Kingdom’s Bloodline

It is still the empty road after the patrol team has cleared the field, passers-by who pass by will consciously stay away, or be driven away by the patrol team that arrives quickly, still guarded by the Grand Duke's personal guards, the patrol team opens the way in front and back, and is still surrounded by groups Surrounded by "travel"...

But when Thales rode on the streets of Dragon Clouds City again, he had a different feeling, not only because it was different from the usual way to play chess, and not only because the Meteorites were eyeing him closely. follow.

After all, this might be the last time he walked in Dragon Clouds City during his six years as a hostage.

Presumably Nicolai knew this too.

So when Thales was uncharacteristically, he didn't pull up the reins and gallop at high speed (when he used to play chess, this always made the surrounding Grand Duke's guards full of complaints), but let the veteran Jennard - he is the violent black horse Jenny The only person who was not so repulsive besides Thales—holding the rein, walking slowly, and heading to the Ax District as if sightseeing all the way, the Meteor just pouted in dissatisfaction, but didn't say much.

"Genard," Thales looked at the buildings receding backwards on both sides in a daze: "Starting from the birch forest in the north, you have been in the mission for more than six years."

Genard looked back at the prince: "Yes, Your Highness."

Thales sighed: "Being trapped in Dragon Clouds City for so long..."

"It's far less exciting than when you charged into battle under Duke John, and probably not as comfortable as being a city defense team in Eternal Star City."

"It must be boring."

Listening to Thales' words, Genard looked into the distance.

This veteran of the Xinghui Legion, who served under the Star God of War and the Fortress Flower, and experienced the disaster eighteen years ago, has become more energetic after six years in the North Kingdom, sweeping away the city defense team. The numbness and lifelessness of the times.

Although he has always been guilty of being a tool of Duke Iris in the birch forest of the stars, attracting blood clans to hinder the prince's mission.

"Compared with the hardships and hardships you have endured, this point of boredom is not worth mentioning," Genard sighed: "Compared with the bloody wars in the bloody year, this point of boredom is not worth mentioning. "

Thales didn't speak.

His brow furrowed unconsciously.

The Year of Blood.

Bloody war.

The team moved forward slowly. Although it might be the last journey, the patrol team and the Grand Duke's personal guards composed of northerners were still doing their best to clear the way and guard the surrounding area.

"Thank you, Genard." The second prince turned his head and looked at the veteran Genard who followed from Yongxing City with a deep expression: "Your service in the past six years has actually far exceeded what you owe to Duke John." Gratitude."

"No, Your Highness," Genard nodded respectfully, "I should thank you."

"As for the kindness I owe Lord Duke John..." His expression sank, with unresolved pain floating between his brows, he subconsciously turned his face away:

"No, that's something I can't pay back in my life."

Thales stared fixedly at the back of the veteran leading the horse in front of him.

The prince took a deep breath and remembered the small stone urn he had seen in Canxing's tomb: "John Canxing, Duke of Star Lake, I heard you say something about him...humorous and approachable?"

Hearing the familiar name, Genard couldn't help shaking slightly.

"Yes, Your Highness, but the Duke's approachability is not the same as yours..."

It seems that as soon as that person was mentioned, Genard's expression and spirit came alive: "I still remember the day when I was recruited... Although the Duke is middle-aged, he doesn't have any excessive majesty or airs..."

"He is poor in martial arts, but his eyesight is good, but his singing voice is even better, and he can also play the lute... No matter nobles, peasants, merchants, craftsmen, soldiers, even prostitutes and prisoners of war, he can always talk to all kinds of people. Get it together: it's easy to find John in the barracks, because where the laughter is loudest, the Duke must be there."

Genard was immersed in the memories of the past, and couldn't help laughing: "I often even think that he is a little... stupid.

"

Silly and silly?

Thales cast a puzzled look.

"It's not disrespectful, it's just," Genard frowned, "I don't know how to express it... Anyway, those of us in the pro-guards talked and laughed with him, subconsciously treating him as a member of ourselves, not an authority The commander in hand, or the noble younger brother of Star Lake, the Duke of Xinghu."

