Kingdom’s Bloodline

Although the inexplicable meeting made Thales confused, and the confrontation between Lisbon and Cambida under the table was full of doubts, but the second prince did not intend to be troubled by it for too long. What I learned overnight is that...

"So you came to see me?"

In the courtyard of blood, Putilei, who was interrupted from his afternoon walk, looked at the smiling prince with dissatisfaction while pacing.

"Yes," Thales leisurely imitated Puttilai's pace, tapping the saber rhythmically with his right hand, Rolf and Wyah followed behind them: "I look forward to your satisfactory answer .”

Putilei snorted coldly: "You expect a dull, stubborn, sarcastic, grumpy old man who has just arrived in Dragon Clouds City for two days to analyze such a complicated and difficult diplomatic and internal affairs situation?"

The lord flicked his own pipe, with a look of understatement: "Maybe you should ask Gilbert, but I really can't do it..."

A dull, stubborn, sarcastic grumpy old man?

Thales took a deep breath.

"good."

The prince turned around, walked backwards, and raised his hands to face Puttilai:

"I won't mention it for the time being. At the most desperate moment six years ago, how that grumpy old man managed to find Mike and Nikolai miraculously, and first miraculously fished me out of the dark room and Luba... "

"And decisively supported us to break into the Palace of Heroes, and cleverly sent the prince into the Hall of Heroes, and finally miraculously saved the glorious deeds of Dragon Clouds City..." Huai Ya cooperated very cooperatively behind him, and even Luo Ralph also nodded in the back and gave a "ho".

Thales gave them a thumbs up.

Puttilai showed an ugly smile: "...'Leave it alone'?"

"I'll just say," Thales ignored Puttilai's smile, and said to himself, "that grumpy old man, on the first day he arrived in Dragon Clouds City, how did he inexplicably, vividly, and exhaustively tell I, in the heavily-secret Hall of Heroes, in the inaccessible Dragon Clouds City Audition Day meeting, what kind of shocking secret happened."

"Do you know how angry Lisbane looked when Cambida revealed the content of the hearing day?"

Puttilai raised his eyebrows: "I have more friends, that's all."

"And the most important thing is..." Thales stepped back, raised his right index finger, and pointed at Putilei: "In the turbulent and complicated situation of Dragon Clouds City, you, who have been missing for six years, suddenly appeared gone?"

Thales leaned forward and narrowed his eyes: "You want to tell me that this is a coincidence, you are just here to introduce a teacher and send a pair of glasses by the way?"

"Aha," Puttilai coughed in embarrassment: "Speaking of those glasses, you know, they are specially made for the Grand Duchess, but they are..."

Thales frowned.

"Wyah, Midila, guard around and don't let anyone hear our conversation." He interrupted the other party, wisely cutting off Putilei's plan to change the subject.

After the slightly puzzled two took the order and left, Thales turned around again and looked at Putilei seriously.

Putilei looked at the prince, feeling a little uneasy in his heart.

"You know, I didn't pursue the question that day," Thales' expression moved slightly: "But Wyatt reminded me more than once."

"After I was trapped in Dragon Clouds City, you disappeared without a sound, and it took more than six years to reappear in front of me." Thales raised his head, "It's not that I don't trust you, but why not Earlier, not later, but now more than six years later?"

Putilei's face froze.

"Wyah inherited his father's sensitivity," Puttilai sighed in a low voice after a few seconds, "but he didn't learn his atmosphere."

Thales ignored him, but continued:

"Six years ago, when I was just recognized as a prince...you were barely able to return to Dayong Star City, and Gilbert asked you to protect me as a deputy envoy going north."

Putilai stopped in his tracks.

He lowered his head so that his expression could not be seen clearly.

"Facts have proved that Gilbert's decision is correct: not everyone can fight with the White Blade Guard, the Dark Room, and the Black Sand with limited resources and a sense of conspiracy and atmosphere in an isolated city. The leader, the secret department, and the Earl of Lisbane, not only did not lose the wind, but even handled it with ease."

Thales also stopped in his tracks, and he shook his head: "Although you are very good at hiding yourself, and everyone doesn't care much, I know better than anyone that a prince with no power and power can never be alone. Save the world: from decisive evacuation, preserving strength, contacting the four parties, rescuing the prince, hinting at me to fight back, breaking into the Palace of Heroes, playing games with Black Sand, reversing the situation..."

Thales took a deep breath: "Six years ago, the person who actually saved Dragon Cloud City countless times behind the scenes was actually you."

"Lord Putilly Nyman."

"A former civil servant of the Diplomatic Department with a strange identity, a former Viscount who was relegated after the Bloody Year."

"And the eldest son of the former king, the attendant of Midil Canxing,"

Putilai didn't speak.

Thales lowered his head, remembering what Puttilai said to him in the Palace of Heroes, about the Bloody Year.

"As far as I know, this is not something that ordinary people can do."

Thales' face darkened: "Don't you think you have too many mysteries, Putillai?"

At that second, Puttila paused slightly, his face stiffened.

It's like being told something.

