Chapter 212: Iris: Why did you suddenly fight back?
With the Air Cavalry Brigade stationed on Glass Island, Ivas can finally breathe a sigh of relief and calm down to study.
Because Meg was reincarnated as Lygia, now Avalon doesn't need to rush to resurrect Lancelot to protect the country. Therefore, the queen does not need to die for the time being, which also delays the crisis of the Shadow Celestial Division in disguise.
Today's Queen Sophia undoubtedly hopes that she can live.
Soon after, Avalon and Star Antimony will have a battle. And Queen Sophia thinks about the same as Ivus and Lygia...... As long as it is handled well, this war is an opportunity for Avalon.
But there is a prerequisite for this. It's about making sure Avalon doesn't make a big mess.
Although those old men and bastards are iron waste, they are also powerful people after all. Isabel, who is still quite immature, may not be able to suppress them, and she does not have a vicious enough eye to select those young generation talents.
However, it is no problem for Queen Sophia to come on her own.
And during this time, she can take the opportunity to teach Isabel something...... And let Ivas take Isabel with him.
She had not taught Isabel the way of statecraft, which was probably different from the reason Isabel herself thought that "I am not fit to inherit Avalon" - because if that were the case, she would not have been able to ask Master Janis to protect Isabel and teach her the art of transcendence.
At that time, the curse had already begun to spread, and Queen Sophia did not let Janis protect herself, nor did she track down the curser, but asked her to protect a little girl who was very late in the line of succession and did not even have the adaptability of the authoritarian path?
"——From this point of view, what Queen Sophia has really done all these years is to hide trees in the forest."
After listening to Ehuas's story, Sherlock thought for a long time before he replied.
Sherlock is now "dead and not resurrected" and misses out on a lot of interesting things. So Ivast went back to the bishop's house and synchronized the information with Sherlock.
Aside from not saying that he had been appointed minister, Ivas told Sherlock the rest—even Sherlock about Aleister's transfer to his side. Of course, this is to prevent Sherlock from doing blind research and cleaning himself up.
"You keep talking, I'm listening."
Ivas sat on the couch, sipping sherry, smiling as Sherlock began to analyze.
After old Meg brought this wine over, Ivas was surprised to find that it was quite delicious. Now he bought some more for Mr. Bishop—nominally for the Bishop, but in fact he drank a little when he was fine.
It's like a deposit. Only occasionally there will be a bit of storage loss.
One thing to say, Meg's taste is really good. The wine she pushed is still a bit of a statement.
So the reason why she usually likes to eat fried chicken and fish may indeed be because Avalon really doesn't have anything to eat......
Sherlock didn't drink, he just held an unlit cigar in his mouth, his hands flew up and down in a very rich body language, and he gushed endlessly: "Your Majesty probably guessed a long time ago that the source of the curse is not the same, so the cause of death of the royal family will be different." It is precisely because there is more than one side of the curse...... The noble red of the Star Antimony Man, the spy and assassin of the Iris Man, Lloyd's may not know about it, but the first two are enough.
That's why she never said anything about the Cursed - with the Eye of Avalon and Master Yanis there, it's easy for her to investigate. But that answer is beyond the reach of the Avalons. So she could only pretend she didn't know.
"If you go against a country, you might be able to stir up the fighting spirit of the Avalons. But if you are hostile to two enemies at the same time, there is no possibility of victory at all. ”
"There are only four countries around Avalon. In addition to the western religion and the barbarians of the northern wolf country, now only Star Antimony and Iris are left. And those barbarians don't have a good relationship with us, and together with the prodigal irises and the shady star antimony people, we can say that we are the enemy of the whole world. ”
Sherlock is undoubtedly a queen blower.
But what he blew this time was probably right.
