Chapter 02: Chaos in the Empire
The border of the Kingdom of Holo, the town of Black Rock.
The people of the King of Holo are fierce and martial, and ordinary disputes between the people may be bloody, "If you can solve it with your fists, don't use your mouth!" is the most famous proverb of the Holo folk.
The tavern in Holo is the most direct place to feel the royal style, and you can hear the noise coming from inside from a distance from the tavern.
The atmosphere in the tavern in the town was even more lively today, and the sound of cheers and the thud of the bottom of the glass on the table continued to come from the tavern, attracting more and more people from the town to gather in the tavern.
"I propose, toast to King Timothy again! Because of King Timothy, we have more than two million square kilometers of fertile plains in Holo, and our children will never have to eat those unpalatable black breads again!" a tall, shirtless man cried out on the table with a large ale.
"Cheers to the King!"
"Cheers to the King"
The man's suggestion was immediately followed by another burst of cheers and the clashing of wine glasses.
A young man then stood up, his face flushed from the excitement, not knowing whether it was because of alcohol or excitement, "I propose, I propose a toast to His Majesty the Holy Pope!"
"Cut", "Huh", "Huh"......
In addition to chatting about a few people's responses, most people's responses were disdainful or heckling.
Among the kingdoms of the human race, the people in the Holo Kingdom believe in the God of Light the least, because of the treacherous geographical conditions and difficult living environment, the people of the Holo Kingdom believe in various religions such as Zoroastrianism, the Celestial God Cult, and the Earth Mother God Cult, and even most of them are heretics and cults recognized by the Light Church.
The young man sat back awkwardly amid laughter.
A middle-aged man immediately stood up, "I propose a toast to our new Emperor Grantham!
Most of the people in the tavern stood up and raised their glasses in response. Strangely, there are also quite a few people who sit in their seats and do not move.
"Why should you honor a despicable father-killer!" a discordant voice suddenly came out.
"Whoever slanders His Majesty the Emperor behind his back, there is a kind of standing up and saying!"
"I said it. A mercenary in brown leather armor stood up, "Only you fools are still being deceived, King Isaac has released the evidence that it was Grantham who planned the assassination of the Emperor, and also vilely pushed the murderer to our Death Academy. ”
The middle-aged man immediately sneered, "You are the real fool, have you seen the evidence with your own eyes? It is the false evidence that the Isaac Kingdom has made up for us Holo to obtain a large area of land and send troops to invade the Locke Kingdom." ”
"Fool, King Isaac is a reproduction of light and shadow with an impression scroll, countless people have seen it with their own eyes, and they can read it if they find someone who understands lip language, and they can't fake it at all. ”
The middle-aged man was still unconvinced, "You have to figure out which side our Holo Kingdom is on now, those two million kilometers of land were canonized to us by the new emperor!"
The mercenary continued to scold: "Idiot! Those lands were brought down by our warriors! Is Grantham using us Holo to give us the strength to take back from our warriors without canonizing us?"
"You're an idiot!" the middle-aged man smashed the wine glass in his hand directly at the mercenary.
The mercenary flashed his wine glass sideways and threw his fist at the middle-aged man, and the two immediately scuffled together.
In response to Holo's proverb, "If you can solve it with your fists, don't use your mouth!"
The fight between the two people pushed the atmosphere in the tavern to a climax, and everyone gathered around the two to cheer and cheer.
No one noticed, in the corner of the bar sat two young men in gray cloaks, two of them just bowed their heads and drank, without any expression on their faces, out of place with the atmosphere of the whole bar.
The two were Arthur and Joan, and it had been a full week since they had escaped from Arantis.
What happened in this week made the two dumbfounded and caught off guard, and they really saw the power of the emperor's methods.
Although Alex was killed on the spot in front of the imperial palace, it took two days of chaos in the imperial capital to calm down. The rout of the coalition army and the remnants of Alex lurking in the imperial capital have been basically cleaned up in the past two days, and even the ministers who were originally inclined to the next line of the Great Palace have also been purged.
