"Wait...with great power," Thales looked at the sloppy little girl in front of him, but his mind had already drifted back to the past: "Switching from the side of disaster?"
On that thrilling night on Red Square Street, the words spoken by the qi magician, Ashida Sarkon, standing on the ruins of the chess and card room, rang in his ears again.
"Is this also written in this book?" Thales took a deep breath: "Is it specifically written about the person who defected?"
"No, it's not in this book." The little girl shook her head. She raised her dirty little face and blinked her green eyes under her thick glasses: "But there is another political book "The Founding of the Nation: Stars and Dragons"
"It mentioned this incident, but it didn't go into details, nor did it say who changed sides."
Thales frowned.
"Some of them were mentioned in Chapter 6, "External Influences on the Founding of Both Parties," the little girl seemed a little afraid that Thales would not believe it. She quickly put down the thick book in her hand with difficulty, stretched out her immature fingers, and pointed at Thales skillfully.
The direction behind Charles: "The book is in the sixth row after entering the door, on the fifth floor of the bookshelf on the left, between "The Collected Works of Rudore Gangaat" and "The Book of Death: The Testament of the Wrathful King"."
"Wow, such a precise location," Thales looked away from the stacked bookshelves, rolled his eyes, and was a little surprised, "The books here...are all familiar to you?"
This girl... who is she who has the opportunity to learn, read, and know all the books in the Palace of Heroes?
Is it really just a servant?
"Ah! I, I just..." The little girl seemed to be frightened. She lowered her head and was a little nervous: "Read books often, read more..."
"My memory is very good," Thales looked around the huge library and said doubtfully, "Are you the administrator here?"
The little girl was stunned for a moment, then timidly but firmly shook her head.
"Okay," Thales shrugged helplessly: "So this is the Walton family's library?"
"Well, that's right." The little girl's eyes lit up again, and the dimple on the left side of her face appeared again: "It is said that Her Majesty Croxis likes reading very much, so King Nekaru collected it for her after the war.
All the books that can be found in the whole territory, the whole country, and even the whole continent are recorded in the "Longxiao City Grand Duke's Warrant Collection"..."
Nekaru Akers.
Thales thought for a moment and remembered the majestic warrior statue on the top of the Palace of Heroes and on the stone bridge leading to the Sky Cliff.
Therefore, many of them were collected after the End War and before countries began to eliminate traces of magic on a large scale.
No wonder there are so many books in ancient imperial languages, and perhaps many books in other languages, even non-human world languages.
Therefore, even after large-scale purges, there will be more clues about disasters and magic in these books than elsewhere.
I wonder how the famous Bright Star Library compares with this place?
The little girl seemed to be particularly happy when talking about these things, and she forgot her own nervousness and fear. She continued to chatter: "...until the time of Duke Solon's reign, Longxiao City stopped collecting and collecting books.
The filling of the room, because no one has seen Her Majesty the Queen for many years, and this place was originally the corner of the Palace of Heroes, so it is becoming more and more desolate..."
"Wait a minute, Croixis?" Thales then reacted, with a surprised expression: "You mean - Nekaru's...Sky Queen?"
"That female dragon married to a human?"
Hearing Thales' name, the little girl seemed to become nervous again.
"You can't be disrespectful to Her Majesty, the First Queen." She shook her head, and her glasses were about to fall off again. The little girl was so frightened that she quickly raised her little hands to protect her cheeks, holding the frames tightly: "You need to use 'Your Majesty'
', and call her by her first name."
Thales was stunned.
"Don't worry, she... the queen can't hear her anyway," Thales looked at the funny girl who was protecting her little face in amusement, and said nonchalantly: "It won't be too late when I see her in person."
"No, if you meet Your Majesty for the first time, it will be a different set of etiquette." The little girl shook her head and pouted: "The dragon is noble and sacred, and naturally hates rudeness.
And disrespectful.”
"If a mortal is lucky enough to meet you, you must kneel down on one knee, bow your head in salute, and respectfully state your full name. You can only stand up after the other party agrees."
"Otherwise?" Thales sounded amused.
"Otherwise the dragon will hate you." The little girl with platinum blond hair and glasses looked directly at Thales with wide eyes, a serious expression on her little cat-like face.
