Chapter 86: Ghostly Shadow

When the king had had enough, he dropped the glass and moved his joints.

"Little boy," he snorted softly at Peifeite on the ground, "you also have the guts to mention the war twelve years ago?"

"How much do you know about the brutality and bloodiness of twelve years ago?" King Nuen stared at his prey that had lost his arms with disdain: "You are just an heir to a lord held in your palm, your grandfather You are only kept in the safest main camp, and you are not even allowed to transport luggage..."

In Thales' eyes, the young Grand Duke's eyes were bloodshot, staring blankly in front of his line of sight.

It was as if he had forgotten even the sharp pain in his arms.

"But maybe your grandfather is right, let you transport supplies and baggage, in case you encounter Horace Canxing who sneaks around the back to attack supplies..." King Nunn's face darkened when he said this : "Fuck it, there won't be so much shit behind it."

A few seconds later, Peifit, who was firmly pressed to the ground, let out an inexplicable laugh.

"And those so-called shocks you received in the war...shit." King Nunn suppressed his anger until he could no longer suppress it: "Without Dragon Clouds City, without Walton, you are nothing!"

He let go of the opponent's foot, and kicked Peifitt's stomach hard!

Thales frowned: he thought of the years in the abandoned house, the days when he was beaten and kicked from time to time.

After taking the kick, Peifit curled up and moaned in pain.

"And you shouldn't be heading towards Moral!" King Nuen lowered his head and growled in pain, "He thought you were his friend!"

"Despicable traitor! Hypocritical coward!"

The angry King Nun kicked Peifit in the chest again.

"Boom!" The muffled sound was clearly audible.

Peifit shrank again, and under the heavy blow, he couldn't stop coughing.

Puffett's cough gradually eased, and then his curled up body stretched out again.

The two folded arms looked extremely hideous.

The Grand Duke let out a sly smile as if he was crying.

"Hahaha..." Peifei suppressed his laughter, but in Thales' ears, this laughter was so bleak and tragic.

King Nun's expression became more and more unkind. He looked at his enemy, grinding his teeth with a terrifying expression.

The young Grand Duke suddenly stopped laughing, he raised his head, and looked at King Nuen angrily.

"That's right, I did it," Peifit stared fiercely at the old king, panting, "Moral, he told me just one thing about his secret mission—the mission of visiting the stars and rebuilding the peace treaty." What an honor..."

"You admit it?" King Nuen's face was serious, his eyes were burning with hatred and pain: "Only when facing death, you have the courage to be a man, don't you?"

"Yes, I don't have to work hard at all, and I can use his trust in me to deceive him into sending information to the stars," Peifit responded to the king with a mocking smile: "Including his itinerary, arrangements, plans, and even missions." The entourage..."

King Nun's boots kicked Pfeiffer's stomach again.

Peifit rolled over in pain and left King Nun's side.

"Just because you feel that you are being treated unfairly?" King Nuen sneered, and the volume suddenly increased: "Just kill my son and betray your friend!"

"The status of the so-called Fengzhao City... It's just that you are looking for reasons for your selfishness and indifference! Even your own father can... What can't a guy like you do!"

Peifit groaned under the severe pain of his broken arms, with cold sweat dripping from his forehead, but when he heard the king's words, he still pulled his head up on the ground with difficulty, giggling.

"Unfair?" Peifit's laughter was weird and crazy: "My God, you, you really... you really, you don't even blush at all... you are indeed our natural king... Unfair? Hahaha..."

The next moment, Peifite's expression changed, and he turned his eyes to the four Grand Dukes:

"Stop pretending! You guys!"

The words of the young Grand Duke were full of anger:

"Olsio, Trudida, Ronnie, Lecco... you guys,

Do you dare to swear to your ancestors that you have no gratitude and no joy for what I have done? Do you dare to pat your chest and say that you don't have a trace of gratitude and happiness for Moral's death and Walton's loss of power and decline? "

The Grand Dukes chose to remain silent, and even the most cunning Trudida didn't make a sound at this moment.

Thales felt that the atmosphere in the hall had become tense, as if the scope of the duel had expanded beyond the two.

King Nun didn't say a word, he walked slowly towards Peifei step by step.

