In the council chamber of Valhalla, from several Grand Dukes to the king's close ministers, and even the white-bladed guards and ordinary Valhalla guards, they all stared intently at Grand Duke Puffett. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Among them, the eyes from King Nunn were particularly terrifying.

It's like a legendary dragon that chooses people to devour.

The retinue behind Grand Duke Pefit were all pale, and many of them raised their heads as if they were meeting for the first time, their eyes full of shock and bewilderment, looking at their lord in disbelief.

Tails, who was watching all this, sighed slightly: "Sometimes, it's not a good thing to go too fast." ”

In the face of all this, the young Grand Duke Piffet just pursed his lips and said nothing.

"Not only that," the commander of the White Blade Guard behind him, Nicolas the Starfall, looked at the Grand Duke coldly, his eyes full of disdain, "when we put the men at the city gate to stop them......

"This group of people from Beacon City, but they didn't mean to respond at all, but drew their swords directly," Nicolai's voice grew softer and softer, and more and more unsettling, "until I personally slaughtered the one in the Extreme Realm among them." ”

The entourage of Fengzhao City looked at each other with ugly faces, and they all gritted their teeth and bowed their heads.

"Conkley?" Archduke Auretheus looked at Archduke Puffet in a daze: "I thought that Fengzhao City was the closest, and it has always been the most trusted assistant of Longxiao City......"

"Obviously, the facts are not what we guessed. Trudida beside him exhaled helplessly: "Guess what's going to end tonight?"

The king's voice sounded at the right time:

"The end?" Nunn VII let out a sneer, his gaze fixed on the silent Pefit, "Trust me, you ......"

"Tonight's ending is going to be terrible......"

No one answered.

Grand Duke Piffet still bowed his head and said nothing.

"Bang!"

Archduke Ronnie, with a grim expression, slapped his palm on the table, and the sound echoed through the hall.

"We are Northlanders," Ronnie looked up at each of the Grand Dukes, his voice full of disappointment and resentment, "not those Southern Empire people who eat conspiracy and assassination!"

"Uh," Tails pouted, whispering, "Thanks for the compliment." ”

"Speaking of which, I was really taken aback," said the Archduke of Trudeda, with a cunning and playful look in his eyes, "our little guest from the stars...... Are you really only seven years old?"

"A little viper," Auretheus said coldly as he stared at Tails, "has a special sense of conspiracy. ”

Tails took a deep breath.

Conspiracy? no.

He said secretly in his heart.

From the assassination of the Exter Mission, to the war between the stars and the dragons, to the battle for the Broken Dragon Fortress, to the magic guns fired at themselves, to the Lombard, to the Pefit...... It's all connected.

The fluctuation came to his brain at the right time, making Tails's thoughts more rapid and clear, as in the past, different elements and events were clearly arranged in front of him.

"This is not a simple conspiracy. Tails heard himself say this.

"At the end of this year, a lot has happened," the second prince of the stars closed his eyes and straightened things out in his head, "and for Exeter, there is nothing more important than the assassination of Prince Moral in the stars." ”

"However, this is not an isolated incident, but a whole terrible chain of conspiracies that spans the two great nations of the Western Continent. ”

Scenes from the past reappear in front of you.

The Duke of the North's hideous expression.

King Kessel's gaffe roar.

The eyes of the princes of the stars.

The eyes of the Grand Duke of Black Sand are not emotional.

The despair of Nunn VII.

And now, the Exeters in Valhalla.

Tails opened his eyes slightly, his gaze full of solemnity:

This plan cleverly exploited the long-standing contradictions and hatred between the two countries, which had been amplified by the "Fortress Peace Treaty" and accumulated for more than ten years. ”

The executors of the plan turned it into a sharp knife stabbing at each other's countries, trying to recast each other's pattern in the turmoil and reshape the situation of the Western Continent. ”

Everyone in the council hall fixed their eyes on the Star Prince, and even their breathing slowed.

Only the deputy envoy of the stars behind Tails, Lord Putile Niemann, frowned slightly, as if he was worried about something.

"First, kill the Moral prince in the realm of the stars, and then provoke the war between the stars and Exter. The Bright Star royal family was defeated in the internal struggle with the domestic nobles, King Kessel abdicated in defeat and condemnation, and Val Arend, the guardian duke of the North, took over the authority and crown of the Supreme King of the Stars with the support of all the people. ”

Tails lowered his head and said lightly, as if he was recounting something that had nothing to do with him.

