Chapter 86: Shadow
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"Little brat," he snorted softly at Peverett on the ground, "you also have the audacity to bring up the war twelve years ago?"
"How much do you know about the kind of cruelty and bloodshed of twelve years ago?" King Nunn stared at his prey with disdain, who had lost his arms: "You are just an heir to the lord who is held in the palm of his hand, and your grandfather only left you in the safest main camp, and did not even let you carry the baggage......"
In Tails' eyes, the young archduke's eyes were bloodshot, staring blankly in front of his gaze.
It was as if I had forgotten the sharp pain in my arms.
"But maybe your grandfather was right, let you carry supplies and baggage like this, in case you encounter Horace Bright Star who sneaks around and attacks supplies......" At this, King Nunn's face darkened: "He x, there is not so much in the back." ”
A few seconds later, Pellefit, who was crushed to the ground, let out an incomprehensible laugh.
"And the so-called shock you were given in the war...... Bullshit. King Nunn suppressed his anger until he could no longer suppress it: "Without Longxiao City, without Walton, you are nothing!"
He let go of the other party's foot and hit Pefit's stomach with a leg!
Tails frowned: he remembered the years in the abandoned house, the days when he was punched and kicked from time to time.
After taking the kick, Peverett curled up and groaned in pain.
"And you ought not go against the Morals!" said King Nunn, bowing his head and grieving in pain, "He thinks you are his friend!"
"Despicable traitor! hypocritical coward!"
Enraged, King Nunn kicked Poffett in the chest again.
"Boom!" the muffled sound was clearly audible.
Peverett flinched again, coughing incessantly under the blow.
Poffett's cough eased, and then his curled up body stretched again.
The two folded arms look extremely hideous.
The Grand Duke laughed as if he were crying.
"Hahaha......" Poffett suppressed his laughter, which was so bleak and tragic to Tails' ears.
King Nunn's face became more and more unkind, and he looked at his enemy, grinding his teeth, and his expression was terrible.
The young archduke jerked away his laughter, and he raised his head and looked at King Nune with indignant eyes.
"Yes, I did it," Pefit gasped, glaring fiercely at the old king, "Moral, he has told me only one of his secret mission......s—the mission of visiting the stars and renewing the peace treaty!
"You admit it?" King Nunn's face was solemn, and his eyes burned with hatred and pain, "Only in the face of death can you have the courage to help, don't you?"
"Yes, I don't have to make any effort to use his trust in me to trick him into sending information to the stars," Pefit replied to the king with a mocking smile, "including his itinerary, his arrangements, his plans, and even the ...... of the attaché."
King Nunn's boots slammed into Peverett's abdomen again.
Piffet rolled in agony and left King Nunn's side.
"Just because you feel that you are being treated unfairly?" King Nunn sneered, and his voice rose sharply: "You will kill my son and betray your friend!"
"The status of the so-called Beacon City...... It's just that you're justifying your own selfishness and indifference! Even your own father can ...... What else can't a guy like you do!"
Pefit groaned low in pain from the broken arms, and cold sweat was dripping from his forehead, but when he heard the king's words, he pulled his head up on the ground with difficulty, and ate and laughed.
"Unfair?" Peverett's laugh was weird and crazy: "Oh my God, you, you're really...... You're really, you don't even blush...... He is worthy of being our natural king...... Unfair?ha......"
The next moment, Pefit's expression changed, and he turned his eyes to the four archdukes:
"Don't pretend!
The words of the young Grand Duke were full of anger:
"Alesio, Trudida, Ronnie, Lecco...... Do you people dare to swear to your ancestors that you have no gratitude or joy for what I have done? Do you dare to pat your chest and say that you have not a trace of joy and joy in the death of Moral, and in the loss and decline of Walton!"
The Grand Dukes chose to remain silent, and even the most slippery Trudida stopped speaking at the moment.
Tails felt that the atmosphere in the hall had become tense, like the scope of a duel had expanded beyond the two of them.
King Nunn didn't say a word, he walked slowly towards Peverett, step by step.
Piffett gasped, shook off her shoulders, and struggled to snake on the ground.
