Shepherd Tantra

Chapter 214 Iris: Why did you suddenly fight back?
With the Air Cavalry Brigade stationed on Glass Island, Aiwass can finally breathe a sigh of relief, calm down and study hard.

Because Meg was reincarnated into Ligeia, Avalon no longer needs to rush to resurrect Lancelot to protect the country.Therefore, the queen does not need to die for the time being, which also postpones the crisis of Ying Tiansi in disguise.

Today's Queen Sofia undoubtedly hopes that she can live.

Soon, there will be a battle between Avalon and Star Antimony.Queen Sophia's thoughts are similar to those of Aiwass and Ligeia... As long as they are handled well, this war will be an opportunity for Avalon.

But there is a prerequisite.That is to ensure that there is no big trouble in Avalon.

Although those old men and bastards are all useless people, they are still people with power after all.Isabel, who is still relatively immature now, may not be able to suppress them, and she does not have enough vicious eyes to select the talents of the younger generation.

However, there is no problem for Queen Sofia to come by herself.

During this period of time, she could take the opportunity to teach Isabel something...and ask Aiwass to take Isabel with her.

The reason why she has not taught Isabel how to govern the country before is probably different from the reason Isabel herself thinks "I am not suitable to inherit Avalon" - because if this is the case, she would not be able to ask Master Yanis to protect Isabel and teach her. Her extraordinary skills.

At that time, the curse had begun to spread. Queen Sofia did not let Yanis protect herself or track down the curser. Instead, she asked her to protect a little girl who was very low in the line of succession and did not even have the adaptability to be authoritarian?
"——It seems that what Queen Sofia has really done these years is to hide in the woods."

After listening to Aiwass's story, Sherlock thought for a long time before answering.

Sherlock is now "dead and not resurrected" and has missed out on a lot of interesting things.So Ivester made a special trip back to the bishop's house and synchronized the information with Sherlock.

Except that he didn't say that he was appointed as the minister of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Aiwass told the rest of the story - he even told Sherlock that Aleister was transferred to his subordinates.Of course, this is to prevent Sherlock from doing blind investigations and getting himself clean.

"You keep talking, I'm listening."

Aiwass sat on the sofa, drinking sherry, smiling and listening to Sherlock's analysis.

After old Meg brought this wine over, Aiwass unexpectedly found that it tasted quite good.Now he bought some for Mr. Bishop - nominally for the bishop, but actually he would drink some if he had nothing to do.

Just treat it as a deposit.Only occasionally there will be some storage loss.

That being said, Meg does have good taste.The wine she recommends still has something to say.

Then the reason why she usually likes to eat fried chicken and fried fish may be because there is really nothing delicious in Avalon...

Sherlock did not drink. He just held an unlit cigar in his mouth, moved his hands up and down with very rich body language, and talked non-stop: "Your Majesty has probably guessed that the source of the curse is not one. That's why the causes of death of the royal family members are different. It is precisely because there is more than one party to the curse... the noble red of the Star Antimony people, the spies and assassins of the Iris people, Lloyd, maybe she doesn't know, but the first two That's enough.

"This is also the reason why she never revealed the curser - with the Eye of Avalon and Master Yanis around, it would be quite simple if she really wanted to investigate. But the answer is something that the people of Avalon cannot bear. So. She could only pretend that she didn't know.

"If you confront a country, you may be able to arouse the fighting spirit of the Avalonians. But if you are hostile to two enemies at the same time, there is no possibility of victory."

"There are only four countries around Avalon. Apart from the Theocracy in the west and the barbarians from the Wolf Kingdom in the north, only Star Antimony and Iris are left. And those barbarians have a bad relationship with us. Coupled with the slutty Iris and the shadowy Star Antimony, we can be said to be the enemy of the whole world."

Sherlock is undoubtedly a queen.

But he was probably right this time.

