At night, countless charcoal piles were piled together to form an extremely huge pile of firewood. The flames burned, sparks splashed, and smoke clouds rose straight into the sky. The soldiers prayed devoutly in front of the fire, and the high priest Yeskovitch
Kneeling there, they were performing the ceremony seriously. They were praying for the blessing of the Bear God, so that they would no longer feel cold in this cold night of ice and snow. Warmth would eventually come, but people hoped that this warmth would come earlier.
Instead of waiting until summer comes in a few months.
Rhodes sat in front of the fire and thought deeply. These days, he always felt something strange. His eyes could no longer move freely. When he looked at the flames, he always felt that there was an invisible huge force staring at the flames.
Himself, he had to avoid the burning gaze. As long as he avoided the flames, his eyes would not feel the burning pain, but if he stared at the flames again, that strange feeling would come to his heart again, making him unable to extricate himself.
In front of the flames, Rhodes could not stare at it for more than five seconds. If he endured the burning pain and continued to stare at the flames, the power would drive him crazy... The terrifying and huge power even exceeded that given by the bear god Esun.
That power. Rhodes didn't know why it happened... He just tried his best to avoid it. Although he often had to face it. In the civilized world, it is almost impossible not to see fire.
"Lord Lord!"
A sharp cry broke Rhodes' contemplation. The rangers returned from the front line. They brought a letter with a wax seal and handed it to the King of the North.
"What's in the letter?"
Everyone gathered around. It was a letter written by the Frost Witch, the Lord of Heidelberg, and Rhodes' wife Caroline. If it was not an emergency, Caroline would not write the letter herself.
"Katerina says we are traitors."
"Nonsense! She is! A vampire who doesn't care about the lives of civilians, what right does she have to accuse others?"
Edmund shouted.
"Listen to what Rhodes has to say."
Lord Bernat interrupted Edmund in a low voice.
"Knights of the Black Rose, Katarina accused the Knights of the Black Rose of being a force secretly manipulated by the empire to break into Kislev. She accused us of betraying Kislev's interests and using the imperial army to attack the people of Kislev.
"
"She also said that she is the legitimate tsar of Kislev and that we have no right to peek into the throne."
Rhodes said, frowning.
"Damn it! Let a vampire sit on the throne and be the legitimate king? I don't even recognize her, let alone an immortal monster like her!"
Burnett cursed endlessly.
"This is not our decision, brother." Rhodes raised his head and looked at everyone, "Caroline made it very clear in her letter, and some people listened to it. Kislev has always disrespected the Moroccan religion. You guys
I know."
"We must fight back!"
cried Edmund.
"Let those Imperial Knights explain themselves!"
Bertner yelled.
"No." Rhode's face was extremely calm. He had never experienced any kind of storms and waves in these years. "The people didn't trust them in the first place. They were indeed 'guests' who came all the way from the empire, and they did kill people."
Soldiers of the Snow Eagle Legion. If you want the people to accept Moorishism, there must be a process."
"We can't wait for this process! Damn it, is it going to be five years or ten years? By then, the Civil War will be over..."
"No, it won't take that long."
Rhodes interrupted——
"They are proving themselves now. In Cracked Stone Castle, the vanguard of the Black Rose Knights is already killing vampires and undead armies. The people will know who is protecting their lives. Who is eradicating this world?
The undead monster."
"But what about now? We can't do nothing, right?"
Edmund asked rhetorically.
"Now..." Rhodes frowned again, "Now, fight back with all your strength. Make the fact that Katarina is a vampire known to the world."
"They already knew."
Edmund interjected.
"Of course they know, but there is no evidence. Moreover, everyone dares to be angry and dare not speak out. What we have to do is to make it public and publicize it. In this way, we can be famous. Whether it is the support of the empire or the support of the people
, in short, we need support, the more the better. Once Catalina is pushed off the throne, we will consider everything in the long term."
Rhodes said.
"Do we have evidence?"
Bertner couldn't help but sneer.
"Yes, Landao is the evidence. We have held him captive for so long that you have all forgotten his value."
"His value is not just as simple as being a prisoner of the duke. He is the only general under the Queen who was captured by us. Moreover, Landao's status in Kislev can be said to be one person below ten thousand people. He
It's a vampire, doesn't the so-called Queen know? This is the key to defeating Catalina's defense line of public opinion! I didn't plan to take it out so soon, but now, I have to do it. The Vampire Queen forced us to do this."
Rhodes replied with a solemn expression.
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Kislev, Ice Winter Palace.
Dennis's blue-black eyes looked at the boundless night outside the window. In the sky, there were sparse clouds and the moon shuttled through the clouds. The moon in her hometown should be so round and bright, right? Dennis asked herself. It was late at night, but she was still not sleepy.
Italy. Too many things have happened recently. The Civil War started. Prince Pavel broke into the Winter Palace and killed the Krem guards. The Snow Queen imprisoned Prince Kislev... What happened in this year is more significant than in the past ten years.
There's more going on.
Dennis wanted to find someone to talk to. She was not that strong. She wanted to tell that person that she was just a little girl. Why did she have to endure so much? At the age of ten, she lived like a three-year-old girl.
A middle-aged teenager. She must pretend to be stupid in front of the Queen and mature in front of Prince Pavel... She is the prisoner of the Snow Queen and the lover in Prince Pavel's eyes. At the same time, she is also a genius witch... Every day, she must
Transform between three identities.
Dennis felt so tired, but where was the person who could listen to her? Her father? His father was very busy in the north, maybe he had forgotten himself? Maybe he had forgotten that he had a daughter...
No, my father is not that kind of person... Dennis is extremely conflicted. She puts forward a hypothesis and then overturns that hypothesis herself... The contradiction of repeated struggles almost tears her apart...
boom……
The door was opened again. Surprisingly, this time, it was not the maid who delivered the food, but Pavel...
"Your Highness, aren't you?"
Denise asked in surprise. Then, she saw the guard captain appearing right after Pavel. She instantly understood what was going on.