Two braziers in the Hall of Heroes have been extinguished.
But at this moment, no one in the stone hall paid attention to the temperature anymore.
"Rumba wants to do more than just kill King Nun."
Thales finally adjusted his breathing, and the voice of Prince of Stars sounded softly: "He also wants to make the most of King Nunn's death to achieve his goal!"
The prince raised his head and looked at the four grand dukes with delicate expressions: "You can imagine: King Nuen just executed one of the five grand dukes in the name of revenge last night, and died next to the other four in the blink of an eye.
"
"What would that be like?"
Archduke Lecco clasped his hands and his eyes froze.
What will happen?
The old man looked at Lombard, his thoughts racing.
In contrast, Lumba's eyes when he looked at Thales returned to a dead silence, which made the latter feel uncomfortable.
Thales looked unusually calm, and he continued: "I don't know Lumba's specific plan, but in his imagination, you were probably the prime suspects at that time. You couldn't explain anything, and you were worried. And you were in the unfamiliar Longxiao City.
The shrewd and capable Prime Minister Lisban may be difficult to deal with."
The prince recalled the intelligence and truth collected bit by bit during the tense and thrilling escape journey starting from the assassination, and sighed slightly: "Next step, with the help of the dark room, Prime Minister Lisban and the four regicide 'suspects'
Conflict will inevitably break out."
"Push you completely to the opposite side of Longxiao City!"
A subtle silence fell in the hall.
The grand dukes all looked at Lumba, thinking about Thales' words with different expressions.
Thales walked to the rectangular table, and under the unhesitating look of Archduke Ronnie, he jumped on a chair and looked at Archduke Lecco across from him: "I just heard that even now, Prime Minister Lisban is under siege.
City gate?"
Lumba tilted his head without saying a word, as if he was not the protagonist of the conversation.
"Originally, I couldn't understand why Lombard wanted to bring the army while assassinating the king." Thales took a deep breath, recalling the soldiers disguised as patrols, and also recalled the suspicion in the cell: "I now
I believe that Lombard's army is here to intervene in the conflict and rescue you grand dukes when the situation gets out of hand."
Trudida raised her head.
"Why?" Grand Duke Zaizaota asked solemnly: "Assuming what you said is true, why did Lumba do this?"
Thales paused slightly.
"To convince you." He said expressionlessly.
"What?" Grand Duke Trudida subconsciously asked in surprise.
"You are suspected of regicide and are incompatible with the Prime Minister. In order to protect yourself, you will spontaneously accept Lomba's proposal, willingly and even eagerly to push the king's death to the Star Kingdom and me."
Speaking of this, Thales' face darkened.
"You will voluntarily become Lomba's accomplices and send troops together with Lomba to invade the stars: not only to end the threat of King Nun, but also to fulfill his long-cherished wish." Under Selma's strange eyes, Thales sighed softly:
"This is Lombard's real original plan to use calculations and framing to tie his allies to his chariot."
The eyes of the grand dukes kept going back and forth between Lumba and Thales.
The Grand Duke of Heisha remained motionless, his eyes becoming calmer and calmer.
Thales exhaled and leaned back on his chair tiredly. At the same time, he looked strangely at Archduke Ronnie's face getting increasingly ugly.
Did I offend him?
Archduke Alessio knocked on the square table solemnly, and his thick voice sounded: "If this was Charmaine's original plan, then why did he change his mind?"
Thales clenched his fists and remembered Putilai's words.
"To Lombard's surprise, the assassination was an accident," Thales replied calmly: "King Nun did not stay in the Palace of Heroes as he wanted."
"Lomba had to expose himself, enter the city early, and personally witness Nunn's death in the Shield Zone."
The prince raised his eyes and scanned every grand duke with his gray eyes:
"He has lost his leadership and control over the situation. He can no longer blame you, and he cannot use the situation and crisis to force you to form an alliance with him."
"That's why this scene happened now."
"Rumba had no choice but to take the risk of taking the city gate, entering the Palace of Heroes in person, and personally convincing you to put aside the mystery of Nun's death and cooperate with him."
Thales slowly breathed a sigh of relief: "Unlike the previous plan that relied on the situation to force people, this time, he is going to use a reason that you cannot refuse to persuade you to join his big plan."
