Chapter 891: The Eve
The emperor, who was already over half a hundred years old, had a pale face and a wide open mouth, like a fish out of water, his chest rose and fell sharply, but his head still seemed to be dizzy from the feeling of being out of breath. The mind went up and down, and only one thought kept spinning.
How can it be?
If it weren't for the piece of parchment inlaid with gold in front of him, which had a unique high-level magic mark in the emperor's **, and would never have been forged, then Bai Lino XVII would definitely think that it was a scam, an outright scam, and the twelve provinces declared it legal...... What kind of heir? I am obviously still alive and well! The behavior of these guys is simply rebellion!
But the terrible thing is that if you exclude the three provinces that have already been occupied by those Tumenes, these twelve provinces are already half of the current territory of the Empire, nay, even more than half!
"They...... Whew......"
The Emperor breathed heavily, and it was not until he approached an hourglass scale that he finally spoke, staring at the woman's face, and a slurring voice came out of his throat: "They, who did they support......?" Alberta, or Jebson, or Elvis? Is it, Ross Thorne?"
"Hehehe......"
The woman let out a string of light sneers, her shoulders trembled slightly, even if the swollen lower abdomen made her figure unbeautiful, but the charm in this smile was still moving: "Use your brains, my majesty, since these things were recorded and sent together, can't you imagine who they pushed onto the table...... And I've already named the place, haven't I? I sue you, four people, and all four of them have been upheld. Ferdinand is Jebson, Fox is Avis, Bosworth is Alberta, and Halstead ......"
"No!
The old emperor suddenly let out a wail like a dying beast, and his voice became clear: "This is impossible, my sons, they can't do such a thing! What the hell did they do? How could they ignore me? Did it get to this point? No, it's a scam, everybody. Those lords are deceiving me, even the Knights of the Golden Flower, and those ministers, those lords. Those dukes. They're all unfaithful and unrighteous cowards......"
"It's ridiculous. The woman kept a cold eye on the Emperor's hysteria until a ferocious cough soon interrupted the Emperor's words...... She reached out to help him pat his chest, straighten his breath, and then sighed, "You should also know that they just made the best choice for themselves." ”
"Traitor, I have been deceived from the beginning! this is an unforgivable betrayal of me, of the Empire!"
It took a while for the Emperor to finally regain his ability to speak: "They think that with those little bastards, they can let them take away the power I have given them forever? with their own blood...... They will drown in a pool of their own blood!"
His voice was soft, but with unmistakable firmness.
The emperor seemed to have regained his confidence at this moment.
Messages flew up in his mind. And put it together into a usable plan: "Announced support, and each has its own candidate?, these idiots, they're just trying to distract themselves, and they're all outsiders...... They can't organize enough troops with the strength of one or two provinces, and if they want to integrate the forces of several provinces, how much time do they think they can have? Hmph, do they really think that I just made a foolish decision? These idiots, their brains are probably only enough to learn to eat with knives and forks, I already knew that they would have such a trick, yes, I already knew!"
"Really? You already knew?"
"Of course, these bastards are like nasty crows, they can only see those shiny things in their eyes, but they don't know that what they are staring at is destined to never be a jewel!" The emperor sneered: "Only pay attention to those things, so they are like a group of monkeys, no, the monkeys are also more sober than them, at least the monkeys also understand that they need to pay attention to the movements around them when they steal food, and they ......"
The Emperor's voice stopped abruptly, as he suddenly realized that the question he had just heard was not from the woman in front of him.
In the center of the field of vision, which was raised in amazement, stood the young man,
A familiar figure, a familiar face—it was a pretty face that could make women jealous, with a high nose and a thin jaw, as if it had thin lips smeared with pale Kodan...... It's just that the emperor's familiar and flattering smile on that face seems to be frozen, only a pair of blue-gray peach blossom eyes, the luster flickers, making the hearts of everyone who looks at him cold, as if what is burning there forever is a layer of arrogant and blazing ice.
"......Is that you?"
