"Your Majesty, they are just ordinary nobles, they shouldn't be ......"

"Shouldn't it?"

The king smiled and said:

"Any trace of the emperor's bloodline can be used by someone with a heart, so it is necessary to let the entire empire know that all people, creatures, and even ghosts related to the emperor should not exist in this world. ... ≦Otherwise, there will always be people in the places we occupy who will use their banners to bewitch the civilians of the Empire, and once this demagogy succeeds, it will not only be these hundreds and thousands of people who will die...... The country will lose countless farmers, craftsmen, merchants, and most of them young and prime, and my soldiers will lose nothing. For the sake of these thousands of people, and lose tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of people, I will not do this kind of thing. ”

"But...... You don't have to kill them, do you?"

"Yes, they are not guilty of death, they may even be innocent, but they still have to die. According to what Edward once said...... Hehehe, in this world, there are no innocent nobles. ”

The king shook his head slightly, laughed softly, and pulled the girl away from the harp, and sat down at a bench:

"Think about it, the aristocracy, where did what they ate, what they clothed, what they used, where did they come from? They themselves did not contribute much to the country, but they enjoyed far more good things than ordinary people, and they enslaved others from life to death at no cost, simply because they had a noble status. Do you think that's fair?"

"But the nobles are the ones who guide and protect the commoners......," the girl said hesitantly.

"Yes, protect civilians, guide civilians. This is their responsibility, and correspondingly to it. It is the power that the common people need to provide them, and they can sit back and enjoy it. Fresh clothes and angry horses, mellow wine and beauty...... However, power and responsibility are always relative, and there is no right without responsibility, and there should be no responsibility without power. Therefore, when the territory of the empire is lost, it is the nobles of these empires who should be most responsible...... And everything they have is given by civilians, and the only one who can be used to be responsible for it is this life. Isn't it?

The girl was silent.

She didn't know if it was true, but she knew that the king had said it all the same thing—the reasons, the stories, the theories, the ones that always sounded strange, but they couldn't be refuted.

The king was equally silent, just looking at her demure side face. It's as if it's the most perfect thing in the world.

Time passed slowly.

Until the girl finally realized and bowed her head apologetically to the king: "I'm sorry, Your Majesty, I'm ...... I was wrong. ”

"Kindness is not a mistake. I'll give them a burial ceremony that matches their status. The young king smiled, "Shall we, then, not think about these displeasures? Shall we start lunch?"

Lunch was hearty, grilled lamb chops and cardamom chives sauce. Roasted Jerusalem artichoke mixed with peas and turnips, fruit wine and wine. But His Majesty the King could not help but frown...... Everything is only a small plate, and although there are many variety, it is just a good meal for an adult man.

"Eating too much isn't good for your body, and I think you're tired of that reminder, aren't you?"

The young king could only smile bitterly at the girl's reminder, and the meal was soon over, and in the afternoon, the king had to attend to official business, and it was 'unseemly' to stay in the bedroom, so even if he tried his best to rub in the room for a while, he could only leave.

How long do you want to play this botched game?

The long corridor was deep and silent, except for the footsteps of the king, who had long been known to dislike the presence of anyone...... But at this moment, a voice sounded from the silence:

With sarcasm.

"There should be many better females than her, and it is not difficult to get them with your ability, why keep her all the time, didn't you already know that she was a spy sent by Thomas to you? she is just desperate to stay with you now, and besides, what is she looking for not you, but that Edward, what can you get by keeping such a fellow behind? Satisfaction and proof that you have that kind of 'charm'?"

"Human emotions are very strange things...... Actually, I may not understand it myself, but she is only looking for Edward for hatred, which is meaningless, and will only make her die in vain......" the king said softly.

"So, you're just trying to mate with her, but you've been patient for more than a year without expressing it, what are you after...... Anyway, I'm not interested in getting into your minds, so let's deal with the new resources first. The voice was a little unpleasant, and in the next moment, he disappeared into a subtle ripple of space with the king's figure.

The long corridor was covered in a thick haze, and the young king stopped and looked around.

Here, it's already another world.

At this moment, he stood on the edge of a cliff, watching everything in the distance sink into the gray mist, the fog that rolled like the waves of the sea was thick and deep, but there were extremely subtle flashes of light in it. But in an instant, a great tide rolled out of the sea of clouds and mist, parting to the sides, revealing the cyan space beneath it.

