The royal city of London, founded when the Romans ruled the island, has always been the center of the island's political and commercial culture, and it can be said that most of the story of Great Britain is related to it.

At this time, in the royal palace in the center of the royal city, it can be said that all the nobles of Great Britain gathered, and they quarreled in the council hall one after another, because of the death of King Uther, the kingdom was completely leaderless at this time, and everyone was coveting the blank interests of the kingdom at this time, trying to fight for greater benefits for themselves, at least not to suffer losses.

Ryan sat tightly in his seat, watching the aristocrats in the hall arguing with red faces, and he picked up the glass on the table to hide the mockery on his lips. This group of short-sighted nobles will never see the situation clearly, and will only focus their eyes on immediate interests, forgetting that although King Uther is dead and the new king has not yet ascended the throne, the kingdom has not collapsed, and it is not yet time to tolerate them to divide the interests of the kingdom at will.

What's more, Ryan has already decided in his heart that the throne belongs to him, and he already regards the kingdom as his private property, how can he tolerate this group of people arbitrarily deciding what is clearly his own in front of him. Therefore, in his heart, Ryan has regarded this group of people as dead people, and is ready to send this group of people to the Lord when he ascends to the throne.

Ryan glanced at everyone in the hall, and suddenly felt a wave of irritability in his heart, originally he was going to stay in the royal city to see what Merlin would do next, and this time all the nobles would come here because of Merlin's summons. It's just that the nobles have been in the council chamber for a while, why haven't they seen Merlin appear yet.

This made Ryan not know why he had a bad premonition in his heart, but he was determined to suppress this feeling, and the process of his ascension to the position would not be too smooth, which he had been mentally prepared for a long time, but Merlin didn't make a move, and he couldn't see the move.

, Ryan Shiqiang suppressed the annoyance in his heart, and sat quietly in his position to watch the ugly drama of the group of clowns who jumped off the beam below, and there were several nobles who acted the same as him. After all, the nobles who can get along in this era are not all short-sighted, they all know that no matter how they divide the interests at this time, when the new king takes the throne, all this will be null and void, so they just quietly watch the fools below waste their efforts.

The royal forces represented by Merlin are the most powerful forces on the surface at this time, and they control the royal city and the most elite army of the kingdom, so even if King Uther is dead, the other nobles dare not ignore this force.

And next, it is Ryans, this prince has a good reputation in the high-level of the kingdom, and he also has a lot of forces under his command, in the eyes of many nobles, this younger brother of King Yusher has a great possibility to become the new king of the kingdom.

There are two main forces in the kingdom, of course, this is on the surface, and the nobles will not give up the alliance in private. After all, at this time, the situation in the kingdom was surging, and no one dared to guarantee that their interests would not be lost, and the alliance would have a greater chance of preserving themselves and fighting for greater interests.

The side door of the council chamber was suddenly opened, and the first to react were Ryan and a few nobles who were sitting there watching the play. They all knew that only the royal forces would come in at this time, and sure enough, they saw that after the attendants opened the side door, Merlin was the first to come out, followed by the Duke of Aector, who was known as the royal dog, the bishop of Great Britain, and a young man and a teenager.

When they saw the young man, Ryan and the nobles were stunned, they all knew this young man. Charles, the most prominent figure in Rundinium five years ago, dominated the kingdom's greatest triumph ever, but left the kingdom's center of power under the astonished gaze of everyone.

Ryanth's brows furrowed slightly, he attached great importance to Charles's talent five years ago, and when Charles chose to leave the royal city to travel, he sent someone out to look for it, but he didn't find it, as if this person disappeared directly from the royal city.

I didn't expect that the person I had been looking for for five years would actually appear here at this time, and follow behind Merlin, it seems that the other party has become an important person in the royal family, and the people who appeared in the council hall at this time are all people who have a certain say in the situation of the kingdom at this time, and people without a certain level cannot enter here.

Walking to the side of the throne where King Uther once sits, Merlin turned to look down the hall below, and when he saw that the group of nobles were still arguing there, he frowned slightly, picked up the staff in his hand and knocked on the ground.

A crisp muffled sound sounded in the hall, and the nobles only then noticed that Merlin had appeared in the hall, and even the ignorant knew that this was not the time for them to speak, so they hurriedly bowed down and apologized and returned to their places.

