Cumberland asked, "Where do you plan to make your move?"
Emerson drew a circle on the map with a pen and wrote "Royal Treasury" on it.
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Three days later, at midnight, outside the main gate of the Silver Ring Palace.
The commander of the Royal Guard looked at the transfer document in his hand and asked Earl Emerson with a suspicious expression, "Temporary transfer? Why have I never heard of this before?!"
The count stroked his beard, looked down at the commander of the guards, and asked with a smile, "Do you want to know why?"
The captain of the guard was speechless for a moment. His first thought was that someone in the royal family was about to be in trouble again.
Since the Silver Ring Kingdom set a precedent by arresting Queen Mary in the dead of night, the redeployment of the guards and secret arrests have become the basic tactics of the Supreme Council in persecuting members of the royal family.
The Captain of the Guard carefully examined the five seals on the document: the King, the Minister of the Interior, the Director of the Interior, the Supreme Justice, and the Speaker of the Supreme Council. He compared them one by one with the rubbings of the seals brought by his subordinates, and after confirming that they were completely identical, he sighed deeply and said to Emerson, "Is this His Highness Humphrey? He has made many statements defending the Father before, and I thought the Council had let him off the hook..."
Seeing Earl Emerson's inscrutable expression, the captain of the guard waved his hand and shook his head, saying, "Never mind what I said. Everything shall be done in accordance with His Majesty's will."
Watching the Royal Guards march out of the palace gates, Emerson looked at the undefended palace in the darkness and clapped his hands lightly.
The warriors of the North Island Knights emerged from the darkness like ghosts.
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