This reminded Thales of the "collaborator" of the Black Sand Duke again.

"Hypocritical and ridiculous guy," King Nuen said gloomily: "Don't he know that half of my blood debt is on him?"

The expressions of the five Grand Dukes remained motionless.

King Nun's face was solemn, he placed his palm on the table, and the ring on his hand made a sharp sound.

"Boom!"

Everyone was shocked.

"Duel, why not."

Then, with the great expressions on the grand dukes' faces, King Nunn turned to them: "Which one of you is willing to fight on my behalf to prove your loyalty to the king?"

"With his blood, you should be able to let go of your scruples and stand with Longxiao City, right?"

Thales gritted his teeth.

But he seems to have gradually caught Nunn's rhythm.

The expressions of the princes became extremely strange.

But King Nun gave them no chance to reply.

"Lebien Alessiu, my loyal Grand Duke of Wellandland," King Nun turned to the bearded man who had always been full of malice towards Thales, and said lightly: "Go, bring me the best in the duel.

Come to victory and revenge."

Weiland... Thales will keep him in mind.

Three hundred years ago, the place where the Battle of Dawn took place.

Archduke Alessio looked at King Nun and then at Thales.

The time traveler watched his expression change again and again.

"I thought you were just testing him... Nunn," Archduke Olesiu frowned deeply: "Our previous discussion has made it very clear that everyone is willing to swallow the flesh of the stars, but no one wants to see it. An endless all-out war... Do you really want to kill this prince here?"

Thales felt relieved.

Test...

It's really a test.

His life... seems to have been saved.

But then he was stunned again.

What does this mean? These six people have just been discussing sending troops to start a war?

"Isn't that bad? I even sent Nikolai in advance to tie him to Longxiao City and parade him through the streets!" Nunn showed a scary and crazy smile: "Anyway, Walton is destined to lose the legitimate heir. We are about to decline, wouldn’t it be a good idea to do one last thing for Exeter?”

The faces of the five Grand Dukes became increasingly ugly.

Thales tried to put himself into the Grand Duke's situation and understand the mood of the Grand Dukes.

The Kingdom of Stars, which had no heir before, faced almost the same situation.

A king whose behavior is unpredictable.

"Olesiu, what he is holding is your sword after all," King Nun continued quietly: "Moreover, more than six hundred years ago, it was not Tormund Brightstar who led his army to destroy your sword. Did your family drive Oresio to the north from the ancient land of Shavin, where he has ruled for generations, and build Eternal Star City in your family’s old land?”

"Killing him will surely bring glory to your family?"

Olesius laughed sarcastically.

"If you raise your troops and go to war - the Weiland Territory is willing to advance and retreat with Longxiao City and be loyal to the banner of Dragonlance, my King," Olesiu slowly touched his beard and shook his head: "But it is absolutely not the case. In this way...you can't force me to bear all this blood for you."

"Huh, dear Archduke Olesiu, don't you want to bear the blood?" Thales smiled coldly and responded to what he just said: "After saying so much, aren't you just afraid of death?"

Olesiu paused for a moment and looked at Thales's expression, which only became more and more unkind.

King Nun sneered and turned to Jarhead, who was mocking and sneering mercilessly: "What about you, the Grand Duke of the Tower of Reconstruction, Perseus Trudida? Kill him, and we will stand together from now on."

Rebuilding the tower...Tiel suddenly remembered the story of Rumba.

"I refuse." Jarhead's Grand Duke Trudida reacted very quickly, "You can't ask me to do this."

He shook his head warily and said: "Trudida supports the war against the stars for only one reason: that rebuilding the tower can gain the greatest benefit from the war. But if I kill this kid with my own hands, I will be forced to bear the responsibility. The enemy's hatred is obviously worth the loss."

"In the war caused by this, the cheapest one will definitely be Rumba, and the blood debt will always be borne by the murderer," Trudida raised his hand and laughed: "We will only send troops if there are benefits and no risks, otherwise we will send troops

Why are you wading into this muddy water?"

"You are truly the most honest person I have ever seen, Trudida," the bald Grand Duke sighed, and before King Nun could speak, he replied: "What you said is both selfish and shameless and reasonable.

