Duke Sadir walked into Lotherma's study.

The moment he saw Moqi, the corners of Sadir's eyes showed a look of shock slightly.

Mo Qi was secretly smug in his heart, thinking that for a while, this duke, who was good at acting, would definitely panic in front of his abundant evidence.

"Sadir! Mochi said that you are the leader of the 'Sindore Revitalization Society', do you have anything to say? The one-eyed regent asked in a loud voice.

That's right, that's the tone! Seeing Lotherma's murderous eyes, Mochi felt a burst of joy in his heart. What he wanted to see most at this moment was the appearance of Sadir kneeling in front of him and begging for mercy.

Who knows-

Duke Sadir was not alarmed.

The tall Duke took off his black feathered hat and replied in a soft tone that was diametrically opposed to the regent's stern attitude, "Of course I confessed to Your Majesty. ”

Although he lowered his head, Moqi could also see the forced smile on the corner of his mouth.

Mo Qi suddenly had a bad premonition in his heart.

"Alright, alright, you get up." Lotherma said with a smile. The Regent's expression changed so quickly that he could only say that the tone of his previous questioning was all fake.

How so? The scene in front of him was as if in a dream, and things didn't go the way Mochi had expected.

When Sadir got up, he smiled the same way at the Regent.

The smiles on the two of them were very meaningful, as if they had expected all this, and as if they were sharing some joke with each other, and Mochi was in the middle of it.

Could it be that he himself is the joke?

Mochi felt that time was passing very slowly, how he wished that the scene in front of him was just a nightmare, and when he opened his eyes, everything would be back to normal, and there would be no more regent who looked at and smiled at Duke Sadir.

At this moment, Ace-Salonar, dressed in a midnight blue robe, also walked in, and he saluted the regent with a blank face: "Your Majesty, everyone is here. ”

"Okay, let's get over here." He looked at Sadir and said, and Sadir immediately bowed down and made a gesture of please.

"You can go with you." Lotherma said in a cold voice.

Mochi lifted his lead-filled calves and moved them like wheelbarrows, following Lotherma and Sadir to the hall where the ball had last been held.

This time, it was also full of celebrities from Silvermoon City, but these people all had heavy faces and dead faces.

These celebrities in Silvermoon City, Mo Qi, also knew each other, some of them were nobles with vast fiefdoms, some were wealthy giants, and some were elites in the Magister Association...... And without exception, the names of these people were on the list that Mochi presented to Lotherma.

It was only a few minutes before Mochi handed over the list, and they were summoned here right now, and it was clear that Lotherma had found out what these people were doing in the shadows before Mochi.

The burly Baron Sangunar and his personal bodyguards, the Blood Eagle Force's Lelia Celestial Knight, the pot-bellied Duke Abel Fireblade, the honorary president of the Silvermoon City Jewelry Industry Guild Sir Sadot, the heads of the three major jewelry mining companies, and more...... The men all trembled under Lotherma's eagle-like gaze.

"I have gathered you here today to witness something."

The hall echoed with the voice of Lotherma, and the only thing that could be heard in silence was the sound of flames burning in the brazier.

"Duke Sadir." Lotherma spun around sharply, then shouted at a loud voice.

"Yes." Sadir immediately knelt down when he heard the sound.

"What do you think of someone reporting that you are a descendant of the Sunstrider family?"

"Pure nonsense." Sadir replied categorically.

"Good. There are also people who say that you are the leader of the 'Sindore Revitalization Society', intent on subverting the rule of the three-member council, what do you think? ”

"Since the day His Majesty the Lord Regent renamed me 'Sadir-Morningstar', I have always been His Majesty's most loyal supporter, and I have never had two hearts."

"Good."

The Lord Regent withdrew his gaze from Sadir and turned to the trembling crowd in the hall.

The conversation between Lotherma and Sadir poured cold water on the crowd, and the old kings realized how stupid they were, and how clever they had been toyed with by the Regent.

The hall was dead silent, except for the sound of hunting as the cold wind blew through the brazier.

"Someone else provided me with some ledgers, which are said to be the evidence that the criminals of the 'Sindore Revitalization Association' transferred funds to the 'Revitalization Association' through a certain financial channel."

Mochi noticed that the elderly Sir Sadot had almost fainted on his knees when he heard this, and if it hadn't been for the help of someone around her, Sir Sadot would have been lying on the ground.

"I still have a list of the 'Sindore Revitalization Society' in my hand, what do you think I should do with it?" As she spoke, Lotherma held up the list that Mochi had handed him.

