Sak'el's words rang in his ears, echoing among the ruins, but they were like the sound of a copper bell ringing in a city tower, lingering and echoing back.
Sense Magician.
What the Punishment Knight said was so shocking that it took Thales a while to recover from the shock and think about the shocking meaning behind these words.
Senses.
What is this threshold name?
In the silent dungeon, Thales thought in a daze.
Moreover, she is still the late king of stars and the queen of Eddie II?
What is her relationship with the Year of Blood?
This night gave Thales too much shock.
Thales didn't even have time to consider the reactions of others. He could only sense everyone's emotions from the chaotic and rapid breathing around him:
Little Barney was in a daze, Belletti tightened his grip on his weapon, Taldin and Naki both opened their eyes wide, Bree's snoring and Cannon's low whimpering sounded one after another, Samir's eyes were sad, and he was about to
Rope bit his left index finger tightly, trying to make himself inconspicuous.
"No, you mean, you mean..."
The trembling breath of Second Logistics Officer Sass Nye came from the dungeon.
Everyone looked in disbelief at Sak'el, whose chest was heaving and his mood was unstable.
"impossible!"
"We all met Queen Fiosa when she entered the palace, and we all remember what she looked like."
Punishment Officer Belletti looked pale, as if he couldn't believe the past in his memory:
"At that time, even if Prince Kessel poured hot black tea on her at the wedding, she didn't..."
The punishment knight snorted coldly.
"Really?"
"The question is, is it what you remember about her appearance, or is it what the sensory magician wants you to see?"
Belletti's eyes glazed over.
Just listen to Sak'el question him coldly:
"Ask yourself, is what you are seeing Queen Fiosa or Calamity Frylan?"
Frylan.
Reciting the name silently, Thales took a deep breath, confusion flashing in his eyes.
Fryland?
Suddenly, Thales' memory was shaken!
It's like a bell is ringing from the long past.
Thales' eyes gradually solidified.
Friland
He has heard of this name.
Thales looked at the shocked and incomprehensible people in confusion, trying to remember.
He must have heard it somewhere, but at the time, yes, he must have been doing something that couldn't distract him, so he didn't pay attention.
Where is it?
"His Majesty's queen, she is, is..." Little Barney muttered to himself with dull eyes, as if he was still digesting this fact.
Tardin's laughter barely came through.
"No, she never did anything abnormal during her reign...she never even killed a chicken!"
Tardin looked at Sak'el expectantly:
"Maybe you misunderstood, or admitted it wrong..."
But the punishment knight was obviously unmoved.
"I thought so at first, and I hope I'm wrong."
Sak'el said slowly, a haze flashed in his eyes.
"More than anyone could hope for."
His gloomy face, filled with despair and madness, made everyone's hearts sink.
At this moment.
"Ha ha ha ha……"
Everyone turned their heads and saw Samir covering the mark on his face, closing his eyes and shaking his shoulders, and laughed without any scruples:
"Is this the reason for your betrayal?"
"The reason why you have made us bear the guilt, stigma, torture and pain for so long..."
There was sadness in Samir's laughter:
"In the end, just because the king married a woman of unknown origin?"
He smiled and shook his head, but there was no smile in his cold eyes.
Hearing this, Sak'el's face became even sadder.
"You don't understand." The knight shook his head hard.
clang!
There was a sharp sound, but it was Barney who stabbed his sword hard on the ground.
"I really don't understand."
Little Barney seemed to have been hit hard, and he used all his strength to squeeze out staccato sentences:
"Whoever His Majesty the King wants to marry, be it disaster, dragon, elves or even orcs, no matter how absurd, weird, unreasonable, or unbearable for you..."
Little Barney paused for a moment, twitched his cheek, and then spoke decisively:
"But that's all His Majesty's decision!"
"If you are dissatisfied, if you have questions, then protest and advise him openly and openly."
The more he spoke, the angrier he became:
"That shouldn't be an excuse for you to participate in rebellion and collaborate with the enemy to kill the king!"
I don't know which word stimulated Sak'el's already sensitive and unstable nerves. The latter groaned in pain and also slammed the fighting ax in his hand on the ground!
Boom!
"I did!"