Thales burst out laughing.
In the little girl's eyes, which were half angry and half aggrieved, Thales tried his best to suppress his smile: "Okay, okay, if I really encounter you... I will definitely follow your instructions."
"But Croxis... Queen, hasn't it been seen by no one for more than six hundred years? How do you know whether the legend of the dragon is true?"
The little girl showed an unhappy expression but said nothing.
Thales narrowed his eyes: "If they... Nekaru and his queen really fought that earth-shattering final battle back then, there should at least be some evidence. For example, what enemies did she defeat?"
enemy.
For example...Asheida?
"That's not the case! Her Majesty the Queen is real!" The little girl covering her face seemed a little angry: "The evidence is behind you, in the glass cabinet!"
Thales turned his head and looked at the glass cabinet he had just seen - the agreement between Tormund and Nekaru.
"This is "The Agreement Between Nekaru and Tormund, Exeter and Star on Handling Border Issues in the 11th Year of the End Calendar"." The little girl held up her glasses and came forward: "This is the agreement between the two monarchs.
What was signed in the lord's longhouse of Cold Castle was the earliest agreement ever between Exeter and the Kingdom of Stars. The two kings agreed not to interfere with each other and to expand independently."
"End Calendar Year 11, Nekaru and Tomon..." Thales finally gave up on repeating the awkward title and frowned: "Such a long name?"
"The appendix of the treaty is longer," the little girl pouted, pointing to the long glass cabinet: "The paper is a full three feet long - the signature of Her Majesty Croxis, just in front of the two kings."
Thales had a headache as he walked through the appendix of the first formal agreement in the history of the two countries, which was contained in three glass cabinets. From the land on the border, the people, the hunting time, the beliefs respected, to the lords’
The relationship and the "Promise" are all stipulated and explained one by one.
When Thales was about to lose his eyesight, he finally came to the last glass cabinet and found several names signed in different handwritings, obviously signed by himself.
[Witness: Krexis Numen Dara Dosal from beyond the sea.]
"Look," the little girl pressed her face against the glass cabinet: "This is the autograph of Her Majesty the First Queen."
It was a thick and powerful signature, and the connection between each letter was natural and smooth.
But the signature of another witness next to him attracted Thales' full attention:
[Witness: Bran Quarth Tebak from the Tower of Souls.]
The same skillful and elegant cursive signature, however...
Tower of Soul.
Thales thought of Ramon's words and kept the name firmly in his heart.
and.
Teback?
One of the six wealthy families in the stars, the Blade Territory that has ruled the southwest of the kingdom for generations, with a blood moon as the family emblem—Tebak.
In front of Thales's eyes, the figure of Leng Ao in the Hall of Stars, the heroic young duke, Lyanna Turbuck.
Then, he looked down again.
Those are the signatures of two kings.
[Covenanter:
The king of the Kingdom of Exeter, the king supported by the people of the North, the lord of Longxiao City
Nekaru Brewster Akers
Covenanter:
The supreme king of the Kingdom of Stars, the legacy of the empire’s orthodox imperial family, and the lord of Eternal Star City
Tormund Komorra Carother Brightstar]
Both signatures have one thing in common:
ugly.
Ugly.
Not ordinary ugly!
Nekaru's signature is like a child who has just learned to write with a pen, slowly pulling it out from the paper stroke by stroke. It is immature and stiff, as if he is afraid that if he writes too fast, he will make mistakes.
Tormund's signature is a series of rapid continuous strokes, so sloppy that the spelling is almost unclear, just like a person who is self-aware of his handwriting and uses rapid continuous strokes to cover it up.
Thales looked at his ancestor's scrawled signature like an octopus tentacle, and suddenly felt that the handwriting he had learned in more than a month was at least legible.
"King Nekaru has a mysterious origin, but many people think that he is a commoner, so he has little opportunity to receive education. His handwriting..." The little girl noticed Thales's gaze and said sarcastically: "And King Tormund also
He is just an illegal illegitimate son of the imperial family. It is said that he was quite ostracized when he was young, so probably..."
Thales laughed dumbly.