"Be honest," Thales observed the other party's reaction, sighed, and turned around again to wait for the other party to follow up: "Puttilai, don't study the secret subjects, you know I don't like them."

"Tell me, what kind of chess game am I in now?"

They walked past a big tree, and Puttilai knocked out the ashes from his pipe, with a gloomy expression and no words.

Thales just stared at him silently.

"I understand." Finally, Puttilai sighed slightly, and replied to the tone of the first meeting: "About the current situation, what do you want to know, little prince who is causing headaches?"

Thales frowned slightly, recalling the many doubts in his heart.

"Connection," after a few seconds, the young prince looked around and said cautiously and softly, "I want to know how all the big things on the stage are connected through the hidden interests under the stage. I think this is yours. Long term."

Puttilai put the pipe back into the pouch, slightly startled: "Connect?"

Thales nodded, imitating Lisbane's way and putting his hands behind his back, but his eyes drifted into the distance.

"Six years ago, Miranda Aarend told me in the cell that everything that happened in Dragon Clouds City, seemingly unrelated, actually had an important thread running through it." Thales narrowed his eyes: "Then We discovered that the thread behind the scenes was called 'Dragon's Blood.'"

At that moment, Puttilai unknowingly slowed down, one step behind the prince.

"In the past few months, since King Charman promulgated the new enfeoffment decree, Qiyuan City has wooed all parties to denounce the king, Luba has been condemned to death, and I was accused as a hostage. It’s not stable, Heisha leader came to Dragon Clouds City strangely,” Thales was oblivious to everything around him, and continued to think hard:

"Although everything is fragmented, and some things are not even related..."

"But I feel that the current situation is the same as it was back then, and there is also a faint clue connecting the front and the back."

"I want to take hold of it...not just passively deal with the trouble that comes my way."

Putilei's gaze paused slightly.

They were both silent for several seconds.

Finally, Puttilai let out a long sigh.

"You know, when we met the day before yesterday, I thought you were more cheerful than you were then," the skinny man shook his head: "But I just realized now that the real you is more anxious, vigilant, and nervous than you were back then. Can you really fall asleep?"

This time, Thales stopped in his tracks.

"Six years ago, I fell down in carelessness and self-satisfaction," the prince's eyes slowly focused, "The price is my freedom, and an enemy who is the king."

"That feeling, the helplessness and fear that you can only drift with the wind and don't know where to go in the next second," Thales said calmly, looking at a stone slab that was broken due to age at his feet: "I don't want to experience it a second time."

At that moment, Puttilai felt for the first time that the fourteen-year-old boy beside him was a prince named Canxing.

The Lord shook his head lightly and whispered, "You have changed."

Thales came back to his senses and smiled slightly: "Everyone changes."

"more or less."

Puttilai stared at him for a long time.

Finally, when Thales thought several centuries had passed, Puttilai started walking again. This time, the Lord's expression changed from the previous laziness and sarcasm to serious and nervous.

"For many years, the Freedom Alliance has been attached to Qiyuan City to survive."

coming.

Thales quickly followed the pace and pricked up his ears.

"As vassals of the giant dragon, they transport the benefits of the golden corridor to Exeter, and Exter also maintains control over the golden corridor and the west of the mainland through them, keeping Comas at a distance," Putilei said. Scratching his chin, he said seriously:

"You know, it's just like our relationship with the Principality of Sera: the vassal state of the Dragon's Kiss is held by the stars, and it controls the southeast end of the Golden Corridor and the coast of the promenade, and even affects the Thorn Land..."

"I know, the teachers in Selma taught that Exter and the Liberty League had a fight twenty years ago," Thales coughed, and waved his hand, cutting off the former Minstrel Confidence and Performance**: "Cut to the point, the point..."

Putilei glanced at him dissatisfied, and seemed very displeased with the fact that the little prince who was obsessed with listening to stories back then had turned into a boy who would interrupt him, but he continued: "About what you said, There was a fight..."

"More than 20 years ago, the governor of the Freedom Alliance found a new ally. He thought that King Nun was busy with the danger of the glacier defense line, and had a lot of trouble with Qiyuan City, so he had no time to take care of the West. Therefore, for the first time, an independent idea."

Thales was slightly taken aback: "New ally?"

Putilai nodded.

"Baishan." He said cautiously.

"These proud white elves are rarely meddling in human affairs: they are small but not to be underestimated, and they support the Freedom Alliance in seeking independence," the Lord said as he walked, "Of course, some people suspect that the Commas people also participated behind the scenes." The marriage of Exeter with the Vine City in the south of Commas made several northern city-states of Commas very disturbed."

Thales was slightly taken aback, thinking of the Marquis Shiles who was always smiling.

"The results of it?"

"result?"

Putilei snorted softly, and his tone was a little mocking: "The overconfident governor of the alliance seized the goods tribute to the Kingdom of Exeter without authorization, and wrote a letter with euphemistic but firm tone, requesting to 're-emphasize Mutual friendship'."

"Although there are many conflicts between Qiyuan City and Longxiao City, as the supreme ruler of the Dragon Kingdom, King Nun did not take pleasure in other's misfortune, nor did he reply to the letter to argue." According to the call-up order, the army of Dragon Clouds City traveled long distances to join the soldiers of Qiyuan City and Jieshou City, and marched towards the Freedom Alliance."

