Kingdom’s Bloodline

At that second, Anke was stunned.

He stared blankly at Thales.

"His Majesty will be delighted, delighted"

The Western Wilderness man turned his head in a daze and muttered to himself.

"Yeah, yeah"

Thales frowned.

"You know, this morning, Jen gave in to my father. He cut off a large piece of meat for it, and then ran back to the Emerald City as planned."

"What good is it"

Thales stared at Anke

"Help you make this big news, what good is Jann Kevin Dill and his South Shore leader?"

"Just to embarrass me and watch you get executed"

Anke was still absent-minded and remained silent for a long time.

"Anker"

Thales had to raise the volume.

Bailar trembled slightly and woke up.

He looked at Thales blankly, his lips trembling, he hesitated to speak.

"You know, Your Highness," Anke finally spoke a few seconds later, but what he said had nothing to do with Taylor's question

"If I die in a duel, or at the hands of a guard, I kill myself, no one else."

Anke said blankly

"But you, you said you wanted to give me a chance."

"But do you know that when you stopped me, what followed was the weight of a life?"

He looked at Thales like a walking dead

"That's brave."

"But also stupid."

In the next second, Anke's expression changed constantly, and his facial muscles tangled back and forth.

It seems that there is a fierce ideological struggle going on.

Not right.

Thales frowned

Anke's performance was wrong.

"Interesting."

Thales spoke in a calm tone, following his words

"You know, more than one person said I was stupid after I made them look bad."

Thales thinks of the people who said this Nunn, Charmain, Kessel

But Bailar ignored the prince's words.

"But why did I agree then? Why did I give you the sword?"

He is immersed in his own world, talking like beads

"I'm just a chess piece, why should I think too much"

Anke became more and more excited as he spoke, until he sobbed in pain.

"Maybe, maybe I still have a little bit of stupidity," the bruised Xihuang nobleman gritted his teeth, but couldn't stop the hot tears on his cheeks

"A trace of weakness, a trace of luck."

"Want to believe."

"To rely on."

His reaction made Thales even more suspicious.

"But it suddenly occurred to me when they were cooking me," Anke bit his lower lip, tears welling up in his eyes

"You're only one person, too."

Thales had to step up his efforts to appease him and calm him down.

"If I believed you,

rely on you. "

"Can you"

"Who can you trust and rely on?"

The next second, Anke suddenly stood up

Regardless of the pain of his hands and feet being severely bound, and the heinous wounds all over his body, he exerted force with his hands and pulled Thales to the front of him

Thales, who was astonished, had to support the other side of the recliner to maintain his balance.

At this moment, Thales found that he and Anke were face to face, face to face.

And the eyes of the other party were full of fear

"Your Highness, you are just another pawn, aren't you?"

Anke held his hand tightly, and the trembling on his body reached its peak.

Another pawn.

"What else did Jann tell you, Anke?"

"Why did he insist that I come to see you since things have happened as you said, irreversible"

The Duke of Star Lake stared at Bailar

"What other pawns does he have?"

"what"

Anke let out a painful whimper.

"Reason tells me that it's wrong, I shouldn't be lucky and indifference to God, the desert is forgiveness"

He breathed heavily and spoke incoherently, meaningless

"Your Highness, you shouldn't be weak,"

"There is no disaster in the desert god, and there is disaster in the world"

Thales firmly grasped Anke's hand, looked at his painful and fragile tears, and became more and more sure of his judgment.

Anke is a pawn.

But Zhan En is not the whole game.

"Anker"

Thales stretched out his hands decisively, hugged Anke's head from both sides, and looked directly into his eyes.

As if looking into his soul.

"Think about your family, think about why you came to the king"

Anke trembled all over.

"We are the same people," the prince said irrefutably, "No matter what we face"

"Let me help you."

Anke stared back at the prince blankly, his eyes blank and helpless.

But Thales' eyes were unwavering.

aggressive.

Don't let him back down.

In the next second, Anke let out a breath.

With this breath, he seemed to lose all his strength and fell back weakly on the recliner.

But Thales was stunned.

There were sobs in the air.

In front of the prince, Anke, who was covered in trauma, was lying on a chair in a daze.

The young man bit his lip and trembled.

Tears rolled down my face.

Anke Bailar.

