Chapter 644

Outside the chapel, the crowd had gathered, and the news that suddenly spread shook everyone. The nobles and soldiers were all shocked. Even those who had vaguely realized the truth in advance were learning the details of the matter. Then I was stunned...

In order to eradicate the nobles who had opposed him, to frame the blame on Duke Gawain Cecil, to ensure his own royal power, and to prevent the Cecil family from returning to the center of power in the kingdom, the king single-handedly directed the scene on the Raven Terrace. Sensational killing.

This is not a rumor, but there are tangible evidence and witnesses - a secret letter that should have been destroyed was found, and several inner court servants who were unwilling to remain silent also stood up to testify against the king's sins, outside the chapel, with a fat body The Earl of Balin angrily waved a letter in his hand: "This is a conspiracy! The king used false news to deceive Duke Cecil, making the Duke mistakenly believe that the Raven Terrace was captured by monsters, and the king killed hundreds of nobles and their Knight, just because these people once opposed him!!"

The knights around the church became commotion, and the commotion gradually evolved into louder and louder shouts. Some of the inner court nobles who were in shock and fear soon joined the wave of condemnation. Only a few people in the crowd kept a strange silence. , and a small group of nobles were dazed and confused, as if they had lost their position all of a sudden, as if they suddenly couldn't understand what went wrong in this world.

More people were stirred up, and a betrayal of anger began to spread through the crowd.

"The king we supported turned out to be a tyrant?!"

"He can kill a hundred nobles who oppose him today, and he can kill us tomorrow!!"

"He himself was crowned with blood! We should have known from the beginning!"

Some people in the crowd were shouting hoarsely. At first, only a small number of people shouted, but somehow quickly infected almost the whole crowd. Some people shouted for the king to come out of the church, and some people who felt betrayed were angry. Staring at the door, these people might even have rushed into the church if it wasn't for the last guard standing at the door.

Then, the door of the church was pushed open, and Welsh Moen appeared in front of them.

"The king is out!" "He is out..."

The crowd couldn't help but take a half step back in the commotion, but then they rushed forward again, and a noisy voice sounded in all directions, clamoring for the king to explain the content of the letter, and the Earl of Baling stood at the front. , waving the stationery in his hand, and said loudly: "Your Majesty! Please explain all this - why did you write to Duke Cecil that the Raven Terrace was captured by monsters?!"

The fat earl's face flushed red,

It seemed that every word he said was draining the strength of his whole body.

Wales watched the Earl of Baring silently for a few seconds, and only after the surrounding crowd had quieted down did he say clearly: "I just cleared the worms of the kingdom."

This was an admission in disguise, and the crowd was in an uproar.

And when the uproar almost reached its peak, the crowd suddenly quieted down again.

A tall figure came out of the shadows in the church, Gawain walked out of the gate, and stood beside Wales with a blank expression.

"To be honest, since the day I walked out of the grave, I have met a lot of people in this era. Some people try to be my opponents, some think they are my opponents, some are my allies, and some think they are mine. Allies," Gawain glanced at the king beside him, "but only you, neither an opponent nor an ally, was the first person so far that really surprised me, and even caught me off guard."

"Then it is my greatest honour," said Wales softly, smiling slightly. "There is only one thing you have to do next - condemn me."

No one could hear the whispered conversation between Gawain and Wales, but everyone could see that the two were communicating, and a nobleman in a royal blue coat shouted loudly: "Duke Cecil, you are being attacked by this The 'King' has been deceived! He wants to do you injustice!"

Gawain glanced at the nobleman who was shouting loudly, and said to Wales in a low voice, "This person is very loyal to you."

Then, before Wales responded, he added: "It's a pity that the stage you arranged doesn't quite fit my style."

Welsh's face finally showed a hint of surprise, but before he wanted to say anything, Gawain took a step forward and said to the gathered nobles and soldiers: "No doubt, I know what's on the Raven Terrace. "

The square in front of the chapel was suddenly silent, and everyone forgot to speak in amazement. Some people couldn't help but take a breath after a while, while others subconsciously cast their eyes around—

The soldiers and chariots of the Cecil Corps were gathered around the clearing, and those icy war machines were watching all this indifferently, with no sorrow or joy, and disciplined.

"That letter is true, and so is my bombing of Raven Mesa, but before we discuss whether this is just or not, I have something I want you to see."

As Gawain spoke, he stretched out his hand to the side. Only then did people notice a short half-elf in black leather armor that had been standing there for some time. This amazing concealment technique was first used by those present. The supernatural beings were surprised, and then they saw the half-elf handing a stack of paper with handwriting and patterns to Gao Wen's hand.

Gawain took the printout handed over by Amber, first flipped through it, and then read: "Count Uriel, the royal family directly seals the noble, the fief is located in the west of Saint-Sunil, planned to defect on the 58th of last month, and packed it for a while. The property of twelve carriages, including three carriages and several war horses that were stolen by taking advantage of their positions, should have been used as city defense materials... Later, due to the abnormal mobilization of the Royal Knights, the escape was urgently cancelled.

"Viscount Hodickel, a noble of the inner court, also planned to defect, and transferred a large amount of property belonging to the royal family by bribing the guards... Also because of good information, he urgently canceled the escape, and then actively loyal to the new king to cover up the past. crime committed.

"Viscount Balgor and his brothers tried to defect from the North Gate, and for this reason, they killed an upright knight who opposed the defect and tried to report to the Silver Fort, and disguised him as a fall.

