Garcia, Fernández Mansion.

"Your Highness......" Duke Chaliuk strode into Fernandez's study in a silver chain mail, his face full of excitement that could not be concealed.

Fernandez stood at the window, staring fixedly out of the window, and not far from him stood Emma in a white dress.

The Duke of Chaliuk was infected by the silence and composure of Fernández in the study, and the excitement on his face gradually calmed down, and he glanced at Emma out of the corner of his eye, the girl was standing next to a desk with a silver candlestick, the red candle flame outlined her cheeks like a faint blush, charming and moving, her delicate skin was like delicate porcelain, and not a pore could be seen.

What a girl who is as beautiful as a god in the water......

Duke Chaliuk sighed secretly in his heart, he turned his face, looked at Fernandez's back, and said in a low voice: "My Highness, the overall situation has been decided!"

Fernandez turned around slowly, a faint smile on the corner of his mouth: "Oh?"

Duke Charuk nodded and said, "Now more than eighty percent of the nobles and ministers in the imperial capital have declared their allegiance to you, and the Iron Guards have declared their allegiance to you less than ten miles away from Clarke's Palace, and they are stationed on the spot, waiting for you to enter the palace. ”

Fernández put his hands behind his back and paced slowly, "So, twenty percent of the nobles and ministers are still loyal to my dear brother?"

Charuk was silent for a moment, then said, "Yes, my Highness, those are Kirk's diehards. But their power is not strong, so there is nothing to worry about. ”

"Oh, isn't there anything to worry about the Kelsmans?" Fernandez turned his head and looked out the window in the direction where the Kelsman family forces were entrenched.

"My Highness, with all due respect...... Duke Chaliuk said in a deep voice, "and tonight has happened so suddenly, and I don't think even the Kelsman family expected it to happen so quickly. So, they certainly don't have any good responses. Moreover, according to my information, the main reason why Kirk was able to successfully assassinate His Majesty the Emperor and quickly take control of Clark's palace was related to the Kelsmans' sneak attack on the Forbidden Tower......"

"Huh?" Fernandez turned around sharply, his eyes were like lightning, and his eyebrows were locked, "Forbidden Tower?

Now, he is the victor of this coup d'état, and naturally the successor of the next emperor, so it is now his turn to worry about the Kelsman family and the Haram Haram Tower.

"Yes, the Kelsman family sent wolves to attack the Forbidden Tower, but the whole army was destroyed......" Duke Charuk's voice was filled with schadenfreude.

"Hah!" Fernandez laughed, "Margaret must be so angry that she turns pale by now, doesn't she? ”

After saying that, he and Shaliuk looked at each other and laughed.

Emma on the side heard the name Margaret, she couldn't help but tremble slightly, her fingers as tender as white onions clenched slightly unconsciously, she lowered her head, and her eyes were full of fear.

She was afraid that this woman had already penetrated deep into her bone marrow.

Emma's abnormality was not noticed by Charyuk and Fernández, who were immersed in the ecstasy of a successful coup d'état, and Fernandez was more likely to treat Emma as a beautiful vase in the room for his own admiration, so he didn't care about the girl's look and reaction at all.

The two laughed for a while, and Fernandez sneered: "Now, draw men from our army and quickly capture the Kelsman family's mansion! I will force Margaret to sign an alliance under the city, and I will make this greedy family vomit out all the people's fat and ointment that they have absorbed from this country before!"

Charles was taken aback, and he hurriedly said, "Now, my Highness, isn't this good? Will it cause a fierce backlash from this family? Perhaps, we can make an agreement with them." You know, although this family has always been against us before, but now that you are the only heir who can inherit the throne, there is no reason for the Kelsman family to oppose you again, they need the emperor to recognize their interests!"

The Kelsman family is a terrible behemoth, although the power of this family has declined a little over the years, but the hundred-legged worm is not stiff, once the Kelsman family decides to break the cauldron, then they will cause a hundred times more damage to the empire than Kirk.

Fernandez naturally understood this, he was silent for a while, and then said, "However, I don't want to see this huge locust lying on the body of our great empire endlessly sucking nutrients and blood!"

A resolute look gradually appeared on his face: "Take orders, my general!"

