At this time, I opened my eyes in a crystal ball on a walnut desk. Those eyes looked at Grand Duke Vieiro not far away, with a self-evident smile. meaning.
"It looks like the age of your excellency is over," it said with a teasing voice: "But this is just the beginning. Sooner or later, your granddaughter will take back all your powers, and there will be no more in this kingdom. Nobles, the royal family will dominate the family. The Corkova family has stolen the crown from the Sifah family. Now they are repeating their old tricks and are about to take power aggressively from you."
"Shut up!" Duke Vieiro furiously lifted the table, and there was a loud noise. Everything on the desk fell on the carpet. The loud noise made the maid outside the door shiver, and the crystal ball Gu Lulu rolled to the corner, then stopped.
The eyes on the crystal ball still looked at Duke Vieiro with a pitying smile.
"Your Excellency is old and will soon become a dying old man. You still have some power in your hands, but as your brain gradually degenerates, even your subordinates dare to act against you. Your daughter is just It’s just one of the beginnings. She was self-willed, but her majesty was originally photographed on you. She failed to show this potential ambition. But soon you will find that you can’t suppress anyone’s ambition. Even those humble untouchables dare to fool you between applause."
"Enough." Although Duke Vieiro understood that the other party was just talking nonsense, he panicked from the bottom of his heart.
The eyes on the crystal ball didn't mean to stop. The bewitching voice continued: "And soon, you will lose even your power. By then, you are just a bad old man who has lost the value of use. .You will find that all family affection and loyalty are nothing but lies. All of them will leave you, leaving you alone here waiting for the dead. You know, these sweet talks and blooming scenes around you , It’s just based on your power and power. Those untouchables still want to embezzle your wealth in private, not to mention when you lose your binding force on them? Think about it, don’t wait until there is no bones left. Regret it again when you are here."
"... Ouni, she won't leave me."
"Really, even if your daughter really loves you, she will marry someday. Your daughter has fallen in love with another man, and she will leave you soon and fall into that man’s arms. Until then, can she still care for you?"
"It sounds good..." Vieiro said coldly: "But in the end, you people are not the same as trying. You don't want me to get along with you guys."
"Haha," the voice in the crystal ball sounded terrible, and it sarcastically said: "In that case, you should have thrown this crystal ball out a long time ago, but you think twice, don't you still keep it. I understand the nobles. We are all good at leaving at least one back path for ourselves. Your Excellency is no exception. In this case, we can't sit down and negotiate, right? You must give us a chance to make a price."
The look on Duke Vieiro’s face was unpredictable for a while, he seemed to show a look of struggle, but finally began to speak: "If you try to harm the interests of Eruin and Vieiro, then you should avoid speaking. Griffin is at least my granddaughter, I can't stand on the opposite side of her."
After saying this, the Lord Duke seemed to relax his whole person, as if he had relieved his heavy burden.
The eyes in the crystal ball smile more intensely.
"You know very well who we are, how could we be interested in a small Eruin, of course, we don't care whether your granddaughter is dead or alive-it's not offensive, but we don't like to lie around. But since You mentioned that, then we don’t have to do something to your granddaughter. It’s always good to have fewer deaths, right?”
"Then what do you want to do?" Duke Vieiro asked nonchalantly. He is no longer a young and vigorous age, and he will no longer easily believe other people's words.
"It's very simple," the voice replied, "We know very well why Eru became what he is now, nothing more than someone who shouldn't show up—"
"Do you want to take action against the Cardiloso family?" Duke Vieiro said categorically, "That's impossible."
He stared at the eyes on the crystal ball. If the other party wanted the Vieiro family to collide with the Highlander and kill someone with a knife, it was a wrong idea.
But the eyes on the crystal ball didn’t care and continued, “Listen to me, Lord Duke, why should we shoot Darus’ grandson? It’s not in our interest, but the Lord really cares. Is it possible to gain or lose a place in Eru? With his kind of hero, even in the Cruz Empire, he has a place, how can he focus on a small kingdom."
"What are you trying to say?"
