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The imperial capital is still the imperial capital.

It was still bustling and bustling with people coming and going, and there was no big change when I left with Lucien.

More is more lords like him who came from other places to participate in the Luthers canonization ceremony, plus envoys sent by other countries to celebrate and consolidate relations.

However, the distinction between countries in this world is not very great. Only when you are close to the area inhabited by foreign envoys can you feel a little bit of exoticism.

The Central Empire is the only [Empire] on the mainland, and the rest are basically kingdoms and duchies, as well as individual alliances composed of multiple small autonomous dominions. As the most powerful existence on the mainland, the empire profoundly affects the entire continent in terms of economics and culture. Wind direction also plays the role of peacemaker and magistrate between countries. The emperor will come forward to organize the joint meeting of rulers, and try to resolve conflicts at the conference table by quarreling to avoid large-scale wars.

This relatively stable state has lasted for about 200 years. Judging from the average life expectancy of the world's ruling class, as long as there are no accidents of some useless princes, Lucien visually estimates that the peaceful state can last for another 800 years. .

After all, his cheap father is not rushing to choose an heir because he is too old to do anything, but because his talent is too good and his advancement is too smooth. Compared with becoming an emperor, he might as well abdicate earlier and concentrate on cultivation. With his current age and cultivation Progress, you can expect to climb to the top of the talented person in your lifetime.

In the bad setting of this world, the meaning of the top power is almost equal to nuclear weapons, and even stronger deterrence, even if they will not take action unless it is a battle for the survival of the country, but without top experts, there is no international status, the meeting Anyone at the table can bully you.

Of course, the empire enshrined many such strong men. Lucien had seen a few of them from a distance when holding banquets before, and had a good chat with his father, and they seemed to have a good relationship.

But no matter what, the more strong people the better, especially the more strong people produced by one's own family, the better. The former guarantees the status of the country, and the latter guarantees the stability of the family.

Lucien is happy to see the success of this, and he solved the problem of inheritance rights early, and his life will be easy in the future. Luthers has such a good brother filter for him, and he has a good talent for cultivation. There is no problem in living for 200 years. In other words Lucien could lie comfortably under the umbrella of his eldest brother, and was favored and maintained by the higher-ups until he died.

If he was still with Izzy at that time, Luthers would also help Izzy for his sake--this kind of help will be very important when Izzy's strength rises to a certain level, the top The strong will also form cliques. As a foreigner, if Yixi does not have a strong enough ally, it is easy for others to join forces to deal with it.

Those who are not of my race must have a different heart.

Lucien felt that in a few years, after Yixi broke through the current bottleneck period, he could secretly bring Yixi over to show Brother Cheap and Father Cheap.

"..." Luses realized that he hadn't seen him for a few years, but his brother was still as easy to understand as before, and he could guess what Lucien was thinking just by looking at his expression.

This recognition made the gap between him and Lucien disappear in an instant, and the images outlined in the letters back and forth were actually in the same place as the young man in front of him, dispelling him because Lucien was tall and tall Great sense of distance.

"You can bring him this time." Luses said, reaching out to pat Lucien on the shoulder.Although he wanted to rub his little brother's soft black curly hair more like he did when he was a child, but in public, he had to maintain Lucien's image.

Lucien blinked at him and smiled innocently, "He's a little shy. But next time I'll bring him here, he can't hide forever."

Izzy accepted the task of kidnapping Ruffal so readily at that time, maybe there was no reason for him to avoid meeting Lucien's father and brother.

Seeing one is better than seeing two, and he was fleeing at the speed of life and death with Ruffal, so Ruffal should not pay so much attention to which one of Lucien Isy is.

Luses smiled, and told the servants around him to go out of the room. Anna also took the maids back to the door with a wink, and gave Lucien and Luses a space where they could chat about private topics. .

So Lucien took out the checkers from the cabinet, shook the board at Luses, "Let's play a game?"

"Then I won't lose." Luses had already started to tidy up the table consciously to make room for the chessboard.

