Kingdom’s Bloodline

The four archdukes looked at Lumbard with different expressions: Aurelius frowned tightly, his face full of surprise, Trudida looked sideways, extremely suspicious, Grand Duke Lecco's gaze remained motionless, as if frozen in place, and Ronnie He clenched his fists tightly, his eyes full of disdain.

After a while, Grand Duke Olsio asked everyone's thoughts softly: "Are you crazy?"

crackling.

The six large braziers, mixed with other fuels such as eternal oil and firewood, burned more vigorously.

At this moment, the half body of Grand Duke Heisha was hidden in the darkness, and the half body reflected the firelight in the hall.

Rumba turned around, looked at the empty main seat at the end of the long table, and his thoughts moved slightly.

When I was a child, the scene of playing here with Harold seemed to reappear.

He unconsciously pressed the saber on his waist.

"Who knows," Lunba said with a calm expression and indifferent eyes, "probably so."

The more confused Olsio's expression became, his brows began to tremble slightly.

At this moment, Trudida, who had been squinting at Rumba, burst out laughing.

The other Grand Dukes all looked at him.

"Dragon Clouds City, hahaha... Dragon Clouds City," Trudida put his right hand on his left arm, resting on his chin, his shoulders kept shaking with the laughter, and the ray of light embroidered on his chest The radiating blade also swayed up and down: "Divide?"

The Grand Duke of the Tower of Reconstruction laughed a few more times, as if he just heard a good joke.

Apparently, his sense of humor didn't infect the other four: they all looked at Trudida quietly, with nonchalant expressions.

"Sorry...haha..."

"Forgive my gaffe, everyone." Grand Duke Trudida grinned and shook his head, with his right hand still resting on his left arm, he waved casually towards the grand dukes.

But there was no apology in the words.

"Sitting in the Grand Duke's seat, I don't often hear such amazing words," Grand Duke Trudida's smile faded slowly, but the smile still remained on his face, with deep meaning in his eyes:

"Especially from another Grand Duke."

Rumba looked at him, snorted softly, with an unpredictable expression.

"Very good," Grand Duke Olesi of Wellandland interjected coldly, "We have captured the vast land of Dragon Clouds City and countless people, and we have enough to eat and drink..."

"Then, just let your affairs go lightly, right?" He was thoughtful, but his eyes became more and more unfriendly:

"Like a good business?"

"The king's territory, in exchange for the king's life?"

Luba didn't even look at him, just looked into the air, and said silently: "Don't overinterpret what I mean, you have always been prejudiced against me since you were young, Rabbien."

Olsio sneered, his face ugly.

The only sitting Grand Duke Lecco let out a long sigh.

"Ignore His Majesty Nun's assassination, ignore someone's domineering and betrayal?" The oldest Grand Duke shook his head, his expression rarely serious: "This is not a good proposal."

Rumba looked at Lecco, his eyes sharpened.

"I'm sure this is a good proposal, Rogers, respected elder," he said respectfully, "Dragon Clouds City is located in the heart of Exeter, with countless arteries, rich resources, vast territory, and fertile land. There are many leaders."

Rumba's eyes moved slightly: "It has a natural oppressive advantage over other territories."

"During the days when Nuen was in power, you also suffered a lot from the army crossing the border, setting up barracks, cutting off confessions, stockpiling food, emigrating, opening up wasteland...he has a lot of tricks to deal with us."

Grand Duke Lecco sighed, his eyes clouded.

"So, solve Dragon Clouds City." Luba stretched out his right hand, looked around at the Grand Dukes, and slowly clenched his fist: "This is to make the shackle named Walton no longer exist, and it is to understand the shackles placed here... here everyone."

He glanced at the other four.

But the other grand dukes were unmoved.

Only Grand Duke Ronnie raised his chin slightly, first showing a half-smile expression, and then his eyes turned cold.

"It's true..." he said in a deep voice.

