Fisher glanced at the still hazy moonlight outside and asked Jasmine.
"Um"
Jasmine next to her nodded and stretched out her hand. The fair skin there was covered with complex and strange markings. The markings were full of dark curse power. At this moment, her curse was already so strong.
Just touching the items on the ship will cause corrosion.
"My curse has become so strong that I can no longer control it. If I continue to live on the shore, I am afraid something will happen. Xianghun and my mother have sensed my state. They want me to go back to the trench to rest for a while. I also want to
Tell them what happened on the shore. Besides, in my current state, even if I want to follow Fisher again... I'm afraid I won't be able to help."
"Fisher's words helped me a lot. I will go back and think about it for a while. Then I think I will go ashore again to see other places and people I have never seen before and see how the world works.
Yes, I was too naive in the past and caused a lot of trouble to you and others, I'm sorry."
"Then, when I really grow up, I will come back again. After all, I can't be Fisher's student for the rest of my life, right?"
After hearing this, Fisher raised his eyebrows, turned to look at Jasmine, and then asked with a smile,
"Is this also the agreement of the whale race?"
The whale people always like to make promises with others, and once the agreement is established, they will definitely abide by it, whether it is the oath made by Jasmine's mother and King Gedelin to return the sword or the marriage oath made by Muxi and Blake.
In this way, compared to the fact that humans need to rely on blood oaths to bind each other, it sounds a lot better.
"Well, compared to humans, the whale race's sense of time is really too slow. The sun rises and the moon sets, the sea changes, and everything grows from scratch. All these things have no reference meaning for us. Therefore, we can only be sincere with others.
Promises that need to be fulfilled are what make us value it extra. I made a promise to Fisher that I will definitely come back again."
"Moreover, please ask Fisher to take more care of Isabel. She was heartbroken by her sister. She is actually very uncomfortable with the outside environment. I am very worried about her."
"good."
Fisher then leaned against the railing, gazing at the calm ocean with Jasmine. Her tail behind her also lifted a little because of Fisher's response.
But after Fisher's promise, there seemed to be no more words to say between them, but strangely, the atmosphere between them did not become stiff because of this.
Fisher is still the same Fisher as before, but Jasmine, the whaleman beside him, seems to have become a little different.
During the quiet time, Jasmine suddenly moved closer to Fisher, shortening the distance between them, and then she stretched out her hand towards Fisher again.
On the raised hand, the unknown black lines slowly faded away as he reached closer to Fisher, revealing her skin again.
She tentatively took Fisher's hand and after confirming that he was not cursed to suck his life away, she immediately dragged him closer to her.
When Fisher turned his head to face her, she had already stood up on her tiptoes and kissed the corner of Fisher's mouth.
"Bo"
The sweet scent that gently collided with the moisture mixed in the night wind fell on the corner of Fisher's mouth, causing him to subconsciously tighten Jasmine's palm and actively respond to her innocent and innocent touch.
It wasn't until several seconds later that the satisfied Jasmine let go of Fisher, her body so weak that she couldn't keep standing on tiptoes. Her ears kept flapping, and a touch of pink appeared on her face.
"I have nothing else to make an agreement with, so I have no choice but to sigh."
"It's okay, I will remember it."
"Um"
But the next second they kissed, Fisher suddenly felt that the nearby sea breeze was gradually getting wilder. The fierce sea breeze hit his face like a knife, causing his black hair to scatter.
He and Jasmine stretched out their hands to block the strong wind, but when Fisher looked towards the ocean, he suddenly discovered that at some point, the entire sea area below the Iceberg Queen seemed to be covered by a thick shadow.
The vast shadow was not just a dead thing, but seemed to be approaching the sea with every breath. A huge sense of oppression hit Fisher from nowhere on the boat, but he did not take a step back.
The manic, knife-like sea wind seemed to cut the ocean open, and the world seemed to become dead at this moment. From the cut ocean, the top of the head of a dark sea beast was revealed.
Because the sea beast under the sea was so huge, only the top part of its head was revealed when it surfaced.
But even this topmost part is much larger than the Iceberg Queen that Fisher is currently riding.
You must know that the Iceberg Queen was originally a warship of the Sardinian Kingdom in the north, and the shipbuilding in the North has always been the largest among several countries, so you can imagine the hugeness of the sea beast in front of you.
