Chapter 47 Voting
"Beep-"
Tails heard that weird ringing in his ears again!
This time, Tails lowered his head in pain, his face contorted. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
Compared to just now, this time the tinnitus was especially loud, almost catching up with the magic voice of the supernatural assassin yesterday!
What the hell is this?
Tails endured the pain, but knew he couldn't make a mistake at this time!
The people of the entire royal capital are witnessing this moment!
Li Xiya's glowing eyes looked at him suspiciously.
The more radiant the light!
The people who stabbed the entire terrace raised their hands or turned their heads, and even the five dukes standing closest to each other could not see or hear the situation in the center clearly.
Under the bright light, Tails gradually lost sight of the scene outside.
In the painful tinnitus, Tails could only barely see the figures of Lisia and Kessel.
He had already begun to grit his teeth, enduring the torment of this tinnitus.
The traverser's anomaly was discovered.
Li Xiya's eyes with a strong light shrank, and then she spoke out in confusion:
"You?"
"How could you ......"
What's going on?
Tails was inexplicably nervous.
At this moment, Tails clearly saw that the sturdy figure of King Kessel suddenly turned his head in the light.
"Lehia......" The king spoke softly, and only Lehia and Tails, who were closest to him, could hear him.
For some reason, Kessel V lost his usual majesty and indifference, and this time, his tone turned out to be pleading, and powerless!
"Please," pleaded in a low voice as the High King of the Kingdom of the Stars:
"This is the future of the stars, and it is also Middil's long-cherished wish. ”
Li Xiya held the hands of the two of them and trembled for some reason.
But then she turned her head to the king:
Li Xiya asked incredulously, "She...... Is that her?"
But the king did not answer her.
The next second.
The light was gone.
The tinnitus is also gone.
Tails, whose ears were relieved, breathed a sigh of relief and took a big breath.
What the hell is going on here?
Ringing in the ears, the suspicion of the high priest, the cries of the king......
He came back to his senses, and the people on the terrace were back in sight.
In the air, there was only a red ray of light, connecting Tails and Kessel's wounds.
The red light finally disappeared after being scrutinized by everyone's amazement, joy, disappointment, and complexity for more than ten seconds.
Lixia's expression was extremely tired at the moment, and she raised her head and looked at Kessel deeply.
Kessel V did not speak, but only indifferently accepted her gaze.
Lecia glanced at Tails again, and this time, Tails read in her eyes unmistakably surprise, disgust, and ...... Fear?
The surrounding nobles watched all this with bated breath.
Tails knew that the occasion was not right, so he could only grit his teeth and bury the pain of the tinnitus in his heart.
Just like countless other puzzles.
Listening only to the high priest of the temple of the setting sun, he announced weakly:
"The goddess has given a decree. ”
She turned her head and gave Kessel a complicated and painful look.
"The two are father and son. ”
"Blood is linked, fate is linked. ”
As soon as the high priest's voice fell, he decisively left the side of the hall.
Under the reverent bowing of the people, she stepped down from the terrace, not looking at anyone or anything in the hall.
No nostalgia.
Only the silent Cather, and the shocked Tails, were left.
The little girl glanced nervously at the two of them, and hurriedly followed with the plates.
The next moment, the Hall of Stars, which had been quiet because of the bloodline ritual, suddenly erupted in cheers!
At Gilbert's urging, the guards passed the word down the square.
The Bright Star Royal Family, after twelve years, finally has a new bloodline.
The commotion on the terrace turned into a carnival of tens of thousands of people in the entire square!
"Bright Star-Bright Star-"
The cheers almost rang out in the sky!
The faces of Gausde and the counts turned ashen.
Gilbert and the supporters of the king all exchanged glances excitedly, but only Ji Ni, looking at Li Xiya's back, had more obscure and complicated emotions in her eyes in addition to joy.
"Alright," the fat duke exhaled, his face full of joy, "Since the Sunset Temple has recognized this child's bloodline, I think he is indeed His Majesty's bloodline. ”
Cousin on the side looked at him coldly.
A cunning old man.
It's a quick reversal.
"According to the Covenant of the Sacred Stars, after both the royal family and the Sunset Temple have recognized his identity, the next procedure is for the High Council of the Stars, which is composed of our nineteen nobles, to recognize his identity, to recognize this child as a prince of the stars. On the terrace, against the backdrop of cheers in the square, Duke Cullen said with a smile.
"Wait!" Cousin gritted his teeth and said the next sentence, "I remember, whoever this child's mother is, is not Queen Koya?"
The faces of many of the nobles present changed suddenly.
Gilbert's face suddenly became ugly.
Kessel V turned his head and looked at Cousin.
I saw the lord of the forest, the Duke of the Cliffland, Cousin Nantope exhaled:
"This child is His Majesty's illegitimate child!"
Tails clenched his fists.
Sure enough, his identity ......
"Yes," Count Dastan was the first to react: "According to the Law of the Stars, children born out of wedlock cannot enjoy the right of inheritance!"
The conversation on the terrace could not be heard clearly in the hall, but after the word of mouth of the nobles in the front row who were close to it, the entire Hall of Stars was still in an uproar!
