The Black Duke of the Pirate

In front is an open green lawn, an infinite blue sky on one side, undulating grass slopes on both sides, and a wide and clean corridor in the middle, leading directly to the golden palace in front, which is the residence of His Royal Highness.

Capello Clovis, the only prince of the current Polkaja Kingdom, is about 25 years old. Dawn has only heard of the prince's name in Polkaja newspapers and knows that he is the only successor to the kingdom, but he has not

I've seen the prince's portrait.

Entering Clovis's mansion, you look up and see magnificent and luxurious decorations in all directions. Any item taken out can be enough to earn more than three years of income for an ordinary civilian family.

"Your Highness." Barron knelt down and bowed after walking in.

Dawn also stopped and looked at Capello Clovis in front of him. The prince was nearly two meters tall, had blond hair, and was wearing a black dress. The center sides of the dress and both cuffs were inlaid with gold patterns, and his chest

It is a bouquet of scarves like lilies.

His lower body was in black trousers and riding boots, but there was a luxurious long sword hanging on his left waist.

The prince was also looking at Mingxiao who was standing in the audience. Mingxiao was dressed extremely poorly. The old shirt on his upper body still had many holes in it. The shorts on his lower body were also in tatters. Most of the slippers on his feet were broken. There was a handle hanging from his waist.

The noble command sword, a tachi.

Looking at the bandaged wounds all over Mingxiao's body, Clovis said expressionlessly: "Your Excellency, is the rebel leader Reinhardt?"

The rebel leader... Mingxia glanced at Barron silently, as if to warn him.

"Your Highness, this is the warrior Reinhardt." Barron wiped the sweat from his forehead and said hurriedly.

"Why don't you kneel down and worship me when you see me?"

Looking at Clovis's somewhat arrogant face, Mingxiao's expression turned cold: "Why should I kneel down?"

Barron looked at the somewhat nervous scene, but felt a little worried, and hurriedly shouted to the prince: "Your Highness..."

Clovis stretched out his hand to stop him, looked down at him, and saw Mingxiao's left hand always resting on the command sword: "It seems that you are also a swordsman, and I also practice swordsmanship all year round, so I came to see your strength."

Start fighting right away? Is there such a brainless prince?

Dawn was a little uncertain about Clovis's behavior.

"good!"

Dawn looked at Clovis quietly.

Clovis struck with his sword. The blade was two fingers wide and similar in length to the command sword, but it had no curvature and the handle was in the shape of a cross.

The cross sword is more gorgeous, and the swordsmanship is mainly thrusting. The single-grip method requires relatively high swordsmanship, and Clovis is obviously not very good at it.

Bang!

Mingxia raised the unsheathed command sword in his left hand, instantly blocking Clovis's attack. Clovis felt his palm go numb and almost let go of the sword.

"Why don't you draw your sword?" Clovis was stunned.

"Okay!" Dawn replied, Clovis regained his fighting stance and thrust his sword from the left.

Hey...a cold light lit up in the hall. The moment the command sword in Mingxiao's left hand was unsheathed, it came to Clovis's eyes. Clovis was shocked and immediately drew his sword back, but when he saw Mingxiao

The tip of the sword did not retreat at all and continued to chop towards his head.

"Your Highness, are you still competing?" Mingxiao looked at Clovis with a smile, commanding the sword with his left hand to land on the surface of Clovis's forehead. Clovis felt a hint of coldness from the blade, and was surprised by the power of the opponent's swordsmanship.

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"Forget it." Clovis shook his head, inserted the long sword into his waist, and then suddenly laughed: "I heard from Barron that Mr. Reinhardt has superb swordsmanship, but I didn't believe it at first."

Dawn looked at Holt Barron in surprise, and saw the latter nodding with a smile: "Your Highness, we should talk about business first."

"Oh, right." Clovis smiled immediately, and then asked the maid to bring food, tea and clothes. Dawn took a look at it and said, "Let's do business first."

"I wonder how His Highness the Prince would respond to the several requests I made?" Seeing that Clovis was very respectful to him at this time, he went straight to the point.

