For Billy, the journey he had traveled was the longest of his life. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

From King's Landing, the besieged city, it travels through the Great Plains of the East, the heart of the Empire. Endless wheat fields and manors full of vines and flowers give Billy a deeper appreciation for the riches of the empire.

And from east to north, through rolling hills, fields, and woods, Billy sees town after town, race after race. This allowed him to witness the immensity of the empire once again.

If it was just dissatisfaction at first, then Billy is completely unwilling now. From the world's most prosperous imperial capital to the desolate and remote Northlands, it is even possible to spend the rest of your life there. This made him, who was only fourteen years old, unacceptable in his heart.

He still has a long future ahead of him, and he still has so much wonderful to experience, and so many intoxicating luxuries that he has not enjoyed. Now it all ended so abruptly. How could this be acceptable to him!

This age is the time when his mind is at its most active, so soon, Billy has the idea of running away in his heart. If he wants to run out of here, even from now on, he can only live in this world as a commoner, it is better than being a guilty nobleman and living in the northland where birds don't.

The idea was only a budding idea at first, but it soon spread uncontrollably throughout his brain. He wanted to be free, and he really wanted to have his own freedom. He was even willing to risk any degree for this purpose. Whenever Billy couldn't help but take a risk, his mother's figure was like a basin of cold water, which directly extinguished all the illusions he shouldn't have.

If he escaped, what would happen to his mother? Although he was still a child at heart, Billy, who had begun to mature in his mind, knew that his uncle was never an open-minded man. If he knew that he had escaped, then his mother would have become the object of his anger.

And can he bear to leave his mother behind and let her suffer those terrible reproaches and punishments? The answer is obviously impossible.

For Billy, it doesn't matter to anyone, but only his mother, and only this mother who raised him and always kept him in his arms, can't be abandoned no matter what. Not even death.

Billy was a smart kid, and it was because of this natural intelligence that he figured out who he was early on. To put it nicely, he was an illegitimate child. And to put it mildly, he's a wild seed. Although her mother is the eldest princess of the Empire, her father is a traitor to the Empire, an existence whose name is not even allowed to be mentioned. And it is precisely because of the existence of this traitor that he and his mother have always lived in a miserable situation.

The eldest princess of the empire, the only sister of the current emperor, the pearl of the former emperor. The fact that he was married to a lowly eunuch is a humiliation in any case.

Not capable of doing anything to the traitor who betrayed the empire, he took the eldest princess to vent his hatred. This act of the emperor has become the laughing stock of the entire imperial aristocracy. And even after more than ten years, those nobles who have witnessed all this have brought up this topic from time to time to mention this topic to their children, so that they can know how narrow-minded and mean the emperor of the empire is today.

Undoubtedly, this is a stain on the entire imperial royal family. The majesty of the royal family is declining day by day, and it is inseparable from the incident itself. And as the biggest victim of this incident, Billy naturally suffered countless stares and ridicule. From sensible to now, he can be said to have grown up in this special environment.

And for all this, although Billy does not show much on the surface. But in his heart, he is absolutely resentful. This hatred was against his imperial uncle, but also against the man who had abandoned their mother and son, and even his nominal father, the Baron Youling. But only the mother, the mother who gave birth to himself and caused him to suffer all this, is the one who cannot give birth to a little resentment in any way.

She gave herself everything and loved and protected herself unconditionally from beginning to end. For these reasons alone, he shouldn't have any resentment towards her. So naturally, it goes without saying that she left her alone to seek some freedom.

And if he thinks so, then won't his future be just the road of dying in the bitter cold land of the north?

After all, he was only a teenager, and neither his concentration nor wisdom were enough to deal with such a difficult problem. So he really didn't have any other way than to add irritability to himself. And in this situation, the more he thinks about it, the more aggrieved he becomes, Billy obviously can't stuff himself in this narrow environment anymore. So he immediately pushed open the door and planned to go outside the mansion to relax.

At this time, he was located in Riverrun, northwest of the Empire. This is the city of Haikou in the northwest of the empire, which is the largest trade area in the northwest and the largest military port. The Royal Navy's Fourth Fleet is stationed here, and from here, Billy and the others are to set off with a warship of the Fourth Fleet, all the way to the north.

