Who says knights can't backstab

Chapter 664 Starfall
Tears poured out of her eyes, she bit her lips tightly, her cold face was taut even when she was crying, and she wanted to maintain her dignity as a princess.

The fingertips of those hands resting on the table were about to poke into her own, and Anastasia half-raised her head, trying to hold back her tears.

But the emotions that have been accumulated for a long time cannot be suppressed so easily.

She could only cry so silently, in front of her courtiers——

And the young count just looked at the weeping princess quietly, sitting beside her, without saying a word.

Without the glamorous plot of those romantic dramas, the handsome knight comforts the princess in his arms when she cries-not even the well-read Heloise Treville would have such an association .And Anastasia Herman's consistent style and her character are doomed that she will not make dependent actions to her subordinates.

She is the superior leader.

Moreover, she will be the queen of this kingdom from now on.

She seemed to have been preparing for this day to come, but the way this day actually came was definitely not what she wanted.

This cruel tenderness from Kelson Herman can only turn into endless sadness in the end, piling up doubly on her body.The star that shone softly over La Rochelle quietly faded away its luster, leaving for her an empty, undisturbed night sky.

Anastasia Herman's tears let Cyril know that the prophecy of the astrologer Greely Stard was once again confirmed by reality.

King of La Rochelle for decades past, Kelson Hermann.

died.

But the new star waiting to take over the starry sky, at this moment, is not even qualified to cry for the death of the predecessor, and can only express his grief in such a silent way.

Cyril could only watch her quietly until Anastasia's tears finally stopped. After taking a deep breath, he leaned back on the chair, his chest rose and fell with the trembling of his body. A good face is more haggard.

Then she raised her head halfway, raised her finger and tapped lightly on the table, and said in a hoarse voice:

"Mr. Adrian, what happened today, don't..."

"I know." Cyril replied softly, hesitated for a moment, and asked again: "Even Heloise?"

"Do you know what it is?" Anastasia murmured, covering her eyes with her arms.

"It should be Your Majesty..."

Cyril said no more.

The room fell into a long silence again, and only the sound of Anastasia's heavy breathing, short of breath, could be heard.

After a while, she lowered her arms, lowered her head, and nodded slightly.

"Didn't you tell anyone else?"

"Only His Majesty Photios knows." Anastasia sighed deeply, "I, hey..."

"Your Highness is worried, how should I deal with the next thing?" Cyril thought for a while and asked slowly.

What responded to him was Anastasia's wry smile.

The Kingdom is indeed prepared to carry all possible consequences of the New Aowei Port incident for Cyril, but the premise is that the Kingdom itself must remain at a relatively stable level.

The death of Kelson Herman at this time dealt the heaviest blow to this relative stability.

Kelsen Herman made a lot of preparations for his own death. The battle in the northern border consumed a large number of nobles and private troops, and at the same time eased the crisis in the northern border.

Before the Battle of Northern Border, the La Rochelle government had always been unable to maintain the balance between the central and local governments. The power of the local nobles gradually became so strong that Solconan could not restrain them, and every year they had to struggle with how to stabilize the region.

The release of the call-up order allowed Kelson Herman to clear a lot of obstacles for his daughter.

If Anastasia can play steadily, continue to reduce the influence of the local area step by step, and expand the influence of Solkonan, then when she succeeds to the throne, she will have a very stable kingdom, even in the It can also maintain the stability of the country in times of chaos.

But Kelsen Herman's body didn't make it to that time, and what's more unfortunate.

Pelaggios Herris died in the Port of New Orville, and Osan Emma lost money in the Port of New Orville. I don’t know how many countries he bought magic spar, but he didn’t even catch a hair, and the whole army was wiped out. .

As for the three non-New Orway Port forces that participated in the incident in the Port of New Orville, the Mission of Saint Emma, ​​the Mission of Nudaria, and the Mission of La Rochelle, only the first two were lost, and the last Laro Shell was as relaxed as coming home from a spring outing, with a fall and mud on his trousers, at best.

O Saint Emma wants to hit La Rochelle?There is no doubt that they want to fight. Since the founding of La Rochelle 400 years ago, things have happened every once in a while at St. year time.

In such a state of affairs, the death of Pelagius Herris gave Ao San Emma a perfect excuse to attack La Rochelle.

And more importantly, Kelsen Herman, the king of this country, is dead.

With no leader and foreign enemies attacking, Anastasia's plan to slowly expand Solkonan's dominance went bankrupt in an instant.The pressure from the outside world at this time can make those little nobles who are already unstable take the lead. If Ao Shengemma wants to attack at this time, it will be as smooth as pushing the door to go home——

La Rochelle was indeed ready to go to war with O'Santa Emma, ​​but not at this time.

"That's why...you called so many legion commanders to come to Solkonan for a military meeting?"

The news of Kelson Hermann's death cannot be made public, it is a matter of complete privacy, and it is used to make it appear to outsiders that the King of La Rochelle has nothing to do with it.

Don't look at the increasingly prosperous and stable posture of Solkonan, how many ears are hidden behind, waiting to hear any news from Solkonan.

Therefore, the king did not commemorate the death of the king, and no one in the morning meeting asked Anastasia how to succeed to the throne and the arrangements for the succession.

If word of Kelsen's death spread, it wouldn't need to reach the ordinary residents of the outer city. I'm afraid that as soon as the news reached the gate of the inner city, some inner ghosts would already be sending news to their forces.

"Solconan's inner ghost" is a very famous meme in the game. It is said that there are nearly a hundred spies from various forces dormant in this royal city, and their lurking time is far beyond people's imagination.

There are even spies who have been in power longer than Kelsen Herman, and have been lurking in the royal city of Solkonan.

