Chapter 88: A Loving Father and a Filial Daughter (an extra update for the leader)
Larnaca City.
Noble district.
Earl John's body lay quietly on the large, soft bed. The spacious room was filled with a strong stench. Even if all the windows were opened, the disgusting smell could not be completely released.
Virgil is performing a ritual to appease the soul of Earl John.
This is the tradition of the Kingdom of Granville. After someone dies, clergymen are often invited to offer a final prayer, hoping that the soul of the deceased can enter the arms of the Goddess of Dawn.
Powerful nobles often hired high-ranking clergy, such as bishops like Virgil.
Virgil was also happy to accept such a job, after all, these nobles were very generous.
But... seeing Earl John's wrinkled face, Virgil couldn't help but frown.
Recently, such white-haired old people have often died.
Although it is normal for elderly people of this age to die, the strange thing is that every dead elderly person releases a strong stench from their body... The previous ones may have been because the bodies were not discovered for a long time, so they rotted and stunk.
But this Earl John in front of me was fine last night.
Virgil's face was a little gloomy, and with his eyes, he seemed to be able to see an invisible net that was constantly closing in.
And he, Ron, Irelia, Seraphina...are just small fish in this big net, struggling in vain.
Gulp!
He moved his throat and swallowed.
It seems that I have to go and discuss it with my good brother.
…
"Do you want to be queen?"
Not a queen, but an empress!
Ron didn't know that his good brother was talking about him. At this moment, his mind was filled with a crazy idea.
Let Dolores become the queen, suppress 113 countries, flatten all races including humans, orcs, elves, dwarves, and giants, and unify the Dusk Continent!
Since the repairman has been trying to converge the world line, I will mess up the original world line and turn it upside down. I want to see how you can converge it!
It was like he was given a bunch of scrambled codes, and he wanted to see how the repairman would sort them out.
Working overtime won't kill you! And Dolores is the most suitable person to carry out Ron's plan.
This is not just for Ron, but also to change Dolores' fate.
Among the many female protagonists in the game Persona x Black Beast, Dolores is also a very special one. In her heart, whether her future will be happy is not even within her thinking range. All she considers is the Kingdom of Granville.
She has spent her entire life protecting this country. She hopes that the kingdom will last forever and that the people will live and work in peace and contentment.
This is a lofty ideal.
Dolores would never refuse anything that was beneficial to the kingdom.
She was one of the very few advocates of war in the entire kingdom. It was Dolores who suppressed the nobles, led the kingdom's army, and repelled attacks from neighboring countries time and time again, thus saving the Kingdom of Granville from being trampled upon by the iron hoofs.
After the death of Holt 474, the Kingdom of Granville also had to face the issue of succession to the throne.
As the eldest princess who protected the kingdom, Dolores undoubtedly had great prestige, and she was more qualified to sit in that position than all the other princes combined.
But Dolores is a woman.
There has never been a queen in the thousands of years of history of the Kingdom of Granville. Needless to say, Dolores was resisted by a group of conservatives.
The kingdom had managed to survive surrounded by powerful enemies with great difficulty. Dolores could not bear to see Granville torn apart, so she voluntarily withdrew from the competition for the throne and gave it to her eldest brother, Antoine Holt.
Her elder brother was also very good to his sister and appointed Dolores as the first female archduchess of the Kingdom of Granville, the Grand Duke of Thorns and Roses.
Compared to a princess who only has a title, the Grand Duke who has his own territory is obviously in a more respected status. All financial and military power in the territory is almost in the hands of Dolores alone, which is equivalent to a country within a country.
He also specially awarded Dolores the title of General of Heaven's Destiny, and granted her additional privileges such as being able to attend parliament, meet the king without saluting, and be able to carry weapons. It can be said that he doted on this sister to the extreme.
In the years that followed, Antoine gradually gained control of the kingdom's power, and when Dolores went to the royal city to attend a court meeting, she was sent to the guillotine.
The era of the Grand Duke of Thorns and Roses came to an end.
This is Dolores' fate.
Dolores was obviously shocked, too. She opened her eyes wide and opened her mouth slightly...
Do you want to be a queen?
Ron's voice was still ringing in my ears.
After a long time, Dolores rubbed her forehead hard. She was indeed a prophet who dared to say anything.
A faint bitter smile appeared on her face: "Mr. Ron, I can pretend that I didn't hear what you just said."
"You know, if my father heard what you just said, you would be sent to the guillotine immediately."
After a brief pause, Dolores spoke again: "Also, although you are a prophet, I have to question your words."
Because what Ron said before was so explosive, Dolores lost her composure for a moment. Now that she has gradually calmed down, she realizes that there are actually many loopholes in what Ron said.
"You said before that it was because I was too normal and didn't fit in among the other princes and princesses that my father suspected that I wasn't his bloodline."
"But my two elder brothers, the eldest prince and the second prince, are also normal. They don't have any intellectual or physical defects. Could it be that my father also doubts them?"
clever!
Ron smiled: "No, your father never doubted your two brothers, he only doubted you."
"Why?" Dolores was a little incredulous.
"Because the prince and princess' abnormality started with you." Ron said quietly.