It’s true, so I can’t refute it.”

"For the same reason, I, Rogers Lecco from the Guarded City..." the bald Archduke Lecco said lightly, turning his head, a bright flash of light reflected on his head: "Anyway, whoever wants to kill him will do it - for no reason.

It's a small matter to be involved in a full-scale war, and I don't want to be stained with the blood debt of Bright Star."

Thales watched these Grand Dukes with cold eyes, watching them argue in front of His Majesty and outsiders as if no one else was around... just like the neighbor's aunt in the previous life chatted after meeting each other downstairs.

Moreover, this scene...

Thales frowned: Why does it look so familiar?

"Okay, I have finally realized the weight of the Northland," Thales chuckled, looked at the bald Archduke Lecco sarcastically, retorted with the same words, and then looked at the bearded Archduke Olesiu with disdain.

: "And your way to the North."

Neither of the two Grand Dukes answered him, they just looked away.

"Hmph, if this kid hadn't come to apologize, we wouldn't have been so embarrassed, right?" Nunn VII sneered, "Would you have simply sent troops south under the guise of revenge for my son?"

The princes did not answer.

But Thales already knew the answer.

"Kulikun Roni?" King Nuen looked at the long-haired man and said slowly: "You go and kill him, and Longxiao City will fully support the interests that the Roni family can obtain in the war."

"Doing something like this to a child who has no hair on his lower body is simply a stain on my honor." The long-haired man, Grand Duke Ronny, snorted: "Although Qiyuan City is far away from the threat of the stars, the Ronny family also has

My own pride."

The more Thales listened, the more obvious his feeling became.

The tone in which the princes spoke to the king...

Through the most intuitive and direct contact, he quickly realized the essential difference between Exeter and the stars in the relationship between king and vassal.

The Grand Duke and the King were almost equal to each other. Those who were familiar with each other and those who were powerful were even unkind to the King.

Compared to the stars... Thales remembered that in the Hall of Stars, the vassals of the six wealthy families and the thirteen noble families knelt down and kissed Kessel's ring.

It seems that the Grand Dukes of Exeter are indeed a country of their own, and the power in their hands is... far beyond our expectations. Thales thought of Putilai's evaluation.

I'm afraid the same is true in terms of strength.

"enough!"

The last brown-haired young man sighed,

"I am the lord of Fengzhao City, Conkley Perfit, His Highness of the Stars. I'm sorry for letting you see this scene." The brown-haired young man turned his head and smiled apologetically at Thales, and then he said worriedly.

He said to King Nun: "Your Majesty, I understand your anger, but I also ask you to consider the future of the kingdom... The prince of the stars is already here, we have lost the legitimate reason to send troops, and killing him will only make things worse.

"

Nunn didn't answer.

After he glanced around the Grand Duke and glanced at Thales, he spoke in a low and deep voice.

"You are really a bunch of cowards," Nun VII said solemnly: "Even I agree, but you are still afraid of war, and you don't even dare to touch the blood of a child."

It's precisely because of your approval that I'm suspicious.

Thales said silently.

"The Northland never takes pride in killing children." Grand Duke Roni of Qiyuan City replied calmly.

"Very good, let's break up the meeting then," King Nuen said with a cold face, ending this strange meeting. He looked at Thales, with still ruthless indifference and hatred in his eyes: "Put that ridiculous

Put down your sword, Prince of the Stars, you don't need to use it at night."

"Ah?" Thales was stunned: "The occasion at night? What occasion?"

"What else can there be?" The King of Exeter glared at the five Grand Dukes coldly, "Since these cowards are unwilling to pay the price, what choice do we have?"

"Go and get ready for your welcome dinner."

"Tiles Bright Star."

The king left his last words in the most annoying tone and left his seat without looking back.

The princes all looked at each other and stood up with different expressions.

Thales stared blankly at everything in front of him.

Is this... the end?

"I said," Olesiu, the bearded Grand Duke of Welland, walked up to Thales, his expression still ugly: "How long are you going to hold my sword?"
To be continued...