Chapter 356: Imperial Master
"President, the so-called Kingdom Navy is nothing more than that!"
"Why not kill them completely, kill that Benjamin."
"Just to stop them, the reward is too low!"
Among the Black Shark Pirate Fleet, the newly rising great pirate [Black Shark] saluted Difuya respectfully.
This black shark bandit that suddenly appeared is actually a hidden force of the Navigators Association.
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"What do you know? We will do whatever the president tells us to do!"
"Since the president chose not to kill Benjamin, she certainly has her reasons."
Before Divya could speak, several confidants around her began to reprimand Black Shark.
This Black Shark was originally just one of their subordinates. Recently, he became a pirate and gained a bit of fame, which actually increased his fame.
All those who appeared here were core members of the association, and he had no right to speak.
Feeling the faint terrifying coercion emanating from the surroundings, Black Shark, who was just an ordinary controller, suddenly woke up.
At that moment, he was covered in cold sweat and almost collapsed to the ground.
If other boys saw Black Shark's appearance at this time, they might doubt his future as a pirate.
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"Black Shark, the navies of various kingdoms are not as simple as you see."
"With our strength, the best we can do is to make a small fuss."
"If the Kingdom of Vandroa sends out a large extraordinary battleship, it can crush our fleet in an instant."
"And that Benjamin is the prince of the Kingdom of Droa after all. Not only will there be no benefit to killing him, it will only cause trouble."
"The reason why we took action this time was just to repay a favor."
"Hey, those old bastards owed a lot of favors back then, and they had to trouble me to clean up for them."
Difuya's eyes were full of helplessness, and the confidants around her were instantly filled with indignation when they saw this scene.
The Voyager's Association has become as decadent as it is now because it has shouldered too much historical burden.
Those damn old guys should have been buried at the bottom of the sea forever like sunken ships.
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Of course, the Navigator Association's move this time was not just to repay a favor, the reward given by the other party was also satisfactory.
But the most important thing is that the association plans to test the reaction of all parties to the "reappearance of pirates".
This may be related to their next series of plans.
After the Black Shark Fleet left the waters here, it ambush the fourth princess Daphne in another waters.
This time too, after achieving his goal, he quickly left the battlefield.
After several successive attacks, the name of the Black Shark Thief finally began to spread in the surrounding waters, and even reached the navies of various countries through various intelligence systems.
Faced with the information that "pirates have reappeared", each kingdom's navy responded by throwing it directly into the trash can.
This is another joke made by some idiot. Playing a pirate game in the inner world is "so boring"!
Everyone is very busy now, so there is no time to play with others.
Make a fuss, make a fuss, the bigger the fuss, the better!
In fact, over the years, everyone has attacked enemy navies in the name of combating piracy.
So "the reappearance of pirates" is really nothing. None of you have ever pretended to be a pirate!
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"Asshole, damn it!"
"Do those guys really want to kill everyone and ignore the family ties of the royal family?"
"It seems that I have to prepare for the worst. Even if the prediction of the national master is true, I will be the last one alive."
Inside a certain extraordinary battleship that had just been attacked, Daphne was worried.
Of course she wasn't worried about the pirates just now. Those guys were just pawns and were nothing to worry about.
Before she really breaks up, her safety is still guaranteed.
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Since the death of the old king, not only the entire Kingdom of Droa, but even the royal family, which has always been aloof from all forces, has been involved in the chaos.
The root cause is that after the death of the old king, the various forces in the kingdom were out of balance.
In fact, a long time ago, the kingdom was full of hidden dangers. It was only thanks to the mediation of the old king that it could always maintain stability.
But now, the sudden departure of the old king caused everything to explode violently.
The House of Lords and the House of Commons, the Senate and the Parliament, the Royalists and the Radicals, all kinds of wonderful dramas were staged in the Kingdom of Droa in just a few months.
If it weren't for the current delicate international situation, the Kingdom of Droa would probably have started a civil war long ago.
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Fortunately, the "disaster star" was about to come to the world at this time. Under the threat of annihilation of the country, everyone still maintained a trace of sanity in their minds.
But how long this restraint can be maintained is hard to say.
Therefore, the most important thing for the Kingdom of Droa now is to elect a new king.
So of course, the various forces in the kingdom shifted the fight to the succession of the throne.
This time, the royal family could no longer escape.
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Now, behind every prince and princess, whether they like it or not, there is a faction of power.
But the most powerful ones are the eldest prince Dimoko, the second prince Parmot, the third prince Otli and the sixth prince Liv.
They themselves have sufficient strength and power, and now with the support of all parties, they naturally widen the gap with ordinary princes and princesses.
Especially the third prince Otley, he is an elite student of Huangtian Curse Academy, and even has the potential to be promoted to the academy's true seed.
Although Huangtian Spell Academy will not intervene directly, and even bother to intervene in such matters.
But this relationship is enough to make Otley the most favored among all the heirs to the throne.
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The old king died too suddenly, and he did not specify who would inherit the throne.