"Xianghun! And mother"
Jasmine's somewhat surprised voice sounded, and the next moment, Fisher discovered that there was a figure sitting on the top of the huge sea beast with his legs crossed.
Following his gaze, a woman of extraordinary beauty suddenly bumped into Fisher's eyes.
She was only wearing a dress made of strange seaweed fabric. The dress was stained by the sea water, so it was lazily laid down along the skin of the sea beast; while she herself was lazily and expressionlessly single.
He held his cheek with his hand and looked silently at Jasmine and Fisher who had just separated on the boat.
Her hair is azure, and her long hair spreads out like stars, swaying in the wind, highlighting the vast sea of blue and black in her eyes. The waves in the huge sea in her eyes are turbulent, and there seems to be something in every wave and every tide.
Thousands of living faces and thunder flashed by, giving people a contradictory scene of coexistence of majesty and kindness.
Her face is as beautiful as a goddess, the whale tail behind her is quite huge, and she has long ears hanging down like Jasmine. However, at this time, she wears a crown made of gold on her forehead, but there is nothing in the middle of the crown.
Any mark, but following the crown upward, the air above was pressed by her aura and trembled violently, and the vast ocean was simply separated in front of her and the sea beast.
That is Jasmine’s mother, the great emperor of the ocean, Scrophulariaceae.
What really makes Fisher feel a little oppressed is that the ocean outside the Iceberg Queen is now so manic that the color of the world has suddenly changed, but there is deathly silence around it, as if the sound of the ocean has been stripped away from Fisher's ears.
, no one on the whole ship woke up, it was as if there were two living people, Fisher and Jasmine, on the whole ship. If you say that this has nothing to do with Scrophulariaceae, Fisher doesn't believe it at all.
Moreover, this sudden meeting made Fisher, who had just kissed her daughter in front of her, suddenly feel embarrassed.
He subconsciously wanted to say hello to this legendary ocean emperor. After all, according to generations, she was even older than the era of Fisher's ancestors.
But how to call Scrophulariaceae became a problem for Fisher. Many alternative names flashed through his mind. After a full second of pause, he made a gentleman's salute to the woman in the ocean.
By the way, he said,
"Dear Ocean Emperor, I am anthropologist Fisher. It is a great honor to meet you."
"Haihai Ocean Emperor? That was the name my mother liked to use when she was young."
Jasmine covered her face and seemed a little embarrassed for her mother. If she had known that Fisher would call her mother Ocean Emperor, she would not have told Fisher about this.
But the woman in the distance didn't respond after being stunned for a moment. Instead, the corner of her mouth curled up into a beautiful smile.
The next moment, she just stretched out her hand gently, and the sea beast moved up a distance again, and large tracts of land-like sea beast skin appeared on the ocean, acting as a bridge to connect the Iceberg Queen and Scrophulariaceae.
Jasmine on the boat pursed her lips when she saw this, turned to look at Fisher, and finally said,
"I'm going home, Fisher."
"Go ahead and take care."
"Ah, you too"
After bidding farewell to Fisher, Jasmine jumped off the edge of the Iceberg Queen without hesitation and landed on the head of the accompanying sea beast Xianghun.
It was obvious that Jasmine's weight was not heavy, but when she landed on Xianghun's body, the sea beast also began to follow her running in the direction of Scrophulariaceae and sank toward the bottom of the sea.
The spreading water gradually enveloped Jasmine, and the dark curse on her body also faded a lot. When she returned to Scrophulariaceae, they were almost completely submerged in the water. Jasmine took one last look at An Jingli.
The Ice Queen on the sea,
"Mom, I'm back"
"Um."
"Wow."
In the silent night, as a woman's "um" voice shattered the dead silence on the sea like thunder, the sounds of countless surging oceans finally poured into Fisher's ears again.
The huge thing under the seabed in front of him sank quickly, pulling a blurry shadow and quickly disappeared from Fisher's sight.
The disappearing sea beast caused violent waves, pushing and shaking the Iceberg Queen violently. Only then did several refreshing shouts come from the cabin. It was Alagina's crew who woke up.
"Are there any enemies?"
Alagina, who was at the back of the captain's cabin, first opened Fisher's door, found that he was no longer there, and quickly ran to the deck. When she finally saw Fisher standing unharmed by the railing on the deck, she finally let go.
in one breath,
"You're fine. What happened?"
