"What did you say?!" The King of Dawn pushed away the singer in his arms and stood up abruptly.
The woman with the pink silk draped over her, her naked body faintly discernible, fell to the ground. It was obvious that the fall was not light, but she did not even dare to cry out in pain.
The rest of the servants, performers, and jugglers also lowered their heads in fear. The entire palace hall suddenly became silent.
"Your Majesty …" The minister swallowed his saliva and said, "Your Prime Minister has rebelled."
"Are you sure it's a rebellion and not an attempt to serve those fools outside?" Appen did not know whether he should doubt his ears or the incompetent people who exaggerated the words of the watcher tenfold.
It was not that he was not aware of the plans of the nobles from the other territories. Anyone who came back alive from Hermes had basically seen the destruction of the knights in the king's city, as well as his embarrassing appearance when he fled. It was naive to expect them to remain loyal to the royal family at this time.
It was normal to have unusual movements and to form cliques. Obviously, the three big families in the king's city were their first choice. Appen had long been on guard against this, but he thought that according to the temperament of the three old ministers, they would probably behave themselves and not come out. After all, the king's city was still in his hands, and any action that annoyed him was tantamount to suicide.
He did not expect that the Quinn family would be the first to have a problem.
Colluding with a foreign lord was already an affront to his dignity. Perhaps the old Earl only wanted to leave a way out, or declare his own position … But no matter what the reason was, such an affront would definitely be punished. Just like Otto Luoxi — he had restrained himself enough not to kill his childhood friend on the spot.
But... what did he mean by rebellion?
Earl Quinn was in the City of Glow and had neither subjects nor soldiers. How could he rely on the dozens of guards around him? What a joke. What right did he have to rebel?
"The Earl did contact the foreign nobles. No, but it was not a private meeting. He sent an invitation!" The minister wiped the sweat from his forehead. "He publicly invited all the nobles to his mansion and persuaded them to serve the Quinn family!"
Appen was stunned and could hardly understand the news he had heard.
This action could indeed be linked to rebellion, but the method was a little too unimaginable!
Instead of getting help from the nobles, he wanted them to be loyal to Quinn. Did Horford really know what he was doing?
He was already a dangerous ship that could capsize at any time. How could there be nobles who would agree to this proposal! This was undoubtedly making enemies on both sides. The Moya royal family would never tolerate such a serious provocation, and such foolishness would only make the nobles sneer.
But then again, was the Prime Minister such an arrogant person in the past?
After a long silence, Appen said, "Pass on my order. Have Sir Bakaf, the commander of the patrol, bring a team to the Earl's Mansion and bring Horford Quinn to see me. As for the rest of the people in the mansion, they were temporarily detained in the prison. If anyone tried to stop them, they could be killed on the spot! I'd like to see how he's going to explain this. "
"Yes, Your Majesty!"
After hearing the news, he was no longer in the mood to have fun. After driving away everyone in the hall, Appen could not help but lean on the throne.
He did not simply want to have fun. It was just that once the surroundings became quiet, the roar of Skyfire would constantly echo in his ears.
The war more than a month ago had left an indelible impression in his heart.
No... it was not a war, but a one-sided massacre.
His army had no power to fight back at all.
Whether it was the Knight or the serfs, there was no difference in the face of the attack of Graycastle.
After returning to King's City, Appen found that he no longer had the courage to fight against Roland. The setback brought to him by the fiasco was even heavier than the death of his father.
What was more desperate was that he knew that the Moya family had lost the entire Kingdom of Dawn. What was the consequence of offending a powerful neighboring country? There was no doubt that sooner or later, the other side would annex the territory he inherited from his father, and he could do nothing about it!
When he ascended the throne, he was full of ambition. He wanted to govern the kingdom so that the people could live a stable life and no longer have to worry about the threat of witches, demonic beasts, and other otherworldlings. However, after only one year of being on the throne, he had lost all interest in politics and commerce. He could only wait for the enemy's army to come and hang him on the wall.
At the thought of this, Appen's hatred for the King of Graycastle increased day by day, and he could not wait to eat his flesh raw!
If it were not for Roland Wimbledon, he would have gone down in history as a wise king!
All this was the other side's fault — the new King of Graycastle had been bewitched by the witches!
He slapped the armrest hard and had nowhere to vent the anger in his heart.
When he caught Earl Quinn, he would definitely let him have a good taste of the wrath of a king!
However, in the afternoon, his newly appointed minister ran into the palace with a panicked look on his face.
"Your Majesty, Sir Bakaf is dead! The patrol team … was completely wiped out! "
"Wh — at?" The King of Dawn grabbed the minister's collar in shock. "Did they set a trap around the mansion? Or did they hide guards in the mansion? "
"Yes, they hid guards," the minister replied quickly. "I saw it with my own eyes! Bakaf first asked the Earl to come out, but when he refused, he went straight into the house to catch people, but they were soon killed by his guards. Not only that, but they also rushed out of the courtyard and fought with the patrol team that surrounded the mansion. Those people were simply lunatics. They had all kinds of weapons in their hands, such as boning knives, wooden sticks, and even green bricks … In less than a quarter of an hour, the team was defeated! "
"How many of them were there?"
"About... seven or eight."
"Bastard!" Appen threw the minister to the ground. "How can seven or eight people be called hiding? Even a businessman in the City of Glow can gather a dozen guards. Are you scared out of your wits? And how could a patrol of one or two hundred people be defeated by seven or eight guards? Even if there were two hundred wild boars, they shouldn't have been defeated so quickly — are they not even as good as the pigs in the hunting ground? "
"Your Majesty, those people... are not human beings, they are monsters," the minister said with a sad face. "Most of the patrol couldn't even take one blow from them. That's not the strength and speed of a human being!"
Appen's heart suddenly trembled.
He seemed to have seen such a description before.
Yes, he remembered that the murderer of his father, the two church witches who claimed to be Pure Witches, had shown him the terrible force of the God's Punishment Army.
Could it be that... Earl Quinn colluded with the church?
An uncontrollable anger suddenly rose from the bottom of his heart!
"Rithers!" Appen shouted.
A Knight quickly came in from outside the hall, knelt down on one knee and said, "Your Majesty, what can I do for you?"
"Immediately gather all the mercenaries in the City of Glow, bring heavy crossbows and fire arrows, and burn Earl Quinn's mansion to the ground!" He roared, "Whether they are human beings or monsters, I want them all to be burned to ashes!"
"But... that's the inner city," the Knight said hesitantly. "If it causes a fire, I'm afraid it'll be difficult to deal with."
"Shut up and do as I say!" Appen roared hysterically. "If you can't burn him to death, you don't have to come back to see me!"
Even the God's Punishment Army had no chance of winning when faced with an army that was a hundred times their size and was armed with heavy crossbows. Those who colluded with the church had only one end: death!
...
The next day, the King of Dawn received news from the watcher again. The mercenary group that had prepared for a whole night had not arrived at the Earl's mansion.
When passing through the Rising Sun Avenue, the mercenary group was attacked by an acrobatic troupe.
He was sure that he had not misheard the minister's report.
A group of acrobatic performers who were performing on the street suddenly attacked the mercenary group. The mercenary group was caught off guard and suffered heavy losses. The fighting style of those performers was exactly the same as that of Earl Quinn's "guards".
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