"Like the wings of a butterfly, this is only the one in the country of the stars, as for the one in Exeter......"

Grand Duke Piffett's fists clenched imperceptibly.

Tails' voice continued to come faintly:

"The death of Prince Moral deprived the Waltons of hope of electing a king, and King Nunn's anger turned into sustenance for war. In the name of avenging the king, the Grand Duke of Rumba brazenly sent troops, conquered the northern realm of the stars in the chaos and with the cooperation of internal response, gaining unprecedented prestige and benefits, and in the end, the Grand Duke of the Black Sand will return with the glory of the battlefield and successfully elect the king with overwhelming fame. ”

"After the plan is completed, the stars and dragons will change their masters and be reborn in the midst of mutual hatred. ”

Tails paused, and knotted gently:

"A terrible plan that is ingenious, grandiose, adventurous, ambitious, creative and daring. ”

The five Grand Dukes had different expressions.

Ronnie's expression was heavy, Auretheus pondered in shock, Trudida squinted at the rest of the room, and bald old Lecco blinked and couldn't tell his emotions.

Grand Duke Pefit's breathing gradually increased.

"Young man, think too much, have great ambitions," Grand Duke Leco's cloudy eyes moved slightly, and asked Pinfett, "However, you have exposed yourself by assassinating the Star Prince in one more move?"

Peverett didn't answer him, just stared at the ground as if everything around him didn't exist.

"I don't think it's redundant – he has to. Tails raised his eyebrows: "I just figured this out: the scene of assassinating me in front of the fortress was to completely destroy Rumba. ”

Archduke Leco turned to him.

"According to the original plan, Rumba would ascend to the throne and become King of Chaman - I don't know how many generations that name it was. Tails turned to Peverett:

"And you, Your Excellency Grand Duke Poffett, are his most secret collaborator in Exeter. ”

Finally, Peverett looked up, but didn't look at anyone.

"But the problem is that the plan failed in the first ring. Tails sighed.

"The Moral prince was assassinated, but the internal response of the stars failed—my appearance prevented the northern duke from provoking a war as planned," he frowned, remembering everything in the Fuxing Palace, and thinking of Sonia and Araka in the fortress, "Rumba also failed to entangle the forces of the three southern archdukes to invade the stars, let alone take the Broken Dragon Fortress - the war between the stars and the dragon cannot be fought at all!"

"Archduke Rumba cannot take the crown he aspires to take with the glory of conquering the northern realm of the stars. ”

Grand Duke Piffet exhaled softly, bringing out a low gasp.

"The worse thing is...... With Val Arend's defeat in the stars, Charman Rumba's conspiracy is exposed," Tails chuckled bitterly, "The angry King Nunn will come to seek his revenge and make Rumba and the Black Sand Collar pay the price." ”

"Ah," said King Nunn, stroking the black ring on his hand behind the long table, and added, as if nonchalantly, "isn't it?" ”

The Grand Dukes exchanged a look.

"So," Tails nodded, "Rumba is doomed." His Majesty Nunn and Long Xiao City will not let him go. ”

Under the gaze of the Grand Dukes, he gestured to the expressionless Pefid.

"In this case, if Rumba is really cornered—how can Rumba's collaborator be left alone? According to Rumba's temperament, he will definitely drag his collaborator to hell," Tails shook his head:

"For the sake of his own survival, Archduke Piffet must strike first and completely eliminate the past collaborators and future threats ......"

The long-haired Grand Duke Ronnie snorted coldly.

"Once the Prince of the Stars dies in the Black Sand Collar, Rumba is stained with the blood of the Prince of the Stars......" Tails walked back to Putirai's side and sneered, "Then for the throne of the Stars, even before His Majesty Nunn makes a move, the Dukes of the Stars will come in waves, tearing Rumba and the Black Sand Collar to shreds—I think the other Grand Dukes will be happy to see it happen, too." ”

"You'll be completely safe. ”

The words of the Prince of the Stars fell.

In the hall, many people sighed with different intentions, some playful, some regretful, some sad, some angry, and some angry.

