In the bustling halls of the Zivigne War, everyone was arguing with red faces, and the meeting was attended by the prominent lords and knights of the Duchy of Tanis, all of whom shouted at their highest voices, because they all wanted to persuade others to accept their views.

"What! march into the royal city now, are you crazy!"

"Duke Garcia is already dead, do we still have to watch that self-proclaimed puppet king sit on the throne!"

"Ladies and gentlemen...... Please be quiet...... Let's listen to the old man......"

"Shut up, old fellow, we're all going to die of old age after you hear you!"

Although the scene was almost out of control, Robert was leisurely humming a little song with Erlang's legs crossed, which is why he has always avoided becoming a descendant of Phoenix, for a person like him who is loose by nature, even one meeting of the abbot will go crazy, so this kind of thing should be solved by the man sitting in the middle of the hall at this time.

At this time, Stannis sat upright in his seat, the map behind him was still spread out and hung on the wall, but it was almost smeared with a large area of green, only the small dot in the center remained red, it was the only royal city still controlled by the Garcia family, and the rest of the city had echoed Stannis's call to swear allegiance to him, and those who were not loyal were also beaten and sworn in.

And around that little red dot, countless arrows pointed straight there, and at least 50,000 troops were advancing there, this time the city would be truly besieged, and after the last chaos, most of Garcia's regular army had been dispersed, and now there were less than 5,000 people defending the city, so it can be said that the city can be captured by automatic combat.

The people in the hall also know this, and now the intersection of the controversy is whether to wipe out the Garcia family completely!

Of course, those families who have a blood feud with him are eager to cut out Duke Garcia and behead him for public display, but since he has been made into armor by the mysterious Orientals and taken away, most of them have to put their anger on his son, who is also the initiator of all this, Pedro, who is eager to attack Teist in the next second, and capture the pseudo-king and behead him for public ashes, and even more radical people demand that all the children of old Garcia be hunted down, except for Sophia, who has become Hillier's wife.

However, half of the lords disagreed, according to their intentions, Pedro was arrested, and Garcia's army territory was deprived, so that he continued to be the nominal duke as a puppet, because they knew that Duke Tanis was the emperor's own title after all, so slapping the Condor Empire in the face would only give the other party an excuse to go to war, and Tanis, who was still in the midst of a civil war, could not afford the consequences of a war with the Empire.

The two factions of dissenting men were arguing, and the knights, who were usually not good at words, were even ready to draw their swords and slash each other, and in the face of this situation that was about to get out of control, Stannis, as the presiding officer, had to stand up and say a few words.

But when the bachelor Xiao Na standing next to him looked anxiously at Stannis, he found that the latter was just absentmindedly playing with the scepter and a ring, which were the tokens of Duke Tanis, although Stannis had obtained him, but there was no grand coronation ceremony, he was just like a young child constantly groping for these two items that represented supreme power.

This makes Cortana worry that he has been corrupted by this drug of power like the lustful rulers of history.

But Stennis surprised everyone present with his next move.

He threw his scepter and ring like trash on the marble floor of the war meeting, the metal striking the ground and the crisp jingle of bells echoed through the hall, which instantly silenced the quarrel.

All eyes were on Stannis, wondering what he meant by this move, was he trying to give up this supreme power that was already within his reach, and take off the blood-stained crown?

Finally Stannis stood up, his tall body slowly walking into the middle of the hall under the gaze of the crowd, and Robert lowered his legs on the table, holding his breath to hear what Stannis was going to say next.

"Ladies and gentlemen, with all due respect, the happiness of the loser is not to expect any more happiness...... And you and I, all of you here are losers. ”

Sure enough, everyone froze, they couldn't understand why the up-and-coming King of Tanis would brand himself and everyone sitting there as a loser.

But Robert understood what he meant.

"As we all know, there was also a huge rebellion 15 years ago, and they also went straight to the royal city, but I don't need to say the consequences, they failed, and they were defeated so completely. In my opinion, the reason they failed was because I followed the rules too much and believed that my enemies would follow the rules as well. ”

Some people began to nod, remembering the collapse of the coalition forces at the city of Teist more than a decade ago, when the victor Garcia did not follow the rules to release the prisoners of war, but slaughtered all 30,000 people, a day that also had a haunting nightmare for Tanis.

"So if we continue to follow the so-called rules of the game, and defeat Garcia is still just about humiliating him rather than eliminating him, as in other victorious wars, we will still end up with defeat. ”

"So now I will not repeat the failures, and what I say next, whether you agree or disagree, must be carried out! If you have any grievances now, I will not stop you from leaving this hall, but remember that if you take a step out of here, you will be my enemy, the king of Tanis of the Eastern Mirror, Stennis Justinian, now please make a choice. ”

His voice fell for a long time, but no one left, and everyone listened quietly to what he said next.

Stannis straightened up and held his breath, as if he were in the Roman Senate two thousand years ago, shouting a declaration of complete destruction of Carthage like Cato's to those suspicious, greedy, and corpse vegetarians who only wanted to protect their own interests.

Ceterum censeo delendam esse Cathaginem！

"Ladies and gentlemen, it seems to me that Garcia must be destroyed!"

Without a hint of opposition, like the city of Carthage, which was completely destroyed and sprinkled with salt on the scorched earth, the Garcia family, who had ruled the Duchy of Tannis for fifteen years, would come to an end.