Thales felt a block in his heart.

The man who dared to make a scene at the royal banquet and exchanged his life for the future of his family

Cried.

Thales suddenly thought of Rolf.

That night, the ghost with the wind, who had lost all hope, cried in front of him.

Just like Anke Bailar at the moment.

The prince sighed, sat on the stool beside him, and lowered his head.

He suddenly lost interest in knowing the answer and didn't want to ask any more.

at this moment.

"Tina."

Thales raised his head.

I saw Anke lying on the chair, holding back sobbing, whimpering from his throat

"Tina Emory."

Prince frowned

"What"

Anke took a deep breath, as if it would give him courage.

"Tina Amore, the daughter of the former baron of Amore Town," he said intermittently like a walking corpse, "she is currently living in Yatiao Town, at our Bailar house."

Thales was puzzled for a while.

"I don't understand what this has to do with her"

Anke suddenly looked up

"five years ago."

He raised his voice, his face was sad, like a death row prisoner rushing to the execution ground

"In the year when the frontier county development tax exemption case aroused the most controversy in the Western Wilderness, the Baron of Emory Town in the Western Wilderness Territory came back from a tour of the Blade Commander, but was infected with the mist epidemic, and his family died of illness, and he became extinct."

Thales was taken aback.

"But Tina didn't."

Anke stared, staring at the prince

"For five years, she tried to forget the past and lived with us as a maid in anonymity after I left my father's castle with my siblings."

Emory Town

The whole family died of illness

Thales only felt a flash of memory, as if he had known each other before.

"But, as long as you go to my house and find Tina," Anke gasped, fear and pain entwined in his voice

"She is the living, most powerful proof."

"Her bloodline, her survival, her existence, and her testimony can prove that Baron Emory's family did not die of the disease five years ago."

In the next second, Anke's voice became extremely cold and full of resentment

"It's a few important figures in Xihuang who conspired to join forces and secretly silenced them."

At that moment, Thales was moved.

He remembered.

"Afterwards, Emory Town was transferred to someone else, and the situation was suppressed without incident."

"The insiders include the three highest families, Heroesburg and Wing Fort, and even Falkenhauser"

He's heard about it.

Thales thought dazedly.

It was on the way back to Eternal Star City from the Saber Camp.

In the mouth of Cohen's cousin, Earl of Fort Wing, Delecroma.

but

"Why"

Thales came to his senses and hurriedly asked

"Why"

Anke was panting profusely with sweat, and sneered with mixed emotions.

"In order to turn the Saber camp into a talisman, to assimilate that sharp knife into a normal state, and for the hand extended westward by the stagnant Fuxing Palace, Xihuang has to endure the pain of being pierced into the heart by the blade, and has to sacrifice the lives of small and medium nobles. Interests Obviously, that Baron Emory couldn't bear the pain, the king's decree hit him too hard."

"So much so that he intends to put aside the tacit understanding with the three major families and act recklessly on his own. He even threatened to lead troops to protest, detonating conflicts, and forcing Xihuang to clarify his position and resist the Fuxing Palace."

Thales' complexion changed, remembering what a certain duke had said to him

You know, when your vassals and subordinates are furious, and everyone is proud, standing in front of the tide, you don't have much choice but to follow the tide.

If you don't become their leader, you will become their enemy, and you will be the first to fall in the pinch between inside and outside.

"The tragedy of the Emory family. This will be a shocking massacre throughout the kingdom. The three major families are selfish. They would rather sacrifice the interests of their lords and kill the natural orthodox nobles of the kingdom to clean up the family."

"This will expose to the world the long-standing backwardness and autism, cruelty and conservatism of Xihuang."

Anke closed his eyes in pain and leaned back on the recliner

"It is an opportunity and bargaining chip that His Majesty has dreamed of."

"It is an opportunity for the Fuxing Palace to completely break the deadlock."

Thales a thrill

"The evidence is undeniable and cannot be denied. The heinous crime caused the whole country to be in an uproar. The three major families are indisputably trapped internally and externally, and Xihuang is divided from top to bottom and it is difficult to unite."

"They can either submit obediently, let the Fuxing Palace handle it, and accept all the treatment His Majesty gives them."

Anke is pale

"either"

Thales was inexplicably shocked and speechless for a while.