In the next second, the young Grand Duke, Poffett, finally turned his head slowly, and with his indifferent gaze, which was no longer gentle and friendly, he slashed back and forth at Tails, and then looked back at Nunn VII at the other end of the long table in front of him.

"Smack, smack, smack......"

A slow, rhythmic applause rang out from the other end of the long table.

King Nunn clapped blankly.

But no one should be with him.

"This is worthy of applause," said the old king, clapping in an unsettling rhythm and tone, "for our star guests......"

Tails rolled his eyes helplessly—he could feel a lot of thought and fear in the eyes of the hall looking at him.

"And for you, the Walton family's allied friend, the leader of the Pefit family, and my most trusted Grand Duke of Beacon City, Conkley Pefit. ”

The eyes of the king and the grand duke of Fengzhao City finally met in the air.

On the one hand, there is complexity and anger, and on the other hand, numbness and apathy.

"Say something, Conkley," King Nunn's voice became dull and muffled, echoing through the firelit council chamber with an inexplicable sense of suffocation, "until you can no longer speak." ”

"At the very least, you can try to choose your own way of dying?"

Grand Duke Piffet suddenly pulled the corners of his mouth into a dark and terrifying smile.

"How to die?" he muttered.

Behind Pefit, a disarmed attendant whispered with a worried face, "My lord, maybe we should ......"

The next moment, Pefit turned his face and said to his subordinates with an angry face:

"Shut up. ”

The attendant paused, sighed, and stopped talking.

Peverett turned his head, his facial muscles twitching, his teeth gritted, his expression changing in anger and irritation.

"Hmph. The young Grand Duke sneered.

"What do you want me to say......" The young Grand Duke's laughter grew longer.

Tails frowned.

King Nunn's expression remained unchanged.

"Hahaha," saw Poffett shake her head mockingly, "what else can I say?"

The next moment, he turned sharply, his eyes like a falcon, and he scanned the audience sharply.

"I don't know what you're talking about. Piffett's indifferent words made everyone's faces change.

"I received an invitation from His Majesty to come to Longxiao City to discuss important matters related to the relationship between the two countries," Piffet looked around with a sneer and stretched out his hand to Tails: "Then, my most respected and irresistible King Gongju unites an enemy prince who has a blood feud with him, accusing me of being the murderer of Prince Moral?"

"And why?" said Piffett, turning her head sharply, a look on her face that startled Tails.

"Just because I want to leave the banquet early, because I want to rush back to the territory early, because my people have had an unnecessary conflict with the White Blade Guards at night, and I have sacrificed a Guardian of the Extreme Realm!"

Poffett gasped and thumped her chest.

"This is shameless slander!"

"you, Pevert!" one of the king's vassals snorted disdainfully, "Coward's self-justification!"

"Ahh ”

"We've all heard the kid and seen your reaction, and even now, are you still quibbling?" Auretheus frowned, "don't forget, you're a Northlander. ”

"Sophistry?" asked Piffett in a loud voice, her eyes widening as if she were crazy.

"From the beginning until now, it's all this damn little imp talking nonsense alone!" Poffett pointed at Tails and roared loudly:

"And you fools, he is alone, by a prince of the stars, by the remnants of an empire!"

Tails shrugged helplessly, glancing at Putirai behind him.

Marquis Sleiss next to him whispered with a smile on his face: "Wow - to see this scene in the Exeter court is really worth the travel expenses." ”

Peverett turned and looked at King Nunn in annoyance.

"I murdered the Moral prince?"

"I'm working with Rumba?"

"I led the assassination of this imp?"

The Grand Duke shouted angrily with a distorted face

"Is there any evidence?"

"Everyone knows that I am the same age as Moral, and I have a lot of friendship, what reason do I have to murder him?" The young archduke's words made the others frown sideways and turn their heads to each other: "As you said, Grand Duke Auresius, the Pevert family is the most powerful arm of the Walton family!"

King Nunn watched Archduke Piffett's actions and did not say a word, but his eyes grew colder and colder.

"And you, Your Majesty the Great and Dull, Nunn VII, are you going to execute me here?" said Pefitt to everyone, "just to use this ridiculous and ridiculous charge, just because I want to return to the realm sooner?"

"Just because of this damn little bitch's bullshit?"

"If I die here," Grand Duke Piffet gasped, raised his right index finger, and gritted his teeth: "Pefett will not forget, and Fengzhao City will not forget......"

