Lord of the Continent [Western Fantasy]

Salinger heard the threat in the princess's words, but he didn't feel violated, and he only said sincerely: "Your Highness, please rest assured, I am not the kind of person who betrays the owner and seeks glory. I have the right to pretend that I did not listen to everything you said today." But keep silent, I swear to the gods."

"The God of Light?" Firmia snorted softly, and said disdainfully, "It turns out that the Viscount is also a believer of the Light, but this god has no place in my heart."

"It's not the God of Light." Salinger said with a good temper. "It's an unknown great god. He is as tolerant as the starry sky above his head. He is my belief. I will not swear to him casually, but as long as I swear The exit, I will guard it with my life and soul."

As inclusive as the starry sky?

Firmia immediately fell into deep thought, and a vague guess emerged from her mind.

No!This is unlikely!

It's not such a coincidence, is it?

But He is the Lord of the universe, Firmia thought, Teacher Selena once said that in the dark, the entire universe is operating under His arrangement, could it be...?

"I trust him, Firmia!" Jing suddenly said in her mind.

Firmia suddenly recovered from her reverie, and then said: "I believe in you, Viscount Salinger, but you haven't answered my question yet, are you willing to assist me in seizing power?"

"Your Highness, please forgive my refusal." Salinger said calmly, "First, I don't want to hurt anyone. I'm just a mediocre viscount. My ideal is to be a successful wood mage. With my own strength, I can Help more ordinary people in need."

"Second and most important, this is the internal struggle of your royal family. With all due respect, no one is right or wrong. The so-called standing in a team is just to get more glory and wealth, but I am not interested in this, so I don't want to participate Your power struggle."

Salinger's words were very reasonable, even extraordinary, which made Firmia unable to refute for a short time. She didn't know how to persuade him, and suddenly felt a headache.

Desire is the driving force that drives people forward, and it is also a sharp weapon to manipulate others. However, Salinger has no interest in these.

"No, dear." Jing said, "Salinger is not without desires, he has a breakthrough point."

Firmia: "What is it?"

"Listen to me next." Mirror said, "Immediately overturn the black tea on the table, wet your skirt, and then ask to change, let the viscount wait here, don't ask why, do as you say!"

After saying this, Firmia immediately picked up the teacup, and then pretended to accidentally miss it. Warm water poured on her expensive dress, and quickly wet a large area.

"Oh, God!" Firmia cried softly.

"Your Highness Princess!" Salinger was also taken aback, and hurriedly said, "How are you? Are you okay? Did you get burned?"

"It's okay, Lord Viscount." Firmia waved her hand and said, "God bless, fortunately the water is no longer hot, but the skirt got wet, which is really annoying!"

"It's a pity that I don't know water spells, so I can't help you." Salinger wanted to get up, and said, "I'll call Mr. Hodmit right now, he is a great water mage, and he will help you remove the tea stains from the water." Remove it from the dress."

"Wait, Lord Viscount, don't go!" Firmia shouted.

Salinger: "??"

"I... am a little embarrassed." Firmia blushed and explained uncomfortably: "After all, it is the skirt part, and I have to trouble the president to cast a spell, and as a royal nobleman, because of carelessness, the embarrassing I can't accept it when I show it to others."

Seeing Firmia's shy little girl, Salinger's heart suddenly softened, and he said softly: "I can understand, Your Highness, but wet clothes are too harmful to the body, so we can't just leave like this ?”

"Before I came to the Freemason Master Tower, I went to the business district," Firmia said, "I just bought a few dresses, and I want to go to the dressing room to change, so the problem will be solved. Don't wait for me for a moment, I will be back soon."

Salinger breathed a sigh of relief when he heard the words, and said with a smile: "No problem, Your Highness, there is a temporary lounge in this reception room, you can go in and change, and I will wait for you here." He pointed inward .

Following the viscount's guidance, Firmia saw a door on the east side of the room, so she got up immediately, apologized, and walked into the temporary dressing room.

After entering the house, Firmia locked the door and said in a low voice, "Jing, why did you ask me to do this?"

A blue light flashed, and the mirror appeared, explaining: "Put on the dress that the Earl gave you, and I will replace you to talk to him later, I have my own ideas, trust me, baby!"

