The villain queen eavesdropped on my inner thoughts and won't let me lie down?

So, only he's human, and we're all dogs, is that it?

Duke Nakanidon exclaimed, "Your Majesty, where are your manners?"

"Why should I be polite to beasts? Are you a high-level member of the Magical Beast Protection Association? How much grain do you donate to stray cats and dogs each year?"

The Eternal Night Empress waved her sleeves, her aura aggressive, "Since you've questioned Roger's crime of deceiving the monarch, then I shall mercifully tell you that his strength was exaggerated on my orders. So, it is I who deceived you. Now, are you going to punish me?"

The magical power on her body swept across the room like a massive wave, causing everyone to feel a sense of respiratory suppression.

The group of nobles who had petitioned, though many were quite strong and included legendary mages, were no match for the current Eternal Night Empress.

One by one, their heads throbbed, their bodies swayed like candles in the wind, and their faces instantly turned pale.

Hearts obscured by greed suddenly cleared, and they remembered the Eternal Night Empress's terrifying strength.

She stood at the pinnacle of humanity, having fought her way through countless bloody battles, not a traditional emperor who maintained the situation through noble games and exchanging benefits.

But having already spoken, these people had no way to retreat.

Today's scene, on the surface, was venting dissatisfaction with Roger, but in essence, it was a scene that was bound to erupt as the imperial power became more concentrated, causing the nobles to become vigilant.

The power of the council was restricted, commoner officials entered the cabinet, the army expanded, and the worship of the Empress personally grew higher and higher. All of this made the nobles feel uneasy.

Magic Cola and state-owned farms, etc., seriously damaged the interests of the traditional landed gentry, which made them feel directly hurt.

The core of feudal society is the "enfeoffment" of subjects, allowing them to "establish" their own small countries.

This is the foundation of noble society, a pattern that has not changed for tens of thousands of years in this world.

In the past, there was opposition between divine right and military power, and nobles had to unite closely around the monarch, otherwise life would be even more difficult if the country became a theocracy.

Now that the Green Vine Empire no longer has a church, and the Eternal Night Empress wants to practice the extreme self, building her ideal empire, the conflict between her and the noble class suddenly became clear and acute.

She wanted the entire country to be as easy to control as an arm, completely in her grasp.

The nobles wanted to create an agreement like the Magna Carta of England, restricting the expansion of imperial power and ensuring their own rights.

It's just that the nobles didn't expect that Roger would become a fuse at the triumphal celebration, directly detonating the conflict between the two sides.

Nor did they expect the Eternal Night Empress's attitude to be so tough, not the little empress they thought would panic at the slightest pressure, but a peerless empress who regarded them as insignificant.

Duke Nakanidon endured the headache and exchanged glances with several close allies, and was elected as a representative to speak: "Your Majesty, I dare not speak rashly about Your Majesty's crime, but Roger Charles is indeed unworthy of his position. Please, Your Majesty, expel him from the City of Mysteries!"

"Unworthy of his position?" The Eternal Night Empress seemed to hear something extremely funny, laughing so hard that she leaned back and forth, gently tapping the heads of the nobles who were hoarding grain with Duke Nakanidon, "Do you, one by one, have virtue?"

Chapter 106: Your Majesty, I want to start a raid!

The Eternal Night Empress's question was sharp and her attitude was tough.

But more nobles still came out from the crowd, standing behind Duke Nakanidon and his group, expressing their support for them.

The melon-eating crowd who had been watching the excitement were dumbfounded.

They thought they were seeing a rising star fall, but in the blink of an eye, it turned into a confrontation between the Eternal Night Empress and the noble class?

It was as if a chasm lay between the Empress and the nobles.

The royal orchestra's music also fell apart, unable to continue playing in such an atmosphere, and the venue fell silent.

Some women and young people present couldn't understand what was happening at the moment, some frowned and pondered, worried and anxious, with a faint ominous premonition.

But most people were excited.

Everyone loved and respected His Majesty, but making such a strong person give way seemed quite exciting.

Duke Nakanidon's eldest son noticed that his younger sister's face was pale and she was trembling as she stared at the Empress, and patted her on the shoulder:

"Sister, what are you afraid of? When Father and the others unite, even His Majesty will not be able to oppose the will of the entire empire."

"I hope so..." Cornelia forced a smile, not wanting to say much to him.

She was extremely scared at the time, and the current scene, rounding up, was created by her.

Whether the Empress overwhelms the nobles, or the nobles overwhelm the Empress, if the losing side becomes angry and thoroughly investigates tonight's events, she has no chance of escaping.

