Chapter 31: Hall of Mirrors (2)
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After shouting "Hall of Mirrors" three times, Link appeared out of thin air in front of the Elven King, a familiar pattern appeared in front of Link, the Ring of Edgar. The intricacies of the ornamentation are similar to those of the Senluo Wanxiang, and there are many circles composed of different characters.
Standing in the circle and reporting his position and name, the surroundings suddenly fell into darkness, as if he had entered a dark enchantment. In the darkness, a bright light appeared, turning from a point to a line, pulling out a regular square, and then the square suddenly became solid, a smooth mirror. It's just that instead of Link's face and environment, it is a space made of hundreds of mirrors, most of which are empty, only a few have images, and sound pours in as the images become clear.
I see...... That's where the name Hall of Mirrors comes from, it feels a bit like remote video.
After looking around, Link also noticed that the mirrors that make up the Hall of Mirrors were not equal in size. Some mirrors are only one foot, others can see the upper body, and his frame is the largest in the entire space, revealing the whole body. Seem...... The volume of the mirror is related to the identity that is revealed.
Turning his head, Link saw the Elven King and Kyryl next to him, and directly opposite him was a young human woman, with light white ripples of water in her aqua blue floor-length dress.
Is this the royal rose Frannie?The delicate facial features are not lost to the elves, but it is a pity that a pair of glittering eyes highlight that she is a person with a deep city, but it destroys her first impression.
At the same time that Link was commenting on Frankie, the princess was also looking at the young man who suddenly appeared and interrupted her speech.
Dark eyes, wheat-colored skin, medium build. Wearing a gray-brown civilian clothes, if it weren't for the slightly flat facial features that were different from ordinary people, he wouldn't have been able to find them when he fell into the crowd. Such an ordinary and ordinary person is a child of nature?!
The eerie silence continued, and Farney looked to the right, "Is this the new Child of Nature?"
Link followed her line of sight to see another mirror equal to her height. It reflects the fact that he had a relationship with Bud, the only sage in Hohenheim today.
Bard bowed slightly to Link, "See you again, Lord Link." โ
The richly dressed aristocrats gasped en masse, and Bard had been famous for a long time, as evidenced by the attitude of the sage itself. The Otherworldly Man who broke into the meeting was indeed the child of nature who turned Hohenheim upside down. Except for skin color, color, and gender, the rest are mysteries, and even if you are willing to spend money, you can't buy more detailed information.
A light flashed in the Hall of Mirrors in the dark background, and another mirror revealed a human figure, reflecting Link's familiar figure - it was Gonzalez, who had been separated for two months, as the Grand Duke of Befast. He deserves a place in the Hall of Mirrors.
The two looked at each other and nodded in acknowledgment. In this case, it is not good to be too close.
"Where's that?" Link naturally asked Kelyl, who is also a child of nature, as if he was just late, not uninvited. Its practicality is uninvited and unsuitable, originally, the Child of Nature as the messenger of the pillar is a regular member of the Hall of Mirrors Council.
Take a deep breath. Suppressing the panic and surprise, Frankie took the hem of her skirt and bowed slightly to Link, "Let me explain, Your Excellency. โ
Bard and Faranie, one of whom is a sage and the other is a princess, are the most noble positions in their respective forces, and ordinary clergy should also salute them, but the children of nature are different from ordinary clergy, and are known as the strongest gods, and they are the original and strongest messengers of the gods. has a natural status.
"We are in discussions to revoke the titles and fiefdoms of the Doyle family. "Even if Link attends the meeting, Frannie is confident that the Doyle family has the title in her pocket. As soon as she came up, she gave Link a note of Ma Wei, and used 'we' to say that the revocation of the knighthood was an internal affair of humanity, so that the Natural Alliance had no right to interfere.
"The Doyle family is not dead, and there is one last direct family member alive. โ
Unexpectedly, Link was not shy about it at all. Farney brought out the argument she had thought out beforehand, "The Doyle family colluded with the undead, causing a large number of civilian deaths, and is no longer qualified to continue to be lords. โ
Sneer- Link laughed.
"If this is to be done, at least half of the nobles in the United Kingdom do not meet this condition. โ
The nobles immediately protested, and even the children of nature were not free to slander them.
"Is it really slander?" Link's gaze swept over everyone one by one, "I have the ability to be endowed by the pillar, whether it is a few days or months, or even years, decades, centuries, or thousands of years, from your life to all kinds of small secrets that you don't want to make public, and even the deeds of your ancestors, as long as it is a real life. โ
His tone was flat, but the threat hidden in his words made the nobles thousands of miles away feel invisible fear. No one dares to doubt whether this ability to approximate advance really exists, and miracles are meant to make the impossible possible.
"Lord Link, are you interfering in the internal affairs of mankind?" Franke's voice broke the strange silence created by Link, and the nobles echoed him, unanimously accusing him of interfering in the affairs of mankind as a child of nature.
Fearing that Link had violated the precepts of the Children of Nature, Gonzalez stepped forward to defend him.
