Chapter 46 Queen (2000 comments plus more)
Paso's eyes were cold and he walked quickly out of the hall.
Lu Yi followed behind him. Paso just glanced at him briefly and said nothing, tacitly agreeing to his following.
Paso's steps were urgent, and he asked the guards behind him: "When did it happen? How many people know about it? Has the news been blocked?"
Several months had passed since the old Beast King's death, and the turmoil within the Beast Tribe had finally subsided a little.
As a result, before the aftermath had dissipated, new waves suddenly emerged, completely disrupting the pool of water.
In just one night, the conservatives and the reformists lost their leaders one after another, and the first heir to the throne and the alternate heir all died.
Such a result is really unexpected.
"What on earth happened tonight?" Paso had a gloomy expression and a murderous aura emanating from him.
His brother is the most valiant warrior among the orcs, and is the goal and role model for countless young orcs.
How could he die so suddenly?
It was obvious that he was only one step away from the throne of Beast King.
Paso took big steps, with a frosty look on his face.
The personal guard trotted after him and answered, his voice visibly trembling.
"Tonight, the Third Prince invited the First Prince to his bedroom to talk. The two chatted for about half an hour, and then there was a sound of something hitting the ground and breaking. Then the First Prince walked out quickly with an angry look on his face."
"After the eldest prince came out, he went straight back to his bedroom. About an hour later, the servants realized something was wrong and rushed into the palace, only to find that the eldest prince had stopped breathing!"
The guard lowered his head, trying his best to suppress the trembling of his body.
"The eldest prince's personal guards immediately took emergency measures. A team of people blocked the news and notified the Elders' Council. They also informed you, the second prince, to go to the Elders' Council as soon as possible to take charge of the situation!"
"When I arrived at the Council of Elders, I found out that the Third Prince had also died suddenly in his own bedroom! The time of his death was almost the same as that of the First Prince..."
The guard recalled what he had seen and heard in the Council of Elders just now.
The two teams of guards who suddenly lost their leader glared at each other. They all believed that the other team's leader had murdered their own leader. However, when they opened their mouths, they were shocked to learn that the eldest prince and the third prince were both dead.
"Did Big Brother meet anyone else before going to the Third Prince's bedroom?"
The guard shook his head and lowered his head even lower, "I don't know. The guards on the eldest prince's side didn't mention anything else."
Paso stopped asking questions and quickened his pace, even jogging.
He gritted his teeth, and finally ran back into his huge beast form, rushing towards the Elders' Council in the form of a wolf.
Lu Yi, who was left behind, was dumbfounded, but before he could react, the huge brown wolf that had rushed out five or six meters in front of him turned its head quickly and ran back to him.
"Pah..."
As soon as Lu Yi opened his mouth, the brown wolf caught him in its mouth and gently threw him back, landing on the wolf's back.
"pay close attention."
Lu Yi heard Paso's low voice.
He subconsciously followed Paso's words and grabbed his wolf's hair.
The brown wolf ran very fast, and the surrounding buildings retreated rapidly like flowing water. The whistling wind passed by Lu Yi's ears, and his fox ears couldn't help but tremble.
Then the next second, a thin barrier appeared at his ears.
He didn’t know if it was an illusion, but before the barrier was set up, Lu Yi seemed to hear a faint humming sound floating in the wind.
With the brown wolf running at high speed, the two soon arrived at the Elders' House.
The door of the Council of Elders was wide open, and the lights were on inside. The few remaining elders of the Orc Tribe were all standing inside with serious expressions.
In front of them, there were two bodies covered with white cloth.
Paso had never hated his keen sense of smell as much as he did now.
So much so that even when he stood at the door, he could smell the scent of his elder brother, the deadly scent of death lingering around him.
"Prince Paso!"
Some reformist elders exclaimed when they saw him.
"Prince Paso, what are you doing..."
Although the orcs despise humans, higher-level orcs always like to act in human form. Only lower-level orcs who cannot control their own form will often appear in the image of orcs.
Apart from the occasional need for fighting, the orc royal family basically appears in human form, thereby deepening the stereotype of their noble bloodline.
However, Paso, who had always been secretly proud, appeared in front of everyone in the form of a beast, which surprised the elders who knew his personality well.
The brown wolf shook his head and said nothing.
With Paso's pride, he would never explain in front of everyone that he was unable to stabilize his human form because of his drastic emotional fluctuations.
The giant wolf approached the corpse on the ground slowly, taking one step at a time.
Paso lowered his knees and fell to his knees next to the white cloth.
"elder brother."
The brown wolf's voice was hoarse and soft.
Paso stretched out his hand, trying to lift the white cloth that covered his brother's entire face.
The elders looked at him in silence.
An elder wanted to stop him, but was blocked by Lu Yi who was standing next to Paso.
The elder frowned and wanted to scold Lu Yi.
But Lu Yi, with his brown hair and amber eyes, had a sharp gaze. He was obviously just a low-level fox orc, but he exuded an aura comparable to that of the orc royal family. Just one glance was enough to nail his feet to the spot, and he couldn't even make a sound in his throat.
Seeing this, the elder behind him immediately pulled him back.
Paso's hands trembled uncontrollably as he slowly lifted up the snow-white cotton cloth.
Under the cotton cloth, the brown-haired orc man who looked somewhat similar to him had his eyes closed and a peaceful face, as if he had not lost his life but had fallen into a dream. It seemed that he would open his eyes in the next second and ask him "what's wrong".