"Tormund I is also born out of wedlock!" Gilbert's eyes fired, "and he is the King of Revival to whom the ancestors of all of you have sworn allegiance!"
"The greatness of Tormund I is not inherited from him, and ultimately the imperial blood of the Empire. His kingdom of stars was won by his own struggle, conquering countless people, and by blood, and so did our ancestors—don't forget that six hundred years ago, many of them were bastards, side branches, or unwilling knights of the family, and their positions were won with both hands," said Count Sorel, whose territory was in the cliffs, echoing the Duke of the cliffs:
"Is this bastard five or six, and what has he done to give him the right to inherit the great nation left by Tormund I as if he were a bastard?"
"Your Majesty, of course we should acknowledge him as your heir, a descendant of the Bright Star—it is God's will. "But if you want to confirm that he is a prince with the right to inherit - an illegitimate son to become our next king?" at least I will never bow my knee to him!"
"You just won't give up, will you, Cousin," the Duke of the North looked at the one-eyed dragon, his eyes filled with sorrow and sighs, "even for the sake of the stars, for the sake of the coming war?"
Cousin deliberately avoided Val's gaze and just stared at Kessel V.
"Of course he won't give up," the sympathetic Duke Falkenhause laughed dryly, "he's already a mortal enemy with this kid, hasn't he?"
Tails chuckled in his heart.
It dawned on him what Gilbert had just told him that "it was not a clever political maneuver."
He had just angrily rebuked the Nantopian group, and then turned to Cavendier, and although this action removed the iris from the ranks of the enemy and left the seeds of suspicion, it also turned the Nantopian family of the cliffs, the Bighorn Deer, into his mortal enemies.
If the original goal of Gord Nantope was to seek the best interests of the aristocracy in the face of a doomed royal family, now the goal of the Bighorn Deer has become "not to let Tails inherit the kingdom" - this is for the future survival of the Greathorn Deer.
He was still too impulsive just now.
Tails clenched his fists.
"You can all see that this kid has a dark heart, a small temperament, and is obsessed with the assassination, and is suspicious of all of us," the one-eyed dragon took a step forward on the terrace, his voice low, but the words he said made people shudder, "That's why we fabricated our so-called conspiracy to seize the throne out of thin air, and you think that when he ascends to the throne in the future, he will easily let you go, let go of you, the group of people he once suspected?"
More than a dozen of the Realm nobles frowned in unison, and several began to look at Tails thoughtfully.
Cousin continued his damaging words:
"There is only one 'virtuous monarch' in the history of the stars! And there is only one His Highness Midil who is kind, upright, and tolerant and generous!"
Kessel frowned deeply.
"Whether you are part of that group or not, he made nonsense, you are already on his list! Years later, he ascends to the throne, are you sure he will not think of you today, of you?"
"Hmph, the destruction of the stars, when that time comes, and everyone in the nobles is in danger, it will be regarded as the real day of destruction!"
Gilbert gritted his teeth—Cousin grasped what the nobles feared most.
Kessel V lowered his head and glanced at the bloodless Tails.
"Even if it is for the sake of the future and stability of the stars, Your Majesty, are you sure that choosing such an heir will not push the stars into the abyss of division and destruction?"
The other counts looked at each other without saying a word, pondering Cousin's words until one of them broke the silence.
"Yes, back to the point, I also think now," Count Dastan coughed and frowned, "it is not appropriate for a lowly bastard to become the supreme king of the Kingdom of Stars...... Even though the royal family and the temple have made a decision, we in the High Council should be cautious......" He looked at Tails, who had not yet recovered from the aftermath of the bloodline ritual, but his gaze was no longer rude scrutiny, but more cautious and cautious.
Kessel V nodded his scepter and said indifferently: "It seems that it is not easy for the lords to have a consensus, isn't it?"
"Then the last step is for the members of the High Council to vote on the attitude towards the child. ”
Tails took a deep breath.
As a result, in the end, can't you pinch your fate in your own hands?
The High King looked at Duke Cullen, who was being held to the side.
Duke Cullen sighed and nodded slightly: "The vassals of the Blade Leader did not appear, and there were three votes missing, but the remaining five guardian dukes, eleven fibre earls, and a total of sixteen high-ranking vassals still have the right to make decisions on this." ”
The chubby duke opened his eyes slightly: "Everyone, should this child become the star prince with the right to inherit?"
Ji Ni, who was standing behind the king, finally couldn't bear it anymore, and she said angrily: "Hey, why does the prince of the royal family need the High Council to admit it!"
The duke and the counts ignored her, only a soft grunt.
"It's a man's business," the one-eyed dragon said disdainfully, "ma'am, please be quiet." ”
"Because this child involves the inheritance of the throne, this is the oath of the day of the founding of the stars," the old Count Karabiyan spoke up at this moment, relieved of Geni's embarrassment, and he sighed slightly: "The king and the lord, rule the country together, may the tyrant of the imperial era never appear." ”
"According to the rule laid down by Mindis III a hundred and fifty years ago, more than half is valid," the Duke of Cullen glanced at Tails with a cloudy gaze, "If there is no half or just equal to half, this child is an illegitimate child who only has the right to inherit property." ”
"The vote is open. ”