Genard said more and more vigorously: "Eighteen years ago, at the military meeting of the Starlight Legion, the Duke was always in a daze, or snored or even drooled when he fell asleep. The nobles present were very embarrassed...For this, Captain Sonia often apologized pitifully, gritted her teeth, and knocked the Duke's head in public until he woke up from sleep—or knocked him out. Vice-captain Kenya once used ice water to wake him up. A record of waking up during a lazy sleep."

The old soldier laughed loudly: "Although the Duke looks aggrieved every time, and makes a pitiful excuse: he is not sleeping, but thinking about countermeasures in his dream."

What?

Sleeping at a military meeting?

This is...the one who quelled the rebellion——Starlight God of War?

Thales was stunned for a while, and couldn't help scratching his head: "It sounds really... um, special?"

"Of course, it just sounds absurd, after all, if he is really a fool," Genard looked at Thales meaningfully, and sighed: "There will be no title of 'Star God of War' gone."

Thales frowned slightly.

"What about you, Willow?"

Walking behind his horse, Willow, a soldier with two guns strapped to his back, was surprised when his name was called:

"um, I?"

In six years, this recruit who was rescued from the gallows by Thales in Broken Dragon Fortress, after going through the experience of being led from Heisha to Dragon Cloud City, has probably washed away his childishness. The veterans still like to make fun of him.

"How do you feel about the past six years in Dragon Clouds City?"

"To be honest, when I came out of the fortress six years ago, I didn't expect to stay in the enemy's country for so long," Willow quickly adjusted his expression under the reminder of the veteran Genard: "But... "

"Uncle Genard said," he frowned, "it is because of you that the people in the north enjoy peace."

"So, it's probably worth it."

Thales was slightly taken aback.

Willow raised his head with a bitter expression:

"that is……"

"You know, I sometimes think," Willow sighed, "if you had been here eighteen years ago, pledging yourself like this, and going to Exeter..."

"Maybe the war wouldn't happen, and my sister wouldn't die of illness."

Thales lowered his head, lost in thought.

"Really." He said lightly, as if talking to himself.

The procession moved forward again, passing a fork that separated the spear and ax districts.

"Waiya," the prince on the horse raised his hand, and over the heavy guards on both sides, he pointed to the three-story building with a terrace not far away:

"That house is the chess and card room we go to once a month, isn't it?"

"Yes, Your Highness." The attendant observed carefully and replied cautiously.

Thales looked at the silhouette of the familiar building, feeling a little inexplicable:

"We used to go straight to the Spear District and never looked at it from this angle."

He looked at the specially decorated chess and card room meaningfully, and remembered the few "classes" experiences with Ashida in it: "I probably will miss the time of playing chess in it."

"Actually, it's not too far away, if you think about it," Wyatt estimated the distance to the house: "Why don't you go and have a look?"

"No need," Thales shook his head, pointed to Nicolai next to him, and sighed, "Look at his face..."

"Now he probably wants an assassin to pop out somewhere, and kill me before we go to Heisha collar."

These words made Huai Ya deeply frown, and subconsciously looked around.

Rolf made a mocking expression at him, which unsurprisingly attracted the glaring of the attendant.

Nicolai turned his head, snorted coldly with disdain, and urged his horse forward.

"Where's your Deputy Envoy?" The Meteor asked coldly, "Why didn't you see that cunning Mr. Putilei Nieman going to Heisha with you?"

Thales' face darkened, and he shook his head: "We haven't seen each other for six years. To be exact, Putillai is no longer in my mission."

"I haven't seen you in six years, and you will send troops to the Freedom Alliance with the stars as soon as you appear?" Nicolai's face was sullen, and his words were blunt:

"Maybe I should have arrested him earlier—that man is not simple, maybe he is the middleman between Xingchen and Rumba."

Thales raised his eyebrows.

"According to Puttilai, you have been following him in Dragon Clouds," Thales sighed, "Shouldn't you know his every move better than me?"

Nicolai ground his teeth, and gave him a warning look.

