Twilight War

04

The top floor of the Genesis Library.

As soon as Wischpel opened the door, he saw Tang De and Weier playing chess very intently.

"Hey, let me say, are you really going to turn this place into an entertainment venue?" Wisipel frowned.

He still remembered that when the previous consul handed him the key to the top floor of the Genesis Library, he said to him in a very serious tone: "Remember, this is the destiny of this empire. Only those with the destiny of the empire can enter here."

The consul had the eyes of an old lion. When he inserted the key that looked like a brass bookmark into the keyhole, it was as if he was meeting an old friend for many years.

The consul opened the door, and said to Vihipel that whenever he was confused, he would come here and look at the mural on the dome here, the mural of the dusk of the gods.

The mural is always blurred like a fog.And he would sit there for hours, looking at the blurry mural.

The ancient books of Arthur's Empire once said that when you can see what you really want, you can see the mural clearly, but the consul said he never saw it clearly.

The last consul said to Wisipel: "From now on, you will look at this mural for me."

And since Tang De got the permission to enter here, he not only moved in a huge pool table, but even set up a special bookshelf, which contains the entire issue of "Empire's Erotic History".

Whenever Wisipel saw that stack of "Emerald History of the Empire", he felt ashamed of the consul with the eyes of an old lion.

"Your Highness, why don't we buy another ice machine." Tang De lay on the chair and said to Vichypel, "Look, the weather is so hot, the ice cubes brought up from below will melt after a while." After speaking, he shook the ice cubes that had melted in the whiskey.

"What kind of place do you think this is!" Wisipel pressed his brows impatiently.

"Your Highness, this is the only place where I can relax." Tang De said, "Of course you don't know anything. As the only son of the Cassandra family, you know that I will have to face it as soon as I get home." What are you wearing?"

Tang De sighed, and said with his fingers blankly: "You must know that in my family, there is an old man in his 50s who can be touched by a spark, and a rebellious sister who is active in the top-secret military research department."

Wischpel took off his coat and sat on the seat, "I'm not interested in your family members."

"Well, since His Highness is not interested." Tang De shook his head and said, "Well, are you interested in listening?"

"Why should I listen." Weier was seriously studying the situation on the chessboard.

"What if we get married someday? You need to know about this anyway." Tang De said, shaking the wine glass in his hand, and was punched directly in the face by Weir.

"Tell me about the Huangxuan family." Vichypel said, "Why did they come to Westland?"

"You mean the group of people who came from Donghuang recently and hope to cooperate with Arthur." Tang De asked.

"of course."

"What else can it be for?" Tang De said, "It's just revenge."

"During that glorious expedition, or as they called it—the death of the day, the previous head of the Huangxuan family, Huang Xuanzhou, led tens of thousands of people to defend the south of the Yangtze River, and fought against Vana's navy for more than a month. Give way."

"However, when the battle was at its most tense, Huang Xuanzhou was found dead in a peach blossom forest. He didn't even know how he died. Afterwards, Jinling City was destroyed and Qinhuai piled up corpses. The emperor of Donghuang hurriedly signed a contract with Vana According to the peace agreement, the silver of Juyuan produced in a large area in the south of the Yangtze River was assigned to Vanna."

"People in the Huangxuan family believe that it was the people from Vana who assassinated their patriarch. But to be honest, if Huangxuanzhou survives, Donghuang may not really lose." Tang De looked at the chessboard and said: "After all, that man With only tens of thousands of people, they blocked several rounds of attacks from the Vana Empire."

"But it's a pity that the man died in the end. Once the man died, the Huangxuan family had no owner, and their young master was said to be not in Jinling at the time, so..." Tang De frowned, "Hey, uncle, what are you doing?" Can you go like this?"

"Is there anything wrong? It's okay to play this way." Weier looked at the chessboard and changed the position of the White Queen. "That Huang Xuanzhou can be regarded as a hero in this world, but it's a pity that he was born in Donghuang."

