In the royal capital, in a secret room of the palace, the light of magic continued to shine, countless rays of light gathered on a figure, and several magicians around them held their staffs with faint sweat on their foreheads.

After some time, the light of magic gradually faded, and the magicians in the secret room wiped the sweat from their foreheads and exited the secret room, and the figure became clearly visible.

At that time, a middle-aged man in a purple robe, with flowing black hair and a huge crown on it, looked about thirty or forty years old.

After the magicians retreated, the middle-aged man suddenly opened his eyes, the essence in his eyes flashed, and the whole person revealed a powerful Weiya.

After a while, the momentum on the middle-aged man's body disappeared in an instant, becoming indistinguishable from ordinary people, the door of the secret room opened again, and an old man walked in and bowed.

"Your Majesty! The right minister has been waiting for a long time. ”

The middle-aged man nodded and walked out of the secret room.

This middle-aged man was none other than the current king of the Kingdom of Divine Grace, Dick III.

Dick III succeeded to the throne at the age of twenty-seven, and now he has been on the throne for almost thirty years, but the years have not left too many marks on his face, making him not look like an old man of fifty or sixty years old at all.

After walking some distance along the secret passage, he came to a palace in the palace and sat down on the dragon chair.

The right minister of the palace saw Dick III and the old man, and hurriedly saluted.

Dick III waved his hand with a warm smile on his face.

"The right minister doesn't need to be polite, I must have been waiting here for a long time, I made the right minister worried."

The right minister hurriedly said that he didn't dare, this is the duty of the courtier.

"Is Your Majesty going well this time?" The right minister glanced around, and in the huge palace, apart from him and Dick III, there was only the old man who was old, so he spoke boldly.

"Thanks to the blessing of the ancestors, it is quite smooth, at least, ten years of longevity can be guaranteed." Dick III spoke as if he was talking about an insignificant trifle, but it made the right minister on the other side feel a pang.

Except for a few people in the kingdom, no one could have imagined that the powerful man in front of him, who seemed to be at the peak of his life, was about to run out of life.

Perhaps, this is the jealousy of talents, the right minister thinks of it with regret.

Before Dick III succeeded to the throne, the kingdom was defeated in the war with the Orcs due to the previous king's indulgence in pleasure, losing a lot of territory, and the authority of the royal family also fell to a low point.

Finally, after another defeat at the front, the disgruntled people within the royal family finally couldn't bear it anymore and launched a palace coup to support Dick, the fourth son of the prince's former king, who was only the prince at the time, to the throne for Dick III.

During his time as a prince, Dick III participated in many front-line wars, and his personal strength also reached the middle rank, and he enjoyed high prestige in the army.

After succeeding to the throne, Dick III changed his father's cronyism, reformed the rule of officials, paid attention to army building, and spent many years of painstaking efforts to finally stop the decline of the kingdom and let the kingdom regain the upper hand in the war with the beasts.

In the years that Dick III ruled the kingdom, the prestige of the royal family had reached its peak, and the nobles of the kingdom had become the most loyal supporters of the royal family, regardless of their intentions. Presumably, when his father was in power, the nobles listened to the tune and did not listen to the announcement, and I don't know how many times better.

It's a pity that the Grand Duke of the West is also an unborn hero, otherwise with the ability of Dick III and relying on the great prestige gained by the war against the Orcs, he would have already completed the centralization of power like the former Grand Duke of the East.

Now, seeing that the kingdom is about to achieve the final victory in the war against the orcs, but Dick III's body can no longer hold on, so he can only choose to negotiate peace with the orcs, otherwise even if he wins, it will not be a good thing for the royal family and the kingdom.

Without the suppression of Dick III, the princes of the royal family now do not have the strength and means to compete with the Grand Duke of the West, and the scene that happened in the east in the past may happen again.

You must know that in the rebellion when the Eastern Grand Duke was not a rebellion, the strength of the kingdom was seriously damaged, not only lost the important pass to the expansion of the northern plains, but also lost the north, so he could only concentrate on the west.

The Tut Federation in the northwest took the opportunity to become bigger, swallowing up a lot of land in the kingdom, which has not been returned to this day.

Such a scene is something that some important ministers of the kingdom do not want to see.

As for Dick III's physical problem, although he didn't say it explicitly, the right minister knew that it should be the battle with the beasts seven or eight years ago, the battle that changed the entire battlefield situation, Dick III drove the battle himself.

At the most critical moment of the battle, an elite unit of the enemy actually broke through the Chinese army, broke up the convoy of Dick III, and killed Dick III in front of him.

At that time, if it weren't for Dick III, who had just been promoted to a high-ranking knight, to take action and lead the guards to fight to the death, but if there were signs of retreat that caused the army to be unstable, the outcome of that battle would not be easy to say.

Although Dick III was promoted to the high rank, there were also strong people in the local army who could compete with the high-level professionals, even if in the end, because of the proper command of the Grand Duke of the West and timely rescue, the annihilation of the assault army composed of the elite of the beast clan indirectly led to the collapse of the morale of the beast clan, but Dick III was still seriously injured.

After the battle, there were countless magicians who came to heal Dick III, and Dick III quickly returned to normal, and then showed his strength as a high-ranking knight on the battlefield several times.

Seeing that the right minister was silent, as if thinking, Dick III also sighed slightly. In fact, not to mention the others, even he himself thought that he had fully recovered after being injured in the great battle that year, but he never thought that the orcs would use the power of that curse.

There has always been no hidden danger in his body, because as a king, he rarely has the opportunity to take action in person, until when he tried to advance again two years ago, the cursed power exploded, which not only made his promotion fall short, but also caused him to suffer an incurable injury.

The path to the advancement of a professional is not dangerous before the high level, but when it reaches the high level, the professional is normally very ordinary and ordinary people have a difference, and the life factor will produce huge changes, and obtain stronger abilities and longer lifespans.

This is a path against the sky, so after reaching the high level, every promotion is actually quite dangerous. As for finally becoming a 9th-order professional, that is, a legendary powerhouse, it is a thousand professionals who try, and they may not succeed in one.

At the legendary level, the lifespan of thousands of years is unimaginable for ordinary people.

Originally, according to the high-level cultivation of Dick III, even if he worked day and night as a king, he had a lifespan of two or three hundred years, and there were two people in the royal family who became high-level professionals in history and achieved this.

For the future of the kingdom and the royal family, Dick III had a detailed plan, and the relatively long life was enough for him to deal with some things in a gentle way.

But this sudden change broke everything.

Dick III almost fell after the failure of the promotion, but fortunately, with the treatment of the high-level masters, he finally stabilized his life, Rao is so, his original life span of two or three hundred years is now only ten years left.

Thinking of the Grand Duke of the West, who was also a high-ranking powerhouse, Dick III felt tremendous pressure, and after his death, who in the royal family could compete with the wise and martial Grand Duke of the West.

Therefore, he tried his best to negotiate peace with the beast clan, wanting to solve the problems within the kingdom in the rest of his time, and give his children and grandchildren a complete country.

Thinking of his mediocre heirs, Dick III sighed faintly.

Just as they can have half of their own ability, why should they be like this?

Negotiating peace with the orcs has almost consumed most of his prestige for ruling the kingdom for many years, and the rest of the things are really difficult to handle.

"What do the other Grand Dukes' families think, do they have no opinion on watching the rise of the Grand Duke of the West?" Dick III spoke softly and asked the right minister.