Chapter 173

To be fair, although Sean is not very capable, as a regent, the most important thing is not to covet political power, which Sean has done very well.

If nothing unexpected happens, Sean can transition to Henry peacefully.

That night, when Henry met Sean, Henry told him his purpose.

"Father will be assassinated tonight, and he may not survive tonight." He said such terrifying words in an extremely calm tone, and Sean didn't even react for a moment.

"Henry! How could you curse your own father to death like this?"

"This is not a curse. Uncle Sean, you have to believe me. I was reincarnated from the next life. Now the only people I can save are you and me!"

Sean still didn't believe it at first, and even thought Henry was crazy, so he quickly sent someone to send Henry back.

But an hour later, the news from Saint Laurent City made Sean dumbfounded.

Afterwards, he quickly invited Henry back. After hearing Henry talk about what happened in his previous life, Sean was silent for a long time.

In the last life, neither he nor Henry had a good outcome. Henry finally died from a glass of poisoned wine, while Sean "accidentally" died during a hunting trip after being deprived of his regency.

In the end, Sean chose to believe Henry. He didn't want to make the same mistake again, even though everything was just what Henry said.

So, that night, Sean helped Henry visit all the famous families in Paris City, conveying the news of Francois's death, and at the same time correcting Henry.

After that, several people rushed to Saint Laurent City almost non-stop.

He had seen his father die once in his previous life. This time, Henry did not shed tears, but stood silently in the center of the crowd.

In his previous life, the cause of his father's death was also unclear. In the end, the royal family gave out the investigation results hastily and the real murderer was not found.

Even if Henry wanted to investigate after that, he was just wasting his time after losing a lot of intelligence clues.

He died in an unknown manner in his previous life, but in this life, Henry vowed to take back everything he had lost.

Regardless of the regent who killed him or the cause of his father's death, he must avenge all this hatred!

With this idea in mind, Henry quickly started his revenge plan after taking power.

The first is the regent in his previous life. Sean's trust in others allowed that regent to take advantage of him, but now, he has imprisoned him on a series of charges.

What's waiting for him will be what he did to Henry.

Chapter 79: Will you be disappointed?

But as Henry learns more and more about this world, he feels more and more something is wrong.

The first is Orson.

In his original memory, this leader of the younger generation of the empire, an absolute pride of heaven, had already broken down with his brother Liteuk before his father was assassinated, and had secretly used small tricks against Liteuk. When the conspiracy was exposed, he would have been ruined long ago, but he actually saw Orson and Elsa sitting together.

Of course Henry knew Orson. The two families were still in-laws before Mary's problem, and they had contact with each other.

The relationship between them had always been pretty good. It wasn't until Orson's accident happened and Mary was expelled from the family that the two families broke off all contact.

Henry clearly remembered the details of Orson's original fight. In the battle in full view of the public, with his family's future inheritance at stake, Orson used the power of the devil.

Even so, he failed to defeat Leeteuk.

After the defeat, Orson lost all his strength, and his final whereabouts are unknown.

Henry was very surprised. Although he had traveled back in time, some changes seemed to have occurred in the world line.

In the past few days, he learned that Orson and Lit did not turn against each other like they did in the previous world line, but worked together to develop the Duchy of Antica and repel the orcs. attack.

With this achievement, Orson did not suffer the same disgrace as Henry's previous life. Instead, he became a great hero of the empire, even surpassing some dukes in terms of reputation.

But all this was achieved by Orson giving up his inheritance rights.

This made Henry very puzzled.

It was clear that in the previous life, an irreconcilable conflict broke out between Orson and Lee Teuk over the duke's inheritance, but not only did it not happen now, the relationship between the two brothers was still very good.

Could it be that this Orson was also reincarnated?

This idea stayed in Henry's mind for a brief moment, and he finally shook his head.

It shouldn't be possible, it's just that the world line that I traveled back to has changed.

With this in mind, Henry got up and went to the basement of the Duke's mansion.

The basement at this moment has been transformed into a cell, and a middle-aged man is huddled in a corner of the cell with his limbs bound by iron chains.

He was the man who had left a deep shadow on Henry, Fulton, the Earl of the Duchy of Orleans.

"Earl Fulton, you are well." Henry smiled and looked at the man in front of him.

"You are well, Lord Duke Henry." The middle-aged man named Fulton no longer had the dignity of his previous life. His beard and hair were messy, and he had not showered for a long time, exuding an unpleasant smell.

"I didn't expect that you would have such a miserable day." Henry snorted coldly.

"I don't quite understand, Lord Duke, why do you want to trap me here? There are only two of us here, let's not beat around the bush, you know what those charges are." Fulton said, raised his head, and looked at Henry calmly.

"It's normal that you don't understand." Henry said, sitting in front of Fulton.

"I'll tell you directly, I plan to instigate Uncle Sean's regency in the future, and then take the power of the entire Duke of Orleans into my own hands. Even if I come of age in the future, you will still hold the power firmly and be unwilling to give up power."

"You said, a powerful official like you who is ambitious and capable, if I don't trap you now before you develop, do I have to wait until you gain Uncle Sean's trust and make me a puppet before I resist?"

"Hehe, Duke Henry, are you a little too worried?" Fulton heard Henry say this, his heart was full of disdain.

Only a three-year-old child would believe this reason, right?

Not to mention that he is only an earl now, even if he really gains Sean's trust as he said in the future, how can he sideline the Duke? Is the emperor blind?

"Duke Henry, do you think your words are reliable? You are not reborn from the future."

"Oh, is that true?"

"Do you really think that I am not reborn from the future?"

Fulton's eyes widened suddenly.

