the dark swamp are uncivilized savages, and they fight without discipline, that is, they rely on a ruthless force, and it is extremely easy for experienced human regular armies to defeat them.

Speaking of the barbarians who rushed out of the dark swamp to raid the borders of the kingdom, Rhine asked casually: "What kind of race is that?" ”

The squire was about to retreat, but when he heard the kingdom ask, he quickly stopped, knelt down on one knee, and replied respectfully: "Sir Fotagen has also asked Count Elam of Karazan, and I have heard them call this barbarian race orcs. ”

"Orcs?" Rhine snorted disdainfully, "Don't have anything to do with humans, an uncivilized barbarian can also be called a human?" Tell me to go down and tell the soldiers not to spare their hands, and to cut off all the heads of those savages and hang them on the trees. I'd like to see how many days the barbarians can hold out under the kingdom's armies. Orcs, hum, just a joke. ”