Chapter 214 Iris: Why did you suddenly fight back?
With the Air Cavalry Brigade stationed on Glass Island, Aiwass can finally breathe a sigh of relief and calm down to study hard.
Because Meg was reincarnated into Ligeia, Avalon no longer needs to rush to resurrect Lancelot to protect the country. Therefore, the queen does not need to die for the time being, which also postpones the crisis of Ying Tiansi in disguise.
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Today's Queen Sofia undoubtedly hopes that she can live.
Soon, there will be a battle between Avalon and Star Antimony. And Queen Sofia's thoughts are similar to those of Aiwass and Ligeia... As long as they are handled well, this war will be an opportunity for Avalon.
But there is a prerequisite. That is to ensure that there is no big trouble in Avalon.
Although those old men and bastards are useless, they are still the ones who hold the power after all. Isabel, who is still relatively immature now, may not be able to suppress them, and she does not have enough vicious vision to select the talents of the younger generation.
However, there is no problem for Queen Sofia to come by herself.
During this period of time, she could take the opportunity to teach Isabel something... and let Aiwass take Isabel with her.
The reason why she has not taught Isabel how to govern the country before is probably different from the reason Isabel herself thinks "I am not suitable to inherit Avalon" - because if this is the case, she would not be able to ask Master Yanis to protect Isabel and teach her.
Her extraordinary skills.
At that time, the curse had begun to spread. Queen Sofia did not let Yanis protect herself or track down the curser. Instead, she asked her to protect a little girl who was very low in the line of succession and did not even have the adaptability to be authoritarian?
"——It seems that what Queen Sofia has really done these years is to hide in the woods."
After listening to Aiwass's story, Sherlock thought for a long time before answering.
Sherlock is now "dead and not resurrected" and has missed many interesting things. So Ivester made a special trip back to the bishop's house to synchronize the information with Sherlock.
Except that he didn't say that he was appointed as the Minister of Independent Affairs, Aiwass told the rest of the things - he even told Shylock that Aleister was transferred to his subordinates. Of course, this was for the sake of
Not letting Sherlock have nothing to do with his blind investigation, he got himself clean.
"You keep talking, I'm listening."
Aiwass was sitting on the sofa, drinking sherry, smiling and listening to Sherlock's analysis.
After old Meg brought this wine over, Aiwass unexpectedly found that it tasted quite good. Now he bought some for Mr. Bishop - nominally for the bishop, but in fact he would drink some even if he had nothing to do.
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Just treat it as storage. Only occasionally there will be some storage loss.
One thing is for sure, Meg's taste is really good. The wine she recommends has some merit.
Then the reason why she usually likes to eat fried chicken and fried fish may be because there is really nothing delicious in Avalon...
Sherlock didn't drink, he just held an unlit cigar in his mouth, his hands flew up and down with very rich body language, and he kept talking: "Your Majesty has probably guessed that the source of the curse is not one,
That's why the causes of death of the royal family members are different. It's precisely because there is more than one curser... the noble red of the Star Antimony people, the spies and assassins of the Iris people, Lloyd, maybe she doesn't know, but the first two
It's enough.
"This is also the reason why she never revealed the curser - with the Eye of Avalon and Master Yanis, it would be quite simple if she really wanted to investigate. But the answer is something that the people of Avalon cannot bear. So.
She could only pretend that she didn't know.
"If you confront a country, you may be able to arouse the fighting spirit of the Avalonians. But if you are hostile to two enemies at the same time, there is no possibility of victory."
"There are only four countries around Avalon. Apart from the Theocracy in the west and the barbarians from the Wolf Kingdom in the north, only Star Antimony and Iris are left. And those barbarians have a bad relationship with us.
Coupled with the dissolute Iris and the dark Star Antimony, we can be said to be the enemy of the whole world."
Sherlock is undoubtedly a queen.
But he was probably right this time.