It was empty, endless darkness, far and wide, as if just staring at it would be absorbed by the incomparable depth, but the starlight flickered in this depth, becoming clearer as the wisps of remnant clouds dissipated)—

But it wasn't starlight.

Every point of light is suspended in the darkness, a huge rune that is more than a person high, but it is completely different from the ordinary magic circle, these scattered runes are constantly circulating in the air, moving according to their respective trajectories, the size, direction, and shape of the trajectories are different, and they are entwined, but there is no disturbance between the tens of thousands of runes, and they will never even touch each other. It's intoxicating and hard to look away.

With the king gently raised his hand. More light appeared in the clearing.

It was a silver glow connected to the astral glow, and they burned and expanded like flames. It becomes a mirror-like plane, reflecting the square behind it—invariably erected with countless gallows, corpses swaying in the wind like strange fruits.

Next, dim clusters of light rose from each of the gallows, but soon they began to shake and form their pre-birth forms.

The costumes they wore were tattered, but they could barely see the delicacy of the nobility. It's just that, like these costumes, the faces of these translucent souls resemble those of human beings and are infinitely distorted—well-versed textures stretching outward from the inside of their bodies, with indescribable power, pulling them through those doors, one by two, one by two...... But in an instant, an unknown number of ghosts had gathered in the darkness, and the human form of the soul turned from sluggish to angry, and the void began to be filled with wisps of frost!

The whole world roared.

It was the scream of a ghost. Silent, but enough to shake the soul, the roar of hundreds of souls, only the only living beings in this space.

But the king merely smiled.

His body was changing, too—the sheen was rippling through his body. And the smooth pieces of armor are formed from behind the ripples, but there are still a little shadows on those armor pieces - if you look closely, you will see that those shadows are the facial features of people. The eyes, ears, mouth and nose are complete, but the eyes are closed. It's like hibernation!

In his eyes, countless souls rose from the deep darkness. The darkness that had been deep and transparent had been infected by the gray cold of the soul, and it had become as filthy as oil. And this filth is surging towards the border of the abyss!

The young king breathed softly.

Just a breath.

Thousands of ghost heads are already within reach.

Men's, women's, elderly, juveniles, one after another, infiltrate one after another! Translucent eyes followed by eyes, translucent teeth followed by teeth, stacked on top of each other, squeezed layer by layer...... Every head is roaring, every face is crying, baring its sharp fangs like countless demonic monsters, trying to tear the humans in front of them into countless pieces and devour them completely!

But they could not move an inch, and there was something around that man that was stopping them from moving forward, like an invisible and heavy wall, holding them a foot away from the man's surroundings, no matter how hard they tried, it was in vain!

"Quiet!"

He said.

At this moment, his momentum changed.

No more hustle and bustle or silence, vigorous or calm. Joy, anger, sorrow, pride, and fear, the emotions that belong to man seem to have completely receded from his countenance, from his soul, in an instant...... But in the space that remains, it is filled with a certain kind of ...... that is impossible to look at directly

At this moment, he was no longer a king, no longer the young man, and even, no longer a ...... Person.

subtle shadows, flowing over his body.

It was the change in every piece of armor that covered his body, on every face. One by one, they were opening their eyes and their lips were moving. It seems to be chanting, preaching, but there is no voice.

However, the commotion around him stalled.

The ghosts' originally clear and hideous faces are becoming peaceful again.

More precisely, fuzzy ...... The facial features gradually smoothed out, faded, and reverted back to grayish-white mist. Then it swirled around the king's body, and then passed through the invisible wall and converged into a piece of armor on the king's body. And the face there closed its eyes, but its original face was a little clearer.

Then the second, the third.

It's just that the process is extremely slow. With each breath, only one soul was slowly absorbed, and the resentful spirits that were constantly gathering on the periphery were constantly squeezing and gathering, blocking the souls, and the radius of that one foot was gradually shrinking—although the progress was untraceable, when the one hundred and thirty-third soul merged into the king's body, a piercing and sharp grinding sound finally sounded!

Rumble!

The invisible protection finally collapsed, and countless ghosts rushed towards his body like this, and on those smooth armor pieces, countless faces seemed to be cheering at this moment, and magnificent singing finally gushed out of it!

In fact, if that rhythm is broken, it may just be a language, a shout. A simple ...... Palpitating.

The original surging flow of souls slowed down, and seemed to turn from anger to fear. Tried to flee - but apparently it was too late, and the great power turned from resistance to absorption. The countless spiritual essence converged towards that person like this, and it only took a moment for it to dissipate without a trace!

