Chapter 63: Negotiation (Please Collect and Recommend)

It seems ridiculous to ask the king of the enemy country for an explanation, but it is quite normal in the special environment of the Celtic countries. →

Because if you really want to talk about it in detail, in fact, the royal families and nobles of each country are all relatives! This is a bit like Britain and Germany before World War I. Although the two countries had been at odds for a long time before the war, if you count carefully, the royal blood relationship between the two countries is really close. The German emperor and the British king are cousins, and even the British royal family itself has a German surname. The relationship between the Celtic countries is even closer.

This also leads to the fact that some unspoken rules have very strong binding force, because everyone is a family in plain words, and if there are no rules, it will really be a mess. So once King Odin did something that the noble rules could not tolerate, Kai was fully qualified to bring the knights to him to ask for an explanation.

And King Odin must come out and make it clear!

Although it is really a bit funny, it is the fact.

This is also the reason why Kai only summoned the knights, because those soldiers can't get involved in such things!

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Soon Kai's request was handed to King Odin! But when King Odin saw Merri's confession, he was in a bad mood. Didn't he agree to be the king of assassins? How could he be so bad? He had no professional ethics and was caught, but he didn't protect the privacy of his customers. Bad review!

But complaining about Merri is useless now. Kai has already spread the news to most of the nobles in the Kingdom of Sendred. Unless King Odin wants to lose the support of all the nobles, he must deal with Kai. →

What's more, this matter also involves the assassination of Arthur! This crime is more serious than assassinating Kai! Although Kai is also a prince, he is the adopted son of King Uther. According to the rules of the nobility, his status is naturally lower than Arthur.

If King Odin had broken through Camelot in an upright manner, found Arthur, and then killed him in public, no one would say anything.

But now he is assassinating! In this society where chivalry is extremely prevalent, this practice is extremely despised. What's more, it involves the succession of the royal family, which is likely to attract the intervention of the royal families of other countries.

In short, King Odin wanted to avenge his son before, and he naturally had an advantage in the public opinion of the nobles. Who can stop a father from avenging his son? So although the nobles of the Kingdom of Sendred did not want to go to war, they had nothing to say under the righteousness.

But now King Odin made a bad move, which turned the public opinion around. He was right at first, but now he is wrong. This made many nobles who supported King Odin almost vomit blood.

There is no such a game! Isn't this a pitfall? So we died so many people, and you abused us like this?

So the support King Odin received suddenly decreased a lot. In this year, the royal family is just the leader of the nobles. If the royal family is really useless, it is not surprising that the nobles will ignore the royal family. →

Now Odin is blind.

Kai soon met Odin. He said nothing, but threw the broken-legged Merri in front of King Odin, and then looked at King Odin.

This was embarrassing.

King Odin wanted to argue, but the problem was that Merri was caught red-handed. Not only was Merri caught, but Merri also told exactly who found him, where they traded, and what they said. There was no room for quibbling.

Seeing Merri, who was already half dead, King Odin knew that he had to give an explanation.

"What do you want!"

"Uther and I are very sad about what happened to Alired, and we pray for peace with you with the most sincere attitude. But you refused, and we have nothing to say about this. So although war is not what we want, at this point, we can only fight. But..." Kai pointed to the bald killer on the ground and said coldly: "This behavior has violated the tacit understanding between the royal families and brought shame to all the nobles."

King Odin was so angry that his teeth were almost broken when he heard this. He thought that Kai was humiliating him!

"However, in view of your experience, we don't intend to pursue it!" No one expected Kai to say this suddenly, and they were all stunned.

Before everyone could react, Kai drew the long sword from his waist and beheaded Mai Rui with one sword.

"We believe this is a misunderstanding, and we are willing to preserve your honor and dignity."

The witness was killed with one sword, basically destroying half of the evidence. This made the nobles of the Kingdom of Sendred present feel relieved. No matter what, the royal family is the leader. Once the reputation of the leader is bad, the nobles under them will not be good. Now Kai is willing to let this matter go, not only giving face to King Odin, but also giving face to the nobles of the entire Kingdom of Sendred.

Seeing Kai give up the pursuit of the assassination so neatly, King Odin was stunned for a while, and then the whole person's spirit seemed to be sucked away. He sat on the throne weakly and said in a dry voice: "What do you want?"

"Peace!" Kai did not intend to let King Odin lose face, because it would not be good for Camelot. After all, if King Odin really loses face, it may lead to worse results. Once King Odin abandons all the unspoken rules and fights Camelot to the death, Camelot will not be happy.

"What about my Arielide? What about the justice he should get?" King Odin naturally didn't want to let it go. Although this was already the best result, King Odin couldn't get over it.

"Arielide died in the duel! He did not lose his glory!" Kai disagreed with this statement. Indeed, King Odin was miserable, but don't forget that Prince Arielide died in a duel with Arthur, and it was Arielide who took the initiative to initiate the duel, so there is nothing to say.

If this reason had been before the assassination, it would have been a little untenable. After all, like Arthur, Prince Arielide had been canonized. He was no longer just a knight, he was the heir to the royal family, and his identity could no longer be simply defined as a knight.

But now it's different. King Odin has lost points, and now this reason is completely tenable!

Of course, Kai is still willing to give King Odin a chance.

"This war has brought enough casualties. If you are still unwilling to give up, then I propose to end this war in the most glorious way, a knight duel! If we lose, we will pay 100,000 gold coins to your country and cede border land in exchange for peace. If we win, then you only need to pay 50,000 gold coins to us, and then both sides will retreat to the border in front of the station and make peace!"

This condition is already good enough. In fact, it is Kai who made a huge concession. After all, everyone can see the war situation clearly. Camelot is undoubtedly in an advantageous position. If it were not for domestic production, Kai could have summoned more troops to advance to the Kingdom of Sendred. Under this advantage, Kai chose to end the war with a knight duel, which undoubtedly gave the Kingdom of Sendred a huge favor.

After all, if it really was a knight duel, the two sides would have stood on the same starting line.

All the nobles of the Kingdom of Sendred looked at King Odin, and they also agreed with such a proposal. Kai gave up the pursuit of assassination against King Odin at the beginning, which showed great goodwill to the Kingdom of Sendred. Now that an obviously preferential proposal was made to end the war, they could not think of any reason to refuse.