And Tails looked at the Grand Duke struggling on the ground, but there was no relief in his heart that the truth had been revealed and the revenge had been avenged.
There is only an unspeakable sorrow.
"Ten Grand Dukes," Parfitt said as she gritted her teeth and struggled to crawl, "Ten Grand Dukes...... After you're dead...... Just choose the king justly, right?"
Nunn stopped.
With his back to King Nunn, Pefit climbed to the center of the hall, turned over with all his might, and faced King Nunn with hatred:
"South...... You've promised the Rebuilding Tower to arbitrate on Trudida's behalf, acquiring the disputed territory on the border with Elk City in exchange for his support. ”
"You hold in your hand the little Ålesoe who fled to Longxiao City after losing the battle for the throne, and you hold the bargaining chip to meddle in the inheritance of the Weilan Territory, so that even if the Grand Duke of Ålesio is dissatisfied, he will dare not speak out. ”
"Ever since your father, you have relied on the location of Longxiao City to forcibly rebook the trade route to the Northeast Glacier Sea, threatening the Camaron family to cut it off unless they choose you as king. ”
"And, of course, we, the Pefit family, whom you and your father upheld, the hounds you tamed, and the Beacon City that whistles and obeys. ”
King Nunn frowned deeply.
The hall was filled with whispers.
Tails also had doubts in his mind.
Peverett continued his sad and bitter words:
"To the north, the old bald man of Leko who guards the city will only remain neutral, choosing the family that will surely win at the most critical time. ”
"In the far north, the Sentry Leader's family of Fortressl has always chosen whoever supports them against the orcs, they choose to be the king. ”
Pefit got up from his knees on the ground, he straightened his upper body, turned his head sharply, and looked at King Nunn with a cold expression, and his voice was desolate:
"At the next election meeting, you and your Walton family have already made arrangements for four of them...... And with these votes, the two people in the north are also destined to choose you!"
King Nunn's face turned blue, and his clenched fists rattled.
"At the future king election meeting, we, the so-called Grand Dukes, will have no chance at all!"
"Unfair?"
"That's the real injustice!" Pefit snarled in a low voice, saying something that sent a chill down the hearts of everyone in the hall:
"Decades ago, your grandfather arranged for the election of the king and your father's coronation before his death......"
"Since then, you have been manipulating everything in the name of fair competition and open election of the king, and secretly using all kinds of disgusting means!"
"Put the appointed people in the forefront, suppress all discordants and opponents, our election of the king is just a formality, and the candidate he has set in him will be sent to the throne!"
King Nunn strode forward.
Tails sighed in his heart: Is this the truth of the king's election?
He remembered what Putirai had told him about the history of the establishment of the elective monarchy of Exeter.
Those who have been fighting each other since the death of Necajou.
A look of disgust and disgust appeared on Pefit's face, and he looked directly at his pale-faced opponent face to face.
"From that time on, the 'Grand Duke Walton of Longxiao City' was gone, only 'His Majesty Walton of Exter'!"
"Phew!" he gritted his teeth, as if to crush King Nunn in front of him, "Don't you know, why do we call you 'Heavenly King'?"
"It's not because of how talented you are, how powerful you are......"
"But you were born to be the co-king of Exter!"
"Fucking born king!"
"What disgusts me the most is that you still have the face to proudly declare that Exeter is a co-governed elector?"
Peverett's face dragged over the cold tiles, and his emotions began to spiral out of control: "Under Walton's suppression, what is the difference between us and the corrupt hereditary royal family of the stars, and the tyrant system of the empire - sooner or later, one day we will also have a madman like Eddie II of the stars, dragging his entire country to hell!"
Hearing this familiar name, Tails' heart scolded.
That's his grandfather.
dragging his whole country...... To hell?
Suddenly, he felt a gentle tap on the shoulder—it was Putirai behind him.
Tails exhaled from his nose with difficulty, shifting his attention back to the scene.
King Nunn stepped forward with a cold look in his eyes, and stumbled mercilessly under his feet.
"Boom!"
The young archduke, whose arms were all gone, and who couldn't even control his balance, was swept to the ground again.