"Speaking of this, you know," the meteorite said coldly, "I've confirmed it. The person who leaked that matter—the one who leaked the secret of the Grand Duchess to the dark room was not Lisbane."

Thales was startled slightly at first.

It took the prince a second to think of something, and then the corners of his mouth turned up, and he let out a breath secretly.

Do you still need confirmation?

But Nicolai's expression immediately became terrifying.

"Korumba was attracted by you."

"So, if it's not Lisbane, is it you, little prince?"

The Meteor's expression was gloomy, as if he was about to strike him at any time: "You took the initiative to reveal the biggest secret of Dragon Clouds City to the Heisha Leader and the Dark Room, that's why the king took advantage of us and came here, join hands with you?"

Nani?

It took Thales two seconds to figure out what Nicolai meant from his stupefied state.

The next moment, the prince's eyes widened, and his voice suddenly raised: "What?"

Nicolai ignored his astonishment, and continued to say in a cold voice, "Answer me——are you the one who handed over this to Lumbard?"

Thales stared blankly at the meteorite, remembering the lie he made up to test him not long ago.

The Meteorite still stared at him fiercely.

Seeing that the meteorite didn't seem to be joking at all, Thales, who couldn't laugh or cry, felt quite dizzy.

This guy is really...

Seriously.

The next second, Thales took a deep breath, letting the air stay in his lungs for a while before exhaling weakly.

"It's still the same old saying, Nicolai," he shook his head helplessly, "In certain matters, you and I..."

Thales looked into the eyes of the meteorite, and said sincerely:

"It's really not a level."

After saying this, Thales ignored Nicolai's extremely ugly expression and signaled Genard to urge his horse to pass him.

Behind Thales, the light-moving elf guard quickly followed, half of his face under the cloak stuck out his tongue at the ashen-faced meteorite.

at this moment.

Whoosh!

An ear-piercing sound suddenly came from a distance!

The team seemed to be firmly held down by an invisible hand, and stopped alive.

Many people's faces changed drastically!

Thales turned pale, as if he had been awakened from a certain scene in his memory.

The moment he recognized the sound, he hastily shouted:

"It's a crossbow arrow!"

The patrol team on the outside quickly lined up, the Grand Duke's personal guards consciously surrounded the inside, and the stars responded with the prince as the center.

In two steps, Ada slid over Jenny's horse's hooves and jumped to Thales' side. Genard habitually stood in front of the dark horse, and Willow gritted his teeth and drew out his two guns.

Wyah subconsciously wanted to pull Thales off the horse, but Nicolai stretched out his hand and held him down!

"Everyone, calm down!"

The meteorite with a bad complexion pushed Huai Ya away, and impatiently reprimanded the attendant: "This is just the signal crossbow bolt of Dragon Clouds City! And it's not nearby!"

With a tense expression, Nicolai nodded to the people around him: the northerners formed a protective formation and immediately dispersed in a well-trained manner, with a clear division of labor and ready for battle.

In the patrol team that opened the way ahead, a few soldiers climbed neatly on their horses and set off towards different streets to scout for information.

Only then did Huai Ya wake up, and looked at Thales who was also pale.

"This is... what's wrong?" This was Thales who was in shock.

[Listen to the voice, ahead. ] This is Rolf's sign language.

"This is the patrolling arrow," Nicolai stared at the empty street ahead:

"They need reinforcements."

Thales frowned slightly.

Need reinforcements?

"Boss!"

Lord Justin looked into the distance with a serious expression, and his tone was tense: "The direction of the ringing arrow... is the front, and it is the destination we are going to, the mission post in the Ax District!"

The Northerners' team, especially the less well-trained patrol team, immediately went into an uproar.

The team that had been habitually guarding the surroundings immediately turned their eyes and looked at the street ahead.

Nikolai hummed, his face was calm, and he stared at the direction of the sound.

"What?"

Thales was surprised: "The mission post? Isn't that Lumbard..."

"enough!"

Nicolai yelled loudly, interrupting everyone's uneasy guesses:

"The patrol is under the jurisdiction of the Reston Garrison's Office of General Order, and reinforcements for patrols in other districts will be in place soon."