Because looking back now, after confirming that Avalon could not easily lift the curse and could not prevent herself from being cursed, Sophia calmly made some preparations:

She first began to publicize Isabel's hidden beauty path adaptability, allowing her to stay away from royal communication and power centers, maintain her purity, and not come into contact with her brothers and sisters; then she began to prepare for the Shadow of Avalon ritual, Planning a protector for Avalon; she also found Yanis as a protector and mentor for Isabel to ensure that Isabel can grow up healthily.

Although Isabel's talent in art is quite outstanding, it is not enough to seduce Yannis. Therefore, keeping Yannis, who likes to travel around the world, in Avalon for so long can only be because of the queen's request.

From this point of view, arranging Isabel to go to the Royal University of Law to get in touch with outstanding talents of the same age and future pillars of the country; giving preferential treatment to Shylock, who is loyal to the royal family; and even giving Aiwass the ministerial position, these are all for Isabel .They are all paving the way for her future rule.

As Isabelle said, she and her grandmother had always had a good relationship.But Sophia's love for her is not intimacy, pampering and gifts, but exists in a more rational and long-term attitude.

so good.Aiwass sighed.

Her Majesty's only miscalculation was probably that Isabel was forced to shut herself down due to pressure.

After all, when I was a teenager, I often put on makeup and sneaked out of the Palace of Silver and Tin to go to the theater. When I was still in middle school, I wore college girl clothes and pretended to be a schoolgirl to go to the university. I was even able to meet a world-famous person for the first time. The social butterfly who easily got along with the painter and made Yanis take the initiative to paint for her...maybe she really couldn't understand why Isabel became autistic so easily.

"I'm afraid from the very beginning, Your Highness Isabel is the most suitable person to inherit His Majesty's philosophy of governing the country."

Sherlock replied affirmatively: "Now Avalon urgently needs to open up and accept extraordinary people from other paths.

"Her Majesty has done everything she can against the resistance to reform. She is a very good and outstanding monarch, but she still lacks time.

"According to my calculations, there is still at least one generation left before we can really see the results of the reform and allow Avalon's technology to catch up with the international level. If we choose to stop or even go backwards at this time, we will miss the final window period. "

"really."

Aiwass nodded, surprised by Sherlock's sensitivity.

Once the Narcissus Principality completes its independence... that technological nation whose entire ruling class is composed entirely of mages will begin to exert its technological heritage accumulated over a hundred years.As long as the Star Antimony is disintegrated, the demonologist, the alchemist, and the necromancer, the three unique skills that have lost control of each other, will have to deal with it.

Queen Sophia did not foresee what happened to the Fallen Division, but her political vision could easily see through the instability in the Narcissus Principality and the crisis within Star Antimony.

——In this case, any monarch who cannot firmly resist political resistance from all sides and continue to complete the reform as quickly as possible is actually eliminating Avalon's last hope.But all Sophia can trust is Isabel.Because other heirs may betray her, but only Isabel cannot.After all, Isabel herself is the holder of the illegal path.

Most extraordinary knowledge is controlled by the Iris Kingdom, and the path of beauty that can be secretly peeped through "artistic vision" and even easily teleported is undoubtedly limited in Avalon.Those old-fashioned knights hate—or are afraid of—such fancy abilities.

Now that other successors have been eliminated, the Curse from Iris was caught on the spot during the "assassination of the minister", the problem of Meg's lifespan has been solved, and Isabel has two right-hand assistants, Aiwass and Sherlock... After Avalon's multiple deadlocks were revived by Aiwass, the Queen immediately stopped acting.

She demonstrated the iron fist that has ruled Avalon for many years——

The Queen displayed Ligeia in a high-profile manner, claiming that she had a close blood relationship with Meg, was a favored person blessed by the Silver Crown Dragon, and also possessed Meg's Dragon Blood Law - so she would replace " Meg, who is in poor health, takes over the position of Grand Arbiter.

Although Ligeia looks very young, she is actually already an adult.It is only because of the power of the gods that he maintains such a young body.

These words of the Queen have been approved by the church.The senior executives present here also felt that what Sophia told the truth.

Immediately afterwards, Avalon began to pressure Iris.