His voice fell.
Leave silence to the hall.
The expressions of the princes were very interesting.
"Is this what you're going to say?"
Grand Duke Lecco pondered for a while: "Charmaine was planning to use some disgraceful means to pull us into the chariot?"
Lumba snorted coldly.
"It's nonsense," Duke Heisha's tone was full of disdain and indifference: "And it's full of doubts."
Thales gritted his teeth.
But Trudida interrupted his retort.
"Our Grand Duke Heisha is very scheming," Grand Duke Zai Zaita smiled slightly: "But so what?"
"Even if he was really planning to plot and frame us," Grand Duke Trudida turned to the others and gently spread his hands: "At this point, it's too late."
The Grand Duke turned his head slightly and looked at Thales.
At that moment, Trudida's eyes shone with cold light: "For Exter, you still have to do what you have to do."
"You can't change anything."
Lumba still looked blank, but the Duke of Black Sand still turned his face and nodded slightly to Trudida.
Thales was slightly startled.
He observed the expressions of several grand dukes and found that they all seemed indifferent.
Thelma came forward worriedly and pulled at the corner of his torn clothes.
But Thales smiled.
In front of the grand dukes, His Royal Highness showed a relieved smile.
"My dear princes."
"How did Charman Lumba convince you?" Thales scanned these powerful lords one by one and pursed his lips: "What irresistible reason did he give to make you cooperate obediently?"
The faces of the princes became a little ugly.
"It doesn't matter," Thales closed his eyes and sighed: "Actually, I already guessed a few things on the way here."
Lumba's pupils paused slightly.
"Did he tell you that compared to Lombard's disloyalty," Thales straightened up and faced the archdukes seriously: "In the country to the south of you, a more terrifying threat is rising? As strong as Aix.
Can Te not be able to resist?"
At that moment, the princes all behaved more or less unnaturally.
It seemed that he was not used to these words coming from the mouth of the Prince of Stars.
Lumba snorted softly.
But Thales ignored the Grand Duke of Black Sand.
This is his turn.
Thales clenched his fist lightly.
"Did he tell you that the country behind that empire is undergoing changes to an unprecedented degree?" Thales' eyes became sharper and his voice slowly raised: "Their national strength is being integrated into one as never before, and it is becoming more efficient.
Arms to use fingers?”
Thelma looked surprised.
"Did he tell you that only by striking preemptively, using war and violence, and desperately nipping the threat in the bud, can Exeter make a way out?"
Archduke Alessio and Trudida looked at each other, surprised at each other
"Did he also tell you that if you don't do this, one day your territory will be taken away, your family will be destroyed, your bloodline will be cut off, and everything you own will be wiped out and cease to exist?"
Archduke Lecco's eyebrows twitched, and veins appeared in his hands again.
Thales took a deep breath and said the last sentence: "Then did he also tell you: Everything Chaman Lombard did, whether it was a coup to kill the king or provoking a war, was a last resort choice and a helpless choice.
One step, is it the sacrifice of being willing to bear the stigma, the courage to stand up as a hero, and the righteousness of sacrificing oneself for the country?"
After saying this, Thales felt that Lumba's gaze on him was getting colder and colder.
"Okay," Grand Duke Trudida sighed slightly: "For these few words, you are indeed worthy of your reputation, boy."
Grand Duke Ronnie frowned:
"Who told you that?"
"It's not important, but this is how he convinced you," Thales gritted his teeth and ignored the strange expressions of the grand dukes. "You recognized his reason, and you agreed to cover up the truth about the king's death for him. You
You are willing to go south to the stars with him, and you accepted his condition of using the ownerless Dragon Sky City as a gift."
"Just for Exeter?"
Just when the grand dukes were in shock, Thales suddenly raised his head and gritted his teeth and said, "But don't you find it strange?"
Thales suddenly stood up from his chair, holding the square table with both hands, his expression solemn:
"If he can convince you on his own just like he is now, then why did he go to great lengths to plot and frame the blame in the original plan to force you to go to the opposite side of Longxiao City?"
The prince clenched his fists: "Why doesn't he just walk in and tell you: 'For the sake of Exeter and for everything you own not to be destroyed by the future Kingdom of Stars, please understand his last resort and cooperate with his selfless mission.
Feat?'"
