After rebirth, one gold coin bought the Elf Princess

Looking at the confused look in the young guard's eyes, the captain was too lazy to talk nonsense and shouted again:

"You have plenty of time to think about it. Until then, obey the rules, rookie...rookie!"

The captain swallowed the recruit's balls forcefully, secretly thinking it was a close call as he almost violated discipline.

The young guard looked at the captain carefully and whispered: "Captain, are you worried..."

"Shut up! Don't ever mention that name!"

The young guard was so frightened that he shuddered violently, stood straight, and beads of sweat the size of beans rolled down his forehead.

The Inspectorate, a name that is absolutely taboo among public officials.

When working in the Gracia Empire, you can offend your superiors, offend civilians, and even discuss national policies, but no one dares to easily provoke the Inspectorate.

They are shadows hiding in the darkness, they are hounds with wide eyes.

They had no faction, did not give face to anyone, and were only loyal to the supervisory ministers and the emperor.

If you are targeted by them, you will be skinned alive even if you don't die.

Their supervision is by no means limited to senior officials; all public servants and peripheral personnel serving the empire are under their supervision.

On the contrary, ordinary people don’t have to worry because the Inspectorate is not interested in them.

This is the permission of Emperor Roland.

How can it be called a free city if even freedom of speech is restricted?

As long as it is within the framework of the code, there is complete freedom of speech.

You can even comment on the emperor.

But there are exceptions to everything. The rumor that Majesty Roland bought the Queen with one gold coin must not be spread!

How could your great and wise Majesty buy and sell slaves?

Nonsense.

The people entering the city did not notice the conversation between the two guards. They all looked around curiously at the commercial areas on both sides of the road.

The female swordsman mixed in the crowd looked up at the World Tree in the distance, with a bit more longing in her eyes.

This was her first time in Liberty City.

She really wanted to know how free the Free City was.

The super-position transformation technique allows her to maintain the appearance of a human girl, and her strength is at quasi-fifth level.

Her beautiful face turned into a fairly pretty human face, and no one could tell that she was the Dragon Emperor.

The quasi-fifth-level warriors were considered powerful more than 20 years ago, but now they are everywhere.

Twenty years have passed, and time seems to have accelerated.

Countless major events are happening, and the growth rate of the strong is also accelerating.

The human hero Roland established a new empire, married the Elf Queen, rebuilt the Free City, and dealt a devastating blow to the savage goblin tribe, reducing them to a second-rate race.

He had dazzled the continent for more than twenty years, and his heroic deeds had become the favorite material of bards and opera singers.

Just when people thought he was about to create an extremely great empire, he announced his abdication and gave the throne to his eldest son, Romel Gracia.

No one understood what he was thinking.

The sixteen-year-old Crown Prince Romael is indeed a genius among geniuses, possessing both the intelligence of humans and the talent of elves, but he is still young and cannot compare with Roland, who is at the peak of his reputation.

Even if Roland wanted to embark on the path of becoming a strong man, there was no need to be so anxious.

After all, he had just reached level six and had not yet reached level six peak, so there was no need to rush.

In any case, Roland has laid the foundation for a superpower empire. As long as Romel continues his policies, the empire's fortunes will continue to prosper.

Although the Crown Prince is young, he has already shown strong political qualities. With the assistance of many ministers, the transition period is smooth.

After all, Roland was just in seclusion, not dead.

If there is a situation that he cannot handle, he will most likely come out.

Like other outsiders, Valenie also wanted to witness Roland's official abdication and the coronation of the new emperor.

But before that, she wanted to see the World Tree.

Five World Trees have been revived around the world, not only providing protection for the elves, but also bringing many benefits to other races.

Wherever the World Tree is, it either becomes the Empire's new territory or a vassal state of the Empire, without exception.

Except for the last world tree that has not yet awakened.

It is said that this world tree may be within the territory of Fran, but it is just a rumor and there is no evidence.

The mainstream view is that this is very close to the truth.

If it were somewhere else, Roland would have gone to activate it long ago.

The only exception is the Frankish Empire.

The Fran Empire has a long history and profound cultural heritage, which is equivalent to the Oro Kingdom in the empire. There is more than one demigod-level strongman in charge, and there are also several artifacts to protect the country. No matter how powerful Roland is, he dare not act rashly.

Going to activate the World Tree now would be a favor to others, but Roland is not so kind.

The six world trees, Oro, Resurrection, Evergreen, Perch, Rejuvenation, and Qionglin, have all appeared in the world, and only the last world tree, the Root, remains.

As the name suggests, this world tree is extraordinary.

Its strength is not the deepest, its power is not the most powerful, but it is the core of the natural formation.

If any other world tree is absent, the natural formation can be barely activated and restore about one seventh of its power.

The One-Seventh Natural Array cannot bring the elves who ruled the entire era back to their peak, but it can make them great again.

Unfortunately, what is missing is the root cause.

The existence of the World Tree and the Natural Array is no secret.

Roland knew it, the World Tree knew it, the elves knew it, and of course the countries and organizations that had experienced the Fifth Age knew it as well.

Since so many people know about it, it's not a secret.

