Half a day ago. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

"Aldrich, are you ready?"

It was nearly evening, and the setting sun was shining in the sky, like a gauze stained red with blood, against the silent palace. The palace was like an iceberg, dead and motionless in the face of the noisy crowd outside the palace streets.

The rumours have grown, and local officials and people have gathered outside the palace, shouting that we want to see Your Majesty. The armies of Freden were also ready to move, and many of the generals secretly returned to the city of Xuedi and handed over secret letters asking to see the king.

At this moment, Aldrich and a bishop in purple robe stood in the palace. They looked out the window at the chaotic capital, but their expressions were as calm as frozen lakes.

"Bishop Victor. Aldrich turned his head, "I've been preparing for this moment all my life. ”

The bishop nodded silently.

They stopped looking out the window, turned together, and walked out of the room.

Outside the door, the queen and some of her maids stood there, and when they saw them come out, they bowed their heads in fear.

"Her Royal Highness. ”

Aldrich smiled kindly, walked over, and shook her hands: "It's about to start." The future of Freden will be left to you and Bishop Victor. ”

The queen was silent for a moment, then suddenly withdrew her hands from Aldrich's hands.

She clutched her stomach and didn't speak, nodding quietly.

In the face of the queen's somewhat resistant gesture, Aldrich did not get angry, but showed loving eyes. The old eyes drooped, and looked at the queen's eyes.

"May God bless you. ”

With that, he turned around and walked out of the hallway.

The bishop in purple, the queen who seems to have tears in the corners of her eyes, and the maid who bows her head and is silent...... Everyone followed Aldrich and walked silently towards the front, like two rows of mourners in filial piety clothes at a funeral.

Aldrich was at the forefront. The sun fell on his wrinkled cheeks, like a picture of the mountains.

Ten minutes later, they came to the door of the royal palace.

At this moment, the whole team has grown a lot. Several guards, several authoritative officials, and a general...... Although there are many people, they are still very neatly arranged. And the person standing at the front has also changed from Aldrich to queen.

The queen wore a black plain dress and a black veil, and from time to time took out a handkerchief to wipe away the tears from the corners of her eyes.

Aldrich, on the other hand, took off his neat robe at the moment, his white hair was messy, and his clothes were disheveled. His hands were tied behind his back, and his body was still wrapped in circles of forbidden chains, making every step of his aging body look extremely difficult.

Several soldiers escorted him to the back of the line, making a screeching sound of chains scraping against the ground.

"Your Highness, are you ready?"

Before they stepped out of the gate, the bishop was asked in a low voice from behind the queen.

The queen turned her head, glanced at the ornate coffin that was being carried in the middle of the procession, and took a deep breath.

“...... I'm ready. ”

With a buzz, the door in front of me was opened.

The afterglow of the setting sun and the noisy crowd poured into the queen's eyes. The queen couldn't help but tremble. She was silent for a few seconds, touched her belly, and took a step forward.

The crowd outside the palace suddenly fell silent the moment the queen appeared.

“...... Your Highness, Your Highness?"

Some officials and members of the public recognized her.

The queen didn't care. From the moment she walked into people's field of vision, she raised her head slightly, folded her hands, showed a calm expression, and walked forward silently in the posture of a queen.

The silent crowd branched off a path.

The queen continued on until she reached the middle of the street, where she stopped.

Behind her, a long queue was visible to the public.

And in the queue, the most conspicuous is undoubtedly the coffin.

The people looked at the transparent coffin, at the flowers in the coffin and at the "sleeping" king, and for a while, countless gasping voices came and went.

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty......"

The crowd gathered here suddenly knelt down on one knee from the inner circle to the outer circle like dominoes. They bowed their heads heavily, their right hands clenched into fists in front of their chests, and their faces looked sad.

The long street outside the palace has never been filled with such an oppressive atmosphere.

Then the queen's voice rang out.

"The former Hussen Empire, the second prince of the old king, François Hessen, our King of Freeden, died six days ago, at the beginning of September of the ninth year of the new calendar. Her voice seemed to suppress grief, but it sounded extremely loud, "My husband...... He guarded our land and freedom, guarded me and our daughter, and finally died at the age Chinese New Year's Eve of four. ”

Dead leaves are falling. An irrepressible sadness spread through the crowd.

Someone even started sobbing.

"However, my husband did not die in the struggle with disease and enemies, but in betrayal. The Queen's voice continued, "As you have heard these days, Aldrich, the head of the Masonic Order, and my husband's most trusted people, is in fact a spy sent by Ikor. It was he who killed the king, killed the hero who founded Freedon, and wanted to destroy our hard-won peace. ”

With her words, the two soldiers who were holding Aldrich also brought the person from the back of the line to the coffin and pushed him to the ground.

Aldrich fell to the ground in chains, trembling feebly under the gaze of all.

The crowd wiped their tears and looked at Aldrich, and all sorts of voices came out of the crowd again.