The bargaining chip that King Kessel dreamed of completely taming Xihuang.

Hold it in the hands of Bailar.

but why, why

Too many incomprehensible things hit him at the same time, and his head was squeezed in a trance.

There was a long silence in the room.

"No matter what, your majesty will be very happy to get this bargaining chip."

"very happy"

Anke struggled subconsciously, and the straps made the reclining chair rattle

"Use it, Your Highness, use this chip."

"Use it to plead with His Majesty," Anke gritted his teeth, as if he wanted to crush the most precious thing in his mouth

"I will definitely die, but I ask him to keep the Bailar family and protect my younger siblings for the sake of bargaining chips."

Thinking about the logic behind this, Thales took a deep breath and came back to his senses.

"Why, why did you say it now?"

The prince asked the tortured soul in front of him in puzzlement.

"If you made up your mind, why didn't you take it to the secret department and even bargain with my father earlier?"

Anke's expression collapsed, and the madness in his eyes and the all-out ruthlessness disappeared instantly.

"So, Your Highness, what is the price?"

Anke replied blankly.

Thales understood and looked at him sadly

"everything."

The young man showed a numb and desperate smile and nodded

"The Bailar family will become traitors and the target of public criticism."

"In the chess game of Xihuang, we will no longer have choices, freedom, and future."

Thales pressed his shoulder.

In the next second, Anke's eyes were dimmed, and endless pain and regret ooze from his voice

"And Tina, Tina"

"She will never, never, never forgive me."

After Bailar's words fell, the whole person stared blankly at the void and stopped moving.

Like the walking dead.

Return to dead silence.

"That girl named Tina."

After a while, Thales spoke with difficulty

"Who is she to you"

Anke didn't answer.

He just glanced at Thales with red eyes, and slammed back on the back of the chair, whimpering in pain between his teeth.

At that moment, Thales seemed to return to the narrow Ballard Room.

"She's fine," the prince asked in a daze.

Anke gasped in a trance.

"the best."

"But now, it doesn't matter."

Anke no longer looked at him, numbly

"It doesn't matter anymore."

There was silence in the torture chamber.

But Thales was confused.

Does jen know about this or does jen know that anker has chips

"This is what Jen asked you to tell me"

"An irresistible bargaining chip, an opportunity for the royal family to completely crush Xihuang"

Anke nodded absently

"yes."

"But no."

Thales frowned

"What's the meaning"

Anke raised his head and looked at Thales bitterly

"In order to save my family, I did ask Duke Kevin Deere for help, and begged him to facilitate my breaking into the banquet."

"But not him."

Anke Youyou Road

"He's just another pawn."

jen is just another pawn

Thales was taken aback.

"I do not understand."

Anke gasped for a few seconds, with a painful expression on his face, it seemed that the effectiveness of Chaka wine was gradually fading.

But Thales no longer cared so much.

"Long before that, when I was looking around, I turned to another person for help."

Someone else.

"He reminded me of the plan to go to the meeting with a sword and fight in front of others to protect the family." Anke's words were intermittent, with double sadness of heartbreak and despair.

"What?" Thales suddenly felt that he touched the back of the game.

Bring the sword to the meeting.

duel.

"who"

The prince pressed Anke's shoulder in shock, shook him and asked

"Who is that"

Anke hissed in pain, but he still smiled wryly

"But he was indifferent, he refused to help me, I even threatened him with the chips, but he just laughed."

"He finally said that my only chance to save the Bailar family can only be found in the capital, on one person."

Anke's bloodshot eyes locked on Thales' body

"He also said, in case I fail, in case I have to use this chip"

"It must be given to you."

"It can only be given to you."

jen is just a pawn

someone.

who set the game

someone else.

Thales couldn't bear it anymore, he squeezed Anke's shoulder more and more vigorously

"who"

The man who drove Anker to his death

sneering man moving chess piece

The person who drove himself and dd to a dead end

In resentment, the prince's eyes burst into flames

"Who is the person behind this banquet farce?"

Thales made quite a noise, and the footsteps of Nobu and Raphael hurriedly sounded from behind

"What happened, Your Majesty?"

