"Those short-sighted nobles!"
In the capital of the Duchy of Angria, Duke Otto is losing his temper. He grabbed a chair, threw all the plates and cups on the table to the ground, and then swung it hard, throwing the entire chair out of the window. Even so, he still didn't calm down. He looked at the table, getting angrier and angrier as he looked at it. Suddenly he pulled out his sword and slashed at it hard. He chopped more than fifty times in a row until the table was cut into eight pieces before finally letting go.
He looked around the room, looking for a chair to sit on and catch his breath, but found nothing. Only then did he realize that the chair just now was the last one in the room, and he had already smashed the other chairs before smashing the table.
This was the first time he had been so angry.
That day, Ella suddenly left the banquet, and they didn't see her come back after waiting for a long time. While looking for someone, the mayor of Hamburg broke in with a few of his men. He threw several strong men who were tied up into the hall, and then told everyone at the banquet: Because the King of Sweden was attacked, he had rushed back to Stade.
The banquet ended unhappily. Duke Otto dragged the men who attacked Ella into prison and tortured them for several days before he found out who was behind it. It turned out that there was a nobleman at the banquet. His brother was killed by Amy in the war. After hearing that the war was ordered by Ella, he had the intention to kill. Those who assassinated Ella were his men.
"So what if I kill the Triumphant? She never commanded that group of pirates to fight from the beginning to the end! But didn't we still lose? By touching her here, do you want us all to be killed by the Pirate Kingdom!"
He turned around several times but couldn't find a place to sit, so he kicked the wall hard in anger, leaving a conspicuous mud mark on the snow-white wall.
"Since you wanted to kill her, then don't stand on her right side! Everyone thinks it was me who ordered her to do it now!"
"Just kill him! What rotten fish and shrimps he sent! Even the mayor of Hamburg can't do anything, and he still wants to touch the Triumphant? That's a magician at the level of a great elf! She If you get angry, all of us present at the time will not die?"
--wrong. Something is wrong.
Duke Otto leaned against the wall and gasped for air, his mind gradually calming down in the process.
——If the "Triumph" is really that powerful, then why does she run?
He had never doubted this before. According to all rumors, the Triumphant is an extremely powerful magician. Some said that her crowbar weighed one hundred and thirty-five hundred kilograms, some said that her true form was a black dragon, and some said that he could easily defeat thirteen elf-level magicians. Although these rumors sounded exaggerated, the victory of the "Triumph" over the "Invincible" really happened, and they could only choose to believe it.
But is there a possibility that the victor was not Ragnar Lodbrok who was defeated by magic?
Duke Otto recalled all the reports about Ella and every move he had seen with his own eyes: first, the team that found Ella reported that Ella was fighting with a villager; secondly, his A few hands can really restrict Ella's movements; and...
Once you have doubts in your mind, many things become suspicious.
Duke Otto even had this thought in his mind: The victor actually knows no magic at all?
But if you say so, it would be too bold for her to go to the meeting alone and admit that the war was her own instruction at the banquet. You know, there were many people who had murderous intentions in their hearts at that time!
"Not bravery, but courage...?"
Duke Otto felt a sense of absurdity: the Alemannic Federation actually lost to a person who had no magic at all.
"The empire that Charlemagne built by relying on force has become what it is today."
He silently left the room and went out into the corridor. The corridor is covered with soft carpets, and many expensive paintings are hung on the walls on both sides.
He called the servant.
"Get rid of all these carpets and paintings!"
"This..." The servant couldn't understand for a moment and asked, "How to deal with it?"
"Sell it, burn it if you can't sell it, you name it! From today on, these things are no longer allowed in my corridor!"
Leaving behind the dazed servant, Duke Otto climbed up the stairs and arrived at the deepest room on the top floor of the castle. He pushed open the heavy door that had not been opened for several years, and a flag suddenly appeared in front of him. Painted on the flag is an eagle spreading its wings and ready to fly.
He stepped into that room. There were many swords and armors displayed on both sides of the room, but all of them had accumulated heavy dust.
Prince Otto walked up to a spear with a heavy heart. He blew away the dust and took out his handkerchief and wiped it up and down.
"I finally understand. The biggest enemy of the Alemannic Federation is not outside, but within the Alemannic Federation, among the nobles and businessmen who have their own agendas!"
Otherwise, the alliance he finally gathered to fight against the pirate kingdom would not be easily broken up by the victor with just a few words.
He dropped the handkerchief and thrust his spear forward!
"The biggest enemy is the Count of Île-de-France!"
As long as the Earl of Île-de-France has some slight reaction to the invasion of the Pirate Kingdom, Ella can't use the excuse of "it's just a border conflict". And those nobles and businessmen were under pressure and did not dare to stand on Ella's side in public.
The Count of Île-de-France should have protected the members of the Alemannic Federation from aggression, but he turned a blind eye to the invasion of the pirate kingdom. This was a mistake on his part.
The Comte de Île-de-France's second fault was the carrot bill and the trouser bill, which he had like a psychotic episode.
The Count of Île-de-France allowed the Semites to come to the Alemannic Federation to preach, and Flanders had already shown signs of hunting the Semites. This was the third mistake.
"These three mistakes are enough to remove him from his position! Now is the best time to use some means... First of all, it is to arouse the hatred of the Semites from the hearts of the citizens of the Alemannic Federation. The anger!”
Duke Otto unconsciously recited the magic incantation inherited from the Carolingian bloodline:
"Charlemagne, the most pious Augustus, the great emperor crowned by God!"
He was determined to reintegrate the scattered Alemannic Federation like Charlemagne. Only in this way can he have the capital to fight against the "Triumpher".
