Reincarnation, your moral integrity is gone

"Feel……"

Chen Yaxi thought about it and felt very good about it. She smiled and said, "Very good!"

Chen Yaxi's performance last night was already among the best.

The ones who had a higher honor than him were the two commanders of the royal guards who took the knife for the king.

The last one to emerge was Li Tianxiu, who captured the enemy general.

“Lin Jingshu, disciple of Sword Saint Reinhardt.

He remained calm in the face of danger during the battle to quell the rebellion, defeated Count Char Gareth single-handedly, and captured him alive, showing unparalleled swordsmanship.

Lin Jingshu is now awarded the title of White Lion Knight and is conferred the title of Viscount! "

After hearing the minister's announcement, Li Tianxiu quickly left his seat, climbed onto the podium, and raised his arms to the audience below.

"oh oh!"

"It's another girl!"

"very young!"

"I'm Miss Shizuki's dog!"

"Any woman can be your master, right?"

……

As the crowd shouted, Li Tianxiu's reputation was rising rapidly, breaking through the five hundred mark.

"congratulations."

The king awarded Li Tianxiu a medal as he had done before.

"Your Majesty, can I make a request?" Li Tianxiu said with a smile.

"Request? Of course you can."

The crisis was resolved and public morale was boosted. King Lemann was in a good mood at the moment and naturally did not refuse.

"I want to go to the holy city." Li Tianxiu said bluntly.

The king's smile faded.

Chapter 262: Evil Land

"You're going to the Holy City?"

King Riemann still had a smile on his face, but the curve of his smile was no longer as natural as before.

In the past, whenever a family recommended themselves, he would warmly welcome them.

But the king was really reluctant to let a talent like Li Tianxiu go to the Holy City.

After all, a peaceful country does not mean there are no external enemies.

Now that the Gareth family is gone, the army needs to be split up again and sent to the frontiers. Putting her in the army will be of great benefit to the empire.

"Going to the holy city is the dream of every Omani people, and I also want to take a peek into that legendary realm." Li Tianxiu answered seriously.

It was as if he was unaware of the inside story of baptism.

"Well, you have courage!"

The king thought for two seconds and praised excitedly, "Well, I will approve you in advance and make you the chosen one to go to the Holy City in two days!"

"Ok?"

Li Tianxiu was a little surprised, but bowed slightly and said, "Thank you, Your Majesty."

From an objective analysis, the king should keep him for a while to create an opportunity for a private conversation.

Could it be that the king still has prejudices against his own identity?

This doubt was resolved after Li Tianxiu returned to the backstage.

He was summoned by the king.

……

After the announcement of the disposition of the Gasley family and the use of the money obtained from the confiscation of their property, the ennobling ceremony finally came to an end.

Li Tianxiu left early and came to the king's conference room alone.

There was a long table in the center of the conference room, with a map of the Oman continent spread out on it.

A maid in her early teens was busy inside. When she saw someone coming, she skillfully served cakes and drinks.

"Thank you."

He thanked the maid out of habit, and the latter retreated flattered.

Li Tianxiu touched the collections here, turned around, grabbed a piece of cake, and looked at the map on the table.

The territory of the Oman Empire is in the shape of a boot, separated from the inside to the outside by three colors of colored pencil lines, divided into yellow, red and black according to the threat level.

A white line extended from the royal capital to the place called the Holy City.

Apart from this, no other countries exist.

The foreign enemies mentioned earlier were not humans, but a group of monsters similar to the White Walkers.

The land there is cursed, and dead creatures will mutate and attack any living thing they encounter.

Therefore, the empire needs to station people on the border for a long time and regularly clean up the nearby wilderness.

"Shizuki."

Soon after, the king's voice sounded at the door.

Turning around, he had already taken off his extravagant cloak and came towards me with a smile.

"Is this old pervert trying to seduce me?"

Such a friendly smile gave Li Tianxiu some strange thoughts.

"Don't be so formal."

The king walked to the opposite side of Li Tianxiu, lowered his head to glance at the map on the table, and then looked at him again: "You should also have some understanding of the situation in the empire."

