The sky has just reached the point of being bright, but the Golden Palace in the center of Saint-Nali City is brightly lit. Gold patterns are decorated on the walls, like deep imprints, setting off this building that symbolizes the dignity of the royal family of Saint-Nali, Gedelin.

Be noble and holy.

The Golden Palace as a whole is divided into two parts, the front and the back. Look along the corridor and courtyard of the back part. Behind the pool at the back of the Golden Palace, a separate building rises from the ground. On the outside of the building, there is a golden

The Gedelin Triple Ring quietly stared at the empire outside.

This is the palace of Gedlin IX, a health care place specially built after he fell ill.

Looking inside this building, layers of magic curtains hanging from the sky are shining with pure green light. These are the healing magic that the Nari magician spent a lot of money to specially engrave for the old Gedelin IX.

Only by staying in this palace wrapped in magic could King Gedelin IX's aging body be able to survive.

But even so, death is inevitably getting closer to him, and his waking hours are getting shorter and shorter. Now he can't even get out of bed.

The rumor in Saint Nari that Godlin IX is approaching his end is not groundless. Godlin IX himself also knew this.

At this morning, the door of the dormitory was gently pushed open, and a man wearing a white robe with a rather pale face walked into the dormitory.

The man's figure was a little thin, and he seemed to have not had a good rest recently. There was still a layer of blackness under his eyes. His expression was sluggish, but his eyes went straight through the layers of shimmering curtains.

He looked at the bed hidden behind the curtain, or in other words, the person on the bed.

That is the second prince of Gedelin IX, Rensis.

He has been imprisoned here by his brother for two days, and he has not closed his eyes since he came back.

There is also a huge oil painting hanging behind the bed. The oil painting shows the young King Gedelin IX holding a golden scepter. Next to him stands a gentle-looking man. Although his appearance is ordinary, his eyebrows are full of smiles.

A charming lady.

That was the biological mother of Dexter, Rensis and Yin Elizabeth, and the first queen of Gedelin IX, Nera.

King Gedelin IX loved her the most, but she passed away early a few years after Rensis was born.

"Father...you called me?"

Behind the bed behind the curtain, an old man with white beard and hair and weak breath was wearing a pair of thin white pajamas. His expression was very depressed. Even though the breath of life was now extremely weak, there was still a trace of emotion between his eyebrows.

A majesty that cannot be ignored.

After hearing Rensis's words, King Gedelin slowly turned to look at him who was stopping at the door. After pondering for a second, he waved to him,

"Come here, Rensis..."

"yes."

Rensis did not walk around the curtains with healing magic like other maids, but directly opened them and headed straight towards the bed of Gedelin IX.

It wasn't until he got closer that Rensis suddenly realized that his father's appearance and spirit were much better today than before.

There was a half-opened sword box on his bed. From the half-opened sword box, Rensis's eyes were suddenly stabbed by a dazzling golden light, and he felt a stinging pain.

In an instant, he quickly withdrew his gaze and looked down at the ground.

"Father, why did you call me here?"

Gedelin IX looked straight at Prince Rensis with his head lowered in front of him, but his old palm stretched out from the quilt, and slowly pushed the sword box downwards. As the sword box got bigger and bigger, a handle shaped like

Weird, as if a relic made of gold was exposed in the air.

It was a long sword made of two twisted and intertwined golden substances. The hilt and the sword body seemed to be one body, and the sides of the sword body were as thin as cicada wings and extremely sharp.

It has no corresponding scabbard, and the fragile wooden sword box is the only means of restraint for this relic.

Just the moment it appeared, Rensis, who lowered his head, felt a wave of heat rushing towards his face, as if it was going to completely burn his beard, hair and skin. I don't know whether it was because of fear or high temperature.

The beads of sweat silently dripped down his cheeks until they fell to the ground.

"The Sword of Gedelin, a relic passed down from generation to generation by our Gedelin family, is a symbol of being a king. Every king has the responsibility to pass it completely to the hands of the next king..."

As soon as he heard his father's words, Rensis's throat surged for a moment. He thought that his father was going to pass on this sword of kings to him. A trace of greed flashed in his eyes and he also lightly

He raised his head slightly and looked at the relic.

But the next second, the golden light emitted by the sword burst out again, as if looking directly at the sun. Rensis's vision suddenly turned white, and then there was a strong pain.

"ah!

"

The tears and the stinging pain made Rensis cover his eyes in pain. He lowered his body and half-knelt on the ground, feeling a burning pain around his eyes.

But Gedlin IX, who was sitting on the bed, just silently held the Gedlin Sword and looked at the gloomy Prince Rensis in front of him, with an expected trace of disappointment on his old face.

After pausing for a second, he turned the sword over and pointed it at himself, keeping the light away from Rensis beside the bed.

"Father...Father..."

