"It usually takes a day to get from Orlan to Perades, and with the rain tonight, they should not be able to reach the capital until tomorrow morning or noon. "The Duke of the Plain of Lonster, Thobes Va' O'Brien, stood up straight from the wall against which he had leaned a moment, and looked solemnly at the princess's back facing the window, admitting, "But compared to this matter, it is about the ...... of His Majesty's illness."www.biquge.info

"I understand, Sir Topbs... I understand your concerns. Princess Tifia rubbed her temples on the side of her head to drive away a wave of tiredness that welled up in her heart," said Valburia. ”

"The minister is here." Valberia, a short staff member, came in response.

"What do you think of my father's illness?" With Ranna's help, Princess Tifia turned the direction of her wheelchair and her eyes fell on Valberia, who was standing in front of her with Duke Thobes.

Valberia met the princess's gaze, with an unstable look in her eyes, and after hesitating for a while, she spoke: "Your Royal Highness the princess, Rong Chen took the liberty to ask. ”

"You say."

"Your Majesty's illness, did Your Highness foresee it in advance?"

"If I want to kill my father and be crowned before Juventus and Koende, what does the role of regent mean to me?" Princess Tifia could hear what Valberia was saying, and immediately did not hide it, and looked directly at the short staff gentleman with a smile and asked, "Valberia, if it were you, would you prefer the king's golden crown or real power?" ”

"Then there is only one explanation for Your Majesty's sickness." Valberia's eyes narrowed.

"You mean the royal party?" Duke Tobs glanced at him.

"Is there any other possibility, Lord Sir?" The short staff man was confident, "In any case, Your Majesty has not yet reached the advanced age of old age and decrepitude, and I really don't want to believe that Your Majesty's illness is a natural one. ”

With that, Valberia clenched his fists, as if there were a few thorny vines stuck in the palm of his hand that could not be removed.

Duke Tobs was also stunned.

There is a saying on the coast of St. Frun's that "there are no blood relatives under the king", but the terrible possibility that Prince Juventus was planning to poison His Majesty the King made him shudder, thinking that if all the nobles of the royal faction knew about this plan, it would be ...... Lose your marbles.

The dog jumped off the wall in a hurry.

All crazy!

"Where are Juventus and Koende?" After a moment of silence in the room, Princess Tifia's calm voice suddenly reached the ears of the Duke and his staff, accompanied by the sound of rain dripping outside the window.

Valberia was stunned for a moment, and first raised her gaze from the tiled floor of the dormitory: "The two princes should still be in the royal capital. ”

"Should it be?" The princess picked out the key words in Valberia's words at a glance, "And now?" ”

"After hearing the news of His Majesty's illness, the minister kept an eye on it, and specially sent people to search the city for the traces of the two princes." Valberia looked into the princess's eyes and replied, "However, the courtier's spies told the courtier after evening that the two princes seem to have disappeared since this morning, and that it is very likely that they have secretly left the royal capital. ”

For a moment, there seemed to be a flash of fire in the princess's eyes.

But she took a deep breath and asked Valberia, "Where do you think they will go?" ”

"At least it shouldn't be south." Valberia looked at it intently, put her finger on her chin and thought for a moment, "After all, south of Perlades is the Lonster Plain ruled by Lord Tobbs, and the escape of His Highness Juventus and Highness Kohnde to the south is tantamount to throwing himself into a trap. ”

"In this way, the two princes should not flee to the northwest either." Duke Tobs blinked his eyes and immediately seconded, "Because the direction to the west and north of the royal capital is the Thorn Fortress, not to mention that the Black and Gold Lion Legion guarding the fortress is now under the control of Her Royal Highness the Princess, even if Juventus and Koende are out of the pass, they still have to face the orcs in the wasteland." ”

"In other words, the only options left for the two of them are to go southeast down the Bernube and east to the Golantian Plains, right?" Princess Tiphia placed her fingers on her dress, making a small conclusion to the speculations of Valberia and Duke Tobs.

Valblia apparently agreed with the princess's words: "That's right, Your Highness. However, compared to going east along the Lawrence River to the north, the city of Silver Sparrow under Count Charles and Andalom under Count Vernad were both spheres of influence of the royal party, and the minister thought that it was more likely that the two princes would go south along the Bernux River. ”

"Then I'll prepare." When Duke Tobs heard this, he immediately turned around and planned to leave.

During his recent visit to the royal capital from the Plain of Lonster, he not only handed over his territory to his trusted courtiers, but also brought a personal guard from his fiefdom.

That personal guard can be regarded as a guard trained by the Duke of Tobs himself, the lords of the Longster Plains never forget to take them with them when they leave the fiefdom and go out, at this moment those elite soldiers are stationed on the outskirts of the royal capital, as long as Tobbs himself gives an order, even if they are asleep, they will immediately turn over from the bed, put on their armor as fast as possible, and then step on the stirrup and wait for the military order.

The duke's intentions were already very obvious. He tried to march overnight to intercept the princes of Juventus and Kond who had secretly fled the royal capital, and this confidence came from the fact that the light cavalry of the Lonster plain was recognized as the fastest army in the current era in the coastal region of the St. Flen Sea, and the scout cavalry of the Violet Kingdom even recruited soldiers and horses only from that land, and the guards under his command happened to be a pure light cavalry force.

The ancestor Atrik once said that the fast horse of Longster will never be defeated by speed, just like the flower of thorns will never wither.

The military nobles of the founding generation of the kingdom firmly believed that the violet flowers that bloomed on the thorn vines were sheltered under the intertwined double swords, one of which was called the green wattle vine, and the other sword was called the black golden lion, and the national flower blooming under the sword on the thorn would never usher in the moment of withering.

The Duke of Tobs was also convinced that the cavalry under his command would be able to rely on superior speed to recover a day's journey along the main road along the Bernux River to intercept the princes of Juventus and Koend.

However, at this moment, Princess Tiphia looked at his back, which had just turned around, and calmly called out to him, "No need, Sir Tobs. ”

"Your Highness the Princess?" Tobbs looked back.

"It's late." The princess tilted her head slightly, her white gauze dress leaning on the back of her wheelchair, her blue eyes staring at the ceiling, but as if looking at the rainy night sky, "I thought about it carefully, my father's death in the hands of Juventus is my false proof as a murderer and usurper, and what he wants is actually just a declaration of war to attract other nobles to the royal party...... And all of us overestimated his moral bottom line. ”

"In other words, what the royal party really wants is war." Valberia furrowed her brow, her face becoming more and more ugly.

"If the speculation that Juventus harmed their father is true." The princess regent, the regent of the Violet Kingdom, leaned the back of her head on the back of her wheelchair and gritted her teeth with a wry smile, "But speaking of which, I'm also curious about how Juventus poisoned their father under our watchful eye if this assumption is true." ”

As the words fell, the vision in her eyes blurred for a moment, and she found that the consequences of long sleep deprivation seemed to finally find her, and at the same time, she felt that an invisible string had quietly tightened.

As soon as the invisible string breaks, it is the moment when the flames of war erupt. (To be continued.) )