The King's Follower [Rebirth]

Sure enough, just as Edward had thought before, the king had already set up a net of heaven and earth, and before the queen and others could react, he had already caught them all.

The patriarch of the Ablos family, the Duke of Parma didn't know what happened when he was arrested. He couldn't possibly imagine that Edward's life experience was exposed. Torn face with them before William became an adult.So, when he saw his old enemy coming to arrest him in person, he arrested him tenaciously, even transformed into a beast, and had a good fight with him, destroying the entire garden and blasting off the side of the mansion.

The lieutenant general who came to carry out the arrest task finally pushed the Duke of Parma to the ground, tied the iron chain engraved with the magic circle that can restrict the transformation and the flow of elements around his neck, and looked at Parma who was forced to restore his human form. Duke Erma lay on the ground in pain. He sneered and said, "You dare to confuse the royal family lineage, you are waiting to be hanged in St. Anthony's Square!"

Before dinner, the entire Ablos family was "invited" into the Black Tower, and the queen was no exception. The various forces attached to the Ablos family immediately fell apart. However, the king had expected such a thing to happen a long time ago, and sent heavy troops to guard the city gate. After nightfall, he captured a few lackeys who had defected to the Ablos family, and sent those with noble status to the Black Tower. The rich businessmen and military officers who fished in troubled waters were sent to prisons with poor conditions, waiting for the results of the investigation.However, everyone already knew that this matter must not be good, and the Ablos family might be wiped out this time.

As the son of the Duke of Parma, August was also imprisoned in the Black Tower for investigation.However, there were two crown princes as guarantors, and Auguste gave a lot of information very readily, and made a lot of contributions to the king's removal of the queen's power, so he was quickly acquitted and returned to the court When he came to the crown prince, he continued to serve as the crown prince's valet.

After solving the queen and the Abros family, the king issued an announcement the next day, stating that William is indeed the real crown prince. He announced the blood test results of Edward and himself, proving that Edward and himself are not father-son, regardless of whether Edward is the queen or not. Naturally, such an act of confusing royal blood is treason enough to behead.In addition, the king also announced the marriage letter between himself and William's biological mother, Miss Margaret of the Letterman family, and made Miss Margaret the queen, and sent someone to grandly transport the new queen's coffin to St. Lyman cathedral, where mass was celebrated for nine days, and then reburied in the royal cemetery.

In order to prevent the queen's power in other parts of the empire from dying, taking advantage of the chaos to counterattack and threatening the safety and stability of the empire, the king secretly issued a wartime alert and stepped up patrols in various places.And Edward and August also took advantage of this opportunity, relying on the memories of their previous lives, dispatched their own forces, and successfully took advantage of the chaos to subdue several families.Of course, they couldn't do too much, and left half of it for the king.

Among them, the biggest harvest is the Garcia family.The title of Earl Garcia is not particularly high, but as an officer who was knighted for his military service in guarding the border territory, he has an army with extremely strong combat effectiveness, and the huge wealth accumulated by the Garcia family over a hundred years of fighting, This was what Edward and the king coveted most.

In addition to the tough military style and rough behavior style, the first Earl Garcia also had the bad habits of some civilian officers who rose to prosperity, alienated wives, pursued young girls, and showed mercy everywhere. It has also been passed down, and the current generation of Earl Garcia, apart from the three children born to him by his two legal wives, outside, there are no less than double-digit lovers and countless illegitimate children.What Edward and August considered was to use Earl Garcia's eldest son to take back the power of the Garcia family.

The heir's name is Chris Garcia, and he is a sub-orc.Although he is the heir to the title, Earl Garcia is obviously unwilling to hand over his title to his sub-orc son. He prefers the orc son born to him by his second wife. However, the inheritance law of the empire prevents him from passing the title over to his eldest son. Passed on to the second son, which made him extremely dissatisfied with Chris.Earl Garcia is a stubborn old man with a violent personality. He beat and scolded his wife and children. Chris's two elder brothers and his biological mother committed suicide because they could not bear the abuse of their father. Earl Garcia has been abusing Chris over the years. I hope that he can vacate the position of heir wisely like his mother and elder brother.However, Chris has been supporting until now.