Charles hesitated, and decided to persuade the prince, who was obviously too radical, that the Kelsmann and Kirk were completely different things, and that they could not be dealt with in the same way that Kirk was used.

"But, my Highness, we have not yet been informed of Kirk's whereabouts...... Once our overreaction forces this huge family to go to war with us, then ......" Charuk said slowly, looking at Fernandez's expression without stopping.

Fernández didn't wait for him to finish, he suddenly turned around, and his eyes were forced to look at Duke Chaliuk: "So what? Now the entire imperial capital is under my control, and I control more than two-thirds of the army garrisoned in this city! As long as we capture the Kelsman Mansion now and capture the woman Margaret, we can solve many problems once and for all! Remember, my general, if you kill someone, you have to cut off your head, and if you arrest someone, you have to scratch your head!"

There was a great coercion in Fernández's voice and momentum, and an unquestionable self-confidence, which was now in his hands, and the entire imperial capital was under his control, and in the eyes of the Duke of Chaliuk, this confidence gradually turned into a kind of conceit and rigidity.

He didn't dare to continue to persuade him, or he would lose Fernandez's trust.

Charyuk sighed inwardly, and then slowly walked towards the door.

"Wait a minute......" As Chaliuk was about to walk out of the room, Fernandez suddenly asked, "Is there any whereabouts of Princess Angel?"

Duke Charuk was stunned for a moment, and just wanted to shake his head, but saw an officer rushing over from outside the door, the officer whispered a few words in his ear, Duke Charuk shook his head, turned to Fernandez in the room and said, "My Highness, I just received the news. Angel, under the protection of Tang Jie and the Falco Guards, has fled the imperial capital, and with him a group of gladiators in the imperial capital gladiatorial arena. ”

Fernandez was stunned for a moment, and soon he became furious: "What? Tang Jie? Why is this guy everywhere? Chase, go chase these guys back to me!"

"Yes, my Highness......" Duke Charuk nodded, and he muttered for a moment, "one more thing. ”

"What's the matter?" asked Fernandez, grim and gloomy.

"Kirk's body has been discovered...... Duke Charuk said slowly.

"Huh?!" Fernandez strode over to Chaliuk's side, slammed the door behind him shut, and said in a deep voice, "What did you say?"

Duke Chaliuk said word by word: "I just found several corpses on Wilson Street, they were stripped clean, as if they had been robbed, and they may have been attacked by the rebels in the city. After our people identified it, one of these corpses was Kirk!"

Fernandez's breathing suddenly became much heavier, which was great news for him, and he paced back and forth in the room a few times, and then suddenly stood still, his eyes pressed into Charde: "Are you sure? Could it be his escape? Could it be his stand-in?"

Xialiuk thought for a moment, then shook his head and said, "Probably not, I'll confirm it myself later!"

Fernandez pointed out the door and said loudly: "Go now! In addition, the matter of sending troops to the Kelsman family cannot be delayed, and at the same time, go and arrange!"

"Yes, my Highness!" said Charyuk saluted, then turned and walked out the door.

Fernandez stood quietly in the room alone, his eyes twinkling out the window, and he muttered in a low voice: "Brother, my dear brother, did you die such a disgraceful death? I had prepared a big surprise for you!"

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Meanwhile, the Kelsman family mansion, Margaret's bedroom.

Countess Margaret did not lie lazily on the bed and read all kinds of information sent in by the attendants, and the chaotic and tense situation in front of her forced the woman to deal with it with a hundred times the spirit.

In particular, Tang Jie's sideways attack destroyed her plan to attack the forbidden tower, which made her feel a lot of uneasiness in her heart.

When the news of all kinds had not yet reached her room, this woman, like all ordinary people, kept pacing back and forth in the room, her hands clenched tightly.

When a knight rode his horse into the forecourt garden of the Kelsmann mansion, and handed a wax-sealed letter in his bosom to a lady-in-waiting, who then hurried through the halls, corridors, and stairwells to the heavily guarded door of the countess, and when there was a knock on the door, the countess paced back and forth to her feet.

Margaret looked at the urgent item in her hand carefully, and a cold sneer gradually appeared on her face: "Hmph...... Guy who can't help himself!"

She stood there, her eyes slightly lowered, as if she was thinking about something.

After a while, she looked up sharply and shouted to the door, "Someone!"