"Have you heard a word, Your Highness?" Tang De looked up at Vichypel.

"what?"

"Eight hundred miles away from the imperial porch, the emperor does not kneel."

"The Patriarch of the Huangxuan family has always been able to not even kneel to the emperor. Every time when the princes of Donghuang make a pilgrimage, all the officials and princes bow down, but the patriarch of the Huangxuan family does not kneel." Tang De said.

"Doesn't the emperor kneel?" Wihipel held the wine glass in his hand with deep eyes.

"The Huangxuan family has guarded Donghuang for 800 years. How many people in the south of the Yangtze River only know the Huangxuan family but not the emperor's surname." Tang De played with the chess pieces in his hand, "There is another interesting place in the Huangxuan family."

"what?"

"Anyone who joins the Huangxuan family must abandon their original surname and take Huangxuan as their surname from then on." Tang De said: "It is better to have one surname as Huangxuan."

"But it's a pity, no matter how heroic he is, Huang Xuanzhou is still dead."

"Who is the head of the Huangxuan family now?" Wihipel asked.

"Huangxuan Jin." Tang De tossed the Red Queen in his hand casually, "Son of Huangxuan Day, Huangxuan Jin."

After finishing speaking, Tang De put the Red Queen on the white crystal chessboard, and looked up at Vehipel.

"Is it Huangxuanjin?" Wisipel shook the wine glass in his hand, the old ice in the glass melted to only a little bit, as if it was going to disappear completely in the wine.

"I think maybe we really should get an ice machine," said Wischpel, earnestly.

05

The Red Room, Corinth, the Empire of Vanna.

The twelve elders of the Privy Council sat on the periphery of the round table, and Isabel sat in the center of the round table. Behind her was the coat of arms of the Vaner Empire—twisted roses that occupied the front wall.

And the handsome blond knight—Brünnhilde was standing behind her.

"I have made up my mind that the Ring of the Nibelungen will eventually belong to the Vana Empire." Isabel looked around coldly at the twelve senior members of the Privy Council, with a look of determination and determination that did not match her age.

"Looking for the Ring of the Nibelungen is false, it is true to take the opportunity to gather military power." Augustus, the auxiliary minister of the Vana Empire.

After the previous king died of illness, he single-handedly supported Isabel to become the queen of Vana, and then proclaimed himself the assistant minister, taking all the military power of Vana in his hands.

"Military power belongs to the royal family!" Isabel looked at Augustus, there was no trace of fear in those amber eyes.

Augustus was a little surprised at the queen's boldness. After all, the previous king of the Vana Empire, that is, Isabel's father, had never dared to challenge him like this.

"On the contrary, His Excellency Augustus, when my father was in power, took advantage of my father's many years of illness to continuously expand the power of the Privy Council! He even took the opportunity to take over the general power when my father passed away and the throne was empty!"

"The queen is young, and military is not about playing with dolls. Naturally, I should take over." Augustus never thought that Isabel would dare to confront him directly.

"I know that Uncle Augustus has led the military for many years, and his soldiers are strictly disciplined. But... may I ask why Uncle Augustus was the leader of the Glory Expedition, why the stalemate failed to invade the Kingdom of Donghuang for more than half a month! " Isabel said angrily. "If you don't have the ability, how can you eat vegetarian food!"

"Uncle Augustus was indeed invincible back then, but now there is a more suitable candidate, and he should be the one!"

Augustus looked at the girl in front of him and felt a little out of breath.The girl in front of her was not her incompetent father, nor the weak girl he had seen back then who could only rely on the protection of others.

He still remembered that when the licentious former king passed away, the throne was vacant, and most of the heirs of the former king were killed by his favorite concubines. The Vana Empire has always believed that the royal family is the blood of gods, and the inheritance of the throne must also be the inheritance of the blood of gods , The whole country is in chaos.

