"You're even fighting...... This kind of idea? ”

Grand Duke Bruce's originally calm tone was slightly raised, and he was very surprised by it.

He watched as the Knights' Commander calmly flipped through the materials in his hand, as if he had no reaction to what he had said.

The attached body collapses......

Grand Duke Bruce knew very well what the captain's words meant.

With the queen in the ascendancy, there is only one quickest possibility.

That's assassination!

Even if the queen is in power now, it can't hide that she is always alone.

Because she is an outsider relative to the royal family, not even Snow White's biological mother.

Therefore, it is unreasonable to put an outsider in power.

So as long as the queen falls, no one will be able to inherit her political legacy.

And if you choose to inherit to Snow White, then it is exactly what those nobles want.

After all, at this time, Her Royal Highness the princess has also reached the marriageable age, and it is time to choose an excellent man for her.

And what choice did she have other than those children of the nobility?

It can be said that as long as it succeeds, then everything will be solved now.

No one will even condemn the assassination.

Because this plan can benefit almost everyone except for the interests of the queen's family.

Bruce regained his breath a little faster, and then walked over to the head of the Knights.

As if worried, she lowered her voice and said to him.

"Are you sure you want to do this, has it come to this point now?"

In the mind of Grand Duke Bruce, assassination was a means he would not do under any circumstances.

Because this is a customary rule between the nobility.

If one of the two sides loses the fight, then the other side will let the other side go, rather than having to kill them all.

After all, this is a world with mysterious powers, and they are all families that have been passed down for hundreds of years.

So no one knows what other means are hidden in the secret.

Once you tear off your face and want to kill the losing side, then you must also be prepared to lose both.

Unless there is a big difference in strength, the nobles generally don't do too much with each other.

And if the other party uses this method, then does it mean that I can use it as well?

Then the two sides are really unstoppable, and there is basically no room for reconciliation.

"It's not up to me to get to this point."

"You're going to see what our Highness the Queen is going to do."

The head of the regiment put down the materials in his hand, his fingers lightly tapped on the table, and the heavy solid wood made a dull sound.

"I hope she can let go of that terrible thought in her heart, after all, the nobility and the royal family have also coexisted peacefully for so many years, and there is nothing wrong with ruling the empire together."

"An empire is not a one-man empire."

After the words were spoken, the room was eerily silent.

The sound of the Knight's Master striking the table seemed to hit Archduke Bruce's heart again and again, forcing it to change the frequency of its beating and synchronize with it.

The old man, who was actually 100 years old, felt a great pressure gradually overflowing from the regiment leader's body.

Grand Duke Bruce suddenly remembered that the person in front of him was actually the strongest man in the Empire.

Otherwise, he would not be able to assume the duties of the head of the Imperial Knights.

The wind from the frontier blast blew into the room, bringing a damp chill.

Grand Duke Bruce seemed to be able to hear one strange murmur after another from this wind, as if he was praising the unknown existence.

He looked at the man in front of him, but saw that the wild heart of the raging beast was spreading like a weed in the wilderness.

Grand Duke Bruce knew that the head of the Knights, who had been personally raised by the previous monarch, had completely changed his mind.

Although he is still loyal to the empire, he has become more aristocratic than the nobles at the moment.

"I see, but are you sure?"

"After all, there is one by her side, and he is the same sword as you......"

The head of the regiment just smiled and said.

"Don't worry, although we were best friends, because of that, I know all his weaknesses."

Grand Duke Bruce frowned slightly, feeling a little unsafe.

After all, that "evil ghost" left a lot of shadows in the hearts of the upper echelons of the empire.

They were far more fearful of it than the queen.

Grand Duke Bruce pondered for a moment, then spoke up.

"How can we help you?"

The head of the regiment shook his head and said.

"You don't have to interfere too much in assassination."

"Believe me, the more people involved and the more well-planned the plan, the lower the success rate."

"If things do get to that point, you just need to be prepared for your work."

Grand Duke Bruce sighed, feeling still a little inappropriate.

But since the head of the knight order said so, he had no choice but to say so.

"We have found three marriageable people for Snow White here, all of whom are from great noble backgrounds."

"As long as you don't have any problems on your side, then we can work seamlessly."

"When the time comes, we will directly hold a wedding for Snow White and send our people to the position of monarch."

Listening to Grand Duke Bruce's promise, the regimental commander did not have any objections.

It was only at the end, as if he had thought of something, that he asked.

"Have you ever wondered about the possibility of the current monarch awakening?"

Grand Duke Bruce's figure froze suddenly, and then his old eyelids lifted slightly, and a glimmer of light flashed in his eyes.

"Impossible."

Listening to the inexplicably confident words, the head of the regiment raised his eyebrows in surprise, as if he had noticed something.

But then he just smiled and didn't point it out.

After all, now they are also people in the same boat, no matter who falls into the water, then the other person will not be comfortable in the face of the situation of the boat capsizing.

The head of the regiment just sighed a little in his heart, and it was difficult for the queen to carry an old cauldron that had been around for more than ten years.

Almost everyone, including himself, thought that the monarch's unconscious was the work of the empress.

After all, she is a legendary witch with all kinds of magical abilities.

He said that he couldn't find a trace back then, and it turned out that all this was done by the nobles.

Now it seems that the nobles have been preparing for all this for a long time, but when they were about to pick the fruit, they suddenly inserted a person and snatched half of it.

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If you had known this news at the beginning, you might have gone straight to the door of the nobles.

And now......

The regimental commander looked at Grand Duke Bruce and chuckled softly.

"In that case, then I'll go and prepare, hoping that there won't be any unexpected differences."

"Well, I see, I'll be keeping an eye on it here."