"My lord, I've been waiting here for a long time. "An attendant came in from outside the door.

"Pass on my orders and quickly contact Pope Laudrino of the Cult of the Illuminati......" Margaret's eyebrows raised slightly, showing a look of disdain.

"In what name?" the squire asked in a low voice.

"Just ......," Margaret pondered for a moment, and then said coldly, "Let's make a connection with the division of the interests of the empire and the question of the emperor's choice in the future!"

"Yes, my lord. The squire stood up and prepared to retreat.

"Slow!" Marguerite suddenly shouted, "Besides, one more word for me, that the greatest benefit should come from the most obedient puppet, not from the ambitious military strategist!"

After a while, Margaret picked up a silver bell from the desk beside her, shook it gently, and with a soft jingle of the bell, a woman pushed open the door and walked in slowly: "My lord, do you call me?"

"Yes!" Margaret glanced at the woman, a faint smile on her lips, "Hughes Gnee, is everything ready?"

"Yes, my lord!" replied Hughes Grace in a soldier's manner toward Margaret, and in a slow but elegant tone, "Petrel is always waiting for your orders!"

Margaret nodded, a thick mocking smile on the corner of her mouth: "Does this guy Fernandez think that he can do whatever he wants here if he controls two-thirds of the army? You know, half of the two-thirds of the army he controls is wallgrass!"

Margaret sneered: "Whichever way the wind in the sky blows, these armies will fall!"

She turned her head and looked at Hughes Gurney coldly: "Now, let your people go and tell those troops that the wind has changed!"

Hughesgney nodded, "Do you have any other orders?"

Margaret thought for a moment, and she sneered, "Of course, go, tell the crows, let them get moving!"

"Yes, my lord!" Hughes Gurney slowly withdrew with a graceful gesture.

Margaret turned, she came to the round arch carved in exquisite relief on the windowsill, lifted the curtains, and looked at the blazing imperial capital, the corners of her mouth outlined a cold smile.

......

Twenty minutes later, in the Basilica of St. Sistine, in the imperial capital of Garcia.

"Your Majesty......," a cardinal whispered beside Pope Laudrino, "I don't think we need to deal with this woman at all." She is a cunning and sinful serpent, and if you make a deal with her, we will be punished by God!"

Pope Laudrino, a thin, gray-haired old man, glanced at the cardinal beside him lightly, and this casual gaze seemed to be able to see through the soul of a person in an instant.

"For the sake of the Most High God, how much have you received from Fernandez, my dear Aaron?" said Laudrino slowly, the old voice echoing through the empty church.

The cardinal named Aaron was suddenly sweating heavily, and he hurriedly said: "No, Your Majesty, I am a child of the Most High God, and I will always follow your teachings, incorruptible and upright!"

The cardinal's uniform was inlaid with countless tiny rubies, and the magic wand he held in his hand was covered with gold and diamonds.

Pope Laudrino didn't want to dwell on this, he just smiled faintly, and then slowly said to the messenger of the Kelsman family not far away: "Go and tell Margaret." I agree with her last sentence. ”

The messenger nodded, and sped away.

Aaron was surprised and asked, "Your Excellency, did you promise her?"

Laudrino shook his head and smiled, "My dear Aaron, you have to remember that when Kirk was here, our union with Fernandez was a necessity, because we had no other choice. But this fellow Fernandez is a ferocious crocodile, he is a hundred times more fierce than his father, and it is very dangerous to make a deal with this fellow! Especially when he sits on the throne of the emperor, our agreement with him will become a stumbling block for him, and the common interests between us will cease to exist! We will become his enemy, and he will also become our enemy!"

"But he's going to use us against the Kelsmans!" argued Aaron.

"Why do we have to be enemies of the Kelsmans?" Laudrino's eyes were full of cunning and cunning.

"If we unite with Fernandez, we will face not only the Kelsman family in the future, but also the emperor of the empire! But if we unite with the Kelsman family, we will only face this family in the future, and the emperor can be ignored!" Laudrino smiled faintly, "Because, we can choose the emperor ourselves!"

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The chaotic imperial capital is even more chaotic and confusing because of Margaret's private dealings with Pope Laudrino......

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Uh, sorry not to say more...... Today's 2 more, make up for yesterday's.