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Chapter 1235: An Ordinary King's Extraordinary Day

York Dylan, the Lord of the Kingdom of Londinium, had his hands behind his back, looking at his own portrait with a melancholy face. The torches around him were swaying in the wind that came from nowhere, and the mood in the portrait also became uncertain.

Showing off one's success is the instinct of life, and the king's way of showing off is to hang his portrait in the most conspicuous place in the palace for people to worship.

Over time, every ancient kingdom would have a long corridor filled with portraits of past dynasties.

The characters in the painting are all tall and majestic.

Those painters are really in a difficult position, with a knife held at their necks, and they paint one person, but the result is a completely different person.

York, who did the same thing, would not condemn his ancestors. After all, no one wants their imperfections to be recorded forever. So even if someone pointed at the portrait and asked him, "Is this you?", he would shamelessly copy the words left by his ancestors, "What you see now is me when I was young."

Of course, he recently thought of a better excuse: "This is how my mother sees me. Although it is a bit embellished, are you questioning my mother's love for me?"

However, there is one imperfection that cannot be erased no matter what.

York couldn't take his eyes off the name on the portrait for a long time.

【Lord York Dylan】

The Kingdom of Londinium, now a vassal state of the Eternal Kingdom, was once a vassal state of the Eternal Kingdom.

This is an introduction to all the named city-state kingdoms within the territory of the Third Kingdom.

This introduction makes the Kingdom of Londinium look like a fence-sitter kingdom that jumps back and forth, but who knows that the Kingdom of Londinium was once a powerful force in the territory of the Third Kingdom, owning many cities and a large amount of territory, and even having an elite force of more than 100,000 people.

[Londinium], like other city-state kingdoms, attempts to unify the Third Kingdom region and become the true third largest kingdom to compete with the Supreme Holy Kingdom, which is in its heyday, and the Giant Kingdom Alliance, which is rising with unstoppable momentum.

However, an Eternal King suddenly appeared in the Third Kingdom, and in just twelve years, the red dragon's flag was planted all over most of the Third Kingdom's territory.

The Kingdom of Londinium, which has a long history, was early on filled with red dragon flags and became a part of the Eternal Kingdom. The king of the Kingdom of Londinium was even demoted from a king to a lord.

It was because the king surrendered quickly, otherwise he would have been a prisoner or a civilian.

But as fate would have it, the Eternal Kingdom lasted less than a few years before the Holy Grail led to the loss of the royal city. The costly and laborious search for the Holy Grail rapidly disintegrated the Eternal Kingdom's nearly unified currency and economic system.

York really envied that ancestor, who pretended to be a grandson for several years and not only enjoyed the economic benefits brought by the Eternal Kingdom, but the Eternal Kingdom also destroyed itself. When the Kingdom of Dillenium regained its independence, it was not affected by the collapse of the Eternal Kingdom at all, and even became stronger.

He was so similar to that ancestor. They lived a good life, but the Eternal Kingdom popped up again like a ghost. The difference was that he surrendered much faster than his ancestor.

What’s even more different is that this “Lord” is probably embedded behind his name and will be printed on every subsequent portrait.

No kingdom is eternal unless that kingdom has an eternal king, and that eternal king has countless powerful followers.

The strangers who used to look down on him and even spit at him now gathered enthusiastically around the ruler of the Eternal Kingdom, the Eternal Queen.

The same thing happened in Arcadia. As soon as the female lord, no, now it should be said that the queen, came to power, people from other places were reborn as Arcadians, and the fertility rate soared.

I heard that the royal family of the Giant Kingdom has also decided that the second princess, Farasha, will be the next in line.

Despicable, so despicable!
York just hated it, with plain jealousy, because he knew that even if he became a woman, he would still be a little shabby.

"Alas..." York sighed deeply and walked slowly along the long King's Corridor. The king in the portrait looked at him with great majesty, as if condemning him for letting the king retreat to a lord. He felt ashamed of his ancestors.

His response was to raise his middle finger, a gesture brought by the stranger. Although he didn't know what it meant, he felt much more relieved at the moment.

In order to make him feel better, he raised the middle finger of his other hand, and sure enough, he felt much better.

As he walked, York stopped in front of a portrait of the king.

It was the king of the Eternal Kingdom. He pressed the king's name with his middle finger, and the name sank in. The portrait also retreated, and a deep corridor appeared. Torches lit up, illuminating the way forward for him.

York walked down the corridor.

Guess what's hidden under the portrait of a king who surrendered so quickly? What else could it be? Of course, something to rebel against.

But his ancestor was extremely courageous. What he wanted was not an ordinary rebellion, but a rebellion with justification.

York took the torch from the wall and held it forward, and a blood-red color appeared.

That was the [Red Dragon Cloak]. Countless [Red Dragon Cloaks], piled together like a sea of ​​blood, or like an evil dragon hidden in the darkness.

His ancestors were brave enough. Not long after the loss of Camelot, they immediately collected a large number of red dragon flags, restored them into cloaks and hoarded them. Their purpose was also very obvious.

【Camelot Orthodoxy】

York chuckled, raised the torch and approached the cloaks.

In the past, this might have been a treasure, and it is still a treasure now, but this is no longer the era where the kingdom can act recklessly.

The existence called Stranger will punish all arrogant people equally. If the news of the cloak leaks out, there will be only two results.

A slap in the face, the stranger will issue a theft notice to steal all these cloaks.

One is fatal, directly representing the Eternal Kingdom to kill the rebels, and then take away all the cloaks.

Of course, if you are unlucky, both situations may happen. That is, the stranger sends out a warning of the theft, and then other strangers find out and kill you directly, or vice versa, when you are attacked by strangers, a strange thief stranger comes to steal things.

York chose the third option, burn it and pretend nothing happened.

At the moment York handed the torch in his hand to the Red Dragon Cloaks, a cold wind blew, and all the torches began to shake. The sound of footsteps like water drops came from the deep corridor.

If it was the spirit of his ancestor appearing to punish him, his unfilial descendant, York would use his cross knuckles to mercilessly liberate the ancestor.

York turned slowly, and the torch in his hand, as well as the flames around him, surged towards the direction of the footsteps.

It seems like being attracted, and also like kneeling down.

"Who are you?"

(End of this chapter)