The Amber Sword

And it was at this time, in a crystal ball on a walnut wood desk, that suddenly opened two eyes, and those eyes looked at Grand Duke Vieiro, not far away, with a self-evident smile.

“Looks like your time is over,” he said, "but it's just the beginning, your granddaughter will one day regain all your power, the kingdom will no longer have any nobility, the royal family will be a monarch, the Korkova family has stolen the crown from the Sifah family, and now they are resorting to it and will aggressively take it away from you. ”

“Shut up!” The Duke of Vieiro furiously lifted the table and shouted loudly, everything on the desk rolled down on the carpet, and the loud noise shook the maids out the door, and the crystal ball rolled toward the corner of the wall and stopped.

The eyes on the crystal ball still looked at the Duke of Vieiro with a merciful smile.

“Your Eminence is old and will soon become an old man of the candle age. You had some power in your hand, but as your brain gradually deteriorated, even your people dared to disobey you. Your daughter was just the beginning of one of these, she was in charge, but she did not show this potential ambition because she was photographed in your majesty. But soon you'll find out that you can't hold anyone's ambitions back, even those lowly sluts, and dare to fool you into applause. ”

“Enough.” Although the Duke of Vieiro understands that the other is merely talking nonsense, he panics from the bottom of his heart.

The eyes on the crystal ball didn't stop, and the captivating voice continued: "Soon you'll lose your power, and then you'll just be a bad old man who's lost his utility. You will find that any affection, loyalty, is just a lie, and all of them will leave you here alone to wait for the dead. Do you understand that these sweet words and flowers around you are based on your power and power, and that those bitches are privately going to devour your wealth, not to mention when you lose control over them? Think about it. Don't regret it until the bones are gone. ”

“... Oenie she won't leave me. ”

“Really? Even if your daughter really loves you, one day she's going to marry someone. Your daughter has fallen in love with another man, and she will soon leave you and put you in that man's arms. By then, will she be able to take care of you? ”

“Well said...” Vieiro coldly said: "But in the end, you people don't have the same intentions, you don't want me to join you guys. ”

“Oh," the voice in the crystal ball sounded terrible, and it sarcastically said, "In that case, you should have thrown this crystal ball out a long time ago, but you thought about it again and again, didn't you? I understand that nobles are good at leaving at least one way back for themselves, and naturally, Your Excellency is no exception, since that is not the case, we cannot sit down and negotiate, can we? You must always give us an opportunity to bid. ”

The colour of the Duke of Vieiro's face was uncertain for a moment, as if he were a struggling god, but eventually began to say: "If you tried to harm the interests of Eruin and Vieiro, you would still be spared, Griffin is at least my granddaughter, and I cannot stand opposite her. ”

After saying this, the Duke seemed to relax the whole person, as if he had unloaded a thousand kilograms.

The eyes in that crystal ball laughed harder.

“You know exactly who we are, how could we possibly be interested in a neighborhood Elouin, and of course we don't care if your granddaughter is dead or alive - it's not offensive, we just don't like to lie around the corner. But now that you mention it, we don't have to do anything about your granddaughter. It's always good to die less, right? ”

“So what exactly do you want?” The Duke of Vieiro asks with dismay that he is no longer a young man of grandeur and would no longer easily believe the words of others.

“It's simple,” the voice replied, "we know very well what made Eru what he is, only because of someone who shouldn't have appeared --”

“You want to fight the Cadilloso family?” The Duke of Vieiro nailed it down and said, “That's impossible. ”

He stared at those eyes on the crystal ball, and if he wanted the Vieiros to collide with the highland knights and kill with a knife, that was the wrong idea.