Ryan and all the nobles in the hall quieted down and turned their eyes on Merlin, they all knew that Merlin would gather everyone at this time, only for the sake of the throne, because the situation in the kingdom at this time did not allow this to continue, and a king must be elected to lead everyone, otherwise the Saxons in the north would not let go of this opportunity not to invade, and the kingdom would also be separated and disintegrated.

Seeing that everyone was quiet, Merlin turned his head to look at the bishop who was following him, and when he saw Merlin turn his head to look at him, the bishop nodded slightly and strode in front of everyone. His action made Ryan and some nobles frown slightly, you must know that the power of Christianity on the European continent at this time is not to say that it is all over the continent, but it is also very important, especially in a country like Great Britain that is influenced by Roman culture, and the bishop can even influence the major decisions of a country.

So after seeing the Christian bishop in Great Britain, a dark cloud suddenly appeared in Ryan's heart, and he suddenly realized that his plan might not be carried out smoothly, and he could not ascend to the throne by peaceful means, because he actually ignored the influence of this bishop in this situation.

The bishop coughed slightly before he spoke, "The kingdom urgently needs a new king to unify the kingdom's forces at this time, otherwise the kingdom is in danger. So I consulted with Merlin for a long time, and decided to choose a new king from among all the knights of the kingdom. ”

As soon as the bishop's words fell, the nobles below were in an uproar, they could not believe that the king of the kingdom should be chosen in such a way. Although there are many knights in the council hall at this moment, you must know that although knights are brave and good at fighting on the battlefield, they have always been only the lowest level of the noble class of the kingdom. You must know that those who can stand in the hall at this time are basically titles with viscounts and above, not knights who have almost no fiefdoms, nor barons who do not have many titles.

Now it is said that the new king will be selected from among the knights, so that these noble nobles will compete with those knights who are nobler than the commoners, but in their eyes, where will their status and dignity be.

"The choice of the throne will be left to the Lord, and we find in the Holy Sepulchre behind the church a long sword stuck in a boulder, with the inscription 'Whoever can pull it out of the stone platform and is born in Great Britain, he is the king of Great Britain.' This is God's sword of the chosen king, so the king of the kingdom will be determined by this sword. ”

The nobles below fell silent suddenly, and they did not have the slightest doubt about the words of the bishop, because at this time people believed in gods, and when a matter involved the god in question, they would believe that in this period, not many people dared to play with others about the gods.

And the bishop was also highly regarded in the Kingdom of Great Britain, and everyone believed his words, so their hearts began to turn. This matter was beneficial to some of the minor nobles, and they were very excited in their hearts, because if it was to be elected, it would not be up to them who did not have much say in the decision, and they could only wait for the decision of the upper echelons.

But the choice of the king's sword made them very excited, and they began to pray in their hearts that they were destined to be the king of Great Britain. And Ryans, although his face was calm, his heart was shaken upside down.

"Damn Merlin!"

He didn't expect such a thing to happen at all, if he really relied on this to choose the king, even if he believed in his heart that the throne belonged to him, and firmly believed that he was the king of Great Britain in his destiny, but this could not be guaranteed, Ryans hated that there was an accident in his plan, and this kind of thing was completely out of his grasp. The bishop's sudden announcement made his work in the past five years meaningless, at least for the most part.

Charles stood behind Merlin with Artoria's small hand, a hint of an inexplicable smile flashed in his eyes and looked down, his gaze first fell on Ryans, and before the other party noticed, he swept around all the nobles in the hall, Charles retracted his gaze and looked down slightly at Artoria beside him.

"Artoria, do you see, this is the nobility of the kingdom, the aristocratic class that controls most of the kingdom's resources and determines the fate of the kingdom. Most of them are not mediocre people, they have strength and vision, but many of them only pay attention to their own interests, and do not care about the interests and fate of the kingdom. ”

When Artoria heard Charles' words, she looked up at the various expressions on the faces of the nobles below, whether excited, excited, annoyed, angry, or joyful. But except for a few people, they didn't see any worries about the future of the kingdom, which made Artoria's heart flash a trace of anger, it was because of the existence of this group of people that even if her father won a big victory, he didn't dare to change the evils in the kingdom easily, and could only desperately support his body to avoid the kingdom falling apart.

"These are the nobles of the kingdom."