Until that rainy night, a girl stopped his carriage in the street. The girl's body was covered with bruises and scars, and her short blonde hair couldn't see its original color. She knelt in front of him and said that the princess who had been imprisoned in the monastery had been killed Seeing the assassination of the former monarch's favorite concubine, she was seriously injured and was hiding in the long-abandoned black tower.The princess was about to lose blood and died, and she begged him to save the princess with all her might.

That was the first time he saw Isabel, the ominous princess in the legend. The 13-year-old abandoned princess was lying on the only bed in the tower, her small face was pale due to excessive blood loss.

...so thin.

... so powerless.

...Like a canary that can break its wings at any time.

Perhaps, this abandoned princess will be easier to control than his father.

so weak...

He personally assisted the girl to ascend the throne and became the youngest queen of the Vana Empire.

Everything developed according to his script, and almost all the military power fell into his hands. Everyone only knew Augustus but not the queen.

But, he was wrong.This girl was not the weak canary he saw on the tower, but a rose with thorns.

He still remembered that the Minister of Finance announced that the silver of the great abyss, a necessity for the development of the empire, was in short supply due to the huge consumption of the past ten years.

At that time, he just raised his eyes lightly, unaware that the seemingly delicate girl had already begun to reveal her sharp thorns.

So the proposal of the Glory Expedition was proposed, and the queen who sat on the throne never said a word from the beginning to the end, and everyone knew that she was just a puppet.

Expedition to the country of Donghuang, the silver of the giant abyss.

Everyone thought she was just a delicate flower, but they forgot that she was also a murderous blade.

The first battle of the Glory Expedition was naturally handed over to him who held the military power, so he led dozens of warships to the east. No one could have imagined that the most elite forces in the entire empire could not push the coastline at all.They hold the most sophisticated mechanical weapons in the empire and have the most perfect formation.But unable to break through the line of defense.

That man is as powerful as a ghost.

He was riding a red horse, his gaze was as cold as a sharp knife, "The Huangxuan family will guard this land forever."

They were in a stalemate for half a month, but everyone knew that as long as that man was there, they would never be able to break into the hinterland of Donghuang Kingdom.

that man...

He is the invincible God of War of the Vana Empire, and the invincible myth of the Vana Empire.

But everything was completely shattered in front of that man.

When he returned to the Privy Council with failure, Brunhilde suddenly knelt before the queen and asked for a petition.

Brunhilde, the little girl who stopped his carriage on a rainy night, always wore the light armor of a knight and had short blond hair.She always stands behind the queen, like a shadow of the queen.

He almost disdainfully thought that all this was nonsense, did the queen regard the military as a house wine?

However, Brunhild won, and no one knows what the battle will be like.Overnight, that legendary man disappeared.And Brunhilde returned with glory, knelt before the Queen, and said, "Your mission has been fulfilled."

Yes, it was a conspiracy. When he realized that the girl was no longer the weak and deceitful abandoned princess back then, it was already too late.Perhaps it was a conspiracy from the very beginning, the girl who blocked his carriage on that rainy night, the girl who lost too much blood.

Yes, how could it be such a coincidence that when he was at a loss for the throne, a weak canary was sent to him.In the beginning, he was the stupid clown.

But it was too late. Since the Glory Crusade, everyone could see that the Privy Council was gradually declining.And today's Ring of the Nibelungen is probably the queen's last hand.A desperate card.

06

The holy white city of Asgard.

A man squatted halfway on the roof of a tall white building in Asgard. He was wearing Donghuang-style clothes, with white cloth strips tied to his eyes.

"Have you found it?" The woman slowly landed beside him, with Donghuang's long sword on her back.

"It's Lu Shu, right?" The man said with a smile on his lips without turning his head.

"Who else will follow you but me." The woman replied.

"I haven't found it yet, but I can feel that he is nearby." The man said, his voice was very nice, it was a calm, gentle voice.

"Feeling? How do you rely on feeling? You are a blind man who can't see anything, relying on breath?" Lu Shu asked.

"It's not the breath, it's just the feeling. It's chaotic and unconscious, and the world changes freely." Xiang Wang said.