The thrones of the twins in the past have now been removed, and now there is only the single and supreme throne.
The black marble seat was definitely not comfortable, it was very cold. There was only a red curtain with gold edges behind it, with a blood moon pattern of roses entwining in it.
A young man with short black hair was sitting on the throne. He put his hands on the armrests and slowly glanced at the nobles and officers below.
After taking full control of the imperial capital of Titiania, the nobles and officers in the city were summoned, and on both sides of the hall were guards standing neatly. They were different from the red-clad guards in the Rose Palace in the past. They wore silver-white metal armor.
, the cloak on the back is also mainly ice blue, with frosty white roses and the moon printed on it.
These guards come from various noble families. They may be the second sons or adopted sons of the family. They have no title or inheritance rights, but they have excellent knowledge and fighting qualities. After the new emperor ascends the throne, they will become the backbone of the new emperor's support.
In the quiet and solemn imperial hall, the ceremonial officer began to read out the turmoil and changes in the royal family.
"Brothers Edron and Emmank used extremely despicable means to poison the previous emperor 16 years ago, and during the sacred wedding, they murdered the former crown prince Ansel and Ansroy and usurped the throne.
He deceived the entire empire and killed countless loyal and honorable nobles."
"After that, the two led and launched the empire's largest expedition since the 'Battle of Broken Bow', wasting countless manpower and materials, and causing many innocent nobles and people of the empire to die in battle. Moreover, because of their ignorant rule,
The empire was defeated by the Seven Kingdoms of Xuehua and signed an extremely shameful contract, which brought shame and humiliation to the empire's glory of nearly a thousand years..."
"But God bless the red moon, the emperor's orthodox bloodline has not been cut off, and the crown prince Ansroy still left behind descendants."
"Now, under the sword of the true king of the empire, many loyal and glorious nobles have set things right, overthrew the rule of the false king, killed the Edron brothers, and restored the sacred throne of the empire to legitimacy."
"Now, let us take the oath in unison!"
"Glory to unity, the rose blood moon will not fall into the world."
"We will always follow your will until the end of the world and the final sunset!"
"We will always follow your will until the end of the world and the final sunset!" Nearly a thousand people in the audience swore in unison, and their voices resounded throughout the hall and the dome.
Outside this glorious and lofty imperial hall, dark soldiers stood in the square, forming a neat military formation, with flags flying. They also shouted in unison in the echo, and the mighty sound was like a wave, spreading through millions of people.
A huge imperial capital where people gather.
The brothers Edmank and Edlen, who were regarded as the masters of the Renaissance in the past, lost all their prestige after the failure of the Empire's Great Crusade. One died in an assassination and the other died in a coup, and everything they created will also be destroyed.
The new emperor rewrote it and became a shameful and dark part of the empire's history.
For an empire that has prospered for nearly a thousand years, its people regard themselves as the only masters on the continent, glorious and noble, and that kind of pride and self-confidence has long been engraved in their bones. If an emperor cannot bring victory, then no matter how kind he is,
No matter how well you do it, you can't convince the people.
Worshiping and obeying the strong is the tradition of the empire and the root of all systems and pursuits.
After the first meeting of the empire ended, it was already dusk. The magnificent purple-red sunset was burning on the horizon, and a little light shone into the newly set up study.
There was no electric light in the room, and the young man who had just ascended the throne was leaning on the back of his chair, closing his eyes and concentrating.
No matter how talented he was, when he faced the attention of countless noble soldiers in the imperial capital for the first time, he had to be highly nervous and grasp the posture and details at all times to match the majesty of a king. After this process, he was exhausted.
At this time, Anna was carefully and gently helping him soothe his forehead and relieve his fatigue, but not long after, the door of the study room knocked.
"Please come in." The maid Anna put down her comforting hand and went to open the door.
Looking at this ordinary-looking maid, the noble officer reporting was a little surprised and curious, but at this moment he did not ask, but turned his attention to the young king who was already seated.
Although the new emperor seemed to be more than five years younger than him, the officer still lowered his head in awe and reported.
"Your Majesty, we have cleared out the remnants of the Aimanke brothers left in the imperial capital and killed them all."
"All?" Elio's simple question made the officer's heart tighten, and he thought carefully.
