In Duke McCarvey's study, the firewood in the fireplace burned brightly, and the occasional crackling sound of crackling wood made a few sparks, and then there was silence again.

The city is adjacent to the sea, and the cold sea breeze brings a lot of damp and cold moisture, so it is colder than the rest of the city. Compared to the sunshine and green trees of the interior, the city is not a place to live, it is often shrouded in fog and rain, especially when the cold winter comes, and the castle is terribly cold, but the McCarvey family believes that the cold environment can exercise perseverance, calm patience, and give people more time to think.

Although it was late autumn, the weather was not so cold that it was foggy, and the quietly burning firewood proved that Duke McCarvey's body was getting old and no longer as strong as he had been when he was young, and in the past, on days when the snow was falling and the water was dripping into ice, Duke McCarvey would brave the bitter cold wind and jump into the glacier to swim, when he was as strong as a bear.

Duke McCarvey stared silently at the portrait on the wall---- portrait of the previous Duke McCarvey, his grandfather Leopold McCarvey, the background of the portrait is this study, the painting of Leopold wearing a red goose down and holding a scepter made of gold, standing like a steep mountain, he raised his head proudly, revealing a gloomy, unruly face, his eyes are like the edge of a long sword. If you look closely, you will find that the last Duke of McCarvey is somewhat similar to Julian, the same conceit, the same arrogance, and the same emptiness.

"The same stupidity. Duke McCarvey said lightly.

The reason why Duke McCarvey hung the portrait of the previous Duke McCarvey in his study was not because of worship, or because this duke had some great achievements, but the McCarvey family was almost destroyed because of the madness of this duke, so Duke McCarvey put his portrait here, always vigilant to himself, not to repeat the mistakes of the past. Because Leopold McCarvey is on a path of destruction.

Leopold McCarvey, before he inherited the Duke throne (the Duke was not originally his, he was the second son), was a very humble and listener, and his impeccable grace and manners made him favored by his father and the support of the nobles, and his brother ----- Shaun McCarvey. McCarvey is much more ordinary, Sean doesn't have any outstanding talent, he is honest and even a little honest, and there is nothing worth wasting pen and ink to write about his talent, if you have to give an evaluation, it is mediocrity, the kind of ordinary, like a pebble thrown into the rough sea can not cause a ripple of ordinary, ordinary is not a sin, but in a high position, as the prince of the south, this kind of ordinariness is hated and disliked, especially when he has an outstanding brother, Leopold's outstanding talent makes his ordinariness so hateful。

At that time, the Duke of McCarvey pointed at his eldest son mercilessly and said, "The throne of Raging Waves should belong to your younger brother, not you unsuccessful waste." The aristocrats often surrounded Leopold, amused by his witticisms. But Sean never resented his brother, never resented his ordinariness, never envied his dazzling star-like brother, but often felt sorry for himself: Ah, if only he could give this crown of power to Leoper.

Sean was not blessed by anyone, everyone hoped that Leopold would become their future lord, under this unfortunate curse, Sean finally let them get what they wanted, he went out hunting but was pierced through the stomach by a wild boar, all the internal organs flowed out, did not see the rising sun the next day, and died in agony, the death can be described as miserable, and the fate is really sad.

When the then Duke McCarvey heard of the death of this eldest son, he was not overly saddened, but secretly relieved, so that he could pass the dukedom to Leoper, "This fool was actually pierced in the stomach by the fangs of a wild boar. Such an incompetent person, how could I put the power in your hands!"

After the death of the old duke, the prestigious Leopold eventually lived up to expectations and succeeded to the throne of Duke McCarvey as the new Duke of McCarvey.

After Leopold inherited the throne of duke, he did not immediately reveal his true nature, but often humbly listened to the opinions of his courtiers, looked for wise men to be his teachers, and instructed him to give him advice, and everyone thought that Leopold would become a wise king, a wise, just, and benevolent ruler, and the south would become more prosperous and powerful under his rule.

When Leopold took over the power of the previous Duke McCarvey, he held the unobtrusive scepter in his hand, revealing his demonic temperament, opening his bloody mouth and revealing his sharp fangs in front of the world.

Leopold changed, and overnight he became like a demon, revealing a cruelty that did not suit his temperament, becoming more and more arbitrary, moody, and dissolute in life, he did not listen to the well-intentioned admonitions of the people, he could not stand anyone's pointing at him, and those who dared to disobey him were pierced by Leopold on the spikes in the walls, and the corpses were left to the pecks of the crows.

A noble minister who once served the previous Duke of McCarvey was dissatisfied with Leopold's rampant and unjustified taxes, and openly accused Leopold of being arbitrary and barbaric in Leopold's court, "You have insulted the glory of the McCarvey family." Enraged, Leopold ordered the soldiers to cut out the old man's tongue, and then hanged him at the gate of the city of angry waves, the sun set and the moon appeared, the moon disappeared and the sun rose, the old man's wrinkled face was pecked by the crow beyond recognition, the old man's wife, an old woman, came to Leopold's court, knelt down and begged Leopold to return his husband's body, facing the tearful woman, Leopold had no sympathy, he said: "Since you love your husband so much, why don't you go and be with him?" So the woman was hanged together, and her body hung beside her husband.

During the reign of Leoper, there were a total of eleven counts in the south, and after Leoper's death, there were only seven counts left in the south, and the remaining four were deprived of their titles and territories by Leopold for various reasons, and they were imprisoned, and finally died tragically in prison, and the four ancient families that once served the family of the original Duke McCarvey died out like this.

