It was late at night, and Prince Gallah sat in his chair in his study, still not asleep.

The maid brought a hot towel, and the prince tilted his head and gently applied it to his face, slightly relieving the fatigue of the day.

Gallaher's eyes were slightly closed, and the scenes of the day flashed through his mind quickly.

Now that I think about it, my brother as an emperor is really a failure, but his father was murdered behind his son's back, and his husband's trip to the inner palace in the evening made Gallaher, an outsider, feel cold. The queen and queen reacted to the news of the emperor's death with a surprisingly flat response, and all the aftermath was decided by Gallaher and Aru. Gallaher's purple eyes even saw the joy that could barely be concealed in the depths of the emperor's eyes, this woman only really cared about her son Second Highness ascending the throne.

Several concubines were crying heartbroken, but what these women were crying was not the love of husband and wife, but how they lived after the new monarch succeeded to the throne.

Gallaher was drowsy as there was a sudden sound of hurried footsteps and knocks outside the study door.

Gallaher sat upright, but it was dark in front of him, and it turned out that the towel was still covering his face, and it was already cold.

"Report, urgent military situation!" Nanbo, the commander of the forbidden army, broke in directly.

Prince Gallaher's eyes lit up, "Is the sky falling? ”

Nanbo gave a military salute, "The prince forgives the sin, the military situation is too urgent, and the subordinates are reckless." ”

"Say it. ”

"I just received an urgent report of the military situation, His Highness's Northland Legion is marching rapidly in the direction of Arantis, and according to the speed of the march, it will be able to reach the imperial capital in two days; ”

"It's really fast, it looks like they've planned it a long time ago. Prince Gallaher turned around the spot twice with his hands behind his back, and said slowly: "Although Alex's Northland Legion is elite, only these 100,000 people can't make any waves under the city of Arantis, and the real threat is Holo's three legions. Fortunately, there is still the barrier of the Kingdom of Bardos between the imperial capital and Holo, you can now go and invite the king of Bardos overnight, as long as Bardos can help the empire block Holo's army in its territory for five days, I can free up my hands to gather an army to counterattack Holo. ”

Nanbo cried with a sad face, "Prince, this is exactly what I haven't finished talking about. The king of Bardos also ran out before the imperial capital was closed, and now the two legions of Bardos have also entered the Gyeonggi region after the Northland Legion, and they will not be killed half a day later than the Northland Legion. ”

Gallaher's head flickered for a moment. Now that he finally understood Alex's reason for his eagerness to get out of town, it turned out that Bardos was also on his side. Holo, Bardos, and his own Northland legion, Alex actually gathered 600,000 troops.

Gallaher's heart was cold, even with the danger of the city defense of Arantis, it was not much chance of winning with 300,000 against 600,000, not to mention that there were many generals and forces in the city who had previously supported His Highness, and some of them must have already secretly fallen to Alex.

"Prince, I don't know if I can say a word?"

"You say. ”

"Since the Second Highness has been decided to succeed the emperor, why do you have to bear this war alone?"

Gallaher looked at Nanbo with a slightly surprised gaze, "What do you mean?"

"With the Praetorian Guard and the City Guard of Arantis, the chances of victory against the armies of Holo and Bardos are naturally not good. However, Locke and Rouge have always supported the succession of His Royal Highness II, and now that the throne has been decided, as long as the two countries are persuaded to send troops, the danger of the imperial capital will naturally be solved. ”

Gallaher's face softened, and he couldn't help nodding, "You're right, I wanted the emperor to be blind, so it's really not well thought out to carry everything alone! Locke and Rouge have the same military strength as Bardos, and they just sandwich Bardos in the middle, as long as the two countries send troops from the left and right flanks at the same time, they will definitely be able to defeat them in one fell swoop." And thou shalt go and invite two kings overnight. ”

Prince Gallah had a secret conversation with the kings of Locke and Rouge in his study that night. By the time Gallaher personally sent the two kings out of the palace, it was already getting dark.

