Lion City, old Noble Council tower.
"Your Highness, your father has not been in charge of government for more than ten days and has not even seen anyone. Probably the only person who can see him now is Princess Philina. I think you should go to the palace and find a way to see him, just in case..."
Grand Scholar Igor is still speaking respectfully to Alanric.
"My dear uncle, I probably know why he doesn't see anyone. He may be a little confused now and can't control himself. It will be useless for me to see him, and it may be dangerous... He may not even notice that the lion seal is in my hand..."
Alanric looks a little better, but this is probably due to mental factors. He has put on long sleeves to cover his arms, but there are also some red spots under his cheeks and neck.
He was still leaning against the window, playing with a seal in his hand - it was a solid gold seal with a lion showing its teeth and claws.
That is the authority of the king.
"Your Highness... Perhaps I should call you Your Majesty now? In fact, in my opinion, the best way is to let your father never wake up again..."
Igor lowered his head and spoke very softly.
"Shut up! He is my father! He has never abused me! Although I want to get everything I deserve, I will not murder him! Just like he did not murder my grandfather!"
Alanric turned around, with a cold light in his eyes.
"Alanric, child, you probably don't know what your father did back then... I mean not letting him wake up, but I didn't kill him... that's what your father did to your crazy grandfather!"
Igor suddenly raised his head, with a sarcastic smile on his face.
Alanric stopped playing with the golden seal. He looked at Igor intently, with some surprise in his eyes.
"What did he... do?"
The sarcasm on Igor's face became more obvious. "King Ulrich was a 'filial' Prince. He knew that your grandfather had been tortured by pain, so he used psychedelic drugs to relieve your grandfather's pain every day... And like you, he took away the Seal of the Lion when your grandfather was unable to govern, and asked me to imitate your grandfather's handwriting to write a will..."
"Has he tampered with the inheritance? Why... I mean that will, was it necessary? He is my grandfather's only son!"
Alanric already had a look of disbelief on his face.
"Because your grandfather originally did not intend to pass the throne to him... The person who was supposed to be Lion King was your grandfather's younger brother, Princess Philina's father, Prince Raymondric. I was very young at the time, but I can probably guess the reason - Princess Philina did not have this genetic disease at all... and the prince had a high reputation among friends, and almost all the nobles supported him."
Igor sighed deeply, "In fact, if His Royal Highness hadn't died unexpectedly, and with the help from Princess Philina, it would have been difficult for your father to secure his position as king. It wasn't until Duke Brennus helped him rebuild Lion Knight Order ten years ago that he truly gained a foothold."
"Prince Raymondric's death... is it related to him?"
Alanric asked this sentence with some difficulty.
"... Maybe not. After all, it was indeed an accident. That prince didn't like power struggles. He preferred to travel outside every day. And he was the Cliff Bay prince at that time. He had wealth, glory, power and everything, and his life was much better than that of the king. He didn't want to go to in the first place. Lion City Being a king deals with government affairs every day - there are always some people in this world who don't like busy official duties and just want to live a free life. What's more, he does have the capital to live a free life... Besides, being a king who needs to clean up the mess for Mad King is not a pleasant job for him."
Igor seemed to be feeling some feelings too. He shook his head, probably laughing at himself.
After all, he has been pursuing power all his life.
"Then... how did he die?"
Alanric's expression is also a bit complicated.
Speaking of which, he can live a life of ease, and he also has the capital...
"Not long before your father ascended the throne, His Royal Highness the Prince fell during a rock climbing activity and was seriously injured. He died not long after. He was fifty years old and still loved adventurous sports such as rock climbing and diving. You can imagine the temper of this prince. In fact, he died with no regrets. I followed your parents to meet him for the last time. On the one hand, he even died with a smile. I guess there should be no conspiracy behind his death. But because the timing was really unlucky, many people did think it was King Ulrich at the time. As a result, your father encountered a lot of difficulties and suspicions in the ten years after he ascended the throne..."
Igor sighed deeply, "In fact, King Ulrich didn't have much power at that time, and he had to deal with your crazy grandfather while cleaning up the mess left by your grandfather. He simply didn't have the ability to murder the prince..."
Alanric took a long breath and seemed to relax a little.
"Dear uncle... forget about the psychedelics you just mentioned..."
Alanric changed the topic back to Igor and shook his head. "I think my father is probably not willing to drink that kind of thing. He would rather endure the pain. If I gave him the psychedelic drug, I think he would draw a sword and chop me to death. On the contrary, I am very interested in tampering with the will. Maybe you can try to write one for me. Your ability to imitate handwriting is really impressive."
Igor sighed, "You father and son have exactly the same temperament... But Your Highness, why did you hand Long River Town over to Duke Alma? That Duke will not be loyal to anyone!"
"Humph, as long as he is loyal to himself, that's all. Do you think I handed Long River Town to him? Hahaha... Igor, I came to you to ask you to put the Seal of the Lion on Lion Lake City - Alma stole the king's seal and forged the king's edict. Do you think my father will lead troops to attack him?"