Piffett fell back to the ground, but he still yelled relentlessly:
"Paying lip service to the greatness of the oath of co-governance, hypocritically claiming that we have the freedom and right to choose the king, but behind the scenes we monopolize all power, and set the throne and the ...... interests"
"Where else in this world can a ruler be so shameless, vile, hypocritical, sanctimonious, and disgusting!"
"You've turned Exeter into the hereditary kingdom of the Walton family! The Walton royal family! What an irony! Necaru's oath of co-governance has long been ruined by this shameless family left behind by his nephew!"
Tails felt his unsteady breathing.
What was happening in front of him was like a mirror to him.
At that moment, he listened to Pinfett's accusations, but it was not Exeter that he remembered.
It's the Kingdom of the Stars.
It was Kessel's cold expression, and the solemn gaze of the one-eyed dragon Gouster.
It is the six wealthy families and the thirteen wang families in the Hall of Stars who are full of doubts and have their own ghosts.
Tails sighed slightly in his heart and unconsciously clenched his fists.
"And that's not all!" Poffett struggled to get up from the ground again, swaying with all her might:
"Your father married his daughter to the previous Grand Duke of the Black Sand early, trying to meddle in the affairs of the Black Sand Collar by controlling the bloodline of the Rumba family!"
"You bought the leaching crystal ore from Commas with bad intentions and sent it to Elk City in the east at a low price, nominally to guard against the threat from the Eastern Continent, but in fact to cut off supplies at a critical moment and force the Gadro family to submit!"
"God knows what else you've prepared for the west, to Ronnie of Qiyuan City—I guess it's the Comas whose territory is close to Qiyuan City, the hypocrite-looking Marquis of Shanliu City, right! What is it this time, a contract that seems gorgeous but full of pitfalls?"
Hearing this, Tails couldn't help but turn his head and look behind him.
Marquis Slais of Commars felt the gaze of everyone, and he coughed awkwardly and turned his head away.
Pefit's face had long since lost all color, and he no longer tried to get up, but lay on the ground as if he had been fated, and his tone was sad and low.
"Not only that, but you also want to learn from the Star Kingdom in the south, you want to set up tax collectors directly under the king in the whole territory, you want to take back the lords' jurisdiction in your own territory, and you want to send the king's officials to the whole country - starting with our Fengzhao City!"
"This humiliation, this oppression, this injustice...... It's not just me, it's not just a day or two......" Peverett gasped, her voice getting weaker and weaker: "How can we not resist?"
"Resist, so you killed Moral, to take revenge on the Waltons?" King Nunn's eyes moved slightly, "In the way of betraying and betraying friends, only a coward like you ......"
Pefit paused, his eyes becoming complex and subtle.
"Yes, Moral," Piffett gasped, her voice low, "We used to be friends......"
"I used to tell myself that everything was going to be okay, but ...... But ......"
"Nunn Walton!" the young Grand Duke's expression changed, as if he had made up his mind, and he lay on the ground and raised his head, closed his eyes and let out a sad laugh: "It's all your fault!
"Me?" said King Nunn's voice, low and terrifying, like the thunder before a storm.
Pefit's voice raised, he raised his head tremblingly, and his eyes were vicious: "Five years ago, after I rejected your appointment to the officials of Fengzhao City......"
"Immediately some of my vassals jumped out to question my legitimacy, Trudida began to provoke arrogantly on the border, and the people of my realm began to talk about my abilities...... Soon, my vassals began to rebel, the people began to resist taxes, and the territory was in chaos...... When I was overwhelmed, you asked Moral to come and mediate with a letter from you!"
"As I read your hypocritical letter of consolation, I looked up at Moral standing in front of me, and listened to him smirk about our old affairs...... That's when I realized that he and I had never been friends!"
"I'm just a dog in Longxiao City!"
"And Moral, don't you know what kind of thing he is!" Pefit's face was bruised, and her brown hair was glued to her forehead, looking hideous and embarrassed.
"I've had enough of that shitty giggle on his face! The whole world is so beautiful in his mind!" Pefitt's eyes were red, and he struggled to his feet, yelling at everyone in the chamber:
"That's naïve, weak, hesitant, incompetent, short-sighted, and unambitious!"