"General Severi is currently not in the city, but other nobles loyal to the Edron brothers have been removed."
"Where is Queen Lily and the child?"
"According to our search, they escaped outside the city through a secret passage that was dug earlier. We don't know which direction they went to now. However, we have organized nearly 200 search teams and have set out along the main roads and checkpoints to search and arrest them.
them."
After the report, Elio did not immediately judge or reply. The room was very quiet. At this time, the noble officer did not dare to raise his head to peek. He could only uneasily speculate whether the emperor had not caught him.
Lily and the prince were dissatisfied.
In this brief silence, every minute and second seemed to be torture, and his forehead began to sweat, and he even had a premonition that he might be executed by the tyrant.
"Go down."
"Yes, Your Majesty." As if he had escaped from death, the noble officer quickly left the study with his soaked back, and escaped under the watchful eyes of a group of rime guards stationed there.
"Elio learns so quickly and is so good." After the outsiders left, a maid with silver-purple hair appeared in the study, slowly landed on the ground, then jumped lightly and came behind Elio, surrounding him.
"Actually, that's what being an emperor means. You can't let people below easily know your mood and emotions. If they are familiar with everything about you and can predict many of your behaviors, then you will become a puppet under their control."
"So, keep it mysterious, unknown, and majestic, so that you can establish your rule."
"I feel very tired like this." Elio held Kenos's hand, released it from his shoulders, and then lay down on the desk. He just wanted to have a good sleep. The fatigue from the previous battle had not completely disappeared.
"It will be very tiring at first, but you will get used to it later." Cornos jumped lightly, sat on Elio's desk, and began to look through some documents in the report, including statistics after the house was confiscated, and
There are some lists of characters that need to be cleared.
"Well, these guys are quite honest, and they don't dare to indulge in ink at the moment, hehe." Cornos shook her legs and said in a cheerful mood.
Then she put it down and started talking about where she had been.
"I went to find Lily and her son, and I roughly know where they went. However, Elio, you haven't told me yet, what do you plan to do with them and their son? Let this be your first test to become an emperor."
Elio had to raise his head when he heard this, but he did not answer immediately. Instead, he stood up from the chair, walked slowly to the window, and looked out the window at the bustling scenery full of eaves and sunset.
"Actually, I don't know how to deal with their mother and son."
"Edron and Emmank teamed up to murder my father and Uncle Ansel. I have no other idea of revenge against them."
"But Lily is different. She was married as queen by Aimanke later, and her reign was pretty good. She tried her best to do some things that were considerate of the people, such as taking the lead in opening kindergartens and allowing many poor children to
Receive an education. Even I myself spent a few months learning words and numbers in a kindergarten in the city."
"Because I know simple words and can do simple arithmetic, I was able to get reasonable remuneration from the stores I acquired, which helped me get through the most difficult period." Elio said about the difficult life in his youth.
"This made it difficult for me to be cruel to the mother and child, and also led to some avoidance in sending people to hunt them down during the palace incident."
"So, because of your kindness, they were able to escape from the imperial capital. However, have you carefully considered the consequences of doing so?"
"Brother Edron has a good relationship with the Griffin family, and also has a good relationship with the Duke of Raven in the north. If mother and son raise their spirits, coupled with the remnants of the previous gang, they can split the empire apart if they are not careful."
"Although Edron looks bad to outsiders, in fact, after experiencing the training and tempering of the Western Expedition, he has become a mature king. He has many direct descendants in the army, and he fights and pulls against the nobles, which makes many
The nobles began to side with him, and these people gained military power in large numbers."
"If it weren't for our intervention, he might really be able to stabilize the empire again, but that kind of stability is destined to continue to come to an end."
"Although he is dead now, Lily's child is still alive, so the hope of the remaining party members will not be cut off." Cornos analyzed at the side.
"I know." Elio looked out the window quietly at the sunset.
What Cornos said was true. If Lily and her son did not die, the empire would eventually start a war, and the country would even be divided as a result, and everyone would fall into cruel killings.
Politics and power have always been so cruel and cannot tolerate any surprises or challenges.
"The emperor is so ruthless..." He sighed in a low voice, then turned around.
