Chapter 467

In this case, if the building collapses, he can only become a buried pawn.

His future seemed to have no chance of turning around.

And it was at this time that there was a knock on his door.

"Donny." Giovanni opened the door and walked into the room. He looked at Donny who was sitting slumped on the sofa and showed a smile.

"My child, what are you thinking about and why are you so troubled?"

"Father...I..." Danny hesitated, but still did not dare to express his inner thoughts.

"Did you think before that as long as I died and you turned yourself in and severed your relationship with me, you would be forgiven by them and become the master of Naples?"

As soon as Donnie heard what Giovanni said, he immediately panicked and quickly denied it.

"No, father, I have never thought about this at all. Please believe me."

"Of course I know. You are my child. How can I not know whether you have inherited my personality?"

Giovanni was obviously smiling, but Donnie clearly felt a chill.

"Yes... I'm sorry, Father! I... I admit that I did have that thought before, but now I have seen it clearly, and I will follow you, Father, until the end!"

"Well, you are indeed my good boy. In this case, I can't treat you badly, father."

Seeing Downey's behavior, Giovanni nodded with satisfaction, and then he took out a small bottle of potion from his storage ring.

"Take it, Donnie, drink this and you won't be afraid of them."

"Okay, thank you father..."

After Donnie said this, he was about to take the potion, but he didn't expect that Giovanni opened the potion directly, then quickly held down Donnie's head and poured the potion into his mouth.

"Well, this way, you don't have to worry about those things anymore."

Giovanni said coldly and stood up.

"Help me invite Donnie to the basement. After the enemy attacks the city, let Donnie go out to deal with them."

"yes……"

A cold voice sounded in the room.

Downey only felt dizzy for a while, and then he lost consciousness.

Chapter 114: I will support you

"Chairman, this is the training location for the second half of the semester sent by the student union."

In the Imperial College office building, a standing member of the Council placed a document on the desk of the college president Luca.

"The specific locations are not much different from previous years, except that the area of ​​Naples has been excluded."

"It's normal. After all, that place is currently in a war. If we get involved rashly, it will also have an impact on the safety of our students."

Luca said this and glanced at the content above.

He still has great trust in the student union. He has been the dean of the college for so many years, and there is no student union that worries him, let alone the best student union led by Orson.

…

"Haa~" At this moment in the student union, Orson was lying on a chair and yawning.

Because he was busy before, many unimportant things from the Student Union were piled up waiting for him to deal with. In addition to attending classes, he was working overtime these days. He had a lot less time to sleep every day. He finally managed to get rid of all the piled-up things from the Student Union. Done.

"Finally everything is done." On the side, Olivia, the vice-president, also said the same thing.

"It's been hard work for you to be by my side these days."

Orson looked at Olivia sitting next to him and smiled at her.

"Hmph, that's good if you know." Olivia snorted lightly.

At this time, there was a knock on the office door.

The two immediately returned to their normal sitting posture.

Then, the door was opened, and Elsa's figure appeared at the door of the office.

"Ah, sir... ahem, Elsa-san, are you back?" Orson was about to subconsciously call Her Highness the Princess, but suddenly realized that this was the Imperial College's student union office, and quickly changed his mind.

"Well, President Orson, Vice President Olivia, I'm back." Elsa looked at the two of them and nodded.

In addition to being a student of Imperial College, Elsa also has a position in the student union. It is reasonable for her to come back to see Orson, who is the president, after finishing her own business.

"In this case, you should go back to the office quickly. Your deputy has helped you take care of a lot of things these days, but there are some things you have to go back to deal with after all."

"Okay." Elsa nodded, then thought of something, and then said: "Well, President Orson, I want to treat you to a meal in the evening. Are you free? ?”

The one who invited him was the princess of the empire. Orson had to pretend to have time even if he didn't have time. He glanced at Olivia beside him. She just smiled politely and didn't cast a threatening look. Orson put down Heartbroken.

"Of course I'm free in the evening."

"In that case, let's meet at the corner of the commercial street today."

"OK."

It wasn't until Elsa walked out that the smile on Olivia's face gradually dissipated.

"It's great. You have such a beautiful fiancée at home, and you have a confidante outside who is devoted to you. Tsk, it's really hard to choose..."

Olivia's voice was deliberately a little sour.

"Don't talk nonsense. Elsa and I have a cooperative relationship at best, and we are just friends at most."

Of course, Orson knew that Olivia was not being sour on Elsa, but someone else, but at this moment he could only play dumb and muddle through.

"Okay, okay, I won't disturb your 'good thing'. Tonight, remember not to stay out all night like last time after dinner." Olivia's words were clearly a bit tough.

"That will definitely not happen." Orson hastily guaranteed.

...

At night, Orson arrived at the intersection of the commercial street as promised.

As an imperial princess, Elsa's appearance is not inferior to any other woman. Standing at the intersection, she is like a flower on a high mountain. Although passers-by often focus on her, they dare not stare at her for too long, let alone come up to talk to her.

Elsa is obviously waiting for someone, and rashly going up to talk to her will only cause her dissatisfaction.

Without some strength at home, who dares to chat with the princess casually?

Elsa didn't wait long, and Orson, dressed in formal clothes, appeared in her sight.

She smiled and walked forward with a smile.

"I'm sorry to have kept you waiting, Elsa."

"It's okay." Elsa shook her head. "I wanted to thank you for inviting you to dinner this time. Let's go."