"The request is reasonable, no problem." Clovis said with a smile, but Dawn was stunned for a moment, agreeing so easily?

"But can I know why you want the right to manufacture and trade goods?" Clovis asked.

"Of course it's for survival. I led the civilians to do such a big thing just to let them have enough to eat." Dawn thought for a while and replied, but he didn't expect Clovis to ask him about this.

"Eat enough food? Now the common people in the kingdom don't even have enough food to eat?" Clovis obviously didn't realize that Polkaya had reached such a point that even the common people couldn't have enough food to eat.

After hearing this, Liming sneered: "If it weren't for the lack of food, do you think those civilians would follow me and do such a stupid thing?"

"Okay." Clovis sighed, looked at Barron and said, "How is the kingdom's financial situation currently?"

"The finances are sufficient, but where is Lord Kotok?" Barron expressed his worries. Although the power to quell the riots is currently given to Clovis, the financial power of the kingdom is still in the hands of Kotok.

Billionaire's funds are nothing to Polkaya's finances, but Kotok will definitely not let him do this so easily.

"It doesn't matter, I'll talk to Uncle Ketok myself." Clovis said with a smile.

"It shouldn't be such a simple matter for His Highness the Prince to invite me into the palace, right?" Dawn asked, taking a sip of the tea that had been brewed.

Clovis gave him a strange look, and there seemed to be something strange in the depths of his eyes. After a moment of silence, he continued: "Through the competition with Mr. just now, I discovered that Mr.'s swordsmanship is the best in the entire Polkaya."

"Just tell me."

"Okay, cool." Clovis laughed: "I've made it clear that I want to ask Mr. Reinhardt to be my swordsmanship teacher."

"Your Highness is a prince, so there should be no shortage of swordsmanship teachers, right?" Dawn could see that Clovis's so-called swordsmanship teacher might be just a cover.

"Hey, the swordsmanship teachers my uncle arranged for me are all idiots. They can't teach well, and they can't practice well. If I hadn't heard what Barron said, I wouldn't have believed that Polkaja had such a powerful swordsmanship as Mr.

." Clovis sighed, lowered his posture, and then said: "I have been fond of swordsmanship since I was a child. I have been practicing swordsmanship since I was ten years old. I have worked hard, but my swordsmanship is mediocre."

"Your Highness!" Liming interrupted, "Swordsmanship depends on talent. A person with high talent can surpass others by ten years in one year. A person with low talent, like Your Majesty, will be mediocre in fifteen years."

"You should give up practicing swordsmanship!" Mingxiao said without any mercy. What he said was absolutely correct. If Mingxiao had not inherited the swordsmanship talent of the original owner of this body, he would not have taken the path of swordsmanship. Even so, he would not be able to follow the path of swordsmanship in the future.

His path of swordsmanship is definitely not pure. Even if he is promoted to the realm of swordsman in the future, it will definitely not be a pure path of swordsmanship.

What he said was really merciless. Clovis smiled helplessly. He had practiced swordsmanship for fifteen years and knew very well whether he had talent or not. His purpose was not to ask for swordsmanship lessons at all.

"I am personally adding 300 million beli for my husband's remuneration. As long as my husband agrees to be my swordsmanship teacher, the money will be available immediately." Clovis increased his chips.

"Okay." Dawn didn't hesitate at this time, and offered to teach swordsmanship in exchange for 300 million beli. This was a business worth doing. The prince's motives were impure, and his motives had never been pure. Entering the palace might be the right thing to do.

Although the choice involves taking a lot of risk, the risk is worth taking for the possible results.

Clovis saw that he agreed without any hesitation, so he smiled and said: "But there is one thing we need to solve before that, otherwise we will not be able to succeed."

"you say."

"My request for you to be my swordsmanship teacher will definitely be opposed by Uncle Ketok. When the time comes, I will ask my father to come out to preside over this matter. You only need to defeat Uncle Ketok's sword master in front of the king with swordsmanship.

That’s it.” Clovis said.

"Remember, in a swordsmanship contest, you must crush the opponent."

A swordsmanship competition in front of the palace?

It's really a bloody plot.