"Whether or not you are qualified is a pillar that has the final say, not a human being. Link retorted without pain, "Forty years have passed, and instead of recovering the lost land, mankind has lost more and more. The ruling class doesn't want to resist the invasion of the undead, and only has their own glory and wealth in their minds, so it's better to give up the fertile land in the middle, don't you like the big rear, and go to live in the barren land of Nanyan Prefecture. โ
The nobles looked at each other, and the children of nature were scaring them, or did they want to come for real?
"Your Excellency Link, we are now talking about the Kronberg Domain, please don't change the subject! The identity of the one you nominated is difficult to confirm, and the information from hundreds of years ago is no longer available after the two disasters of the princes' rebellion and the invasion of the undead. "Frannie's deliberate mention of the rebellion of the princes is to imply that Orlando is the son of the culprit who provoked the civil strife that led to the decline of the empire, and if the empire had not been divided, perhaps the undead invasion would not have succeeded, let alone the current chaos.
And. The word 'elect' also implies once again that Link, as a child of nature, should not interfere in the internal affairs of mankind.
Link understood what Frankie was thinking.
There are no ifs in this world, and what has already been born cannot be repeated. There are thousands of forks in the road of fate, and the future is already doomed at the moment of decision.
"Greg Oran Dordo is the son of Duke Kronberg, the nephew of the Wood Elves and the Emperor's own title, if you are blood. He was more exalted than any human being present. As a faithful follower of Avga, the half-elf has been traveling around the Big 6 to preach the teachings of the goddess, and he came to me at the behest of the goddess to stop the imminent war between humans and the wood elves. โ
Seeing that Link was involved with the gods, Frannie put the blame on Link again, blaming him for introducing the undead into Cronberg. The local people were implicated.
Who is constantly shifting the subject?
Link was also tired of Frankie's behavior of changing her words as soon as she saw that the situation was not good.
"If half of the Rising Pillar of the Undead is responsible, the other half is caused by humans themselves. โ
Frannie angrily scolds Link for reversing black and white!
Link spread his hands: "I'm talking about the fact that humans don't want to admit it, the pillar made humans use the elements in ancient times, and the purpose was just to keep vulnerable humans alive. Unexpectedly, after human beings became stronger, they began to enslave and spirit other species, and consume the gifts of nature without restraint. โ
Before Farani could argue, other nobles jumped out. "Even if human beings were relatively weak in ancient times, they have now evolved into advanced life forms, with a civilization of reach, what is wrong with enslaving and domesticating creatures weaker than themselves, this is just abiding by the laws of nature, survival of the fittest, and the law of the jungle!"
The nobleman's words immediately won the approval of the majority, and Gonzalez shook his head again and again.
Bud, who was the representative of Hohenheim, changed his face. Frannie, who noticed his expression, was also upset.
Link showed a smile that made everyone's hearts sink, "For creatures like ants and mice, humans are indeed a higher species at the top of the food chain. On the other hand, the same is true for humans, there are stronger and better species in this world than you. In ancient times, in order to protect the relatively weak many creatures on the Central 6, the first generation teamed up to close the road to the Outer Sea Islands and other spaces. โ
"Stupid!" Bard scolded helplessly, the child of nature is the eyes, ears, mouth and nose of the pillar. How idiotic would it be to exercise power in place of a pillar to utter such self-digging words in front of a child of nature?
Realizing the severity of the matter, Farney wanted to remedy, "You can't do this! Opening up the ancients into the material realm is equivalent to putting humanity to death." Could it be that Zhu really wants to destroy the miรจ humans?"
Many of the nobles had not yet realized the meaning of Link's words, but Link's next words stunned everyone.
"Animals and plants are also living beings, and when humans feed on them, did you ask them for their opinions? โ
There was silence in the Hall of Mirrors, and Farney was stunned for a long time before she could find her voice.
"Have you forgotten that you're also from a human background?"
"That's right, I was a human before I became a child of nature. But the princess seems to have forgotten the most important point, that I am not a human in this world. If it weren't for the Edgars' incompetence, how could the pillar have summoned me from the Otherworld?"
At this point, Frannie was completely speechless.
However, Link's astonishing move was not over, "Want to vote on Cronberg's belonging?" โ
This immediately aroused the opposition of the aristocracy, and the Hall of Mirrors was filled with protests, many of which were fierce rhetoric.
"How can you let those lowly pigs decide the position of lord!"
"Commoners don't want to climb on the heads of nobles!"
"We are the rulers of the kingdom!"
Link's expression also darkened in the increasingly unceremonious aristocratic invective.
"In ancient times, the leaders of the tribal clan were elected by the whole clan, but now, I just follow the ancestral system. How can you be in the position of a lord? Respected and loved? Or brave and able to protect the subjects of the territory? You are just relying on the bloodline theory of shit, useless waste, and it is long overdue to give way. โ
Link's foul mouth made Gonzalez laugh out loud, and he hadn't seen him for two months. This kid has changed a lot. I used to feel that he was a little inferior, but now it seems that he has changed, why didn't he show his quick thinking before?
