This is a very lonely scene, so lonely that it makes people feel that the king sitting quietly in the terracotta is being weathered by time little by little.
A slender figure stood in the scorched woods.
The devil came silently.
His face was paler than usual, standing in the woods as if blending with the charred wood around him, like an unreal phantom. He held a black umbrella, as if it were the occasion to pay the Duke of Buckingham's funeral.
He twirled the black umbrella gently.
In fact, what qualifications do human beings have to say that the devils in hell are too treacherous
Unscrupulous is not the patent of hell, but the means of all lunatics. The Qiangwei family is probably a typical representative of lunatics. After all, how many existences in the world dare to fight against gods and dare to calculate hell
The representatives of the Rose family of the generation of William III and the Duke of Buckingham completed such a wonderful fraud.
More than ten years ago, William III unified the thirty-six states of Legrand.
The Holy See will not sit back and watch William III push down the sword of reform. Across the Abyss Strait, they activated the nails that had been placed in Legrand for so many years, setting off a series of political turmoil. That era was also infested with swords and beacon, and the most dangerous moment was when the Queen Mother of Eleanor was pregnant.
The destined monarch was conceived in the womb of the young black-haired queen.
The Holy Court is no longer reserved, and all the dark nails have been lifted. In the month when the crown prince was about to be born, William III had to personally lead the army to the southwest to quell the rebellion. The Duke of Buckingham guarded the palace, and the shadow blade of the Rose family patrolled day and night in Outside the palace, new blood soaks the palace grounds every day.
In that month, the Pope led one of the Twelve Sanctuaries of the Holy See to leave the Holy City for the first time and come across the sea in the name of "Destiny Comes".
He came to baptize the new crown prince.
Pope baptism is an honor and an irresistible charism.
No country can refuse the arrival of the Pope's carriage, and no country's crown is not put on by the hand of the Holy See. As long as William III refused, the Pope would have enough reasons to launch a sacred "Western Expedition" against Legrand, forcing Legrand to bow his head by force.
Either accept baptism and let the new monarch be controlled by the Holy Court and become a puppet of the Holy Court.
Either refuse baptism and let the army of the Holy Western Expedition land in Legrand. There are too many countries eager to use a Western expedition to plunder Legrand's land, and the countries in Legrand are also unwilling to surrender to the Rose family. Domination... The Rose family cannot afford such a conquest.
Unless they want to let Legrand, which is moving towards unity, fall apart again.
William III didn't want to choose either.
The Rose family and the Holy Court have fought against the Holy Court for thousands of years. With the fall of one young monarch after another, they have figured out a way to fight against the Holy Court's secret baptism. The common secret law is carried out by the Archbishop of the Holy See, and the Rose family has found a way to fight it, but the baptism carried out by the Pope himself uses the real blood of the gods.
How precious is the blood of the gods, even the Holy Court would not use it easily.
In the history of the Rose family, only one king was baptized by the Pope himself, and that was "Mad King" Henry.
The devil remembers the monarch who was later dubbed the "Mad King".
He was a monarch of great talent, crowned king at the age of sixteen, and until the age of twenty-three, Henry was an impeccable monarch, and in his hands the territory of the Legrand royal family gradually recovered, the majesty of the royal family Gradually become stronger, but the method used by the Rose family to fight baptism is no match for the blood of the gods.
Henry did not become a manipulated puppet, but the uncontrollable madness entangled the supposedly great monarch like a shadow from that moment on.
He became the "Mad King".
The former hero is increasingly unable to control himself, and when his sanity is overwhelmed by madness, he will become a beast that only knows how to kill. In the last moments of his life, when Mad King Henry realized in his brief sobriety that his loss of control was destroying with his own hands everything he had painstakingly built, he handed the sword to his son.
Mad King Henry's last order in life was for his son to kill him.
William III and the Duke of Buckingham did not want a second tragic Mad King.
They want to keep a calm and sober monarch for the Rose family, and they want Legrand to continue on the road of prosperity, instead of dying halfway through time and time again.
So in a land swept by storms, William III made a deal with the devil who had been looking for thousands of years. From that moment on, what was supposed to be the most honorable person in a country was imprisoned and became the most important pawn in this war that I don't know how long it would last.
The devil sighed softly.