The emperor's cloudy gaze lingered on his face for a while, his face turned pale again, and the blood that had just rushed to his head because of excitement slipped from under his skin, leaving only an iron-gray loose skin, and even his lips gradually turned pale and trembled: "Oh, yes, of course it's you, and it's only you...... Yes, yes, not surprisingly. ”
Tiberius Gracchus. Elector of the Emperor, the leader of the Thunder Red Dragon Legion......
But behind the names of this string of honors is a cruel fact -
At dusk, the palace was about to close, and all the foreign ministers could not stay in the castle without the emperor's permission, let alone enter the emperor's special living room, unless they bypassed the more than thirty light and dark protections along the way—sixty servant knights, eleven doors in the cloister, and six mages guarding the outside of the room.
Even those who have the power of the Thunder Red Dragon Knight are very difficult to do.
But if you do it another way, then it will be much simpler - for example, slowly replace the emperor's henchmen when he is 'sick'...... So no matter how delicate the defense is, it will eventually collapse from the inside.
The young knight looked at the king, who was humming mutteringly. Reaching out and pulling over a chair, he sat down in a big way.
"You can disarm my guards, and you can access my chamberlain. And those mages, priests, you can also transfer them temporarily...... But do you think this is foolproof?" the Emperor's voice trembled, and he grinned as if he were weeping: "If I don't show up, someone will ask for an audience, and if I die." You are even more unlikely to get anything, Tiberius, you thought you had only your two thousand Thunder Knights. Do you think the Marquis of Bainch, and the Triot, really can't stop you?"
"Of course not,"
The emperor's series of questions made Tiberius smile: "I am not arrogant enough to do that. I think that I have less than 2,000 men on hand to compete with Triott's 5,000 Golden Flower Knights. What's more, Bainzhi will also help, as well as the court mage group, my infiltration is also insufficient, in fact, just the cathar knights of the various temples in Illyria are enough for me, and the strength of those holy warriors is hardly much worse than my Thunder Red Dragon, not to mention the city guards or something?"
"So, what are you going to do?"
"How so?"
The young man shook his head slightly: "Actually." Unexpectedly, I thought they would be a little more composed. But they were conceived too smartly. Actually, it's not too good...... Greed is a terrible trait, once it arises, it can never be eliminated, and those superficial satisfactions are mere cover-ups. Of course, I still have to praise them for a job well done, so that they are already doomed to not be able to concentrate their forces before the attack, and then they can fall apart with a slight push. ”
"Is that your ...... too?"
The king's voice trembled, and the man's slow narration made him feel fear, even the fear of death for a moment, and he opened his mouth as if he had thought of something vague: "You have stirred them up, and you have stirred me up, and you have deliberately wanted them to leave, and you are waiting...... No, you've manipulated them, right? Either the territory or the kids......"
"No, no, no, I didn't manipulate them, I just gave them hope. And their actions are enough to give me an excuse. ”
Tiberius laughed, "Yes, excuses, the stupidity of these guys will give us enough excuses to exterminate them, crush them, re-establish the empire, and fulfill the grand dreams of His Majesty Isgandar, and to do this, I must remove all the obstacles, crush them, and pave my way forward!"
"Dream?" The emperor was stunned: "You are going to support you with this childish dream?" he said, "This ridiculous ......"
"Ridiculous?"
Tiberius raised his voice a little: "Your Majesty, you don't seem to have enough respect for your ancestors...... Well, let me ask you, what do you think of Isgandar the Great, your ancestors?"
Seeing that the emperor was dumbfounded, the young imperial elector smiled: "Ah, you don't have to answer, I know, you treat him as a clay puppet, a stone carving, or a statue of all kinds of gods, because he is of no use to you at all, except for the need to use his statue and reputation in some important ceremonies, right? My lifelong dream is to fulfill the dream of His Majesty Isgandar, and although it has been tarnished for too long by you filthy, stupid and lazy fellows, it doesn't matter, just start over. ”
He stretched out his hand, scratched it on the old emperor's forehead, and then slowly twisted his fingers: as if he had touched something disgusting
"This old, decaying, sour-smelling country, or rather, a huge cage...... No matter how you describe it, in short, this large and disgusting country, trapped in the upper half of the land of the Great 6, and the people above it, but it is not at all the country that His Majesty Iskandar promised his people, his lords, and his imperial electors to build, it should be a great giant, a titan titan. We, the people of the empire, his rulers, stand on its shoulders and are ...... But that empire was dead the day His Majesty Isgandar's great expedition to the west came to a halt, and now this one is nothing more than a wreckage, a piece of rotting flesh. It's disgusting to be entrenched here!"
