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The silver-gray giant dragon in the twelve realms was defeated by Qingyun's sword.
Hundreds of flying dragons on Tianyue Mountain, including the Dragon King's ninth son, Offlander, all died in the hands of Lide.
The Great Formation of Protecting the Nation was repaired by Black and White and several other city lords.
The rest of the remnants of the dragon clan were also suppressed by the white guards who stayed behind in the capital.
So far, the most dangerous alien invasion that mankind has encountered in recent decades has been subsided.
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Hearing that the Dragon Clan hiccupped, the king stopped mobilizing the army and swaggered back to the capital with his guards.
After staying in the temporary palace built on the ruins, he sat on the slightly crude throne with peace of mind, and began to meet and comfort all parties who had paid a heavy price in this war.
According to the king, in this war, everyone is doing his job. Relying on his wise decision-making, His Majesty the King successfully kept the three major powers of the Imperial Guard Army, Jin Yiwei and Tiance Mansion.
... In fact, the only role played by these three major powers is to allow the king to still control the ruling and opposition parties when he returns to the capital, and firmly hold the core power in his hands. So the ministers sang the song of victory for His Majesty the King, and praised His Majesty for keeping "the fire of mankind, the important banner, and the last hope for a comeback" for them. There is no way, the three major organizations with a cloud of experts stand beside the king, no matter how much grievance and dissatisfaction the rest of the people have, they can only swallow it in their stomachs, turning into licking dogs and blowing it upside down.
But the matter of running away is not so easy to cover up.
The king still holds the scepter and sits on the supreme throne, but his prestige is not as good as before.
On the contrary, Umi, who led the white-clothed guards to guard the capital, ruthlessly gained a wave of reputation.
Of course, the king was not reconciled to being stared at with strange eyes like this. After he sat down firmly, he quickly issued a series of royal orders—
For example, the late great swordsman Qingyun was awarded the title of "Protecting the Country for a Thousand Years", and a tomb was built for him in the bamboo forest. The bamboo grove had been completely destroyed, but the small wooden house where Qing Yun lived was lucky enough to stay. The Clothes Tomb was also built in the backyard of the house.
For another example, a round of strict investigations was conducted on the original ten ministers and ten generals. Although the leaders Graham and Tamros died, their relatives were still there, and the king ordered the execution of their nine clans. The few remaining ministers who participated were all sentenced to death and ransacked their homes, including the leader of the civil servants, Abile, who said he would take it down, and all his beautiful robes were directly stripped.
King Xi was supposed to be executed Ling Chi too, but King Xi himself had no bones left, so he was only given a punishment of [not to be buried in the royal tomb].
For another example, Jin Ling, the general of the Tiance Mansion, was convicted and sent to prison for multiple crimes such as "ineffective supervision" and "suspected treason". This is also the highest-level order issued by the king himself.
Many people in the capital were against Jin Ling. At that time, King Xi threatened the king to imprison Jin Ling, and took advantage of the chaos to destroy the eyes of the national defense formation. That's why the Dragon Clan invaded. In the whole process, Jin Ling was the one who was completely cheated. Now pulling him out to take the blame, no matter how you look at it, it is a bit unkind.
But who made Jin Ling the titular General of the Tiance Mansion, and what happened was the National Defense Array under the supervision of his Tiance Mansion? When the blame is really thrown to him, he still has to continue.
Many people also speculated that Jin Ling's imprisonment was the king's defense against Umi. Baiyi Qingxiang originally had a lot of power, and Jin Ling, the general of Tiance's mansion, belonged to him. In the past, the king might not have cared much about it, but now Umi's reputation has risen, and the king has begun to consciously trim Umi's wings up.
These are all familiar to the king.
The only troublesome thing is that five city lords died this time.
Two of them died when they followed Hei and Bai to repair the formation, and three died in the hands of the Dragon Clan while running away. The king held a memorial service for these five people, presided over it himself, and put all the accounts on the Dragon Clan. But it's hard to say whether the lords of those five territories will accept the king's blame theory. After all, most of the city lords who came to the capital this time were appointed heirs of various families, and they spent a lot of effort to cultivate them. If they died in the capital for this reason, there must be some lords who could not swallow this breath.
There are many winds and waves in the back.
If the death of the city lord made the king feel a little difficult, then the fact that the little princess Lanna returned to the capital made the king feel extremely shocked. In his thinking, his own daughter should have no bones left.
He clearly remembered that when he saw Lanna outside the palace, his eyes widened uncontrollably, and his face was hot again and again, and he didn't know how to face his daughter.
Instead, the little princess Lanna said softly:
"I'm back ~ father."
The king hugged Lanna and kept kissing her cheeks. In order to make up for it, he made Lanna's biological mother the new queen.
"Nana, be good, tell me, how did you get back?"
When no one was around, the king gently held Lanna's hand and asked in a low voice.
Lanna raised her head, blinked her eyes, and replied:
"Lanna didn't know either. At that time, the room was dark. When Lanna came out of the room, there was a lot of blood outside. Lanna kept running, kept running, and then passed out. Wake up When I came here, I was lying on a carriage. The driver said that someone came to him behind Lanna’s back, and asked him to take Lanna back to the capital to find her father. When she arrived in the capital, Lanna got out of the carriage, and the driver left. "
The king asked again:
"Where are those flying dragons at Moon Mountain that day?"
Lanna shook her head and said:
"Lana doesn't know."
The king narrowed his eyes, thought for a while, and suddenly his expression brightened, he touched Lanna's head with a smile, and said:
"Don't talk about it."
Lanna nodded obediently.
The king asked Lanna if there was anything she wanted. Lanna raised her head and made two requests with tears in her eyes. One is that she hopes to play outside the palace occasionally, and the other is that she hopes to delay her engagement and marriage for a while .
"Lanna doesn't want to go anywhere, Lanna just wants to be with her father."
The king, Longyan Dayue, fully agreed to Lanna's little request. Said that unless Lanna fell in love with a boy, she would never force her in marriage. Lanna happily kissed the king on the cheek, and then skipped out the door. The moment she went out, the cold wind blew past, Lanna's body trembled, and the happy smile on her face withered away bit by bit.
She wrapped her clothes tightly, and when the king was not paying attention, she turned around and made a face at him quietly, and ran away alone.
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At this moment, the frozen soil in the far northeast.
The Dragon King who was resting in the cave suddenly opened his eyes.