Game of Thrones: Battle Royale Game

The reaction of Archon Dophas Panymeen was within Ian's expectation. What he provided to the three Elephant Party leaders from the beginning was a prisoner's game.

The current situation of the three elephant party leaders in Volantis is like three prisoners imprisoned in the black wall, with only two choices in front of them. One is to betray his companions and surrender to Ian; the other is to unite with his companions and force Ian to compromise.

For them, if everyone can choose the latter, it will undoubtedly be the most beneficial outcome.

If the three elders choose to unite against Ian, then Ian will be unable to storm the Black Wall in a short period of time, nor will he be able to get reinforcements from Slaver's Bay, the Golden Company in Velonthes Town, and the King of the Heartbreak Territory (player ), he will have to choose to compromise and exchange the allegiance of the Blackwall nobles with extremely favorable conditions.

But correspondingly, as long as one of the three elders does not choose to unite and takes the initiative to work as a dog for Ian and betray the Great Council, then Ian can easily break into the black wall through the gate guarded by this person and occupy Volanti. Sneijk.

At this time, all the benefits will be taken by this family, and the other two families will face disaster.

Of course, for Ian, this is still not the best outcome. The most favorable outcome for Ian is that all three Elephant Party families surrender to him.

Ian actually thought about the plan at the beginning to simply wipe out all the Elephant Family other than the Pennimin family and the Tiger Family that participated in the siege of the Gith mission.

But here he also faced the same dilemma as Slaver's Bay - he needed an extremely large bureaucracy to rule the millions of people in the middle and lower reaches of the Lorne River, and even the lowest officials had to be literate.

In this era, all those who could read, except for the 'slave teacher', were all nobles of Volantis.

The so-called flowing emperor and the iron-clad aristocratic family are all because the aristocratic family has a monopoly on knowledge.

The 'descendants of the Dragon King' within the Black Wall have ruled Volantis for too long. Their influence on the city and even the entire region is extremely profound. Under this kind of slavery with mythological worship, they rashly cleanse this class of people. The possible counterattack and chaos will require a huge number of troops and a long time to calm down.

Unfortunately, what Ian lacks most is time, and he doesn't want to waste soldiers on maintaining order in the city.

Therefore, Ian prefers to tie these black wall nobles to his chariot through coercion, compromise and interest bundling.

Although the 'quick victory' obtained in this way will definitely have consequences, the entire empire maintained by Ian's personal prestige will definitely fall apart within a short period of time after Ian's death.

But for Ian, what he wants to play is to speed through the game. What he wants is to eliminate other players, kill the Night King/Cold God, gain achievements and seize a sufficient number of scoring cities. Whether it can last forever is not a factor. within his consideration.

Therefore, it is in Ian's best interests not to directly 'slaughter' the Volantis Blackwall nobles and to have them actively hand over most of their power to themselves.

In order to achieve this goal, Ian chose to sacrifice the opportunity to wait for the leaders of the Elephant Party to put forward the conditions at the peace talks and pull out the captains who were captured in Slaver's Bay to slap them in the face, and directly let them return to Volantis East. The purpose of landing at the pier is to give these families enough time to weigh the pros and cons, and let them come to you alone in advance.

After all, bringing out the news of King Ma's defeat at the formal peace talks is equivalent to interrogating a group of prisoners at the same time in a large interrogation room. In this case, no one of them is willing to take the lead in confessing, and the probability of them all refusing to let go is high. many.

In the end, Ian put the three prisoners who bit out the 'accomplices' back together again, in order to divert hatred.

If 'Duke Kolu' was just doing business from beginning to end, then the object of secret hatred in the hearts of these Volantis nobles who had suffered a huge loss at this moment must be the entire 'New Valyrian Empire' ruling class and Emperor Ian myself. But 'Duke Korlu''s teasing and humiliation of the three leaders of the Volantis Elephant Party tonight was enough to attract most of their hatred away.

If His Majesty the Emperor himself treats them with great courtesy when he arrives in Volantis in the future, and provides them with a large number of benefits that they no longer have extravagant hopes for, the object of their hatred will completely remain on the head of Lord Korlu. And the risk of rebellion will be greatly transformed into "party struggle".