Fisher glanced at Alagina who came out. Behind her was the fat first mate in pajamas who was yawning. Even the steel knife parrot flew out. He smiled apologetically, and then
said,
"Sorry to wake you up. Nothing happened, I was just sending my students home."
"Your student? That ocean demihuman? Oh, thank God, I thought there was a sea monster attacking us."
Pahz was lying on the side of the boat, staring at the dark water below, but found nothing. She turned around and smacked her lips, but saw the plump parrot looking down too.
"Look? What are you looking at? And you guys, go back to sleep! Nothing happened!"
"First mate, it's almost six-thirty, are you still sleeping?"
Hearing the reminder from the crew, Pahtz raised his head and looked towards the distant east for a moment. Sure enough, at the end of the sea level, a little bit of bright sunlight spread along the sea surface until the entire Iceberg Queen was covered.
All shrouded in it.
It turned out that it was already dawn.
All the crew members were looking at the rising sun. The warm sunshine was spreading and giving people an unknown sense of hope. Even Pahz looked at the sun and was stunned for a second or two. Only later did she realize
Afterwards, he smiled and cursed at the group of crew members who were talking back,
"Then go wash up, have breakfast, and then go to work!"
"Clean the decks! Start the engines! Raise the flag!"
"New adventures await us!"
The newly born sun broke through the cold sky and lit up half of the sky in Saint-Nali, but what was even hotter than the sunshine was the atmosphere in front of the Golden Palace.
Countless people gathered in front of the square in front of the Golden Palace before dawn. They rushed forward, as if they were afraid of being slower than anyone else.
Although the door to the attic above the Golden Palace was still closed at this time, this did not prevent them from choosing a good location to wait for the major ceremony that would be held here soon.
A big event happened in the Golden Palace a few days ago. Prince Lensis actually joined forces with Blake, a shareholder of the Development Company, to conspire to assassinate Prince Dexter. As a result, there was a chaos in Saint-Nali. The people were very disappointed with the new party and with the Development Company.
His senses have undergone some changes, and at the same time he has fallen into the most distrustful stage of officialdom since the pioneering boom.
Various discussions are flying in newspapers, and countless different opinions and debates are staged every day.
But just when everyone was at a loss, Her Royal Highness Princess Elizabeth decisively took action to rectify the situation.
With the death of the two princes one after another, there were only two young princes who were not yet adults in the entire Golden Palace. Compared with the two princes who were not yet adults, the people could no longer restrain their anger. For two consecutive days in the Golden Palace,
Before asking Parliament to recognize Her Royal Highness Elizabeth as the next Queen.
This break with the tradition of female succession to the throne was finally included in the parliamentary decision-making process and lived up to expectations. The new party representing the people, the Griffin Party, and other small parties voted together, with a total of 460 seats. In the end, the Griffin Party unanimously voted, and the new party
A majority of the votes passed and a unanimous opinion was reached.
At this moment, in the Golden Palace, Elizabeth was standing expressionlessly in front of a tall floor-to-ceiling mirror. Next to her, many maids from the Golden Palace were anxiously surrounding her, wearing a golden female tiara for her.
Clothes.
Traditionally, the crown dress used by King Nari when he ascended the throne was only for men. However, due to the needs of Elizabeth's accession to the throne, Nari's designers worked anxiously all night to finally make a formal dress.
According to Elizabeth's requirements, this piece of clothing is smart but not bulky, restrained but not luxurious. It is most suitable to interpret a queen.
As the last golden crown was put on Elizabeth's head, she also gently opened her empty golden eyes.
"Your Majesty, the leader of the New Party, the leader of the Griffin Party, the director of the Hidden Affairs Bureau, the people from the Magic Association and the Church have all arrived at the Golden Palace and are now seated."
"Call Mathilon in."
"yes."
In fact, according to the rules, no courtiers can enter the Golden Palace before Emperor Nali ascends the throne. But Elizabeth does not follow any rules. If you ask her for rules, she will take off your head and let another one do it.
The person who enforces the rules helps her to do things.
As the maids in the inner palace exited the spacious dressing room, Elizabeth gently waved her hand to disperse the many maids with their heads lowered next to them, and walked out of the room carrying her golden scepter and long skirt.