It seems that the founding monarchs of both countries were rough men who couldn't even write their own names well.
Compared with the neat and beautiful signatures of the witnesses in the row above, Thales could even imagine the hesitation and confusion of the two kings when they signed their signatures, as well as the sudden feeling of confidant in their hearts after seeing each other's signatures.
Cherish each other.
But at this moment, Thales was slightly startled.
Tormund Komora Carother Brightstar
Tormund's full name.
Despite Tormund's scrawled handwriting, he could just barely make out the initials of each name.
t-tormund
c-Comorra
k-karother
s-稨星
Thales trembled suddenly!
The little girl noticed something strange about Thales. She reached out to wipe off the stains on the glass that were stained by her own face, and then raised her head strangely: "What's wrong?"
At this moment, another voice came from afar.
"Little slippery! Little slippery!"
Hearing this voice, the face of the little girl wearing glasses trembled, and she started trembling uncontrollably like a little mouse encountering a cat.
Thales raised his head in surprise.
It was an extremely impatient childish voice, coming from behind the bookshelf: "Why are you dragging your feet? Have you finished writing!"
As the sound got closer, its owner appeared in front of Thales and the little girl.
It was another teenage girl who looked a head taller than the sloppy girl wearing glasses.
This new girl has brown hair and blue eyes. She has a delicate face. She is wearing a gorgeous handmade children's skirt. The sleeves and neckline are exquisitely decorated. She also has a beautiful hair accessory in her hair. If it weren't for the angry expression on her face,
Her expression is almost that of a perfect doll from her previous life.
The new girl saw Thales, but she just glanced at the latter's clothes that were stained with dust due to wrestling, then turned around arrogantly and looked at the trembling, thin girl with glasses: "Little slicker!"
The face of the little girl with glasses was full of panic, "Miss..."
"The etiquette class assignment assigned by the teacher is due tomorrow. Why haven't you finished it yet? If I find you secretly reading Xianshu again..." The new girl paused with dissatisfaction and glanced at the two of them.
The stack of books behind him.
She first showed an expression of "Sure enough," then frowned and stared viciously at the girl with glasses whom she called a naughty little girl.
The little slick man shivered and cast a look for help at Thales who didn't know what was going on.
"Okay!" The new girl pulled up her neat dress and walked forward with an angry look on her face: "You are indeed peeking at Xianshu! You little naughty boy!"
The next second, in Thales' surprised eyes, the new girl raised her hands high.
Hit the bespectacled girl named Little Slippery hard on the head!
The little slipper screamed in pain, her lips trembled, she closed her eyes, and squatted down holding her head in fear.
"You should obediently write tomorrow's homework for me!" Thales looked at the new girl's disgusted expression in shock. She took a step forward and raised her hand again: "Instead of..."
"Ignore the master's homework and read some leisurely books!"
This time, she hit the little slicker directly in the face!
"Boom!" The little girl's black glasses fell to the ground.
"I don't have...Miss Alex," the little naughty boy seemed to be used to this kind of encounter. He didn't resist at all, but sniffed and cried: "I don't have...the homework for etiquette class...I need to find...the topic."
, we have to check... the establishment of Xingchen and Exeter..."
"You still talk back!" The beautiful new girl raised her lips angrily: "You are just my maid! How dare you!"
But the hand she raised again was firmly grasped by Thales.
"Wait!" Thales said with a dissatisfied look on his face: "Are you a noble? Beating and scolding servants at will is not the proper behavior!"
The girl with brown hair and blue eyes glanced at Thales dissatisfiedly: "Who are you!"
The black-haired boy let go of the girl's hand and showed an angry look: "Tiles Bright Star!"
The poor little slipper squatted on the ground with fear, squinted his eyes, and touched his glasses tremblingly.
"Oh, that prince who came to beg for mercy from grandpa." The new girl was stunned for a moment, then looked at the boy who was a head shorter than herself, and smiled contemptuously: "I am giving my maid the punishment she deserves. You
Better stay away!"
Damn it.
Thales frowned and looked at the unruly young lady in front of him.
I thought that after escaping from the abandoned house, I would be able to escape from the naughty child.
At this moment.
"Miss Alex!"