Trudida raised her head, glanced at Lumba who was no longer speaking, and curled her lips: "That's what he's doing now, isn't he."
Thales looked at Lumba with his eyes fixed on his hand on the sword at his waist.
"I just said that what he is forced to do now is a backup plan." The prince said softly.
"Otherwise, unless absolutely necessary, Lombard will never use this reason to convince you that he neither intends to tell you about the threat from the stars, nor the drastic changes in that country, nor his true purpose."
Grand Duke Lecco frowned slightly: The real purpose?
Thales put his fist on the table, recalling what Shles said: "Lumba would rather you join his team because of the opposition to Longxiao City than because you sense the threat of the stars.
Join forces with him."
"Why?" Grand Duke Ronny said impatiently: "Let's be honest, people in the North hate beating around the bush."
Thales turned to him.
"Why?" The Prince of Stars narrowed his eyes, "Because this is his sincere words."
"It's more because he is afraid."
At that moment, Thales finally saw Lumba, who had always had a cold expression, slowly raise his head.
Grand Duke Heisha looked at him, and the coldness in his eyes turned into deathly silence.
Thales looked back at him without flinching and gritted his teeth.
This is a battle between us.
It is also the fairest battlefield.
Are you ready, Rumba?
And now, it's my counterattack.
"Afraid?" Trudida asked doubtfully.
Thales nodded slowly but firmly.
"What he fears is that you will find something wrong in his words."
Thales took a deep breath: "He is afraid that once you start to think about it carefully, you will find out what a cruel truth lies behind the reason of 'star threat'."
"The truth?" Archduke Ronnie murmured again.
The next second.
"Grand Dukes!" Thales stood up straight, stepped on the chair, and said with a serious expression: "Once you accept Lumba's proposal today, annex Longxiao City."
"Send troops south to invade the stars."
Grand Duke Lecco sat up straight unconsciously.
Ronnie lifted his chin.
Trudida and Olesio looked solemn.
As for Lumba, his pair of dead eyes had not moved for a long time.
But Thales no longer had time to care about his opponent.
"From now on, every one of your families, every leader, and every grand duke," Thales gritted his teeth and glanced at each grand duke solemnly, seeing their expressions becoming more and more complicated and subtle: "They will all be in the unstoppable storm."
"Disaster is imminent and there will be no recovery!"
The sword wind is coming!
Slash the Fire Knight directly on the back of his neck!
At the critical moment, Tuleha, whose right hand was clamped by Raphael, made a quick decision and decisively let go of his left hand, letting go of Huaiya, who was struggling more and more weakly.
The Fire Knight threw back his remaining left arm!
"Clang!" A sharp and piercing sound!
"Tsk!" Tuleha's neck turned bright red.
Cohen's powerful and heavy sword hit Tuleha's arm armor in the air!
The tip of the sword barely scratched the Burning Knight's neck, piercing the skin.
Blood slowly flowed out of the knight's neck, and he let out a low groan.
Tuleha's arm armor was cracked by Cohen's sword, and blood seeped out from the cracks.
The security officer felt a chill in his heart: the opponent still managed to prevent a fatal blow.
"Gamble your life? You bunch of potted plants in the greenhouse," Tuleha held the long sword on his left arm, feeling the bursts of pain from his arm, ignoring the blood dripping on his neck, and said in a deep voice: "You are not worthy.
.”
Cohen held down the sword tightly and slashed with force again, and Tuleha's arm armor groaned as it deformed.
Raphael gritted his teeth, and the strange muscles in his arm expanded rapidly again, tightly controlling the enemy's right arm and weapon, trying to create the next opportunity for Cohen.
Feeling the opponent's extraordinary strength, Tuleha turned his eyes and shot his sword-like gaze at Raphael.
"Young gentlemen."
"When your father distributed rewards for your mother's swollen belly," Tuleha said with a ferocious expression. His right arm struggled with Raphael, whose strength suddenly increased, while his left arm carried Cohen's penis mixed with the power of termination.
Strength: "I am in the snow in the wild, shivering next to my mother's hardened body, struggling through another damn winter!"
"Crack!"
The power of termination burned through his body like fire. Tuleha roared and turned his neck.
He pulled back his armour, broke away from Korn's sword, and brought out a cloud of blood.