After passing through the spacious corridors in the Golden Palace, and passing by the guards standing there with cold faces one after another, she had walked alone to the room in front of the throne room.
The enthronement platform is just above the gate of the Golden Palace. According to the rules, the newly enthroned Emperor Nali needs to walk out of that gate alone, then appear in front of many people, announce to the people that he has taken over the throne from his fathers, and swear to use
Life protects the safety and development of Nali's people.
Originally there should have been many ceremonial officials here, but at this moment, there was only Elizabeth here.
It was here that she killed her brother Dexter. Although the carpet had been replaced once by the people in the Golden Palace, Elizabeth actually did not mind that they kept the items like trophies, but after all
They had already replaced it privately and disposed of Dexter's body, so that was all.
She sat on the only chair in the room without interest. Before long, there was a rush of footsteps behind her, and then there was a knock on the door.
"Button."
"Your Majesty, Mr. Mathilon, the leader of the new party, has arrived."
"Let him in."
Matilon's old body reluctantly pushed open the huge door. He carefully looked at the decorations in the room, but found that it was clean, except for Elizabeth, who was sitting in the middle of the room with her back to him.
nothing.
But I don't know if it was an illusion, but he could always smell a faint smell of blood on the tip of his nose, and as he walked into the room, the smell of blood became stronger and stronger.
Elizabeth did not look back, but just gently hooked her hand at him. This simple action made Matilon swallow involuntarily, as if the person sitting in front of her was not an emperor who was about to ascend the throne, but an emperor.
Like a scary monster.
The huge sense of oppression made his old body even more stooped. He stopped when he reached a position about four or five steps away from the chair, and then tentatively opened his mouth,
"Your Majesty, what's the matter with calling me here?"
Elizabeth did not speak, but turned her head slightly, her pale golden eyes easily biting the old man in front of her.
The next second, she waved again, but as if she could control Matilon's body, she subconsciously made him take two steps forward.
"In the previous vote, there were 460 votes. Of the 460 votes cast, the new ruling party accounted for 270 votes, but 93 votes voted against my agenda for taking the throne."
There was a little visible sweat on Matilon's old face. He glanced cautiously at Elizabeth in front of him. Ever since Elizabeth came to power, he knew that the new party was going to suffer.
At that time, the New Party was faced with a dilemma. If Elizabeth was allowed to ascend the throne, the New Party would most likely lose its ruling position in the future. After all, she had the Griffin Party behind her and had evidence of the New Party in her hands. It would be unreasonable not to attack the New Party; and if
If they disagree with Elizabeth's accession to the throne, the New Party will even disintegrate on the spot as soon as the evidence is released, because most people will be imprisoned for it.
Before such a major decision, Matilon no longer wanted to interfere with their decisions and let the members of the new party make their own decisions.
As a result, most people decided to survive and voted for Elizabeth. Only a few people were greedy or not greedy and insisted on their own ideas. They were sure that Elizabeth could not control them. This was the inside story behind the new party's votes.
Thinking of this, Matilon sighed and said to Elizabeth,
"Tomorrow I will officially resign as the leader of the New Party, and the New Party will no longer participate in the next official election. I don't know."
"No, Mr. Martillon, you cannot resign and your new party cannot not participate in the elections."
Elizabeth's words made Matilon raise his head quite unexpectedly, and saw the beautiful Her Royal Highness the Queen with a little smile, putting her hands in front of her belly and looking at him with deep meaning,
"What do you mean? However, the Griffin Party has been waiting for this position for a long time, and their help to His Majesty is not without cost."
Having said that, it has actually been made very clear.
Matilon knew that the Griffin Party had put its bargaining chip on Elizabeth, and used helping her ascend the throne as a bargaining chip. The reward was to return to their ruling position after she ascended the throne. This should be their deal, but now Elizabeth said that the new party should
Don't participate in the election
So, what does Elizabeth mean?
"You are right. The Griffin Party placed high hopes on me and tried to use my accession to the throne to take off. But they never thought that I had no intention of fulfilling the promise I made to them. Martilon, you are
A dying old man is still a wise man, that’s why I’m telling you this, and I believe you’ll understand after listening to it.”
"Not only can you not resign, but you must also bring the new party to fight with the Griffin Party. I will teach you how to fight and how to do it. But the premise is that all 93 votes in the party will be thrown away to me.