"After all you've done,

After you shamelessly killed the monarch, after you brought your troops into the Palace of Heroes," Ronnie's voice gradually showed suppressed anger, "You actually want to use His Majesty's interests and territory in exchange for our understanding , in exchange for our accomplices? "

"You still say it so grandly..."

"As if you were on our side and had to do it for our sake."

In front of Rumba, Grand Duke Ronnie gave a cold sip: "Fuck you, Rumba."

Rumba looked back at him blankly.

Although Kurikun Ronnie from Qiyuan City is as bold and upright as the rumors say, and uncompromising, this is the first time I have seen him.

Maybe it will be a problem.

Grand Duke Lombard closed his eyes, then slowly opened them.

"I must reiterate that although I have an unresolvable misunderstanding and even enmity with His Majesty Nuen," he said slowly, "but the whole tragedy last night?"

"It's all the means of planning the secret department of the people of the stars. You have all heard of it, and some people may have seen it."

"I am here to save ourselves before the wounds they left in Dragonland fester."

Olsio interrupted him rudely.

"So what is this?" The Grand Duke of Wellandland glanced at Luba with an ugly expression: "Find enough price, and then bribe us to endorse it for you?"

"So, do you take this hall of glory... Olsius's voice suddenly increased, and his face became angry: "Did you treat this hall of glory as a bazaar where low-class people come and drink and bargain? "

"Don't tarnish our dignity, Your Majesty."

Lecco watched the conversation of several people with cold eyes, and did not speak.

Rumba's face darkened, he lowered his head slightly, and exhaled slowly.

"So, you don't accept this price?" His voice was a little low: "The same thing happened three hundred years ago. If Sarah hadn't been regent, Walton would have lost his support for Dragon Clouds City because of the death of the lord." ruled."

"That is."

"This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for you in three hundred years..."

Hearing this, Ronnie couldn't bear it anymore, he slapped the table and shouted angrily:

"This is impossible!"

With an offended expression on his face, he shouted angrily: "You want us to degenerate ourselves, conspire with the kingslayer, to cover up and tolerate the crimes you should have committed, and the evil consequences you left behind?"

"You're insulting us, and you're insulting Exeter!"

Trudida laughed.

"Divide up Dragon Clouds City? God, I can still hear this in my lifetime when Lao Wang is gone." He said gloomyly, looking back and forth with a pair of small eyes.

"But that's not a reason for us to wipe your ass." Grand Duke Trudida withdrew his eyes from Rumba and said with a smile, "It's not a good way to bargain either."

Rumba looked back at the Grand Duke of the Reconstruction Tower, his expression changed:

"Is it?"

"Trudida, no matter how much you open up the Sighing Mountains, the barren Reconstruction Tower will always lack a piece of new cultivated land," Lumba turned around, facing Trudida head-on, what he said made the latter slightly startled "But if you have two or even three counties in the southeast of Longxiao City, you don't have to make false claims with those barbarians in the mountains, and you don't have to worry about every food shortage in the severe cold."

Trudida narrowed her eyes.

"You mean two enclaves that don't border on my land?" The cunning Grand Duke sneered slightly: "Who is more beneficial?"

Rumba raised the corner of his mouth.

"Since you said that," Grand Duke Heisha said in a deep voice that made people shudder: "Puffett of Fengzhao City just passed away and his territory is too close to Dragon Clouds City."

The eyes of the four grand dukes moved slightly again.

"I thought that his young brother was not good enough to take on the big responsibility." Lunba concluded coldly: "Just to solve the embarrassment of rebuilding the tower. Far City and Welland Territory can share more."

Trudida was stunned, he stared blankly at Rumba, as if meeting him for the first time.

When Grand Duke Ronnie heard this, he scolded with a terrible expression: "Damn it!"

Boom, boom, boom.

Grand Duke Lecco tapped the table with his fingers, his eyes subtle.

"From the little Charmain who stayed behind his elder brother in the past, to the fierce and famous Grand Duke Heisha today..." His voice was long and steady: "I really underestimated you in the past, the old guy chose you instead of the popular one haha Rhodes, it seems there is a reason."

