Chapter 655

"... then allow me to summarize."

Late at night in the courtyard of red blood castle, Charles wiped the wine bottle in his hand and put it on the table, sighed, stood meticulously in the center of the long table with his hands on his back, and nodded slightly to the black haired wizards and earls on both sides.

Loren slumped lazily in his chair, and his spirit had not fully recovered from his confrontation with Yuli vilz; Charlotte, who snorted coldly, turned her eyes away, obviously expressing her dissatisfaction with an uninvited wizard's private meeting with the imperial envoy.

"In order to find out the real situation of Byrne at present, Lord Uli vilz, Archduke of ellemans, secretly sneaked into the red blood castle and hoped to get more neutral information from Viscount Loren Turin..."

After a word, the red blood Castle housekeeper turned his eyes to the black haired Wizard: "to cover up his purpose of forcing the Turin family to have a showdown, even standing on the side of the sky palace for the Duke's title and completely abandoning Byrne's interests."

Looking at the indifferent Loren, Charlotte hummed coldly again.

"Lord Laurent, who had to confront him, did not give the most direct answer," Charles continued, deliberately biting the word:

"On the contrary, your excellency handed the olive branch to the heavenly palace and the Duke of ellemans, hoping to reach a certain degree of 'cooperation' with each other..."

"Is there anything else you think you need to add about what I said, Lord Loren Turin?" Charles looked straight into the dark haired wizard's face.

"Basically, that's it. No more explanation is meaningful."

Raising his eyebrows, Lauren shrugged carelessly: "if I insisted on picking a bone in an egg, what I said to Yuli veltz was not 'cooperation', but 'compromise'... Well, if I remember correctly..."

"Compromise?"

Chewing this word, Charlotte, who was ugly, stood up directly: "do you want me to compromise to the heavenly palace with the interests of all Byrne for a Duke title?"

"No, I suggest that after you become Duke of Byrne, you use Byrne's interests to compromise with the sky palace... The difference is very big." Lauren smiled calmly and looked at Charlotte naturally:

"My count, you are not the Duke of Byrne now. Even if you want to, you are not qualified to represent the interests of all Byrne."

"You?!"

Charlotte took a deep breath and stared at the dark haired wizard who didn't care; Charles on one side also frowned slightly and was surprised by Loren who made such "extraordinary" behavior.

"Ten minutes... For the sake of red blood Castle owes you a favor, I'll give you ten minutes to explain your reasons or difficulties." the countess, who was forced to be calm and very dissatisfied, sat back in her seat angrily and stared at him coldly:

"Ten minutes... Now, now!"

The black haired wizard crossed his fingers, and his aching knuckles seemed to remind him of the confrontation between himself and Yuli vilz in the carriage in the afternoon.

"If we want to solve a problem, we must first find out not where the contradiction of the problem is, but what our identity is?"

Taking a deep breath, Loren slowly said, "or a more appropriate metaphor is which side we stand on."

"Is there any need to ask?" Charlotte still had a bad face and a little resentment in her voice: "I'm the count of red blood castle, of course I represent..."

"Do you know, no! Charlotte, you don't know." suddenly interrupted the countess, the black haired wizard turned his head and looked at her flustered eyes seriously:

"Vassal of the Empire, a member of Byrne... Tell me, which side do you belong to?"

"I..." Charlotte, who was still angry, just wanted to answer, but she was suddenly stunned: "which side does she belong to?"

"Yes, because the current situation is obvious." the black haired wizard spread his hands: "if you think you are a member of Byrne, you must stand with all the angry Byrne nobles and knights and fight against the tyranny and rule of the empire with them;"

"If you think you are a vassal of the Empire, you must assume the obligation of being a vassal, suppress all the voices of dissatisfaction with the heavenly palace and the royal family in the whole principality for the Empire, and resort to force to kill the original vassal, friends and innocent people when necessary!"

Charlotte was stunned. She sat in her chair with her head down so that people couldn't see her expression. Only her shoulders were slightly shrugging.

"Lord Loren, you are really exaggerating?"

Seeing such a miserable countess, Charles couldn't help but interrupt: "even if the nobles of the sky palace and Bain were dissatisfied with each other, the situation could not deteriorate to this extent!"

"Impossible?"

The black haired wizard who asked a rhetorical question shook his head and still looked directly at Charlotte sitting opposite him: "you might as well ask our Lord count if it's what I said?"

"Count..." Charles looked incredulously.

Charlotte raised her head with a bitter expression: "Charles, he's right. He didn't exaggerate."

"How could this be?"

The dark haired wizard nodded his thanks.

"At this morning's meeting alone, more than 20 Bain Knights' volunteered 'to make trouble. The Knights of the three southern leaders openly declared that they were only willing to be loyal to the knight king who could lead Bain to independence;"

Gritting her teeth, Charlotte, who was very embarrassed, said almost word by word: "the will family in the West even directly asked me whether I still think I am the descendant of the Turin family and the descendant of the knight king!"

"The knights in the north are more polite because they have more contact with the Empire; but even in front of them, I still dare not show any weakness."

"In fact, today, if it is not for Charles, your brother Aidan, that the Lord of the storm will mediate before the Knights of the south, they may have begun preparations for the uprising."

"Byrne's patience with the Empire has reached the limit after three generations of oppression!"

Hearing Charlotte's exclamation, Loren's eyes twinkled with a thoughtful expression.

"As the head of the red blood castle, the descendants of the Turin family... I have no choice but to stand in the position of Bain." Charlotte looked at Charles sadly and tried not to show her weakness:

"If we don't do this, the red blood castle and Turin family will become traitors to Byrne and running dogs of the Empire in the eyes of all Byrne knights. Everyone will want to get rid of us!"

"But if you do, you will become the leader of this rebellion. The sky palace will never let you go!" the black haired wizard said in a deep voice:

"The people in the lower city, the nobles in the city, members of the Turin family and even yourself... Everyone will die without a burial place, and their heads will be inserted in the tip of the gun!"

"We are Byrne, Byrne is not afraid of threats!" even at this stage, Charlotte is still unconvinced.

"At least a week, at most a month, 100000 legions will kowtow to the side, and Byrne will not be able to do so." the black haired wizard shook his head: "maybe we can keep a castle and a fortress, clear the walls and fight until the last person... But that's meaningless."

"Fighting the whole empire with one's own strength will become Byrne's last elegy!"

Loren raised his head and looked at the countess who was still angry opposite; Charlotte, who was stared at by him, was embarrassed and avoided her sight with a cold hum.

"Otherwise?!" Charles asked again, "if you don't do this, do you want the count to become the running dog of the sky palace and the enemy of the whole Bain for the Duke's title?!"

"Of course not." Loren got up from his chair and looked at the red blood Castle housekeeper and Charlotte: "the so-called 'Duke' title is just a bait thrown by the sky palace. If we are fooled, we will let them play with it, and it will set a very bad precedent."

"Let the heavenly palace control who the Duke of Byrne is... Such a precedent must not be opened, otherwise there will be endless trouble!"

"We can't choose either Byrne or empire. Which side should we belong to?"

"It's very simple..." Lauren's eyes coagulated:

"We don't belong to either of them!"