Although Chris is a sub-orc man, he has a very high talent for military command. In the last life, Chris secretly divided the army of Earl Garcia, and led a group of soldiers who were not very willing to treason to join the king.The battle plan he dedicated to the king severely hit the queen's army on the northwest front. Edward was deeply impressed by it. Those successive battles made the queen extremely irritable. The little ornament was smashed over, leaving a scar on his forehead.

Neither Edward nor August wanted to let go of such a talent.This time, they took the initiative to extend an olive branch and assisted Chris in controlling Count Garcia, Countess and their two children, and handed them over to the king to show their loyalty.The scandal of the Garcia family has long spread throughout the empire. At this critical moment, it was completely expected that the heir, Chris, would kill his relatives righteously.Under the entrustment of Edward and August, Chris did not show his commanding skills to the king, and the king did not pay attention to a sub-orc count who had no attack power and was destined to marry and have children. The title of Earl was awarded to Chris, part of the Garcia family's army and property was taken away, nearly half of the land was cut off, and the new Earl Garcia was ordered to stay in the capital before getting married. Only then did he accept it with satisfaction.

However, in fact, what the king took away was not the most important thing of the Garcia family. Chris's mind was more valuable than all the troops of the Garcia family.Having harvested such a commanding genius, Edward couldn't be more satisfied, especially the king kept him in the capital in order to avoid the rebellion of the new Earl Garcia. He was worried about how to get in touch with him, but the next day The king solved this problem for him.

The Queen and the Abros family, who were swiftly convicted of treason, were executed without a doubt.On the day before the execution, Edward went to visit the queen.Apart from hatred, he didn't have any other feelings for the queen. However, when the woman who once controlled his life was about to go to the guillotine, he was still quite melancholy.

Coincidentally, the queen's cell is exactly the cell where Edward stayed in the previous life. When he walked into this gloomy room under the leadership of the guards, Edward actually had a feeling of time overlapping, which made him a little trance up.

Even though she has become a prisoner, the queen wearing a black dress still does not lose her aristocratic pride and restraint, her demeanor is dignified, her manners are elegant, and her voice and tone are the same as usual.Edward could see that the queen's calmness and arrogance were not a forced introvert. She really didn't care about death, without fear or confusion.

Seeing Edward, the queen put on a mocking smile on her slightly pale face, "Why are you coming to see me? Can't bear me? No, I've seen it a long time ago. You have hatred for me in your eyes. You want to ask me Don’t you regret it later? Wait until I cry bitterly, apologize to you and your father, and then tell me that you forgive me?” She laughed softly, and the faint and clear laughter echoed in the spacious cell, "Don't be so naive, Edward, I have never regretted what I have done. When it comes to power, there are winners and losers. No one has the qualifications to forgive others, and no one has the right to accuse the other party of immorality. Since I was in San Leman After the cathedral was canonized as queen, I knew that I would never live a peaceful and comfortable life. My whole life would be spent in battle, and failure and death were already in the future I had envisioned.

"I don't regret why I treated your father like this. Although he is my own brother, he has let you down. I never care about blood relationship. If he blocks my way, I will get rid of him. If At the beginning, he won, and I would not resent it, but I was incompetent, and he failed, and I would not feel guilty. In this life, people always have to step on other people's heads to climb up and drink other people's blood to survive."

Edward looked at her quietly, and finally nodded: "I never expected you to regret it. However, I admire you for being so calm. You are right, no one in this world has an obligation to treat others Good. I was harmed by others, but I was incompetent. I can avenge him for what you did to my father, and come back with merciless revenge, but there is really nothing to blame and complain about, but it is all for myself. " He grows He sighed for a long time, "I came to see you, but it was melancholy. You are going to die, and I will never see you again. This was originally what I was looking forward to the most, but until now, I am still a little sad."

"You are too kind." The queen smiled lightly, "I am about to die, before I die, please answer one of my questions."

"please say."

"Why do you treat William so well?" The queen looked into his eyes, "This is something I have never figured out. You have always been indifferent to the king's illegitimate son, but why are you so protective of William? Even if it is You have known William's identity for a long time, and you want to have a good relationship with the future king, so you don't want to give so much, I can see that you really love that child. Why is this?"

"Why?" Edward repeated, paused for a long time, and finally laughed softly, "Maybe because I owed him something before we left the garden of Orgunra and reincarnated as adults."

After the Queen and the Arbroath family were beheaded in St. Anthony's Square, another bloody month had passed for the Empire, and finally a big event came: the new crown prince, Prince William, was coming of age.