She said this and took Orson down the commercial street until they came to a restaurant in the back half of the street.

This restaurant is very expensive. Although the price is basically affordable for students at the Imperial Academy, it is not suitable for daily dining here. It is only when asking for help or discussing cooperation.

The two came to the door, and the waiter recognized them at a glance and took them directly to the box on the second floor.

The two ordered some dishes casually. While waiting for the meal, Elsa said straight to the point:

"Orson, you should have heard about General Scaloni leading the army south, right?"

"Well, if I'm not mistaken, he should have been besieging the city for half a month now, what's wrong?"

Hearing Orson say this, Elsa became a little anxious.

"Since you know, aren't you worried? This time, my brother's purpose is very clear, that is, to let General Scaloni gain military merit and prepare to support him to become the second Duke of Antica."

"Ah... So that's the case." Orson pretended to be surprised and said, "No wonder Rosalin asked me to contact His Royal Highness before, it turned out to be this matter."

"Rosalin?" Elsa immediately became alert when she heard Orson say this name.

"When did she contact you?"

"About a month or two ago? At that time, I met her at the masquerade ball. I did a favor at the time, but I didn't expect that she could actually cooperate with His Royal Highness."

Orson sighed and told Elsa about his encounter with Rosalin and then introducing her to Arthas.

Elsa's mood suddenly became much worse when she heard Orson say this.

Who would have thought that Orson actually helped Arthas indirectly.

If Scaloni becomes the new Duke of Naples, Arthas can take the opportunity to expand his power and influence, which is extremely disadvantageous to Elsa.

Immediately, Elsa thought of a way.

"Orson... I suddenly thought of a way."

"Ah?" Orson was stunned to see that Elsa did not criticize him at the first time, but thought of a way, and then asked: "Elsa, what did you think of?"

"Why not let you compete with Scaloni, I will support you to become the Duke of Naples."

Chapter 115: Strange Troops

Orson listened to Elsa's words, stunned for a while, and then asked uncertainly:

"Princess, you just meant to support me to become the next Duke of Naples. If I heard it correctly, that's what you meant, right?"

"Yes." Elsa nodded. "At present, the only factor that prevents you from becoming a duke, Orson, is mainly one."

"One?"

"Yes, that is family status." Elsa said so.

"There has never been a situation in the history of the Empire where a family controls two duchies. Orson, you can't set a precedent at that time. So if Orson wants to become the Duke of Naples, you can only leave the Stranik family first, and you can't leave on your own initiative. You have to let the Stranik family expel you from the family because of an incident, creating a feeling of a dead-end situation."

"The dead-end situation..." Hearing Elsa say this, Orson lowered his head.

"Of course, Orson, you can act out a play so that your family doesn't know anything, or you can tell them directly now and let them act with you."

"Whether it's like acting or not is not the most important thing. The most important thing is that you can't continue to be the Duke of Naples as a member of the Stranik family."

After hearing Elsa's words, Orson lowered his head and thought.

Generally speaking, this matter is more beneficial than harmful to Orson. After all, the Duchy of Naples is not poor, and it is even richer than the Duchy of Antica. Even if it is in chaos due to the war, as long as the war is over, the new duke will be able to recover the vitality before the war quickly after recuperation.

But to do this, Orson would need to leave his family and set up a new one.

Although he and Lucius are not related by blood, they have lived together as a family for nearly 20 years. It is not much different to separate them at this time and leave their biological parents.

It is a difficult decision to do anything.

Finally, Orson raised his head, looked at Elsa, and expressed his thoughts.

"Elsa, I promise you, I will contact my father tomorrow and tell him about this matter."

"Okay." Elsa knew that Orson would agree in the end. She nodded with satisfaction for this expected thing.

...

On the other side, Romulus City.

Since Donnie was locked up in the basement, Giovanni himself has made all the decisions on city defense and public security.

After the news of the suppression in the city came out, Giovanni continued to implement his high-pressure rule. In the end, citizens began to flee the city. Many people took advantage of the night to sneak to the city wall, or bribed acquaintances in the army to let them secretly open the door. When Giovanni learned of the news, more than 4,000 people had already escaped from the city.

Of course, these 4,000 people brought out the news that the protest march in the city was suppressed.

Scaloni heard that Giovanni treated his people so roughly, and he slammed the table in anger. Then he increased the intensity of the daily siege, striving to save the citizens from the dire situation as soon as possible.

On the eighth day after the first siege, the northern wall of Romulus was finally occupied, and the next step was to enter an extremely bloody and tragic street battle.

Romulus City was designed to be a bridgehead to pacify the separatist forces in the south at the beginning, so many places in the city were also set up as fortifications. During the period of siege, Giovanni mobilized all resources to strengthen Romulus City, determined to turn the city into a cold killing machine.

Giovanni's idea was briefly successful. At least for now, the losses caused by the entire city to the enemy have reached expectations.

In order to capture the northern wall, the enemy suffered 20,000 casualties, and in yesterday's street fighting, the enemy lost more than 4,000 people in a whole day.

Although they advanced several streets, they had to pay a price of more than a dozen lives for each step forward, which made it difficult for the enemy to advance.

If they continued to fight like this, I am afraid that the enemy's losses would exceed 50% in the end.

Of course, Napoli was not doing well either.

This battle could almost be called the final battle of the South, and Giovanni bet everything on this battle.

If he succeeded, he would have a chance to continue to survive, and if he lost this battle, he did not leave himself any way out.