He said coldly, with the prestige of a commander in his words: "And that's none of our business! What we have to do now is to stay put and wait for the one ahead..."

The next moment.

Whoosh!

Another urgent sound interrupted Nicolai's words!

"Boss, the second shot!"

Justin spoke with a suppressed voice beside Nicolai, but couldn't suppress the anxiety in his tone: "It seems that the situation is urgent!"

The breathing of the northerners and the stars began to accelerate together.

Thales stared at the street ahead, feeling the tension in the air getting stronger.

Nicolai frowned fiercely, and gritted his teeth: "Where is the scout, what about the reward ahead?"

"If something really happened ahead," Thales pursed his lips, "it might be stuck."

The prince didn't care about the face of the meteorite, he turned his head, and hurriedly said to a short man under the cloak:

"Eda!"

"I know, you can see it!"

Ada pouted, snorted dissatisfiedly, and said something Thales couldn't understand.

But her movements were not at all procrastinating: the elf guard rushed to the side of the street at high speed, grabbed a window pane, and jumped up to the top of the three-story house on one side in two or three steps.

In the eyes of everyone, she was as fast as a gecko, attracting a lot of amazed eyes.

On the roof, Ada lightly raised her right hand and stopped in front of the forehead covered by the cloak.

At that moment, the elf seemed very comfortable, as if feeling the breeze.

But the teams on the street were all staring at her nervously.

The Meteor snorted dissatisfiedly, and muttered to Justin in a low voice: "That's why the people we follow can't keep up with her..."

A few seconds later, Ada turned her head and her expression sank.

"I can't see the specific situation clearly, but I can see the fleeing crowd," Ada pondered in front of everyone's nervous and expectant eyes, and reported from a field of vision that ordinary people can't see: "Oh, there is still fighting in the air." voices, at least a dozen pairs..."

Thales narrowed his eyes: The fleeing crowd? How many pairs played against each other?

But the elf soon had no more to say.

"Lord Nicolai!"

With the sound of horseshoes, a cavalryman from the previous patrol hurried back, and in the panting voice, he was quite out of breath:

"Ahead...the residence of Heisha Territory...Rumba...the king's post...has been attacked!"

Everyone was surprised!

The king's posthouse?

attack?

The anxious words of the cavalry continued: "The guards of the posthouse... seem to be very bad... the patrol team in the ax area... was caught off guard, two order officers, three teams were fighting, and I saw several corpses..."

Many people frowned.

"stop!"

Nicolai spoke decisively, interrupting his incoherent report: "Just two things: the enemy's situation? The current situation?"

The cavalry was stunned for a moment, and then he regained his spirit a little while panting.

"It's chaotic!"

The cavalry sentry who inquired about the news shook his head: "The other party launched surprise attacks from more than one place. The number is unknown. They look like people from the Northland. They not only have swords, but also bows and crossbows..."

"As for us, the black sand leader and the patrol team are fighting, and the order officers on the outside are blocking the fortification, but there are fleeing civilians everywhere, and there are even people who are even hot-headed and want to take up arms..."

Hearing this, Justin's face tightened, and he leaned closer to Nicolai's ear: "Today is the day of hearing, there are too many nobles in the Ax District, and their private soldiers and guards are troublesome..."

Thales frowned even deeper.

Nicolai's expression seemed to have just been covered with a layer of frost. He nodded: "Continue to investigate, and send people to report to the palace and the Regent of Lisbon."

The meteorite turned his head, first glanced at the Grand Duke's guards, saw that most of them were stable, and then nodded in satisfaction:

"Hmph, how dare you do something in an aristocratic area like the Axe District..."

Nikolai looked at the sky in front of him, and snorted softly, there was actually a little gloating in his words:

"Whoever the enemy is, they must hate the king..."

He turned his head and clicked his tongue at the prince with a sad face: "It seems that the journey to the Ax District to seek refuge in Lumbard will be postponed, little prince."

Before Thales could reply, Nicolai ordered loudly:

"Everyone!"

