The old man gave little Peter a meaningful look, and said nothing, he slowly stood up, put his hands behind his back, and walked a few steps in the tent.

Little Peter blinked vigorously and stared at the old man with wide eyes, and he had a hunch in his heart that he might hear some great secret. So I quickly straightened my sitting posture, lowered my breathing, and listened.

The entire tent was silent for a while. Eva felt that her legs were weak and she was about to lose her weight and fall to the ground, she quickly took a few deep breaths, stabilized her body, and kept muttering something in her heart, trying to treat herself as a little transparent. William found something to cushion behind him, half-sat on the bed, his head lowered, his eyes staring straight into his hands, not knowing what to think. As for Henry, he looked at the old man with a very curious expression.

As soon as the old man turned around, he happened to see Henry's expression, and he pouted his lips and did not let Henry avoid it after all.

"Well, I used to be the Emperor of the Krent Empire, as your Uncle William and this Henry can attest. I don't need to say anything more. The old man said slowly.

Little Peter perked up, and listened more carefully, lest he miss a word. Eva looked up at the circle around her, and quickly lowered her head as if she hadn't heard anything. William and Henry both nodded vigorously when they heard the old man's words.

The old man seemed to be in a sad mood, and he kept telling the pictures in his memory, and little Peter realized at this time that there were so many twists and turns in it.

The old man only told Little Peter one of their own names: "André Ducasse" As for the full name, he did not say that Little Peter did not ask. Through the old man's story, Little Peter knew that he was once the emperor of the Krent Empire and had reigned for more than ten years. In the past ten years, the territory of the Krent Empire has more than tripled with the victories of Uncle William.

The Krent Empire reached the peak of its power under the rule of the old man, and he himself was surrounded by children who should have lived happily ever after.

It's a pity that everything changed from one day to the next. He had three sons under his knees, one of whom died in the fighting to pacify the Iberian Peninsula. The remaining two began to secretly fight each other for the throne. The old man thought that with his skills, he would definitely be able to suppress the confrontation between the two at the worst of the gaffe, so he turned a blind eye to the performance of his two sons and did not express his position.

Who knew that gradually things began to get out of control. The first is that several of his daughters died of a disease that they had never seen before.

The old man was very angry and sad and ordered a strict investigation, and finally found out that it might be related to a certain area that had not been very stable and subservient under the reminder of a minister. William, under the orders of the old man who had lost his mind, led his legions out of the imperial capital to sweep it away. However, a few days after William left, he heard the news of a rebellion in the imperial capital.

Frightened, he hurriedly led his army back to the city to put down the rebellion, but the situation was beyond William's expectations.

First of all, several armies guarding the imperial capital attacked each other under the leadership of the two princes, and the old man's personal guards could only retreat in the palace and did not dare to take a step beyond the thunder pool. The army and thugs in the imperial capital killed rivers of blood. The old man could only sneak out of the palace under the protection of a few loyal guards, and they joined up with the receiving force sent by William and hurriedly fled from the imperial capital.

When William and the old man still wanted to regroup, they found that the nobles who had supported him had been arrested and killed by the two sons at the beginning of the rebellion.

What's even more fatal is that the two sons competed with each other to become emperors, but they were used by ambitious ministers. The minister, Louis Dieudonnay Bourbon, played the two princes in the palm of his hand. All the fruits of the efforts of the two princes were robbed by Louis. By the time the old man got the news, it was too late.

Louis was crowned the new emperor of the empire with the support of the nobles who supported him, while the old man's original two sons were beheaded by Louis for a casual reason.

In this way, the old man's originally stable and happy life was shattered all of a sudden. All his children died, and he was the only one left, and all thoughts were lost. William led his legions to fight with other legions throughout the empire before escaping from the Krent Empire with the old man. After that, the old man and William walked non-stop on the mainland. With the passage of time, almost twenty years have passed, and William is the only one left among the guards of that year.

The old man calmly finished telling his memories, he had already been devastated by the years, lost his anger, ambition and other ideals, and just wanted to find a place to live his life quietly, but he met little Peter.

Once a friend of the old man in the Holy See, he met the old man by chance in a place. At that time, he was on the way to flee, so he handed over the little boy he had picked up to the old man, and agreed to return it to Cromwell Abbey in the future. The old man asked casually, and after learning that the little boy had no name, he thought for a long time before coming up with the name of Peter.

"Peter, it's a common name, isn't it? This means that I want you to be able to live your life as ordinary as a whole. It's a pity that fate loves to play tricks on people in the end, and you are not destined to be an ordinary person. So I had no choice but to keep my promise to bring you to Cromwell. The old man looked at little Peter kindly.

Little Peter's eyes were red and swollen from crying. He sobbed and said, "Then why is this not recorded in the history books?" ”

The old man smiled disdainfully when he heard this, he walked up to little Peter, patted him on the shoulder, bent over and stared into his eyes, and said, "Remember, history is written by the victors." Those who fail are not qualified to say their names and stay on them. ”

After the old man finished speaking, he took a few steps again, and then continued to tell the speculation that was pressed in his heart. He said that after so many years of thinking, he also knew that it was Louis who planned everything. It's funny that he thinks he's in control. Louis had been waiting for this day for more than thirty years, planning to lurk only for a fatal blow. So the Dukass dynasty was put to an end, and the current Krent Empire was under the control of the Bourbons.

As for Henry and William, Henry was William's aide-de-camp. It's just that Henry later left the Krent Empire for some special reasons and came to the Holy Empire, becoming a seemingly glorious papal knight.

The old man finally said to little Peter a word that affected his life: "Peter, you know. Sometimes you don't stand the higher you stand, the more you see. On the contrary, when you stand higher and higher, it means that there is a cliff not far from you, so you must be extremely cautious. ”