"Do not."

Li Tianxiu shook his head and said, "I usually only focus on practicing swordsmanship with my teacher, so I don't know much about these things."

"Haha, no wonder, otherwise I wouldn't be able to cultivate such good swordsmanship."

Instead of getting angry, the king sat down and asked, "What do you think of Shaya's accusation?"

"Accusations?"

Li Tianxiu played dumb.

The king is actually the same as Elden, he needs to carry his own power forward and use any means to achieve his goals.

So they are not credible.

"That is, what do you think about the baptism of the holy city?" asked the king.

"Oh……"

Li Tianxiu pretended to think about it and said, "I believe Xia, the journey to the Holy City is long and difficult, and many people will die.

But...my performance under my teacher's tutelage has never satisfied him.

So I have no objection to his decision.

I want to go to the Holy City!

Only by passing the trials of the secret church can I be recognized by the teacher! "

Lin Jingshu's talent is so high that he can go to the Holy City in place of Reinhardt's successor.

So this adopted daughter was probably trained as a sacrifice since childhood.

In order to avoid unnecessary emotions, Reinhardt would not invest any real feelings in her.

Even so, Lin Jingshu remained calm and composed while practicing sword-refining, and was extremely respectful to his teacher.

In comparison, Li Tianxiu's words made the king feel some sympathy.

"poor child……"

The king shook his head, and drew his finger across the red dividing line on the table, slowly extending it three centimeters outward, and slowly drew a circle: "You know what? Ten years ago, this map was not like this. Our border should be here."

"here?"

Li Tianxiu frowned.

Three centimeters is not long, but the entire map is only about 1.6 meters long, and the length of the Oman Empire is about 30 centimeters.

According to the conversion scale, the area of ​​the empire has not shrunk too much.

"The Badlands are spreading, and if we don't find a cure, our empire will one day fall."

The king's expression suddenly became melancholy, and the wrinkles around his eyebrows were squeezed together unsightly. He said, "So what Char said is right, the baptism in the Holy City is a scam.

Except for a few who were able to return as secret envoys, even I don't know what happened to the others who went to the Holy City.

The supreme law and the secret of eternal life are all false."

"If it's fake, why still..." Li Tianxiu frowned.

“This is the price of keeping the peace.”

The king sighed and said, "You know what?

To reach the Holy City, one needs to cross three thousand kilometers of wasteland. If a large army were to pass through it, more than half of them would probably be killed.

But on the way to the Holy City, the dead will not attack the baptized troops. "

"Was the evil land caused by the esoteric religion?" Li Tianxiu frowned.

All conspiracies to convert churches, this trend is a bit too cliché.

"That's not the case. The Evil Land appeared before the Esoteric Religion. But only by baptizing can we avoid causing a beast tide.

I mean, you should understand, right?" the king explained.

"I see."

Li Tianxiu nodded.

The continental plate is so large, and the Badlands accounts for 80% of it. The number of active Badlands beasts must be in the tens of millions.

What’s even more terrible is that the corpses of these evil beasts will pollute the clean land. Even if the people of the Oman Empire can take it, their descendants will not be able to withstand it.

Just like those countries that have disappeared.

As a king, Riemann must be responsible for his people.

“Elden believed that this was related to the secret religion, so he proposed to capture the holy city and find out the secret of controlling the evil land, but I did not agree.

did not expect……"

Upon receiving this, the king breathed a sigh of relief irritably, feeling very sad about it.

"In other words, every family knows about this?" Li Tianxiu raised his eyebrows.

He originally thought that Elden's rebellion was an expression of anger after discovering the truth.

But if the king had told them the matter at the beginning, it would have been a different matter.

It is no wonder that most of the nobles present were descendants of those who had no power.

They were just destined to be sacrificed.

Chapter 263 Woman, you have attracted my attention!

"Yes, all the families know the truth."

The king did not deny it, and then said to Li Tianxiu: "But don't worry, the selection of the baptism only focuses on bloodline, not achievements.

I will assign you to another team, pretending that you have passed the trial and returned, and continue to serve the empire."