Time moved forward slowly in minutes, and the nobles became quiet again. Veronica took a map from Sidney and marked several areas on it with stones and branches:
"December Square and the surrounding area are full of rioting people. Every street from the south gate to the east gate is blocked by them. In the south of Queens, when we passed there, we noticed that there were a few guards on duty. The advancing crowd confronted each other. In short, these places are not suitable for passing."
As she gestured, she explained:
"After entering the inner city, there are guards guarded by the imperial guards. Even if there is a problem with the patrol cavalry and the city guards, the troops directly under the imperial royal family will perform their duties. There are also a small number of temple monks stationed in the Flame Warlord. High-level forces penetrate, and it is impossible to disintegrate their combat effectiveness in a short time."
She looked back at Brando and asked, "How sure are you?"
Brando shook his head and told the truth: "Nothing in Chengdu."
The night wind blew across the hills and through the woods, making the corners of the map rustle, and the branches of the stones on it were scattered all over the ground. Everyone present felt the deep cold throughout the night.
Veronica didn't care about the map, and it didn't make any sense anyway. She looked at the young Eruin with a look of disdain, as if the answer to this question should have been.
The female army commander said in a harmonious voice: "Then at least avoid the rioting people, they might be your help."
"I'm afraid it will be difficult," Baron Homez said at this moment. He is the eldest son of Grand Duke Malia and Faina's elder brother. This is a young man with good facial features, thick eyebrows and big eyes. He has the upright spirit of a soldier: "The current riots are far less than the records of 23 years ago, not to mention the turmoil of the year of change, I am afraid it is difficult to have the inner city Affected."
The others in the room were silent, and obviously they didn't appreciate the opportunities brought about by the turmoil. But Brando didn't think it was that simple. It would be fine if the rioting people were behind the shadows of all things coming together for a while, but the tree shepherds rarely returned empty-handed, and once they started, they would definitely have an attempt.
However, he did not express his thoughts. He knew that in this era, it is difficult for the nobles to distinguish the factions between the cultists. Even the insightful people like Veronica often put her husband on the tree. People and everything are conflated.
He could tell the difference, but he couldn't explain why he knew so carefully about the cultists. This is a very taboo topic, so he just kept silent.
As calm as Brando, I’m afraid there is only the old prime minister Niedervin, the man who once stunned everyone in the empire, and became taciturn again. He didn’t say anything about everyone’s discussion. Just watching quietly from the side, but full of energy, as if not afraid of this cold night, his squinted eyes are always shining brightly.
The little Nedervin who was next to the old Nedervin hesitated for a moment before she said: "Your Majesty has known for a long time that there are infidels agitating the people behind her back. She doesn't care about it, I'm afraid it is to kill others."
It is said that it is a little Neder, but the current imperial prime minister is actually more than sixty years old. According to the life span of the people of Vaughan, he is also entering middle age. Although he cannot be a new queen, he is finally in the end. At the moment when he retired from the political position, the understanding and speculation of the Queen’s political intentions can be said to be the most authoritative among the people present.
"The Banker area is politically unstable, and killing is indeed the best way." Veronica nodded.
Only Brando frowned. As a person from the civilized world, the topic of slaughter of civilians still made him somewhat unacceptable, although he understood that such a topic was nothing to the nobles.
In nature, social animals often consume their own populations to reach a balance with nature, and humans are the same, whether through war or internal friction, especially in times when expansion is difficult.
The root cause of the turmoil in the empire's heart was still that the supply line was cut off, and the war between Metz and the south of the Evergreen Aisle seemed to be difficult to end for a while, and it would only take a long time to reduce the population that consumes food.
"Master Niedervan, what do you think?"
Veronica cast her gaze at the old prime minister who was aside.
The old Niedervan sighed: "A few years ago, Her Majesty was not like this either."
Brando was stunned. He didn't expect that the former prime minister of the empire would say such a sentence. Others were the same, but the old prime minister's words evoked older nobles-such as the Grand Duke of Mechotofin. Memories.