Thales listened quietly to the past about the Liberty League and Exeter, and quickly connected these details that would not be recorded in classrooms and history books with the current situation.

"As a result, more than 20,000 Exeter soldiers broke through every gate and refused horses in Fort Liberty. Prince Suril's troops even marched all the way into White Mountain, threatening the ruling court of the white elves."

"They dyed the Shanliu River red with the blood of the enemy's skulls," Puttilai said here, inexplicably feeling a little emotional, as if he had seen it with his own eyes: "It is said that in the next two years, the nobles of Shanliu City They dare not drink the river water flowing from the upper reaches of the Liberty Alliance, and the price of the famous river fresh fish in the Shanliu River Basin has also plummeted."

"That year, King Nun reiterated the absolute dominance of the dragon kingdom at the end of the golden corridor, frightened the small countries and city-states who were obsessed with peace, and told the Freedom Alliance with blood: There has never been a relationship between dragons and ants. What 'mutual friendship'."

"Nun," Thales pondered, thinking of the mighty old king and his embarrassing ending: "It's him again."

"King Nunn's 30-year rule in the Western Continent is not without reason," Puttilai sighed softly: "Not every king is worthy of his oath, 'Based on the forefront of the kingdom' Afterwards, Luo of Qiyuan City The attitude of the Ni family towards Longxiao City has changed from the former rebelliousness, even the people of Kangmasi have behaved a lot, Shanliu City even lowered their standards, and the Marquis of Yicheng came to the Northland to make amends with a smile on his face."

Thales' heart skipped a beat.

"Twenty years ago, as the king of Dragon Clouds City, in the name of all Exeter, he sent troops to support the interests of Qiyuan City."

The prince punched his palm: "So, when the Liberty Alliance is unstable again, Lisbane will say 'Ronnie must choose'..."

Thales recalled the words of the Regent of Lisbon in the hall: "If Qiyuan City wants to receive national support headed by the king like it did back then, Grand Duke Ronnie must choose to compromise with the king and give up the act of gathering nobles to denounce King Charman... ..."

The thin Lord snorted softly.

"Indeed, this is a good way: in the name of the king, using Exeter's righteousness, the initiative to order the princes to fight for the country is now in the hands of the leader of Heisha," Putilei nodded: "Yes Imagine, facing King Charman's helping hand, Ronnie..."

But Thales shook his head resolutely.

"I know Grand Duke Ronnie, he won't choose to compromise," Thales's mind appeared in Thales's mind, Luba and Ronnie with grim expressions, and the tense picture of them facing each other in the hall, killing each other: "He would rather be in blood Practice your beliefs in the fire and fight the king to the end."

and.

Thales thought:

Now, the conflict between King Charman and the Grand Dukes is far from the comparison between King Nunn and the Grand Dukes back then.

Puttilai laughed: "That's even more interesting."

They went up the steps that led to the prince's bedroom, and watched a shattered tree-root reach their feet.

"If Ronnie refuses the king's 'help', then he will have to face the civil strife of the Freedom Alliance alone, and even send troops alone if necessary, to reaffirm the majesty of the Dragon Kingdom."

"Sit back and watch the Liberty Alliance get out of control, and Qiyuan City loses a lot of income, which is still a small matter, but the prestige of Grand Duke Ronnie will inevitably suffer a serious setback: whether it shames Qiyuan City or Humiliates Exeter, it is not right for him. Good thing."

Thales desperately recalled the geographical situation on the west side of Exeter: "Solve the Liberty Alliance alone... Can Qiyuan City and Ronnie do it?"

"It's time to test the strength of Qiyuan City and Grand Duke Ronnie's control over his vassals," Puttilai seemed to be recalling something: "But I think, even if it won't be like the three Grand Dukes working together twenty years ago That went smoothly, but to clean up a small Freedom Alliance, it is more than enough for Qiyuan City, which is adjacent to the desert and the golden corridor, and is guarded all the year round."

"But the problem is, once he puts all his energy into the alliance's civil strife, presumably Ronnie will continue to contact the nobles, and his actions to denounce the king will also be affected."

Thales frowned.

"So the Lisbon Regent's suspicion is true: the civil strife in the Liberty League is related to Lombard, and it may even be behind the scenes." The prince said lightly: "Stop Qiyuan City and Grand Duke Ronnie, who are on fire in the backyard, and keep pace. Forced footsteps, to rescue Heisha Ling from the national condemnation of burning buttocks."

Puttilai raised his eyebrows: "Who knows."

But Thales stopped again, with a puzzled expression on his face: "But I still can't figure it out: If this is just a game between the king and Grand Duke Ronnie, why did King Charman send Cambida to Dragon Clouds? Rees Why did Ben say that Dragon Clouds City was sent into the center of the storm?"

"Why Dragon Clouds City?"

Putilei also stopped in his tracks. He smiled slightly, his eyes shining strangely:

"You have found the point, little prince."

Thales frowned.