Alanric laughed, he seemed to enjoy the feeling of controlling others in his hands.
"You..."
Igor's eyes widened and he wanted to say something, but at this time Alanric had already thrown away the gold seal in his hand.
The grand maester hurriedly caught it, but at this time Alanric had already turned his back. "A king should die gloriously on the battlefield, not in a secret room or toilet... If he can't conquer rebellion, then let me do it!"
Maybe it's because of destiny, or maybe Goddesss do have some divine protection.
Li Ang The causes sown before have finally come to fruition at the most dangerous time.
After all, history is always made up of coincidences.
Although Dalion was captured by Lion Lake City's troops, he was not taken to Long River Town.
Because not long after Lion Lake City's troops left Kewen Village, they unexpectedly encountered an army of nearly a thousand people - 'The Noisy One' Alaric and his Drunkards' Brigade.
No one knows where Drunkards' Brigade was before, but there is no doubt that Alaric is very concerned about Kewen Village.
Because here is the largest winery in the continent.
And thanks to Li Ang, this is the only place willing to do business with him...
So Alaric came to 'buy goods', and this time, he even brought enough money.
Now is the beginning of August, which happens to be the time when the grapes of Kewen Village are ripe - Kewen has a good climate. The grapes here will ripen at the end of summer every year, and when the grapes are ripe, it is naturally the time when wine is brewed in large quantities.
Alaric and his Drunkards' Brigade came over to buy wine at this time, probably with the intention of rounding up the production of Countess winery at once...
As a result, they happened to meet Lion Lake City's troops.
Lion Lake City's troops didn't know that Drunkards' Brigade was just passing by. They thought this was the army under Dalion - a guy who claimed the throne but only had twenty people under his command. In the eyes of Lion Lake City's troops, they thought it was quite abnormal...
You should know that Alma did not directly stop by Kewen Village on the way south to Long River Town, but advanced Long River Town to ambush Godric before sending people over. This was because he was worried that Kewen Village might have a large number of rebels.
In order not to waste time, and to ambush Godric more smoothly, he chose to control Long River Town first and then send people to Kewen Village.
And after taking control of Long River Town, he even sent thousands of people out - Alma was actually not sure how many people Dalion had. After all, he heard that Kewen Village had a claimant to the throne three months ago. He really didn't know what the situation was now.
Logically speaking, it should be quite normal to have hundreds of people, right?
After all, it doesn't seem very scientific to dare to claim the throne with twenty people!
But in fact, when Dalion first claimed the throne, he had no one under his command - half a month ago, he only had about ten people under his command. Now, these twenty people were actually obtained in the past few days with the help of Li Ang and Eric, and with some money in their hands.
Therefore, Lion Lake City's troops naturally believed that Drunkards' Brigade's people might be the main force of the rebels.
As a result, the two sides fought an unclear and terrible battle, and the winner in the end was actually Drunkards' Brigade...
Although Alaric's troops are just a group of ragtag men, these drunkards are not afraid of death and have a fighting goal - for the sake of the wine here, their fighting power is extremely terrifying.
In addition, Alaric goes crazy when fighting. No one can stop this heavily armored man with terrifying divine power from going crazy. After adding dozens of dead souls under his huge long-handled hammer, Lion Lake City's troops were frightened.
The troops sent by Alma were not elite troops in the first place. In fact, they were the troops stationed in Long River Town that were deceived by Li Ang. The cavalry among them also followed Li Ang and fought against Three Prophets, but the leading knight has now changed.
This group of people will of course be afraid of a monster player like Alaric who has the same power as Three Prophets. This reminds them again of how powerful Three Prophets is...
As a result, Lion Lake City's troops were generally at a loss. After more than 30% of their casualties were killed or injured, Lion Lake City's troops began to retreat in the direction of Long River Town.
Of course, this is also a normal situation for human troops. The casualties exceed 30% before they retreat, which is actually not bad.
In fact, Drunkards' Brigade of Alaric has lost more than 40% of their manpower, but they are still chasing Lion Lake City's troops with high morale - these drunkards may not even know how many people have died on their side...
Alaric was indeed quite scary when he led these drunkards to fight like crazy.
This group of drunkards couldn't feel pain or tiredness, and they had no tactics. They only knew how to swarm up and beat them up, but in the hilly areas near Kewen, the effect of the attack was quite good.
As a result, Dalion was rescued in such a strange way, and after Lion Lake City's troops abandoned him and ran away, Drunkards' Brigade of Alaric also chased after him - Dalion and his few remaining men were actually left there without any care.
Alma obviously did not expect that the thousands of troops he sent would be defeated. The rewards after the defeated army came back also led to his misjudgment. He also thought that Kewen Village did have a large number of rebels...
In this case, he did not send any more troops to Kewen Village. Instead, he gathered troops to defend Long River Town, and then publicly accused Baron Leofric of treason.
If a large number of 'rebels' appeared in Kewen Village, it certainly meant that Leofric was indeed a rebel. Alma thought that he had found the truth unintentionally. In fact, he was not worried about defeat, but was a little excited.