Rumba's pupils tightened slightly.

The scene twelve years ago reappeared in front of his eyes.

Harold.

his brother.

His appointed king.

He seemed to see the other party lying on the ground again, coughing up blood in pain, while showing a final smile to himself who was crying and crying.

Charmain.

remember.

We never give in.

Rumba's eyes froze in the void.

The bald-headed old man sighed: "The ambition is really big. Do you want to occupy the two most central princes in the country one after another?"

my ambition?

No.

Rumba said silently.

You cannot bear my ambition.

Trudida rolled his eyes.

"It's as if the nobles and other princes in these fiefs are all dead," the Grand Duke of Reconstruction Tower seemed to be mocking: "The Elk City must be very upset that Fengzhao City is closer to that goatee, isn't it?"

Rumba brought his attention back to reality.

"It's his loss that Grand Duke Droquet didn't come," Charmain Lombard said seriously, as if he was discussing seriously: "But if you are worried, then we can also negotiate with him and we can all reach a good result."

Trudida let out a playful laugh, her intentions hard to discern.

Crack, clap.

Olsio clapped his palms twice.

"It's enough of you," the bearded man said coldly, "Do you still remember your identity?"

Rumba's eyes moved.

"I know there is no shortage of land in Welland Territory, and the reputation of the Olsho family in the hearts of the northerners is also very important." The Grand Duke Heisha nodded and said to Olsio: "But if you accept this condition, you will save And because of the border defense of the Forest of Needles, we are caught between the king's urging warrant and the guards of Star Watch City."

"And you, the upright Ronnie." Luba looked at the long Qiyuan City visitor.

"Qiyuan City has the best source of recruits in the world for these new citizens, and 80% of them can prepare a full set of weapons. In this way, when you face the turmoil in the desert and the golden corridor again, you will be full of confidence. At least you don't have to So nervous, like facing a big enemy."

Ronnie said nothing, just looked at him coldly.

"As for the guard city," Lombard turned to Lecco, whose face was deeply wrinkled: "The rich mines in the northern part of Dragon Cloud City...is it possible to add a large territory with rich asphalt mineral deposits for nothing?"

"Next time, the Grand Duke of Huster or the new king force you to mobilize the entire territory and fill up the defense line against the glacier, you can throw a lot of gold coins to make them shut up."

Grand Duke Lecco was noncommittal.

"That's enough," Grand Duke Aurelius interrupted Rumba's one-man show, he shook his head: "Don't test our patience, we're not here to chat with you and brag."

"You should be glad we're still here to listen to your nonsense," Ronnie added bluntly.

"But you still don't seem to understand the situation you are facing," the long-haired Grand Duke said angrily:

"You, you are our biggest problem!"

"Charmain the regicide... at least the Charmain suspected of regicide?"

Rumba frowned slightly, and he glanced around at the expressions of the other three Grand Dukes.

Not a single one of them objected to Ronnie's words, not even the most petty and mean-spirited Trudida.

Rumba sighed secretly in his heart.

"You just can't understand, can you?" He closed his eyes and raised his right hand, rubbing the space between his brows. Seems exhausted.

"Even if I am so sincere, so sincere to give my proposal?" Rumba opened his eyes, raised his eyebrows, and suddenly raised his voice: "Even if these conditions are actually beneficial to you?"

"Come on!" Olsio interrupted him loudly.

"On the morning after the king's death," the bearded grand duke snorted, "it was such a coincidence that the five grand dukes showed up and told them: Sorry, Dragon Clouds City is no longer Walton's territory, and you are now Belongs to us, pays us taxes, accepts our call?"

On the side, Trudida hummed angrily, while Ronnie clasped his arms tightly, as if suppressing his anger.

"If you didn't treat the four of us as fools..." Olsio focused his eyes and continued:

"It must be treating the nobles of Dragon Clouds City as blind, and the leaders of Dragon Clouds City as idiots!"

