After Becoming The Tyrant

The death knell echoed over Mezl Castle, and the bell was so clear that it seemed as if the only sound left in the air was the ringing of the ominous copper bell.

An old priest who had never been seen in Metzl Castle led a group of priests to lead the funeral procession forward. The priest's hair was frosty white, and a silver cross hung on his chest.Amidst the low voice of hymns, the team slowly approached.

The Duke of Buckingham's coffin was not covered with the customary cruciform pall - the king put a rose king banner over it.No one questioned this. If even the Duke of Buckingham could not bear such an honor, then no one in Legrand would be eligible to receive it.

Unlike ordinary nobles who carried the coffin on sedan chairs when they were buried, eight coffin bearers with black hoods came out of the mansion carrying the coffin of the Duke.General John, son of the Duke of Buckingham, was at the head of all the pallbearers, next to him was the suave and mournful First Mate Charles, and most of the rest were the Duke's old staff.

The Duke participated in hundreds of battles for Legrand throughout his life. Most of the royal soldiers he led died with him in the rebellion in the North, but there were countless knights who followed him on the battlefield in that era. .

"It was 1412, when I was a little longbowman, our general led us to fight those bastards in Thorne... I thought I was dead at that time! It turned out that our general was the first They rushed up, so everyone rushed up..." Almost everyone who followed the Duke of Buckingham in battle affectionately called the Duke "our general".

In all the stories of idle time, there are always knights who are proud to have fought with the Duke.

The funeral procession was long.

Many knights came from all parts of Legrand, and they all dismounted from their horses, and put on under their sacrificial robes the smocks they had worn when they fought with the Duke.They honor their generals with all their might.The king walked in front of them, followed by the procession of nobles, followed by representatives of the guild.

When the coffin passed the long street where the crowd was waiting, the weeping could no longer be suppressed and filled the air.

The birds perched on the eaves were disturbed by their cries, fluttered their wings and flew into the gray sky.Snow-like white flowers were continuously thrown from all around to the slowly passing coffin.

Mourning flowers fell like snow, as if the sky and the earth suddenly became white and sad.

The king was wearing a black cloak. He raised his head and looked at the sad flowers falling like snow and the red eyes of the people.It seems that winter has not yet passed, and there is still continuous snowfall, but it seems that winter has already disappeared, and there is boiling magma running underground.

At the end of the funeral procession were followed the poor people who also came to the funeral, and they were originally invited to come.But as the coffin passed through the long street, more and more people walked into the funeral procession. Some of them prepared black clothes themselves, and some took black clothes from the royal guards.

The long, low black river flows slowly towards St. Wythe's Cathedral.

The duke's burial is very close to William III.

According to Legrand tradition, the tomb was dug on the spot on the day of the burial.The king dug the first pitch for the duke, and then handed the shovel to General John.After General John passed it to Charles.By the time it was handed over to the last knight, the tomb was big enough and deep enough.

The children in the choir sang hymns in unison. During the hymns, Father Anil held a heavy holy book and read the final eulogy.

The king stood in front of the choking crowd, and he watched the soil cover the coffin covered with the scarlet king flag little by little with no expression.He suddenly raised his hand, took off the rose badge on his chest and threw it into the tomb that was being backfilled.

Some things always come to an end at the cost of taking something else away.

The hymn was swept up into the sky in the cold wind, gathered together with the death knell, and gathered together with more elegiac songs, as if all the sad past events from the legendary era to the present, surged up again, reminding some People, what kind of things should they carry.

Legrand, Saint-Wythe Cathedral, 1433.

A heavy square stone tablet was erected in front of the tomb of the Duke of Buckingham. On the stone tablet were engraved with blooming roses and a sentence "for glory".On the day when the tombstone of the Duke of Buckingham was erected, on the other side of the Abyss Strait, the first priests in Blessie entered the secular palace.

After the symbols of the old era have fallen, a new era is brewing.

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Rose Palace, funeral banquet.

This funeral feast, which was supposed to be quiet and mournful, is destined to be a turbulent undercurrent.

All the state representatives and lords who received the invitation gathered in the main hall of the palace.For these state representatives and nobles, they didn't have much thought to mourn the death of the Duke of Buckingham, which was not a bad thing for the state.For the state and the great lord, this means that there is one less person worthy of their fear.