Just when the two were talking happily, the head of the regiment seemed to feel something, and his eyes looked out of the window.

At this moment, the border wasteland had fallen into an extremely silent dead silence, as if there were no living beings.

The light in this room shone ahead, but it was even more lonely.

Grand Duke Bruce was already surprised by this, but still asked.

"Failed again?"

"Yes, this is the one hundred and thirty-sixth experiment, and it should be a sacrifice to the Lord of Winter."

"Lord of Winter?"

Grand Duke Bruce reminisced carefully, and then said with some confusion.

"Isn't that the faith on the Ottoman side? You brought it and sacrificed it. ”

"Do these matter? For me, as long as I can summon it, it is a righteous god. ”

The Knights' Leader smiled casually, but there was a longing in his deep eyes.

The reason why he had such a plan was not only for the empire, but also for the nobility.

God.

Just these two words have the power to capture people's hearts.

How many people have fallen in the middle of the pursuit of her existence, which almost represents the ultimate of mystery, the end of all things in the world.

As a strong man, the head of the regiment naturally can't avoid these.

He was so eager to see the unknown, something every warlock longed for.

See a landscape higher than yourself.

The glimmering room was silent, and Grand Duke Bruce was gone.

He was going to prepare for both, and at this critical moment, make sure that Snow White was firmly in the hands of the nobles.

Shortly after the departure of Grand Duke Bruce, a raw record of the experiment was sent to the head of the Order.

It is the record of the sacrifice to the Lord of Winter.

Taken out of the file bag, lines of text appeared in front of him.

"Original Experiment Log."

"Time, 20 p.m. on February 21."

"The weather is cloudy, and there are no stars."

“……”

After flipping through the documents in his hand, the head of the Order fell into deep thought.

He frowned slightly and muttered in a low voice.

"What went wrong?"

……

The morning light sprinkled through the window, and it was already the second morning when Ji Yan returned to "home".

He was standing by the window, looking out at the view.

Last night, the shadows had already searched the entire castle.

The result was naturally not as expected.

Even in the darkroom that is extremely hidden, there are only some treasures stored, and nothing abnormal has been found.

There is no trace of the "door" at all.

In this regard, Ji Yan feels that he may have fallen into a fixed thinking, maybe the "door" is not a real door, but refers to other existences.

After a moment of silence, he opened the door and went out into the castle's garden.

Ji Yan saw a person by the window just now, and then remembered that he hadn't seen her since he came back.

……

There is a small pavilion in the middle of the garden.

A woman was sitting in the pavilion, and a maid stood beside her.

Her face was beautiful and pale, and there was a pity in her eyes, but it was unusually indifferent, as if nothing could arouse her interest.

Suddenly, there was a slight change in the woman's expression, and then she looked to the side.

This aroused the curiosity of the maid, and she followed her line of sight.

I saw a young man with a face that was four or five points similar to the woman's face coming over.

This is...... Master Merris?

The maid's heart showed Ji Yan's face as a teenager, which was still a little different from now, but she could still see that it was him.

That's right, she heard yesterday that Master Merris was back.

It's just that at that time, she had been serving beside the woman and had no chance to meet.

Ji Yan walked to the woman's side, and the woman just looked at him and didn't speak.

"Mother's ......"

Ji Yan called the person in front of him softly.

But she didn't react to it in the slightest, and just watched in silence.

Ji Yan knew that his mother was not looking at herself.

When he was a child, he thought that his mother's silence was not like to talk, but her eyes were always watching him.

It wasn't until later that Ji Yan understood that his gaze was not looking at himself, but at looking at himself and looking at another him.

After all, he is the heir of that man, and his face naturally follows him a little.

Neither of them spoke, and the atmosphere in the small pavilion was extremely depressing.

The maid on the side was accustomed to this, because this was how the two got along before.

The two sides were silent, and there was not a word of conversation.

When Master Merris was young, he would still have nothing to say, mentioning various topics and trying to chat with his mother.

But the response was nothing but silent silence.

After that, when the two of them were getting along, Young Master Merris spoke less and less, and even stood silent with him.

The maid has been with the woman for many years, and this transformation is what she has seen in her own eyes.

Even the look that secretly looked at Ji Yan had a hint of admiration.

After all, normal people will definitely not come over to take a look at such an indifferent mother.

But like Master Merris, no matter how indifferent a woman is, she will come over from time to time to take a look.

The maid sighed and was puzzled.

Sighing that Young Master Merris is such a good person, he is usually casual and friendly, even if he sees a maid like himself, he is not impatient at all.

However, he has suffered this kind of treatment since he was a child, especially his own parents, but he has not yet developed mental abnormalities, which is simply a miracle.

If it were herself, the maid thought that she would not be able to bear this situation.

After all, parents are the closest people in the world other than their wives.

And I heard that the childhood sweetheart that Master Merris grew up with since he was a child also died in an accident, and the maid couldn't imagine what a blow this was to him.

I hope the world can be gentle with the young master.

The maid quietly looked at his mother, and found that she was still looking at Master Merris's face.

It's just that the shadow of another person is reflected in that gaze.

The maid couldn't figure out why, as a mother, she was so indifferent to her children.

Isn't motherly love nature?

The maid's thoughts did not break the silence in the pavilion, only shallow breathing and the faint sound of the wind.

There was a faint hustle and bustle of the town in the distance, with a hint of joy in it.

It seems that the return of Master Merris has injected a bit of vitality into the people here.

The morning light was getting warmer, and a hint of green seemed to be visible in the large patches of dead wood.

A few sparrows stood on the branches, swaying gently.

There was no Ji Yan in the pavilion.

Until the end, his mother in this life did not say a word.