According to past practice, the royal family should have nominated and finally elected a new king.
But now, with the intervention of various parties, the selection of the king is no longer the royal family's own business.
All forces want to push their chosen princes and princesses to the throne of the king.
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After the establishment of constitutional monarchy, the king's power was indeed greatly weakened.
But he represents a force after all, and it is still a very powerful and important one.
In particular, the Deroya family has a good reputation among the people, which is even more influential.
As long as the king's position is slightly deviated, it is enough for certain factions to gain huge benefits, and even gain advantages in the power struggle.
This is also the reason why various forces are so obsessed with intervening in the succession to the throne.
After all, it was because of the sudden death of the old king that the royal family was leaderless, which gave everyone a chance.
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When the old king died, the princes and princesses were all far away abroad.
So with the intervention of various forces, the condition for succession to the throne became, [the first person to return to the Kingdom of Droyah before the state funeral will ascend the throne].
This seems to give everyone a chance, even the originally marginal princes have the opportunity to peek at the throne.
But Benjamin and others would rather not have it.
Because this condition is simply a murderous one, turning the succession to the throne, which could have been a peaceful transition, directly into a fighting arena
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First, the four headed by the eldest prince Dimoco are determined to get the throne.
This is not only because they have this intention, but also represents the will of the forces behind them.
The strength of these four people is not very different. Under the sniping of each other, the road back to the country has been quite bumpy, which can be called ninety-nine eighty-one difficulties.
As for the other five people represented by Benjamin, even if they had no intention of competing for the throne, they had to be forced to do so after being selected by certain forces.
Moreover, some people were ambitious, but they had to endure it because of their strength.
And it was because of these reasons that the eldest prince and his brothers and sisters were quite worried about their younger brothers and sisters.
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Everyone knows that when the snipe and the clam fight, the fisherman benefits.
So even if the four people were fighting fiercely, they still closely monitored the whereabouts of Benjamin and others.
Once Benjamin and others had delusions, they would send people to stop them and teach them a lesson.
If it was just like this, Benjamin and others would just be honest and wait until the four people were ranked higher and lower, and they would be considered to have survived this disaster.
But at this time, the news of the national master's divination came out.
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In the inner ring world, as long as a medium-sized power with a little ambition and trying to be promoted to the sequence of great powers will be appointed as a [national master].
The national master practices the art of heavenly secrets. Although it is only a fragmentary inheritance of heavenly secrets, he can still perform [divination] after being canonized by the country.
In the inner ring world, the heavenly secrets are broken, but they are only broken, not completely disappeared.
If the heavenly secrets are gone, then the inheritance of the heavenly secret master would have disappeared long ago.
With the help of divination, the national master can communicate with the fragments of heavenly secrets in the dark and peek into the "future scene".
If the heavenly secrets have not been broken, then there is a 99% chance that the future scene will come true.
But after the heavenly secrets are broken, the possibility of the future scene coming true is only 70%.
But even so, it is enough to help the kingdom make some decisions at critical moments.
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In the Kingdom of Droyah, every divination by the national master needs to be approved by the parliament and authorized by the king, and a series of very complicated procedures need to be carried out.
But this time, for some reason, the national master took advantage of the chaos of various forces and forced a divination.
It was not until this time that everyone realized that the king's seal had been in the hands of the national master.
Although the divination was not legal in terms of procedure, it was not false, but real and effective.
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For a long time, the [National Master] had a very transcendent status in the kingdom and would not interfere in the internal affairs of the kingdom.
But this time, for some reason, the National Master made an exception and performed divination on the succession to the throne.
Although all parties were very dissatisfied, they did not want to offend the National Master.
So they planned to push the "lucky man" to the throne after the National Master announced the divination results.
For them, it was just one less opportunity to interfere in the internal affairs of the royal family, which was not a big loss.
That's right, everyone thought that the National Master's divination this time was at the request of those old foxes in the royal family.
These guys probably didn't want to see the internal fighting in the royal family.
Of course, it was mainly to cut off the tentacles of all parties to interfere in the affairs of the royal family, so they wanted to lock in the [winner] in advance.
However, what all parties did not expect was that the result of the National Master's divination this time was very strange!
[Nine sons fight for the throne, only one survives, the winner becomes the king, the loser dies]
No matter which kingdom, when the national teacher accepts the title, there will be a kind of constraint.
Every time the divination result is displayed, he must show it exactly as it is, without any mistakes.
Once he cheats, the national teacher will suffer backlash and die instantly.
So although the result of the divination was strange, everyone did not think that the national teacher was making it up.
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The result of the divination seemed very simple and clear, that is, only one person would survive this battle for the throne.
And the person who survived would naturally ascend the throne and become the king.
The key to the problem was that the national teacher did not even see who would ascend the throne in the end, and could not even tell whether the other party was a man or a woman.
This made everyone groping in the dark!
But at the same time, it also made many ambitious people more excited!
The national teacher's divination this time not only did not extinguish the war for the throne, but it simply added fuel to the fire.