Because looking back now, after confirming that Avalon could not easily lift the curse and could not prevent herself from being cursed, Sophia calmly made some preparations:
She first began to publicize Isabel's hidden beauty path adaptability, keeping her away from royal communication and power centers, maintaining her purity, and not coming into contact with her brothers and sisters; then she began to prepare for the Shadow of Avalon ritual,
She planned a protector for Avalon; she also found Yanis as a protector and mentor for Isabel, ensuring that Isabel could grow up healthily.
Although Isabel's talent in art is quite outstanding, it is not enough to seduce Yannis - so the reason why Yannis, who likes to travel around the world, has stayed in Avalon for so long is only because of the queen's request.
From this point of view, arranging Isabel to go to King's University of Law to get in touch with outstanding talents of the same age and the future pillars of the country; giving preferential treatment to Shylock, who is loyal to the royal family; and even giving Aiwass the ministerial position, these are all for Isabel.
.They are all paving the way for her future rule.
As Isabel said, she has always had a good relationship with her grandmother. But Sofia's love for her is not intimacy, pampering and gifts, but exists in a more rational and long-term attitude.
That's great. Aiwass sighed.
Her Majesty's only miscalculation was probably that Isabel was forced to shut herself down due to pressure.
After all, when I was a teenager, I often put on makeup and sneaked out of the Palace of Silver and Tin to go to the theater. When I was still in middle school, I wore college girl clothes and pretended to be a school girl to go to the university. I even managed to meet a world-famous person for the first time.
The social butterfly who easily got along with the painter and made Yanis take the initiative to draw for her...maybe really couldn't understand why Isabel became autistic so easily.
"I'm afraid from the very beginning, Your Highness Isabel is the most suitable person to inherit Your Majesty's philosophy of governing the country."
Sherlock replied affirmatively: "Nowadays, Avalon urgently needs to open up and accept extraordinary people from other paths.
"Her Majesty has done everything she can in spite of the resistance to reform. She is a very distinguished and outstanding monarch, but she still lacks time.
"According to my calculations, it will take at least one generation before we can really see the results of the reform and allow Avalon's technology to catch up with the international level. If we choose to stop or even go backwards at this time, we will miss the final window period.
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"really."
Aiwass nodded, surprised by Sherlock's sensitivity.
Once the Narcissus Principality completes its independence... that technological country whose entire ruling class is composed entirely of mages, its technological foundation accumulated for hundreds of years will begin to exert its power. As long as Star Antimony is disintegrated, demonologists, alchemists, and necromancers will
The three unique talents who have lost control of each other will have to reorganize their skills.
Queen Sophia did not foresee what happened to the Fallen Division, but her political vision could easily see through the instability of the Narcissus Principality and the internal crisis within Star Antimony.
——In this case, any monarch who cannot firmly resist political resistance from all sides and continue to complete the reform as quickly as possible is actually eliminating the last hope of Avalon. But the only one Sofia can trust is Isabel.
Because other heirs may betray her, but only Isabel cannot. After all, Isabel herself is the holder of the illegal path.
Most of the extraordinary knowledge controlled by the Iris Kingdom, the path of beauty that can be secretly peeped through "artistic vision", and even easily teleported, is undoubtedly limited in Avalon. Those old-fashioned knights,
I hate it - or I should say I'm afraid of this fancy ability.
Now that other successors have been eliminated, the curser from Iris was caught on the spot during the "assassination of the minister", the problem of Meg's lifespan has been solved, and Isabel has two right-hand assistants, Aiwass and Sherlock...
After the multiple deadlocks in Avalon were revived by Aiwass, the Queen immediately stopped acting.
She demonstrated the iron fist that has ruled Avalon for many years——
The Queen displayed Ligeia in a high-profile manner, claiming that she had a close blood relationship with Meg, and was a favored person blessed by the Silver Crown Dragon. She also possessed Meg's dragon blood law - so she would replace "
Meg, who is in poor health, takes over the position of Grand Arbiter.
Although Ligeia looks very young, she is actually already an adult. It is only because of the power of the gods that she maintains such a young body.
These words of the queen have been approved by the church. The senior officials present here can also feel that what Sophia said is true.