They may start from a very ordinary identity, make no progress for a lifetime, and hear no useful information.But they are like needles buried deep in the hinterland of La Rochelle. When the giant beast moves, it will exert its piercing effect fiercely.

Cyril Adrian, who was a player in his previous life, knows this all too well.In the chaotic time, the rumors spread by a spy and the well-concealed late-night operation were completely exposed under the nose of the other party because of the witness of an ordinary person. Even if they are just ordinary people, they have already mastered so many terrifying abilities. .

What is even more terrifying are those spies who have been lurking like normal Solkonan citizens.

Gradually, they have the opportunity to get in touch with high-level officials, hear news from high-level officials, and learn from guards and ministers what may be about to happen...

If the situation permits, or if Anastasia Herman needs it, Cyril can now go out of the palace to the gate of the inner city and catch a spy at the foot of the palace.

This is not to say that La Rochelle itself does not have any anti-espionage measures, but counter-espionages must not startle the enemy, they can only catch big fish with a long line, so that they can catch more fish in one go...

And Anastasia Herman also knew the consequences of disclosing this news, so she directly held a military meeting, bypassing so many ears outside the wall, and deployed in the palace to deal with the possible arrival of Saint Emma The invasion, and the chaos of the place.

In fact, the regiment leaders that Cyril saw today had three meetings with Her Royal Highness, and this was already the fourth meeting, leaving only some finishing touches.

"What was the result of the discussion?"

"Although I concealed the news of my father's death, the legion commanders seem to have noticed that it is unrealistic to continue to conceal it." Anastasia shook her head, "They basically agreed to move the garrison to the east. , deploying Amasir's strategy, it just takes a certain amount of time..."

"Mr. Adrian." Anastasia said with difficulty, propping her head on one hand, "No matter what Ossa Emma plans to do, if they want to carry out their plan of invasion, they must Starting with Amathir..."

Cyril's face froze——

Only then did he realize that if O Saint-Emma really launched an attack on La Rochelle, then his territory would be the front line.

Between the Natural Land, Amathir, and Ul St. Emma, ​​there is only a great mountain and a great forest inhabited by elves.Although there are obstacles in the terrain, if the people of Ao San Emma really go crazy and want to attack, the forest alone will definitely not be able to stop them.

The inland sea, the Adelaide Sea, gave the people of Saint-Emma a more convenient direction to attack La Rochelle.

They can directly take a warship across the Adelaide Sea, launch an attack on the towns around the Adelaide Sea, take down the town and use it as an offensive fulcrum, and continuously send their soldiers to Amasir——

That's what they did in the aggression launched by Ao San Emma 100 years ago.

Although Cyril's Siliki is located at the northernmost point of the entire Amasir, it can be said that it perfectly avoids the straight line of the attack of the Ao San Emma, ​​but it is also in the front line area after all.

"I..." Cyril twitched the corners of his mouth stiffly, "Your Highness, I also contributed in the Northern Frontier War, and it can be seen from the results that our Siliki intends to kill thieves, but it is obviously difficult to become a strategic fulcrum." insufficient……"

But his words met Anastasia's strange eyes:

"Mr. Adrian, are you pretending to be confused with me, or are you pretending to be confused?"

"Huh?" Cyril was stunned for a moment, this time he really didn't understand what Anastasia said.

And Anastasia's complexion became more and more strange. After a while, she said in a surprised tone:
"Miss Adrian...you don't...don't know what happened to Amasir, do you?"

"Amathir... what happened?"

Cyril really didn't have a chance to learn about Amasir. He came back by boat all the way from the south, and what he heard most was what was going on with the North Alliance, but there was no news from the east at all.

"So you haven't heard of it." Anastasia let out a breath slowly, leaned back lazily on the seat, and waved her hand in the air, "Listen, Dulce O'Connor, too. It was the Duke of O'Connor, who died of illness in Moragul of Amathir."

"Hmm... eh? Duke O'Connor has died of illness?"

Cyril vaguely remembered that before he left Amasir, the Duke of O'Connor hadn't died of illness, and his two sons had already started fighting for the position of Duke O'Connor with each other.

At that time, his instruction to Siliki was to "watch from the sidelines, sit on the mountain and watch the tigers fight", earn money from both sides, and beat both sides at the same time.

Considering Siliki's own limited strength, he told Atsk Angers to avoid all battles that might cause a lot of casualties, and he would never take the initiative to initiate battles that are prone to heavy losses such as siege battles. At most, he followed the O'Connor brothers' Pick up something good from the back of your ass.

But how to grasp this scale is a very critical issue.

He believed that Azike Angers could do this well, and even if he couldn't grasp it, he wouldn't make mistakes by doing too much.

But now Duke O'Connor has died of illness, which means that the battle between the O'Connor brothers should have entered a fever pitch...

It was January when he left, and now it is June. Five months, I guess, shouldn't be enough for them to end the fight, right?
"Duke O'Connor has passed away? It's a pity to hear the news. He has made outstanding contributions to the development of Amasir..."

Cyril pretended to say a few words, but Anastasia gave him a blank look:
"I didn't expect you to be so ruthless. You are not in Amasir, but you are thoughtful in arranging your subordinates..."

"Huh?" Cyril blinked, not understanding what Anastasia said.

"It means that your Siliki has won the O'Connor brother's battle for the title!"

"Now the territories held by the O'Connor brothers are not as large as your Silikie!"

Anastasia said angrily and amusedly, then pulled out the map and drew a huge circle for Cyril in Amasir:

"See, these are all your places!"

"Count Siliki—or should I call you the new Count Amasir?"

(End of this chapter)