"But... even if Duke Henry is back from the future, I haven't done anything wrong now, right? Imprisoning me like this is against the laws of the empire, right?"

"Well, maybe it is true." Henry nodded, "But I don't regret it, after all, I came for 'revenge'."

He emphasized the word revenge, and then stood up.

"Count Fulton, you just wait to die in this dungeon. No one will come to save you."

Henry only wanted to let himself and Sean know that he was a reborn person. After telling Fulton that he was a reborn person, the meaning was very obvious.

He couldn't walk to the outside world alive.

Just when Henry walked up one floor from the dungeon, Sean was already waiting for him in the living room.

"My Lord, Fulton's family members are making trouble outside the mansion.

They say Fulton was wronged and they won't leave until Fulton is released."

"Ignore them." Henry waved his hand. "The crime is obvious. He must be punished."

"If they insist on rebelling, let them try to see the consequences of disobeying the Duke."

"I see." Sean nodded. "Then, there is another question, which is about Francois. The royal family often reports the progress to us in real time during the investigation recently, but for some reason, they haven't reported in the past two days. They say there is no progress."

"How can there be no progress!" Henry said this, and his emotions suddenly became excited.

This was the case in the previous life. The royal family was investigating and suddenly there was no news. In the end, the case was closed as an unsolved case. This has become a knot in Henry's heart that he has never been able to resolve.

"They are covering up, it must be like this! Hurry up and contact Saint Laurent City and let our people act quickly. We must not wait until the royal family destroys all the evidence before investigating."

"Yes! I know!"

...

On the other side, Saint Laurent City.

Orson stood at the door of the Imperial Court.

Just yesterday, Odysseus personally ordered that the special task force responsible for the investigation of Francois' assassination case be disbanded on the grounds that there had been no progress for too long, and a new investigation team was established.

And now, a group of soldiers are at the door of the Imperial Court, moving boxes of information out of the court and preparing to transport them to the palace for storage.

"It seems that His Majesty is determined to protect His Royal Highness." Orson said slowly.

Elsa beside him also sighed.

"There's no way. This matter is too sensitive. Even if I don't want to protect my brother, I have to force myself to get through this period of time for the sake of the royal family's face."

"This is the royal family, Orson. Will you be disappointed with your father and the royal family?"

Chapter 80: The enemy attacked

"It is precisely because the royal family is like this that it is necessary to let Her Highness Elsa take the stage." Orson stood beside Elsa and said softly.

"Your Highness Elsa, you are different. I believe you are the right person, whether it is the rule of the empire or the people under your rule."

His voice was only heard by himself and Elsa.

Sure enough, after hearing this, Elsa was obviously stunned for a moment.

"You...what do you mean?" Elsa seemed to have misunderstood the meaning of Orson's words, and her cheeks were slightly red.

"It's obvious, Her Highness Elsa, I believe you." Orson said this, turned his head to look at Elsa, and smiled.

"The road ahead is long and difficult, and this matter will not end so easily, believe me."

After saying this, Orson turned around and left first.

...

Back to the front line of the war, Florence is about to fall. This city is the second most important city in the Dukedom of Naples.

As can be seen from the name of the ducal family, Florence, this city is where the Florence family made its fortune and has been the capital of the Duchy of Naples for a long time. Just now, due to a natural disaster, the capital of the Duchy of Naples was moved to the city of Romulus.

Now, all the defenders of Florence have left the city. They have built a line of defense outside the city. They must not allow the enemy to cross the line of defense to attack their homes.

At this moment, in the Napoli military camp outside Florence, Martin was sitting outside a military tent and warming himself by the fire.

Although the Duke of Naples is in the southern part of the empire and unlike the Duke of Lucia in the north where people can freeze to death in winter, it is still very difficult.

The biting cold wind, accompanied by the moist moisture, goes straight through the limbs and bones of the person, making people shiver uncontrollably.

In this kind of weather, only a fire can make you feel more comfortable.

These days, with his heroic performance in battle, he has been promoted by the commander to the commander of a thousand-man troop. At this moment, his troop is responsible for the front row defense of the entire troop.

If the enemy chooses to attack, he will be the first group of troops to engage.

Whether the commander valued him or treated him as cannon fodder, Martin didn't care.

All he asked was to select several of his companions as his lieutenants.

After all, he fought to resist the invasion, and it was just as he wanted him to be on the front line against the invaders.

"Martin." While Martin was still warming himself by the fire, a man came over.

He's with Martin

The companions who participated in the conscription were also the comrades who accompanied Martin on the front line.

"What's wrong, Wirtz?" Martin looked at the other person and asked in confusion.

"Do you think it's possible for us to win?" Wirtz sat next to Martin, took off his gloves, and then put his hands by the fire to warm them.

When they first set off on the expedition, the enemy was still a few days away from the city of Florence, but now they were retreating steadily to the city of Florence, with the group of people they wanted to protect behind them.

"How is it impossible? Evil can never prevail against good." Martin said this, his expression unchanged.

"They are invaders, so we will be able to fight them off."

"But...I heard that they didn't do anything excessive to the people, and the reason for their attack was our Lord Duke...he..."

"Wiltz!" Martin interrupted.

"If you say something like this in the army, you will be beheaded. Do you want your life?!"

"But..." Wirtz said anxiously: "I really don't know what we are fighting for now."

"Don't talk nonsense like fighting for the Duke in World War II. You are a noble and you should understand these principles better than me. These bullshit nobles are not worthy of our dying for them, and the enemy will not do anything to our relatives. They seem to really Just to punish the Duke alone..."

"Then what?" After listening to Wirtz's words, Martin raised his head and looked at him silently. "Then what? Just because our enemies don't abuse civilians, we can hand over the land that has been ours since our time?"