The former Earl of Gallaher, a family that had died, died only because Leopold had a crush on his wife. At a court ball, Leopold saw the beautiful Countess Gallach and exclaimed, "He is the most delicate of the best, the most beautiful of the best, and her fluffy hair, adorned with pearls, should have adorned my scepter." That night, Leopold **** Countess Gallaher, like a rough boar, couldn't help but beautiful Countess Gallaher's eyes were teary-eyed, leaving countless bruises on Lady Gallaher's delicate jade body.

Early in the morning, the Earl of Gallaher, who learned the news, was furious, because his wife had lost his wisdom and reason, and when he rushed into Leopold's room, he saw his wife lying on Leopold's bed, forced to accept the caresses, he was furious, and wanted to duel with Leopold, because he was imprisoned by Leopold for attempting to assassinate the Duke, and a week later, the Gallaher family completely disappeared from history.

The daughter was stained, the son-in-law was forced to commit suicide, the old Count Mentony, trembling and staggering to the court of Leopold with a cane, wanted to get his poor daughter back, the empty room was empty, only the mournful humming came slowly, the Count of Mentony looked for the position of the voice and pulled open a black curtain, behind the curtain, her daughter was chained by Leopold like a dog, and shamelessly bewitched under Leopold's crotch. He didn't even know that his father was coming, and his blurred eyes were blank, completely ignoring the primitive desires that he had indulged in.

Seeing this, the humiliated Count Mentony walked to the throne of the Southern Guardian and committed suicide in humiliation, and the blood splattered all over Leopold's throne. The Countess of Gallahe, who learned of her father's death, committed suicide the next day because she felt guilty about her father.

The Count Alfred family was stripped of their titles by Leopold because they could not pay enough taxes, because his territory was a swampy area and a locust plague, and they couldn't afford Leopold's excessively harsh taxes. Leopold's high taxes had only one reason, to provide him with extravagant expenses.

The destruction of the three counts' families left everyone in fear, so Count Euselis wanted to use Leopold's eldest son, the future lord Jacob, to admonish his father, because the panicked nobles could no longer bear it.

After listening to his son's words, Leopold said contemptuously: "You are the future duke, not the dogs and horses of the nobles, I will forgive you if you come to me out of your own will, because you are my son, but if you come to me because of the pleas of the nobles, then no, because it is not from your will." How can you let your will be controlled by others, you are my Leopold's son, I will never allow it!" Leopold reprimanded Jacob and imprisoned him.

As for Count Euselis, who was thrown into the beast pen by Leopold for bewitching the prince, and a hungry male lion lived in the beast pen, "If you can kill this one, I will acquit you." "How could Count Usellis, though he was powerful and in the prime of life, be a lion's opponent?

Jacob committed suicide, and Leopold had high expectations for him, hoping that Jacob would come to him by his own volition and say, "Father, you are wrong. Leopold could forgive him, but the cowardly Jacob couldn't understand his father's words and chose to escape, dying in his room, blood staining the entire sheet.

Jacob was Victor McCarvey's father, Julian's grandfather, and the sheets, stained red with Jacob's blood, were reflected in the young Victor's eyes, a shadow that he would never erase for the rest of his life.

The suicide of his only son plunged Leopold into deep mourning, he became more crazy and hysterical, more rigid and moody, and if everyone was not careful, he would be sentenced to death, and to this day, the underground prisons of Wave City seem to be able to hear the sad wails of countless souls who were executed by Leopold.

Eventually, one day, Leopold went mad and proclaimed himself King of the South, unwilling to submit to the rule of the Tobai Empire, and wrote to the Emperor of the Tobai Empire, saying, "Why do you want me to bend my brow at you. The eagle spreads its wings for thousands of miles, how can it be compared to a herbivorous foal? "The coat of arms of the Tobai Imperial family is a unicorn with golden horseshoe.

The central government of the empire expressed disbelief in Leopold's hubris, and sent a delegation of envoys to Raging Waves to reprimand Leopold, so that he could retract his falsehood. But in the end, all the members of this envoy were cut off limbs, cut off their ears, nose and tongue, blinded by Leopold, and thrown on the border between the empire and the south, leaving them to wriggle like maggots, this naked humiliation completely angered the empire, and they sent a large army to crusade against Leopold, and Leopold also sent his own eagle army, and the two sides confronted each other on the border.

The old and mediocre Leopold sent all his troops, and at this time, the garrison of Angry Wave City was empty, and the southern nobles who had endured tyranny for a long time finally couldn't bear it anymore, and they quietly gathered their troops to break through the gates of Angry Wave City and overthrow Leopold's rule.

Sensing the nobles' intentions, Leopold abandoned Raging Waves and ran with his attendants to hunt in the woods, planning to send all the nobles involved in the rebellion to the gallows when the Eagle Legion returned triumphantly.

But reality is always more fickle than drama, absurd and outrageous, the two legions on the border line are still in confrontation, the war has not yet broken out, and the armies of the nobles have just been assembled, and Leopold is dead.

That day, he was drunk and boasted of being heroic enough to challenge a huge boar with a spear, only to be impaled in the stomach by the boar, and like his brother Sean, he died in a groan of pain.

Leopold, the tyrant who ruled the Southlands with an iron fist, died like this, and the news of his death shocked both the angry central of the empire and the southern nobles who wanted to overthrow him, and they sighed and put Leopold's grandson, Jacob's son, Victor McCarvey, into the position of duke, the current Duke of McCarvey and the father of Julian McCarvey.