"Hahaha......" Under King Nunn's gloomy face, Pefit shook her upper body and laughed so presumptuously that even tears were about to burst into tears:
"You know what...... That guy, Moral that shit...... The biggest ideal is ...... Actually became an adventurous mercenary...... Go, go and travel the world...... Haha...... Mercenary, Adventure ...... Hahahaha......"
"Oh, he's even hooked on a whore!"
"And kept saying that he wanted to marry her!"
Tails shook his head, remembering what King Nun had said about Prince Moral when he first met King Nunn and the Grand Dukes.
Pefit laughed so hard that tears were coming out.
King Nunn's brow tightened fiercely.
Pefit smiled sickly, and in the sharp pain in his arm and the stirring emotions, he couldn't stop rolling on the ground, and tears broke out: "Your Royal Highness Moral, the future Grand Duke of Longxiao City, wants to marry a lowly bitch who has been fucked by tens of thousands of people as his wife......!"
"And he's the King of Exter—think of it, great Exter, there's a queen! All the subjects are to bow to a...... Hahaha......"
Everyone in the hall looked at him, and many of them bowed their heads and sighed.
And King Nunn didn't interrupt him, just continued to stare at Pefit with that terrible look.
"This kind of fellow, this kind of waste, this kind of garbage, this unconscious, this unaccountable disgrace exists, and he is actually Walton's heir!" Peverett laughed enough, and he raised his eyes of indignation and hatred, "And I will pledge allegiance against my will, and make him king—not because of his ability, but because of his surname and father!"
"You also asked me why I chose Rumba, the Grand Duke of Black Sand, who was as black as the name of his territory inside and out, the beast that killed relatives?"
Archduke Piffett's eyes were on fire, and his roar was like thunder: "I chose not Rumba! but a future without Walton!
"I'm glad that I've finally ruined the last of your bloodline," he gritted his teeth and glared at King Nunn, "The next King of Exeter will never be named Walton again!"
He was answered by a ferocious kick from King Nunn, which hit Poffett in the face.
"Until then," said King Nunn, snatching him by the collar, "I will destroy you first." ”
The young Grand Duke laughed sadly, shook his head, turned his head, and turned his gaze to one side.
Looked--Tails Bright Star.
Tailsden's heart tightened.
What's going on?
"Hey, you, little cub of the stars!" shouted Peverett, drawing everyone's attention to Tails.
"You," said the scarred Grand Duke, spitting out the words with difficulty, and laughing bitterly, "you are very proud, aren't you? A prince of the stars, showing off his might in the capital of Exeter...... Playing a lot of big dukes?"
Tails frowned, he felt the unkind gaze of the people in the room.
He's in Exeter, after all.
"Your days won't last long!" Peverett said resentfully, "Do you think that the assassination of you is just my move to protect myself?"
The Grand Duke's next words made Tails stunned.
"You don't know how much they want your life - those guys," Peverett gasped, holding back the sharp pain in her arm, "I figured out what they were for when I hired them...... It's not just for the money......"
Tails felt his breathing quicken.
Just listen to the young Grand Duke continue:
"They all dream of killing your Bright Star Family, and they want to enter the Fuxing Palace!"
"They are wanted criminals that everyone in the Stars shouts about, of course they can't do it...... But here, in Exeter......"
"When they accepted my money, there was no reaction," Pefit's eyes were fiery, "but those killers, when they heard that the target was you, the heir of the Bright Star Royal Family......"
"The expression on his face, how excited he is......"
"What?"
"What killers?" Tails looked at him in a daze, and only realized after a few seconds, "Who are they?"
"Who else!" Pellet exclaimed with joy on his face, "Of course the sneaky assassins! the dark assassins! they are the ones who have infiltrated the Rumba army and used his magic gun force to assassinate you under the fortress!"
"It's your Bright Star's greatest enemy!"
Tails looked at him in disbelief.
Bright Star, the greatest enemy?
The next moment, Poffett laughed wildly and called out a name that made everyone frown:
"Shadow Shield!" (To be continued.) )