king of the castle

Chapter 135 Who Offended?

After making up his mind, Roger put on a loyal expression and said to Alonso III: "Your Majesty, I just want to do something for the kingdom. It's the same whether I give rewards or not, but I don't understand. Yes, why do so many ministers target me? I have been living in the countryside of the Lund Peninsula, and I have never even met these people before, let alone offended them.【】”

Hearing Roger ask such a question, both Anna and Alonso III had weird expressions.The king gave Anna a look intentionally, as if reminding Roger Vatel that the reason why the faction dealt with him was because he was too close to the Hamilton family.

However, Roger didn't seem to understand what Alonso III meant, so he just continued on his own: "I know that these people objected to your majesty rewarding me, and after thinking about it, I felt that apart from undead creatures, there are no more I have offended other people. Except for those dirty guys, no one should hate me so much!"

Hearing this, Alonso III also understood what Roger meant, and couldn't help laughing out loud: "Why, don't you remind me that those who object to rewarding you are all undead creatures?"

"Although they are not undead creatures, they are similar to them." Roger smiled at the king, and then handed him the map he got from the black knight.

Alonso III took the map for a few glances, and his face immediately changed.I don't know what Alonso III did, a figure suddenly emerged from the shadow beside the bookshelf, saluted him respectfully: "Your Majesty!"

Roger was taken aback by this sudden appearance, but seeing that Alonso III and Anna looked normal, he quickly calmed down.As a king, it is impossible for Alonso III to be without bodyguards.This person was able to hide so well before, at least he was also a high-level silver or even low-level gold assassin. Such a master was perfectly suitable to serve as a bodyguard.At this time, Roger also understood why Alonso would meet him without any precautions. It turned out that he still had such a reliance.

"Go and get the map of the Lund Peninsula!" At this time, Alonso III no longer had the kind smile on his face before, and waved to the assassin: "Quick!"

The map was quickly delivered to the desk. Alonso III carefully compared the two maps and his expression became more serious. He asked Roger with a gloomy face, "Where did you get this map?"

Roger glanced at the desk and found that the two maps were almost identical, and even the number of soldiers marked on the edge of the towns was not bad, and he was a little more sure. He immediately replied calmly: "This I found the map on a black knight."

"Black Knight!" Roger's words made Anna and Alonso III exclaim at the same time, and their faces became very bad.In particular, Alonso III's face turned ashen, indicating that he was really angry.

Both of them figured out that the map Roger got from the undead creature was almost exactly the same as the map in the palace, especially the arms and numbers marked on the side of each town were exactly the same.There is only one explanation for this situation, that is, there are traitors in the kingdom and leaked this confidential military map to the undead creatures.

Alonso stared closely at the two maps on the table, the anger in his heart was almost uncontrollable.Although he tried his best to restrain himself, his hands were still trembling slightly.

As Roger predicted, for Alonso III, the struggle between Hamilton and Vettel was beneficial to him.Both parties are important ministers who hold great power in the kingdom. If it is really as good as one person, Alonso will really feel troubled.Now Alonso III seems to be on Hamilton's side, entirely because the Duke's side is weaker, and he did it for balance. If Hamilton gains the upper hand, he will definitely lean towards Vettel.

Originally, for the king, the two sides fought back and forth, and it would hurt the taste of whoever had the upper hand occasionally.But if someone colludes with undead creatures, that is absolutely intolerable to him.After all, the ministers' fighting skills will not affect the status of the king, but if the undead creatures occupy the entire country, is it possible to ask Alonso III to rule a group of skeletons and zombies?

After seeing Alonso's reaction, Roger knew that his efforts had worked.But he didn't stop there, and immediately told the story of meeting Marcus a few times, and that this guy was an undead creature disguised as a human.

Hearing that undead creatures had not only infiltrated the kingdom, but even reached a place so close to the capital, Alonso III was extremely angry.He immediately summoned the court clerk and issued an order that anyone who enters or leaves any big city must touch the holy water from now on.

Holy water is the water that has been prayed by the priest of the Supreme God, and it has a natural restraint effect on undead creatures.In this way, it will be much more difficult for undead creatures disguised as humans to sneak into big cities, and it can be regarded as the most effective remedy at present.

Seeing that the time was almost ripe, Roger said to Alonso III: "Your Majesty, I think that undead creatures hate me the most. You said that these ministers tried their best to prevent you from rewarding me. Is there something wrong? Maybe We can take this opportunity to find out who is most suspected of colluding with undead creatures!"

If Roger had said this from the beginning, Alonso III would definitely have taken it as nonsense, but now the king has to seriously consider this issue.Alonso tapped the table lightly with his fingers, and after a long silence, he asked Roger, "What's your plan?"

"I think His Majesty should announce that I will be greatly rewarded." Roger had already thought about how to say it, and replied with a serious face: "Many people will definitely jump out to oppose it, and whoever opposes it more fiercely will be more powerful." There may be collusion with undead creatures!"

"You make some sense." Alonso III had to be cautious about the survival of the kingdom. After thinking for a while, he said: "Okay, I will do it according to your idea!"

Alonso's words made Roger happy, and immediately bowed to him: "Thank you, Your Majesty!"

Roger's reaction made the king stunned for a while, but he quickly reacted and pointed to Roger with a smile: "I didn't expect that I was also fooled by you. Now even many ministers and nobles will be jealous of you, but I The reward given to you can’t escape.”

In fact, Roger didn't expect this little trick to fool Alonso III, so even if he was exposed face to face, he would not change his face, and said with a straight chest: "For me, the reward is not important, the important thing is to be able to Take this opportunity to find out the traitors in the king, as long as I can share the worries of His Majesty, it is nothing for me to suffer a little bit of grievance!"

"Haha, well said! The Kingdom needs a loyal person like you!"

"Hee hee, you are really shameless, you can say that you are so righteous and awe-inspiring!"

Roger's words brought completely different reactions from Anna and Alonso III, but for him, as long as the rewards are settled, it doesn't matter whether he is loyal or self-serving.