"Oh yes, I forgot to tell you, I live-streamed the whole meeting. Surely your pigs and untouchables will not welcome a guy like you as their new lord. "Look at the nobles with a sluggish face. Link kindly explained to them what it meant to live broadcast the whole process, "It's not just Kronberg, I asked Malik to help me get the cobwebs to use video and video in major cities to transmit everything I saw and said from the time I came in to the present. โ
That's why Link arrived later than the Elven King and Kyryl, and he was busy contacting Malik to help make his conversation in the Hall of Mirrors public.
Frannie realized she couldn't let Link talk any more. She intended to use the collusion between the Doyle family and the undead to cause the fall of many cities and the loss of countless lives as an excuse.
Seeing the move, Link traces the nobles who have been secretly colluding with the undead from the Northern Campaign to the present, and threatens to find them one by one. Those who do not repent will pay a terrible price: they will not be able to sleep at night, they will not be able to eat the sun, they will lose every battle, and they will bring disaster to their children and grandchildren.
Frannie's face turned pale and sweated like rain.
The Child of Nature actually cursed with the law of cause and effect!
This meeting was led by her, and the interests of the other nobles were damaged. When her life is threatened, she will inevitably be angry.
What should I do?
Farney looked at Bard, and her mentor, who had always taken care of her, shook her head slightly, and when he did this, he said that he was not negotiable.
Isn't this going to help me?
Without Hohenheim as a backer, she is just the daughter of a royal family with an empty title.
The worse is still to come, Link does not intend to let Frankie go, he reveals a shocking secret to the people present and the live broadcast to the public: the traitor who led the fall of Longyan Fort is none other than Princess Frannie's most trusted confidant, Countess Claudia. She is a hybrids created by the Night Elves in order to infiltrate Dragonrock Castle.
Humans sold dwarves and gnomes to orcs for their own selfish interests, and the orcs coerced these slaves to dig tunnels under Longyan Fort for detonation, and the fall of Longyan Fort put stronger and more cruel creatures into the material world. Humans, orcs, night elves. Others made wedding clothes for nothing, and the devil is the ultimate beneficiary.
Claudia is a traitor!!
Nothing beats Frannie like this, and it was with Claudia's help that Colke, who fled to the south, overtook fellow candidate Befast to become regent. It was under Claudia's tutelage that she learned how to survive in the deceitful aristocracy, without whom she would not even dare to revive the empire's former glory.
But now, the Child of Nature actually says Claudia is a traitor?
"What proof do you have?" said Flani, her fingers pinched white, and Farney bit her lower lip.
Not only the nobles, but also the children of nature have spread the contents of the meeting to the outside, and the face of the royal family will be lost, and in any case, Link will not be allowed to sit on the evidence of Claudia's rebellion.
"Does Her Highness think that I will spread rumors without sufficient evidence? Not even Malik's conspiracy enchantment will stop me from finding out the truth. Claudia's father was Artis, who was instructed by Malik to give birth to a number of half-breed offspring in order to break into the human race and steal secrets. Claudia is one of the best and the most successful I know. Although few people still know about this, as long as I ask Malik to unravel the conspiracy barrier that is no longer necessary, those secrets that rely on divine power to cover up will be exposed, do you want to try it?"
Only a fool will stumble to the end and lose face.
Frannie regretted why she had done the stupid thing of calling the Hall of Mirrors in the first place, misestimating the abilities of the Children of Nature and bogging herself into a quagmire from which she could not extricate herself.
Speaking of which, this meeting naturally can't go on.
Link threw out that as Lord of Kronberg, bloodline was not a priority and a necessity. He chose Orlando, not because of his bloodline, but because he gave his life for Cronberg.
Link uses projection to extract his own memories, starting with asking Orlando if he would risk his life to go to Voran to face Frost.
Transform into a wind falcon to solve the army of undead besieging outside the city, rush up the stone steps to fight with stone golems, ethereal spirits, and lichs, and be wounded, die, and resurrected, specially selected memory fragments, irrefutable real scenes have become the last straw that crushes Franny and the nobles, and there is no suspense about who the people will choose. Whatever the Doyle family did, the last living direct line had already atoned for his sins, and without the intercession of the Children of Nature, the half-elf would have died in the White City, where he was born and raised.
The Hall of Mirrors Conference, which was held again after forty years, came to an abrupt end, and both the Elven King and Kyryl breathed a sigh of relief. Temporarily kept the title and fief, they also knew that this was only temporary, and they might not know what the nobles would come up with in the future, Kronberg has always been a big fat piece that everyone covets, in addition to the rich pure gold and a lot of precious mineral deposits.
The high priest who heard the result secretly rejoiced, fortunately, if she was replaced halfway, if Doyle was still allowed to inherit, not only would she not be able to win the trust of the people, but her half-demon background would become an excuse for the nobles to remove the lord. Since the mastermind behind the scenes is Frost Cold, there is no guarantee that he will not leak this equally explosive secret. Once things unfold in that direction, no matter how eloquent Link is, it won't help.