They produced conclusive evidence that Dean Lars Graham, as the leader of Iris University, had "slaughtered students," "desecrated corpses," and "assassinated ministers"—without mentioning a word about the curse.

But the Queen specifically stated that when the Great Guardian had stopped attacking and said that he would be given preferential treatment if he surrendered, instead of surrendering, he planned to use magic to attack innocent people.If they had not been interrupted on the spot, the number of civilian casualties would have exceeded at least a thousand.

——Thus, what was clearly an embarrassing incident like Aiwass being attacked three or four times in a row seemed to turn into a great achievement.

Immediately afterwards, the assassin who attacked Aiwass before was also picked out - her transfer to Wangli University of Law was handled by Master Lars Graham.And they use the same technique, so they are most likely from the same spy organization.

Because of Avalon's sudden attack, and because these testimonies can be sworn to the Nine Pillars in public to ensure their authenticity... In this case, Iris suddenly fell into an extremely embarrassing and difficult situation.

They have repeatedly fallen into a passive position in negotiations on other matters in recent days, and Iris's newspaper office was like a fly that smelled the smell of blood, and took a boat directly to Avalon to conduct interviews in person.

When they return to Iris, this matter will probably escalate further.

With Lars Graham taking the blame, the previous assassination of Minister Droste in prison also had an explanation: an anonymous high-level supervisor of the Inspectorate presented strong evidence that Minister Droste was An extraordinary person who was exposed to the path of love in prison before being assassinated.

As we all know, the mainstream paths of the Iris Kingdom are the path of love and the path of beauty.

Avalon, who was being suppressed and beaten, suddenly started to fight back, and completely ignored the Star Antimony who was really attacking them, and instead attacked Iris with all his strength, who was secretly stirring up trouble - this made Star Antimony and Iris It’s all gone.

This was the first suggestion Aiwass made to the Queen after taking up the post of minister.

——It's like a one-on-one man-on-man battle on the road. If your jungler comes and I can replace him, I will kill him first to help.

Star Antimony and Iris itself are also hostile.They are also happy to see this happen.

Xing Antimony was also worried because of the internal chaos. When he saw Avalon suddenly fighting with Iris...in order not to burn himself, he directly scaled back his actions and kept the nails inside Avalon in a latent state.

They planned to just watch Avalon and Iris fight.I even plan to add some firewood to make their fight more lively.

As everyone knows, this is a play performed by the Queen.

This gives Avalon some breathing room.

Because they were cut off from assistance from Star Antimony, the Noble Red Society directly lost the ability to disrupt the Glass Island in the face of the prying eyes of the Eye of Avalon and the attacks of the regular army.

The operation was named "Bear Hunt."In name, it was to launch a annihilation of the giant forces that intended to subvert the rule of Avalon and the illegal extraordinary organization that launched many massacres of innocent village residents. There was no mention of support for Star Antimony.

Since the fire did not burn him, the Star Antimony people did not agree with helping Noble Red at this time.

So just three days after the operation started, thirty of the Noble Red's strongholds were destroyed by the thunder caused by the griffons.

The Queen accepted an interview with the Glass Steps newspaper.

She did not say that this was a counterattack she had been preparing for a long time.Instead, she was pretending to be confused, claiming that these actions were strong suggestions from the new "minister regardless", and she was "very surprised" by this.

But regarding his true identity, Her Majesty the Queen respected the personal wishes of the minister and chose to keep it secret.

For a moment, the entire Avalon was plunged into curiosity and speculation about this indifferent minister.

"—So, Aiwass."

After boasting about the Queen's wisdom, Sherlock pointed to the newspaper and asked: "Who do you think this minister is?"

　Chapter 1 and Chapter 2 of [-] words still have to wait around two o'clock.

　　The nasal mucus has increased, and it feels like it is a cold complicated by rhinitis, or it may be rhinitis induced by a cold... Compared with previous years, there are just a few more mucus. This is a sequela of last year's COVID-[-].

　　In short, it is a good thing that there is no Double Ninth Festival...

　　
　
(End of this chapter)