Chapter 214 Iris: Why Did You Suddenly Fight Back?
With the Air Cavalry Brigade stationed on Glass Island, Aiwas can finally breathe a sigh of relief and calm down to study hard.
Because Meg was reincarnated as Ligeia, Avalon no longer needs to rush to resurrect Lancelot to protect the country. Therefore, the queen does not need to die for the time being, which also postpones the crisis of Shadow Tiansi in disguise.
Queen Sofia now undoubtedly hopes that she can live.
Soon, Avalon and Xingti will have a war. And Queen Sofia's idea is similar to Aiwas and Ligeia... As long as it is handled well, this war is an opportunity for Avalon.
But there is a prerequisite. That is to ensure that Avalon does not have a big mess.
Although those old men and bastards are all iron wastes, they are also people who hold power after all. Isabel, who is still young now, may not be able to suppress them, and she does not have a sharp enough vision to select those young talents.
However, Queen Sofia has no problem coming by herself.
During this time, she could take the opportunity to teach Isabel something... and let Aiwas take care of Isabel.
She had not taught Isabel how to govern the country before, and the reason might be different from what Isabel thought, "I am not suitable to inherit Avalon" - because if that was the case, she would not have asked Master Janice to protect Isabel and teach her extraordinary skills.
At that time, the curse had begun to spread. Queen Sofia did not let Janice protect herself or track down the curser, but asked her to protect a little girl who was very late in the succession order and even had no adaptability to the authoritarian path?
"- So it seems that what Queen Sofia has really done in recent years is to hide the trees in the forest."
After listening to Aiwas's story, Sherlock thought for a long time before answering.
Sherlock is now "dead and not resurrected", and has missed a lot of interesting things. So Aiwas went back to the bishop's house and synchronized the information with Sherlock.
Except for not saying that he was appointed Minister without Portfolio, Aiwass told Sherlock everything else - even that Aleister was transferred to his work. Of course, this was to prevent Sherlock from doing nothing and investigating blindly and exposing himself.
"Go on, I'm listening."
Aiwass sat on the sofa, drinking sherry, and listened to Sherlock's analysis with a smile.
After old Meg brought this wine over, Aiwass unexpectedly found that it tasted quite good. Now he bought some more for Mr. Bishop - nominally for the bishop, but actually he would drink a little when he had nothing to do.
Just treat it as a deposit. It's just that there will be some deposit loss occasionally.
To be honest, Meg's taste is really good. There is still something to say about the wine she recommends.
Then the reason why she likes to eat fried chicken and fried fish is probably because there is really nothing delicious in Avalon...
Sherlock didn't drink. He just held an unlit cigar in his mouth, and his hands flew up and down with very rich body language, talking non-stop: "Your Majesty probably guessed a long time ago that the source of the curse is not one, so the cause of death of the royal family members is different. It is precisely because there are more than one curser... The noble red of the Star Antimony people, the spies and assassins of the Iris people, Lloyd's may not know, but the first two are enough.
"This is also the reason why she never said the curser-with the Eye of Avalon and Master Janis, it is quite simple if she really wants to investigate. But that answer is unbearable for the people of Avalon. So she can only pretend that she doesn't know.
"If we fight against one country, we may be able to inspire the fighting spirit of the people of Avalon. But if we fight against two enemies at the same time, there is no possibility of winning."
"There are only four countries around Avalon. Apart from the Western Church and the barbarians of the Wolf Country in the north, there are only Star Antimony and Iris. And those barbarians have a bad relationship with us. Add to that the dissolute Iris people and the dark Star Antimony people, and we can be said to be enemies all over the world."
Sherlock is undoubtedly a queen braggart.
But he was probably right this time.