But the eyes on the crystal ball continued with no concern: "Listen to me, Duke, why are we targeting the grandson of Darius, which is not in our interest, but does the Count really care about the gains and losses in the Eruin part of the district? With a man like him, even in the Cruz Empire, there is a place, how could he focus on a small kingdom in a district? ”

“What exactly are you trying to say? ”

“You should be aware that it really affects His Royal Highness, but only the little people beside him, the inferior 'noble new pets' of Tonigal origin, who have no place in the kingdom if they fail to obtain His Royal Highness's petition. ”

“You know what those people are, some of them even of Dalit origin, mercenaries, adventurers, the most despicable and lowly group of people in this kingdom, who, under the banner of the Holy Grandson of the Sword of the Earth, seize the power you should have received in an attempt to transform this once glorious kingdom into a corrupt, demonic country. ”

“Think about it. Will Darius's grandson really tolerate these people? Before he left the kingdom, was it like this? Everything happened after he left the kingdom. Now that the Count is missing, his original men are even more unscrupulous and dare to look at the aristocracy of the North. ”

“Lord Duke, can you tolerate all this? ”

“Hmm," the Duke of Vieiro calmed down at this time, "he sarcastically said," so you came all the way here just to help us? ”

“Oh,” the eyes in the crystal ball laughed, "Duke, we're not kids anymore. These crowns are boring to say, I'm just telling you a possibility. Of course, we have our purpose as well, but our interests are common at this point. Why can't you, as her grandfather, try to influence the elder princess of Eruin? ”

The Duke of Vieiro frowned slightly.

“There is no sword drawn in between, no need to offend anyone, you are just trying to get your granddaughter to hear more of what you have to say, isn't that normal? Besides, is it your intention to withdraw from the kingdom's politics without a war? ”

“What are you going to do?” The Duke of Vieiro asked only after being silent for a half hour.

“We provide you with the necessary resources," the voice replied, "it can be financial, it can be human, it can be intelligence, it can even be advice, with these things you can re-enforce within the kingdom, at least not be excluded from the political power center of Eruin. Even we can allow some of the world's early and powerful wizards to perform those powerful and extraordinary spells on you, revitalize your body, bring your body back to its peak, and let your territory crawl under your feet again. ”

“What's in it for you? ”

“The benefits we get are hard for you to understand, but you should be well aware that we have been secretly trying to bring the world under our control, and that is our most important purpose, but that control has no impact on you, so we can have a common interest. ”

Duke Vieiro was silent.

This is an answer that is not at one level, and he might not believe it if it were told to him by someone else. But he knew who those people were behind the crystal ball, and what they had done in the past seemed to bear witness to their words.

The answer is not reassuring, but he also understands that, as a human being, he just needs to take care of his immediate interests - which would be better if the two sides were not intertwined.

I have to say, he's moved, especially at the last point, and no one wants to stay young forever. Long after, the Duke of Vieiro said silently:

“So what do I have to do? ”

……

Griffin stared silently at the young girl in front of him.

To be exact, it was just a little girl with a beautiful blonde curly hair, especially in her ears, fluffy curly hair tied by her into two playful and gorgeous ponytails, and a thin layer of Liu Hai in front of her forehead could not cover her bright blue eyes as if they were the sea. The young girl seemed to be full of vitality, and although every move did not reflect the best of royal aristocracy and her slender body was bound under that seemingly tight skirt, she still gave the impression of being disturbed from the bones.

Perhaps the full curiosity and cunning hidden in those eyes gave all those who saw this little girl for the first time such a sensation.

The golden sunshine penetrated the vegetative mantle of the upper palace of Valhalla, floating in the air and falling on the little princess of Sifah.

This is the first time Griffin has met this cousin of his own who is a distant relative in name.

Ever since the Sifah clan and the Korkova clan fought evil, she has become alienated from Levin Oneson, and Princess Chiara was born only after that, naturally she has not met each other.

But even so, those icy blue eyes she'd known made her feel familiar.

In particular, Chiara quickly drew a sense of distance between them with an unusual opening statement.

“Are you the famous princess, another sister in my name? ”

“You're beautiful, Sister Griffin. ”

Chiara's milky voice still makes it difficult to notice her demonic side, and the half-esque girl almost instantly treated her cousin's sister as a child with naive weather.

She didn't notice the cunning color of the person's eyes flashing past her.

……