"Northland won't forget!"

In the frown of everyone, Piffet roared madly:

"Everyone will know that the king who has been cut off from his heirs, Walton, who has reached a desperate situation, has gone mad! He believes in traitors and enemies, persecuts loyal ministers and friends, accuses me without any reason, without evidence, without reason, and openly slaughters the Grand Duke in Longxiao City!"

"Everyone will know that this is a violation of Necajou's oath of condominance!"

The other Grand Dukes watched his performance silently, their eyes showing sadness.

Pefit adjusted her breathing, and her words showed a threat: "After I die, my younger brother will inherit the position of Grand Duke, and the Pefit family will ...... Longxiao City"

But just then, King Nunn's applause rang out again.

interrupted Pinfett's words, making him slightly stunned.

"Good try," said Nunn King's old voice, with a deep chill in it, "I always thought you were a polite sissy. ”

"I'm underestimating you, it seems like you're still a good actor - you should go to the Dragon's Kiss Academy or the Temple of the Night, not here. ”

"Bah, this is your plan to put me to death and weaken the Grand Dukes," replied the Grand Duke of Piffet to his king fiercely, "Do you have any evidence other than speculation and slander?"

King Nunn scoffed.

"Of course, maybe you have long lost your mind, you don't care about the evidence, you don't care who the murderer is, you just want to weaken us archdukes!"

Pefit raised her hands, exposed her chest, and gritted her teeth to look at the king: "Then what are you waiting for, come, kill me!"

"Let the Exeters see what kind of king they have!"

"I'll tell Moral when I get to the Hell," Peverett gritted his teeth, word for word, "His father went mad after he died—and Walton died in this generation!"

"Boom!"

Hearing the name of the dead son, King Nunn's fist slammed into the table.

Peverett ignored him.

"And you, sitting back and watching this unevidenced judgment, sitting back and watching all this," Pefitt turned and swept over each of the Grand Dukes, with anger in her eyes: "It's next!"

Grand Duke Ronnie shook his head disdainfully, his eyes revealing disgust.

Trudida at the head of the pot smiled kindly at him, revealing eight teeth.

Without saying a word, Auretheus looked back at the young archduke.

Archduke Leco didn't even raise his head, as if he was particularly interested in the long table in front of him.

The king's close ministers and advisors looked thoughtful.

They are not the only ones who are aware of the problem.

Tails, who was watching from the sidelines, also frowned slightly: although Pefit seemed to be using quibbles to make a final struggle, he was not unreasonable.

A grand duke came to Longxiao City, but was executed by the king......

What will the people think? How will Fengzhao City react? Are the Grand Dukes really indifferent?

And.

Although everyone knows that it is him, it is Poffett.

But there is really no evidence.

Unless Rumba comes forward and identifies Piffett while pleading guilty to the crime.

Tails' worried eyes went back and forth between the tense face of Pefit and the fierce old king.

What to do?

The king will really be desperate and execute......

While everyone was pondering, King Nunn finally spoke.

"Evidence?"

The old king threw up his head and opened his mouth to laugh.

"Hahahaha......"

Piffet was slightly stunned, and the Grand Dukes looked at him puzzled.

"When do I need proof?" Nunn VII's tone slowly rose: "I only need reason, only the truth." ”

Poffett exhaled through her nose and sneered.

"Hmph, typical tyrant, Necaju will be ashamed of you too," he squinted, "The vices of the empire are reproduced in you - maybe that's ......"

"Necaju?"

King Nunn did not let him continue.

"When Necaju Aix was dying," the old king squeezed his right fist and snorted:

His nephew and heir, the future Nunn Walton I, swore an oath to the hero of humanity to be the heir at his bedside, in the presence of the Queen of the Heavens. ”

The last words of his oath later became Walton, the clan language of the Dragonlance family. ”

"Yes," Nunn VII lowered his voice and said solemnly and slowly under the eyes of the audience, "For the son of the Northland, walk the way of the Northland, (son_of_northland, _way_of_northland). ”

Grand Duke Puffet was slightly stunned, revealing doubts.

"Since we are from the Northlands," said King Nunn, clenching his fists and casting anger in his eyes, but he suppressed his emotions and continued solemnly:

"Just follow the way of the Northland. ”

Everyone's expressions changed in unison.