Because looking back now, after confirming that Avalon could not easily lift the curse and could not avoid being cursed, Sophia made several preparations very calmly:
First, she began to publicize the adaptability of Isabel's hidden path of beauty, so that she could stay away from royal social interactions and power centers, maintain her purity, and not contact her brothers and sisters; then she began to prepare the Avalon Shadow Ceremony and plan a protector for Avalon; she also found Janice, a protector and mentor for Isabel, to ensure that Isabel could grow up healthily.
Although Isabel's talent in art is quite outstanding, it is not enough to impress Janice - so Janice, who likes to travel around the world, stayed in Avalon for so long, only because of the queen's request.
From this point of view, arranging Isabel to the Royal Law University to meet those outstanding talents of the same age and future pillars of the country; giving preferential treatment to Sherlock, who is loyal to the royal family; and even giving Aiwas the position of minister, all of these are for Isabel. They are all paving the way for her future rule.
As Isabel said, she has always had a good relationship with her grandmother. But Sophia's love for her is not intimacy, pampering and gifting, but exists in a more rational and long-term attitude.
It's great. Aiwas sighed.
The only miscalculation of Her Majesty the Queen is probably that Isabel was forced to autism by pressure.
After all, when she was a teenager, she often put on makeup and sneaked out of the Silver and Tin Palace to watch a play. When she was in middle school, she wore college girl clothes and pretended to be a junior schoolmate to go to college. She was even able to easily play with the world-renowned painter she met for the first time, and she was a social expert who asked Janice to paint for her... Maybe it is really hard to understand why Isabel would be so easily autistic.
"I am afraid that from the very beginning, Her Highness Isabel is the most suitable person to inherit His Majesty's governing philosophy."
Sherlock answered affirmatively: "Now Avalon urgently needs to open up and accept extraordinary people from other paths.
"Her Majesty has done everything she can against the resistance of reform. She is a very outstanding and outstanding monarch, but she still lacks time.
"According to my calculations, it will take at least a generation to truly see the results of the reform and let Avalon's technology catch up with the international level. If you choose to stop or even regress at this time, you will miss the last window period."
"Indeed."
Evans nodded, surprised by Sherlock's keenness.
Once the Narcissus Principality completes its independence... the technological country with a ruling class composed entirely of mages will begin to exert its technological foundation accumulated for a whole century. As long as the Star Antimony disintegrates, the three masters of demonology, alchemy, and necromancer, who have lost their mutual restraint, will also be in big trouble.
Queen Sofia did not foresee the matter of the Fallen Angels, but her political vision can easily see through the instability of the Narcissus Principality and the crisis within the Star Antimony.
- In this case, any monarch who cannot firmly withstand political resistance from all sides and continue to complete reforms at the fastest speed is actually eliminating the last hope of Avalon. But the only person Sofia can trust is Isabel.
Because other heirs may betray her, but only Isabel cannot. After all, Isabel herself is the holder of the illegal path.
The path of beauty, which can secretly peek through "artistic vision" and even easily teleport, is undoubtedly limited in Avalon because most of the extraordinary knowledge is controlled by the Iris Kingdom. Those old-fashioned knights hated—or rather feared—this kind of fancy ability.
Now that other heirs have been excluded, the curser from Iris was caught on the spot when "assassinating the minister", Meg's lifespan problem has been solved, and Isabel has two capable assistants, Aiwass and Sherlock... After Aiwass revived the multiple deadlocks that Avalon had been stuck with, the queen stopped acting immediately.
She showed her iron fist that had ruled Avalon for many years-
The queen showed Ligeia in a high-profile manner, claiming that she had a close blood relationship with Meg, and was a divine person blessed by the Silver Crown Dragon, and also had Meg's Dragon Blood Law-so she would replace the "poorly healthy" Meg as the Grand Arbiter.
Although Ligeia looked very young, she was actually an adult long ago. It was only because of the power of the gods that she maintained such a young body.
And these words of the queen were approved by the church. The senior officials present could also sense that Sophia was telling the truth.
Then, Avalon began to put pressure on Iris.