"Indeed," the latter nodded: "It is indeed unexpected that your Majesty will become what it is today."
"How was your Majesty before?" Brando asked suddenly.
It wasn't that his curiosity burst out suddenly, but he realized that the sudden insertion of Old Niederwen into this topic might be meaningful.
"Captain Veronica should have a memory."
Veronica stunned for a moment, and then nodded slightly: "His Majesty was called the most kind princess in the empire, but that was already a matter of her princess era."
"I remember clearly," the Grand Duke of Mehhothoven laughed: "At that time we were studying aristocratic etiquette together at the Griffins Royal Academy. Her Royal Highness often talked about the future and ideals with us young people. Of course, she was most concerned about the future and ideals. It was the status of the empire, but at that time she believed that the Cruz people did not have to go through war, but also through business and development to gain prosperity and power..."
"Yes, I was a staunch opposition at that time," Veronica couldn't help but laughed, as if remembering the youthful age of the past: "I am about the same age as the princess, every time She can be half to death by her innocence, but the princess at that time is indeed too far from the present. She is especially concerned about business, hoping to return to glory through the expansion of the Black Forest and the trade ties within the civilization. The second prosperous period of civilization in the past 20 years."
Hearing this, Brando couldn't help touching his nose, wondering how this strategy was familiar.
"To be honest," the female army commander's tone couldn't help lowering: "I actually agree with her now, but her method of splitting the empire is beyond my tolerance, and she took action against the princes and violated the nobles. game rules."
At this time, Brando suddenly realized that she knew too little about Her Majesty the Queen of this empire. In another period of history, she was just a transitional figure. The period when she ruled the empire was an era when the two great emperors inherited the past. And it exists.
The well-known Silver Queen is Constance on the highest throne. It is the most peaceful period of the empire. The whole world is peaceful. The only memorable thing is the third holy war. Unfortunately, this holy war is destined to be the next larger scale. The huge war was a footnote, which was already the experience of another legendary emperor.
As for the princess era of the queen, and even the history of her girlhood, little is known.
Brando is the same, he found that his understanding of the time of the Queen's Princess was limited to a few words of Tulaman's description.
Why has she changed so much before and after
Brando suddenly remembered a conversation at that time and couldn't help muttering to herself subconsciously: "... Then what did she see in that seal except for crystallization?"
Old Nidevin suddenly raised his head, looked at Brando shrewdly, and then shook his head.
"No one knows, but I have a guess."
The two of them were playing a dumb riddle, and the others were confused, but only Brando could understand that the problem was back to the original point.
This is a question that even Tulaman is vague, but the old man in front of him told him:
I have a guess—
He froze for a moment, and immediately stared at the former prime minister of the empire.
The old man was silent for a while before he spoke: "I heard a saying that someone had seen her Royal Highness bring back a baby girl from there."
"what?"
"From the crystal."
Brando understood it at once and realized that the key to the problem was the baby girl.
The old prime minister stopped talking and looked around for a week. The Duke of Mehthofen and Nidevon immediately understood and found excuses to retire. Only Baron Homez was a little confused about the situation, but he was immediately dragged by his sister. gone.
Faina gave Brando anxiously when she left.
Veronica was also preparing to retire, but was kept by the old prime minister.
"You stay, commander of the legion, you are also the party involved," he said: "In the past, I doubted this statement. I suspected that someone was deliberately spreading rumors. But after witnessing what Her Majesty the Queen has done over the past few decades, I have What we understand."
Neither Brando nor Veronica interjected. They understood that what the old prime minister wanted to say next was the point.
Sure enough, the old prime minister replied slowly:
"... I suspect that the baby girl is a newborn."
"What is a nascent species?" Veronica asked in a puzzled way.
Brando pressed the stormy waves in his heart, recalled the documents he had seen in the past, and explained to the female army commander: "There are many sayings about the nascent species, but the Buga believe that the greatest possibility is pure blood... "
"Shenmin?"
