Chapter 12: Farce

God said that Michael tried to expose the smirk on the clown's face as he walked the world, and then he had no choice but to swallow the farce.

Before the stench of the Salid scandal permeated the entire empire, many senators with a keen sense of smell had chosen to silence in front of the emperor, and although the wolf king was still honestly prostrate in the military headquarters, his grinning visions always hovered over the Senate, roaring in a low voice. The strange thing is that even the Golden Lion Family, which has always been at odds with the Wolf King, has chosen to remain silent, which makes people more and more jealous.

"The reptile will always jump out, and the reptile will inevitably return to the sewer in the end. The tall and thin man with a fierce temperament sat on the seat with a flat expression, the scar that pierced his left eye looked extremely hideous, and the middle-aged man sitting opposite him sighed: "In this way, Young Master Gary will have to suffer a few more days." ”

The man Huo Ran got up, approached the windowsill, and said in a deep voice with his hands behind his back: "Since they have to wait, then this is the price they pay for waiting." ”

The middle-aged man who was still sitting in the chair was silent, of course he knew who 'they' were, as the absolute henchman of the wolf king family, he followed the contemporary wolf king for decades when he was a teenager, so that he knew too many unknown secret truths. The Wolf King family has only been rooted in Tylen for seven generations, more than six hundred years, and is much younger than other great nobles, but this nobleman from the Duchy of Bourbon is one of the ten wealthy lords of Tyranny, which is a fact that even an old nobleman like the Golden Lion cannot deny. Because of the three key battles won by the wolf king family for Tyron and the incomparable ice wolf knight legion in the family, as well as the great dominance of the wolf king over the army for generations, especially the contemporary wolf king Cliff, who inherited the title of the god of war after the fall of the old nobleman "Golden Spear" Raonis.

The Empire's do-gooder once compared the three giants of the military department, saying that if the golden lion is a thick and strong iron shield, then the wolf king is a huge battering ram wielding in front of the shield, and behind the shield stands the mysterious Ashman family, whose intelligence guides the direction of the hammer swing.

When the news of the end of the reign of the two kings of Kapila came, it is said that His Majesty Alden III broke his beloved crystal cane in anger, and the head of Ashman's family personally went to the enemy country to rearrange the information on the same day, but then the news from all sides showed that the one thing that made the demon Ye debaucherous but extremely clever Queen Rahlan infinitely sluggish was the blue crystal nucleus produced in the veins of the golden mountains of Salid, which had a deadly psychedelic effect under the refining of the priests of Kapila. The quiet end of the reign of the two kings meant that Kapila would achieve unprecedented political unity, and while there would inevitably be unrest during this period, the terrible internal friction that had previously been terrible would be greatly reduced, and when Queen Bailu had completely stabilized the rudder of Kapila's ship, Tylen would have to reassess the strength of his old neighbor. After Queen Bailu convened the first grand court meeting, there were remarks about the queen, and the first information from the head of the Ashman family was now on Alden III's table, with only one line on it: "The eyes of the Tyranids will only have three directions in the east, west, and south, because Kapila will be the forbidden area of their vision to the north." ”

It is said that the angry Alden III stood at the top of the palace and looked north for a day.

Regardless of the channel through which the news of the blue crystal nucleus was fed back to the empire, not long after the investigation team arrived in Salid, the suicide of the northern consul Oters had already been confirmed, and then the radish was pulled out and the mud was brought out, not only did the entire northern political field face a major blood change, but it was rumored that the military top brass related to it would also defend himself against His Majesty the Emperor and the Senate. In fact, the ripple effects of the Saleid scandal were only the tip of the iceberg at first, but under the competition of domestic public opinion and various forces, the consequences of the iceberg when it is revealed and collapsed are foreseeable and irreversible.

So far, except for the wolf cubs trapped in the red clay cave, there is no important person to brush the beard of the wolf king. But this is not a good opportunity for a few people with a heart to reshuffle the "iron bucket" military department, whether it is His Majesty the Emperor who is furious, or some old nobles who have won the support of the southern pope and want to meddle in the high-level military department, or maybe both, and the only thing that is certain is that the surging undercurrent is crawling with giant crocodiles who want to devour, eyeing each other.

It's just like the giant wolf hovering the shore, both sides are waiting, waiting for a chance to bite.

"Is it going to be someone in the Senate to start accusing you again? After all, it's not good for us to be too calm. The middle-aged man took off his glasses and wiped them, looking at the man with a tall back.

The wolf king, who was standing by the windowsill, shook his head and said coldly: "The wolf king family is not a master of playing politics, competing with those clowns on the same stage will only disgrace the family, I want to see who can't bear the loneliness and floats to the surface first." ”

The middle-aged man nodded, most of the people who did not actively advise His Majesty the Emperor during this sensitive period were staunch political allies of the Wolf King, because that would only make the imperial family more jealous and suspicious of this great nobleman who had been entrenched in the military for hundreds of years. But the few people who shouted and accused the wolf king of getting involved in the corruption of Salid's black gold are not all enemies, after all, it is too calm and calm, and it is also worrying, has this invincible battlefield giant also covered the sky politically?