Locke and Rouge finally agreed to send 200,000 troops each to help the empire quell the rebellion in Holo and Bardos, but they took the opportunity to put forward extremely harsh conditions. The first is to ask the Second Highness to ascend the throne first, and after ascending the throne, sign a secret treaty with the two countries in the name of the emperor, and after quelling the rebellion, deprive the king of the throne of Bardos, and divide his territory equally between Locke and Rouge.

The two countries were extremely clever and did not make a claim to the territory of the Holo Kingdom, because Holo bordered the orcs, and if they swallowed Holo, they would face the threat of orc invasion.

Gallaher stood outside the palace gate, squinting at the rising sun and letting out a long sigh.

At this moment, he understood that it was not easy for his brother, under the watchful eyes of the wolf-like kings of the Seven Kingdoms, it was indeed not easy to maintain this huge empire!

......

After Joan found the clue to the emperor's assassination, she didn't want to delay for a moment.

Joan didn't know the people of the Holo Kingdom, but the people of the Holo Kingdom always knew. In the afternoon, the Dragon Scale Guard had arrested a lot of people from the Palace and Post House of the Holo Kingdom, and these people were all temporarily locked up in the Dragon Scale Guard's guard.

The Dragonscale Guard's guard was on the outskirts of the North City, and Joan pulled Arthur straight to the North City.

It was late at night when Joan and Arthur arrived at the Dragonscale Guardhouse.

Although there were people in the Dragonscale Guard who knew His Highness Eleven, these people arrested in the afternoon were related to the assassination of the Emperor, and the matter was too sensitive for anyone to meet with the prisoners without the consent of Prince Gallaher or Commander Casper.

Joan ended up being ruthless and lashed out on the spot, telling the Dragonscale Guard to tell Casper to come to see him immediately.

How dare these ordinary dragon scale guards offend His Highness Eleven, but they also dare not disturb the Grand Commander Casper late at night. Fortunately, Deputy Commander Harper was on duty at the guard house that night, and after receiving the news reported below, he personally went to greet His Highness Eleventh outside the guard house.

Harper was also embarrassed when he learned that His Highness Eleventh was going to interrogate the prisoners of the Hollo Kingdom in private, and he was here tonight for fear of any accidents.

Joan flexed up and said, "Commander Harper, I won't embarrass you about this. I have a friend who is missing, and I only ask these Holo prisoners if they know him, and I don't ask anything else, and you can stay with me the whole time. ”

Harper thought about it for a while, and felt that this might not be a big problem, so he had to agree to the request of His Highness Eleven.

When Joan arrived at the guardhouse, she was not in a hurry to interrogate the prisoners, but asked the Dragonscale Guard to go overnight to hire a royal painter who was good at painting portraits.

After the painter arrived, Joan and Arthur described the appearance of the person they saw on the day from memory, and the painter drew the person's face on the spot.

After a few minor adjustments, when the person in the painting was almost identical to what Joan had seen that day, Joan entered the interrogation room with the scroll and accompanied by Harper.

The first to be escorted into the interrogation room was none other than the magician Herance, who appeared in the last scene of the Death Academy.

Although he has only been imprisoned for more than half a day, and he has not been tortured and questioned, Helans's mentality has completely collapsed, the felony of assassinating the emperor, he is still so young but he is going to die here!

"Look up and take a good look at this man, do you know him?" Joan unfolded the scroll to Helands.

"Know, know, this is the vice president of Jerlitley, the magic wand engraved with 'Ice and Snow Storm' was given to me by the vice president, but this matter has nothing to do with me, I really don't know that Uka is going to assassinate the emperor......" Helans, who was eager to wash himself away, gushed as soon as he opened his mouth.

Joan and Arthur looked at each other and smiled, and the fog of assassinating the emperor was finally lifted......