Thales and the new girl looked at each other for a moment.
Lord Michael, an official of the Palace of Heroes who brought Thales into the Hall of Heroes, appeared in front of them and stopped the conflict between several children with a cold face.
"Your Highness Thales," Lord Michael first saluted Thales, and then said slowly, "You have gone too far."
Michael's arrival seemed to make the girl scruple, she pouted and turned her head to look to the other side.
"Your Excellency," Thales nodded. He turned his head and looked worriedly at the sloppy little slipper who had just touched his glasses: "Here..."
Michael frowned, and he looked at the brown-haired girl with concern in his eyes.
"This is Alex," Michael sighed and stretched out his hand to the little girl in exquisite clothes: "Miss Alex Walton is the granddaughter of His Majesty Nunn."
"Miss Alex, this is His Highness Thales Brightstar, the son of King Kessel from the Kingdom of Stars."
Following Michael's introduction and his urging eyes, the little girl Alex first raised her head arrogantly, then snorted from her nose, then reluctantly pulled up her skirt and reluctantly moved toward Thales.
A gift.
Thales nodded and frowned: Alex Walton?
It sounds like a boy's name.
Moreover, the granddaughter of King Nun? Never heard of Prince Morar having a daughter?
Didn't King Nun say that Prince Moral was not married yet?
Then, Michael turned to Alex and carefully advised his master's granddaughter: "Miss, what you did is not appropriate, especially in front of His Highness Thales of the Star..."
"Michael!" Alex, the granddaughter of Nunn VII, pouted dissatisfied: "This is my maid, and our family is responsible for her food and accommodation..."
"And this prince wants to..."
"Miss Alex!" Michael showed a rare stern look, and his words contained anger: "This is not your bedroom! It is King Nekaru's library!"
Alex was startled, and she shrank, as if she was a little afraid of Michael.
"Huh," Alex tugged on his hair accessories, his eyes were burning, and he unceremoniously picked up the little slipper who was still squatting on the ground: "Follow me, little slipper."
The little slipper was pulled a step further. She clutched her glasses tightly, her eyes red.
"Let's go back to the bedroom to resolve this matter!" Alex said harshly, glanced at Thales and Michael, and turned around to leave.
Little Hua Tou had an uneasy expression, lowered his head and followed tremblingly, and looked back at Thales, his eyes full of fear.
Thales clenched his fists.
Looking at the neat and sloppy figures of the two girls walking away, Michael sighed.
He picked up the books on the floor that the little naughty boy had not had time to put away, and stuffed them into the bookshelf one by one: "Miss Alex is the elder brother of His Highness Morar, the daughter of His Highness Suril, the eldest son of the king, who died young. She lost her parents prematurely.
, His Majesty Nuen is overly pampered, so..."
Michael shook his head.
Thales showed an ugly smile.
I see.
Is it the eldest son of King Nun who died young?
So, plus the assassination of Prince Morar...
The lords of Longxiao City, the Walton family of Dragon Spear in the Cloud, indeed have no direct male heir.
"How did he die?" Thales looked at the dragon's coat of arms in the glass cabinet and said silently: "That... His Highness Suril?"
Michael lowered his head and frowned.
"More than ten years ago, there was a hunting accident." In Thales's eyes, Michael's eyes were gloomy and his tone was decadent: "I was still in the White Blade Guards at the time. I was supposed to be responsible for his safety, but I failed to protect him."
Michael shook his head numbly.
Thales turned his gaze.
"Please follow me back to your bedroom," Michael seemed unwilling to say more. He quickly adjusted his expression, turned around, and added seriously: "I believe your entourage is already waiting for you.
——And you have to attend the banquet tonight."
Thales was startled and raised his head.
By the way, he must find Putilai.
Tell him exactly what is going on here, and then seek his wise help.
especially……
"Furthermore, His Majesty asked me to bring you a sentence to answer what you conveyed through Nicolai." Michael said calmly.
Thales stared blankly.
King Nun?
Lord Michael narrowed his eyes:
"His Majesty has agreed that he will temporarily put down his original plan."
"Please feel free to do it, as long as it achieves His Majesty's wishes."
"Find the murderer and avenge his blood relatives."