The year 11543 of the imperial calendar.

Emperor Woolf has been on the throne for 278 years, and has many heirs, the best and most popular of which are the two eldest sons, the eldest prince and the second prince.

The eldest prince has a gentle temperament, has an excellent reputation among the people, has a large number of supporters among the major nobles, and is also the most loved by the emperor, and is the undisputed first in line to the throne.

Messiah and Red Dragon were members of the pro-army knights around the prince at that time.

In contrast, although the second prince is also eloquent and has shown extraordinary political and military talents since he was a child, his voice is more than a step weaker than that of the eldest prince.

There are even rumors from the outside world that His Majesty the Emperor intends to officially canonize the eldest prince as the prince.

At this moment, a catastrophic helium flash suddenly broke out in the star of an important galaxy, and the eldest prince, who happened to be patrolling nearby, was naturally assigned by the emperor to pacify the refugees and preside over the disaster relief work.

In order to rush to the galaxy where the incident occurred as soon as possible, the eldest prince only brought his own personal guards and was lightly armed.

Their route was naturally kept absolutely secret, but on the way to the stricken galaxy, the Grand Prince and his party were suddenly attacked by unknown armed forces.

Although the guards fought bloodily, they were outnumbered, and finally the prince's ship was sunk, and a big explosion occurred in the battle, and no one on the ship escaped.

In the end, only the Red Dragon and Messiah escaped the encirclement with the captain-level legendary mecha, and wandered in the universe for months with the severely damaged mecha, and just when they themselves were about to despair, they were lucky to be rescued by a passing merchant ship.

They immediately prepared to find out the real culprit, but at this time they learned that the eldest prince was declared "sick and dead", and it was obvious that the imperial family had decided to cover up the truth about the attack and death of the eldest prince.

At the time, the two did not think much of it, believing that this was the choice of the royal family to cover up the news in order to avoid the turmoil in the empire.

However, they contacted the royal family through secret channels, but in the end, they did not wait for the royal family's reinforcements, but waited for a group of pursuers, and the forces behind the pursuers ...... but faintly pointed to Grand Duke Houghton!

Grand Duke Houghton, one of the five great dukes of the empire, at the same time ...... is also the grandfather of the second prince!

Knowing that they had been involved in the battle for the throne, the two began their own escape again, evading layers of pursuit almost to the death, and finally fell into the Shattered Star Domain.

They knew that they were by no means the opponents of the forces of the second prince, so they could only hide their names, and they also dealt with their appearance, in order to avoid the characteristics being too obvious, the two decided to develop separately to reduce the possibility of exposure.

It turns out that gold can shine anywhere, and the two of them, who were already the elites of the empire, soon laid a foundation in the Shattered Star Domain.

On the surface, they are hostile to each other, but in fact, they secretly communicate with each other, and under the mutual support in secret, the two develop step by step, and finally become one of the seven pirates.

Of course, being a pirate leader is not their ultimate goal, they have been waiting for the opportunity, the one that will reveal the truth.

However, the second prince's momentum is getting stronger and stronger, the foundation is getting stronger and stronger, and the tentacles have even extended to the nearby star fields, which makes them more and more desperate, and even broke off the idea of revenge for the eldest prince for a while.

However, the tree wants to be quiet and the wind does not stop, and Hei Fan's "Dragon Slaying Plan" made the Messiah have to expose his relationship with the red dragon, and finally attracted the attention of the second prince and his family......

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"Poof!" Spit out the melon seed shell in his mouth, Nie Yun was surprised when he heard it, "You mean, the great prince of the empire was made by someone, and as a result, everyone treated him as sick and died, and this matter passed like this?" ”

How do you look at it, this is not logical!

Even if it is to cover up the scandal of the same room and announce that the eldest prince is "sick and dead", but after settling accounts after the autumn, there will be a bloody purge afterwards, and then the prince involved in the case will be demoted to a commoner and imprisoned for life, this is a normal operation, right?

Even if the real culprit behind the attack can't be found, but with the principle of "the greatest interest is the greatest suspect", the second prince will definitely not be able to eat well.

But people are living and nourishing more and more now, and no matter how you look at it, it is weird.

"Uh-huh!" The code name behind him also nodded again and again, indicating that it did not conform to the conventional routine of "Kowloon Winning the Heir".

"Alas! Maybe...... It's because of Grand Duke Houghton......" Messiah said helplessly.

"Grand Duke Holden is the most powerful of the five dukes, not only has a large number of noble private soldiers, but also has great influence in the military.

Not to mention that there is no evidence, even if there is evidence, I am afraid that it will not be easy to convict him.

Now that the political situation in the empire is unstable, it provokes the other party and is likely to cause further division of the empire. ”

This is also the most likely speculation in their post-mortem analysis, that the emperor did not know the truth, but that he was a mouse-thrower.

I see!

Nie Yun nodded, why can Brother Wuji be the leader of the Ming Sect?

Martial arts? Record? Whoever learns the Great Shift will be the leader? Shallow!

Anyone who has ever been a social animal knows that the most important reason is none other than ...... It's because the other party has a good grandfather!

"The eldest prince and the second prince are His Majesty's best heirs, and now that the eldest prince is gone, if the second prince is dealt with again, then the royal family really has no successor.

Now that I think about it, even if we really met His Majesty himself at that time, he might have chosen to secretly execute us to prevent the news from leaking......" Red Dragon also smiled wryly.

Well! Blind student, you have discovered Huadian!

From this point of view, what the second prince is most worried about is not that the news reaches the emperor's ears, but that the two of them should be obtained by other princes and used as tools to attack him.

After all, the emperor didn't dare to break the news, and the other contenders for the throne didn't have such concerns.

It is estimated that they still wish that the second prince and the emperor would completely break up and make their brains, so that they can fish in troubled waters.

Once the news is made public, even if he doesn't want to, the emperor must say something.

But in the final analysis, this is a tear between the top executives after all, and the Messiah and the Red Dragon, as insignificant pawns, no matter who they fall into, I am afraid that nothing good will end.

This is probably the reason why they didn't even think to poke things out.

If you don't poke it out, you may still live, but if you poke it out horizontally and vertically, it is a death.

"But how can you say it, it's also a direct confrontation with the emperor, that Grand Duke Holden dares to attack and kill the eldest prince at the risk of the world, is he fighting so hard for a grandson?" Nie Yun wondered.

You must know that if this crime is confirmed, it is no different from rebellion.

In case the emperor breaks the net for the sake of his son, the Duke of Houghton's family is estimated to end up with a dead family.

This is completely gambling on the future of the second prince with the life of the entire family!

"Yes! Duke Houghton is really likely to take this risk for the sake of the second prince! ”

Unexpectedly, the Messiah gave an affirmative answer.

"The second prince is Duke Houghton's favorite descendant, there is no one!

It is said that the second prince once had a conflict with Duke Houghton's own grandson when he was a child, and his head was broken and his face was almost broken, but after that, there was no news of each other from the outside world. ”

"Hiss~" Nie Yun and the code name gasped in unison.

For the sake of his grandson, he evaporated his own grandson in the world?!

He finally understood why the emperor didn't dare to attack the second prince.

This is not just doting, it is simply a perversion!