Rumba watched him silently.

"Even if you look down on those ignorant and rude commoners, the earls of Dragon Clouds City are not good people." Grand Duke Trudida, who was watching, sighed:

"They are Northlanders, and they are only loyal to Walton."

"Divide up Dragon Clouds City? This will only be a joke."

Grand Duke Zaozaota shook his head and spread his hands: "Without that surname, we would never be able to rule this land."

"Bribe us with a piece of sweet cheese that we can't even eat, and cover up your filth?"

Trudida rolled her eyes and smiled: "You can't convince us on this point."

Rumba frowned.

Grand Duke Ronnie in front of him snorted heavily.

"And the whole of Exeter, what do you think they will think of us?" Grand Duke Lecco said slowly, his eyes flickering occasionally: "After the five princes conspired to kill the monarch, they divided up his territory ?”

Lecco shook his head and didn't say any more.

Ronnie took a step forward, squinted his eyes, and said almost rudely to Luba's face: "Maybe you can be shameless, killing your relatives and kings at the same time."

Rumba's face changed.

"Still complacent and even proud..."

"But please remember, we are from the Northland and from Exeter," the Grand Duke of Qiyuan City said coldly, "We have our own dignity and pride, if you are really 'for the future of Exeter' '..."

Ronnie frowned, as if extremely disgusted: "Stop talking like a Commus man, it makes me sick."

Rumba closed his eyes, he turned and took a few steps, his chest heaving.

He is suppressing.

Suppressing his growing impatience.

Even though he had rehearsed it thousands of times, he had expected the reactions of the Grand Dukes.

but……

enough.

Rumba opened his eyes sharply.

Grand Duke?

Behind these short-sighted, stupid moths.

Consider yourself noble and proud.

Unaware of the imminent crisis.

Turn a blind eye to the most dire threats.

They have never realized where the terrifying existence that really determines their life and death lies.

one day...

Rumba suddenly turned around with a firm and decisive expression.

Like a decision has been made.

The nerves of the four princes couldn't help but tense slightly.

But Rumba did nothing to overturn the chessboard.

"I understand." In a few seconds, he let out a deep breath, and his expression returned to calm: "What do you mean?"

The four archdukes exchanged glances.

"First of all, do you think we can't take Dragon Clouds City smoothly without hidden dangers?"

Trudida snorted, and the others were noncommittal.

"Secondly," Lombard continued: "According to Ronnie, as Exeters, you have your own creed?"

With a fierce face, Ronnie made a biting movement towards him, with deep disdain in his eyes.

Rumba took a deep breath, his eyes were iron, and he scanned every Grand Duke of Exeter resolutely.

At that moment, Rumba remembered twelve years ago.

Myself at that time.

The self who was young, but already ashamed, who had experienced vicissitudes, the little earl who didn't know where he was headed.

The nightmarish title of heir to the black sand collar.

At that time, he was also like this, with great perseverance and determination, standing in the Renaissance Palace of the Star Kingdom, standing in the Hall of Stars, facing the star people who were full of unkind eyes.

In the face of the very old star king, Eddie Canxing, whose meaning in his eyes makes people feel uneasy.

Facing the murderous Light Tracing Sword, the blood-debt butcher of the stars, Horace Brightstar.

Facing the eldest son of the king who sat under the king.

Midil Canxing, who always had a smile on her face and a humble tone, made people unconsciously calm down.

besides.

Rumba clenched his fist.

And the woman sitting next to King Eddie.

that woman.

Rumba couldn't remember her face clearly.

For some reason, when thinking of the woman who acted steadily and calmly, with an expression as calm as water, Rumba still felt the same trepidation as before.

He knew: it was the inner tension.

and fear.

Rumba exhaled this breath, and his gaze refocused.

"If this is what you are worried about," he said calmly to the four great justices, "I can solve it."

"Dragon Clouds City, and even Fengzhao City," Lunba said with a heavy nasal tone in his voice, "We can all take it safely and peacefully without any future troubles."