The injured security officer was knocked off balance by him and his feet swayed.
The next moment, Tuleha let go of the Rising Sun Saber in his right hand.
The Rising Sun Saber fell to the ground, and the blade lost its scorching temperature and clattered on the ground.
Raphael watched his opponent's weapons fall around him, and warning signs popped up in his heart!
Not good.
Sure enough, without the constraint of the saber, Tuleha no longer tried to wrestle with the exaggeratedly strong Raphael, but instead lowered his body and slammed into Raphael with his right shoulder!
Raphael only felt his figure sway, and then his back was shaken!
"boom!"
Before Cohen could react, Raphael was slammed against the wall by the Burning Knight.
Raphael's face turned pale and he coughed in pain, but he still grabbed the opponent's right hand tightly.
"When you cried loudly in your luxurious swaddling clothes," Tuleha burned with the power of termination and resisted Raphael with a terrifying look in his eyes: "I was in the dust of the countryside, for a mouthful of moldy bread.
The blood is broken and the body is covered with bruises."
Cohen's heart tightened and he stabbed out with his long sword!
Tuleha turned sideways with a ruthless expression on his face and dodged Cohen's sword that went straight to his chest.
"laugh!"
Cohen's long sword scratched Tuleha's shoulder armor, bringing out fragments, and the sword blade sparked sparks on the wall.
But Tuleha ignored his shoulder injury and gave Raphael another shoulder-bump, which was suppressed against the wall!
"boom!"
He hit Raphael hard in the chest!
Raphael groaned in pain and finally let go of the other person's right arm.
"While you were reading and reciting comfortably in the study room," Tuleha withdrew his right hand and spoke in a cold voice, "I dragged my scarred shoulders to transport the most smelly garbage and excrement, from one copper to the next.
Learn to count through the crisp sound.”
The Fire Knight turned around suddenly and firmly grasped Cohen's sword in mid-air!
"Keng!"
There was sharp friction between the sword's edge and Tuleha's iron gloves.
Blood flowed from the knight's fingers.
The vigilance officer looked at the beast-like Fire Knight in astonishment and wanted to withdraw his sword.
"When you were learning to wield a wooden sword in the manor," Tuleha punched Raphael in the abdomen with his right hand, knocking him unconscious and bending over, "I was wrapped in a blanket on the vast glacier.
He must bear the wound and use his last strength to fight against the wild beasts, fellow travelers, weather, terrain, and all enemies!"
The Fire Knight grabbed Cohen's sword and charged back!
Cohen wanted to raise his arms to defend, but Tuleha suddenly kicked him in the knee!
"boom!"
The security officer dropped his sword and fell to the ground.
"When you had sex with a girl at the banquet." Tuleha stretched out his right hand and opened up the broken shoulder armor and arm armor.
The Burning Knight coldly threw off all the burdens including his robe, revealing his flesh and blood turned out, and his bloody and gnarled body was covered with severe burn scars from his neck, shoulders to arms, which were pitted and horrifying.
Tuleha's expression was as cold as ice and his eyes were like fire, and he threw away Cohen's blood-stained sword.
He turned around and punched!
"boom!"
Raphael, who had just stood up and prepared for a sneak attack, was punched in the head by the Fire Knight and hit the wall again.
"I crawled out from under the charred corpse burned with kerosene, moaning in pain with the burns all over my body, looking forward to seeing the sun the next day."
Cohen gritted his teeth in anxiety and anger and climbed up, roaring and charging towards the enemy, punching with surprising force.
"boom!"
The fist hits the knight's cheek!
Let the latter pause for a moment.
But Tuleha just roared and bent down, resisting Cohen's collision, ignoring the heavy punch the security officer gave him in the face.
As if it were just the most insignificant mosquito bite.
"Burned into shape in the hell of blood and fire," he reached out with both hands, grasped Cohen's attacking arm with great experience, pinned his legs, and lifted Cohen's body onto his shoulders.
"This is the origin of the Fire Knight!"
The next second, Tuleha, who looked crazy, turned around suddenly with both hands, lifted the struggling Cohen into the air, and threw him to the ground!
"boom!"
The tall security officer fell on his back and was knocked to the ground heavily.
Cohen felt severe pain all over his body, dizzy, and all his strength left him.