Because looking back now, after confirming that Avalon could not easily lift the curse and could not avoid being cursed, Sophia made several preparations very calmly:
She first began to spread out Isabel's hidden beauty path adaptation, keeping her away from the royal community and the center of power, maintaining her purity, and not coming into contact with her brothers and sisters; She then began to prepare for the Shadow of Avalon ritual, planning a protector for Avalon; She also found Janis as a protector and mentor for Isabel to ensure that Isabel could grow up healthy.
Isabel's artistic talents, while quite outstanding, were not enough to tempt Janis - so the only reason why Janis, who loves to travel the world, stayed in Avalon for so long was at the Queen's request.
From this point of view, Isabel was arranged to meet those outstanding talents of the same age and future pillars of the country at the Royal Law University; give preferential treatment to Sherlock, who is loyal to the royal family; Even giving Eivas no matter the ministerial position, these are all for Isabel. All are paving the way for her future rule.
As Isabel said, she and her grandmother have always had a good relationship. But Sophia's love for her is not intimacy, pampering and gifting, but exists in a more rational and long-term attitude.
That's great. Eivas sighed.
Her Majesty's only miscalculation was probably that Isabel was forced to shut herself up by pressure.
After all, when she was a teenager, she often slipped out of the Silver and Tin Palace to go out to watch plays, and when she was still in middle school, she dressed as a female college student and pretended to be a school girl to go to college, and even could easily play with the world-renowned painter she met for the first time, and let Janis take the initiative to paint for her...... It may indeed be impossible to understand why Isabel would be so easily autistic.
"I'm afraid that from the very beginning, Her Royal Highness Isabel is the most suitable person to inherit His Majesty's philosophy of governing the country."
Sherlock replied affirmatively, "Now there is an urgent need for Avalon to open up to transcendents from other paths.
"Her Majesty has done everything she can despite the resistance of reform. She was a very remarkable and illustrious monarch, but she still lacked time.
"According to my calculations, it will be at least a generation before we can really see the results of the reforms and bring Avalon's technology up to international level. If you choose to stop or even go backwards at this time, you will miss the final window. ”
"Indeed."
Ivus nodded, surprised by Sherlock's acuity.
Once the Duchy of Narcissus completes its independence...... The technological realm that is completely composed of mages and the entire ruling layer, and the technical foundation that has accumulated for a whole hundred years is about to start to exert its strength. And as long as the Star Antimony disintegrates, the Demon Scholar, the Alchemist, and the Necromancer, the three Absolute Brothers who have lost their restraint from each other, will also have a great life.
Queen Sofia did not foresee the Fallen Celestials, but her political eyes could easily see through the instability of the Principality of Narcissus and the crisis within the Star Antimony.
In this case, any monarch who cannot firmly continue to complete the reform as quickly as possible in the face of political resistance on all sides is in fact extinguishing Avalon's last hope. But all Sofia could trust was Isabel.
Because it is possible for the other heirs to betray her, but only Isabel is impossible. After all, Isabel herself is the holder of the illegal path.
Most of the transcendent knowledge is in possession of the Iris Kingdom, and the path of beauty that can be secretly peeped at through "artistic vision" and even easily transmitted is undoubtedly limited in Avalon. The old-fashioned knights hated – or rather feared the bells and whistles.
Now that the other heirs have been eliminated, the Cursed One from Iris has been caught red-handed during the "assassination of the Minister", Meg's lifespan has been solved, and Isabelle has two right-hand men, Ivas and Sherlock...... After Avalon's multiple deaths were revived by Eevas, the queen immediately stopped acting.
She showed the iron fist that had ruled Avalon for many years-
The queen makes a high-profile display of Lygia, claiming that she is closely related to Meg, that she is blessed by the Silver Crowned Dragon, and that she also possesses Meg's dragon-blood law - so she will take the place of the "unwell" Meg as the Grand Arbiter.
Although Lycia appears to be very young, she is actually an adult. It was only because of the power of the gods that he maintained such a young body.
And these words of the queen have been approved by the church. The high-level people present could also sense that Sophia was telling the truth.