Can't blame him for being deceived by the bastard William III in ecstasy, after all, who would have thought
Who would have thought that the Qiangwei family would turn their king into a pawn and throw them into this war.
Chess with the king.
Such a country, such a family, such a sad and hopeless fate.
his king, his majesty.
The devil thought and walked towards the king. When approaching the king, he deliberately made a little footsteps.
The king didn't look back. When the footsteps came behind him, he pulled out the matching sword around his waist with his backhand and stabbed precisely behind him.
Not stabbed.
"Good day, my dear majesty." The devil closed his umbrella and bowed.
"I didn't summon you." The king didn't withdraw his sword, but the cold light on the blade flickered slightly, signaling the hostile anger that the master had already raised.
The devil smiled helplessly: "... Next time I will choose a good time to see you. However, please forgive me for a while today, for the sake of me bringing you a gift."
"A gift from hell to you, the Holy Court has held it for too long, I brought it back for you."
The devil's voice became erratic.
Hearing that the King of the Holy Court finally stood up, he looked at the devil who was slightly bent over with no expression, holding a long and narrow black iron box in the devil's hands.
"what is this?"
The king did not take it.
"A bunch of keys."
The devil looked up at the king and revealed a faint smile, which was not like the usual mask that usually hangs on the devil's face, and concealed a mockery of something else in the smile.
"The key to the Millennium Kingdom."
"Those people in the Holy Court enshrined it in the temple as an ordinary holy relic, but they spent hundreds of thousands looking for it... Are you saying it's ridiculous?" The devil's tone made no secret of the maliciousness of the Holy Court, "So I brought it to you, I think you must hope that if this war does break out, it will be you who will open it, not the Pope's idiots?"
The devil knows his majesty too well.
The millennium will come, and the war between the Holy Court and hell will begin again.
If the world is destined to become a battlefield, then the king will definitely choose mortals to start the war.
The king looked at the devil with the same expression for a long time, and finally reached out and took the black iron box.
"Then... allow me to say goodbye first, Your Majesty." The devil straightened up.
"Are there still souls here?"
At the moment when the figure of the devil was about to fade away, the king suddenly spoke. His voice was very soft. If it wasn't for the devil here, I'm afraid others would not be able to hear it clearly.
But the devil heard it clearly, and he even heard a glimmer of hope beneath the calm voice.
The devil sighed in his heart...
He left early to avoid answering the question, but the king asked it anyway.
The devil was no longer in a hurry to leave, and he leaned over the king and saluted: "I'm sorry, Your Majesty."
The king closed his eyes.
Purlan, although broken, will eventually be beautiful... His father, his uncle hid all the answers in his name early on.
Distant, childhood memories come to mind.
It was at Legrand, and while he was awake, the Duke of Buckingham taught him and John swordsmanship. During the break, the Duke of Buckingham told them the deeds of every ancestor in the family. All the stories began with the same legend. It was in a long legendary era, there was a family they wanted to kill the dragon.
"This family has drawn up a long conspiracy to behead dragons with disgraceful means. Are they shameful?" In the afternoon sun, the Duke of Buckingham seemed to be asking himself, as well as two young children. "But how can a war between mortals and dragons be fair?"
Unspeakable sadness surged like a tide.
He should have told his uncle.
The Duke of Buckingham doesn't need to feel guilty, William III has never done anything wrong with him.
He knew that he was a pawn put into the battlefield by the Qiangwei family. After he returned to Legrand, after he was completely awake, he knew that his past years were also a long-lasting war. The war waged by the Holy Court.
He didn't have time to tell the Duke of Buckingham it was nothing.
They should have been the most daring planners. This is a dance on the tip of a knife, and if they are not good enough, they will be smashed to pieces. The Qiangwei family used a conspiracy to kill the dragon at the beginning, and now they are not stingy to overthrow the world of the Beyonders with shameful means.
The war between mortals and gods is unfair from the beginning, so how can it be glorious
He is willing to be such a pawn.
…
After the long-awaited knights were finally allowed to step on the slope, they finally knew what was in the carriage they brought out this time.
It was an empty coffin.
The king opened the coffin and put the bloody soil into the coffin with his own hands.
"I'll show you the rebellion in the North, the unification of Legrand, and the beginning and end of this war." The king whispered, "I'll... take you back."
How long did this war last
How long will it go on