Tails remembered a possibility, and his face turned pale.

King Nunn clapped his palms.

Two footsteps slowly came from outside the hall.

Everyone's eyes were attracted by the two new figures.

Tails saw the comer, frowned, and looked at Putira.

Putirai narrowed her eyes and shook her head at him slightly.

Piffett stared at the visitor in a daze.

"Come and meet our dear intelligence chief," King Nunn said, raising his hand, introducing the newcomer:

"Lady Kassan. ”

In Tails' solemn gaze, an old woman he had seen before smiled softly and bowed slightly to the Grand Dukes.

The arrival of the owner of the dark room, the Red Witch, made the Grand Dukes frown.

What does this mean?

Ignoring everyone's faces, the king pointed to a woman wearing a silver-white robe with her face shrouded in a veil, and continued to say coldly, "There is also the High Priest of the Temple of the Bright Moon, Jewell Home. ”

Tails was stunned.

He saw the mark on the other's body: a pair of moons set together, a curved crescent moon and a full moon.

The High Priest of the Bright Moon Temple?

The Hom priest didn't say anything, as if everything around her was unrelated to her.

But neither the Grand Dukes nor the King showed any gloom, as if it were meant to be.

This reminded Tails of the Sunset Temple in the Stars Country, the High Priest of Lehia.

Jinni.

What role does it play in this world?

"What does that mean?" said Peverett, grim as she stared at the king.

"What do you mean?" the old King Nunn sneered and slapped his palm on the long table: "Your Excellency, the High Priest of Hom, naturally came to witness...... It's night, and it's best to be witnessed by the goddess of the bright moon. ”

Pefit seemed to have guessed something, and the young Grand Duke only felt a dry throat, and only heard him say hoarsely: "Witness...... Witness what?"

"Witness what?"

The old king smiled angrily, and then turned to the prince of the stars: "Little Tails, take a good look at ......"

Tails was startled and came back to his senses.

I only heard King Nunn say lightly:

"The ancient rites of the Northland are not something that can be proposed casually—it requires a sufficient number of witnesses, a sufficient number of sacred rituals, and a sufficient number of arbiters of status to be effective. ”

Ancient rituals of the Northland?

Tails looked at the old Nunn VII in amazement, and was momentarily shocked.

No way?

Could it be ......

The expressions of the Grand Duke and all the vassals were equally surprised, and even many people's eyes showed panic and panic.

"Your Majesty?" said a nobleman beside the king who was suspected of being a political official.

But Nunn VII did not give them any opportunity to ask.

The next moment, King Nunn's right palm shook and slapped it on the seat!

"Bang!"

Everyone was shocked.

I saw Exeter, the old king who was nearly seventy years old, get up suddenly, his face full of hatred and murder, and spit out the following words in a thunderous old voice:

"I, Nunn Nekaju Cardine Walton, am the seventh Nunn in the King's pedigree.

King of Dragoons and the successor of the hero Nekaru and the hero Sara.

The co-owner of the Northlanders of the Western Continent and the watchman of the glacial defense line.

The defender of humanity in the north, the conqueror of the White Mountains.

The arbiter of the Golden Corridor and the conqueror of the Broken Dragon Fortress.

The 35th co-king of the Kingdom of Exeter and the Quegul Glacier, the Grand Duke of Longxiao City. ”

"In the spokesperson of the goddess of the bright moon, in the pre-imperial meeting, in the presence of the Grand Duke of Weilan Ling, the Grand Duke of the Rebuilding Tower, the Grand Duke of Qiyuan City, the Grand Duke of Guarding the City, and the only royal heir of the Star Kingdom;"

Tails watched the king's actions in a daze, at a loss.

Equally shocked were the Grand Dukes, including Puffet himself.

The king continued, with a chilling indignation and anguish:

"For the sake of my son, the last heir of the Walton family and Dragons, Moral Bertram Nunn Walton, for the despicable assassination he suffered. ”

"In the glorious tradition of the Northlands, in the name of blood revenge. ”

"To you, Conkley Pevert of Beacon City......"

"Issue a sacred dueling challenge. ”

The old king spoke resolutely, looked at the stunned young archduke, and spit out the last words:

"The duel was issued in the name of the king. ”

"You can't say no. (To be continued.) )