Sak'el was like an angry beast, with veins popping out around his neck, his beard and hair bulging, and his sharp eyes sweeping around like blades.
Everyone was shocked by him.
"I tried to directly advise His Majesty and warn him of the threats coming from his pillow, but he always laughed it off and didn't realize it."
"I tried to contact the nobles who are still loyal to the royal family and trusted by the king, hoping that they can exert influence on His Majesty."
The punishment knight spoke in anger.
"I tried to ask for help from the Crown Prince and Lord Hansen from the Secret Service, but it was of no use..."
Having said this, Sak'el showed a sad expression and shook his head tremblingly:
"Too late."
Everyone looked at each other, especially Barney and Samir, whose eyes were the most cold and unforgiving.
The punishment knight lowered his head, his tense shoulders and tone softened, revealing helplessness and despair:
"I don't know when it will start..."
"Your Majesty seems to have changed a person. He who was once gentle and tolerant has become tough and willful, and he speaks his mind..."
His confused eyes slowly gathered together, as if he was trying to find recognition in the eyes of the person in front of him:
"You know, what you have seen..."
"His imperial meetings with important ministers are becoming shorter and shorter, while summoning personal advisers is becoming more and more frequent..."
"He began to alienate his ministers and ignore advice, including his blood-related family members: he withdrew his position as crown prince, rebuked the second prince who commanded the army, and demoted his own duke brothers..."
Thales, who was shaken, couldn't help but frown when he heard this.
The knight's accusations and bitter words continued:
"His relationship with the great vassals is getting worse and worse. He even publicly scolded the Duke of the North, with whom he had always been friends, and issued orders to reprimand the dissatisfied Duke of Blades..."
"He issued royal decrees forcefully, convened a high-level parliament of nobles to severely punish loyal nobles, censored dissenting ministers, and favored sycophants who deceived people's hearts and deceivers who incited national affairs..."
Every word is hoarse and every sentence is painful.
"He ordered to increase taxes, expand the army, borrow money, and clean up officials. Every order challenges the patience of every subject in the country, whether they are loyal to him or dissatisfied with him..."
Listening to Sak'el's words, many former royal guards looked melancholy and misty in their eyes.
"Until the time when the people within the country are in dire straits, public sentiments are raging, subjects are disloyal, and rebellions are everywhere."
Having said this, Sak'el twitched his shoulders, like a child full of fear, and spoke in a trembling voice:
"I knew then that our beloved Majesty Eddie, the former King of Permanent Rule, is no longer our Majesty."
The surrounding audience had different expressions, some were angry or sad, some were hesitant or sad, but they all remained silent, as if the latter's words had touched their weaknesses.
No longer our Majesty.
Thales listened to these words in a daze, but felt a strange feeling.
Their original Majesty Eddie...
What is it like?
In other words, what should it be like?
Sak'el's voice became deeper and deeper:
"He has been deceived, held hostage, and controlled by the most evil being in the world."
His voice dropped and his eyes dimmed.
It was as if a weak traveler trudging through the desert drank the last drop of water and finally fell before the mirage of disillusioned hope.
In the silence where everyone gasped alternately, Naki put down the torch, and Sak'el's body drew a long shadow on the wall.
"Confused? By the queen? By disaster?"
After a while, little Barney finally choked out a sentence in his dry throat:
"How do you know?"
"You convicted the queen and sentenced the late king to death based on a few words dug out from a pile of yellowed old paper?"
Sak'el came back to his senses and chuckled.
"how do you know?"
"That night."
His eyes were wandering, as if he was being recalled.
"That terrible rainy night."
The punishment knight forced out these words in an angry voice, sending a chill down everyone's spine.
Rainy night?
"In the name of meditation, His Majesty dispersed all the retinue, servants and guards, including the old captain and Big Barney who were keeping the Supreme Shield and the Judgment Gun."
"And he was alone, holding his new queen's hand, to attend that incredible invitation."
Everyone in the Royal Guards felt nervous.
"What invitation?" Naji couldn't help but ask.
Sak'el's expression became confused.
It's like being lost in the past years, unable to get out of the shadow of the past.