They produced concrete evidence that Dean Lars Graham, as the leader of Iris High School, "tortured students", "desecrated corpses", and "assassinated ministers" - no mention of the curse.
But the Queen specifically stated that when the Great Guardian had stopped the attack and said that if he surrendered, he would be treated generously, he not only did not surrender but also intended to use magic to attack innocent people. If they had not been interrupted on the spot, the number of civilian casualties would have exceeded a thousand.
- So, it was obviously a shame that Aiwass was attacked three or four times in a row, but it seemed to have become a great achievement.
Then, the assassin who attacked Aiwass before was also exposed - the procedures for her transfer to the Royal Law University were handled by Master Lars Graham. And they used the same skills, and it is very likely that they came from the same spy organization.
Because of Avalon's sudden attack, and the fact that these testimonies can be sworn to the Nine Gods in public to ensure their authenticity... Under such circumstances, Iris suddenly fell into an extremely embarrassing and difficult situation.
They have been repeatedly passive in negotiations on other matters recently, and the Iris newspaper is like a fly that smells blood, and directly took a boat to Avalon to conduct interviews in person.
When they return to Iris, this matter may further ferment.
With Lars Graham taking the blame, the previous assassination of Minister Droste in prison has also been explained: an unnamed senior supervisor of the Supervisory Bureau presented strong evidence, indicating that Minister Droste had contacted a transcendent of the Path of Love in prison before being assassinated.
As we all know, the mainstream paths of the Iris Kingdom are the Path of Love and the Path of Beauty.
Avalon, who was being suppressed, suddenly started to fight back, and completely ignored the Star Antimony who was actually attacking them, and instead attacked Iris who was secretly stirring up trouble with all his strength - this made both Star Antimony and Iris helpless.
This was the first suggestion that Aiwass made to the Queen after he became the Minister without Portfolio.
- It's like a one-on-one battle between men in the top lane. If your jungler comes and I can replace him, then I will kill the one who comes to help first.
Star Antimony and Iris are also hostile to each other. They are also happy to see this situation.
Xingti was also overwhelmed by the internal chaos. When they saw Avalon suddenly fighting with Iris... In order not to burn themselves, they directly shrunk their actions and let the nails in Avalon remain dormant.
They planned to watch Avalon and Iris fight. They even planned to add some firewood to make their fight more lively.
Little did they know that this was a play performed by the queen.
In this way, Avalon had room to breathe.
Because the assistance from Xingti was cut off, the Noble Red Society faced the prying of the Eye of Avalon and the attack of the regular army, and directly lost the ability to disrupt the Glass Island.
This action was named "Bear Hunting". In name, it was to "eliminate the giant forces that intended to subvert the rule of Avalon and the illegal supernatural organizations that launched multiple massacres against innocent villagers and townspeople", and there was no mention of support for Xingti.
Since the fire did not burn themselves, the Xingti people did not agree to help Noble Red at this time.
So within three days of the start of the operation, thirty strongholds of the Noble Red were destroyed by the thunder brought by the griffin.
The Queen accepted an interview with the Glass Steps.
She did not say that this was a counterattack she had been preparing for a long time. Instead, she pretended to be confused, claiming that these actions were all strong suggestions from the new "Minister of No Matter", and she was "very surprised" by this.
But as for his true identity, Her Majesty the Queen respected the personal wishes of the Minister of No Matter and chose to keep it secret.
For a while, the whole of Avalon was caught in curiosity and speculation about this Minister of No Matter.
"——So, Aiwass."
After praising the Queen's wisdom, Sherlock pointed to the newspaper and asked, "Who do you think this minister is?"
The first chapter of 4,000 words, the second chapter still has to wait until about two o'clock.
My nose has become more mucus, it feels like a cold complicated by rhinitis, or it may be rhinitis induced by a cold... Compared with previous years, there is an extra thin branch, which is a sequelae left by the new crown last year.
In short, it's a good thing that there is no Chongyang...