Chapter Seventy-Eight: This Is the Truth
"No matter how the tongue can be Lotus, most of the time you still have to rely on strength to speak, in such an era, show your muscles first, and then show kindness and respect will get twice the result with half the effort!"
- Leo's Diary
"Are you threatening me? ......" Leo's tone was a little low, and at the same time he was really angry, and Antonis's accusations without any understanding made him a little tired. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
Maybe all the helplessness in his previous life made him unable to resist, but here, as the master of Stormwind City, Leo didn't explain, and directly answered the other party in a tougher tone.
"You!" Antonis was a little unable to get off the stage, but fortunately, he was not too stupid, knowing that this was someone else's territory, and he did not let the situation intensify again, and the marquis also reacted at this time, and quickly interjected
"Your Excellency, first of all, I beg your pardon, this news is so shocking that the Count is a little impatient, but ......" Auston stared at Leo with his eyes, "However, the death of a duke is not a trivial matter even for the Empire, I beg you to tell the truth!" ”
The other party was no longer aggressive, and Leo also took the opportunity to go down the steps, after all, it was not Leo's intention to decide to go to the imperial capital and mess up the relationship with a powerful marquis and an earl with an obviously prominent family.
Nodding slightly, Leo sat down again, and after thinking carefully for a while, he still roughly explained the cause of the entire war and the death of the Duke of Orlando in detail.
There are not many changes in the narrative, but of course, after Leo himself became a victim, he had to seek to resist, and the Duke of Orlando was a representative of evil, cruelty and extremes, of course, there is nothing wrong with saying this, just some embellishments
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After drinking the last sip of black tea, Leo unconsciously played with the cup in his hand, his eyes seemed to lose focus for a while, as if telling a real thing, and said in a deep voice
"When the gates were breached, and the Duke lost the battle with my knights, and had to flee to the gates on the other side, we rushed to the gates of the other side, and when we caught up, I was shocked by what we saw...... The Duke grabbed his lady by the neck with both hands, and the poor lady was like a drowning person who could not even cry out for help, and just as I was about to give the order to save someone, I was horrified to see the guards, who were supposed to be the Duke, frantically striking and stabbing their master with the weapons in their hands......"
As if slowly recovering from his memories, Leo let out a sigh of relief, with a hint of unbearable and painful expression on his face, as if the Duke's death made him very regretful.
Fingers lightly tapped on the table, Leo looked at the two people in front of him who were a little sluggish, his expression was gloomy, but he gave himself more than a dozen likes in his heart, and felt that his talent for storytelling and acting had improved qualitatively......
To be honest, Leo's plausible telling, Auston and Antonis believed most of them in preconceived notions, thanks to the Duke of Orlando's bad reputation in the past, coupled with his expanding ambitions, the two of them who are imperial parties have always been very disgusted with him.
This time, it's just that the matter involved is too big, and it is related to the change of the actual controller of the Northern Territory, so that the top echelons of the empire have to deal with it carefully, and the death of the duke is indeed a big deal, after all, as long as he doesn't raise the flag of rebellion for a day, he is still a high-ranking nobleman of the empire and is protected by the empire.
At this point, the idea of the Empire's top brass wanting Leo and Orlando to balance each other is no longer possible, there is no way, the bad road makes the world's access to information extremely slow, and the empire's territory is too large, making the control relatively low.
After a few minutes, the old Marquis was the first to react, first coughing lightly at Antonis, who was still a little sluggish beside him, and then speaking to Leo with some apologies on his face
"Your Excellency, thank you for your detailed explanation, it is really a sad story, but please understand that given the importance of this matter, we still need to confirm it to the other Northern Lords who are involved in this matter!"
Leo was calm about this, anyway, he didn't make up the cause of the duke's death, even if all the nobles of the northern lord were not as loyal as he was before, he was not afraid to confront him, not to mention the good situation now.
Hearing this, he nodded, turned his head, Leo pulled the corners of his mouth and looked at Antonis, who was a little nervous, and also defined this young earl in his heart, princelings, the sons and daughters of big families, there are a lot of bad problems, but they are not bad to the root
This kind of person may not be able to be a real friend who can be trusted with his back, but it will be very easy to become a friend by giving them what they like and complimenting them appropriately.
As he pondered this, the young Earl's smiling expression probably made the young count a little annoyed, and he gritted his teeth and said, "If this matter is really as you say, I will apologize for my unwarranted suspicion of a nobleman, and accept any conditions you put forward......"
Leo looked at the other party with a smile and shook his head, "No offense, Your Excellency the Earl, I can use my reputation to guarantee that this is the case, and at the same time, I don't need your apology, I think I can understand what happened just now, no one can accuse you of caring about the Duke of Orlando as a mistake, frankly, your straightforwardness has won my favor!" ”
The just right steps made the earl's somewhat swollen face quickly improve, and at the same time, there was a trace of gratitude to Leo in his heart, after all, as a son of a gentleman, he had to be reprimanded by his grandfather almost every day in the family.
Even the title was inherited by law because of the early hanging up of the father, and Leo's last casual praise was almost never heard in the mouth of others......
The Marquis of Auston looked at Leo with some surprise and said a few words, which calmed down Antonis, who had always been a headache and impulsive, and sighed slightly and had to admire the other party's demeanor.
When the atmosphere returned to normal, Leo called the butler and brought new black tea again, and the two of them began to talk again, during which the Marquis and the two also inspected Leo's noble coat of arms and some other certificates.
How can these identification objects produced by the system be seen by the natives of this world.
Sincerely admiring the exquisiteness of the dragon totem, the two of them believed a little more in Leo's identity as a true nobleman, but the marquis still regretted that these would eventually pass the review of the House of Nobles and be verified before they could be confirmed and recorded.
With a good beginning, Leo, who wanted to get closer to each other, used the game of his own memory, plus some fabricated plots, to tell the story of Pander for the two, from the legends of various sects and various myths, from the appalling Red Death to the enviable property, from the collapse of the great empire to the sudden founding of Sarion......
These are told so vividly under Leo's increasingly eloquent eloquence that at some point he himself has fallen into these delusions of truth, not to mention the two who listened carefully.
It is true that there is too little entertainment in this world, and even if it is an aristocratic group, Auston and Antonis have no usual pastime.
Hearing the excitement, the young earl's face flushed even more and he couldn't help himself, and kept asking for the details of many things, especially about the Valkyrie Knights, if it wasn't for the Marquis's reminder, he would almost fall into a self-congratulatory yy.
The marquis, on the other hand, is more concerned about the political system and armaments of the countries of Pande in the story, and he is cautious and still somewhat doubts the authenticity of these, but when Leo calls the lord of Noldor Aldalian, the marquis can only believe in the truth of all this.
Leo, who was a little dry-mouthed, looked at the two who were still asking, and could only reluctantly interrupt the conversation and suggest
"My friends, although I am willing to tell you more, but I am afraid that today is not suitable, and it must be very hard for the two of you to come all the way, I sincerely suggest that you take a rest first, and after you have enough energy, we can have a better conversation at the banquet in the evening!"
With Leo's words, the two of them had just noticed that the sky outside the window had gradually turned dark, and they nodded a little embarrassedly, and the marquis got up and bowed slightly
"We are sorry Your Excellency, your story has attracted us so much that we have completely forgotten the time, thank you for your kindness, we are looking forward to the banquet in the evening!"
Looking at the two people who followed his butler to rest, Leo was also a little tired, shook his confused head, and walked towards the bedroom with his feet up, he also needed to take a good rest before the banquet began......