"Rumors...... The rumors turned out to be true. ”

"How so? It's terrible...... Did he really do such a thing?"

"Kill him!

The queen turned and looked at Aldrich indifferently, the emotion in her eyes more complicated than fear and hatred.

After a moment of silence, she made a quiet gesture.

It was only when the crowd around her gradually calmed down that she spoke again:

"Six days ago, he killed His Majesty and wanted to take control of the palace and take all of Freden as a gift to Ikor. Fortunately, at such a critical juncture, perhaps the gods had not abandoned us, a friend stepped forward to stop his evil deeds, and did not let this cause a greater tragedy. ”

As she spoke, she held out her hand to the purple-robed bishop.

"Archbishop Victor. He defeated Aldrich, stopped the traitor's plot, and returned our country to us. If it weren't for him, my daughter and I, and the unborn child in my womb, would have been three cold corpses at this moment. ”

The people looked at each other in astonishment.

They also don't know if they were stunned that the Church had "saved" their country, or the news that the queen was pregnant.

The bishop just stood there, his eyebrows bowed, motionless.

"In the past, we had a lot of misconceptions about them. But now, he has saved my life and my child's life. At this, the queen wiped away her tears and continued, somewhat choked, "As a mother and wife, I cannot ignore this. So, Bishop Victor, thank you very much, you will be given the right to preach freely in Fredon. I could feel my husband's heart, he was the one who made me make this decision, and no one could question it. ”

The bishop stepped forward, clasped his hands together in prayer.

"May God bless your country. ”

The crowd was in an uproar.

The church's ban was one of the oldest policies they were used to. However, the queen herself wiped tears before their eyes, as did Aldrich, who was a prisoner, and the bishop who reached out to them. Everything is alive, and they can't question it.

Therefore, under this scene, no one even spoke out against it.

"Also...... On the charge of killing the king. The queen came to Aldrich again and regained her indifference, "The betrayer who orchestrated the whole conspiracy, Aldrich, and all the treason mages under him, I declare them to death in the name of the queen." ”

There was another exclamation from the crowd.

All the treason mages under him...... Meaning......

Just as the people were looking at each other, a large group of soldiers suddenly came out of the street at the right time.

People turned their heads.

I saw that the group of soldiers slowly walked out, and the team was very large, at least a thousand people. Among them, there were hundreds of prisoners, each of whom was disheveled and embarrassed, and like Aldrich, he was bound with chains and chains, interfering with the surrounding elements and making them unable to perform magic.

Looking closely, some people also recognized that the prisoner was a member of the Mage Freemasons who had disappeared for the past few days.

Suddenly, people were even more surprised.

In the days of these rumors, all branches of the Masonic Lodge in the country closed their doors. And the number of people, the whole five or six hundred, seems to be ...... The entire territory of Freedon is full of Mage Freemasons.

It turned out that they were not missing, but all of them were arrested.

"General Barrett, escort everyone to the north of the city to be executed. ”

The queen spoke, her voice clear and cold.

Behind her, General Barrett stepped out with heavy steps and saluted with a blank face.

"Yes. ”

The people have not yet reacted to what is going to happen. But under this momentum, they still backed down and got out of the way. So, General Barrett escorted Aldrich, and the thousands of soldiers behind him escorted hundreds of mages, and walked in the direction of the north of the city.

They were slow and it took more than an hour to reach their destination.

The people of the entire Xuedi City also followed each other back and forth.

Their destination was a wasteland in the north of the city that few people passed. However, at this moment, in the eyes of those people, this wasteland has become very different from their memory.

The ground was originally flat, but at this moment, a huge crater suddenly appeared.

General Barrett stood in front of the pothole, turned and nodded, and then pushed Aldrich down.

There was an exclamation from the crowd, probably ...... Also shocked by what they guessed.

As for the nearly 1,000 soldiers behind the general, they were instructed and escorted those mages, stepped forward, and pushed the mages down the pit one by one under the watchful eyes of countless people.

Immediately afterwards, an unbearable scene happened.

The mages were chained, and along the way, they almost collapsed. However, when they fell into the pit and saw Aldrich, they all struggled to get up and pounced on Aldrich like mad cows who had been hungry for two days when they saw a red cloth.

"Why are you hurting us?

A heart-rending roar echoed through the hole.

The more mages are pushed down, the more chaotic the situation in the pit becomes. After a while, Aldrich was overwhelmed by the red-eyed mages, like a caterpillar drowned by ants, and even people could not be seen.

People frowned, and many people couldn't stand it anymore.

However, crushed in the crowd, Aldrich's expression was completely different.

He felt the teeth clenched on his body, the hatred of the mages for him, and the sharp pain of the bones in his body. At that moment, a calm and heartfelt smile appeared on his old face.

He narrowed his eyes and looked up.

Soon, the smell of grease in his nose, a little spark appeared in his sight, and the screams of the mages were heard from above.

"Finally ......"

He closed his eyes, as serene as if he had been saved.