Huh? Dolores was so shocked that she almost wanted to laugh. What was this? She felt that in Mr. Ron's words, she seemed to have become the source of some kind of disaster.
"Do you want to know?" Ron knew what Dolores was thinking. He looked at her quietly and said, "I can tell you, but... for you, these contents may be very painful."
That sight made Dolores' body tremble slightly. She felt a sudden fear for no reason, but she still wanted to know the truth.
Ron did not hide anything and told Dolores in detail about the strange and cruel secret technique that Holt had practiced for the 474th time, as well as the means to break the negative effects of the secret technique.
Now, Dolores' sword is not sharp enough. If you want her to become the queen, the first thing you have to do is break her fantasy about her father.
He has great eloquence, and he drags Dolores into the most terrifying abyss little by little, as if he were actually there.
Dolores's face became paler and paler, and a layer of dense small bumps appeared on her delicate skin.
Treating female magicians as tools for cultivation...
Forcibly plundering the magic power and talents of female magicians, destroying their bodies and souls...
What a cruel and inhumane method of cultivation.
Dolores simply couldn't combine such a cruel guy with her kind and benevolent father.
"No, this... this is impossible, you are absolutely talking nonsense, my father can never be such a cruel guy..." Dolores shook her head desperately.
There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!
The smile on Ron's face became more mocking: "Do you know why almost all of your brothers and sisters are deformed?"
"Because your father absorbed the magic power and talents of these female magicians, but also their defects. Once too many defects accumulated in his body, it might even cause his own existence to collapse. In order to eliminate this defect, your father desperately took concubines. Through intercourse, he retained the excellent talents absorbed from the female magicians in his own body, and passed on the defects to his offspring."
"That's why your hundreds of brothers and sisters are either mentally retarded or physically disabled. None of them are normal."
"You are the first one."
"In fact, you are already very lucky... At least you are still alive. Do you know how many of your brothers and sisters died right after they came into this world, before they even had the chance to open their eyes and look at the azure sky? How many of your brothers and sisters died before they even left their mother's womb?"
Dolores' teeth were chattering rapidly. Who would be so cruel to her own child?
When Dolores thought of the hundreds of strange-looking brothers and sisters in the palace, the hairs on her body stood up.
"Children?" Ron chuckled as if he had seen through Dolores's thoughts. "Haha, in your father's eyes, you are not his children, not his offspring, but just defects that disgust him, and just the dirt he excreted from his body!"
The indescribable fear made Dolores tremble all over and her scalp felt like it was about to explode.
"This... this is impossible, then why am I normal..."
"No, you're not normal." Ron looked at the princess opposite him quietly: "Dolores, don't try to deceive me."
Dolores' body subconsciously tensed up.
Although she is the eldest princess, Dolores vaguely feels that the man opposite her is the superior.
She was obviously stronger than Ron, but this man only gave her the creeps.
Those eyes that saw through everything were like a whirlpool, tearing at her soul.
"Your bloodlust is getting more and more uncontrollable, right? Whenever blood splashes on you... no, even just when you smell the blood, do you become very excited?"
"Whenever the moon is full, does this excitement become particularly unbearable? Do you really think this is normal?"
Dolores was terrified to the extreme. Every word Ron said made her pupils tremble like an earthquake.
This man really knows everything.
Dolores had never been so scared of someone.
She was like a drowning person, gasping for breath desperately, breathing in the fresh air almost greedily, her trembling body causing her sexy, towering breasts to sway.
Like white and delicate waves.
After a long time, Dolores finally raised her head, her eyes were already bloodshot: "Sir, you don't have any evidence to prove what you said..."
"Evidence?"
Ron responded to Dolores's futile struggle with a contemptuous smile: "You can go to the hill behind the palace. There are thousands of female magician's bodies buried there."
"You can also go to the royal dungeon. The entrance is under a rockery in the back garden of the palace. Your mother, who died of the plague when you were six years old, is imprisoned in the dungeon..."
"I'm sorry, I really want to give you hope..."
"The more normal you look, the more Holt 474 suspects that your mother is cheating on him, so he locked her up in the dungeon, hoping to find out the truth from her interrogation."
"After all, this is a matter related to the king's dignity. Only your father could do this personally. But soon, he captured a group of suitable female magicians who could be used for training, and he forgot about your mother's matter."
"Your mother was imprisoned alone in the dungeon, where she starved to death in the cold and fear."
The earthquake in Dolores's eyes became more and more intense. She clenched her hands tightly, and her knuckles made a crackling sound.
The moment she heard the last few words, it was like a thunderclap that suddenly exploded in Dolores' mind.
Her body trembled violently, and her face turned extremely pale in an instant.
Starve to death?
"If you go there now, you can probably still see your mother's pale skeleton and a letter left for you...in blood!"
"Whether what I said is true or not, you will know the truth if you return to the palace and investigate a little." Ron smiled softly. Although he was talking about a tragedy in the world, he seemed to have no feelings at all, like a cold machine that would not be moved by human emotions at all.
"I just want to tell you that I have no need to lie to you. I just don't want your future to be too hopeless."
"The kind and benevolent father in your eyes is also the enemy who killed your two mothers."
"When his suspicions fall on you, he will kill you."
"And if you want to survive, your only chance is to... kill him in advance!"
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