Everyone in the hall watched Todd slowly walk into the hall, and they were talking about it.
Walking to the front of the hall, Todd turned around, smiled and said to everyone: "Everyone, please be quiet. I believe many people will be curious about the reason why I appear here..."
Glancing at the throne next to him, Todd continued: "Holy Acropolis and Duixi City are neighbors, and they are also close allies in the diocese. As we all know, when Saint Acropolis fell into a food crisis, Duixi City was the first to help.
A helping hand…”
"As for why I came here? The reason is very simple. I heard about the election for the throne of Holy Acropolis. I originally wanted to come to congratulate the new king after he succeeded to the throne. But the old king went crazy and the election for the throne was postponed, and I
The timing of the visit has also been changed from congratulations to viewing the ceremony."
"Observe the ceremony?" Earl Gordon shook his head and said: "King Muxi, I'm afraid I'm going to disappoint you. The two candidates for the Holy Acropolis throne election, His Royal Highness Sinclair and His Highness Matid, are now missing, so the election can only
It can be postponed indefinitely.”
The smile on Todd's face froze: "Two candidates? That's not right? Why did I hear there were three?"
Earl Gordon opened his eyes wide and froze on the spot: "Three people?!"
Outside the door of the main hall, the sun has set, and the confused moonlight shines faintly on the earth.
Under the bright and cold moonlight, a stunning woman wearing a pure white dress walked into the hall. Her skin was as white as falling snow, and her beautiful face gave people a dreamlike feeling in the night.
Amid everyone's exclamations, Mary stepped on the stone slabs under her feet and walked into the hall with her head held high and her chest held high.
Earl Gordon looked at the woman he had taken care of since childhood, his mouth wide open, and he didn't know what to say for a moment.
"This is ridiculous!"
A shout came from the crowd.
Todd followed the sound and saw Cardinal Jacob pointing at Mary and reprimanding loudly: "She is not qualified to inherit the throne of Holy Acropolis at all! She is the queen of the Silver Circle Kingdom. After marrying the king of Silver Circle,
We should have nothing to do with the Holy Acropolis anymore!”
Jacob's words made everyone present unanimously agree.
In their eyes, although the Silver Ring Kingdom has been destroyed, the queen is still the queen after all. How can she come to inherit the throne of the Holy Guard City?
Mary's posture is still upright and her expression is still arrogant, but Jacob's words have severely opened the scars in her heart.
Her white teeth were biting her white lips, her nails were deeply embedded in her palms, and her whole body looked shaky.
Todd turned his face to Mary and gave the latter a warm smile, which made her mood slightly better.
"Your Majesty Bishop, something seems to be wrong."
Hearing Todd's words, Jacob, who was originally complacent, turned dark and said angrily: "What's wrong?"
Todd rubbed his chin and said while thinking: "If I remember correctly, when the Silver Ring Kingdom colluded with the barbarians, the church excommunicated the Silver Ring King with a sacred text. In other words, from then on
Since King Silver Ring has become a pagan, Heavenly Father no longer recognizes the sacred marriage between him and the queen..."
Jacob's eyes opened wider and wider, and his mouth opened wide enough to fit an egg in.
Todd pointed his finger at Mary and continued: "Since the church no longer recognizes this marriage, she naturally no longer has any relationship with the Silver Ring Kingdom, and she naturally has the right to inherit the throne of Holy Acropolis..."
Jacob's current mood was as disgusting as if he had swallowed a fly alive.
What he never expected was that the church had completely shot itself in the foot this time. Excommunicating King Yinhuan was equivalent to terminating the marriage between the king and the queen. This made Mary, a believer in Heavenly Father,
Inheritance rights were regained.
Jacob wanted to refute something, but he couldn't think of any other reason to explain this matter, so he could only hesitate in place.
After thinking about it, people nodded and agreed with this statement.
Todd smiled and turned to Earl Gordon: "I think no one will have any objections to whether Mary has the right to inherit the throne, right?
Gordon glanced at the aloof woman beside him and sighed softly: "No objection."
"Then, let's let the candidates..."
Jacob jumped out at this time and said: "Now that the other two candidates are absent, how can we conduct an election?"
Todd looked at everyone in the hall and said something shocking: "Both candidates have been disqualified."
Gordon asked in surprise: "Disqualified? What do you mean?!"
"Let's talk about His Highness Mathieu first." Todd took a report from the limping Dion and said to everyone present: "I have a record here, which is clear and clear.
