Thud … thud … thud …
A large group of royal guards surrounded the royal carriage in an orderly formation. They slowly moved toward the palace along the riverfront road beside the Tyme River.
Although there was still a month before the official coronation ceremony, Levina would be moving to the palace to live with the queen to reduce the pressure on the defense.
In the carriage that was not luxurious but was very well-decorated, only Levina and Elvin, who had changed into neat military uniforms, were sitting in it. The royal assistant, Miss Linda, was wearing armor and riding on a horse with a sword in hand.
"Kaka …"
Levina kept picking up the nuts on the small table and feeding Kaka, who had crawled out of her shadow and turned into a small lizard. Her white palm was tickled by the shadow dragon's tongue, and she could not help but let out a bell-like laughter.
Kaka, who had helped Elvin escape from death several times, was the last line of defense he had prepared for Levina. It did not matter if it would be useful or not, it was always better to be prepared.
It was a pity that after Kaka's bloodline had been purified, its intelligence had grown closer to that of a pure-blooded giant dragon. Although it was very smart, it still did not know how to speak until now.
Levina glanced at Elvin, who was beside her, from time to time as she fed him food to gain his favor.
Although it was the relationship between a lord and a guardian Knight, the meaning had long changed after the other party's identity had undergone a qualitative change.
A great lord who ruled a land of 470,000 square kilometers and had a population of nearly a million people could temporarily put aside his territory's affairs and specially cross the entire Black Sea to return to the mainland to be her guard.
No matter how strict the Knight's code was to judge him, he was a model of loyalty and loyalty.
A Grade 3 upper-level Wizard was much more powerful than a Grade 4 Titled Knight, and the effect of his defense was also much better.
Moreover, it was very comfortable to get along with Elvin. His thoughts were mature and his vision was farsighted. One could not tell that there was a thirteen year age gap between them. In fact, Rivenna even felt that Elvin should be the older one (and that was indeed the case).
And because they had watched him grow up bit by bit, they didn't feel that it was difficult to approach such a dazzling genius. There were some questions that they wanted to ask.
"Elvin, you said during Ilya's riot that people are the cornerstone of a country. Any social change must unite the power of the majority and benefit them.
You also told me that the national system established by the capitalists is contagious, and the tide of democratization is a scourge. Once it is released, it will never be able to be contained again.
Then shouldn't we also work hard to improve the welfare of the people and fight against the state of the capitalist? "
Levina temporarily gave up the idea of asking Elvin for a discount on the "iron-ribbed wooden ship". She returned to the issue of "income distribution and redistribution" in the top-level political and economic design, which was closely related to the development of the kingdom.
As long as they didn't talk about money, Elvin was very generous in other aspects.
"The redistribution of wealth is a must, and the key to this problem is the scale.
You see, when a man pursues the necessities of life, he is often diligent and brave; when a man pursues the consumables of life, he is often lazy and mild; when a man pursues the luxuries of life, he is from then on weak.
Whether it is a person, a family, an organization, a nation, or a country.
The farther away from the "necessities" of life, the more willing he is to use his remaining wealth, rather than his own life, to defend his wealth, family, and country.
So, what kind of people do you actually want? "
"This …"
Before Levina, who was deep in thought, could speak, Elvin suddenly raised his head and chuckled.
"Your Highness, something interesting is coming!"
He waved his hand, and an image collected by the [Mental Network] was projected in front of the two of them.
A hundred meters in front of the advancing group, in the river, beside the trees, in the soil … In places where ordinary people would not be able to detect, there were a total of six invisible figures holding specially enchanted crossbows, powerful explosives, and highly toxic substances. They were waiting in formation.
They avoided the sight of the guards, but they couldn't avoid the comprehensive detection of the [Mental Network].
Whoosh …
The wind of spirituality blew.
The surging [Revitalizing Spirit Light] had already ruled everything within a one-kilometer radius.
"The earth, the river, and the sky are all extensions of my body!"
The next moment.
Clang! Clang! Clang!
The soil, water, and air instantly churned and reformed into shackles that were harder than steel. They tied up the ambushers who didn't notice anything unusual and then suddenly tightened.
"Ahhhhh!"
At this moment, all physical beings around them were their enemies, and they couldn't even breathe on their own. The enchanted crossbows, explosives, and poisons in their hands that were powerful enough to threaten a Grade 3 Extraordinaire instantly became decorations.
As they chatted, they were easily dealt with by Elvin.
When a small group of guards rushed out to capture the ambushers, Elvin had already retracted his projection and returned to his original calm self.
"This is a group of 'Ghost Lizard Bandits' who are best at hiding their tracks. Is it the assassin organization 'Vulture's Nest'? Sending out six rare professions at once, that's quite a big move. "
But that was the end of the clues. These mission enforcers didn't even know who the mission issuer was. Unless they directly destroyed the headquarters of the 'Vulture's Nest', it was almost impossible to find out who hired the assassins.
There were too many people who had the motive to do this.
"But to dare to accept a mission to assassinate a crown prince, it seems like the name of the Kingdom of Faletis isn't enough of a deterrent to some people!"
