In the family mansion, Aga greeted Grand Duke Risa, his father, who had returned home after taking care of his affairs.

The two fathers and sons, who are the core of the family, calmly finished dinner and came to the small study. This is the main place for the Risa Gong to handle affairs, and outsiders are not allowed to enter easily, and even the cleanliness of the room is cleaned and sorted out by the housekeeper himself. For trespassers, the Duke's Guard can only kill them.

As the heir of the Risa family, Aga also needs his father's permission to enter this room, and he can't trespass, after all, he still has several younger brothers and cousins waiting for him to make mistakes. And this time the mission failed, and his father brought him into this study to give him a chance to remedy.

"Father." Aga stood at his desk with his hands down.

The Duke of Risa poured himself a cup of water from a mountain spring that the servants had brought from outside the city in the morning, and also poured a cup for his son, and motioned for him to sit down. "Tell me more about the details."

"Yes." Aga recounted in detail what had been passed down to the magician that day. And added to the statement the thoughts and opinions of his own observations, these are things that were not necessary to say in the court before, and the emperor did not want to listen to them, and the supreme was quite obsessed with his own judgment.

But in the small study, the Duke of Risa allowed his son to join these ideas, and the two would discuss with each other and correct their wrong judgments, which was the Grand Duke's method of raising his own heir.

Instead of letting the other party think for themselves and running into a bag on his side with the results full of mistakes, it is better to participate in the discussion as an assistant. The latter method is much more difficult to grasp than the former. But Lisa Gong thinks that he has done a good job, at least he has cultivated himself, and he is not a resonant insect who only promises and looks forward to doing things.

And after the statement of the matter was over, Aga said, "Father, is Your Majesty really unwilling to continue to use his forces to deal with that magician? ”

Risa Gong shook his head and said, "According to what I know about him, he won't do it again." Our Majesty is not a personality who sees a little petty profit and wants to pinch it in his hand no matter what. ”

"What about us? We put so much thought into it. We can't let the Kaveh family see our jokes. "The reason why Aga is persistent is because this matter is a trap for that magician, a move planned by his father, Grand Duke Risa.

The emperor's edict could not be said to be used or out of his original intentions, and the scheming emperor didn't take this trivial matter seriously at all, but just let the old ministers do it. Anyway, what you owe today can be recovered another day with interest, which can only be regarded as a small game between monarchs and ministers.

If the magician obeys the edict and comes to the palace, there will naturally be a way to force him to find out everything he knows, and then all kinds of accidents will happen, and the magician will unfortunately die. As long as this kind of thing works well, Grand Duke Risa doesn't even need to come forward, and he is sure to swallow most of the benefits.

If the edict is not accepted, there is even more reason to send the strength of the empire on the surface and openly list this person as the target of punishment. Even if the other party is a well-known figure in the holy city of Estali, the magicians will not risk the anger of the Empire to defend a person who offends the dignity of the Empire and is listed as a mortal enemy.

But after the Fourteenth Prince joined, none of these calculations worked. If that magician is summoned to the capital, the Fourteenth Prince will have a great chance of coming back, and it will be a disaster. If he didn't come, no one would have the guts to send someone to punish the magician. Because it was like reminding the Fourteenth Prince that he had a sense of existence, and he would be hell if he didn't cause a big disaster.

For the nobles of the empire, the Demon Prince is already a scourge of the natural calamity level, and no one has thought of fighting it. In the past, all the people in the head iron were dead, and now everyone, including the emperor, thinks out of sight, how dare he let him come back.

"I heard that you went this time, and it was full of ugliness." Instead of answering his son's pointless question, Risa Gong said something else.

Knowing that it was impossible for the guards of the family to hide their embarrassed appearance at that time, Aga simply lowered his head and said, "My son has lost his temper, please punish my father." ”

Although the people of the family, especially their heirs, behaved so badly in front of outsiders, they were quite unhappy. But the thought of facing the demon prince cooled down.

As the world knows, His Majesty's fourteenth son, the Emperor, killed his twin brother, so he was deprived of his inheritance rights by the royal family and expelled from the country. In fact, that was just the beginning.

No father would hate his children, even if he was an emperor, as long as it didn't involve the emperor's seizure, he was just an ordinary father. Not to mention that he was only six years old when Azad did that. In the minds of everyone, there should be a chance to educate.

But in the end, when the Fourteenth Prince was expelled from the palace, the total number of people known to have been killed by him were III (3) Imperial Concubines, V (5) Princes, II (2) Imperial Daughters, and the heirs of the first echelon of the Grand Dukes, including VII (7), Grand Duke I (1), Duke IV (4), and the following persons with titles included LXVII (67), and...... Half of the Guards Corps, more than 5,000 VBar.