Anyway, Ian has no intention of using the clone of Koru when he rules Volantis in the future. This clone is going to Westeros to play a role. In the future, Ian plans to let Reznak Mo Reznak and the others arrive. The Queen of Volantis and Lord Daeron Grafson worked together to find a way to 'help' the Volantis nobles 'squeeze' Duke Korlu away and let them win this party dispute.

By then, they had re-entered Volantis's 'ruling class' and successfully avenged tonight. They had regained their dignity and face, and naturally they would ignore the fact that there was an additional emperor above their heads.

"I believe His Majesty will be pleased with your allegiance," Ian said calmly after watching Archon Dofas complete the entire oath-taking ceremony alone, "Now, here is an opportunity for you to show your loyalty. .”

"Of course." Now that Dofas is here, he has already prepared for heavy bleeding. "What does Your Majesty need me to do?"

"First, transfer the command of the second battalion of the Tiger Pagoda Army and the Tiger Pagoda Army outside the city to General Belicio Valeros."

"This is a matter of course." Dofas gritted his teeth and forced a smile. At the same time, he felt sad in his heart. Why is the damn Valeros family so lucky? Why were they the only ones who stood firmly on the side of the Gith mission when no one expected Ian to defeat the Horse King?

Dofas knows very well that in Volantis in the future, the Valeros family will definitely become the chief noble under the royal family. He has no idea of ​​​​competing with the other party. The only thing he thinks about now is to keep the second position. For this reason, no matter what conditions Duke Kolu put forward, he would grit his teeth and accept them.

"Second, the entire fleet responsible for the Volantis-Summer Islands route of the Panymeon family must be put under the charge of Earl Daeron Grafson."

"What did you say?!" Dofas blurted out, and his intense anger made him almost forget that just a few seconds ago, he was secretly vowing to meet any of the other party's conditions.

"You would question so loudly, I believe you must have heard it." Ian smiled in a provocative tone.

In his plan, Ian actually prepared compensation for the Panymeen family, such as part of the future profits from this route, and granting them some land/industry on the island after conquering the Summer Islands, but these compensations must be given by His Majesty the Emperor himself. To the Panymeen family, the current Duke of Korlu only needs to offend them further.

Earl Daeron is at the door. He will be responsible for appeasing the leaders of the Elephant Party and drawing the pie for everyone later.

"The business of the Summer Islands is what our Panymion family depends on for our survival," Archon Dofas also tried to explain.

"Better than your loyalty?" Ian interrupted with a smile, and this smile became particularly hateful in the eyes of Archon Dofas.

"Of course, you can refuse," Ian continued. "After all, I'm just giving you a chance to prove your loyalty, not forcing you to do anything. If you have nothing else, there are two guests waiting outside. Wait for me to meet you, or else?" Ian said, about to make a gesture of invitation.

"I agree, it would be an honor for us if the fleet of the Panymeen family can help His Majesty." Dofas blurted out.

He was the first one to come in. Compared to the Visama family and the Qiheda family, he had a bit of a head start, but if he couldn't prove his sincerity at this time, he would wait until the other party wanted to rob the Panimien family. When it comes to property, can you keep it on your own?

"Very good," Ian nodded, "Then the third point is, His Excellency Justice Parachiro Valeros will become the future leader of the Tiger Party in Volantis, do you understand what I mean?"

"Isn't this kind of thing decided by you? I am a member of the Elephant Party, how could you think of asking my opinion?" Dofas could not understand what Duke Kolu meant at the first time, but he soon understood A terrible guess arose in his mind.

Dofas suddenly looked at Duke Kolu, but he met the other person's dark eyes. After their eyes met, Duke Kolu nodded towards him as if he had guessed what he was thinking.

He wants Archon Malachor Meguya dead! You still want me to take the blame! Dofas felt that his heart was about to beat out for a moment.

'Tiger' Archon Malachor is currently the most prestigious leader in the entire Volantis. As long as he is free, the Chancellor will not be truly regarded as a leader by the Tiger Party at all, and Archon Malachor is now The words of his prisoner, Duke Korlu, didn't mean that he wanted to kill Malachor. What else could he mean?