Firmia didn't ask any further questions, and said yes decisively, then quickly took off her skirt, and took out the dress from the ring given by Xixiu Mi.

The dress was made of an unknown luxurious fabric, warm white as a whole, and embellished with several intertwined gold threads. The skirt and cuffs shone brightly under the bright light, making it extraordinarily warm and healing.

Firmia changed her clothes, and the mirror fit her. Firmia retreated into this body, and the mirror replaced her, and slowly walked out of the lounge.

Seeing the princess coming out, Salinger was stunned for a moment. The blond beauty in front of him was wearing a white and gold intertwined gauze dress, standing gracefully in front of him. Her whole body was indescribably holy, comparable to any other princess in the entire human kingdom. A saint of light.

He felt an unprecedented familiar force, and couldn't help but feel kind, and stood up and said, "Your Highness, you..."

"Master Viscount, please sit down." Jing walked over, sat down, and said, "I'm fine, let's continue our conversation."

Salinger hummed, stared at Firmia intently, sat down slowly, and said in the mirror: "I have thought about what you said just now, and I understand your thoughts very well. This is indeed an internal struggle in our family. It is really inappropriate for an outsider to participate."

"Thank you, Princess, for your understanding." Salinger said.

"However," Jing changed the subject and said, "This matter is called a family power struggle, but it is actually related to the national destiny of Italy, and is closely related to the people of the whole country. Has the Viscount looked at this matter from this perspective? ?”

Salinger wondered: "Where do you come from? Your Highness, please speak clearly."

Jing closed his eyes, took a deep breath, opened them again, and said solemnly, "I think the Viscount should have heard about what His Majesty the King has done in the past hundred years."

"Father, since he entered middle age, he has become extremely afraid of death, even extremely resistant to aging. Because of this, he became obsessed with the holy light, threw himself under the seat of the God of Light, and dreamed of his ridiculous dream of immortality. "

"Redthorpe, through his father's desire, endowed him with the power of the Holy Light to keep his youth forever, and promised that as long as he is loyal to the God of Light, he will be able to obtain eternal life. The father is greedy for the prosperity of the world, and he will no longer interfere with the government. Listen to all kinds of slander from the other side."

"Over the years, you can also see that the Church of Light has been scandalized, its high taxes have made its people miserable, the nobles have been indulged in misconduct, legal casinos have bloomed everywhere, and even promulgated the slave law system that fathers pay their debts to their sons. Fair enough!"

"All these things lead to the decline of Italy, and the whole country presents a rotten atmosphere of ice and fire. The rich are getting richer, while the poor are getting poorer. The class is solidified like an iceberg in the northern region, forever. melt."

"It is said that before the God of Light, all living beings are equal, but this is just a sad joke. In this environment, everyone is defined as soon as they are born. The royal family, nobles, commoners, servants, or slaves are all The moment of birth is accompanied until death, which cannot be changed.”

Speaking of this, the mirror stopped and looked directly at Salinger with firm eyes. Salinger looked at her for a moment, nodded heavily, and said, "Yes, what Her Royal Highness said is correct."

"I can somewhat understand your intentions, Your Highness." He continued, "But I still want to hear what your Highness plans."

"Reform!" Jing said in a deep voice, "Iternity needs to change, get rid of those carrion, and get the whole country back on track."

"In this way, ordinary people who are in dire straits can be rescued, and they can live a prosperous and stable life. This is exactly the purpose of my coercion. It is not just to seize power and profit, but to regain their due rights for all the people. !"

Salinger fell silent for a moment, the ordinary person seemed to have life, and the voice of the same boy overlapped in his mind.

"There is no distinction between good and evil in magic. I hope that when you learn something in the future, you will use your ability to benefit more ordinary people."

The advice of the black-haired god was still in his ears, and Salinger felt compassion. He realized that he was not a simple individual, he was not a viscount, nor a mage, he was a member of the crowd.

He is a member of the world, and those ordinary people are his brothers and sisters. The real meaning of his learning magic is to protect these relatives!

In an instant, he finally understood the meaning of the words of the great god.

Whether right or wrong, just look at the ultimate goal.