But Thales didn't care, he just held down Anke and waited for his answer.

the man behind the scenes

the spectator

Even in the end, the person who hinted at Zhan En, guided Anke, and pushed himself to find this so-called "His Majesty will be very happy" bargaining chip, and did not hesitate to detonate all the contradictions under the table in the kingdom

"He wants me to tell you, Your Highness"

Anke took a few breaths in pain, and with the last of his strength, he leaned close to Thales' ear

"The carriage is about to break up, what do you want to do"

Thales was shocked

What

At that moment, it was as if time had stopped.

with his mind.

The carriages will break up.

carriage

But

Thales looked at the dying Anke in astonishment.

its not right.

impossible.

how could it be

"It's too dangerous, Your Highness, stay away from him." The footsteps behind were getting closer.

Anke Bailar showed a pale and numb smile, "He also said"

"Since it's given to you, grab it"

At that second, Thales' eye sockets suddenly expanded

Before being completely unconscious, Anke struggled to stick to Thales' ear, hissing out the last few words

"Hold on to your sword."

Xihuangling, Wasteland, Fusha Palace.

In the quaint and solemn room, Delecroma put down his teacup and glanced at the chessboard on the table.

"Are you going to take this step?"

He asked the person on the opposite side of the chessboard decently and politely, "My lord duke"

"snort"

On the opposite side of him, the owner of the ruins, Cyril Falkenhauser, stared at the chessboard comfortably, unhurriedly, contemplating but looking even more terrifying.

"Patience, young man, patience"

"Good chess is never achieved overnight."

The Duke of Xihuang changed his sitting position indifferently, stroking the teacup with his hand, confident.

Dele was silent for a second, expressionless.

"But"

The young Earl of Wingburg was very sincere. He pointed to the lonely black king surrounded by white pieces on the chessboard.

"You have only one son left."

Falkenhauser's hand holding the teacup froze.

Dele pointed out the truth calmly and ruthlessly

"No matter how I go, I will be a general next step."

Falkenhauser's brow twitched slightly.

"What do you know."

Looking at the overwhelming situation of ten whites and one black on the chessboard, His Excellency coughed in a timely manner to cover up his reddish old face

"The situation on the chessboard is only a superficial appearance, and more importantly, it is the chess player."

He stretched out his finger, pointed to Dele meaningfully, and then pointed to himself.

"As the saying goes, chess meets opponents, little Dele, remember, we are playing chess with people, not chess pieces."

chess player.

Dale narrowed his eyes.

Falkenhauser smiled coldly, and dropped his hand gently.

The king shifted.

The demeanor is profound.

Full of momentum.

Dele glanced sideways at him, breathed a sigh of relief, and stretched out his hand to take the next step.

"etc"

Falkenhauser shouted violently

Dele's hand stopped in mid-air.

The Duke of Xihuang bent down and observed the chess game profoundly.

"let me think again"

Under Dele's unbelievable gaze, the next second, Falkenhauser stretched out his hand calmly and lifted the only king coin back to its original position.

"Well, think again, think again"

Dele's hand dropped in frustration.

"My lord, this is the only step left, you go back and forth"

Young Count Cromer sighed heavily

"Otherwise, this round will be considered void."

"Hey, what's the matter?"

Falkenhauser slaps his thigh

"We have a bet"

He categorically interrupted the Earl of Wing Fort, his eyes were stern and his momentum was overwhelming.

"And this is a peerless sword."

Falkenhauser pointed to the sword that was betting on the chess game in the distance, and said solemnly

"Don't you know that I just gave away my saber?"

ah.

The whole kingdom knows it.

The good quality made Dele just roll his eyes in his heart.

"But no matter how good you are about to lose this sword, it has nothing to do with you."

He smiled gracefully and pierced the Duke's heart mercilessly with vulgar language.

But unexpectedly, Falkenhauser just smiled grimly, stroked his crutches lightly, and resumed his superior manner.

"The situation on the chessboard is only a superficial appearance, what matters is the chess player"

"As the saying goes, chess meets opponents, little Dele, remember, we are playing chess with people, not chess pieces"

Dele shook his head in a trance, and after confirming that it was not the time flow back, he exhaled in pain and covered his forehead helplessly.

Falkenhauser saw his movement, narrowed his eyes, and took the opportunity to reach out.

