at the same time.
The most central location of the palace, in the king's palace.
Palace, bedroom.
In the huge bedroom with an area of nearly 60 square meters, numerous candles and oil lamps were lit, and the lights were bright. This light did not bring much life, and even in this hot summer night, the whole room was still obviously eerie and cold.
A gorgeous wooden bed is placed in the middle of the bedroom, as lonely as a canoe drifting in the ocean. Lying on the bed was a wrinkled old man, the king of the Blue Lion Kingdom—Donners Austin.
At this time, Tangnus's face was pale, and his exposed skin was a strange black color, and some places were still rotten. Even after being smeared with ointment, there was still a faint fishy smell.
A thin quilt was covering his body, his chest was heaving, and he was breathing hard through his mouth and nose. The vitality of the sleeping King Tanners seemed weaker than the candlelight flickering next to him.
Sudden!
"Cough-cough!"
King Donnas suddenly woke up from his sleep, opened his eyes, and felt a sense of suffocation. A mouthful of thick phlegm sealed his throat, making him want to cough but couldn't, and his face turned red from holding it back. Under the loose skin, blood vessels bulged, and he struggled to sit up, trying to attract the attention of others so that he could help him.
But the two guards standing at the door of the bedroom seemed to be deaf, allowing His Majesty the King to hammer the bed, making a "bang bang" sound, and stood motionless. Under the flickering candlelight outside, the shadows of the two people were cast on the ground inside the bedroom door, slightly distorted, like the souls struggling after being seduced by the devil.
"Bang bang, cough!"
King Downers continued to hammer the bed, his fists clenched, his joints turning white, veins popping out at his temples, and his eyes widening to their maximum size. His mouth was open, but he couldn't breathe any air, like a fish swept ashore by wind and waves.
As a result, at this moment, King Donnas suddenly felt a heavy blow on his back, as if he had been beaten by someone. His whole body shook suddenly, his throat relaxed, and the blocked phlegm suddenly coughed out and fell to the ground.
"Puff, puff, puff..."
Downers began to breathe heavily, his chest heaving violently, making the sound of a broken bellows being pulled.
At this time, the two guards outside the bedroom door finally heard the noise and stepped to come in. However, a figure was faster than them, it was the palace steward-Delong. The other party had been waiting outside the bedroom. Because he was too old, he couldn't hold on and dozed off. After being awakened by the sound in the bedroom, he quickly ran in to see what was going on.
When he found that Downers was sitting up, tilting his body and gasping for breath, and there was still sticky saliva in his mouth, which was dripping on the quilt, Butler Delong immediately understood the reason.
He walked up and patted Donnas gently on the back, causing him to cough again and cough up the remaining phlegm in his throat. He helped the other party wipe his mouth with a handkerchief, and then asked carefully: "Your Majesty, are you okay?"
"Fortunately... Phew... I'm not dead yet." Downers said while panting.
"Then... you continue to rest?"
"Forget it, now that I wake up, I'm afraid I won't be able to sleep again that night." Donnas waved his hand, his pale face suffering from the strange disease was particularly obvious at this moment, and he said, "Why don't you talk to me? How are my two sons, William and Richard, doing recently? They haven’t caused any trouble, right?"
"No." Butler Delong shook his head and said, "The two princes are very good. His Royal Highness Prince William took the initiative to reduce the expenses of the palace, saying that he would find a doctor for your majesty to treat your illness. Yesterday morning, His Royal Highness the eldest prince also saw Your Majesty, but His Majesty finally fell asleep at that time and did not dare to wake Him up, so His Highness the Prince went back. He also reminded me not to tell Your Majesty, so as not to disappoint Your Majesty. "
"Well, William is pretty good." Downers nodded and then asked, "What about Richard?"
"The second prince, His Highness Richard..." Butler Delong hesitated slightly and said, "His Royal Highness Richard is also very concerned about His Majesty, but he has been busy recently, so..."
"So, since you came here last time, you don't care about me anymore, right?" Donnas said, slowly closing his eyes, as if to calm down.
"Your Majesty..." Steward Delong said slowly, "Maybe His Highness Richard is still angry with you. After all, you did blame him wrongly for that incident a few years ago..."
Donnas opened his eyes, remained silent for a while, and said slowly: "I was indeed impulsive about that matter, but if he didn't do those miscellaneous things related to wizards, how could I misunderstand it? Since that matter has already If it happens, what can I do? Do I, the king of a kingdom, have to apologize to him and ask for his forgiveness? Moreover, even if I apologize to him, I doubt whether he can accept it!" At the end of the sentence, Downers said There was a bit of sullenness on his face.
"Your Majesty, calm down." Steward Delong said quickly, "Of course, Your Majesty cannot apologize to His Highness Richard, but it is still possible to punish those who contributed to the trouble. It is said that the original news came from an attendant in the Palace of His Highness Prince William. 's, and then..."
"Don't mention this matter." Donnas waved his hand. "William has explained the reason to me in detail before. It is not the servant's problem at all. I made a mistake a few years ago. Could it be that In order to make up for one mistake, don't you have to make another mistake
Richard... Just accept it if he feels wronged. I'm his father! I can’t, for the sake of fairness, I will chill William’s heart again. You should know that I am very optimistic about William. Whether it is his demeanor or his methods of doing things, he is far better than the young me. I believe that if the Blue Lion Kingdom is handed over to him, it will definitely become stronger, and as the next king, he must not be stained.
As for Richard, he has been wronged, and he will let William make it up to him when the time comes. Give him the best territory, exempt from taxes, and let him live his life freely. After all, Richard, a kid, had no interest in rights from the beginning. Instead, he studied all kinds of weird things. This was in line with his wishes and was the best choice. After giving him such a result, his anger should be gone, right? "
"Well, yes." Butler Delong did not dare to refute, but said with twinkling eyes, "It's just your Majesty, isn't it a little early for you to say this now?"
"Ha." Donnas laughed, and after seeing through Butler Delong's thoughts, he said, "Don't worry, I know the condition of my body. Although I am tortured by this strange disease and my body is getting worse day by day, I still won't die for the time being. . By the way, when the leaves of the birch forest outside the city turn yellow in autumn, I still want to visit it."
"Well, that's good, that's good." Butler Delong said repeatedly, not knowing what he was thinking of, and his expression was a bit complicated.
Donners was in the middle of a conversation and didn't notice anything wrong with Butler Delon, so he continued talking.
Amid the conversation, a candle burned in the corner of the bedroom. The candle wick burned longer and longer, making a crackling sound, and the candle flame gradually became unstable. Suddenly, an invisible force appeared, the candle wick was cut off, and the candle flame became stable again.
Neither Downers nor Deron in the bedroom noticed this, nor did they notice a pair of invisible eyes slowly leaving the palace and rising into the sky.
…
Late at night, the night is dark. The night sky is filled with bright stars.
An invisible transparent belt floats in the air. One end is connected to Richard who is sitting cross-legged in the palace and bedroom in the northwest of the palace, and the other end is connected to Richard's consciousness flying in the air.
The energy projected by the stars spreads out in the form of points of light of various colors.
Richard stretched out his conscious body and began to absorb and absorb this huge energy. Although the absorbed energy cannot be stored before "opening up the source of the law", it can help him become familiar with this step and exercise the intensity of his mental power.
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