"It's not a god, but a pure-blooded god. Min'er is also a descendant of a thin-blooded god-minded. Odin, the dark dragon, is also a god-minded. But the true pure-blooded god-minded people of the previous generation are only the Azure knights."
The old prime minister nodded slowly from the side: "Mr. Earl knows more in detail than I do, so the azure knight in the Epic of Blue is also a nascent species."
"Why is there a newborn girl on the final battlefield?"
"I don't know this, maybe it is the offspring of Odin and the Queen of Witch."
"It's impossible," Brando shook his head. "The blood of the people of God is thin from generation to generation. Only the descendants of Odin and the Witch Queen can be Miner." He paused, then asked, "Need. Your lord, why do you think so?"
The old prime minister was silent, as if hesitating, but in the end he made up his mind to speak: "Few people know that the princess once issued an oath of virginity after the holy war. Of course, this is a secret. It's Vala."
"Later, Her Majesty the Queen married the Duke of Olsen. Seven years later, the Duke was assassinated by a cult on his way to the Metz area and died. During this time, Her Majesty gave birth to seven princes and three princesses. I thought All this passed... But then I suddenly figured out the joints in it, and after being suspicious, I quietly asked Vala to prove that Her Majesty the Queen never broke her oath."
"what!?"
Brando and Veronica couldn't help making noises, they had never heard anything more bizarre than this.
"The prince and princesses?"
The old prime minister nodded: "Since then, I have begun to doubt. On the one hand, I declared my seclusion on the one hand and stopped interrogating the internal affairs of the empire. On the other hand, I investigated secretly and finally found some clues. I discovered the queen in the past ten years. Your Majesty has been secretly supporting some well-known alchemists. She wiped out the dark followers of East Metz and imprisoned Mayad, in fact, all for the sake of getting the blood of the god in the hands of the tree shepherd."
"You mean..."
"I suspect that Her Majesty the Queen is trying to reproduce the nascent species. Those princes and princesses are her masterpieces. Of course, she claims that these children are her own. Her marriage to the Duke of Olsen has also become a good cover, but the facts are There has long been suspicion in God's empire, after all, Her Majesty's body doesn't look like a fertile woman."
"Wait." Brando suddenly got a little creepy, he couldn't help but wonder if it was said that the next Great Cruz of the Cruz was a cyborg? But he immediately realized that the eldest son of the empire was an exception, because that was the son of the elder brother Constance. She won the throne from her elder brother, so she would eventually return the throne to the blood of the elder brother. It was also one of the promises made by the Silver Queen to the dragon and the empire's prince.
"Nothing." He waved his hand, indicating that he was thinking too much.
The two looked at him strangely, but did not question.
But Brando thought of another question, "Since Her Majesty is trying to reproduce the nascent species, what is her intention? Where did the nascent species that she brought back from the final battlefield gone?"
He raised this question, but the old prime minister shook his head: "I don’t know, let’s not say how pure blood gods can be reproduced by mortal powers. I don’t know why Her Majesty the Queen is so obsessed, but the new born. It didn’t fall into her hands in the end."
"what?"
"I happened to investigate this incident. The existence of the child was artificially concealed, and only a few people knew of her existence. And among the three parties involved, I found a person named Pamid Andortel. Sir, it’s a pity that I was a step late. By the time I found him, this gentleman had been summoned by the Lord to go ahead. I spent a lot of money to buy all the notes from his life from his widow. During this, I learned the truth of the matter."
"I can be sure, Mr. Earl, your grandfather helped the princess at the time to cover up this incident, and the baby girl was finally taken away by a woman named Gloria. This woman is not from the Empire—and I went the wrong way at first. I thought she was closely related to your grandfather. At one time, she wasted a lot of time on this, but found nothing. Then I changed my mind and looked into the people around your grandfather. Only then did I find out that this woman was originally She was once your father’s fiancée, and in the royal family tree of the Kingdom of Eruin, there happened to be a princess by this name."
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