Although she had covered up and even thrown the news into the men's toilet to reduce the probability of being suspected, this is a world with magic!

Even with a god to cover her up, her actions are still nowhere to hide in front of a divination mage.

Cornelia didn't know where this scene would lead, she could only watch more and more nobles join the petitioning crowd.

What they were fighting against was the Eternal Night Empress.

And Roger Charles, whose presence could not be completely concealed even by the Empress's radiant glory.

From helplessness and confusion to a dawning realization, he looked at the countless people standing up to demand his exile without any fear, but instead with a playful smile.

Who would have thought that a young man could stir up the empire's situation and lead to such a terrible scene on the night of the triumphal celebration.

More and more people have realized that this is not a simple dispute of emotions, but a political struggle.

Exiling Roger is the nobles' demand, but behind it represents the noble class's checks and balances on the Eternal Night Empress.

They cannot tolerate the Eternal Night Empress continuing to act recklessly, weakening the interests and authority of the nobles.

It's like the Great Ming's struggle for the national foundation, where the emperor's choice of crown prince should have been his own family affair, but the civil official group desperately interfered, opposing each other for decades, in order to suppress imperial power.

The struggle of the Green Vine Empire's nobles at this moment is similar in essence. The Eternal Night Empress's choice of dance partner is her right, and it is a very small matter.

However, Roger has flaws and has maximized hatred, leading the nobles, who have long had different intentions, to immediately start attacking like sharks smelling blood.

After all, it is too difficult to find fault with the Eternal Night Empress.

The policies promoted by this Empress are all based on righteousness, and her personal life has nothing outstanding, so she can only target the people around her.

Roger was lucky and unlucky, becoming the target of their attack.

All achievements are ignored, and regardless of whether you are guilty of deceiving the monarch, you will be branded as guilty of deceiving the monarch here.

There are too many such unwarranted accusations in ancient and modern history.

Monarchs are often forced by the situation to push their beloved ministers and concubines into sacrificial positions, or simply use them up and discard them, in order to reduce the backlash brought about by overzealous policies.

Politics is an art of compromise.

Everyone is happy, the people's share is two-eight, the gentry's share is fully returned, and the meat-eaters complete the redistribution of benefits while talking and laughing.

The empire's nobles are subconsciously continuing this set, and believe that the Eternal Night Empress and they are wearing the same pants.

The Empress did some excessive things before, but she was temporarily blinded by traitors.

Everyone makes a fuss, so that the Empress sees that her actions have harmed her absolutely loyal nobles, and realizes her mistakes.

Then the empire returns to the traditional game where everyone is happy, and continues to exploit those lowly people, and this detour is considered to have been taken.

The emperor always needs the help of nobles to manage the country!

This is the structure that has existed in this world for ten thousand years. The empire's nobles were born in this era, and naturally believe that such a structure should continue forever.

This is what they dare to stand up for.

Of course, the first wave of people who stood up were not the powerful and important figures among the nobles.

The old foxes actually provoked a group of reckless nobles who simply disliked Roger to come forward and petition, testing the Empress's reaction.

This trick is very simple. The Eternal Night Empress is too beautiful tonight, and Roger, a waste who just entered the noble circle, has overshadowed all the men, making everyone very excited.

Most of the empire's nobles are used to being arrogant.

They are real privileged classes, doing whatever they want in their own territories, with strong men and private armies under their command, controlling taxes and stipulating corvée, and not needing to pay for killing people, only needing to pay money.

Their obligation is to swear to protect the emperor and carry out wars.

The empire is invincible, and they subconsciously take this as their own credit, and are quite inflated.

There are also quite a few people who feel that if this Empress is really so arrogant, they can simply invite the church back and introduce divine power to fight against imperial power.

When they fight like dogs, the nobles can reap the benefits.

As long as the family's interests are guaranteed, how much damage the empire and the common people suffer is not within the nobles' consideration.

They think that the Eternal Night Empress should also be like this, because she is also the patriarch of the Shelley family.

But the Eternal Night Empress has seen a better path from Roger.

The noble system has existed for ten thousand years, not an eternal and unchanging truth, but this world has been suppressed by the gods and has never progressed.

Liberating magic from the military and further developing it, widely applying it to all aspects of social production, brings about agricultural growth, industrial progress, super war weapons, and also the central government's infinitely strengthened control over the local areas, which can achieve a higher degree of centralization.

The Eternal Night Empress usually doesn't like to use her brain, but her little brain is quite clever when it moves.

