The inhabitants of the royal city of Lorraine were shocked by the news that their king, Pique, and his twin brother, Prince Nick, had been assassinated by the Parisians. In the battle to protect the king www.biquge.info the palace guards and the Praetorian Guard suffered heavy losses, and countless loyal and heroic soldiers sacrificed their young lives for the king, but they were still unable to save their royal family.

Pique and Nick are dead? You must know that the Fairman royal family has always been poor, and there are only two twin brothers in this generation, Pique and Nick, and there is only one Edwin Fellman who has long disappeared. Now that Pique and Nick are dead, it means that the Fairman royal family has lost an heir and has no heir at all.

The Kingdom of Lorraine cannot be left without an owner for a day, and a huge country must be governed by someone, so those who can be qualified to inherit the throne must be the Grand Dukes of Lorraine.

The Duke of Norrington, an archduke entrenched in the province of Norrington in western Lorraine, is usually keen on state affairs, and his enthusiasm for the throne is probably the highest;

In addition to these two, there are also several dukes who are in high positions in the government, but because they do not have enough force in their hands to support them, they can only sigh.

And Leo had already quietly left the city of Lorraine. Although he also has ambitions to annex the Kingdom of Lorraine, he does not intend to do it immediately. Standing up at such a time would only become the target of public criticism, and he planned to let the princes who had most of Lorraine's forces jump out of the fire first, and then completely wipe them out with the force of sweeping, and re-establish a pure province of Lorraine.

Yes, the Kingdom of Lorraine is a large province in Leo's planning, and even Leo has already thought about the choice of the governor of this Lorraine Province. That was the Minister of State Jalaman, who had dealt with Leo in the past.

Whether it was during the great retreat of that year, or on the way back to Lorraine's homeland, Jaraman showed extremely good ability to handle government affairs, and the affairs that seemed to be a headache in Leo would immediately become orderly after Jalaman's decomposition and processing. If it weren't for the fact that his foundation was undecided at that time and his reputation was not obvious, Leo even wanted to recruit Jalaman to be his political official back then.

Regarding Leo's approach of retreating into advance, Feng Xifan, Master Merlin, Ney and others all agreed. In particular, the two old men, Feng Xifan and Master Merlin, on the way back to Pritz City, kept looking at Leo with relieved eyes, as if they had seen a nephew finally grow up and be able to take charge of the party on their own.

After Pique and Nick were killed that day, in order not to leak the news, Ney even killed all the palace guards who had abandoned their weapons and surrendered and the chamberlains waiting in the side hall, and faked the illusion that the Parisians had entered the palace to assassinate the king.

Because of Ney's integrity, justice, grace, bravery, and fearless demeanor, his reputation in the royal city of Lorraine was surprisingly good, and after such a big incident, no one even blamed him, everyone only cursed the damned Parisians for destroying Lorraine's heart, and discussed who should succeed him.

With Ney's testimony, combined with his good reputation and prestige, the people of Lorraine had no doubt about the cause of the death of the two kings, and almost all the nobles were drawn to the upcoming battle for the throne.

If it is the most vocal call for the throne, it must be the Duke of Norrington, who has always been high-profile, he is very good at cooperating in public, and he is also the most widely known nobleman among the people of Lorraine. However, most of the nobles did not think favorably of the Duke of Norrington, because although he was quite prestigious in political circles, he was completely inferior to the Duke of Fratton in terms of military strength.

The low-key Fraton family has many mages, although there are no high-level mages among them, but a large number of middle and low-level mages are also a strength that should not be underestimated, and the accumulation of generations of the Fraton family and the well-equipped protectorate of the Duchy of Fraton make Duke Vraton a popular candidate to win the throne.

Unlike the common people, who watched the excitement, the nobles considered their own political investments, and if they chose correctly, they could reap the political benefits of the duke they supported when they ascended to the throne, but if they chose the wrong one...... The new king will definitely reward a large number of meritorious people, and these titles and fortunes must come from the unlucky ones who lost the battle for the throne.

Leo's departure from the royal city of Lorraine at such a moment made the nobles breathe a sigh of relief. Although the Archduke of Prizz is also a member of the Kingdom of Lorraine, and can even be said to be the strongest person in the Kingdom of Lorraine, because Leo does not have contact with those nobles, nor does he have any good relations of marriage and cooperation, the nobles of the Kingdom of Lorraine unanimously reject this Archduke of Pritz.

Now that the Grand Duke of Pritz has left the royal city on his own initiative, it is clear that he intends to withdraw from the struggle for the throne, and this act of understanding the current affairs has impressed many people. Of course, whether the assassination of King Peake and Prince Nick is related to the Grand Duke of Pritz is also secretly doubted by many nobles, but now is obviously not the time to pursue it, and they have no strength to pursue it, so they can only watch Leo leave.

Pritz City has changed dramatically from what it used to be. Thanks to the continuous supply of materials from the new province, the rebuilt city of Pritz has burst out with a strong cohesion and centripetal force, not only those goblins and Pritz residents, but also a considerable number of mercenaries who used to live in a fixed place are willing to live in Pritz permanently.

Don't underestimate the strength of these mercenaries, they not only supplement the garrison of Prydz City, but also the mercenaries have rich adventures and life experiences, which is an immeasurable asset. Archon Sammy Turt appropriately released some of the low-level city administration positions, which were filled by veteran mercenaries, who used their experience and connections to help accelerate the development of Pritz City.

Similarly, there are many mercenaries in the goblin race, who are hired by the town hall to guide the goblins to adapt to the rules and habits of human society, so that the goblins can integrate into the human society as soon as possible.