The King's Follower [Rebirth]

An untimely heat wave quickly swept across the empire in the cool autumn, burning everyone dizzy.

The king actually wanted to kill the favored man, but the reason was only because he was worried that the favored man would have more influence on the people than him, threatening his authority as a king.

This is simply ridiculous!The appearance of the Favored One meant that Orgona favored the Lancastrian royal family, proving that he was satisfied with Cuthbert's ruler, so that such glory would happen within the borders of the Cuthbert Empire.You must know that no matter which country the divinely favored person appears in, he will be regarded as a guest of honor by the ruler of that country. I wish the whole world knew of the existence of the divinely favored person, so that his name would spread to every corner of the Salman continent, so that Everyone knows Orgonla's preference for their country, so as to enhance the cohesion of the country and stabilize his rule.

No one could believe that the king would do such a thing, but the evidence was overwhelming and there was no room for excuses.A priest who had just grown up died in order to protect the favored man, and the identities of the assassins who came to assassinate the favored man have also been ascertained. These three people are nobles, and their families are so loyal to the king that they are fanatical. It was obvious to all, and they themselves admitted that it was His Majesty the King himself who gave the assassination order, and five lurking assassination teams were arranged during the next tour of the trainee priest.

The people were outraged.A king would secretly assassinate because he was worried that a saint, a person favored by God, would have more influence on the people than himself!This is a blasphemy against Orgunra!This is a violation of faith!This is a throwback to civilization!

Edward asked people to compose the scene at that time into a tune, fill in the lyrics, and let the troubadours sing it everywhere. In the counties under the control of the army, all the churches, no matter how big or small, began to commemorate St. Philip. And these commemorative activities spread throughout the empire under the deliberate promotion of Edward and the Pope.

Pope Foore II found an excuse to leave the royal capital when he learned that Edward planned to assassinate the king. As early as after he and Edward planned the miracle together, the king had already recognized his position Now that Edward and William planned to quarrel with the king, if he stayed in the capital, when Edward and William raised their troops, he would be the first to be hanged by the king as a traitor.

He didn't want to startle the snake and let the king discover his true intentions, so he used the inspection of the imperial church organization as an excuse.He had just left the king and hadn't walked a few cities before he received the news that Edward had been assassinated and Philip had been killed by mistake. He immediately rushed to the place where Edward was huddled overnight, just to avoid a group of soldiers who came to chase him.

As soon as Foore II arrived in Wildora County, where the Sixth Frontier Corps managed by Major General Luke was located, he immediately held a grand funeral mass for Philip with great fanfare, and publicly supported Edward's remarks, expressing his disapproval The king’s accusation of evil deeds, and call on all the clergy and devout believers in Orgunra, let everyone express their anger to the king, ask the king to apologize immediately, and accept the intention to murder the gods and kill a person A punishment that should be accepted by a saint.

At the same time, William left the capital quickly with his personal soldiers.The messengers sent by Edward tried their best and finally arrived at the capital on the evening of the second day after the incident. William had already made preparations and immediately led his own soldiers and a group of nobles who had defected to him to break through the guards of the capital. , leave the capital.They had quite a conflict with the guarding army of the royal capital, but with the help of the officers he arranged in the guarding army, they finally left the royal capital smoothly.

William and his army of hundreds of people wore white cloaks embroidered with golden ring dragons, and under the banner of upholding the glory of God, they crossed the sky of the empire in a very high-profile and swaggering manner.When they landed in Wildola County, the Pope stepped forward to greet them in person, and immediately blessed the crown prince and the hundreds of troops of the crown prince. These actions of the pope made everyone believe that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince The army is a righteous and noble army, and their purpose, as Edward preached, is only to maintain the glory of Orgunra and ask the king to repent and apologize.

In the palace, in the meeting hall, the king squinted his eyes and looked at the generals sitting on both sides of the long table.He and the rebellious Crown Prince William have not yet started a war, but the relationship between the two parties has been broken. army's battle plan.