Immediately afterwards, Avalon began to put pressure on Iris.
They produced conclusive evidence that Dean Lars Graham, as the leader of Iris University, "slaughtered students," "desecrated corpses," and "assassinated ministers"—without mentioning a word about the curse.
But the Queen specifically stated that when the Great Guardian had stopped attacking and said that he would be given preferential treatment if he surrendered, he not only did not surrender but planned to use magic to attack innocent people. If they had not been interrupted on the spot, the civilian casualties would have exceeded at least a thousand people.
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——So, what was obviously a humiliating incident like Aiwass being attacked three or four times in a row seemed to turn into a great achievement.
Immediately afterwards, the assassin who attacked Aiwass before was also picked out - her transfer to Wangli University of Law was handled by Master Lars Graham. And they used the same technique, which was extremely
May be from the same spy organization.
Because of Avalon's sudden attack, and because these testimonies can be sworn to the Nine Pillars in public to ensure their authenticity... Under this situation, Iris suddenly fell into an extremely embarrassing and difficult situation.
They have been repeatedly passive in negotiations on other matters in recent days, and the Iris newspaper office was like a fly smelling the smell of blood, and took a boat directly to Avalon to conduct interviews in person.
When they return to Iris, this matter will probably escalate further.
With Lars Graham taking the blame, the previous assassination of Minister Droste in prison also had an explanation: an anonymous senior supervisor of the Inspectorate presented strong evidence that Minister Droste was involved in the murder.
Before being assassinated, he had been exposed to the extraordinary person of the path of love in prison.
As we all know, the mainstream paths of the Iris Kingdom are the path of love and the path of beauty.
Avalon, who was being suppressed and beaten, suddenly started to fight back, and completely ignored the Star Antimony who was really attacking them, and instead attacked Iris with all his strength, who was secretly stirring up trouble - this made Star Antimony and Iris
It's all gone.
This was the first suggestion Aiwass made to the Queen after taking up the post of minister.
——It's like a one-on-one man-on-man battle on the road. When your jungler comes and I can replace him, I'll kill him first to help.
Star Antimony and Iris are also hostile themselves. They are also happy to see this situation.
Xing Antimony was also worried because of the internal chaos. When he saw Avalon suddenly fighting with Iris...in order not to burn himself, he directly stopped his actions and kept the nails inside Avalon in a latent state.
They planned to just watch Avalon and Iris fight. They even planned to add some firewood to make their fight more lively.
As everyone knows, this is a play performed by the Queen.
In this way, Avalon has some breathing room.
Because they were cut off from assistance from Star Antimony, the Noble Red Society directly lost the ability to disrupt the Glass Island in the face of the prying eyes of the Eye of Avalon and the attacks of the regular army.
This operation was named "Bear Hunt". It was nominally "a campaign to wipe out the giant forces that intended to subvert the rule of Avalon and launched multiple massacres of innocent village residents." The support for Star Antimony was only
Not a word was mentioned.
Since the fire did not burn him, the Star Antimony people did not agree to help Noble Red at this time.
So just three days after the operation started, thirty of the Noble Red's strongholds were destroyed by the thunder caused by the griffons.
The Queen accepted an interview with the Glass Steps newspaper.
She did not say that this was her long-prepared counterattack. Instead, she was pretending to be confused, claiming that these actions were strong suggestions from the new "minister regardless" and that she was "very surprised" by this.
But regarding his true identity, Her Majesty the Queen respected the minister's personal wishes and chose to keep it secret.
For a moment, the entire Avalon was plunged into curiosity and speculation about this indifferent minister.
"—So, Aiwass."
After boasting about the Queen's wisdom, Sherlock pointed to the newspaper and asked: "Who do you think this minister is?"
The first chapter of 4,000 words, the second chapter still has to wait until around two o'clock.
The nasal mucus has increased, and it feels like it is a cold complicated by rhinitis, or it may be rhinitis induced by a cold...compared with previous years, there are just a few more mucus. This is a sequela of last year's COVID-19.
In short, it is a good thing that there is no Double Ninth Festival...