Many people can't wait to applaud in their hearts when they cry symbolically.

The struggle for power will never end with death.

The Duke of Buckingham has always been a sharp sword that deters the nation. After his death, Legrand completely lost an important pillar, and the entire country fell to the young king.Obviously, for the people of the state, they have doubts about whether the young king can have the same authority——

Victory in war can be attributed to individual bravery, but politics requires more cunning.

After the king won, he directly abolished the independent state status of Balbo State and New Cana State. This approach, in the eyes of some people, was too young and arrogant and willful.

And the lords and nobles paid more attention to some other messages revealed by this funeral than the sorrow of ordinary people:

The archbishop of St. Wythe did not attend the funeral. Does this mean that the Royal Family of Legrand and the Holy Court are indeed about to tear their faces apart again?The funeral did not hold any Thanksgiving, and the royal family would not make such a small mistake in etiquette, unless it was intentional... Does this mean that the king is about to take revenge on the monastery?

At the banquet, the lords wore mourning white flowers on their chests, raised their glasses to each other in the name of "mourning for the Duke" from time to time, and took this opportunity to test each other's tone.

The king sits in the seat of supreme power.

On the high throne, the king rested his left arm on the armrest, and held a bottle of golden wine glass in his right hand. He let the representatives of the states and the nobles below chat with each other, as if he didn't see some people pretending to come out. Sadness is replaced by the joy of benefit interaction.The stained glass on the dome of the main hall refracts the light of the candle, and the light falls from the sky, covering the king dimly.

He poured his own drink expressionlessly, leaving an empty seat beside him.

That seat originally belonged to the Duke of Buckingham.

On the other side, Earl Henry, who made great efforts in this counter-rebellion and made great achievements, sat in a position that did not match his achievements. He sat with several border lords and talked in a low voice. wearing something.From time to time, his eyes swept over the king who raised his glass and drank by himself.

General Edmund sat in the corner.

He held up his wine glass as a cover to observe Earl Henry and the king.During the suppression of the rebellion in the Northland, after he led Angor's army to assist the king in attacking Balboa, he quickly withdrew, unlike the dizzy Earl Henry - that idiot was actually on the border of Balboa Occupied a piece of land, trying to expand their territory.

Just dumber than a donkey.

Did he think that the king who abolished the Balbo royal family would be willing to let the land he finally regained be touched by the border lords?Or did he think that after winning a battle, he would have enough capital to get ahead in front of the king?

For General Edmund, the death of the Duke of Buckingham is definitely not a good thing for the state and the great lords.

General Edmund had a premonition when the purge order was carried out, but after he saw the king at the funeral, that premonition became even stronger.The death of the Duke of Buckingham injected something icy into the king's veins, and he seemed to have firmly put on an iron mask. Under the mask was a bloodthirsty monster that was slowly dying. Licking his fangs, he waited for the moment to declare war.

—He went straight from a proud young monarch to a monster walking on blood and fire.

General Edmund would rather face a dangerous but familiar lion than a bloody monster that didn't know what to do.

Seeing that the king on the throne did not move at all, the nobles at the banquet exchanged glances with each other.Finally, an archbishop who came from other provinces to attend the funeral stood up. He was from Jolin County in Legrand, and he was the clergy member in Legrand after the Archbishop of St. Wys.

The Archbishop of Jollingshire stood up holding the wine glass, first raised his glass to the king, and apologized for his impolite behavior, and then he directly made his own accusations: "Dear Your Majesty, please forgive my presumptuousness, I really can't To see such a colossal mistake happen in front of all eyes and no one calls it out."

"please say."

The king answered casually while holding his wine glass.

"Holy Lord, I have seen such a waste of care for the dead today." The Archbishop of Jolling County mourned, holding a wine glass in one hand and holding the cross on his chest in the other, "At today's funeral, no one is going to die." To make a thanksgiving sacrifice for our beloved Mr. Duke... God, how unfair is this to a noble man like him? Do you want to watch Mr. Duke suffer in the red fire in purgatory? Do you Do you want Mr. Duke not to be redeemed?"

There were whispers in the banquet hall, and it was obvious that the Archbishop of Yoringshire was not the only one who noticed this.