"It's useless to secretly move my chess pieces, my lord," the Earl of Wingburg buried his head in his hands, without even looking at it.

"You've only got one king left."

The captured Falkenhauser's face remained unchanged, and he naturally and smoothly withdrew the hand that stole the opponent's chess piece.

A calm demeanor.

No guilt.

Dele raised his head with a solemn face.

"Seriously," said the Earl of Wingburg, no longer looking at the chessboard.

"Send out such a big chip like this, you should really be thankful that I have a good temper"

"If Earl Bozdorf is here, he will definitely lead his soldiers straight to Crow's Town until he burns the orphan girl of the Emory family to ashes."

Falkenhauser seemed to have never heard of it.

He just stared carefully at the board, at his only remaining king.

It seems to be able to stare at a miracle.

"You seem to be under pressure, and I seem to have no chance," the Duke muttered to himself, focusing on the chess game, "but the turning point, where is the turning point?"

Dele glanced at him and tentatively said

"Of course, if the black lion knows now, he should also lead his soldiers straight to the ruins until he breaks your other leg."

Falkenhauser was still immersed in his chess game, scratching his chin and thinking hard

"No matter how you walk, you will die, you bastard, you are worthy of being taught by Karabyan"

Dele snorted disdainfully.

"This step, you are sure to go right"

"What if His Majesty announces to the world tomorrow, enumerates the crimes, and forces us, um, for example, to abolish the army, raise the tax rate and hand over the power to appoint and dismiss officials, and Count Bozdorf can't bear the humiliation and leads the people to revolt"

The Earl of Wingburg looked at Falkenhauser coldly.

But the Duke still ignored him.

"It's okay, chess skills are not the key, not the key," Falkenhauser thought deeply, rubbing his palm, as if he was about to rub a chess piece out of it

"The key is that chess players think about it, Cyril, think about it again, there must be a way"

But in the next second, Dele's momentum changed.

"But I've said it beforehand, my lord," he gloomily stared at the Duke of Xihuang who was talking to himself.

"If the ending is not good, I don't intend to die with you."

"Wing Fort has its own place."

But Falkenhauser turned a deaf ear and just stared at his bald king

"It doesn't matter, keep thinking, keep thinking, think of dark or dawn, there must be a way to break the situation"

dark

dawn

Dele raised his head and looked at the position of the sun, feeling a chill in his heart.

"Okay, Lord Cyril."

Dele, who had lost his mood for a long time, pointed at his white king and said impatiently, "It's just a game of chess."

"I surrender."

at this moment.

"Snapped"

Falkenhauser slapped his thigh hard

"look"

The Duke, who was immersed in the chessboard world, seemed to come back to life suddenly and returned to the real world.

"look"

He pointed at the white king pushed down by Dele, grabbed his own black king, and laughed excitedly

"Isn't this a win?"

Looking at the Duke of Xihuang who was laughing wildly, Dele's expression twitched.

win you paralyzed

Falkenhauser put down the chess pieces, full of emotion, and took a long breath

"It can be seen that persistence will eventually pay off, and hard work is king"

The twitch on Dele's face became more and more excessive.

Falkenhauser looked at the ruthless ruins outside the Fusha Palace, as if plowed by nature's razor, and suddenly slapped the desktop with pride

"In this situation, in this game, and in this situation, it should be clear."

The Earl of Wingburg couldn't hold it anymore, he sighed helplessly, and buried his face in his palms again.

"Play chess, play chess, sure enough, what you play is not a chess game, nor a chess piece," Falkenhauser laughed

"It's a chess player."

Dele sent a polite but helpless smile.

Chess player, you are paralyzed.

"Like you, Little Dele, you are still too young, too impatient to admit defeat."

Dele couldn't bear it anymore.

"That's right, the whole chess game took two hours, and you spent an hour and a half on the last move alone."

He stood up and left quickly, not forgetting to swear

"Who the hell can beat you."

Looking at the back of the other party going away, Falkenhauser smiled lightly.

He turned his head and stared at the standing black king on his chessboard.

"My uncle can," whispered the duke with a sigh

"Midil can do it too."

Thinking of this, Duke Xihuang's complexion changed.

He stood up in a panic and hurriedly shouted

"Well, leave that sword for me"

"Finally won the bet wow"