It's better for you to have only one unified opinion, that is, listen to me. Otherwise, my eyesight is not good, and if I cut it in the wrong place with the knife, don't blame me."
After hearing this, Matilon's breathing immediately became rapid.
He finally understood that the deal with the Griffin Party was completely nonsense. Even if the Griffin Party was her stepping stone, she had no intention of helping the Griffin Party to rise to power.
She doesn't want a weak New Party or a strong Griffin Party. What she wants is two dogs fighting to the death but both are half dead!
And what Elizabeth placed in front of Matilon again was not an olive branch at all, but a chain!
For her, if the New Party can listen to her and continue to argue with the Griffin Party, then she won't mind helping the New Party continue its life; if the New Party doesn't listen to her, then it will be destroyed and another new one will be built.
Dogs are also a good choice.
Would you rather retreat and die or live under someone else's roof?
Of course, there may be some hesitation in the face of other emerging New Party members, but Elizabeth is very good at choosing people, and she chose Mathilon, who has devoted all his life to the New Party.
And she obviously knew very well what decision this old man who was dying and wanted to stay had something to make would make...
Matilon opened his mouth, and then replied with some dry words,
"Those 93 congressmen, I will ask them to resign."
"Clang clang clang!"
At this moment, the bells that signaled the start of the enthronement ceremony were rung outside, and the bells echoed in front of the Golden Palace Square where thousands of people gathered.
At the same time, the Royal Orchestra played high-spirited music under the Golden Palace, which seemed to symbolize a grand curtain and the opening of a grand ceremony.
"The soul like gold keeps flowing! My emperor, Gedelin, please continue the noble bloodline again and lead Nali to glory! Ah! Gedelin!"
The Royal Orchestra's song sounded, and countless people stood up and sang along with their singing.
In an instant, the thunderous Gedelin Enthronement Song resounded throughout the Golden Palace, as if a red carpet was being laid for the emperor who was about to be born.
Amidst the thunderous singing, Elizabeth calmly stood up from the chair. She smiled slightly and looked at Mathilon, but there was a biting coldness hidden in her eyes.
"Mr. Matilon, resigning will not silence anyone, and you know that."
The coldness flowed down Matilon's back and rushed to his head with these words. He glanced blankly at Elizabeth who was looking at him. After another second of silence, he lowered his head and said,
"I know how to do it."
"That's good."
Ignoring Matilon, who had his head lowered, Elizabeth walked to the door of the podium expressionlessly. Through the door, which was not thick, she could easily hear the voices of the people outside.
She closed her eyes gently. In the pitch-black vision, Fisher's face was still as clear as before, but the clearer it became, the more obvious it became that he was far away from her.
I let him go once again, but failed to catch him effectively
Perhaps it was because he told her that he once really loved her that moved Elizabeth, because even though Elizabeth is as paranoid as she is, in her heart, she actually expected Fisher to take the initiative to be with her instead of using this method.
A method of coercion.
So when Fisher proposed the deal, she would agree to it, right?
It's not that she is too soft-hearted, but that she has not given up on Fisher yet.
But as soon as she let him go, Elizabeth regretted it.
The loneliness of not being around him and the pain of not being able to see him made her days feel like years and it was unbearable.
"Fisher"
Elizabeth closed her eyes, feeling the pain of not catching Fisher, but at the same time, she actually felt a very pleasant feeling coming from Pandora in her own eyes,
"Oh, it turns out that I tried my best to pursue everything, but in the end I didn't get what I wanted most. Is that what you want to see?"
That sarcastic sentence never received a response from Pandora, and Elizabeth opened her eyes and opened the door in front of her without any pause in the next second.
Facing the rising sun, countless sights, countless devout souls, and countless wills cheering for her out of fear or worship appeared in front of her.
With a smile on her face, she held the golden scepter passed down by Gedelin, and walked slowly to the stage. Her gentle appearance was like an angel descended from the mother goddess and the most beautiful gem in the world.
"His Majesty!"
"Her Majesty the Queen!"
"Your Majesty Elizabeth!!"
Countless shouts overshadowed the music, singing and salutes of the Golden Palace, lifting the Queen, who was as gorgeous as gold and unprecedented, to the top of Nali.
Elizabeth smiled and waved to everyone below. The New Party, the Griffin Party, the Pioneer Company, and everything in Nali were at her feet at this moment.