Chapter 29, there is one

A silent, solemn atmosphere in the castle of Peffindor spread with incredible speed and concentration. Darius frowned and glanced at Svein, the strategist who had so far remained graceful and composed, a very, very young politician on crutches and according to the arithmetic of the ruling class.

Tapping lightly on the table, Darius said coldly, "Is there a difference?" At least this woman with an orthodox royal title in Noxus and a noble surname of Stuart is stepping towards the pinnacle of her power, and who can stop her? General Burnham? Oh, Svein, I may have believed you before, but now even if you say that General Burnham was lucky not to lose his head when he lost the crown of power, it is more credible than Burnham would have restrained Princess Kiris Stuart from taking the throne! ”

Known for his elegance and calmness, Svein, who has a good political connotation and military style, smiled faintly and drank a sip of spirits from Luo Fei Lanzhou, which is rarely liked by nobles, and basically most nobles will basically say two words after drinking this kind of wine: spicy and strong! But Svein wanted the wine to taste even close to a sick liking.

Isn't this wine a manifestation of my life? Sometimes Svein thinks so.

"General Burnham will not stop Her Royal Highness Princess Stuart from walking to the royal throne of Noxus, carrying the glittering crown of glory and power, and even if Kirise Stuart will take off his wise head at this time, General Burnham will not do anything to stop her! According to General Burnham: Power is like a wonderful lover, when you are strong enough, he will be obedient to you, and when you are skinny, she will not hesitate to kick you away in search of other men! I used to need this lover, now I don't! Svein remained in his usual tone, word by word in a magnetic voice. Very elegantly and briefly.

Darius shook his head in disgust and sneered: "I don't understand the world of you politicians, I just want to know one thing from you, the departure of General Burnham, whether Princess Kiris's reign will affect the huge empire of Noxus!" I'm not a bullshit aristocrat like you guys, I'm just a Noxian soldier. ”

Except for the arrogant and eccentric General Burnham, no one could speak so arrogantly in front of Svein, and it was the first time for Svein, who had heard Darius's radical remarks, smiled slightly, and was not angry. Instead of answering immediately, he asked, "Oh? Darius, what if Princess Kiris Stuart's rise to power caused the foundation of the Noxian Empire? ”

"Then I will kill Nicocage the Great like General Burnham, and kill Her Royal Highness the last bloodline princess of the Stuart royal family!" Darius said coldly.

Svein slowly got up, looked at Darius, and sighed softly: "I really deserve to be a soldier of the Noxian Empire, I, Svein, am proud of you!" It's just a pity that you'll never be able to sit down on this thing! ”

Darius didn't speak, but he looked up and didn't look as comfortable as before, and his face, which was about fifty years old, suddenly aged a lot. Svein looked up to the west, at St. Peter's Castle, where General Burnham lived, and muttered to himself, "Who can be as immortal as the sun and the moon in the sky?" I don't know, but General Burnham! No one in this world can be an opponent of General Burnham. But he has one enemy of all: time! Therefore he died. ”

Speaking of this, Darius saw that Svein's always confident face suddenly became extremely decadent, fell to his knees, and whispered, "I have been fighting against the gods for so many years. General Burnham, are you still failing? ”

The gates of St. Peter's Castle are locked, and General Burnham, who has reigned on the continent of Valoran since the time of Gavin II of the Demacian Empire, does not know how many years he has ruled Noxus. Now it is rumored that the general who rules the Noxian Empire has been rejuvenated and has the secret of immortality is finally old.

Darius looked at Svein, and for the first time his face showed an unbelievable emotion, even if Darius had not shown the shock and panic that he had shown when he killed the coward, and a pair of sharp eyes looked at Svein, as if he wanted to interpret the answer he needed from Svein's eyes.

But it turned out to be a failure.

Darius sighed deeply, the second knight of the Noxian Empire, who was unscrupulous and full of military style, and had the knight of the holy coffin, Darius fell to the ground on one knee, looked at the bright sun, and muttered to himself: "You just lost to the gods, General Burnham!" ”

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The interior of St. Peter's Castle is always quiet, different from the elegant and refined life of the usual aristocracy. General Burnham's life was simple but busy, thirty years ago he had never attended hunting, dinners or the like, and spent most of his time checking on the lives of the inhabitants of Noxus, planting wheat in the fields, and visiting some of the Empire's wealthy bankers and financiers.

In the words of many veteran aristocrats, General Burnham of the Darkwell family, one of the five ancient families, was the most noble nobleman who was born like a nobleman! It is precisely under the leadership of this old man who seems to be only in his fifties and eternal youth that he has improved step by step in terms of military, economy, construction and culture!

Even the Demacian Empire, the ancient Avinian Empire, couldn't help but sigh at the eloquence of this Noxian ruler! Today's Noxus is many times stronger than in the past, and the former Noxus could not launch such a large-scale, three-year-long holy war against the mainland as unscrupulously as the current Noxus.

Burnham did.

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"The Bacons, the Solaots, and the Constantine should have jumped up and cheered! This old immortal Burnham has finally come to his twilight years, Her Royal Highness Princess Kiris has come down, and the old aristocratic era has arrived! In a very simple room, Burnham looked at the chess game he had received from an Oriental merchant, took a step, and looked up and smiled at the middle-aged man in a black robe, full of obscurity and mystery.