Playing chess is second, just find something to act as a buffer, so that I can pretend to casually bring up some sensitive topics that are not easy to talk about clearly.

For example, the one who was still fighting monsters in the Moon Mountains, or their Majesty the Emperor, who knew it clearly in his heart.

The news of Rufar's death reached the imperial capital earlier than Lucien's. Lucien didn't expect to be able to hide it from the world. There are so many eyes staring at Rufang, and even the slightest abnormality will be discovered. What's more, in order to create a safe enough hands-on condition for Izzy, Lucien's movements were not that small.

Lucien wins because the plan is fast enough to start, the plan is simple enough and the number of manpower used is small enough, so that he can only be suspected without being caught with evidence-if there is no evidence, it means that he did not do this thing. Next All he needed was to draw Luthers to his side.

Based on Luthers' understanding of Lucien, he could suspect that Lucien did it basically, but he couldn't be sure whether Lucien deliberately wanted him to know that he did it himself.

So Luthers moved a pawn and said, "It's not easy during this time, it's really hard for you."

His tone is gentle, just like any big brother who cares about his younger brother, and his content is beyond reproach. Everyone knows that Lucien has been ill all the way, and he spends most of his time lying in the carriage to recuperate, and the occasional appearance is also obvious. Sickly, rather weak.

That's what Luses heard, but the Lucien he saw had rosy skin and bright eyes, and his striding posture didn't have the rumored three-step panting.

Fortunately, he was worried before coming.

Luses pouted in his heart, what a good and obedient brother he was before he left, he has only been out for a few years, and he has learned to pretend to be sick and deceive others.

Lucien pinched the chess piece and tapped it on the chessboard with a crisp sound, and there was a brisk smile in his voice, "We are all brothers, this is what I should do."

"I would be happy to do something for you, Your Highness," he added.

Lucien has complained before that what Luthers used was not a palace plot script, but a character set of women attacking Tom Su in the harem - as we all know, even if this kind of character set is an old enemy who loves and kills each other, there will be no real death ending Well, Luthers fought so fiercely with Rufar, and showed no mercy to the surrender of Rufar's forces, it didn't mean that he really wanted to kill Rufar's stinky brother.

Ruffal wanted [victory], but Luthers wanted [power].

Ruffal came to participate in the canonization ceremony, admitting defeat to him and dying in his hands will allow him to take power more smoothly, but Ruffal's suspended animation will not affect the ending of his final power, just need to spend more time and energy to settle the situation That's all.

"I'm glad you think so." Luses stretched out his hand and rubbed Lucien's hair rudely. Lucien lowered his head cooperatively and rubbed his palm actively.

Probably because of good health and improved hair quality, the slightly curly black hair feels softer and smoother than before.

Luses rudely rubbed Lucien's hair into a bird's nest, and didn't care about Lucien's muttering protests that his hair was messed up and couldn't be combed well.

He just protested with his mouth, but his body's reaction was tame and docile, just like a lamb raised from childhood, intimate and well-behaved without any aggressiveness.

Luses touched Lucien's neck from Lucien's hair. The blood vessels throbbed under the pale skin, which was so thin that he could hold it with one hand.He could feel Lucien stiffen, his Adam's apple trembling nervously in his palm.

For Lucien, the power advantage of the gifted is overwhelming. Even if Lusus is a mage, he can be strangled to death with one hand so easily.

Luses just put his hand there, and Lucien didn't move away - he lowered his head and closed his eyes gently.

……

Luses felt that time was stolen for a moment, a few seconds or longer, and then he let go of his hand, smoothed Lucien's hair scattered on his cheeks behind his ears, and repeated: "I'm very happy that you Think so."

"My dear Lucy."

Compared with Rufar, who has already surrendered to him, it is more important for Lucien to take the initiative to bow his head to him. For this reason, he is willing to spend a little time and energy to solve the small troubles caused by Lucien's concern for brotherhood .

"I have only one brother, you," he said.

Lucien raised his head and blinked at him, "At your service all the time."

Very good, pass smoothly.