Panting, Puffett threw his shoulders away and slithered on the ground with difficulty.

And Thales looked at the Grand Duke struggling on the ground, but he didn't feel at all relieved that the truth had been revealed and his revenge had been avenged.

Only an unspeakable sadness remains.

"Ten Grand Dukes," Peifit gritted his teeth and said while struggling, "Ten Grand Dukes...after you die...they will choose the king fairly and justly, right?"

King Nun Shengsheng stopped in his tracks.

With his back to King Nuen, Peifei climbed to the center of the hall, tried his best to turn over, and faced King Nuen, speaking with hatred:

"In the south...you have long promised Reconstruction Tower that you will arbitrate for Trudida and obtain the disputed territory bordering Elk City in exchange for his support."

"In your hand, you hold the little Olsio who fled to Dragon Clouds City after losing the battle for the throne, and the bargaining chip to intervene in the succession of Weilan, so that Grand Duke Olsio dare not speak out even if he is dissatisfied."

"Since your father, you have relied on Dragon Clouds City's position to forcibly rebook the trade route to the Northeast Glacier Sea, threatening the Kaimaren family to cut it off unless they choose you as king."

"Of course, there are also us—you and your father supported the high-ranking Peifei family, the hounds you tamed, and the obedient Fengzhaocheng who whistled."

King Nun frowned deeply.

There was a murmur in the hall.

Thales also had doubts in his heart.

Puffett continued his pathetic and anguished words:

"To the north, the old bald Lecco who guards the city will only remain neutral, and choose the family that is sure to win at the most critical time."

"In the far north, the Huster family in the Sentinel has always chosen whoever supports them to resist the orcs, and whoever they choose will be their king."

Peifei knelt down from the ground, he straightened his upper body, turned his head suddenly, and looked at King Nuen with a cold expression, his voice was desolate:

"In the next king election, you and your Walton family have already made arrangements for four of them... and with these few votes, the two people in the north are destined to choose you!"

King Nun's face turned blue, and his clenched fists were rattling.

"At the future king election meeting, we so-called Grand Dukes will have no chance at all!"

"unfair?"

"This is the real unfairness!" Peifei roared in a low voice, and the words he said made everyone in the hall feel cold:

"Decades ago, before your grandfather died, he arranged for the election of the king and your father's coronation..."

"Since then, you have used all kinds of disgusting means to manipulate everything secretly under the banner of fair competition and open king selection!"

"Push the appointed person to the fore and suppress all discordants and opponents. Our king selection is just a formality and put his internally appointed person on the throne!"

King Nun strode forward.

Thales sighed secretly in his heart: Is this the truth about the selection of the king?

He remembered what Puttilai had told him about the history of the establishment of Exeter's electoral system.

Those grand dukes who have been tit-for-tat since Nakaru's death.

With a disgusted and disgusted expression on Peifitt's face, he looked directly at his livid opponent face to face.

"From then on, 'Grand Duke Walton of Dragon Clouds City' disappeared, only 'His Majesty Walton of Exeter'!"

"Bah!" He gritted his teeth, as if he wanted to crush King Nuen in front of him: "Don't you know why we call you the 'king born'?"

"It's not because of how talented or powerful you are..."

"It's that you were destined to be the king of Exeter from birth!"

"Fucking born king!"

"The thing that disgusts me the most is that you still have the face to proudly declare that Exeter is implementing a co-government king election system?"

Puffett's face was dragged across the cold floor tiles, and his emotions began to lose control: "Under Walton's suppression, what is the difference between us and the decayed hereditary royal family of the stars, and the tyrant system of the Empire—sooner or later we will One day, there will be a madman like Eddie II of the stars, dragging his whole country to hell!"

Hearing this familiar name, Thales felt a chill in his heart.

That was his grandfather.

Dragging his entire country...to hell?

Suddenly, he felt a light tap on the shoulder—it was Putilei behind him.

Thales exhaled with difficulty from his nose, and turned his attention back to the scene.

King Nuen stepped forward with indifferent eyes, and stumbled mercilessly.

"Boom!"

The young Grand Duke, whose arms were useless and who couldn't even control his balance, was swept down to the ground again.

