In this case, if the building collapses, you will become a buried chess piece.

It seems that there is no hope for my future.

And just at this moment, there was a knock on his door.

"Donny." Giovanni pushed open the door and walked into the room. Looking at Donny who was sitting decadently on the sofa, he smiled.

"My child, what are you thinking about? Why are you so troubled?"

"Father...I..." Tony hesitated, but still didn't dare to say what he was thinking.

"Did you think before that as long as I died and you turned yourself in and took the initiative to distance yourself from me, you would be forgiven by them and become the master of Naples?"

When Donnie heard Giovanni say this, he immediately panicked and quickly denied it.

"No, father, I have never thought about this at all. Please believe me."

"Of course I know. You are my child. How can I not know whether you have inherited my personality?"

Giovanni was obviously smiling, but Donnie clearly felt a chill.

"I'm...I'm sorry, father! I...I admit that I did have that thought before, but now I see things clearly. I will follow you to the end!"

"Well, you are worthy of being my good child. In this case, I, your father, cannot treat you unfairly."

Seeing what Donny did, Giovanni nodded with satisfaction, then he took out a small bottle of potion from his storage ring.

"Take it, Donnie. Drink this and you won't be afraid of them."

"Okay, thank you, father..."

After Donny said this, he was about to take the potion, but unexpectedly Giovanni opened the potion directly, then quickly held Donny's head and poured the potion into his mouth.

"Well, this way, you don't have to worry about those things anymore."

Giovanni said coldly, standing up.

"Help me invite Donnie to the basement. After the enemy attacks the city, let Donnie go out to deal with them."

"Yes……"

A cold voice sounded in the room.

Donnie only felt dizzy for a while, and then he lost consciousness.

Chapter 114: I will support you

"Chairman, this is the training location for the second half of the semester sent by the Student Union."

In the Imperial College office building, a standing member of the board of directors placed a document on the desk of the college president Luca.

“The specific locations are not much different from previous years, except that the Napoli area has been excluded.”

"That's normal. After all, that place is in the midst of war right now. If we rashly get involved, it will affect the safety of our students."

Luca said this and glanced at the contents.

He still had great trust in the Student Union. He had been the dean for so many years, and there had never been a Student Union that made him worry, let alone this most outstanding Student Union led by Orson.

……

"Haa~" At this moment in the student union, Orson was lying on a chair and yawning.

Because he was busy before, a lot of unimportant matters of the Student Union were piled up waiting for him to deal with. In the past few days, he had been working overtime except for classes, and he had much less sleep time every day. Finally, he finished dealing with all the piles of matters of the Student Union.

"We're finally done." Olivia, the vice president, also said so.

"Thank you for staying with me these days."

Orson looked at Olivia who was sitting next to him and they smiled at each other.

"Hmph, I'm glad you know it." Olivia snorted.

At this time, there was a knock on the office door.

The two immediately returned to their normal sitting positions.

Then the door opened and Elsa appeared at the door of the office.

"Ah, Prince... ahem, Elsa, you're back?" Orson was about to call her Princess subconsciously, but suddenly realized that this was the Student Union Office of the Imperial Academy, and quickly changed his words.

"Well, President Orson, Vice President Olivia, I'm back." Elsa looked at the two of them and nodded.

In addition to being a student of the Imperial Academy, Elsa also holds a position in the Student Union. It is reasonable for her to come back to find Orson, the president, after finishing her own work.

"In that case, you should hurry back to the office. Your assistant has helped you take care of a lot of things these days, but there are some things you have to go back to deal with after all."

"Okay." Elsa nodded, then thought of something and said, "Um, President Orson, I'd like to invite you to dinner in the evening. Are you free?"

The one who invited him was the princess of the empire, so even if Orson didn't have time, he had to pretend that he had time. He glanced at Olivia beside him, who just smiled politely and didn't give him a threatening look, so Orson felt relieved.

"Of course I'm free in the evening."

"In that case, let's meet at the entrance of the commercial street today."

"Ok."

It wasn't until Elsa walked out that the smile on Olivia's face gradually faded.

"It's great, you have such a beautiful fiancée at home, and a confidante outside who loves you. Tsk, it's really hard to choose..."

Olivia's voice was deliberately a little sour.

"Don't talk nonsense. Elsa and I are partners at best. We are just friends at best."

Of course Orson knew that Olivia was not being harsh on Elsa, but was targeting someone else, but at this moment he could only play dumb and get away with it.

"Okay, okay, I won't disturb your 'good thing'. Tonight, after dinner, remember not to stay out all night like last time." Olivia's words clearly carried a hint of toughness.

"That won't happen," Orson assured.

……

At night, Orson arrived at the intersection of the commercial street as promised.

As a princess of the empire, Elsa's appearance is not inferior to any other woman. Standing at the street corner, she is like a flower on a high mountain. Although passers-by often look at her, they dare not stare at her for too long, let alone come forward to talk to her.

Elsa was obviously waiting for someone, and approaching her to talk to her would only cause her dissatisfaction.

If your family doesn't have some strength, who would dare to approach the princess?

Elsa didn't have to wait long before Orson, dressed in formal attire, appeared in her sight.

She smiled and walked forward.

"I'm sorry to have kept you waiting, Elsa-sama."

"It's okay." Elsa shook her head. "I wanted to thank you for treating you to dinner. Let's go."

As she said this, she took Orson down the commercial street and came to a restaurant at the back half of the street.