"Let Darcy lead the most elite cavalry to catch up with their mother and son, and be sure to kill them both during the journey."
He promised Sister Anna that he would build a happy and stable country. This ideal ranked first in his heart. If anything stood in the way of this road, he would have to make up his mind.
If fulfilling this dream is destined to bear the burden of sin, then let me bear it.
Elio understood a long time ago that kindness is actually a luxurious quality, which can only be cultivated by a rich, stable and harmonious life.
When food to sustain life is in short supply, people will become uglier and more ferocious than beasts. The torment of hunger and painful torture in their belly will easily shatter the so-called morality.
Therefore, such a character is only suitable for an orderly and stable life. When he embarks on the road to fight for the throne and control the empire, many of his qualities have to say goodbye to him.
In order to open up a country for good people to survive, you must be more unkind than anyone else, be extremely aware of the existence of treachery and evil, peel off these rotten existences from the country, eliminate all kinds of hidden loopholes, and create
Stable and reliable order, so that we can approach success step by step.
After Elio finished giving the order, he did not dare to look up at the head maid beside him. The feeling of exposing one's ugliness in front of the person he liked was like being baked under the scorching sun, which was unbearable.
"Don't be like this, Elio."
Cornos came to Elio and bent down, then looked up at that face, and then pinched the young man's cheek with her hand, so that he could not be immersed in the heaviness and guilt before.
"You are the emperor. Although I often say how to do it, it is just my suggestion."
"If you firmly believe that this is unreasonable and you don't like it, then refuse it. You are the emperor, and you are freer and more unrestrained than anyone else, and you can shape the country into your ideal image."
"You don't have to abide by the so-called rules. Of course, I mean, you can easily bear and deal with the consequences of breaking the rules. If you can't break any rules, then you are not the emperor."
"So, as long as you make your own decisions, you don't have to listen to me in everything. I am by your side because I want to see the growth and rise of a peerless king, and then live a magnificent life, not just to have a
The bug that keeps replying to my words, although Elio is very cute, is definitely not a bug, haha~"
The petite witch with silver-purple hair used her willful and sweet words to comfort the young man who had just ascended the throne, and the latter slowly came out of his immersed emotions.
But when he thought of his expression and the thoughts in his mind just now, the king seemed to become shy again, and just wanted to cover his forehead and stay quietly for a while.
"Okay, okay, sister Anna and I will go out and let you calm down for a while, hehe." Seeing Elio return to his normal appearance, Kenos chuckled, and then pulled Anna beside her out of the study.
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After walking through the corridors of the palace and coming to a quiet courtyard, Kenos and Anna sat down side by side.
"Elio is working very hard." Kenos said as she looked at the stars gradually appearing on the horizon.
"He was actually a simple child before." Anna shook her head slightly, as if she didn't like Kenos's involvement of Elio in the empire's disputes.
"Yes, but he will still grow up, and he cannot remain as innocent as he is." Kenos' voice was clear and innocent.
"I feel like Sister Anna is very wary of me and sees me as a devil who tempts Elio." There was a slight complaint in her voice.
"Lady Cornos is a witch. My life was re-given by you, so I will naturally not slander or hate you. However, your existence is a huge impact to Elio."
"Perhaps you don't realize it yourself, what a miracle or miracle it is to resurrect the dead, make the living immortal, and live forever."
"Even though Elio has royal blood and can grow quickly, that is only from the perspective of a normal person, and your existence goes beyond the worldview he once constructed and his views on everything."
"Even if you think it's just an innocent joke or inquiry, he will think about it again and again and take it seriously."
"And your face and figure are so beautiful. For a 16-year-old boy, he will instinctively like and please you. Taken together, you want Elio to become an independent king.
, but constantly tempting him, which is actually contradictory and will put Elio into trouble."
"You really dare to say that, Sister Anna, you mean that I am the source of the cholera country." Cornus's eyes were like light purple gems in the night, making it difficult to tell whether they were angry or joking.
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"However, since Sister Anna has said so, I will just be a little maid from now on. Who made you the head maid? I only need to be responsible for serving and completing the master's orders."
After saying that, the silver-purple maid jumped off the stone chair and disappeared into the hazy night, like a purple firefly.