It records His Highness Matid’s crime of selling food.”
Gordon frowned, picked up the report and looked at it carefully.
The paper records in detail how after the food crisis, Matid took advantage of his position to sell and embezzle relief supplies to meet his personal luxury needs. Looking at the long list of figures is shocking.
Watching the report being circulated among the nobles and officials, Gordon looked at Todd: "Are these numbers true?"
"Absolutely true." Todd glanced at Tristan in the crowd from the corner of his eye, and then said to Gordon: "These goods have been handled by several Muxi chambers of commerce, and all sales data are documented.
check."
Listening to the people in the palace loudly reprimanding His Highness Matid for his behavior, Jacob rolled his eyes and said loudly: "His Highness Matid has bad moral character and may not be suitable for the throne of the king. This is why the Holy See gave up supporting him.
The reason...but, where is His Highness Sinclair?!"
Gordon also reacted at this time: "Yes! Your Highness Matide is not a good choice, but Your Highness Sinclair loves the people like a son, is kind and honest, and is diligent in government affairs. Lord of Muxi City, how can you deny his right to inherit?!"
Todd raised his eyebrows: "In my opinion, His Highness Sinclair seems to be worse than His Highness Matid when it comes to character..."
"What did you say?!"
Todd's words caused an uproar in the hall, and Gordon was the first to roar: "Lord Muxi, please speak clearly! Even if you have a noble status, you cannot slander the heir of the Holy Guard City at will!"
Todd looked around at the angry-looking people around him, and exchanged a look with Cumberland.
The latter waved his hand, and a small group of soldiers from the Knights immediately brought several baskets of documents and books.
"If Matid's crime is only due to greed, then Sinclair's behavior is close to cruelty." Todd pointed to the pages at his feet that were hundreds of times more than before and said: "Because, what the latter did was trafficking.
The sale of human beings, and the people being sold are the people of the Holy Acropolis’ own country!”
The screams and roars almost lifted the roof. People questioned Todd loudly, and everyone scolded him for being alarmist.
There was only one exception. Cardinal Jacob looked at the documents stacked half a meter high on the ground. He seemed to think of something, and his face suddenly turned pale.
Todd asked Earl Gordon to find several kingdom clerks and select several documents from among them for them to read aloud.
From the names of the members of the refugee family, to the route arranged by the escape organization, to the logs and memoranda of the ship's voyage, to the sales records of the slave market, and finally to how the sales proceeds were laundered and entered into Sinclair's pocket. These documents are connected
The appearance and body shape of each slave are described in detail.
People's questioning voices gradually subsided, and everyone had a shocked expression on their face.
Gordon looked at the book in his hand and burst into tears. He slowly closed his eyes and let it fall to the ground. He murmured: "Your Highness Sinclair...how could this happen? How could this happen?!"
Seeing this scene in front of him, Jacob knew that things were gradually developing in the worst direction, and he had no other choice but to give it a try.
"These documents can be completely forged! They are not true!" Jacob waved his arms and shouted excitedly: "The Muxi Kingdom must have been carefully preparing for this day for a long time, just to confuse the public! Don't believe it!
he!"
Todd looked at the jumping and screaming cardinal with a mocking gaze, and snapped his fingers towards Cumberland again.
The latter then asked the adjutant of the knights to bring up two people.
A man and a child are like father and son.
Gordon looked at the two people and suddenly exclaimed: "Pilar! Why are you here?!"
Looking at the confused eyes of the people around him, Gordon quickly said: "This man is the gardener in my manor, and the child is his son, but they should all have fled to the Principality of Fenton... Your wife Vera
Where did you go again?"
"My master!" Pilar knelt on his knees, hugged Gordon's legs, and cried loudly as he recounted his experiences in the past six months.
With longing and hope for a new life, Pilar took his wife and children on a merchant ship evacuating refugees. Unexpectedly, the family of three was treated as slaves and sold to the ancient city of Ulster in the Kingdom of Ulster.
After arriving there, his wife couldn't bear the humiliation and committed suicide, and his son was severely beaten by the buyer and became disabled for life...
Listening to this man's statement, Jacob sat slumped on the ground.
All the human and material evidence are there, and the situation is over.
After the turmoil, the election for the throne went smoothly.
This night is destined to be recorded in the history of the Holy Acropolis. Hundreds of years after its founding, this warlike country gave birth to its first queen.
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