The cost of this restaurant is very high. Although the prices are basically affordable for students at the Imperial College, it is not suitable as a daily dining place. People would only come here when asking for help or discussing cooperation.

When the two arrived at the door, the waiter recognized them at a glance and took them directly to the private room on the second floor.

The two of them ordered some dishes casually. While waiting for the food to be served, Elsa got straight to the point and said:

"Orson, you should have heard about General Scaloni leading his troops south, right?"

"Well, if I'm not mistaken, he should have been besieging the city for half a month now. What happened?"

Hearing Orson say this, Elsa became a little anxious.

"Since you know this, aren't you still worried? The purpose of my brother this time is very clear, isn't it? He wants General Scaloni to gain military merit and to support him to become the second Duke of Antica."

"Ah... So that's how it is." Orson pretended to be surprised and said, "No wonder Rosalin asked me to contact His Royal Highness the Prince. It turns out it's about this."

"Rosaline?" Elsa became alert immediately when she heard Orson say this name.

"When did she come to you?"

"About a month or two ago? I met her at the masquerade ball at that time. I did her a favor at the time, but I didn't expect that she would actually cooperate with His Royal Highness the Prince."

Orson sighed like this, and told Elsa about his encounter with Rosaline and how he later introduced her to Arthas.

When Elsa heard Orson say this, her mood suddenly became much worse.

Who would have thought that Orson actually indirectly helped Arthas.

If Scaloni were to become the new Duke of Naples as he wished, Alsace would be able to take the opportunity to expand his power and influence, which would be extremely disadvantageous to Elsa.

Immediately, Elsa thought of a way.

"Orson... I suddenly thought of a way."

"Ah?" Orson was also stunned when he saw that Elsa did not criticize him immediately, but instead thought of a way, and then asked: "Your Highness Elsa, what did you think of?"

"Why not, let you compete with Scaloni. I will support you to become the Duke of Napoli."

Chapter 115: Strange Troops

Orson listened to Elsa's words and was stunned for a while, then asked uncertainly:

"Your Highness, what you just said is that you want to support me to become the next Duke of Naples. If I heard it correctly, that's what you meant, right?"

"Yes." Elsa nodded. "There is only one factor that currently prevents you, Orson, from becoming the Duke."

"one?"

"Well, that's family identity." Elsa said.

"In the history of the empire, there has never been a situation where a family controls two duchies. You, Orson, will not be able to set a precedent. So if you want to become the Duke of Napoli, you can only leave the Stranik family first. And you can't leave on your own initiative. You have to let the Stranik family expel you because of an incident, creating a feeling of doom and gloom."

"It's a fight to the death..." Orson lowered his head when he heard Elsa say that.

"Of course, Orson, you can act out a play so that your family doesn't know anything, or you can tell them directly now and let them act with you."

"Whether you act like it or not is not the most important thing. The most important thing is that you cannot continue to be a member of the Stranik family and become the Duke of Napoli."

After hearing what Elsa said, Orson lowered his head and began to think.

Generally speaking, this matter is more beneficial than harmful to Orson. After all, the Duchy of Naples is not poor, and is even richer than the Duchy of Antica. Even though it is in chaos due to the war, as long as the war is over and the new duke recuperates, it will be able to quickly recover its pre-war vitality.

But to do this, Orson would need to leave his family and set up a new one.

Although he and Lucius have no blood relationship, they have lived together as a family for nearly twenty years. Separating them at this time is not much different from leaving their biological parents.

What to do is a difficult decision.

Finally, Orson looked up, looked at Elsa, and spoke his mind.

"Your Highness Elsa, I promise you that I will contact my father tomorrow and tell him about this matter."

"Okay." Elsa knew that Orson would agree in the end. She nodded with satisfaction at this expected thing.

……

On the other side, the city of Romulus.

Ever since Donny was locked up in the basement, matters of city defense and public security have all been decided by Giovanni himself.

After the news of the suppression in the city spread, Giovanni continued to implement his high-pressure rule. Eventually, citizens began to flee the city. Many people took advantage of the night to sneak to the city wall, or bribed acquaintances in the army to secretly open the door. When Giovanni learned the news, more than 4,000 people had already escaped from the city.

Of course, these more than 4,000 people brought out the news that the protest march in the city was suppressed.

When Scaloni heard that Giovanni treated his own people so brutally, he slammed the table in anger, and then increased the intensity of the daily siege on the city, striving to rescue the citizens from the dire straits as soon as possible.

On the eighth day after the first siege, the northern wall of Romulus was finally captured, and the next step was to enter an extremely bloody and brutal street fighting.

The city of Romulus was designed to be a bridgehead to pacify the separatist forces in the south at the beginning, so many places inside the city were set up as fortifications. During the siege, Giovanni mobilized all resources to strengthen the city of Romulus, determined to turn the city into a cold killing machine.

Giovanni's idea was briefly successful, and at least for the time being, the damage inflicted on the enemy throughout the city had met expectations.

In order to capture the northern city wall, the enemy suffered 20,000 casualties, and in yesterday's street fighting, the enemy lost more than 4,000 people in the whole day.

Although they advanced several streets, each step forward cost an average of more than a dozen lives, which made the enemy's advancement difficult.

If we continue to fight like this, I'm afraid the enemy's losses will exceed 50% in the end.

Of course, things are not going well here in Napoli either.

This battle can almost be called the final battle of the South, and Giovanni bet everything on this battle.

If he succeeded, he would have a chance to survive, but if he lost this battle, he would not leave himself any way out.

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