Chapter 655
"...Then, please allow me to summarize."
In the courtyard of the Scarlet Blood Castle in the middle of the night, Charles wiped the wine bottle in his hand on the table. , Sighed on one side, standing meticulously in the middle of the long table with his hands on his back, facing the black hair wizard and count slightly nodded on both sides.
Loren slumped in a chair lazily, and his spirit has not fully recovered from the confrontation with Yuli Wiertz; the coldly snorted Charlotte cast his gaze away, obviously expressing something The wizard who turned up without being invited privately met the dissatisfaction of the imperial envoy.
"In order to find out the true situation of Byrne, Grand Duke Elman Yuli Wiertz sneaked into the Scarlet Blood Castle privately, and hoped to get more neutral information from Viscount Loren Torino... …"
After a pause, Steward of the Scarlet Blood Castle turned his gaze to the black hair wizard: "To cover up that he forced the Torino family to showdown, and even stood on the side of the Sky Palace for the title of Duke, completely abandoning it. The purpose of Byrne's benefit."
Looking at Loren who was indifferent, Charlotte looked at him coldly snorted again.
"Your Excellency Loren, who'had' to confront him, did not give the most direct answer." Charles continued, deliberately accentuating "that word":
"On the contrary, your Excellency handed out an olive branch to the Palace of Heaven and the Duke of Eilemand, hoping to achieve a certain degree of'cooperation' with each other..."
"About what I said, also Is there anything you think needs to be added, Lord Loren Torino?" Charles stared straight at the face of the black hair wizard.
"It’s basically like this, no more explanations are meaningless."
Raised eyebrows, Loren shrugged nonchalantly: "If I had to pick bones in the egg, I was It’s not “cooperation” with Yuli Wirtz, but “compromise”...well, if I remember correctly..."
"Compromise?"
Chew With this vocabulary, Charlotte, with an ugly face, stood up directly: "Do you want me to compromise with the Vault of Heaven for the sake of a duke title with the benefit of All Byrne?"
"No, I suggest you After becoming the Duke of Byrne, use Byrne's interests to compromise with the Sky Palace... The difference is very big." Loren indifferently smiled, very looking towards Charlotte as it should be by rights:
"My count, you are not the Duke of Byrne now. Even if you think about it, you are not qualified to represent the interests of Byrne."
"You?!"
Charlotte took a deep breath, staring at the indifferent black hair wizard; Charles on the side frowned slightly, surprised Loren who had made such an "extraordinary" behavior.
"Ten minutes... For the sake of the Scarlet Blood Castle owing you a favor, I will give you ten minutes to explain your reasons or difficulties." A composure, very dissatisfied woman Count panting with rage sat back on his seat and stared at him coldly:
"Ten minutes...now, immediately!"
The black hair wizard crossed his fingers, making it painful Knuckles seemed to remind him of what happened in the afternoon when he and Yuli Wirtz were in the car.
"If we want to solve a thing, we must first figure out not the contradiction of the problem, but what is our identity?"
took a deep breath, Loren Slowly opened the mouth and said: "Or to use a more appropriate metaphor, which side are we on."
"Does this still need to be asked?" Charlotte still looks It is not good, and the voice is also a little bit angry: "I am Scarlet Blood Castle count, of course I represent..."
"Are you clear, no! Charlotte, you don't know." Abruptly interrupting the female count's words, the black hair wizard turned her head and looked at her panicked eyes earnestly:
"A vassal of the empire, a member of Byrne...Tell me, you Which side do you belong to?"
"I..." Charlotte, who was still angry, just wanted to answer, but was suddenly stunned: "Which side do you belong to?"
"Yes. , Because the current situation is already obvious." The black hair wizard spread his hands out: "If you think you are a part of Byrne, you must stand with all the angry Byrne nobles and Knights, and share with them. Resist the tyranny and rule of the empire;"
"And if you think you are a vassal of the empire, you must assume the obligation as a vassal and suppress all the dissatisfaction with the sky palace in the entire Duchy territory for the empire. Voices dissatisfied with the Imperial Family must resort to military force when necessary to kill the original vassals, friends and innocent people to the last one!"