"Bet your life?"
"You young masters will never understand."
Tuleha straightened up, shook his reddish face, and spit out a bloody tooth without any care: "In order to stand in the same manor with you, I crawled all the way through the mud and blood, and I have been in endless
How many times have I gambled my life in this hell?"
Tuleha was half-naked, his eyes were covered with scars, blood was flowing all over his body, and his expression was hideous and terrifying.
"Even if we are in the same extreme state, our lives," the Fire Knight turned around coldly and looked at Raphael who stood up again, "are still far behind."
Raphael wiped the blood from his forehead, endured waves of dizziness, and pulled out the broken long sword from his waist.
"You are a terrible warrior," the young man from the secret department vigorously threw out a hand gesture, glanced at the dying Cohen, and frowned: "As one of the 'Five Generals,' you are well-deserved."
Tuleha turned his head and glanced at the Rising Sun Saber on the ground, which was still some distance away from him.
"But with your skills," Raphael said solemnly: "Why bother following Lumba and embarking on this road of no return of regicide and treason?"
"To go through more hell?"
The Fire Knight snorted coldly, kicked up Cohen's long sword "The Bearer", held it in his hand, and tested the weight and length.
The next second, Tuleha roared and rushed in front of him!
Raphael's eyes narrowed.
"Cang!" The two swords crossed each other, and Raphael blocked the opponent's horizontal slash.
But Tuleha had no intention of competing with his opponent in swordsmanship. Like a real beast, he pressed his left arm on the spine of the sword and pushed Raphael towards the wall!
"Bang!" Raphael resisted the knight's sword and was slammed against the wall. His sword was even pressed against his chest.
Tuleha's face was ferocious, his left elbow suddenly rose up, and the two cross-shaped long swords were twisted into an "X" shape by him!
The Fire Knight's left arm pressed on the upper part of "x", pressing against Raphael's throat, suffocating him.
"When you were traveling around the world carrying swords and glory," Tulha gritted his teeth and said, "I stood in front of a deserted village, standing on barren land where even weeds couldn't grow, in order to use thirty years of hard work.
I cried bitterly for the first fortune and the first title in exchange for youth and life."
Raphael struggled painfully and couldn't breathe, but Tuleha just continued and unstoppable pressure on his sword, and his elbow compressed his trachea.
The Fire Knight gritted his teeth, with a mixture of pain and hope in his eyes: "After going through this, I can stand here and face you, the pride of heaven, with weapons raised to compete."
"You ask me, why should I follow the Grand Duke?"
"Bang!" the Fire Knight roared angrily, and hit Raphael hard on the forehead with a headbutt.
"clang!"
Raphael's sword became loose and fell from his hand.
The young man from the secret department seemed to have lost consciousness and slid down from the wall weakly. Tuleha grabbed him by the collar.
"boom!"
The knight turned around and hit him with his knee, causing Wyatt to vomit blood and fall back as he got up from the ground.
"You don't understand" Tuleha gasped, and habitually shook the sword bearer in his right hand, which was obviously inconsistent with his usual weapon.
He looked at Cohen who was struggling on the ground, gritted his teeth and said: "His Excellency the Grand Duke of Black Sand"
"Your Majesty the Grand Duke"
"What he sees in his eyes is a longer-term future." The Fire Knight took a deep breath and showed a fascinated look: "An unprecedented new world, where everyone can have their own future."
Tuleha gasped, stretched out his left arm, grabbed Raphael's neck, and lifted him up.
"For the Grand Duke's ideal, and even more for the future he promised," the terrifying-looking Fire Knight licked the blood from his mouth, pulled the enemy closer to his eyes, and looked directly into Raphael's eyes:
"No matter what the price, I'm willing to pay it."
The Fire Knight exhaled with difficulty.
Raphael just gritted his teeth tightly, his eyes were distracted, and he looked helplessly into the eyes of his enemy.
"No matter what the obstacle is," Tuleha raised Cohen's sword, his eyes protruding, and he looked at Raphael seriously and fanatically:
"I have to crush them all."
At that moment, the little girl from many years ago appeared in front of Raphael's eyes.
Mira.
He thought vaguely and closed his eyes.
sorry.
The next second, the Fire Knight thrust out the sword in his hand without hesitation.