"The patrol team that opened the way, after the next wave of sentries come back, immediately stop advancing, pull up the defense line, block the flow of people from the ax area, and prohibit anyone from passing through—whether it is our own or others!"

The patrol team who heard the order acted immediately—since the accident six years ago, the patrol team at the first city gate, like the palace guards, has since been directly under the command of the Grand Duke or the Grand Duke's personal guards.

Nicolai's voice was very decisive: "As for the Grand Duke's personal guards... the crossbowmen spread out on the spot, filled the defense, cleared the commanding heights on both sides of the street, ensured vision, and killed any unknown targets moving at high speed here!"

"As for us, change direction and return to the Palace of Heroes the same way... Justin, you lead the fourth team to form an interception formation, take charge of the rear, and be alert to any threats from that direction!"

The actions of the Grand Duke's Guards were faster and more agile than the patrols: they immediately changed from the rear to the front and turned to retreat. Lord Justin's team almost formed a human wall, sealing the road leading to the chaotic area, and many bowmen The crossbowman climbed up to the houses on both sides one after another, drew out long arrows, and aimed in that direction vigilantly.

Hearing the other party's orders to block and retreat, Thales sighed: he knew the attitude of the meteorite.

"Hey," Thales reminded the meteorite while turning around, "I know you really want to see him die, but if Rumba dies here today..."

"For Dragon Clouds City, are you sure this is a good thing?"

Nicolai shook his head disdainfully: "My responsibility now is to transport you back to the Palace of Heroes in a comprehensive manner, and I don't care about anything else."

Thales took a deep breath.

"Okay," the prince spread his hands: "Think about it, King Charman died inexplicably in Dragon Cloud City under the rule of the Grand Duchess..."

"If I were Qiyuan City or Jieshou City, I would definitely criticize Longxiao City for its lack of protection and even serious suspicion first, and then in the dirty deal of the king selection meeting..."

The Meteor paused slightly.

He turned to look at Thales with a cold face.

Thales shrugged helplessly: "For Dragon Clouds City?"

At this moment, the sound of the third shot of the arrow came from afar.

The atmosphere became more tense.

After a few seconds, Nicolai snorted angrily and turned around cursing:

"Son of a bitch..."

He shouted dissatisfiedly: "Gail, you take the fifth and sixth teams and go to the post to reinforce the patrol team over there-we have practiced this situation for six years, and you know what to do!"

A veteran Grand Duke's personal guard nodded, smiled regretfully, and took half of the Grand Duke's personal guards to reinforce.

Nicolai was obviously in a bad mood: "Others, retreat according to the original plan!"

In the bad atmosphere, a group of people turned around with complicated emotions, and went back in the direction they came from.

They retreated in a hurry for a few minutes, until they returned to the junction of the ax area and the spear area and saw the familiar chess and card room, and the tense atmosphere in the team slowly subsided.

"Damn it," Wyah spat nervously, "Why do we always encounter such things?"

"Calm down, Wyah," Thales said with a gloomy expression, "Remember my words: don't panic."

But Thales himself was also adjusting his breathing on horseback, thinking about what happened just now.

On today's hearing day, in the Ax District where nobles gather...

The attack, no, the assassination of Charmain Rumba?

who is it?

and……

If Rumba dies here...

Thinking of this, Thales clenched his fists and clutched the saddle tightly.

He stayed in the middle of the retreating team with a solemn expression on his face.

"Hey! Little Prince."

"You know," the Meteorite rode up to Thales, and said coldly, "If we maintain the usual galloping speed and arrive at the ax area earlier, we might catch up with the attack head-on."

Thales frowned: "What do you mean?"

Nicolai shook his head: "I mean... your head may not be cheaper than Lumbard's life."

Thales remembered something, and his scalp tightened:

"You said, that group of people might want to intercept me?"

Nikolai snorted softly.

The second prince looked around subconsciously: the street was peaceful, Ada ran vigilantly on the roof, observing the surroundings condescendingly, and the team of the Northlanders was also normal.

Thales turned around and said suspiciously:

"I……"

"I'm not so unlucky, am I?"

As soon as the words fell, an accident happened.

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