Just seeing some fragments of the world called "Earth" from Roger's inner voice is enough to "borrow" a brand new empire that conforms to her will.

This is also a completely different empire from what the nobles imagined.

A new empire where it seems there is no place for them after centralization.

However, the nobles launched an attack suddenly, and the Eternal Night Empress subconsciously responded with ten thousand times more toughness, wanting to protect Roger.

Roger, who can bring better changes to the empire, is definitely more important than the decadent nobles who only drag their feet.

Moreover, having dogs barking randomly while dancing is a disgrace and a loss of face.

As more and more nobles stood up to petition, she realized that these old foxes were superficially attacking Roger, but actually wanted to force her to compromise.

But how could an emperor who practices the extreme self change her mind because of some nobles who will be eliminated by the wheels of the times?

Naturally, what these nobles got was the Eternal Night Empress's more determined refusal to budge!

As a result, those old foxes who were hiding behind the scenes and stirring up this matter were in a dilemma, and could only continue to increase the stakes, and also came out to confront the increasingly high imperial power.

And publicize this matter as a crisis for the entire noble class, so that more nobles agree with their position.

Perhaps their moral level is not good, but their basic business level is still there.

Knowing that things have come to this point, if they retreat, this group of people will be completely defeated, and will only be slowly eroded by the Eternal Night Empress, losing everything they currently have.

They now have only one way to go to the dark, pulling more people into the water, hoping that His Majesty can not punish the masses, and then overwhelm the balance in her heart, and return to the correct path.

While the Eternal Night Empress waited quietly, in the end, three-quarters of the nobles present, with different expressions and even some confusion, stood on the opposite side of her.

Only the staunch royalists, led by Angelina and Margaret, the military nobles who had risen in the wars in recent years, were willing to stand behind the Eternal Night Empress, supporting the Eternal Night Empress's opposition to the nobles.

The atmosphere of the celebration was no longer there, and everyone forgot that the main theme of tonight should be dancing and romantic encounters.

Several old foxes made a few gestures, and the petitioning nobles all knelt on one knee, shouting in unison: "Please, Your Majesty, exile Roger Charles!"

In the nobles' view, they have already taken a step back in this request, and the big fanfare is just to drive Roger away.

The subtext is that we also know that Your Majesty is very strong now, and we respect your strength and contribution.

So we give you face and allow you to maintain the policies that have already been promulgated.

But you also have to give the nobles face and make some concessions, such as letting Roger leave the City of Mysteries, otherwise the authority of the nobles will be lost.

The actual loss to the Eternal Night Empress's side is very small.

Being exiled, as long as the Empress has the heart, she can call him back after the incident subsides.

Roger himself was prepared to continue hosting "New Arcana" under the identity of Dio.

However, although the Eternal Night Empress heard his thoughts, she completely ignored and disregarded them.

Those deep, sea-like eyes welcomed every "righteous" face in front of her into her heart, raising an extremely contemptuous smile:

"It's really interesting. Looking at your expressions and listening to your words, I thought that my Roger Qing was so guilty that one day of his existence would cause this empire to slide towards destruction, and you are loyal ministers who are risking your lives to support the Green Vine..."

She paused, her eyes burst out with icy killing intent, and the smile on her face became even more presumptuous: "But I am not confused, who is a meritorious minister and who is a pest, I can still see clearly!"

"Please, Your Majesty, exile Roger Charles!"

A group of nobles lowered their heads, firmly repeating their demands.

They also tore off their masks and stopped pretending.

At this moment, there is no right or wrong, only camps and positions, pretending not to understand the Eternal Night Empress's ridicule.

"Sorry, I refuse. I will never let a meritorious minister suffer a bit of grievance."

Unfortunately, the Eternal Night Empress's voice was even firmer than theirs, and her slender jade fingers pointed at the nobles kneeling on the ground, "When you were helpless in the face of the seventeen countries, it was Roger who offered a plan to quell the rebellion; when you were hoarding grain to get rich during the famine, it was Roger who proposed Magic Cola; when you were singing and dancing, it was Roger who entered the heart demon realm to save my life; when you were running around like flies at the ball, Roger was still working overtime at the Drinking Ice Manor to compile 'New Arcana'!"

"Indeed, you are all meritorious officials, but I have already rewarded your past merits. No one can rest on their laurels and act recklessly in the Empire. From this moment on, if any noble dares to mention banishing Roger again, I will banish them to the depths of the desert to plant trees, and they shall not return until they turn it into an oasis!"

Roger's body trembled upon hearing this.

He had never imagined that he held such a significant place in the Eternal Night Empress's heart.