Although she was unharmed, Levina's face was still not looking good. Her beautiful lake green eyes could not help but reveal a hint of anger. No matter who the mastermind was, since the 'Vulture's Nest' did not reject the mission, it meant that they didn't care about Faletis' possible revenge.
Of course.
Elvin and Levina both knew that the purpose of these people was purely to cause trouble for Faletis at this critical moment.
With such a lineup, it was possible to take down a grade 3 great Knight by surprise. But under the protection of a superior wizard, it was a joke.
Elvin didn't comfort Rivenna. It wasn't a bad thing to let this Queen-to-be be brave after being humiliated.
"Your Highness, let's think about how to make ourselves stronger.
Let's go back to the problem just now. This seems to be a problem of 'income distribution and redistribution' that 'royal dictatorship' and 'capitalist democracy' face. It is related to social justice and the welfare of the people, but it is not just a problem of distribution.
Because redistribution can solve the problem of 'fairness', but it can't solve the problem of 'prosperity'.
What is the nature of poverty? It is the low efficiency of wealth creation!
From the perspective of a ruler like us, the focus of policy thinking should not be on how to fairly distribute the existing wealth of society, but how to exceed the existing wealth … "
St. James' Palace.
In the Queen's study, even though she had reached the age of 'retirement', Isabella still looked graceful and beautiful with a platinum crown on her head. Although the team had not arrived yet, they had obviously received the news that their daughter was attacked.
"The capital hasn't been so lively for a long time. All kinds of monsters have come out."
The head of the intelligence department, Marquis Hansa, stood in front of the Queen's desk and bowed.
"Your Highness, please rest assured. I will personally monitor the city during this period. Marquis Garriott, the Knight of Her Highness, will be responsible for the safety of the crown prince. Before the ceremony in a month, we will organize forces to conduct two to three rounds of large-scale inspections in the city in advance. We will not let them overturn the situation.
Her Highness Levina will also successfully inherit the throne and become an excellent queen like you! "
"Haha, I believe she will."
Her tone was full of pride for this little daughter who could bear the responsibility at this critical moment. As a mother, Isabella saw all of Levina's efforts.
In order to become an excellent queen, she had sacrificed too much, but she was still better than 99% of the royal heirs on the continent. Even if her eldest daughter, Stephanie, came back, Isabella would not hesitate to choose her younger daughter as her successor.
The only flaw, which was a little regrettable … was that Levina did not have an heir of her own. She did not even have someone to fall in love with.
"Sigh! It would be nice if the two of them could be balanced. "
.....
Today's easy annihilation of the Vulture's Nest clearly did not scare the other people who had bad intentions.
However, the remaining people all had different goals.
Some also wanted the life of Crown Prince Levina, some wanted to cause chaos in non-specific countries and panic among humans, some wanted mass deaths, and some … just wanted to fish in troubled waters.
No matter what the plan was, they were all intensely planning.
In the deepest part of the sewers, the harsh environment here was extremely unfriendly to humans, but for some people, it was like a fish in water.
Squeak, squeak, squeak …
Accompanied by rat cries or some kind of special language, the group of human-shaped rats gathered together excitedly. From their dusty pockets, they took out human corpses that seemed to have been processed and had become waxy on the surface.
He chanted some prayers and piled them up one by one.
The edges kept fusing and gradually turned into a huge ball of corpses, sealing off a large area. In the middle of the ball of corpses was something that looked like the heart of a large animal, but also like an egg that kept beating.
Horror, blasphemy, grotesque, and filth that almost condensed into a physical substance poured out from it, but the human-shaped rats did not seem to feel it at all.
From the emblem of a twisted arm that they all wore, it could be determined that they were actually a group of clergy of a cult. They were the "Rat People" who believed in the evil god "Funeral God" and "Corpse Embalmer" Sinotoglis.
Due to the increase in abnormal deaths on the continent, the "Funeral Church" was one of the most active evil churches in recent years.
Just like the "Cobra Trap Theory," the "Funeral Church," which originally helped humans properly dispose of corpses, had begun to focus on creating corpses themselves in order to expand their business.
The most common method used by the followers of evil gods was to directly smash down the demigod projection of an evil god through bloody sacrifice. After activating the mythical form, it was a terrifying existence like a weapon of mass destruction.
But in the Old Continent, where the light of a true god shone, even evil gods were afraid of death. During the Dark Millennium Era, when the true gods did not show their divinity, they might be a little rampant. But in the past 500 years, even evil gods dared not to directly show their faces in public.
Most of them only dared to stir up trouble in some small cities with a population of a few thousand people. The New Haven incident a few years ago was because the evil god's seal was there.
So this "egg" actually did not belong to the "Funeral God."
From the three heads that gradually appeared — a human head, a bull's head, a ram's head, and a snake's head with flaming eyes and a snake's tail — one knew that it was actually one of the powerful demon gods in the lower realm, Byrum.
The demon gods in the lower realm had always been known for their chaos and evil. As long as they were given enough benefits, they would dare to be violent anywhere. Separated by an incomparably vast realm, even a true god could not kill them, so they naturally had no scruples.
As for this group of fellows who obviously did not look very smart or strong, where did they get the "Demon God Egg" from?
At this time, under the increasingly murky waters of Beckler, there was clearly a deep and powerful malice quietly hidden …
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