For the rest of the round, Dolores still failed to find another symbol of power from the royal palace. She even found the usually very low-key Queen of Hampawall, the stepmother of most of the Stuarts, but the young woman didn't seem to know what Dolores was looking for.
Dolores knew that Jenkins had the ability to distinguish lies, so she deliberately asked her directly:
"When father left Loen, did he leave you important items for safekeeping?"
The young queen immediately denied it, and Jenkins realized that she was lying, and that Sarhi II definitely left her something important.
"I got one from the Duke of Rodbyer, one from the queen, and there is a high probability that there is one from the northern garrison outside the city. In this way, there are three. Is it that simple..."
He thought about it, and then got the answer:
"Although obtaining three items can win the victory, there are definitely more than three items left by Sarkhi II."
Outside the palace, Sallot Stuart and his brothers and sisters also failed to find anything by simple searching. But thanks to sufficient manpower, after controlling the police station loyal to Dolores, although they failed to capture the armed policemen who fled into the palace at the last moment, the pawns on Salhi II's side are quite In order to eliminate all the powers of Dolores outside the palace.
This was actually expected a long time ago. After all, Jenkins only has three chess pieces, and even two of the princesses are just beautiful decorations.
Before the end of this round, the vanguard of the kingdom's garrison army appeared on the edge of Loen City, which represented the complete entry of this force. They appear on the board as white stars, which presumably represent neutrality.
At the same time, the envoys sent by His Highness the Great Prince successfully contacted them, but they have not yet returned to the prince.
The night shrouded Nolan, because the Nolan clock tower was destroyed, so he heard the unfamiliar bell. But there is also a wall clock in the room now, and as the wall clock strikes the twelfth, it represents the beginning of the second half of the night, and it also represents a peaceful chess game, and finally war will start.
"Soon the messenger will return to Salot and bring him the terms of the Northern Legion. Salot promised to let the army enter the city and promise not to interfere with the army's actions in the city. But in exchange, the Legion must Lend him some men to siege the palace."
As soon as Salhi II finished speaking, the eldest princess who was beating her back behind him couldn't help but sigh.
"Annie, do you have anything to say?"
The king asked about his daughter.
"You know your brother well and what he's going to do."
Yani Stuart responded.
"Yes, Salot will definitely do it."
Salhi had a look of disappointment on his face. He was originally mentally ill due to physical reasons. Speaking with this expression at the moment, it seemed that this man was old and fragile.
"Salot gave up blocking the northern army from entering the city. After leaving the necessary manpower to patrol the city, he will lead his army to surround the palace and ask Dolores to surrender. After receiving a refusal, he will send the The steam cannons found in the armory were mobilized."
Even a small-caliber steam cannon cannot be easily moved. Therefore, at the end of this round, Salote might not be able to see the weapon outside the palace, which bought some time for Dolores.
"I'm curious, can the eldest prince really give orders to bombard the palace?"
Jenkins wondered.
Sarkhi II didn't speak, so the eldest princess explained for her father:
"Brother is a decisive person who is good at making decisions. Although he is not a bad person, when faced with trade-offs, he can always make decisions that best suit the status quo."
This is not disparaging, the princess's comments are still neutral. Jenkins shook his head:
"It's good to just say cruel and merciless. I like simpler adjectives."
Seeing that Salhi II wanted to speak, Jenkins said again:
"I know that history is always written by the winners, and the cruel winners will be packaged by the history books as being decisive, but fate forces him to make those disgusting choices; the indecisive winners will be packaged as benevolent by the history books." A good sage, facing choices, can give up interests and choose sensibility... This is the interestingness of history."
"That's what I want to tell you too."
Salhi II said to the three princesses again, looking at Jenkins with more inquiring eyes:
"I'm curious, you obviously don't understand the unspoken rules of the upper class, why do you know this knowledge that is even less accessible to ordinary people? Oh, I don't believe you have read how to become an emperor or how to overthrow an empire in the Church of the Sages book, I know of no one who has written such knowledge."
"I just happened to hear the whisper from the void."
Jenkins replied softly, but his face was also a little lonely. Although he knew that it was impossible to return to the past world. Except for Li Gan and a few friends in the past world, there was nothing worthy of his concern, but it was his hometown after all.
Chocolate noticed Jenkins' mood and tapped his tail on the back of his hand as comfort. Jenkins smiled at his cat, knowing that the world already has people and cats he needs to miss.
"So are you going to use the prop?"
He asked the opposite king who also looked lonely.
"Yes."
What Salhi II took out this time was a silver table knife, of ordinary style, if it was thrown on the knife holder in the kitchen, it would not be different from normal tableware at all from the outside.
"Cutlery is used to cut food, but who is not food to the whole world?"
Salhi II sighed softly, holding the table knife and gently placing it on the edge of the chessboard:
"This is a weapon that will protect my son Sallot Stuart, and he will use this weapon only when his life is threatened. This weapon can easily cut through any metal, break through any armor."
Knowing his son's character, Salhi II restricted the use of table knives. As for the original purpose of the table knife, Jenkins couldn't tell what it was because the appearance was really not distinctive. But its original effect should not be very strong, otherwise the effect given to it in the game by Salxi II would not be just "extra sharp".
"You finally started sending weapons."
Jenkins sighed.
"You can give it too, I don't mind."
The king of the north answered.
"You know that it is impossible for me to carry a weapon on my body when I come to see you."
"But I know that you bestowers have many ways to hide weapons. Let me see, will you reach into your trouser pocket and take out an arm-long sword?"