Eventually, only the young king was left in the vast space.

Half-kneeling on the edge of the cliff, he gasped as hard as if he were about to squeeze his lungs out, sweat dripping from his body, but if you looked closely, it would be visible. Every drop of sweat dissipated in the air, became a tiny vapor and returned to his body!

"The idea was interesting, but unfortunately it didn't work. ”

The mysterious voice reverberated in the space again: "The minds of each soul do have most of the similarities, but it is those differences that make up the essence of the soul, and you want to use your power to erase their existence, which is equivalent to resisting more than a thousand people at the same time. Taking turns to fight them individually, do you think you can win with your thin soul alone?"

"There may always be ...... No matter how small. ”

After a long time, the young king finally stopped breathing. Speak softly, but the hoarse voice has a crisp tail note, layered on top of each other. It's like striking a string of copper bells.

He reached out and gently wiped the corner of his eye, where there were originally two thin lines of blood. It condensed and flew up, turning into two blood droplets. Fly into his mouth. And with his movements, the thick clouds and mist in the sky had slowly closed, covering the huge magic circle and countless runes underneath.

Then, the surrounding space was reversed, and the young king was sent back into the corridors of the castle...... The sun shone obliquely through the long window lattice, and the dust drifted leisurely in it, and time seemed to have just passed for a moment.

"Do you think that if Edward succeeded, you can succeed too?"

The voice in the shadows suddenly became indifferent.

Although it is only a voice, the nameless flow of energy in the surrounding space turns this indifference into reality. As soon as the voice fell, the air around it squeaked because of the cold, and a layer of frost flowers expanded outward along the wall, turning the surrounding area into a gray gray within a dozen feet!

The young king, however, was unimpressed. Just squinting leisurely.

"The stronger my soul is, the more I will be able to wield your majesty's power, which is a far better thing for you than me. He said softly, "And those souls, you always absorb the majority, why should you be angry? Could it be that the famous ancient evil creature, the God Slayer Pandorian Ryan, cares about my tiny soul, which is completely controlled by you, this insignificant power?"

"Your mind is just a wisp of green smoke to me, it's just a pastime, don't think you can rely on him to expel me, you and I have long been one thing, no matter what kind of power, even 'I' can't be separated!"

The young king was silent.

Give me a lever and I can pry up the earth...... So even a small force can do things that you can't understand.

The words of the friend echoed softly in the very subtle corners of the mind, insignificant, and then mixed with the grand thoughts, completely undetected by any being—and the voice in the shadows turned from thunder to a low sneer: "But if he comes back, it won't be bad...... At least, the attention of the Lord of Dawn will not be so focused anymore. ”

"yes...... Dawn. ”

The king said softly.

He walked slowly, just one step down, he had already reached the end of the corridor, the second step fell, he had passed through the window lattice, came to the air outside the castle, and the third step was raised, the huge magic circle in front of the castle flowed brightly, and the power of Peiran split the space, and in an instant, it had sent him thousands of miles away in the air!

The early autumn sun, hanging high in the sky, mixes its heat in the refreshing wind, streaks across the slightly blue sky, and looks down from the sky, the vast earth is delicate and incomparably clear.

However, there is also one place, slightly blurred.

In the eyes of ordinary people, it is just a small dense forest hill, and the sunlight after noon shines through the gaps between the leaves and spills into this silent woods, turning it into a slightly golden turquoise, which is a delight at first sight.

However, if you look closely, you may see the difference here, in that mountain forest, there is not even the slightest trace of animals, whether it is the common birds, rabbits, rats, or insects, when the breeze blows, the sound of a rustling sound, the silence is so cold that people's hearts are cold.

Of course, mortals may not pay much attention to this, this mountain forest is also dozens of miles away from the nearest village and town, there are no convenient roads around, and it is not rich in fruits and game, and the scenery is not beautiful...... Even if human beings flourish for a few hundred years, they will not necessarily erode the roads around here.

But in the eyes of extraordinary beings, everything around them is completely different.

It was a sun-like glow, so intense that even after the bright sun in the autumn sky, just looking at it made people feel like their bodies were burning!

The young king, however, narrowed his eyes and allowed the sensation to scorch until everything in the light became a little clearer.

Naive guy...... The reason why he didn't show up to destroy and kill you is not just because you don't threaten him or disdain him, but now he doesn't dare to face everything alone, and you will pay the price for such a provocation!