Charlotte was dumbfounded and sat With the head hanging down on the chair, it was impossible to see her expression, only the shoulders were swaying slightly.
"Your Excellency Loren, are you really exaggerating?"
Seeing such an uncomfortable female count, Charles couldn't help but interject: "Even the sky No matter how the nobles of Gong and Byrne are dissatisfied with each other, the situation is impossible to deteriorate to such an extent!"
"Impossible?"
The black hair wizard who asked the question back shook his head. Still looking directly at Charlotte, who was sitting across from him: "You might as well ask our Lord count, is it what I said?"
"Count..." Charles looked incredulously.
The shoulders are slightly trembled, and Charlotte lifts the head, with a bitter expression: "Charles, what he said is correct, and he is not exaggerating."
"How could this be?"
black hair wizard slightly nodded, thanks.
"In this morning's meeting alone, there have been no fewer than twenty Byrne Knights'voting for their own courage'. The Knights of the Southern Leaders openly declared that they are only willing to lead Byrne towards independence by their allegiance. The King of Knight;"
gnashing teeth, Charlotte, who was very embarrassed, said almost word by word: "The Will family in the west even directly asked me whether I still consider myself to be a descendant of the Torino family. Descendants of King Knight!"
"The Knights in the north are more polite because they have more contact with the empire; but even in front of them, I still dare not show the slightest weakness."
"In fact, today, if it weren't for Charles, your brother Ayton, the lord of Fort Storm is mediating in front of the Southern Knights, maybe they have already begun to prepare for an uprising."
" With the oppression of three generations, Byrne's patience with the empire has reached its limit!"
Loren's eyes flickered after hearing Charlotte's sigh, a looked thoughtful expression.
"As the lord of the Scarlet Blood Castle, a descendant of the Torino family...I have no choice but to stand by Byrne." Charlotte looked bleakly towards Charles, holding back. Don’t let yourself show a weak expression:
"If you don’t do this, the Scarlet Blood Castle and the Torino family will become traitors to Byrne and the running dogs of the Empire in the eyes of Knight by Byrne. Everyone will hate it. Eliminate us and hurry up!"
"But if you do this, you will become the leader of this rebellion, and the Sky Vault will never let you go!" black hair wizard said solemnly:
"The people in the lower city, the nobles in the city, the members of the Torino family and even yourself...Everyone will die without a burial site, and their heads will be stuck on the tip of a gun!"
"We are Byrne, Byrne is not afraid of threats!" Even at this step, Charlotte is still very unconvinced.
"At least one week, at most one month, 100,000 Legion will knock on the side, and Byrne is too late." The black hair wizard shook his head: "Perhaps one castle and one fortress can be defended. The last person...but then it’s meaningless."
"By the strength of oneself against the entire empire, it will be Byrne’s last elegy!"
Loren lifts the head, Staring at the female count who is still overwhelmed by the opposite; Charlotte, who is staring at him, is a little embarrassed, coldly snorted avoids her sight.
"Otherwise?!" Charles asked again: "If you don't do this, do you want count to become a running dog of the Sky Palace, and become the enemy of Byrne for the title of Duke?!"
"Of course not." Loren got up from the chair and sat down tightly looking at the Scarlet Blood Castle Steward and Charlotte: "The so-called'Duke' title is just a bait thrown by the Sky Palace. If we If they are fooled, they will be allowed to fiddle, and it will set a very bad precedent."
"Let the sky palace control who the Duke of Byrne Duchy is...Such a precedent must not be set, otherwise it will cause no end of trouble !"
"Neither Byrne nor Empire can be chosen, then which side should we belong to?!"
"It's very simple... "Loren's eyes narrowed:
"We don't belong to any of them!"