"You should be aware that the real influence on the princess is actually the little people around him, those lowly "new favorites of the nobility" from Tonigel, if they can't get the favor of the princess, they are in the king. There is no status at all in the country."
"You know what those people are. Some of them were originally from untouchables. Mercenaries and adventurers are the most despicable group of people in this kingdom. They grabbed you under the banner of the grandson of the sword saint of the earth. The power that should have been obtained tried to turn this once glorious kingdom into a degenerate kingdom of demons dancing."
"Think about it, would Darus' grandson really condone such people? Was Eruin like this before he left the kingdom? Everything happened after he left the kingdom, now the Lord Earl After missing, his original subordinates were even more unscrupulous, and even dared to flirt with the nobles in the north."
"Master Duke, can you tolerate all this?"
"Huh," Duke Vieiro recovered his calm at this time. He sarcastically said, "So, you didn't come here all the way to help us?"
"Hehe," the eyes in the crystal ball smiled: "Master Duke, we are not children anymore. These high-sounding words are too boring to say, I just tell you one possibility. Of course, we also have our purpose. , But at this point, our interests are the same. Those courtiers from Tonigel can influence the eldest princess of Eruin, and as her grandfather, why can't you also try to influence her? "
Duke Vieiro was startled slightly and frowned.
"There is no tension in between, and there is no need to offend anyone. You are just trying to make your granddaughter listen more to what you say. This is also human nature, isn't it. Besides, everyone uses their own methods. Did you surrender without a fight and withdraw from the political arena of the kingdom?"
"What are you going to do?" Duke Vieiro asked after a long silence.
"We provide you with the necessary resources," the voice replied: "It can be funds, manpower, intelligence or even advice. With these things, you can regain influence within the kingdom, at least not being squeezed out. Eruin’s political power center. Even we can let the powerful wizards in this world cast those powerful and extraordinary spells on you, rejuvenate your body, and bring your body back to its peak. Moment, let your territory crawl under your feet again."
"What good is it for you to do this?"
"It is difficult for you to understand the benefits we have, but you should be very clear that we have been secretly trying to bring this world under our control. This is our most important purpose, but this kind of control has no effect on you. So we can have common interests."
The Duke of Vieiro was silent.
This is an answer that is not on one level. If another person tells him this answer, he might not believe it. But he knows who the people behind the crystal ball are. In the past history, what they did seems to have proved their words.
This answer is not reassuring, but he also understands that as a mortal, he only needs to care about the interests in front of him-if the two sides are not intertwined, it is better.
I have to say that his heart is moved, especially the last point, no one does not want to stay young forever. After a long time, Duke Vieiro said silently:
"Then what do I need to do?"
…
Griffith silently stared at the girl in front of him.
To be precise, it was just a little girl. The little girl had beautiful blonde curly hair, especially in her ears. The fluffy curly hair was tied into two bunches of playful and gorgeous ponytails, with a thin layer on the front of her forehead. The bangs can't cover her bright blue eyes like the sea. The girl seemed to be full of vitality all over her body. Although her every move embodies the best royal etiquette, her slender body is also tied under the seemingly tight long skirt, but she still gives people a feeling from the bones. Gives an impression of restlessness.
Perhaps it was the curiosity and cunning hidden in those eyes that gave all the people who saw this little girl for the first time, such a sense.
The golden sunlight penetrated the upper plant curtain of Valhalla's Holy Palace, and fine dust floating in the air fell on the little princess of Westfah.
This was the first time Griffin had met his cousin who was a distant relative in name.
Since the Sifah family and the Corcovado family quarreled, she has gradually estranged from Levin Onesson. Princess Chiara was born after that, and she naturally had never seen each other.
But even so, her familiar ice blue eyes still made her feel familiar.
Especially Qiara quickly narrowed the distance between the two with an unusual opening.
"You are the famous princess, my other sister in name?"
"You are so beautiful, sister Griffin."
Qiara's milky voice still makes it hard to notice her little devilish side, and the half-elf girl almost instantly regards her cousin's sister as a child with innocence.
She didn't notice the sly color flashing through the other's eyes.