After listening to Val's statement, Kessel's expression was extremely complicated.
"But why is it you? You should be a noble person, a pure warrior. You have your own creed."
"Haha," Val laughed inexplicably: "Why can't it be me?"
Kassel paused and looked sadly at the scars from Val's chest to his chin: "You were once my most trusted friend and brother."
"We grew up together in the royal capital. We are the best partners and the closest brothers. We are better than biological brothers like Midir."
"We even agreed to marry each other's sisters."
"That's enough," Val suddenly raised his head, his eyes full of anger: "You are not allowed to mention Li Xiya and Constance, you are not worthy."
Thales's heart moved, and before his eyes appeared Licia Alende and Constance Bright Star - the lonely high priest and the small stone urn.
The king looked sad: "I know you hate me, but I thought it was all because of Li Xiya - as a lord, you are still loyal to me, loyal to the stars, and the creed in your heart is still noble and inviolable."
"Isn't it? I do hate you, but," the Duke of the North, who betrayed the North, said angrily, "Everything I did was for the stars!"
The king narrowed his eyes: "What?"
Val Arend stepped out of the queue of ministers with firm eyes:
"If I can succeed - as long as I pay a small price, a short period of bloodshed, stars and dragons, the shield and blade of the Western Continent will turn a new page."
"In the era of the ancient empire, Arlend was the supreme family that ruled the Northland Province, and Lombard was the blood descendant of Queso Lombard, the rebellious king who resisted the tyrant. Hatred and opposition have been passed down from thousands of years ago to the present. As early as in the blood
But if mortal enemies like us can reconcile, what else is impossible?"
Thales sighed.
No, it's not a reconciliation, it's an exchange of benefits.
Val took a step forward and looked around at everyone with a feverish expression: "The contradictions and hatred between the two countries will be eclipsed by the heroic friendship and loyal cooperation between Lumba and I! The blood descendants of the two countries, our sons and daughters, will enter into a marriage contract.
, their heirs will inherit both the Star Kingdom and Exeter - Stars and Dragons, two great countries merged into one. Think about it, the heroic blood of the northern dragon is poured into the descendants of the great empire!
"
Val said excitedly: "We may not be able to recreate the glory of the empire, but we will definitely eliminate the war in the North - the war will never be reignited again, and disasters like the Year of Blood will never happen again! The North will enjoy it forever.
Peace!"
"Fuck your peace." Count Zemuto spat harshly.
Val ignored it and clenched his right fist: "Even further: a new power will establish its presence in the Western Continent. We hold a shield in one hand and a blade in the other, pointing the sword at the Conmas Alliance to carve up the land of those merchants and benefit ourselves——
After breaking the balance of power among the three powers in the Western Continent, the rest will not be in danger, and the Western Continent will soon be reunited."
"So," the Duke of the North gritted his teeth and looked around at the nobles and officials: "This is all for the stars, for it to no longer suffer disasters, for its ultimate strength, and for the eternal peace between the stars and the dragon."
Thales frowned.
Baron Russell coughed and said awkwardly: "About this, I thought..."
"boom!"
Kessel V punched the left gauntlet!
"Shut up, Exeter, we will settle the accounts later." The High King's voice was powerful and unmistakable: "Now it is the internal affairs of the stars."
Russell was speechless for a moment and could not speak.
The king stood up slowly and faced Val condescendingly.
"For the stars?"
Kessel V's beard and hair stood up in a rare sight, with an angry look on his face: "Betraying your own king and vassals, is this for the stars? Selling the land and people in the north, is this for the stars? For the sake of the throne, he will not hesitate to bring death and injury.
The war is also for the stars?"
"Kessel Bright Star."
Val Arend clenched his fists and faced the king.
"Do you think you are nobler than me?" Val trembled, seeming to be suppressing his emotions: "You, your Bright Star family, if you don't match, I will point my finger at you!"
The next second, he roared uncontrollably: "You, the Bright Star Royal Family, are the biggest source of trouble in this country! It was you who brought hell and the disaster twelve years ago! Until now, we are still fighting for your
Atonement for mistakes!”
Thales clenched his fists involuntarily, and everyone in the hall looked at the king, many with strange expressions on their faces.
The king closed his eyes tightly: "The Year of Blood?"
"The Year of Blood? Ha! The Year of Blood!" Val smiled sadly, raised his hands and clenched them into fists.
The doubts in Thales's heart grew bigger and bigger. He looked at Gilbert: What ulterior but crucial secrets are there in the Year of Blood?