The young man frowned in disgust:
"You're the fly that made this flesh rot, and made it your nest, entrenched here. Spread the maggots that have bred because of your stupidity to all levels of this country. And I'm going to burn this wreckage now, crush this gang of maggots, and put all the qiē and qiē back on track!"
"You can kill me, and then try. Whether you knights alone can do this, and how many of them. Willing to follow in your footsteps......"
The emperor gritted his teeth fiercely and let out all the qiē: "As long as there is enough evidence, everyone, everyone will break you into pieces." Decorate their medals with your skin!"
"Nope. My majesty, of course I will not kill you, if I kill you, with my strength......"
"What are you talking about?"
Tiber's slow voice made the woman next to her finally can't help but speak, and her voice is sharp: "Our plan is not like this!"
"Of course not. But as I've already said, there's a lot to add to that plan, and that's what the plan is. A plan that can't afford to change at all is a very bad plan. ”
Tiberius remained unfazed. But this comfort does not seem to be pleased with by his companions:
"You know you can't control him forever, at least you can't let him never show up, those mages, those priests, they will be suspicious! The members of those families, they can't let a man of unknown origin take over Illyria, and they can't let you do it, they don't have as much power as you, but the advantage of their forces alone is enough to kill your knights! So you must kill him, you must kill him, let him make an edict to pass on the throne, and let my child become the emperor of the empire!"
"I know, I know, I don't need you to remind me. Tiberius glared at the woman coldly: "Yes, it is true that our Majesty has the pure, Isgundar bloodline, even if I doubt it, but it is indeed preserved, Isgundar the Great's direct blood relative, and the two identities of the Emperor, are destined not to be controlled by the power of the Elector of the Emperor, but we still need him, to be precise, his body." ”
"What?"
"How can you say that luck?" said Tiberius leisurely, "It is precisely because of the bloodline of this majesty that we can give him such a chance." ”
His words were slow, so that no one paid attention to his words before he could finish speaking.
The eyes of the three people turned at the same time, and at the intersection of them, a chair stood at some point.
It was a pale, huge, spiky, grotesque creation, in fact, it was more a chair than a hill, a pile of bones...... The gray-white smooth calcareous material is cleverly shaped, supporting it, handsome with a hint of lazy youth. He was draped in a golden robe, and his open neckline exposed his sturdy and white chest. He sat upright like this, sitting on the throne made of bones, tilting his head slightly, holding his cheek with one hand, scanning the three of them, his expression was indifferent, but full of free and noble taste.
"This is my bloodline? ”
He spoke.
For a moment, the air seemed to have frozen, terrifying cold, silent, but little by little penetrated into people's hearts, that strange feeling, like the song of a cold woman, melodious and ethereal in the dark, grabbing everyone's heart little by little.
"Dirty, rotten, old, is this the body you chose for me? I'm not satisfied...... Tiberius. ”
"陛xià. ”
The young man had already knelt on the ground at some point, and buried his head in the most humble gesture: "The subordinates are incompetent, so I can only ask Your Majesty to condescend for the time being, but please don't worry, because there is a more suitable candidate here." A body that has not been polluted in any way, as long as it takes a while, it will surely become the most suitable %...... for you."
"What did you say?"
He was interrupted by a scream, and the woman's eyes widened as if she were mad, glaring at the man, "What do you want to do to me, no, to my child?"
"Shut up!
Tiberius said in a deep voice, not seeing him make any moves, the woman had already knelt down on her knees with a bang, "Please forgive me, my subordinates have not thought it through......"
"It doesn't matter, it's a funny woman, I like women like that. ”
The young man on the throne spoke softly, and the woman's trembling body was reflected in his black eyes: "You mean this kid? It's very interesting, but it's still too young, and it will take me a long time to wait until he grows up.
"If His Majesty needs it, then something else"-
"Unfortunately, for the time being, you are still useful. You can't die until this child is born. (To be continued......)
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