The king was calm and calm on the surface, but his heart was not as calm as he appeared to be. Judging from the information he has received now, the army that defected to William accounted for a small proportion of the entire army of the empire, but he heard that According to news, William is recruiting retired soldiers, as well as those orcs who are willing to maintain the glory of Orgonla, to form a new army of his own.He was originally disdainful, but the abnormality must be a monster. Based on his understanding of Edward and William, they could not be so stupid, thinking that a motley army composed of ordinary people could fight against the elites of the empire. However, he also heard other news, Edward His personal priest, the family of Bishop Idris, and the Green family presented William with a weapon that was said to be extremely powerful, the energy cannon, to arm their motley army that had little chance of winning.

The king has heard of energy cannons, but he has never bothered to learn about such small weapons. He has seen elementary energy cannons, which are as powerful as a scroll and have only a little attack power. For the orcs, this attack power will not be seen by them. As the orcs who are at the peak of the eighth level and the strongest in the empire, the king does not take this small weapon seriously. Now, this originally What he ignored seems to be hitting him hard with reality, just like the former Edward, the former William.

"Your Majesty." A female lieutenant general called softly.

The king withdrew his wandering thoughts and concentrated his attention: "Please speak."

"Your Majesty," the lieutenant general stood up and bowed slightly respectfully, "Your Majesty, my loyalty to you makes me feel proud that you sacrificed your life. Therefore, I have no other intentions, but this is the end of the matter." , I think you might as well confess to Orgunra, as they demand. We only need to hold a funeral mass for St. Philip in the Cathedral of St. Leman, and make the day of his death a memorial day, Then……"

"Then I took the blame and abdicated and gave up the throne to William who was more pious to God, is that right?" The king said softly, his voice was not loud, but there was a bone-chilling blizzard wrapped in this soft voice.

"That's not what I meant, Your Majesty." The lieutenant general lowered his head deeply in a panic, "I just hope that we can resolve these issues in a peaceful way."

"In a struggle, there is never a peaceful solution." The king lightly tapped the tabletop of the long solid wood table with his fingers, "In this duel, that boy William is determined to pull me off the throne , the final result is either his death or my death."

The lieutenant general sat down again obediently. The king remembered her name and felt that she would be kicked out of the combat unit.

It wasn't until midnight that they discussed a very vague general outline of the battle. The king announced the end of the meeting and returned to the room with the results that the secretary had sorted out temporarily.

Viscount Defines had already fallen asleep. Since the queen was sentenced, as the king's most trusted lover, he moved into the king's room.Hearing the sound of the king entering the room, he got out of bed immediately, and changed his clothes for the king with his slippers drooping.The king was so preoccupied that even when he lay down on the bed, he didn't feel sleepy at all, staring at the battle plan in his hand, thinking carefully about the room for improvement.

Viscount Defines slowly leaned over, leaned against him, looked at his side face, lowered his head, kissed the bulging muscles on his arm, and stroked his chest with one hand, from top to bottom, Sliding into the quilt, finally stopped on top of the dormant dragon.

"Rest for a while, my majesty." He sat up slightly, leaned forward and kissed the king's ear, and glanced at the content on the paper from this angle, but quickly turned his eyes away, and began to concentrate on seducing the king , "You need to relax..."

The king sighed. He has worked continuously for more than ten hours today, and he really needs to rest. There is no benefit in pushing himself too hard, and the current situation is not that tense.So he put down the document in his hand, turned over and pressed Viscount Defines under him, and began to tear his clothes.

An hour later, when the king fell asleep, Viscount Defines, with the help of his valet, put on his nightgown and went to the bathroom to clean up. He lay in the bathtub filled with water. He took the pen and paper handed over by the valet, I wrote a few words and handed them back to him.After the viscount also fell asleep, the valet returned to his room, rolled the paper into a small roll, and stuffed it into a mailbox on a bat's foot.Bats are a very common creature in the capital, and they are most active at night, so it is not surprising that a few of them fly past in the middle of the night.The letter had to be sent by the bat to the villages and towns outside the capital, and then replaced by an extremely fast black swift pigeon to William's place.

Early the next morning, a small black bird broke into Edward's room and landed near William's head, chirping and stretching out a paw.