Only Val said angrily: "After that disaster, everyone only remembers that the Bright Star royal family was slaughtered, and only the orphan girl was left in the Teback family! Who will remember our efforts and sacrifices in the north!"
Fifteen-year-old Duchess Lyanna took a deep breath and closed her eyes.
"Who will remember how much blood, how many corpses, how many widows and orphans were left behind when Exeter's soldiers plowed through our land!"
"Who would remember that when the Year of Blood ended and the whole country was celebrating the Treaty of Fortress, almost three-quarters of the men and one-half of the women in the north died! The remaining young and old must
If you go out to look for food in the cold winter, you will starve to death at home, and half of the people who go out to look for food freeze to death in the wild!"
"When I take on the title of Protector of the North, the first thing I do is not to help them find food, but to rebury those who have starved to death or froze to death, otherwise their bodies will be too starved to walk.
The hungry people on the road dug them out and ate them!”
"Have you ever seen that kind of scene, young master of the royal capital!"
"Who will remember that my father refused to surrender after the Cold Castle was breached, and his head was hung in front of the gate of the Cold Castle for a whole month! When I untied him... And I went in and out of myself every day
Every castle in the world will see that damn gate!"
"Prince Horace, the sword of light, penetrated into the siege of Exeter, was brave and unyielding, fought to the death, suffered eleven wounds, and died heroically - how glorious! But who will know, my brothers, Asia
Lund's sons will guard him closely until his death! Rohan, Kull and Nolan Noor!"
"The body of the Prince of Stars was solemnly carried back to the capital, but beside him, my brothers were chopped into pieces by Exeter's axemen! I could only kill the pile of bastards afterwards.
The sticky minced meat covered with soil and flesh and blood was taken back and buried!"
"Does anyone remember them?"
"My sister and wife's carriage disappeared in the wild wilderness. There has been no news for twelve years. I have had countless nightmares about them - God knows what happened to them!"
"How dare you say that I only have one daughter as the heir? Why do you think I sent my seven-year-old daughter to the Tower of the End? Is it to train her to be the heir? Bullshit! I sent my daughter to the Tower of the End——
I’m afraid that when I’m not around, Miranda will be eaten alive by the starving people who are red-eyed, climbing over the ruins of the cold castle!”
King Kessel V closed his eyes tightly, and many people in the hall could not help but lower their heads as they recalled those years.
Just listen to Val tremble and say: "After going through such hell, the desert war five years ago, how can you, Kessel Bright Star, dare to think that our troops are small? That our army is not as strong as five years ago! You think that our army is not as strong as five years ago!
We don't even have enough cavalry to raise five stormtroopers!"
"Do you think the person I hate is you? Do you think I hate you for not marrying my sister? Do you think I hate you for letting her down and making her a priest who will never marry?"
"No!"
"What I hate is Canxing! It's your damn family!"
"All disasters are caused by your delusional idiot father, your uncle who treats rudeness as humor, your gloomy brother Wang, and your self-righteous, arrogant and good-for-nothing brothers.
You were born with the blood of an imperial tyrant, it’s the fault of the High King!”
"It's this, the Bright Star family that is always involved in disasters, that brought the bloody year to the stars, and brought this kind of hell!"
Disaster?
Getting involved with disaster...?
Thales was startled and subconsciously looked at Gilbert beside him.
But the latter just pursed his lips tightly and said nothing.
"Do you think you are some kind of tragic monarch? There is only one person left in the Bright Star royal family? No!" Val roared crazily: "The only thing you care about is yourself, your will, and your world! Do you think that you
Why have you made it this far? Everything you did in the Year of Blood is your own fault!"
"Just like your damn father, you and he both know what your choices will bring, but you never care!"
"You have never understood your vassal, you have never cared about your subjects, you have never cared about the people around you - the iron-fisted king! Don't you think it's ironic when they call you this - you are not an iron-fisted person at all.
Cold-blooded!"
Val, whose emotions reached the peak, roared in despair:
"Sariton and Shadow Shield, why don't I kill you all at once!"
"If you hadn't brought that monster back..."
The king opened his eyes suddenly and shouted:
"enough!"
Kessel looked excited and angrily scolded Arend:
"watt!"
"You are still as stupid, stupid, and extreme and stubborn as before!"
Kessel stared at Val with inexplicable confusion in his eyes.
"You only believe what you want to believe."
"You are like a stupid piece of wood, ridiculously ignorant."
Val gasped and looked at the king blankly.
"Guards," the king sat down slumped and said tiredly, "take Duke Arend to the dungeon."