The whole world is waiting for Roland to activate the last world tree and start the natural formation.

Roland stopped.

Ten years ago, the sixth World Tree was found.

Five years ago, after dispersing all its strength to cultivate again, the Oro World Tree returned to the top of the sixth level.

Three years ago, someone provided information to Roland, saying that the last world tree was in the Fran Empire, but Roland laughed three times and chased him out.

For the next three years, Roland seemed to have forgotten the last world tree and focused on enjoying a comfortable life.

The whole world doesn't understand why this guy suddenly became obsessed with women.

He played and partied with his wives by the hot springs every night, and was as happy as a tyrant.

Fortunately, the Gracia Empire has always been an offline monarchy. He just needs to exist and does not need to interfere in specific affairs. There are professional officials to handle specific affairs.

Only matters of particular importance would be brought to the World Tree and presented to Roland.

Over the years, Roland has successfully helped all of his wives have children, which puts his mind at ease.

After completing the important task, he finally came out of the beauty's arms.

He straightened his clothes, put on the most solemn imperial ceremonial robe, summoned his ministers, and announced to them that he wanted to make some contributions to the empire.

The imperial officials were ecstatic and eagerly awaited the emperor's orders.

It is only the monarch who is happy when he is offline, while the officials below have to run themselves into pieces.

No one dares to be a powerful official and manipulate state power.

After all, the hounds of the Inspectorate are still watching.

They only want to achieve great things under the leadership of His Majesty the Emperor.

Amid everyone's anticipation, Roland frankly admitted that he had lost his ambition to lead the empire in hegemony and was a little addicted to enjoying himself.

Although he merely admitted the facts and did not make any self-examination, the ministers did not dare to object.

Roland is the emperor, whatever he says is what counts.

As everyone was looking forward to it, Roland briefly summarized his achievements and mistakes since he became emperor, and also delivered an important speech to praise the contributions of his ministers.

The ministers felt something was not right as they listened.

Why do these words sound like a summary speech before retirement?

Your Majesty is still so young, and the 300-year term is still a long way off. Why are you already starting to summarize?

Amid the ministers' anxiety, Roland announced, as they had feared, that he would embark on an unprecedented journey to become a powerful man.

So, he has to abdicate.

The ministers were all confused. They had been counting on His Majesty the Emperor to guide them forward and reduce route disputes, but instead His Majesty the Emperor ran away?

We are still working overtime, but Your Majesty has retired?

Who can bear this.

Radical ministers even clamored to impeach the emperor for dereliction of duty.

However, he was shocked to find out after being reminded by his colleagues that if the impeachment was successful, Roland would be forced to abdicate.

No matter how it was handled, Roland had to abdicate.

The ministers knew that the situation was irreversible, so they could only appeal to his emotions and use the reason that "the empire needs His Majesty Roland" to retain him.

Roland did not refuse everyone's request to stay. He smiled and explained, "I will never leave you. I will just change the way I accompany you."

In this way, Roland's decision to abdicate took effect amid the silence of all ministers, and the abdication ceremony was finally scheduled to be held on the 20th anniversary of the official establishment of the empire.

The ministers' hopes for Roland were just a whim, and they held a small meeting immediately after the meeting to try to find a way to retain Roland.

Everyone argued for a long time, but in the end no solution could be found and they only reached a consensus.

Keep it strictly confidential and don't let this matter leak out.

The ministers went home and had a bad sleep that night, all thinking about what to do the next day.

However, they were stunned the next morning.

Tiamat's largest media outlets reported the news of Roland's impending retirement on their front pages.

The ministers were all stunned, but they quickly realized that there must be a traitor who accepted an exclusive interview with the media!

Which bastard is so bold?

There was a moment of silence when they finished reading the newspaper.

The person being interviewed was none other than His Majesty Roland himself.

He accepted an exclusive interview with Wallace, an old reporter who was almost dying more than 20 years ago but is still in good spirits now.

In this exclusive interview, he not only talked about his original intention of abdication, but also clearly told the world how and when he would abdicate.

Now that things have come to this, there is no room for maneuver.

His Majesty the Emperor said in person that he wanted to abdicate, and all his subjects could do was to ensure that he left in a dignified manner.

When the news of the emperor's abdication came, the whole world was shocked.

Countless people who had never seen Roland's true face flocked to Gracia, hoping to see Roland for the last time at the abdication ceremony.

It was not surprising that Valenie was caught up in the crowd, like countless other pilgrims.

In fact, her primary purpose of coming here was indeed to see Roland.

But before meeting Roland, she had one more thing to do.

A few hundred miles northwest of the capital of Gracia, there lives a group of dragon descendants.

This group of dragon descendants attempted to revive the heart of the abyss dragon Namikar, but unfortunately failed.

The descendants of the Abyss Dragon were too close to Roland, and were eventually recruited by Roland and joined the empire.

Unlike other pilgrims, Valenie did not plan to stay in the imperial capital forever. She planned to bring these descendants of dragons back to Dragon Island.

Unlike those stubborn tribesmen, she is tolerant. She can accept dragon people and even believes that dragon people whose living habits are closer to humans are the key to the resurgence of the dragon clan.