Because in this way, he doesn't even have to frame him anymore.
Alma originally planned to capture Dalion and then concoct some evidence that the three barons in the eastern region were loyal to the 'rebels'.
But now it seems that this evidence does not need to be concocted...
Groundless accusations can easily have loopholes in themselves, but there will be no problem in making accusations with real charges.
Just like the reason why Alma wanted to use Raphael to create real charges, it was actually to make his attack and imprisonment of Godric legal.
Raphael will definitely be taken in by White Deer Fortress, and White Deer Fortress is the territory of Godric, so it will be reasonable for Alma to arrest Godric.
Even if the king comes to interfere, he can not let Godric go.
Because Raphael did attack him, he could definitely assert that Godric instigated Raphael to do this.
While this charge is unlikely to lead to concrete results, it would give him reason to keep Godric in jail.
As long as Godric is in his hands, Li Ang and Amy will naturally come to his door.
A large number of rebels appeared in Leofric's territory Kewen Village. This was considered to be irrefutable evidence, so he directly sent people to Brave Shield Fortress to arrest Leofric.
Baron Leofric If you dare to resist arrest, you are committing rebellion...
But if you don't resist, you will be captured and beaten, and Leofric will be used to concoct testimony to characterize Godric, Li Ang and Leofric as 'traitors loyal to the Dalion rebel organization'.
This accusation is very likely to be established, because Godric has been caught by Alma, and the evidence can be easily produced.
You don't even have to give in to force--making a few documents of allegiance, stamping a few seals, etc., does not require the parties to do it themselves...
If Alma identifies the three barons in the eastern region as rebels as he wishes, then all his operations will be justified and he will definitely be able to control the entire eastern region.
Coupled with the imperial decree issued in the name of Lion King in his hand, Long River Town will also be legitimately taken back by him, and maybe Brave Shield Fortress and White Deer Fortress will be brought with him.
Although the imperial edict was only issued by Alanric, the gold seal of Lion King was genuine.
In this case, it is impossible for King Ulrich to take back Long River Town, unless Ulrich is willing to kill his only biological son Alanric - stealing the king's seal and falsely transmitting the king's edict. This kind of thing is a capital crime everywhere and is absolutely inexcusable.
So Alma feels that everything is fine. Although Kewen's rebel force is a bit unexpected, at least it poses no threat to Long River Town. He only needs to wait at Long River Town.
If nothing unexpected happens, he really just needs to wait...
Alma has achieved almost everything he set out to achieve...
Maybe, just one or two more nights will be enough.
But an unexpected 'outsider' unexpectedly appeared at this time.
Milgan·Kilik.
After Milgan took Griffin Sword Mercenary Group to send Ms. Nerida back to Lion Lake City, she has been thinking about how to secretly kill Alma.
But in Lion Lake City, he didn't get any good opportunities.
Later, Alma went out with a large army. Milgan felt that an opportunity had come, so he took Griffin Sword Mercenary Group and followed Alma's large army.
Follow until south of Payne Village.
Griffin Sword were all cavalry, and they moved very quickly. After determining that Alma's destination was Long River Town, Milgan simply came to Long River Town first, and asked others to ambush everywhere, while he took a few people to lurk in the inner castle of Long River Town.
The Long River Town inner fort is where Duke Elfwan and Madam Bella once lived, and it is also where Godric is now the military chief.
Milgan felt that Alma would definitely enter here, so he hid in the most dangerous but safest place - Godric's office.
He is right, Alma is indeed here.
Alma was busy dealing with various matters before, and it was only after he felt that everything was sure that he finally came to this room that meant victory.
He put the imperial decree on the table and stared at it in a daze.
He was probably feeling sentimental, or maybe he felt a sense of satisfaction and relief that he had accomplished all the important tasks.
Long River Town was lost from his hands, and now he has taken back Long River Town with his own hands.
The murderer of his son Foucher is about to become a rebel and will die under the army sooner or later.
Calm will soon return to the eastern region, and everything will be under his control.
Soon, the king will be unable to do anything to him...
Maybe he can take the opportunity to establish a Horton principality?
Nowadays, Horton Family is in the best situation, full of opportunities to reach higher places - but just a month ago, he was still struggling with an accusation.
This is indeed easy for an old man in his sixties to feel.
But after a few minutes, Alma's smile and contented expression were permanently fixed on his face.
He fell asleep sitting in the chair.
Milgan used Snake Heart Stone given to him by Li Ang, and all the nearby guards fell to the ground silently.
Then, at the moment Alma closed his eyes, Milgan fell from the top of the room and pierced the Duke's vest with a sword from behind.
Alma is dead.
Died in the Long River Town he just got.
He died silently in his sleep, still with a satisfied smile on his face.
At about that time, he was dreaming that he had fulfilled his family's long-cherished wish, not only becoming the master of Long River Town again, but also leading his family to a higher throne.
The place where he died is exactly the same as the place where Elfwan died.