Looking at the man in front of him, Burnham couldn't help but sigh softly. It was he who invited this middle-aged man, who was still an old man at the time, into Noxus that created the glory of today's Noxus.

To this day, Burnham remembers the first time he saw the man. The man spat out softly: "Noxus does not lack great force, the only thing that lacks is a faith!" General Burnham, I can give Noxus the faith he needs to forge a Holy Empire even more powerful than the old Nurima! ”

Only an arrogant or confident person could say this, and what Burnham saw in this man's eyes was not arrogance, but a vast and deep look that seemed to penetrate everything and reach the other side of time.

Hence the second meeting later.

St. Peter's City, an elderly groomer who had been silent about Burnham's courtesy along the way, looked at Burnham and asked, "General Darkwell, what do you need?" ”

The Noxian ruler, whose real name is Duckwell Burnham, replied with a smile, "Valoran, monk. Can you give it to me? ”

The monk then asked, "General Darkwell, what can you give me?" ”

General Darkwell Burnham replied to a phrase that would later be widely circulated in Valoran: "If Valoran is Noxus, then the Pope's scepter is yours; If Noxus belongs to Valoran, then the Sacramental Hall belongs to you. ”

A smile appeared on the monk's old-fashioned face, and he said softly: "As you wish, General Burnham, please call me His Excellency the Pope!" ”

This passage is widely circulated on the continent of Valoran, and is known as the beginning of the "rise of the giants" by imperial historians such as Demacia, Ionia, Acacia, and Zaun.

The monk, who is now the Holy See of Byzantio, Pope Jeosura, looked at this old companion whose life had come to an end and sighed. "Isn't that what you want to see?" Duckwell! It's just that I don't want to see Her Royal Highness Princess Kirise Stuart, who was brought up by you, take off your head at the same time as the crown on your head! ”

Everyone knows that General Darkwell Burnham is a group of the five most powerful families in the Empire, the Darkwell family! And it was a very common illegitimate child of the upper class, and even three years after General Burnham took power, no one knew that General Burnham belonged to the Darkwell family.

It was also General Darkwell Burnham who removed the Rothonchild family and the Condestamins family, which were among the five major families of the empire at that time, from the ruling aristocratic families by thunderous means, and the Darkwell family suddenly turned around and supported General Darkwell Burnham's resolution with that unbelievable supportive attitude. Everyone learned that the Noxian ruler surnamed Burnham was originally a member of the Darkwell family.

It's just that since the beginning of Burnham's power in the last century, he has not admitted that he belongs to the Darkwell family, and so far his life is Darkwell Burnham instead of Burnham Duckwell!

This has always been the biggest regret of the Darkwell family, the long-dead Walker Darkwell: he has an heir who helped the family to glory, but he does not belong to the family!

He still looks like he's in his fifties, but he's very old. Eighty years old, ninety years old, or one hundred years old. No one knows how old the old man who has always insisted on using the humble surname of Burnham is, just as many wonder how Queen Elizabeth of Ionia could easily serve Ionia with all the members of the Crown family.

The old man, whose real name should be Burnham Darkwell, slowly stood up, holding a dark red cane of a different color from Svein's hand, glanced at Yeosura, an old friend who had helped him build an incomparable glory of Noxus thirty years ago, sighed softly, and said, "I don't want Kiris to take off my head at the same time as the crown of glory and power on my head, but I don't want to see an old man who has gone to God to stop Noxus from moving forward!" If it weren't for the emergence of Darkwell Burnham, the rebel of the Stuart royal family in the Noxian Empire, how could there be the rise of Svein, Kiris, Riven, Caterina, Octavian, Augustus and others? ”

"Valoran's wish to belong to Noxus is impossible for me to fulfill, but I hope that my heir, Her Royal Highness Princess Kiris, and you, the Yaosura, who will live for thirty or forty years, can help me witness all this!"

After a pause, Burnham walked to the castle, looked at the endless meadow, recalled his wonderful life in his eyes, and muttered to himself: "I haven't thought of you for too long, so long, that I've almost forgotten you!" But I'm sure you don't blame me, because you also want Noxus to be immortal, Helen Burnham, and Errette Lancaster. ”

On one side, the only Pope who knew these two names, Yeosura, sighed deeply, Helen Burnham, the woman who was abandoned by Walker Darkwell, was also Darkwell Burnham's mother! And Errette Lancaster was Burnham's lover when he was young, but the ordinary woman who followed this great man did not accompany this great man to the pinnacle of life in the end, but fell into the hands of the three deep-rooted ancient families of Rothonchild, Conderstein, and Darkwell.

And Burnham's thunderous anger is because of this ordinary woman who has long been forgotten by the three families. The loneliness of Rothonchild and Kanderstein is because of this.

"A great man dedicates his life to the rise of Noxus, and his heart is only filled with two ordinary women, Helen Burnham and Carrett Lancaster, who are already full and can no longer be accommodated! Can anyone tell that there is such a great and pitiful man in this world? If there is anything I am willing to help this lucky guy carry the crown of the Noxian Empire! At this moment, Yeosura did not look like a pope standing in the spiritual world of the Holy See, but like an ordinary old man sighed.

The pensive Burnham turned his head suddenly, showed a smile, and whispered back, "Maybe there is one, Augustus!" A little guy I forgot about in Ferreljord! ”

PowerbyYOZOSOFT (To be continued.) )