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Originally, the battle for the throne this time might be a bit fierce, but everyone was just a ranking, and it might not decide life and death.
Many forces just wanted to take the opportunity to interfere in the internal affairs of the royal family and weaken the strength of the royal family.
As long as there is this first time, it will be natural to interfere with the succession to the throne in the future.
But now, some ambitious people have begun to think about whether they can take this opportunity to completely overthrow the De Luoya family.
The constitutional monarchy is not in line with the trend of the times, so it is better to change to a republic.
The radicals in the Kingdom of Droyal have been working in this direction and have persuaded the royal family to abdicate completely several times.
Now they finally see the light!
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There is no impenetrable wall in the world, let alone such an open thing as divination.
Soon, under the spread of the divination by those who are interested, all nine contenders for the throne knew the result of the divination.
Among the 9 people, only one can survive?
This moment stunned the princes who wanted to lie down, Benjamin!
They just wanted to play a soy sauce, and they were forced to do so.
Now it has turned into a life-and-death struggle, how tragic.
Although the result of the divination has only a 70% probability of coming true, do Benjamin and others dare to gamble?
The moment the divination result appeared, the nature of the struggle for the throne has changed.
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Even Dimoko and the other four were a little confused about the divination result.
They really wanted to be king, but they didn't want to die at all.
Compared with marginal princes like Benjamin, they have a more important position in the royal family, so they know more about divination.
There is only a 70% chance that the divination result will come true, which is based on someone trying desperately to tamper with the divination result.
This is 70% destiny, 30% depends on hard work.
That is to say, after knowing the future, there is only a 30% chance of reversing the future.
If everyone lies down together, the divination result will come true 100%.
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In any case, after the divination result came out, when they knew that they might die, the mentality of Dimoko and others changed instantly.
If they could still hold back before, now they must fight with their last bit of strength.
Otherwise, they will definitely die!
So the fight between Dimoko and the other four became more intense, and a life-and-death fight had already occurred.
As for the monitoring of the other brothers and sisters, some people were arranged to be on standby at any time.
In fact, if there were no concerns, Benjamin and the other five would have been eliminated the moment the divination result came out.
The reason why the five of them are still alive is that the other four have not been killed or injured.
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Since the Kingdom of Droyah is a constitutional monarchy, reputation is very important to the royal family and is also an important means for them to maintain their influence.
So no matter what, the royal family and the people will not allow a person who "kills his brothers and sisters" to ascend the throne.
Now it is no longer the era of imperial dictatorship. In order to fight for the throne, you can do whatever you want without any bottom line. Afterwards, you only need to tamper with the history books to whitewash yourself.
Now if a prince kills one of his brothers first, then other competitors will be happy to death.
Just make a big fuss and completely ruin his reputation, and he can be eliminated from the fight for the throne.
Because the forces behind the prince will naturally give up after realizing that their supporters will never inherit the throne.
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Even more than that, as long as there is this precedent.
Then all the heirs who die tragically will have to take the blame.
With this person as the scapegoat, the rest can naturally let go.
Now everyone is waiting for such an "anxious person" to appear.
Unfortunately, there are no pure fools who can participate in the fight for the throne.
Even if they are not smart and act impulsively, the people behind them will take the initiative to remind them.
So it is quite strange that after the divination results came out, everyone's fight was indeed more intense, even more tragic.
But they were still forced to maintain a bottom line!
This is also the reason why Benjamin and others wanted to sneak away and return home first but are still alive.
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It is a bit sad to say that this forced sneak away is already the last struggle of Benjamin and others.
Because the deadlock cannot last forever.
Since no one wants to bear the "murderer's infamy", let an accident solve the other 8 people.
"After the old king died, the nine heirs to the throne were grief-stricken and traveled thousands of miles in a hurry."
"In order to get back to the Kingdom of Droyal as soon as possible, everyone chose to cross the East Berlik Strait at the same time."
"It's a pity that the heavens are jealous of talents and the luck is bad. The heirs encountered [sudden shipwrecks], [attacks by the Skull and Bones Society], [encountered sea monsters], [powerful sea monsters floated up], [meteorites fell from the sky] in the East Berlik Strait..."
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The same script, different endings, this is the fate of the nine royal heirs.
The reason for this is that the East Beric Strait is a must-go place for everyone who wants to return home.
It is also the most dangerous section of the journey.
In particular, the legends about sirens and sea monsters are closely tied to the East Beric Strait and are widely circulated in the inner ring world.
So no matter how incredible it is, nine royal heirs entered here together, and eight of them encountered accidents, and one survived by chance. This is a probability.
And as long as the people can be given a self-consistent explanation, even if everyone does not believe it, it can only be attributed to conspiracy theories.
It will not delay the final winner from ascending the throne.
This is the script that Dimoko and others arranged for themselves, Benjamin and others.
But what is quite interesting is that this script is known to everyone, and each of the nine royal heirs has a copy.
Just waiting for the nine royal heirs to write the final ending.
In a sense, these nine are just actors!