Chapter 22 The Void of Kingship
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"Hey, do you look down on me?"
The angry princess almost fell off the stool, but the Ranger General gently helped her to her and said, "Your Royal Highness, please don't cancel Princess Flora." ā
Flora pouted angrily, but Kayl stared at the rhinoceros cup, her red pupils shining sharply, and she didn't take it as a joke.
"It is inconceivable that anyone would be so stupid as to waste his life's future, from a Minister of the Interior who served the lonely king, to a grass man exiled to a poor country. ā
The princess pointed at the Ranger General, and Cayl shouted speechlessly: "Raphael, this doesn't count!"
Then General Cayl said: "A rhino horn cup is worth a few dollars, and what is the calculation of glory and future? Moreover, the property that the Lone King has given to Lady Kira is much more than the property she stolen, and it is only a matter of lack of people's hearts, even if they are greedy, they should attack more valuable things, why it is so ugly to have a few cups and cutlery." ā
Kayl clenched his cup tightly and said angrily, "Sir Julian has also sold the latest armaments of our soldiers to the Forest of Golden Dawn for the sake of thousands of gold coins! If he is really in urgent need of money, it is not too much to say to the Lone King, and the Lone King will give him ten times the gold coins." Why do you want to sin......
The Ranger General closed his eyes and muttered, "I heard a rumor...... I don't know when it began, there were ordinary people in Muntia, who would be driven by small evil thoughts to commit some shocking crimes. For example, because of a little vanity, the girl actually carried a kitchen knife all the way into the jewelry store, and played with the stolen jewelry in a pool of blood. Or maybe because of greed, he slaughtered all the animals raised by his neighbors, and when the garrison found him, he was raising a butcher's knife to his little daughter......"
Princess Flora's heart was pounding: "It's like a horror story, in which everyone goes crazy like they have an infectious disease. ā
"Do you think that the officials of the Lone King are also infected with this kind of ...... A maddening contagion?"
Flora nodded: "If it's not crazy, who would want to do this kind of stupid thing that obviously has a monthly salary of thousands of gold coins, but lost his job because he grabbed the change in Hanako's bowl?"
Kayl smiled: "It's just that all the infected people are the right-hand men of the Lone King, which is too coincidental." What's even more coincidental is that when these guys commit crimes, they must have fallen into the hands of Uncle Regent. Why can't the lonely king catch one or two, and Uncle Wang's arrest of these illegal officials is as easy as digging ice and fishing, and there are fish jumping into his arms without having to cast the net?"
The important ministers of Kaim fell one after another, and on the other hand, the black witch of the regent's staff won the hearts of the people with one miracle after another, and the most annoying thing was that he insisted on cleaning up the prince's henchman humerus, and the prince knew that the prince was clearing away the dissidents and empty power, but he had to reward him, because in the eyes of the people, the regent was indeed a hero who cleaned up the rats and was a hero who defended the interests of the people.
Therefore, the people's hearts gradually turned to the regent, and the newly appointed officials to fill the vacancy were all young Zhuang people recommended by the regent, so the feeling of loneliness and loneliness gradually appeared around Khail.
On a rainy night when a typhoon was howling, the palace was stormy, the curtains danced in the wind like ghosts, and because the people serving in the palace had completely changed, the new attendants did not know whether they did not understand the rules, or deliberately snubbed the prince, and no one came to close the windows of the palace, which were crackled by the wind. Prince Kayl had no choice but to get out of bed himself, the young lord with dark skin and red eyes pulled the crimson cloak on his body hard, and when he saw that the only person who tried to close the window for him turned out to be a ranger general from an enemy country, he couldn't help but let go of his hands, and the only cloak to protect him from the cold was swept away by the cold wind, and the cold rain and hail slapped his bare upper body, and then he was stunned for a moment, then he covered his forehead and laughed.
"I didn't expect that the one who cared about the Lone King at this time turned out to be a military general from an enemy country like you. ā
The Ranger General smiled kindly and said, "Probably the only person in the main city who wants to curry favor with the regent." After all, even the three generals of the Jinxi Forest can be inappropriate. ā
The prince smiled arrogantly, his desolate and self-pitying emotions swept away, and he stood proudly in the wind and rain, his eyes as cold as a lone wolf, and the flame of fighting spirit passed down from generation to generation by the Lord of the Moon Elves would only really burn in the most severe moments of the wind and rain.
"It's not just you, the Lone King is also the one in this country who can't please the regent. Kayl looked back at Princess Flora, who was standing in the attic opposite in cotton clothes very uneasily, and said heartily, "Uncle Wang waved his finger, and the ministers of the lonely king fell one after another, and it was time for the lonely to launch a counterattack. ā
The prince was determined to blow the horn of a counterattack, and just when Flora wondered how long it would take the young master to prepare, the prince told her that there was no need for any preparation.
