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"But here I am," King Nunn turned his head to look at him, his tone flat but his eyes complicated, "stake the future of the family on you as a prince of stars." ”

Tails suppressed the apprehension in his heart and let out a long sigh.

"My two sons," said King Nunn's face, "their fates, or their misfortunes, are strikingly similar—but I will still stand here, fiddling with chips to win Walton's future." ”

Hearing King Nunn's words, Tails shook his head secretly: "Nobles and rulers, are another creature, living by power—that's what Putirai told me. ”

"So you'd better get used to it as soon as possible," King Nunn put away his gloomy expression and re-revealed his tough, cold face, "for your own good." ”

Tails closed his eyes gently.

King Nunn's expression suddenly moved.

He narrowed his eyes and looked mysteriously at Tails.

"They didn't tell you this, did they," said the old king, clasping his hands, "about your 'bloody years'...... The truth?"

Tails opened his eyes in surprise and looked at King Nunn.

What he remembered in his mind was the hysteria of Queen Koya, followed by the names Saliton and Shadow Shield.

Finally, there is the Bright Star Tomb in the Fuxing Palace.

The second prince shook his head slowly: "They don't say much. ”

King Nunn snorted.

"Then maybe I shouldn't talk too much about it. King Nunn turned his head back, "It's best not to interfere with the education of the Bright Star Family. ”

Don't you meddle enough--Tails secretly slandered.

But.

The kingdom of Exeter was a direct participant in the Year of the Blood, these invaders from the north.

Tails muttered: Maybe he knows something?

"Do you have any special news for me, Your Majesty?" Tails carefully used the honorific as he shrugged his shoulders, "Well, if you really think of me as a future grandson-in-law......

Hearing his salutation and words, King Nunn gave him an intriguing look, and then the old king laughed a few times.

"Look," the old king winked at him, "and you'll be able to adapt quickly." ”

Tails returned with an ugly smile.

"Everything else, you will know from your teacher, from the country of the stars, from your father," King Nunn stretched his elbow with a subtle expression, "but I can tell you one thing—as one of the chips attached to the allies." ”

"Something that even your Kingdom Secret Branch doesn't know. ”

Tails looked moved.

Secret Branch doesn't know either?

His breathing began to quicken.

"Who do you think would be such a killer under the Bright Star Royal Family?" King Nunn smiled mysteriously, "The real murderer behind the scenes." ”

Tails wondered in his mind.

Real ...... Murderer?

That mysterious assassin organization, the "Shadow Shield" that just appeared in Pefit's mouth?

Gilbert had told him about it, but he only said that King Kessel V had "avenged all that he could." ”

Tails shook his head slowly.

"It's actually very simple, so simple that you can't believe it," King Nunn looked at him steadily, "The members of the Bright Star Royal Family were assassinated almost at the same time, except for one person. ”

"The others may not be certain, but if the plan goes well, it seems that he is the one who benefited from the Scarlet Years?" said King Nunn in a strange tone.

A member of the Bright Star Royal Family, except for one person?

Tails' heart moved, but he reacted immediately.

"You are not the first person to accuse my father in front of me, trying to sow discord between us. Tails snorted.

King Nunn just continued to stare at him, his eyes tinged with strange colors.

stared at him.

"Use your brain, future 'Protector of Dragon Castle,'" a few seconds later, King Nunn sarcastically said to him, "I don't mean your father. ”

Tails frowned, and he sneered through his nose, "And who else are you referring to? Bright Star ...... who hasn't been assassinated."

Suddenly, Tails was shocked and stunned.

Wait a minute.

Bright Star who was not assassinated......

Bright Stars who didn't die because of assassination......

Tails recalled Gilbert's words.

In the tragedy of the Scarlet Year, there was only one prince who did not die directly from the assassination.

No way.

Tails felt his heart beat faster.

The pale-faced prince looked up and looked at King Nunn in disbelief.

"Twelve years ago, when we broke through the Dragon's Fortress, we captured Rudolf Nantop. "King Nunn pressed his hand on 'Triumph' and said silently.

Rudolf Nampust?

Tails' brain immediately came up with information about him, and it was......

"He was the Duke of Cliff at the time," King Nunn said lightly, rubbing his ring, "That guy is very tough, but the people of the Northland despise his cowardice in refusing to send troops in the fortress and watching Prince Horace fall." ”

Tails remembered the conversation Putile had with him at the Lyman Pass to pay homage to the former second prince, Horace Bright Star.