Salinger seemed to be enlightened, he suddenly figured everything out, no longer entangled in wrong and right in a narrow sense, but recognized the essence through performance.

For some reason, he intuited that Firmia hadn't lied to him, and that the princess would fulfill her promise as promised after achieving her goal.

"I am convinced by you, Your Royal Highness." Salinger said with relief, "I cannot explain the whole process, but I can promise here that I am willing to enter the palace and cooperate with your plan."

Jing didn't show a happy expression, as if all this had been expected by her, she just said lightly: "This is very good, thank you Lord Viscount for your support."

When she said this, her face was calm, even with the indifference of being thousands of miles away, Salinger's heart trembled, and immediately he secretly activated the magic power to detect, and his face sank immediately.

"You..." He paused briefly, then said coldly, "You are not Princess Firmia, who are you?"

Jing was startled for a moment, but soon returned to normal, and said casually: "Master Viscount is really talented, I didn't expect to be seen through so quickly by you."

"Are you a witch?" Salinger said, "Puppetry? Or some kind of witchcraft? You controlled Her Royal Highness?"

"How is it possible!" Jing laughed loudly, "I don't distinguish from her, she is me, I am her, and I will never do anything to hurt her."

Salinger: "??"

Seeing that Salinger was a little confused, Jing said: "Since we have reached a consensus, it is natural to be honest with each other. I am the secondary personality of Her Royal Highness, and you can call me Mirror."

"Subpersonality?" Salinger was completely stunned.

Jing stopped talking, her eyes became blurred, and blue light flashed in her pupils for a moment. When she stared at Salinger again, the fierceness suddenly dissipated, and her whole person became softer.

"Master Viscount," Firmia took over Jing, and said softly, "Jing did not perform witchcraft on me, she is just my second personality, born to protect me, please don't misunderstand."

Salinger: "..."

This is the first time in Salinger's life that he has personally experienced the existence of dual personalities, and he can't help being shocked by switching openly in front of him.

"Your Highness," he murmured, "this is incredible, you...is it really all right?"

"I'm fine, Lord Viscount." Firmia said, "Jing is a very warm person and also my reliance. In future cooperation, you will have more time to get to know her. I hope you don't hug her." Prejudice."

"It's not going to be true," Salinger said. "I've just never seen this phenomenon. It's a bit difficult to accept for a while, and it's not against anyone."

"That's good." Firmia felt relieved.

Salinger thought for a while and said, "I still have a question, and I want to ask Her Royal Highness right now."

"But it doesn't matter." Firmia said.

Salinger hesitated for a moment, then asked cautiously: "If the plan is successful, how will His Highness deal with His Majesty the King? Will you... Excuse me, will you kill Your Majesty?"

"Of course not." Firmia shook her head and said, "Father, although he is extremely stupid and has made many mistakes, he is my biological father after all. Moral thing."

"Then what about the other members of the royal family?" Salinger said, "I remember that your elder brother, Prince Prince, is the crown prince appointed by His Majesty, and your older sister, Mishulia, is a saint appointed by the church. How do you plan to treat them?" them?"

"The crown prince will be abolished," Firmia said frankly. "As for the saint, I haven't thought about it yet, but please rest assured, the Viscount, I will not kill any of my relatives, but I will use some means."

"Killing is inevitable in the royal family's struggle for power. I can't do it without spilling a drop of blood. You know it if you think about it, so I don't want to lie, but I can guarantee the safety of my loved ones and will not die because of it."

With the promise of the princess, the last doubt in Salinger's heart was dispelled, and he solemnly said: "Okay, Your Royal Highness, I have decided to follow your arrangement to enter the palace, and the cooperation will take effect from now on."

Firmia nodded, picked up the teacup on the table, and said, "It's a happy cooperation. I hope that Teniti will return to a peaceful and prosperous world, and the people will live and work in peace and contentment as soon as possible."

Salinger immediately raised his teacup and said earnestly, "May all ordinary people live and work in peace and enjoy peace forever."

Ding--!

There was a crisp sound, and the two pure white bone china cups collided. Although the sound was slight, it was like the ice breaking of a lake in spring, which meant that everything was revived and a new cycle of four seasons was about to begin.