After the storm had subsided, Cayl ordered the regent to be summoned, sat cross-legged and laughed, and said, "Last night it was windy, and no one closed the windows in the palace of King Lone, and the wind actually blew away the sword of heroes hanging in the corridor of glory! Uncle Wang, although you have been busy with official business recently, can you help you find a good sword to hang on the bare wall?"
"The sword of Haojie weighs dozens of pounds, and it can be blown away?" the regent frowned slightly, but still bowed down and replied politely, "Understood, young master." I'll do it. ā
And a week later, the regent, who was looking for good swords in the world, finally presented a famous sword called "Tsukimi".
"It is said that this famous knife is swung with continuous sword light, so that it is cut down with full strength, and the continuous sword light will form a full moon, so this knife is called Tsukimi. ā
Kayl looked at the moon and took advantage of Flora's unpreparedness to pick up a handful of her blonde hair and blow it on the edge of the knife, and the hair was cut off, so he said happily, "It's really sharp." ā
Flora's heart ached and she cried, "Hey, what are you doing!"
The Ranger General was helpless: "Your Royal Highness, don't mess with the poor princess." ā
Kayl knocked on the blade of the knife: "But if you cut it round, you can see the moon, and the Lone King thinks it's probably bragging." ā
"It's not bragging, young master. ā
Kayl licked his lips: "Then I'll give it a try!"
Kayl didn't wait for the regent's reaction, held the knife in both hands, used all his strength, and rose from the bottom to the sky, and sure enough, he pulled out a round sword light on the spot, like a full moon, and everyone present was thrilled, and the regent's guards even pulled out their swords in a hurry, and the prince's escort also drew their swords, and the ranger general held the princess in his arms with cold eyes, and the palace suddenly became tense.
The regent hurriedly shouted to the guards: "Presumptuous, put away your weapons!"
Kayl also laughed: "Uncle Wang's personal soldiers are really reliable, the Lone King is just trying the knife, they don't hesitate to offend the Lone King, dare to draw their swords to protect the Lord, presumably if Uncle Wang is really in danger, they will definitely die in the soup." ā
The regent bowed and replied, "The young lord is serious, but the little king doesn't dare." ā
The situation was sensitive, and the ministers present, including Flora, thought that the two sides were about to spark, but they didn't expect that the knife trial incident ended in Cayl's relaxed laughter.
On his way back to the palace, Cayl asked Flora in a low voice, "Did you see that?"
"See, there is indeed a full moon. ā
"You're so stupid!" the Lone King has uncovered a huge mystery, but you just saw the full moon?" said Kayl with a disdainful laugh.
The Ranger General replied quietly, "The ears of the black-clothed witch are not pointed ears. ā
"It seems that the Sun Elves are not all stupid. ā
Kayl smiled and pointed to his pointed ears: "The sword wind just now blew off the hood that the black-clothed witch had been wearing. Lone saw her face, the woman had human ears, not an elf. ā
Flora's heart shook, Khayl seemed to be unruly in his work, but he didn't expect his mind to be so meticulous, in the name of sacrificing a knife to test the sword, when everyone thought he was going to give the regent a little color, he actually just wanted to set off the sword wind and blow off the hood of the black-clothed witch who covered countless secrets.
The Ranger General also secretly pondered that if His Royal Highness Prince Khail could really achieve his ambition, he would definitely become a hero in the world.
"Urgently summon the court painter, while the lonely king still remembers that face, he must draw it immediately. ā
Kayl threw the heavy moonlight to Flora, and said in a high spirit: "The Lone King wants to see which human being who does not have long eyes dares to come to the kingdom of the Lone King and cause trouble to the Lone King's court." ā
Flora's father frowned and asked, "Is this black-clothed witch an agent sent to the Forest of the Moonlight by the Human Kingdom? If you want to know her details, maybe go to the Human King's Capital to inquire with high-ranking officials or sect leaders, and you are most likely to get the result." ā
Flora replied solemnly, "But that's where the blame lies." The black-clothed witch with extraordinary abilities turned out to be just an ordinary human orphan. ā
"Ordinary human orphans, how can an orphan easily take real power for the regent?"
Flora shook her head: "The reason why she is ordinary is because before her disappearance, her friends who knew her never noticed that she had any special abilities. ā
"But you said she was a black witch who could do miracles. Her power can't be obtained in a vacuum, can she?"
Flora said with some trepidation, "Prince Kayl and I think...... The missing girl is the regent, who single-handedly transformed into a witch in black. ā
The agents searched for months, and when they were about to give up to no avail, they unexpectedly found a crucial clue in a row of notices on the outer wall of the city gate security post in Bodhelki.