One of the commanders of the Broken Dragon Fortress, the last Duke of Cliffland, who watched the Second Prince fall under the fortress, was also the elder brother of the 'One-Eyed Dragon' Duke Gauster Nantop.

According to Putile, he was captured by Exeter and later died in prison.

"We left him in the dungeon, ignored him, and waited for the spring to continue south to the heart of the stars. Sure enough, King Nunn's account was close to that of Putira.

Until the king's next word.

"But when the news of the assassination of the Bright Star royal family came, Rudolph, who had half his life left, struggled to see me at that time. King Nunn's expression became more and more solemn: "In the fortress, he shed tears and brought me a secret that I never expected. ”

Tails clenched his fists and listened silently to the king's account.

"During the days when Rudolph and Horace were guarding the Dragon's Fortress, your Duke of Cliff Territory discovered something that kept him awake. ”

King Nunn's eyes grew sharper and sharper.

"Horace Bright Star, the second prince of the Kingdom of the Stars, the Sword of Light, which you are proud of, has secretly recruited, organized, and trained a special team of mercenaries from various countries and regions - because in addition to the establishment of the royal guard and the Bright Star's private army, and Prince Horace has always liked to make friends with all kinds of masters and braves, so the stars have not been able to detect it for many years. ”

"It wasn't until the day Horace officially activated that squad," King Nunn whispered, "that Rudolph found some clues." ”

Tails couldn't help but get nervous.

"Rudolph found out that the squad had been given a mission that year," King Nunn's tone became very indifferent, and he bit out one sentence after another: "How to lurk, hide, infiltrate, and even invade without knowing it, a fortress with the most airtight pattern, the most heavily guarded, the most perfectly defended, and the least likely to be breached." ”

"Huh?" Tails exclaimed.

Fortress?

The question in his heart deepened.

"When Horace ventured out to attack our supply lines," King Nunn nodded, his eyebrows gloomy as water, "Rudolf Nantop, who had long been suspicious, found a lot of things from Prince Horace's bedroom—from coded correspondence to secret ledgers. ”

King Nunn pulled his robe, pulled out a folded piece of cardboard from his inner pocket, and said coldly, "And this thing." ”

Tails shuddered as he turned the folded sheet of paper and unfolded it flat.

That's a map.

The map shows a square building, flat top and side view.

Soon, Tails could see that it was a top-down view of the building, clearly marked with its wide walls, the ubiquitous sentry towers, the terrifying crossbows, the few narrow entrances, and the important entrances, passages, and rooms within the building......

Tails' pupils shrank suddenly!

This is......

Tails pressed his face close to the map in shock, staring at every inch of it, not missing every detail.

Next to the map are a dense patch of numbers, patterns, and arrows of action - from the front door of the building to the interior.

He read the words in disbelief,

Guard shifts, number of guards, places that can be hidden, available entrances, patrol times at front and back doors, evacuation routes......

Tails was stunned.

No.

No way.

A few minutes later.

The second prince of the stars gently lowered the map, the astonishment and shock on his face still not dissipating.

King Nunn took in his expression.

"In view of the war with the stars at that time...... I hid the secret and sent Rudolph back to Longxiao City to be secretly held - until he was on death row. King Nunn, who had just told the shocking secret, sighed.

"You can use this news as a bargaining chip, and use it when you need it," said King Nunn softly to Tails, "the coward who has been reviled and the Duke of Cliffland, Rudolph Nantop, who has been misunderstood for too long......"

"He was the one who was truly loyal to Eddy II from beginning to end. ”

Tails gripped the map in his hand, squeezing it tighter and tighter.

"I don't think you forged this map. He said in a trance.

"What do you say?" said King Nunn dismissively, and drank the wine from his glass.

"That team of mercenaries that Horace has formed," Tails looked up and muttered, "who are they?"

"I don't know, Rudolph didn't elaborate," King Nunn looked at his empty cup, "He only mentioned that the leader of the mercenaries was strange......"

"And with a strange long sword. ”

Tails sat on the steps, gasping unconsciously.

He unconsciously returned the paper in his hand to King Nunn.

"You keep it, that thing is too ominous," the old king of Exeter shook his head, pushed his hand back, and said lightly, "And,"

"That's your ...... after all"

"Map of the Fuxing Palace. ”

――――

Longxiao City, half past four in the morning.

In the dark of night, in a shop on Xichi Avenue.

"It's good that the doctor you're looking for is really in Valhalla - God knows how he's going to get in," under the faint light of an inextinguishable lamp, the butcher shop owner from the Far East, Gu, said to the man in front of him with a gloomy face, "But do you understand the cost of saving people from Valhalla?"

