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"Bell, bell, bell...... Bell Bell Bell ......"

At six o'clock in the morning, the bell on the council building struck six times, and the sound was heard throughout Avalon.

A new day has begun. In a thin mist, sumptuous or simple* carriages, protected by knights and guards, drove out of the magnate and headed for the parliament building in the heart of Avalon.

Even the old people who have lived in Avalon City for decades have rarely seen such a formation. The parliament building was in operation almost every day, but the parliamentarians came in and out of a horse-drawn carriage, a few retinues, and even some councillors, riding a horse or some other monster mount.

Not every member of parliament has great power. Parliamentarians are only the representatives of a certain family in the permanent parliament, and the real power is often held by the head of a wealthy family, and the parliamentarians are just the spokesmen of a certain family.

But today, the one who appeared in the council was the head of the thirty-six families of the Fog Capital World. When all the heads of the house participate in the deliberations of the council, it is called the Great Council.

In the past, such a ceremony would only be held in five years, which would basically freeze the reshuffle of Avalon's strength and situation in the next five years.

But it's only been a little over a year since the last Great Council, and this time the heads of all the families gathered in Avalon, and things were unusual.

This is not an accident, but the result of a game between the parties.

The civil war in the world of the fog is on the verge of breaking out. However, to the disappointment of many large and small powers, the civil war did not go as they had originally envisioned, but was a feast for the division of the Alexandrian family. It's a war between families that were originally united. And the mastermind behind it is none other than the Alexander family.

The most alarming thing for the families was that the Bronze Castle was not breached and taken away by the barbarians, but left the Black River Plains and slowly returned towards Avalon.

There is no doubt that the Alexanders have realized the danger and are shrinking their forces.

When the Bronze Castle returns to Avalon, the power of the Alexander family in Avalon will inevitably reach its peak, and it will become more difficult for the major families to do something.

Therefore, this impromptu Great Council was convened against this background.

The demands of the families, which had finally been re-twisted together, had changed from dividing up the Alexandrian family to forcing the female speaker Victoria to announce her resignation and replace it with a figure elected by them as the speaker.

Everyone knew that the Alexanders could no longer be allowed to dominate the Parliament.

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"As we all know, the long-term heavy work of the parliament has crushed the health of the speaker of the parliament, and in the past two years, the speaker has not dealt with affairs for a long time, so that many things in the parliament cannot function normally, such as the Western pioneer plan, which has been put forward three years ago, but until now, the bill has not been dealt with...... Therefore, I suggest that the Speaker should temporarily relinquish power and let the three Deputy Speakers take over the power temporarily...... Until the Speaker recovers. ”

At eight o'clock, before the head of the family and the councillors had entered the meeting, some anxious councillors stepped up to the podium and expressed their opinions and expositions to the members in the seat.

The legislators who come early are usually some relatively weak families, they maintain a relatively independent attitude around all the big families, and they also do not have too many opinions, and belong to the objects of lobbying.

Of course, if they want to be truly determined, they will have to look at the rest after the first round of debates, and how much the votes privately opened by the various forces are worth.

Whoever gives the most benefits, whose thighs are thicker, and who can win more will approve of whomever he approves, which is the only way for a small family to maintain its survival.

As time went on, the number of people in the Great Council grew, but the Speaker's seat remained empty, with only two members of the Alexandrian family standing aside, indicating that the Speaker had been listening to their speeches and opinions.

Looking at the empty position, some families became timid, but more councillors and voices became more excited and active.

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"Holy Alliance, that's the same?"

Qin Shi frowned and asked Jack the Ripper.

The group arrived early in the Great Council and entered the underground of the Parliament building through the secret passage discovered by Tony Sr.

To Qin Shi's surprise, the secret passages below the Great Council were intricate, like a huge labyrinth.

No, actually, it's a labyrinth. Without someone familiar with the road leading the way, it would be impossible to find the place where the seeds of the Galaxy Tree of Life are located.

And Old Tony also entered the secret realm of the fog capital last time, and it took him nearly a month to explore, and finally found the right path.

Otherwise, they'll have to spend more time here.

The most amazing thing is that although they have gone around many times underground, nearly five hundred meters underground, the speeches and debates in the Great Council above echo word for word throughout the labyrinth.

So Qin Shi listened to the speech for several hours.

The words of these speakers can basically be divided into two parts, one part asks the speaker of the parliament to hand over power, and the other part refutes their non-divisive ideas.

The most interesting thing is that every member of parliament speaks as much as he can, even if he repeats his words over and over again, he is not willing to get off the podium, and in the end he is often cheered down with enthusiastic boos and then resigned from the stage, and there are also people who refuse to move with a dead face, but these often people still throw things, and even irritable parliamentarians rush up and beat them, and finally they are both dragged down by the guards.

Qin Shi was puzzled by this kind of behavior, but Jack the Ripper said that in the Holy Alliance, such a farce was going on every day.

It can even be said that the parliament of Avalon is not at all comparable to the parliament of the Holy Alliance. The members of the parliament of the Holy Alliance often have to send strong people to protect the left and right, and even the strong people themselves are legendary-level strongmen before they dare to speak in the parliament.

Outside the parliament, there is a bloody bench, and if a member has an opposing or hostile opinion against another member, he can propose to decide in a duel whether the member's proposal is eligible to enter the voting process.

Of course, only when the interests of the family are put in the parliament by a certain force to divide up, will there be a member of parliament who will use such an extreme way to block the conspiracy of the other party.

Despite this, the bloody referee is also opened at least ten times eight times a year.

From this aspect, it is enough to show that the Holy Alliance has never been monolithic.

"Only worse ......," said Jack the Ripper lazily. He is not only disappointed in the Holy Alliance, but if there is still a chance, his scalpel is still willing to disembowel several parliamentarians.

"When you get here, you must be careful......"

Old Tony, who was walking at the front, suddenly stopped and said, "I sense, it seems that there is a force protecting it near the seed of the Tree of Life, if my perception is correct, this existence must be terrifying." ”