Gedelin IX sighed softly, stretched out his hand to touch the golden sword body that was incorruptible for thousands of years, and then said,

"Your mother passed away early. When I was young, I always had the ambition to restore the glory of Nali, so I ignored her. When she passed away, I suddenly felt that half of my world was missing. From this, I

Always make it up to you, her youngest son Rensis, for her apology."

Gedelin IX's eyes fell on the face of Rensis who raised his head. His eyes became red because of the golden light just now, and tears kept falling in his eyes.

"Your eyes are really similar to hers, so my eyes will always stay on you... But even so, I can no longer be arbitrary in the choice of the next king. What did you do to Dirk before?

I have seen all the stumbling blocks that Ste has made in secret. Your filial piety has been used in the wrong direction. This is also the result of my long-term connivance with you. I should apologize to everyone."

"When the Shivali delegation was attacked, people from the Secret Service and the Griffin Party talked to me about it. Your brother also noticed something was wrong. Do you think Hailsham and Marix went to the border for defense?

So no one will know about the little tricks you and Blake are doing during the inspection? It's just that all the forces don't want to get involved in the affairs of the Gedlin royal family...or rather, they wish! They wish you and your brother would fight non-stop!

"

Marix is ​​the director of the Hidden Secret Bureau, and Hailsham is the great magician appointed by the royal family. Now that Shivali and Nali have reconciled, the previous border matters will also be renegotiated. Many powerful figures in Sannali have arrived.

Arriving at the border to establish new borders and defenses, Rensis sensed an opportunity.

As Gedlin IX spoke out his old and calm words one by one, Rensis's head lowered lower and lower, and his hands firmly grasped his robe.

"You don't even have the courage to look directly at the King's Sword. Rensis, how can you let me continue to prefer you? You don't have the courage of a king at all... Although Dexter is prone to hesitation sometimes, his

The ability is in line with this position; even your sister Yin Lisabai, she is a woman, but she has helped Nali guard the border for so many years, and also contributed to the reconciliation between us and Shivali..."

Gedelin IX did not finish his words, but the final meaning was already extremely obvious.

Among the three children born to the queen, Rensis is a loser who has accomplished nothing and always likes to do some small damage secretly...

But in fact, Rensis is like a bright mirror in his heart. Although he is not very smart, he still understands the basic principles.

When he asked Black to attack the Shivali delegation, Gedelin IX knew everything, but did not tell Dexter and the others that he was found out because of Dexter's investigation. This shows that his father was

He knew that he was looking for a way to live forever for him...

He had acquiesced in his actions at the time and had a glimmer of hope for Blake's immortality, but now he was blaming himself like a father who was disappointed in his children. That look made Rensis extremely angry.

Gedlin IX looked at Lensis who was silent in front of him, coughed, shook his head like a sigh, and then said,

"That's all, your brother is kind and he won't do anything to you... After I leave, you can honestly be a nobleman and the king's brother... just like your sister Yin Lisabai

That way, you and Yin Lisabai can live in peace."

"...yes."

Rensis lowered his head and trembled slightly to express his agreement.

But Gedelin IX didn't notice that his hands were holding his clothes tighter and tighter.

"Ahem, okay, now Black is willing to hand over his shares and leave Saint-Nali. After he gets the demi-human, the matter will be over... Where are your brother and sister? Where are they?

Come here, I have something to tell them."

Rensis lowered his head, his voice was very quiet and respectful,

"This morning, Blake burned down the Pink Pavilion and his mansion, and left the city for Nali Lake. My brother transferred the guards near Nali Lake and ignored his affairs.

..”

"Yesterday, Fisher Benavidez ignored his brother's advice and escaped with the help of his sister. The Son of the Sea is in his hands, and Blake should have gone to find him. Now the brother is going to cook at the Pink Restaurant

Regarding the funeral, my sister has not returned to the Golden Palace until this morning. I don’t know where she went..."

"Nonsense! Fisher is a Nali orphan without a father and mother. Just because Yin Lisabai favors him is enough for him to be grateful! After dragging him for so long, he still dares to help him like this this time... Ahem, hurry up

Send someone to call them two back!"

"Yes, I'll call him right away. But, father, I'm afraid you won't be able to see your brother until later..."

Rensis's words became lower and lower, and when King Gedelin IX coughed and finished the last sentence, Rensis's expression was gloomy, and he looked at his father in front of him as if he were looking at a dead man who was about to die.

"you..."

At the moment when a sense of fear surged in his heart, before the first word from Gedlin IX's mouth could be uttered, the man in front of him suddenly rose up ferociously, grabbed the old man's neck with both hands, and pulled

He pressed down firmly on the bed.

Gedelin IX was so weak and old that he couldn't even hold the golden sword tightly in his hand, so he weakly broke away and fell straight under the bed, making a metallic crunching sound.

The rootless golden fire spread slightly along the floor, but quickly extinguished because the owner of the relic, Gedelin IX, was already in a critical situation.

"What do you know! What do you know! I ask you, father!"
To be continued...