Immediately afterward, Avalon began to put pressure on the irises.
They presented the conclusive evidence that Dean Lars Graham, as the leader of Iris College, had "tortured and killed students", "desecrated corpses", and "assassinated ministers"—nothing was said about the curse.
However, the queen made it clear that instead of surrendering, the queen intended to use spells to attack innocents when the Great Guardian had stopped attacking and said that he would be treated favorably if he surrendered. Had they not been interrupted on the spot, there would have been at least more than 1,000 civilian casualties.
- So, it was obviously the humiliation of Ivus being attacked three or four times in a row, but it seemed to have become a great achievement.
Immediately afterwards, the Assassin who had attacked Ivus was also picked up - her transfer to the University of the Law of the King was handled by Master Lars Graham. They use the same skills, and most likely come from the same spy organization.
Because of Avalon's sudden attack, and the fact that these testimonies can be sworn to the Nine Pillars in public to ensure their authenticity...... In this case, the iris suddenly fell into a very embarrassed and difficult situation.
They have been on the back foot in the negotiation of other matters in recent days, and Iris's newspaper office is like a fly smelling blood, and goes directly to Avalon to conduct interviews in person.
When they return to Iris, I'm afraid this matter will ferment further.
Relying on Lars Graham to bear the blame, the previous assassination of Minister Drost in prison is also explained: an unnamed senior Inspectorate has presented strong evidence that Chancellor Drost had been in contact with transcendents of the path of love in prison before his assassination.
As we all know, the mainstream path of the Iris Kingdom is the path of love and the path of beauty.
Pressed and beaten, Avalon suddenly began to fight back, completely ignoring the Star Antimony who was actually attacking them, and instead went all out at the Iris who was secretly stirring up - which made Star Antimony and Iris unable to fix it.
This was the first suggestion that Ivas made to the Queen after he became Minister of Minister.
- It's like a one-on-one man battle on the road, if you come to the jungler and I can change one, then I'll kill it first to help.
And the star antimony and the iris themselves are also hostile. They are happy to see that, too.
Star Antimony was also overwhelmed by the internal chaos when he saw Avalon suddenly fight with Iris...... In order not to burn the fire on himself, he directly retracted his actions, leaving the nails inside Avalon to remain latent.
They were going to just watch Avalon and Iris fight. I even plan to add some firewood to make them more lively.
As everyone knows, this is a play played by the queen.
In this way, Avalon has breathing room.
Because of being cut off from the Star Antimony, the Noble Red Society directly lost its ability to disrupt the Glass Island in the face of the prying eyes of Avalon and the blows of the regular army.
The operation was named "Bear Hunt". Nominally, it was "an illegal organization of transcendents that attempted to overthrow the Avalonian rule and carry out many massacres of innocent village and town residents", and there was no mention of support for Star Antimony.
Since the fire didn't burn on him, the Star Antimony people didn't approve of helping the noble red at this time.
So only three days after the operation began, thirty of the noble red's strongholds were destroyed by the thunder drawn by the griffons.
And the queen was interviewed by the Glass Steps.
She didn't say it was a long-awaited counterattack. Instead, she was pretending to be confused, claiming that these actions were all strong advice from the new "Regardless Minister", and she was "very surprised" about this.
However, Her Majesty has chosen to keep his true identity a secret regardless of the Minister's personal wishes.
All of a sudden, the entire Avalon was caught up in curiosity and speculation about the minister.
"—So, Ivus."
After blowing the Queen's wisdom, Sherlock pointed to the newspaper and asked, "Who do you think this minister is?" ”
The first chapter of 4,000 words, the second chapter still has to wait for about two o'clock.
The nasal discharge has increased, and it feels like a cold complicated by rhinitis, or it may be rhinitis caused by a cold...... Compared with previous years, there is an extra branch, which is the sequelae left by the new crown last year.
In short, it is a good thing not to have Chongyang......
(End of chapter)