"This one is even more powerful. Countess Hopkina who tried to defect, I even have a magical photo of her hurriedly driving to the north gate here in a car-"

Gao Wen raised a page, which clearly showed an image of a noble carriage with its emblem erased heading towards the city gate. In the image, a woman with a slender face was sticking her head out and looking nervously at the street, while the background behind the carriage was It is the northern wall of San Sunil as everyone knows it.

"I still have a lot of information here, a lot."

Gawain's voice woke up many sluggish people in the square, and after waking up, almost everyone suddenly felt a downright chill spreading from the bottom of their hearts.

The duke watched everyone - even if he was far south, his sight had already covered the northern capital.

These documents, these words and pictures, the disturbing perspectives they present, the terrifying details they possess, and for a moment, the nobles in the square even had an illusion - as if they were completely naked. Living under Cecil's nose, every guest at a banquet, every guard under the porch, every pedestrian passing by the roadside, every corner, every moment, there is a pair of Cecil's eyes staring at himself.

But Gawain himself knew that he was far from accomplishing this. Although after more than two years of operation, the Military Intelligence Agency did indeed set up many sites and spies in the city of San Sunil, but his "monitoring" of the capital was still Quite limited, it’s just that those nobles who tried to defect are really unlucky, or they only care about the attention of the Silver Castle, while ignoring the civilians who can be seen everywhere on the roadside and the sight behind the windows on the corners and alleys. As a result, many of them are exposed. A horse's foot.

On the other hand, the information in his hands is also half-truth-but at this time, who cares?

"At the time of national disaster, trying to defect, swept away military supplies, destroyed the city defense, and even murdered the defenders, this is a serious act of treason," Gawain put down the documents in his hand, and said in a calm tone, "What happened on the Crow Terrace It's just a matter of law enforcement."

This is Gawain's style - he is the one who ordered the bombardment of the Raven Terrace, there is nothing to admit, he just wants to eradicate those nobles, and there is nothing to admit, just like what he did in the southern border, when it comes to the traditional aristocracy In his affairs, he neither detours nor pretends.

After all, what existed between the order he promoted and the old aristocratic order was not a "deviation", but a tit-for-tat confrontation. Since it was doomed to be incompatible from the beginning, it would be better to be more direct.

After all, he doesn't need to "leave a way out" for himself in the group of the old nobles. Instead, he should be careful that if he cooperates with this scam today, this hypocrisy will become a stain in the eyes of the people one day in the future.

"I'm done," he said indifferently. "Who wants to speak?"

There was silence in the church square, but the silence was not only caused by tension and fear, but also a kind of contradiction and tangled mentality that plagued everyone. Except for those soldiers and low-level knights who might have a simpler position, those who were present with a little The nobles of the title are aware of the difficulty of this problem:

Traitors are extremely abhorrent. There is no doubt about this. The people standing here at the moment are basically the main war factions who have truly defended the capital and despised those fleeing factions. things felt a certain level of recognition.

But Gawain Cecil's method made them feel uneasy, and the sound of the cannon made everyone deeply fearful.

The king did remove the "worms" from the kingdom, but it is undeniable that the king did use this method to eradicate dissidents. Regardless of whether Duke Cecil knew the truth on the Raven Terrace or not, the king's letter was always there. It's true, the motive is also true...

The huge sense of contradiction and the almost absurd sense of division made everyone not knowing what to say for a while, it seemed that none of them should be supported, but they had to support one...

This unbearable silence lasted for a whole number of minutes before it was suddenly broken.

The people gathered in front of the chapel suddenly spread out from both sides, and the elegant Duke Baldwin Franklin, wearing a duke's cloak, stood up.

The duke was holding something inexplicable to others—it was a metal plate made of mithril.

After seeing the metal plate, there was no surprise on Gawain's face. He only slightly tilted his head and glanced at Victoria next to him. In the complicated gaze of the Duchess of the North, he saw a trace of solemnity, and then The solemnity turned into relief.

Baldwin Franklin came to Gawain and Wales with the Mithril plate. After exchanging a deep look with Wales, he turned around and looked at the crowd in the square:

"In any case, the king's act of exterminating dissent at the hands of the Duke of Cecil is unquestionable, and in his motives was a great selfishness and a horrific abuse of power, and this unquestioned fact proves one thing: Wales ?Moen is no longer fit to continue to be our king, he should step down and abdicate to make way.

"Duke Cecil's bombardment of Crow Terrace is a thunderous means to eradicate traitors. He is far away from the center of power in the capital, and has no motive to eradicate political dissidents. Although this decision is too cold, it is in a state of emergency. A normal decision - that's my judgment."

Behind Gawain, Amber, whose figure was hidden from everyone's sight, muttered softly, "It's ridiculous..."

Gawain replied softly: "Yes, it's just ridiculous."

There are too many points for debate in Bai Dewen's words. It seems that he deliberately magnifies the fault of one party, and deliberately ignores the terrible behavior of the other party. It is obviously Gawain who really fired the cannon, but in the end he wants everyone to ignore this. a little.

But the most absurd thing is that after Bai Dewen's words fell, no one in the square refuted it.

There was a brief silence, and then they exchanged glances, nodding their heads one by one in some wordless tacit understanding.

Baldwin turned around and looked into Wales' eyes: "Your Majesty, do you have any opinion on this conclusion?"

Welsh had a relaxed smile, and things were finally back in the direction he had planned.

"I have no opinion."

"Then please give up the throne, Your Majesty."

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