The people in the hall lowered their heads, not daring to look Lotherma in the eye. In the cold winter, a layer of sweat appeared on the foreheads of many people.

"A lot of people may not know what kind of circumstances I came to the position of regent. You won't really understand what the position of regent means - I can pretend to have real power and be a fake king with no real power. I can also wash my hands, play the martyr and be the victim, and then walk away with a lot of honor. I can use this list to bend you to my own will, just as Kael'thas did back then, and will do whatever it takes to 'Rise of Sindore'.

"But I always felt that there could be a better solution, that there would be less bloodshed and sacrifice, and that all strata of our nation would be united. This is for the sake of those who are alive now, and for those who died in the past because of the war. Past history has taught us that there is no glory in pursuing the result without regard to the process.

"As for this list, and these ledgers, I will burn them all. I'm not going to hold anyone accountable.

"But I ask everyone here to remember our past, to remember our compatriots who died in war, and to think about what glory Sindore needs."

With that, with a wave of his hand, Lotherma ordered the account to be thrown into the fire, along with the list that Moqi had delivered.

And the crowd who saw this scene, I don't know who shouted first, "Support the regent, Sindore will live forever!" The others shouted. Not only that, but the crowd knelt down on one knee at Lotherma.

Mochi knew very well that this was not just a courtesy, but also a signal that the old royal party had agreed with Lotherma's rule.

When the crowd had dispersed, Lotherma said to Mochi, "Do you now understand why I married my daughter to Sadir?" ”

Mochi didn't speak, just looked directly at Lothema with dark eyes, and there was no sign of admittance in his eyes.

"Okay. Just by looking at you, you know you're not going to give up, so stay in jail for a few days, and I'll let you out after Avena's wedding. Lotherma waved her finger and motioned for the guards to take him down.

Mochi did not resist either, and allowed the soldiers to escort him away, and when he passed in front of Duke Sadir, Sadir stopped the guards and whispered in Mochi's ear: "Do you know why you lost?" Because you miscalculated one thing. ”

Mochi looked at Sadir quietly, without any intention of speaking.

"That's my feelings for Avena."

With that, Sadir turned his head to the side, slapped Mochi on the shoulder a few times, and then raised his hand to signal the left and right guards to take Mochi away.

Mochi ends up in a heavily guarded prison where the bars of the cell are so narrow that even if Mochi reverts back to his fish-man form, he can't get through. There are also special magic circles around the walls to suppress magical power, and Moqi can feel that his shaman skills and card abilities are completely suppressed, and he can neither use shaman abilities nor summon cards.

Everything ended up with the worst that Mochi had envisioned, and he couldn't stop the wedding.

Mochi sat on the cold, hard ground, neither looking up nor trying to move.

He had been thinking about what Lotherma and Sadir had said to him—

"Do you now understand why I married my daughter to Sadir?"

"Any idea why you lost? Because you've miscalculated one thing! ”

"That's my feelings for Avena."

After a long time, Mo Qi raised his head and said to himself, "I understand. ”

"Everything is set up by the regent of Silvermoon City." Mochi continued to mumble to himself into the empty hallway. The demonic expression was as if Moqi had gone mad.

"I should have thought of it. Why didn't Archmage Roman dispute Ace's testimony? Why didn't Lothema question the dubious identity of Duke Sadir? Why didn't Lotherma thoroughly investigate the Praetorian Guards after the Praetorian Guard's mole, but let them continue to guard the ball site? Because all of this was planned by the regent, Sadir and Ace did what they were told......

"Including today's drama of grace and power. It was also part of Lotherma's plan, which was to regain the hearts and minds of the people so that the royal party would no longer be an obstacle to him.

"And the reason why I lost was because Sadir used Lotherma's game against me, and he borrowed the 'power' of the regent.

"I thought I could change his opinion of me through an investigation, but I didn't expect it to be a dead end from the day I stepped through the gates of Silvermoon City.

"Why did Lotherma marry her daughter to Sadir? Because he did not hesitate to offend the entire royal party in order to marry Anvina.

"I did mistake Sadir's feelings for Avena. I always thought that he only took advantage of his feelings for Anvina, but now I realize that the truth is not so simple.

"The reason I heard him talking to Bisruz that day wasn't because he was careless. Rather, he deliberately let me hear in order to lure me in, and the deeper I got into it, the easier it was for him to use Lotherma's game against me.

"But—

"I'm not that easy to beat.

"Akalin, open the door and let me out."

As soon as Moqi's words fell, he saw the door of the cell slowly open......