"Forget it, you survived that night by luck. Those who had courage died. It's too difficult for you to face that person like this. ”

On that bloody night, the whole palace seemed to be made of flesh and blood, red everywhere it looked, and stumps everywhere it stood. Human life is like the least valuable thing, whether noble or low, when it is broken and scattered all over the ground. If you are not a noble person, the wreckage is more beautiful.

At first, there was no shortage of brave people, and no one took a fifteen-year-old boy to heart. But no one could stop him, and if there had not been a legion of guards to stop him with his body, more nobles would have died that night. And Aga was the one who escaped for his life that night.

"Damn, that bastard!" Father and son cursed at the same time.

As everyone knows, the Gwana Empire was formerly known as the first alliance of all Homo sapiens after the Dark Ages. Even if humans later dominated, every emperor would still use marriage to gain the trust of all races other than humans. So within the Empire, mixed blood is very common, although there are also people who insist on pure human blood. But in fact pure is not pure...... Who knows.

One of the great results of the royal family's marriage with other Homo sapiens races is that sometimes the children of the royal family are atavistic. That is, the appearance of non-human bloodline characteristics, such people either die early, or survive the weak early childhood, and become very powerful. If the maternal blood is not pure human, then it is more likely that such a special child will be born.

And Azad's mother is a succubus, one of the very few demons who form groups in the maze. But some say that the ecology of demons was the same in the beginning. It's just that the circumstances of growing up are different, so they become different demon races. In the case of Azad, everyone thinks that he has become an out-and-out demon.

Thinking of the tragic situation at that time, and thinking of the humiliation he suffered this time, Aga couldn't help but ask: "Father, we are preparing now, can we really not help him?" At that time, he was just caught off guard. ”

"You know that there was resistance at the time, but the empire was exhausted. But in the end, it cost the lives of eight great magicians and seventeen great swordsmen, which made the prince retreat. If there is a sure way to do it, the only way to do it is to lure him into the magic tower of the Dharma Saint level, and rely on the ever-changing traps inside to clean up that person. Other than that, don't try at all. Risa warned his son.

Even if those who have experienced that night survive, few can still cheer up. His son can still hold on to his performance as the heir of a grand duke, and he is already quite good among his peers. I couldn't have pressed for more.

"Father, what about Your Majesty? What does His Majesty think of his son? Aga asked through gritted teeth. Although the family title is "Grand Duke Rissa", this position is ranked in the order of succession to the throne, although it is said to be very low. And the intrigue between his father and the emperor is, of course, also in his eyes.

But the Duke of Risa was a little disappointed and said: "If it had not been the night when he had destroyed half of the personal guard army and killed many great nobles, the emperor would not have given up this son." Until then, no matter how much pressure on the courtiers was, the emperor was like a lion guarding his calf, not allowing anyone to touch his children. But in the end, on that night, he was also targeted. ──”

At that time, in fact, most of the older Grand Dukes returned to their own territory. Leave the capital of the empire, the core of power, to the next generation. Anyway, with that emperor here, the tool man is himself or his own son, it's no difference. But that bloodstained night frightened too many people. The ministers also provoked an unprecedented reaction in the aftermath, which made the emperor back down.

Only then did he be punished by deprivation of title and inheritance. But you also know that even after the expulsion order was issued, the bastard still lived in the palace for most of the year. So you ask me what the emperor would think of his son; All I can tell you is that no matter what, it is his son. Don't allow others to point fingers, don't even think about it. And ......"

Obedience seemed to have a turnaround, and Aga hurriedly asked, "And what?" ”

"How do you know that what that man did was not the result of our Majesty's indulgence."

"This ...... How is this possible. Aga said in surprise.

"Whether this knife is under control or not, there is still a way to use it by the means of that majesty. Judging from the results, all the nobles were intimidated by the tyranny of the Fourteenth Prince, so they did not dare to persecute the royal family excessively, because no one could guess what kind of reaction the Royal Highness would make. For the emperor, could there be a better situation than this? ”

Regarding his father's statement, Aga said in disbelief: "Your Majesty, can he do it to this extent? ”

"The only reason you don't have control is because you're not smart enough. Study hard. Take all the failures as nutrients for your growth, and try to find your own path when you can make mistakes. As you can imagine, the future will only be harder, not simpler. ”

Risa opened a document with regret. Listed above are some of the major changes that have taken place in the Lost Lands in recent years, and at the heart of these changes is the magician, Gaybrash Tripwood. Is it a good thing or a bad thing to not be able to grasp this man? He, unable to assert.