"That night, I held the Supreme Sword tightly and followed them to the sacred Hall of Stars with the help of its power. I hid in the shadow behind the pillars of the hall and didn't dare to breathe out..."
The punishment knight's pupils slowly narrowed:
"Finally, I saw them."
It was very quiet in the dungeon, with only the dim firelight reflecting off the old walls of the dilapidated magic tower, like the silence after the coffin was buried.
Little Barney still looked stiff, Samir pursed his lips, and the others looked at each other in confusion.
Thales held his breath.
"Them?" Naki unconsciously trembled.
Sak'el didn't look at him, just nodded.
"The storm that night was so big that it could overturn the watchtower..."
In the dark dungeon, Sak'el faintly recounted the horrifying past:
"On the balcony of the hall where there was lightning, thunder, wind and rain, two mysterious guests appeared one after another without any warning."
Mysterious guest.
Appeared without warning.
Just...in Yongxing City eighteen years ago.
No.
Thales felt his heartbeat begin to accelerate.
Sak'el's broken words were mixed with his uncontrollable breathing, rising and falling:
"They are like gods descending to the world in legends, and like demons awakening in the abyss of evil."
gods.
demon.
"Who are they?" Thales said stiffly.
Sak'el suddenly lowered his head and glanced at Thales coldly.
The latter's heart skipped a beat.
A few seconds later, a dull voice came from the punishment knight's almost bloodless lips:
"That man, he emerged from the rain, with an elegant posture and a calm demeanor, but his body was as dry and clean as new. He looked at the Fuxing Palace arrogantly despite the weather, as if looking at a dead piece in a chess game that would be eaten sooner or later.
"
Thales tensed up subconsciously.
In the dungeon, the knight's former colleagues were all staring at him.
"And that woman..."
Sak'el shook his head, his eyes showing the fear and apprehension that was only glimpsed when he was abnormal:
"When the heavy rain and strong wind hit her body, the scene was unforgettable: it was like the wind and rain instantly fell into her active skin, and was absorbed completely, leaving no trace behind."
Everyone slowed down their breathing, as if they were afraid of waking up a sleeping beast.
"They either call the queen with respect or disdain by her real name: Fryland."
Sak'el shivered inexplicably:
"Similarly, our queen also calls them by their names, as if reconnecting with old friends."
"Those two equally taboo names."
Thales closed his eyes tightly.
Little Barney interrupted the knight's narration with a breathy voice:
"Watchman, you are saying, no, you are accusing His Majesty..."
But Sak'el's voice suddenly rose up and shouted:
"I witnessed it with my own eyes on that night of heavy rain!"
Little Barney was so excited that he spoke.
Sak'el's face was illuminated by the firelight, only the brand on his forehead was hidden in the darkness, revealing a face that was as resolute and indifferent as ever.
"That night, His Majesty Eddie was the witness and the stars were the bet."
The Punishment Knight's voice seemed to be imbued with some kind of power, and his words made everyone's blood vessels pulsate.
"His Majesty."
"Sensory Magician."
"The scourge of qi."
"The scourge of blood."
The light of the fire was dim, and Sak'el no longer paid attention to other people's expressions, and spoke coldly:
"The unprecedented alliance between the Supreme King of the Stars and the Three Great Disasters..."
"It is concluded."
At that moment, Thales suddenly opened his eyes!
He remembered.
Frylan.
He had heard this name before.
Just six years ago, in Longxiao City, in the shield area that was about to turn into powder, when he was holding the trembling girl, gritting his teeth and sandwiching it between two terrifying beings.
At that time, the qi magician with an elegant posture and cold eyes said so.
Thales was sweating heavily and breathing rapidly.
But others had no time to notice his gaffe.
"You don't understand what kind of taboo our Majesty has broken."
In the dungeon, Sak'el raised his head and said coldly in front of the increasingly nervous people:
"He seeks to reach a power that no mortal can covet, hoping to use it to rule our proud kingdom, the kingdom we built on the ruins of the End War."
The Punishment Knight's complicated eyes swept over every listener, and finally stopped on Thales' face:
"In his conversation, His Majesty even called them, the three monsters, his."
"Three Disaster Alliance."
Don't be impatient, let me concentrate on finishing this section.