Paso began to tremble all over, and his hands that were holding the cotton cloth seemed to suddenly lose all strength and fell heavily on his knees.
His hands were clenched into fists, and the already cracked wounds on his palms completely split open. Drops of blood slid down his palms and dripped into clumps on his brown hair.
Paso had no intention of caring about his wounds. His pupils shrank into a thin line and turned red and bloodshot.
The white cloth had clearly blocked his vision, but the picture remained in front of his eyes, and every detail was so clear.
Paso saw that he had his eyes closed, saw the small scar at the corner of his eye - it was the mark of an accidental scratch when he was a child, saw the bald spot on his temple, and saw the red rope woven by their mother around his neck. Paso also had an identical red rope on his body.
But he never saw him open his eyes again.
Paso gasped, trying his best to suppress his trembling, and quickly reached out to lift the cloth on the corpse next to him.
The third prince under the white cloth also had his eyes closed and a serene expression on his face.
Paso raised his head and looked at the temporary elder in the middle and said, "How did my brother..."
"elder brother!!!"
Before Paso could finish his words, he was interrupted by Sol who suddenly rushed in.
There were tear marks on Thor's face, as if he had cried before coming here.
Sia and Chris followed closely behind him.
As soon as Thor came in and saw the corpse lying on the ground, he immediately lay down next to the third prince.
He held the Third Prince's cold hand and cried out in disbelief, "Brother, brother?! Brother, please speak up, brother? Brother, please pay attention to me, please don't sleep, and don't scare me!"
Thor's tears were streaming down his face, and his trembling hands were shaking the third prince's hand slightly.
He didn't dare to accept the fact before him and just kept calling out to his brother who had his eyes closed. It seemed that in this way, the Third Prince would become impatient with his noise, open his eyes, and then he would scold him harshly.
"Brother! Brother! You succeeded, you succeeded! I'm scared! Can you…"
"Can you please shut up?" Paso raised his head and looked at him with bloodshot eyes.
His voice was very soft, but the murderous intent hidden behind it was shocking.
"Our brother is dead... Do you know? They are dead!" Thor's eyes were also red, and he shouted at him loudly, "How can you be so calm? Aren't you sad? Your brother is dead, aren't you sad? Or should I ask you if you have a heart? Do you have a heart?!!"
Paso stood up and slapped him sharply.
The sound stood out in the quiet late night.
Thor was stunned by the crisp slap in the face. He looked at him blankly with his mouth open and tears in his eyes.
But soon, he covered his face and shouted angrily: "You hit me? You dare to hit me?? Do you think you can bully me at will because my brother is gone?! I sue..."
Paso slapped him again with his backhand.
Thor's cheeks were swollen on both sides, and there were red marks on the large swellings from being scratched by the animal's claws.
Feeling the burning sensation on both sides of his cheeks, Thor looked at Paso in disbelief.
Paso said expressionlessly: "If you dare to continue making noise, don't worry about my brotherhood, I will send you down to pave the way for my brother."
Thor looked at him blankly. He turned his head to look at the conservative elders, but found that they all lowered their heads to avoid his sight.
The power division of the orcs has quietly changed after the deaths of the leaders of both sides.
How will the young and innocent little prince compete with his cruel and decisive second brother?
He can't fight it.
Thor, who was immersed in grief, might not realize the seriousness of the matter and his difficult situation for the time being, but the elders who were watching knew the current situation very well.
"Shut your mouth and don't disturb my brother's rest."
Paso looked at him coldly.
Thor couldn't see the situation clearly, but Chris and Sia behind him could see it clearly. They ignored Thor's struggle and forcibly dragged him out of the Elders' Council, intending to go back and think carefully about what to do next.
The three of them came quickly and left in a hurry.
Because of the arrival and departure of the three people, the Elders' Council quickly returned to silence after the noise.
Paso expressionlessly covered the third prince with the cloth carefully.
He walked up to the Great Elder and asked, "Have you found out the cause of death?"
Is it poison? Is it a curse? Or something else?
The elder turned his head and looked at Lu Yi standing beside him, and said hesitantly: "This..."
He wanted to hint to Paso to ask irrelevant people to leave, but Paso interrupted him directly.
"He is not an outsider." Paso raised his eyes and looked at Lu Yi.
"She is the queen I have chosen for myself."
Because of the old Beast King's infatuation with another woman and his parents' unhappy marriage, Paso actually does not believe in love and sneers at the so-called love at first sight.
After all, it is said that the old Beast King fell in love with his mother at first sight.
But what is the result?
One of them got married, while the other stayed forever in that snowy winter night.
Paso doesn't believe in love, let alone love at first sight.
Until he saw Lu Yi grinning in the vast crowd.
The little bell in his hair made a crisp "ding-dong" sound.
At that moment, he vaguely heard his mother's voice.
On a cold winter night in the past, he lay on his mother's warm lap, and his mother gently combed his hair, tying it into thin braids with bright little bells.
He couldn't understand his mother's sadness, nor could he understand her sweetness.
Young Paso only knew that his mother's arms were particularly warm, which made him extremely attached to them.
Her voice was soft and sweet, and she smiled slowly at him.
"Little Paso, when you meet that person in the future, you will hear the sound of the little bell in your heart ringing."
At that time, Paso, who was standing on the busy street, suddenly woke up.
He didn't move at all, and the little bell in his hair didn't make any sound.
It was the little bell in his heart that rang.
Tran is no outsider.
This was the one he had chosen for himself.
She is the one and only queen who will accompany him for the rest of his life.
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