Under the shady curtain, in the meeting hall of Rose Castle...
Ekaterina held her cheek with one hand, leaning against the throne, her sexy gray long legs raised in an inelegant manner. The huge black ball of light surrounding her body flickered, and it seemed that it was Da.
Duchess Kernis was in a bad state. To her left and right were the Duke of Pava and the Grand Duchess of Leiting. The two dukes stood on both sides.
Under the throne, the elites of the Rose Clan knelt on the ground and listened to Her Royal Highness the Queen's teachings.
The meeting hall was silent at the moment...
Suddenly, Yekaterina's beautiful eyes like a sea of blood opened, and she said to herself: "Edith...this girl seems to be about to be promoted..."
"Eh!? Why did her breath suddenly drop back!?" Yekaterina's beautiful eyebrows frowned, "Is it because the blood essence in the blood pool is not enough?"
"Have the messengers been sent out!?" Ekaterina suddenly shouted to everyone under the throne, her voice sharp and filled with anger.
"This... the last round of messengers just returned, bringing back twenty years of blood essence. All of it has been merged into the blood pool..." The person below replied tremblingly.
"Not enough! It's all used up!" Yekaterina shouted angrily: "Send more people over!"
"Your Highness the Queen... It has only been a few days... No matter how powerful Barton is, it is impossible to collect more blood essence in such a short period of time." The man's forehead was covered with sweat, but he still tried to be brave.
replied.
"Yes! Her Majesty the Queen, in just over three months, Barton has already turned in the equivalent of thirty years of accumulation." Another voice quickly agreed.
"It's already very difficult for Barton..."
"Yeah yeah..."
In the meeting hall, more and more voices sounded. Although there was a lot of fear in the voices, everyone still tried their best to speak out. It was not that they collectively had the courage to disobey Yekaterina.
Instead, everyone learned from the returning Blood Knight that Barton openly led an army to surround Sarajevo, a large human city on the Balkan Peninsula.
Blatantly surrounding a large human city and massacring it is the tempo of declaring a full-scale war on the human world! Even if this city belongs to the Ottoman Empire, not the Holy Roman Empire. The Ottoman Empire has grown rapidly in just a few hundred years.
Rise is not a vegetarian!
After the elites of the Rose clan learned the news, they all felt horrified. How will it end in the future? They don't know that Sarajevo is now a sea of blood. If they knew, they would probably feel even more desperate...
At this time, the elites of the Rose clan still had a sense of luck about Barton's behavior, hoping that Barton would kill fewer people and the situation would not get too bad. Therefore, everyone kept admonishing Yekaterina.
After a chorus of exhortations, the meeting hall fell into silence again...
Yekaterina is certainly not stupid. Barton can hand over thirty years of blood essence in such a short period of time. Is there any other way besides massacre of the city? Therefore, she is very clear about the implication of the group of guys below. It’s just that they don’t want to.
Put more pressure on Patton, otherwise, if he does something crazy again, he will be completely unkind in the future.
"What about the human vassal families we control?" Ekaterina rarely controlled her anger and asked again.
"They... they have already surrendered three times the amount of blood in accordance with your order..." A trembling voice replied. It was obvious that this person was responsible for managing the vassals.
"Not enough!" Yekaterina shouted, her eyes like a sea of blood blinked, and suddenly said: "Let's do this, let them pay in advance the amount they should pay for five...no! Ten years!"
"This!?..." The man was shocked for a moment, but Ekaterina glared at him with her blood-like eyes, and he didn't dare to say another word.
Blood is not money, so can we collect taxes in advance?...
There was another silence in the hall...
"Right? Has the Thorn Clan given a reply?" Yekaterina suddenly asked this question without any clue.
In an instant, the hearts of everyone present trembled again. Everyone remained silent again and did not dare to speak. This is another major event that has shocked the senior members of the Rose clan recently! Yekaterina returned from a trip a few months ago.
After that, he actually issued a challenge to Prince Peter of the Thorn clan!
This really baffles everyone. The Thorn Clan is no better than the Mandala Clan. For many years, they have been relatively low-key, rarely causing trouble, and have always been on good terms with the Rose Clan. Yekaterina
He is going to offend everyone to death!...
"Speak!!!" Yekaterina said angrily.
Finally, after a while, a Duke standing at the front stood up. Without daring to raise his head, he reluctantly replied: "Prince Peter rejected your challenge and reiterated the long-standing friendship between the two clans.
relation..."
"Shut up!!! I don't want to listen to nonsense!" Ekaterina's sharp voice interrupted the Duke, and she continued: "Send someone to reply to Peter and tell him that if he doesn't want to fight with me,
If we fight, let him do something for me for free! Do you understand me!?"
"This!?...It's..." The Duke trembled when he heard this, but when he saw Yekaterina's unkind eyes, he immediately changed his mind and said yes.
After Yekaterina got what she wanted to hear, she looked down angrily, was silent for a moment, and said: "Everyone, go down..."
A group of people were instantly relieved, lowered their heads, and filed away. The meeting hall instantly became empty...
Catherine was sitting quietly on the throne alone at this time, and the two dukes on the left and right stood upright, like sculptures, motionless.
Two months ago, the fierce battle over the small town of Graz was still fresh in Ekaterina's memory. Especially at the end, when Elizabeth, the Queen of Thorns, provoked and humiliated her, she is still furious to this day!
What made Ekaterina even more furious was that that woman actually stood up for that bastard! After returning to the clan, Ekaterina felt that Edith's breakthrough was in sight. This should have been a gratifying thing, but
, the ensuing problem was that there was a serious shortage of essence and blood in the blood pool. And the culprit of all this was that damn bastard! The only bit of good news was quickly overwhelmed by all the bad things.
Yekaterina feels that since she woke up, her world has been a mess and terrible! She needs to vent, if she doesn't vent, she feels like she is going to explode! Yekaterina is a character who likes to take out her anger on others, the Queen of Thorns
If he offends her, then let Peter, another prince and ancestor of the Thorn clan, pay for herself!