Puffett fell back to the ground, but he continued to yell unremittingly:

"Praise the greatness of the co-government oath verbally, falsely claiming that we have the freedom and right to choose a king, but secretly monopolize all power, and set the throne and interests..."

"In this world, where else is the ruler so shameless, despicable, hypocritical, sanctimonious and disgusting!"

"You have long turned Exeter into the hereditary kingdom of the Walton family! The Walton royal family! What an irony! Nakaju's co-government oath has long been ruined by the shameless family left by his nephew Already!"

Thales felt his unsteady breathing.

Everything that happened before his eyes was like a mirror to him.

In that moment, listening to Peifitt's accusation, he wasn't thinking of Exeter.

But the Kingdom of Stars.

It was Kessel's cold expression, and the one-eyed dragon Gosd's serious eyes.

They are the six wealthy families and the thirteen prominent families who are full of doubts and have their own ghosts in the Hall of Stars.

Thales sighed slightly in his heart, and unconsciously clenched his fists.

"It's more than that!" Peifei tried his best, swaying and struggling to get up from the ground again:

"Your father married his daughter to the previous Grand Duke of Heisha early, trying to intervene in the affairs of the Heisha leader by controlling the blood of the Lombard family!"

"You bought the asphalt mine with Camus with bad intentions, and shipped it to Elk City in the east at a low price. In name, it was to guard against the threat from the east land, but in fact, it was to cut off the supply at a critical moment and force Gade to The Luo family submits!"

"God knows what other means you have prepared for the west, for Ronnie in Qiyuan City—I guess it's the Commas man whose territory is close to Qiyuan City, the Marquis of Shanliu City who looks like a hypocrite, right! This What is it again, a contract that looks gorgeous but is full of traps?"

Hearing this, Thales couldn't help but turn his head and look behind him.

Marquis Shiles of Comus felt everyone's gaze, coughed awkwardly, and turned his head away.

Peifeit's face had long lost all color, and he no longer tried to get up, but lay on the ground resignedly, with a sad and low tone.

"Not only that, you also want to learn from the Star Kingdom in the south, you want to set up tax collectors directly under the king throughout the territory, you want to take back the jurisdiction of the lords in their own territories, and you want to send the king's officials to the whole country—from us Beacon City begins!"

"This kind of humiliation, this kind of oppression, this kind of injustice...it's not just me, and it's not just a day or two..." Peifei panted, and his voice became weaker: "How can we not resist?"

"Resist? That's why you killed Moral? To take revenge on the Walton family?" King Nunn's eyes moved slightly: "Using betrayal and betraying friends? Only a coward like you..."

Pfeiffer paused, his eyes becoming complicated and subtle.

"Yes, Moral," Puffett gasped, with a low voice: "We used to be friends..."

"I also used to tell myself that everything would be fine, but...but..."

"Nun Walton!" The young Grand Duke's expression changed, as if he had made up his mind. He lay on the ground and raised his head, closed his eyes and let out a sad laugh: "It's all your fault! You forced Watch me do it!"

"Me?" King Nun's voice was like thunder before a storm, low and terrifying.

Peifite's voice rose, he trembled and raised his head, his eyes were vicious: "Five years ago, after I rejected your appointment as an official in Fengzhao City..."

"One of my vassals immediately jumped out to question my orthodoxy, Trudida began to provoke arrogantly at the border, and people in my territory began to talk about my ability... Soon, my vassals began to rebel , the people began to resist the tax, and the territory was in chaos... When I was at a loss what to do, you asked Moral to bring a letter from you and come to mediate!"

"While reading your hypocritical comfort letter, I raised my head and looked at Moral standing in front of me, listening to him smirking and talking about our past... That's when I realized that he and I were never the same friend!"

"I'm just a dog in Dragon Clouds City!"

"And what kind of guy is Moral, don't you understand!" Peifei's face was full of veins, and his brown hair stuck to his forehead, making him look hideous and embarrassed.

"I've had enough of that stupid smile on my face! In his cognition, the whole world is so beautiful!" Peifitt's eyes were red, he struggled to get up, and faced everyone in the conference hall , yelling crazily:

"That's a naive, weak, hesitant, incompetent, short-sighted, and unambitious waste!"