Fortunately, Joan escaped, and the Ninth Highness, Thirteenth, and Fourteenth Highnesses in the imperial capital all died on the night when Alex led the rebels to attack the city, and the cause of death was naturally the rebels who ransacked the palace and unfortunately died in the chaos.
It can be seen that the emperor and queen are ruthless!
On the third day, the bloodstains in various parts of the imperial capital had not been cleaned, and the destroyed main gate of the imperial palace had not yet had time to be completely repaired, and the prince Grantham officially ascended the throne to inherit the throne.
The enthronement ceremony was unexpected, and the enthronement ceremony held in the Qinzheng Hall of the Imperial Palace was held in the Church of Light, and the Pope personally crowned the emperor.
It was only at this time that everyone suddenly realized that this was probably one of the secret agreements reached between the emperor and the Pope. The empire originally coexisted with the divine power and the royal power, but now it has been changed to the Pope to crown the emperor, which means that the imperial family has taken the initiative to recognize the royal power under the divine power.
During this period, there was also an unexpected event that everyone expected, after the army of the Holo Kingdom, which was originally thought to be on the side of His Highness, entered Bados and suddenly launched an attack on Bardos.
The 200,000-strong army of Bardos was still outside the imperial capital at this time, and other armies were also assembled on the border of the kingdom to intercept the attack of the armies of Rouge and Locke, and there were less than 50,000 troops left in the empty royal city, only to be captured by the army of Holo in one day.
The first imperial decree after the new emperor took office was to deprive the king of Bardos, who had participated in Alex's rebellion, from the throne, and the land of his kingdom was divided equally among the three kingdoms of Holo, Rouge and Locke, who had contributed to the suppression of the rebellion.
It turns out that the Kingdom of Holo has already secretly fallen to the emperor and queen, and the only ones who have been kept in the dark are probably Alex and Bardos.
After Holo captured the royal city of Bardos, he marched south. When the imperial decree was issued, it had already occupied nearly half of the territory of the Kingdom of Bardos, and Holo was naturally reluctant to give up the extra land.
At this time, the armies of Rouge and Locke had already invaded the territory of Bardos, and the situation in the imperial capital was not completely calm, and there were signs of another war between the three kingdoms over the land dispute.
At this moment, Straggy threw out a blockbuster **, using Joan's impression scroll to uncover the mystery of the emperor's assassination, pointing directly at Grantham for killing his father and killing his brother and usurping the throne.
The Kingdom of Isaac did not recognize Grantham's throne, and in the name of avenging the emperor, it gathered an army of 400,000 with the two field legions of Iron Flow and Blazing Fire as the main force, and waved troops into the Kingdom of Locke.
The Kingdom of Kildan, following Isaac, issued a statement rejecting Grantham's throne and similarly gathered 400,000 troops to enter the borders of the Kingdom of Rouge.
Rouge and Locke could no longer afford to fight with Holo for a third of the land, and the army hurried home.
The Norman kingdom, which had not made any movement in this chaotic situation of various forces, exploded an even bigger thunder after Isaac, and they actually took advantage of the chaos to rescue the Seventh Highness Idir on the day of the bloody night of the imperial capital.
After Strelge threw out evidence of Grantham's murder of his father, Norman not only did not recognize Grantham as emperor, but also publicly announced that he would support the Seventh Highness as the new emperor.
The Bright Empire actually had a situation of one country and two monarchs.
More than 200 years later, the similar history of the human race repeated itself again, but from the "Thirteen Princes Rebellion" to the current "Six Kingdoms Dispute".
The dazzling chaos of the empire has nothing to do with Arthur and Joan for the time being, because the most urgent thing for the two of them now is to flee for their lives, to avoid the combined pursuit of the Church of Light and the emperor.
At this moment, the sound of fighting sounded outside the tavern, and the two looked at each other nervously, did the pursuers arrive so soon?