But the man in front of him just lowered his head, carefully and seriously, almost nitpicking, and wiped the strange longsword with a strange shape and a pitch-black body on his leg one last time.

Gu exhaled and patiently emphasized to the man in front of him in his lingua franca with a northernal tongue curl: "You have to climb all the way up the slope, avoid the night officers and patrols on the street, go up through two noble districts heavily guarded by private soldiers, and then cross the towers and sentry posts, and rush to the gate separating the city from Valhalla before you are found and shot through by crossbow arrows and hard bows, or hacked to death by hundreds of people with swords and axes......

The man stood up, dropped the rag with which he was wiping his weapon, and raised the strange black sword in his hand to the ceiling.

Gu's words continued: "Then climb over the ten-meter-high gate to ......"

"Tonight is the night of the banquet at Valhalla," the man raised his head and squinted his eyes at his sword, as if observing the arc of the sword, and his featureless voice reached Gu's ears: "That floodgate will open in the early morning, I don't have to climb the wall, the chance is bigger than usual." ”

"How, from inside and outside the gate, even between the palace guards on the gate, under the light of the moonlight and firelight, under their eyes that are wider than their fists?" Gu suppressed his breathing, but couldn't help but raise his voice:

"Even if you break through the floodgates, you'll have to deal with countless patrolling formations of Valhalla guards - all of them are carefully selected from the local conscripts, trained by the instructors of the White Guards, fierce, loyal, brave, vigilant, and sharp-eyed......"

The man hung the wiped sword back on the belt around his waist, and tightened the wrapped weapon behind his back.

But Gu was still trying to stop him.

"Let's assume that you don't alarm them, but what about after you infiltrate Valhalla? You will also face the White Blade Guards, the Dragon Guards! There may only be two or three hundred people on duty, scattered in the palace, but everyone in it is a veteran with rich front-line experience, and there are countless super-level masters, and there are even Meteorites who have the 'Soul Breaking Blade' in the Extreme Realm......"

The man moved his joints, turned his head and walked towards the door.

Gu followed behind him, and said in a deep voice: "Do you know what a 'veteran' is? It's not as simple as having fought a war and seen blood, according to Exeter's standards...... Once you're entangled in one of them......"

The man didn't listen to Gu's words, he pressed his hand against the door, and a strange power surged.

In an instant, everything on the street outside the door, from the patrol in the distance to the hounds in the distance, the man knew everything.

"Even you, who want to sneak into a heavily guarded and invulnerable palace alone without any response...... I still want to get someone out......" Gu sighed deeply and stroked his forehead after saying it for a long time: "You are really crazy." ”

The man didn't answer, he stood up, looked at the frowning Gu, and nodded.

"Gu," he said lightly, "next time you want to lie to me, find some other reason - at least don't use a sensory magician." ”

Gu was stunned for a moment, showing a puzzled expression.

"Huh?"

Only Gu himself knew that at this moment, his heart had already set off a turbulent wave.

"What did you say?" said the Far Easterner, with what he thought was flawless, with a questioning face, "What reason?"

The man patted Gu on the shoulder.

Gu frowned.

"I don't know about sensory magicians," the man showed a stiff smile, "but I know you, Gu." ”

Gu was slightly stunned.

"You're good at hiding all kinds of feelings, but I can recognize them......" The man pressed his black sword and shook his head gently: "People who live with masks also live with pain. ”

Gu was under his sleeve and silently clenched his fists.

"And," the man turned, pushed open the door, and left one last word:

"Say hello to Morat on my behalf - I haven't seen him for 12 years, and I really miss him. ”

At that moment, Gu's smile froze on his face.

Gu was stunned in place, watching the man disappear outside the door, disappearing into the deep darkness.

Just like he used to be.

The next minute, the figure of a man appeared on the roof of a low house.

In the vast snow, he raised his head and looked at the dark moon in the sky.

Then, his gaze far passed over the districts of Longxiao City, which stretched up along the mountainside, past several city gates, and reached the majestic palace at the top.

It was the Walton family, the residence of the Grand Duke of Longxiao City for generations.

It is also the seat of Exeter's current co-king.

Valhalla.

The man remembered Gu's words just now:

Sneak past the guards and into a heavily guarded, impregnable palace?

He gently patted the strange black sword at his waist, and a smile appeared on his lips.

Alas.

In this regard, I am also a ...... The man closed his eyes slightly.

Experienced, right?

The next moment, the man's figure disappeared into the snow. (To be continued.) )