The first-class naval warship named the Westwind Sorrow was what they were going to ride, as the Empire's most advanced warship now, the Westwind Sorrow needed at least four days to reorganize before it could set off, and during those four days, Billy and his mother could only stay in this officer-only mansion provided by the Royal Navy of Riverrun.

This treatment sounds good, but in Billy's opinion, it is nothing more than imprisonment in disguise. And it is precisely because of this that he always has to give a little face when he sees the guards stationed in the mansion and paying attention to his every move anytime and anywhere.

It was the same today, throwing a stinky face at the two statue-like guards, and Billy was going to call them to go shopping with him. Since he had not yet been deprived of his status as a nobleman, he still had the right to order these guards. Of course, he didn't really want to call them. But out of consideration for the current situation, if he didn't call these guys, I'm afraid he wouldn't even be able to get out of the door.

And just when he was about to open his mouth, he found that there was an extra black carriage in the mansion. The four black horses show the identity of the owner of the horse, at least a nobleman driven by an earl. The emblem of the long snake wrapped around the thorns on the carriage further shows the identity of the owner of the carriage. This is actually a member of the Black Thorn Family!

You must know that the empire has been inherited for thousands of years, and in addition to the imperial royal family that has continued to this day, there are many nobles who have also continued with the change of the empire to the present. And among these thousand-year-old nobles, the most prosperous and powerful is the double-edged Grand Duke family of the empire.

Of course, the Double-Edged Grand Duke is just the way it is said now. In fact, if you really go back to the early days of the empire, you should be called the founding eight dukes.

Following the first emperors of the empire, there were a total of eight most representative, powerful and meritorious heroes. For the birth and death of the emperor, they conquered the south and the north, laying the most basic cornerstone for the survival of the empire. And in order to reward these heroes. The first emperors of the empire canonized them as hereditary archdukes, and let them guard the borders of the empire in their own name.

And these eight dukes are the Grand Duke of White Stone, who guards the mountains in the eastern part of the empire, and the Grand Duke of Black Thorn, who guards the jungles in the southern part of the empire. The Grand Duke of Trident guarding the northern coast of the Empire, and the Grand Duke of Dragoncastle guarding the wastelands of the western part of the Empire. In addition, there are the Grand Duke of Running Wolf stationed in the steppes of the northwest, the Grand Duke of Yellow Sand stationed outside the desert of the southwest, the Grand Duke of Tulip stationed in the southeastern highlands, and the Grand Duke of Lion stationed in the valley of the northeast river.

The eight dukes each occupied a vast and rich territory, and they had the most powerful group of soldiers in the empire at that time. It can be said that he is a man as eloquent as the first emperor of the empire, otherwise the general characters really can't suppress these powerful dukes. And this is precisely the reason why the first emperor placed them on the frontier of the empire.

The eastern mountains are home to the sub-human tribes, the southern jungles are the last of the elves, the northern coast is threatened by the Nord pirates, and the western wilderness is the barbarian realm of the chaotic forces. These are the biggest hidden dangers in the frontier of the empire, and in addition, the centaur tribes in the grasslands, the bandits and monsters in the desert, and some dragons inhabiting the southeast highlands are not easy to mess with.

Nominally, large chunks of territory were divided into these dukes, but there were no small potential troubles in these territories. They're all battled places. That is, a river valley area is slightly settled, but the river valley in the northeast of the empire is the closest area to the center of the empire, and if there is a problem, the army of the empire can be suppressed in an instant.

With such an arrangement, the first emperor of the empire was not afraid that these dukes would turn the sky upside down. In his opinion, with these alone, the world of the royal family can be completely stabilized.

It's just that people are not as good as heaven. He thought that the foundation of Bandai was not as strong as he had imagined. Even when he was alive, there was already a problem. And this problem, first of all, erupted from the north.

The overjoyed Emperor wanted to capture the Icefields of Arest and make the Nord territory part of his own. To this end, he asked the Duke of Trident, who was guarding the northern border, to send a large army, including his own elites, to gather enough 200,000 to attack the Arist Icefield. Of course, the results are known to all. The myth of the Empire's invincibility was shattered, and the 200,000-strong army was almost completely wiped out.

This made the Emperor furious, and in the name of ineffective combat and escape, he escorted the Duke of Trident to King's Landing, and cut off his head with his own hands.

He did this purely to vent his anger. But it was this act of venting anger that directly detonated the biggest problem buried in the empire at the beginning of its establishment.