Dofas immediately clenched his fists, obviously! Obviously I didn't do anything! Obviously I have never taken any hostile action against you! Why do you want to push me into a dead end? Even if we seize the military power and wealth of the Panymeen family, you still want us to offend the entire Tiger Party? ! In this way, will the Panimien family still have a way to survive in the future?

"If I agree," Archon Dofas asked hoarsely, "what will we gain?"

"You can prove your loyalty to the emperor." Daeron, who had been standing by the door silently, finally said.

Dofas noticed very keenly that the moment Daeron opened his mouth to speak, Duke Kolu glared at him fiercely.

"Tiger Party and Elephant Party," Daeron ignored the warning in Duke Korlu's eyes and continued, "His Majesty needs at least two consuls to help him rule Volantis. This will not be because of someone's personal thoughts. Changed." After saying that, he looked at Duke Koulu with the same warning look.

Two of you! Dofas's eyes suddenly lit up. The position of governor of the Tiger Party will undoubtedly belong to Justice Palachiro, but what about the position of the Elephant Party? Nesiso and Elios, who had previously participated in the siege of the Gith mission, were obviously unworthy, and they themselves became the best choice for His Majesty the Emperor.

This is why they asked themselves to kill Archon Malachor! They want to completely kill the possibility of reconciliation between themselves and the Tiger Party! In addition, tonight I offended the other two leaders of the Xiang Party, so in the future I will become a lonely minister who can only rely on the imperial power.

That's why Earl Daeron said that as long as he did this, he would prove his loyalty to the emperor.

But Dofas looked at Duke Kolu again, but this gentleman did not mention a word about it. He only humiliated and suppressed himself, but did not show the benefits that the emperor had promised. This kind of obedience and betrayal.

In an instant, Dofas figured out the complete 'truth' - Duke Korlu had ambitions for Volantis and hoped to become the emperor's acting ruler in Volantis, but the emperor had no plans for Volantis. Sri Lanka has other arrangements.

Duke Kolu did not dare to refuse the emperor's order, so he tried to prevent himself and others from serving the emperor by humiliating and suppressing the Blackwall nobles of Volantis. The loyal Earl Daeron obviously saw what Duke Kolu was thinking, and was very concerned about it. This person is extremely dissatisfied, but due to his lower status than Kolu, he cannot directly confront him. Only when he has the direct endorsement of the emperor's order can he dare to warn the other party.

"I will do it!" Dofas was heartbroken and nodded in agreement.

Now that we have come this far, the path forward and retreat is an abyss. He chose to bet that the will of Emperor Ian, who was mythical among the captains who returned from Slaver's Bay, would be implemented in Volantis. He bet that the Duke of Korlu in front of him could not overwhelm loyal kings such as Lord Daeron. faction to seize power in Volantis.

"That's good," Daeron spoke again, overcoming the obviously displeased Duke of Korlu, and then made a gesture to escort Dofas away, "I'm waiting for your good news." His attitude remained polite and humble, This side confirms what Koru has personally admitted before: 'His Majesty the Emperor has told me that you, like him, are high-ranking nobles with the blood of the Dragon King of Ancient Valyria, and I must keep you in awe. ’

"Yes." Dofas nodded and was escorted out of the door of Duke Korlu's study by Darren.

Before walking away, he vaguely heard Darren's angry voice: "You have gone too far. Your Majesty clearly asked us."

It wasn't until the footsteps in the Dofas corridor disappeared completely that Ian stepped forward and patted Darren on the shoulder: "Not bad, his acting skills have improved again."

Darren is a talented player. At the banquet of Khal Drogo in Pentos, he successfully cooperated with Ian to complete a big play with Ian's very short period of special training, and even became a solid player in one fell swoop. His 'player status' in the eyes of other players, after these days of training, Darren's acting skills have become more and more proficient, so much so that even a veteran like Dofas has not raised a trace of doubt.

"Okay, let's invite the remaining two guests over." Ian first ordered the attendant, and then turned to Darren, "You and General Bellicio will receive them. It's still the old rule. He acts like a bad guy and you act like a good guy.”

Belicio Valeros has been holding back a breath of resentment in his heart for these years, wanting to slap the faces of the Elephant Party nobles who had hindered him in the first place. Since the Wisama family and the Qiheda family do not play an important role in Ian's future plans, there is no need for Ian to accompany them in person to perform this last scene. A wish is not bad.