Chapter Twenty-Three: I Feel Like I'm Doing It Again
The Kingdom Feast is the highest etiquette for the Kingdom of Valrhona to receive distinguished guests.
However, all nobles of the royal kingdom with the rank of count and above must attend.
The aristocratic etiquette is complicated, but Lin Xiao can deal with it easily, which shows how solid his basic skills as a killer are.
Pretending to be like anything, people can't find a flaw.
"Brave man, thanks to you, I saved my Helena again."
Duke Carolan was asked by the king to surrender to his fiefdom by the Duke of Marquis's will.
Hearing that there had been a change in the royal city, he used the teleportation circle at any cost to rush back to Valrhona's royal capital overnight.
After understanding what happened, the duke, who loved his niece to the extreme, had already regarded Lin Xiao as a celestial.
Carolan was very happy, his face was full of red light at this moment.
As soon as Hou Jing died, his faction also fell apart.
King Edmund was old, but he was not confused.
At such a time, the re-establishment of Duke Carolan, who was a relative of the Wang family, was also an inevitable move to balance the power factions among the nobles.
Being able to return to the center of power is naturally satisfying for Carolan.
"Lord Duke doesn't have to be like this, Helena has worshipped me as a teacher, and I should save her."
Lin Xiao was also very happy.
As a killer, he is always thinking about how to infiltrate perfectly, kill targets, and complete tasks.
The king's promise to remove all the people of the temple fits into his assassination philosophy of "perfect infiltration".
Letting the target withdraw from the security system by himself has always been Lin Xiao's ultimate pursuit of the way to infiltrate.
For this reason, he was very happy with his arrangement.
Lin Xiao, who was satisfied with "perfect obsessive-compulsive disorder", also rarely smiled.
Goddess Sifna was also pleased.
Judging by the time of Alpha's world, it was only a few hours before she had eaten at noon in the imperial dining room.
But in the eyes of the goddess, the last time she dined in the palace was fifteen years ago.
During his fifteen years in the Ring of Anubis, Sifna's wilderness survival skills have improved dramatically.
Because Helena slaughtered the hare too quickly, the hare corpse disappeared and reborn very quickly.
So it was difficult for the goddess to eat meat.
She has done things like digging tree bark and gnawing grass roots.
It wasn't until later that Siffner discovered that her clothes were stained with a few grains of wheat that she had used to decorate her bread during meals at the Imperial Dining Room, and her quality of life improved overall.
With these grains of wheat, the goddess gradually cultivated a wheat field and ate homemade black bread.
Later, as Siffna's hunting skills continued to improve, she was even able to occasionally snatch one or two hares from Helena.
The Shadow Fish in the river are also gradually being added to her recipe.
Life is getting better and better.
But none of this can change the fact that Sifner is still surviving in the wilderness in the Ring of Anubis.
"Barbecue...... Sausage...... Bread ......"
Fortunately, among the hundreds of spells that Lin Xiao unleashed on Sifna, there were also types that interfered with the observer's memory, otherwise her gobbling up would definitely be deeply imprinted in the brains of the nobles of the Valrhona Kingdom.
The princess was also very happy.
She kept figuring out the "great chess game" controlled by Lin Xiao, thinking about the role she should play in this shocking layout of the "system rules".
The more she thought about it, the more excited she became, and the princess didn't even notice her gaffe.
"Presumably, Her Highness Helena has not fully recovered from the loss of control of the Elder Dragonborn bloodline."
Several of the silver-clad knights conversed with worried faces on their faces.
They also felt that Princess Helena had become a little strange.
But I can't say what is strange.
However, since the princess has awakened the legendary "Elder Dragonborn Bloodline", it is of course still a matter of joy.
Thinking of this, smiles spread across the knights' faces.
The only one who wasn't too happy was the old king Edmund.
He was worried about the future of Valrhona's kingdom.
The second prince, Jonas, is dead, and the responsibility of inheriting the throne should fall on the head of Princess Helena.
But when he tentatively asked the princess about her wishes, Helena explicitly refused.
"Helena, what do you think about inheriting the throne and becoming Queen Valrhona?"
"Father, let me be blunt, I am a killer, and a killer cannot be a king."
"Killer?"
The old king was a little confused.
When did his daughter become a killer?
Soon, the king figured it out.
This must be Helena's excuse.
When the second prince Jonas was still alive, he really owed Helena a lot in order to train him to become a qualified monarch.
Now Helena is estranged from herself, and that's his own fault.
However, the kingdom was burdened, and Edmund was not willing to give up easily.
"Wu'er, your eldest brother is a demented child, and your fourth brother has joined the Holy Fire Sect and become an ascetic. If you don't inherit the throne, what will be the future of our country? ”
The old king looked at the eldest prince Fastine, who was sucking his finger on his left, and couldn't help but burst into tears.
"Father, the daughter is pursuing the avenue of subverting the rules of the world. What is the rise and fall of the kingdom under the avenue? ”
Helena's words made the old king completely break his defenses.
Edmund was very uncomfortable.
Even if Helena wanted to refuse, she didn't have to make up such an outrageous reason.
Is she still unwilling to forgive me?
Thinking so, the old king actually knelt down for the princess.
"Father, why are you here?"
"If you don't promise to inherit the throne today, I won't get up!"
Edmund roared heartbreakingly.
This earth-shattering human farce silenced the entire banquet hall.
Except for the goddess Sifna, who was still feasting, everyone stopped what they were doing.
The nobles did not dare to move.
When encountering this kind of thing, whoever dares to come forward is tantamount to asking for a dead end.
Seeing that the situation was about to get out of hand, a certain killer stepped forward.
"Your Majesty, with all due respect, why do you bother with Princess Helena if she doesn't want to be the queen?"
Seeing that his disciple was in trouble, Lin Xiao, who was in a good mood, decided to take care of things for the first time.
"Brave Lady......"
The king was in tears.
"You also know the situation in my country, please persuade the princess!"
Lin Xiao picked up the king, thought for a moment, and asked in a deep voice, "Do you need a qualified heir?" ”
"Yes...... Apart from Helena, there is no suitable successor for our country. ”
Lin Xiao shook his head and took out a necklace from his arms.
It's a piece of equipment that he crafts when he's bored.
"Wisdom Necklace, Intelligence +2000, wearer immune to psychic negative status."
Lin Xiao threw the necklace to the drooling eldest prince Fastin.
"How does it feel?"
The average person will not have more than 120 intelligence.
What's it like to wear this necklace with Intelligence +2000?
I'm afraid only the person wearing the necklace knows about it.
The eldest prince Fastin nodded to Lin Xiao and smiled slightly.
"I feel like I'm doing it again."
Fastin slammed to his feet, walked up to the old king, and spoke to the nobles.
"Ladies and gentlemen, I think there is a clear problem with our tax system, and it is obviously unreasonable to levy the same tax rate regardless of whether you are high or low. I propose a tiered taxation system, which would protect the interests of the commoners without provoking the revolt of the aristocracy......"
"Also, there are a lot of things that need to be reformed about the conscription system, and I have thought about it for a long time and have come up with a feasible plan......
In this way, the future Valrhona Virtuous King Fastin established his position as the crown prince, and Princess Helena was able to follow Lin Xiao wholeheartedly to complete the great cause of analyzing the Heavenly Dao.
It's a joy for all.