"To-morrow I will leave for the fortress of Salid, Lord Duke. The middle-aged man stood up and gestured to the man, "I hope we don't follow the path of the golden spear." ”

The body of the wolf king Cliff in front of the windowsill moved slightly, and his squinted eyes showed two dangerous lights, as a person who needed to raise his head slightly in the early years, whether it was his understanding of the war or his personal impact on himself, it was indescribably far-reaching, and until now few people in the empire know that the wolf king still has a very friendly attitude towards that declining surname. If even such a nobleman is sent to the guillotine one day, he should really think more about it.

When the middle-aged man braved the sporadic rain to leave the deep corridor of the military headquarters, the man in front of the windowsill beckoned, and a dark figure walked out of the corner, like a ghost alive on the mural, standing silently.

"It's time for my wolves to hunt. Cliff whispered, reaching out to place a badge token on the windowsill, and turned to leave the room. The man behind him walked over and picked up the badge, looking up to reveal a terrifying face with a scar and a bloodthirsty smile.

"Little madman. ”

"Huh?"

"Go away, I'm going to make a big move. ”

"What?"

"Poof. ”

As light smoke curled, the Wood Elemental Burst Spell, which had been absorbing the rooftops for an entire afternoon, came to an end. Arthur, who blushed old, shook his hand hatefully, staring at the slight burn marks the size of a fingernail on the floor, and his face gradually turned pale.

"It's all the right procedure to release the Burst," Fred crouched near him with an innocent face, "probably...... It may be that there is not enough element storage. ”

"Forget it. Arthur shook his head, twisted a handful of dust on the floor, and said in a low voice: "Everything has spirituality, nature is the most impossible and should not be violated, the wood element is originally a growth element, if you have to make it reach the level of fierce explosion like the fire element, it may really not work." ”

Fred silently took out a rag to wipe the floor, hesitated to say something but did not speak. Recently, the entire second floor of the library has been filled with a slight smell of burning, and the number of secret magic experiments with Arthur has been increasing since the opening of Fred's talent.

"Glutton?" A petite figure walked around the corner of the stairs, smiling and clutching a bulging paper bag. Fred's stomach rumbled twice at the right time, and he watched the figure approach. Arthur took the paper bag in her hand and asked in a low voice, "Will you ...... vice president like you?"

"Hehe, my dad wished I could eat more and grow up faster, and besides, he didn't care how much food was left in the kitchen. ”

"Thank you. ”

"Hey, hey. ”

Before he knew it, the paper bag was taken by Fred, and the magic genius could no longer calm down after smelling the smell of garlic bread, and swallowed the bread without hesitation while looking curiously at the whispering Arthur and the vice president's daughter. The cost of living at the academy was not large, but the two of them couldn't help but "bribe" the librarian with their spare money to buy wine, so that they would sometimes stay here overnight and sleep with the books. Hunger often happens at this time, but fortunately, there is a kind-hearted little girl like Anna who often brings food, otherwise one day the college library starved two students to death would be new news in Deppshire.

Arthur was a little embarrassed, and when he saw that the paper bag had been half deflated in a few words, he suddenly didn't care about being soft and short with Anna, turned around and plunged next to Fred, and stuffed the food with both hands and mouths. The little girl crouched beside them, smiling and watching, without speaking.

When they had eaten all the food in the paper bag, and wiped the scraps from the corners of their mouths contentedly, Anne took out a piece of brown paper as usual, and said, "Well, this is yesterday's homework," Arthur threw her an understood, took the homework and stuffed it to Fred, and lay comfortably on the floor, lazily touching his stomach.

Dealing with Annie's magic homework with the amount of reading the two of them now, whether in theory or practice, is simply a storm of wind and clouds. Fred took the brown paper and pondered for a moment, then turned and lay on the floor and gestured to himself.

"Arthur, are you going to stay in the library with Fred like this?" Anne sat down on the floor, and pulled the hem of her skirt with her hand, in the style of a little lady.

"There's nothing wrong here. Arthur burped contentedly.

"You know, there's a summer ball at the Academy the day after tomorrow, and Carey Fornia invited me to be his dance partner, but I didn't want to go. Anna frowned.

"Why don't you want to go?" replied nonchalantly, picking up a book and putting it on the back of his head.

"The perfume on his body smells better than mine, which is really annoying. The little girl pouted in displeasure.

“......”

"The accumulation of wealth determines the right to speak in the distribution of resources, and after this right reaches the limit of a certain period, different classes will be formed......" came to mind the teacher's "pure teaching", Arthur had not delved into books such as "Capital" in his previous life, but he deeply agreed with the teacher's statement. Most of the noble children in the academy have similar backgrounds, and many of them are the first heirs of the family, which means that expanding the social circle and laying a good foundation for their own connections is another important thing than academics. It's just that Arthur's lazy mentality and insight are reluctant to compliment those jerky acting skills, and Fred is not to mention that this civilian genius is not as interested in red wine and evening dresses as he has never seen in his life.

Spending a night watching a bunch of kids make a joke? Arthur rolled his eyes, if it was a court ball, it would be about the same, and the best dance partner would be his own sub-elf teacher, Reth Sibyla, thinking about it, despite Anna's strange gaze, the corners of Arthur's mouth bloomed into a satisfied smile,......

On the Xien Continent, in summer, the eastern ice field was still covered with a large area of ice and snow, and the tall woman on the top of the majestic snow-capped mountain suddenly sneezed and tightened the cloak on her body.