Whispers of the Gods

Chapter 28 Vigrich II

There was a dead silence and no light in the tomb, Vigrich motioned for the attendant to bring the torch close to his face, trying to resist the cold air.

"Father's stone pavilion is the outermost," Lozaria reminded as she walked, "it's right here, on your left."

On the cover of the stone pavilion in front of Vigerich, there is a carved king who has died forever. He wears a crown of lilies, a robe with dragon patterns, and holds a long sword hilt with both hands, with a serene expression.

When the day he dies, can he let go of everything and give his soul to the gods?He still has too many things to do, and he is worried about handing over these problems to his sons.

His father Atachinus I left him a bruised empire, and it took Vigrich 26 years for Hastza to heal slowly.

But the gods blessed him and gave him a great opportunity, which may be the only good opportunity in Wigrich's life.

"Unifier" Vigrich Apollyon, this will be no less than the title of "Emperor" and "Great One", and the recovery of Vivalia will also be the first step in the revival of the empire.

The kingdom that Izdor has managed all his life may be destroyed in the hands of his precious daughter.And he is about to become the facilitator of Vivaria's decline.

Vivaria must be sacrificed if Hastza is to be revived.If it were Izdor, he would definitely make the same choice as him.

"It doesn't look like him at all," Dia cautiously ran his hand over the cheek of the coffin carving, and said with a sob, "His face is not so thin in my memory."

"We hired the best craftsman," Lozaria said softly, holding Di Ya in his arms. "He was tortured by illness for several years, and he was no longer like our former father when he left... We can only Memories sculpt his face."

Wigrich had never met his father-in-law and had no idea what he looked like.He and Izidor only communicated in letters, and the king often asked him about Dia and Alan's situation.

Although it is enough to write a letter to his daughter, Izdor seems to feel a little guilty about sending Diya to Madkalin, and dare not reveal too much concern.

A wise Vivalian king had been placed in the stone chamber, and his presence meant that the Hastza Empire could not extend its influence over it and bring the kingdom back under its control.

After Izidor's death, the young Vase Queen succeeded.This is the time to reconquer the Kingdom of Vivaria.

"What kind of person is my grandfather?" Allen approached Izdor's stone pavilion and asked Dia and Lozaria, "I haven't even seen him in person."

"When he found out you were born, he told me, Rudomir, and Leo every day that he had a baby grandson." Lozaria put her hand on Allen's shoulder and said with a smile.

"I was seven years old, and you made me so jealous," Lozaria said. "This is your grandfather. He loved his family. That was the most important thing to him."

"Is it more important than the kingdom?" Allen asked.

"Of course," Rozaria replied, "He always said that the family is the foundation of everything, and the strength bred from a strong foundation is incomparable to all the forces in the world."

"I wish he could tell me the same thing," Dia murmured.

"Sister, when my father sent you away, his heart was broken." Lozaria said to Dia, "It's like losing a part of the soul in the body. It's never an easy choice."

A part of the wife has remained in the Hall of Ashes, Vigrich thought.He hadn't seen his wife's complete appearance until today, which made him happy and disappointed.

"And yet he did it," Vigrich said, "because the kingdom's safety came first."

He didn't believe Lozaria's absurd remarks, just like he didn't believe that the queen's brother Rudomir would be content with the status quo and sincerely congratulate Lozaria on her coronation.

Izdor chose between his daughter and the kingdom because it was clearly the better choice.

"Your Majesty Vigrich, father respects you." Lozaria said in a cold tone, "That's why he entrusted his sister to you with confidence."

He hummed lightly, but did not continue.

"Is that great-grandfather?" Monty asked, looking at the stone pavilion next to Izdor.

"Yes," Lozaria replied, "'King of Mercy' Rezad Korva, our grandfather, died because of being betrayed by the nobles."

"Why did the nobles betray him?" Zhuo Ke asked.

"In Vivaria, the nobles never need a justification for their betrayal."

Lozaria looked at Rezard's stone hall and said, "Grandfather wants the dukes to reduce their taxes on farmers during the famine in the kingdom, from [-]% to [-]%, or from [-]% to [-]%.

The nobles agreed to him, and the grandfather also naively believed the nobles.But it didn't take long for him to be murdered in cold blood by his guards, and everyone knew that the plot of the nobles was behind it.This is their warning to the Korva family. "

"Fifty percent, forty percent?" Monty asked in surprise, "How can there be such a high tax?"

"The Colva family has no right to intervene in matters concerning their dukedom." Rozaria replied.

"I'm sorry," Zhuo Ke apologized, "this is such a stupid question, I shouldn't ask it."

"It's okay," Lozaria replied with a smile, "We are survivors, we always have been."

The king of Vivalia can't even control the taxation, and Vigrich doesn't know how much royal power the Corva family still has.

He didn't understand why Vivaria's way of governing was so bad. The king's vassals were the dukes of the major families, and the vassals of the dukes were the earls of their duchies, and the earls had their own retainers.

The duke swore allegiance to the king, and the king handed over all the power to govern the duchy to the duke.Aren't these dukes just little kings?They have their own laws, their own vassals, and their own army.

Vigrich would never give his provincial governors so much power. Even the hereditary officials, the Amber Knights of Dragon's Back Province and the Gray Harbor Family of Gray Harbor Province follow the laws of the empire, and they do not have their own His vassals and the army are all under his orders.

Most of Vivalia's nine major families are the descendants of the tribal leader's family that survived Igmer I's conquest, or the exiled blood that was exiled and returned like the Korva family.

Even after living under the rule of the empire for hundreds of years, they still failed to get rid of those barbaric and primitive administrative traditions.

The first step after extending the influence to Vivaria is to change the situation of the noble autonomy and consolidate the royal power.In this way, the son of Zhuo Ke and Lozaria can truly secure the throne.

(End of this chapter)