Although what Stannis said was not alarmist, Pedro still disagreed, and he could only take a sip of wine with a haughty expression.

"I'm sorry, Lord Justine, but we don't have the energy to deal with what is happening in your territory, so please forgive me. "To put it mildly, Garcia's eighth son undoubtedly hit him with a soft nail.

But Stanis couldn't care about that much, he only knew that he and his territory were in danger, and he couldn't let the tragedy happen again. He raised his tone and said strongly: "Your Excellency Pedro, please send troops to help no matter what, otherwise thousands of lives in my territory are in danger, not only me, but the entire eastern border will face annihilation!"

There is no doubt that there is a threat in his words, indicating that he is not alone, and he has the eastern border behind him as support.

It's a pity that this sentence didn't work, but instead annoyed the unstoppable acting duke, and the Garcia family never allowed anyone to be above them!

"Your Excellency Justine, I know you've been gaining strength lately, but don't forget that our Garcia family is the master of the Duchy of Tanis, and it's not your turn to speak here!"

Like a beast guarding its food, Pedro's words made Stannis fearful, and he knew that now was not the time to tear his face, even though the Garcia family had already made a series of small moves against him. At the same time, he also inflicted 10,000 critical damage on Stannis's heart, and he finally clearly understood how insignificant his position and his words were.

"Do you really have to watch all the people you rule die and become monsters before you send troops?" said the unwilling Stannis.

But this sentence did not impress the hard-hearted acting duke in the slightest, and on the contrary, Pedro actually smiled disdainfully.

"Your Excellency Justinian, I really can't see that you love the people so much, but can anyone be sad about the disappearance of the mustard?"

This sentence was so cold that not only did Stanis send chills down his spine, but he finally knew that in the eyes of the high-ranking people, those civilians were not even human beings at all.

And this attitude of ignoring everything was followed by anger, Stanisten stood up, his tone full of arrogance, "Since the words are not speculative, then all the words are said here, I have nothing more to say, farewell!"

With that, Stannis no longer cared about etiquette, and turned away.

After a while, Pedro, who was sitting in the room, stood up and slowly paced to the ledge, from which he could see the street near the mansion, while Stannis was walking down the stairs in a huff.

"This guy is really not a qualified politician as you say, he really doesn't hide his thoughts. ”

Pedro wasn't talking to himself, of course, when the door to the inner chamber opened, and there was a man sitting there, who had undoubtedly heard the argument between the two men the whole time.

"yes, he's still the same, he puts everything on his face. The mystery man replied in the same way.

Pedro turned his voice, his expressionless face revealing a hint of viciousness, "I don't know, why didn't you let me kill him! It's not much harder to pinch him to death than to crush an ant." ”

The mystery man was silent for a long time, and the thought of 'killing Stennis was not only a thousand times?'

Pedro continued: "If you can't do it, I'm happy to help, as long as you nod your head, I guarantee that he will never make it ten steps alive!"

Suddenly, the mysterious man became furious, "What am I going to do, it's not your turn to teach me!Pedro, you'd better remember what you are! Without me, how could you be the next duke's favorite heir! Without me, you're just a superfluous person that Garcia's old thing won't even look at!"

Sir Pedro, who had been so high and invincible, suddenly shrank into a ball, and he could only tremble like a kitten in front of this terrible man.

"Remember, if anything goes wrong with Stannis in Tees, I'll instantly knock you back to where you were, the eighth duke of no one cares!

Pedro fell to his knees with a slump of heart, knowing that he was at the mercy of men and that there was no room for resistance.

At this time, Stannis downstairs walked out of the vault arch with a belly of fire, but he didn't expect the duke to be so disregarding the lives and deaths of the people below. When those damn Chaos Mins surround this magnificent building, what will these high-ranking nobles say when they see it!

But no amount of cursing will help, Stannis can only save himself on his own, not knowing that his allies believe in the existence of those monsters and send troops to support?

He descended the stairs and found a carriage parked at the bottom of the steps, where a familiar figure stood in addition to the guards and grooms.

It was Lina, the personal maid of his fiancée Anist, since she was standing there to explain that her fiancée had also come to the Duke's mansion. Anne wasn't in the carriage, and neither was Damilian, the personal bodyguard who had always been unkind to him, so did he go in with her?

Stannis originally wanted to go up and say hello, but when he thought of what Lina had said to him, the lord felt that it was better to keep his distance from her, so as not to be coldly greeted by Heng Mei again.

He leaned down against the handrail, and found his little brother hiding in the shade of the trees across the avenue and looking here, it looked like he had been waiting there for a long time, but what was even more remarkable was that he had a few more skewers in his hand, and was eating there.

Robert also saw him, raised the iron skewers in his hand to barbecue, and shouted, "Boss, here!"

Stannis walked over and looked at the skewer in his hand, and couldn't tell what the black thing with a little tail was.

"Roasted lizards, they're delicious, I was just hanging around there, and the chef of the Marquis's family secretly sold me all these roasted lizards left over from last night's banquet. ”

Stannis felt a little sick when he looked at these reptiles, "Those high nobles eat this stuff too!"

"Isn't it!" Robert ate the lizard in three bites and two bites, "what do you think those nobles eat?

Stennis reluctantly ate one, not to mention, he was so hungry that he did think these skewers were indeed delicious.