"Hahaha..." Under King Nun's gloomy expression, Peifitt shook his upper body and laughed wantonly, even tears came out of his eyes:

"Did you know... that guy, that trash of Moral... the biggest dream is... to be an adventurous mercenary... go, go travel the world... hahahahahaha... mercenary, adventure... …Ha ha ha ha……"

"By the way, he even has a crush on a prostitute! A slut who makes a show!"

"He kept saying that he wanted to marry her as his wife!"

Thales shook his head. He remembered King Nuen's words about Prince Moral when he met King Nuen and the grand dukes for the first time.

Peifei laughed until tears came out.

King Nun frowned fiercely.

Peifei smiled morbidly, rolling on the ground amidst the severe pain in his arm and the turbulent emotions, and burst into tears: "His Royal Highness Moral, the future Grand Duke of Dragon Clouds City, wants to marry a A wretched bitch for a wife! Hahahahaha..."

"And he is still the appointed king of Exeter—think about it, the great Exeter has a queen of prostitutes! All subjects must bow and salute to a bitch... Hahaha..."

Everyone in the hall looked at him, and many of them lowered their heads and sighed.

King Nunn didn't interrupt him, but continued to stare at Peifei with that terrifying look.

"This kind of guy, this kind of waste, this kind of rubbish, this kind of shameful existence without self-consciousness and responsibility, is actually Walton's heir!" Puffett laughed enough, and he raised his eyes of resentment and hatred : "And I still want to serve him against my will and regard him as king - not because of his ability, but because of his surname and father!"

"You still ask me why I chose Lumbard? I chose the Black Sand Grand Duke who is as black as the name of his territory from the inside to the outside? That kin-killing beast?"

Grand Duke Peifeit's eyes were burning, and he roared like thunder: "I did not choose Rumba! I chose a future without Walton! A future without King Exeter!"

"I'm very happy. I finally destroyed your last bloodline." He gritted his teeth and stared at King Nunn. "The next Exeter will be the king, and his surname will never be Walton again!"

It was King Nunn who answered him with a fierce kick, which hit Peifeit in the face.

"Before then," King Nuen grabbed his collar and said coldly, "I will destroy you first."

The young Grand Duke laughed sadly, shook his head, turned his head, and looked away.

He looked at - Thales Canxing.

Taylor's heart tightened suddenly.

what happened?

"Hey, you! Little brat of the stars!" Peifei yelled, drawing everyone's attention to Thales.

"You," the bruised Grand Duke struggled to speak out, and smiled sadly: "You are very proud, aren't you? A prince of stars, showing off his power in the capital of Exeter... making fun of all the Grand Dukes Turn around?"

Thales frowned, he felt the unkind eyes of everyone in the hall.

He was in Exeter after all.

"Your life won't be long!" Peifei said bitterly: "Do you think that assassinating you is just my act to protect myself?"

The Grand Duke's next words made Thales stunned.

"You don't know how much they—those guys want your life," Peifit gasped, enduring the severe pain in his arm: "When I hired them, I figured out their purpose...isn't it Purely for the money..."

Thales felt his breathing quicken.

Just listen to the young Grand Duke continue:

"They want to kill all of your Canxing family in their dreams, and they want to enter the Fuxing Palace!"

"They are wanted criminals that everyone shouts and beats in Xingchen Territory, so of course we can't do it... But here, in Exeter..."

"When they accepted my money, they didn't react at all," Peifei said with fiery eyes. "But those killers, when they heard that the target was you, the heir to the Canxing royal family of Xingchen..."

"The expression on his face, how excited..."

"What?"

"What killer?" Thales stared at him blankly, before realizing it after a few seconds: "Who are they?"

"Who else!" Peifei shouted happily: "Of course it's those sneaky assassins! Those dark assassins! It's them who infiltrated the Lumbard army, using his magic gun troops, I will assassinate you!"

"It's your Canxing's biggest enemy!"

Thales looked at him in disbelief.

Canxing, the biggest enemy?

The next moment, Peifei laughed wildly and called out a name that made everyone frown:

"Shadow Shield!"