Are you furious?

It seems not.

Sadness and pity? It seems to be more than that.

The day his wife passed away, the children didn't understand what it meant.

Only when she was dying, she held her own hand tightly and said: “It is so hard for selfish people like us to find a less selfish direction.

Tal, please promise me that if one day the child doesn't want to embark on this destined path, let him go.

Then…"

She reached out her hand and gently stroked her cheek: "It was really great to meet you at that time."

That night, his wife left.

Tal didn't cry, but just stood quietly guarding the bed, like an expressionless sculpture.

Later… Later, when his son came to him, he asked him a question: "Father, have you ever loved mother?"

He didn't speak.

Love or not, it doesn’t matter anymore.

That person is gone.

It's time for him to start the next journey of his life.

But one thing is certain, he intends to keep the encounter to himself and not tell anyone, including his son who was a participant.

He always felt that his wife thought too much.

Why give the choice to a child when he has no idea what it means.

It would be better if he just hid everything.

Wouldn't it be better to prevent my son from having any chance of participating in the big sin - jealousy training program?

But the opposite happened.

That night, he looked at the young child's ignorant face, but heard him say to him:

"Father, are you so afraid of that plan?"

Tal was furious at that time.

This matter has always been a secret hidden by him and his wife, and they have never let their children know for all these years.

"Who told you? What did you know?"

"Father, if I don't participate in this plan, will our country decline as predicted?"

"What are you talking about? Do you think you are important?"

"Father, you are afraid, but I...I want to protect the empire where you are, and all the people who take care of me."

"What do you know? When did our Roxy fall to the point where we need to sacrifice a child's life in exchange for a future that may not necessarily come true?"

"But if the future isn't so easy to achieve, then I won't necessarily die if I take part in the plan, right?"

The child just held his hand and said pitifully, "So father, can you let me go and take a look?"

In the shadows, footsteps were heard.

Then came the second, third, and fourth.

Tal Griffin looked up blankly at the people who came out of the dark corner.

Dragon, bird, snake and wolf.

The four family heads stood in the darkness and looked at him quietly.

The leader, Bart Jean, said calmly, "Lord Tal, start the plan. The pressure from the Grovasa Gate under the earth is increasing.

We are eager to train a new generation of near-gods.”

Tal laughed indignantly: "Are you trying to train new near-gods? You just want to take your own strength to a higher level!"

Bart Gene shook his head and said, "No, it doesn't matter to us if it's not."

His voice was very soft, but his tone was as firm as a rock: "As long as that person can save Roxy who is approaching dusk."

Tal asked in a complicated tone: "How much do you know?"

The head of the Seraphim family said calmly, "We have known everything since the last generation of the Griffin family."

"Impossible, that old guy values ​​Griffin above all else."

"Yes, it is because he values ​​Griffin and the blood of the Frost Giant Elephant that he treasures that he wants to stop you."

The female head of the Seraphim family uttered a cold fact with her red lips: "Tal Griffin, the previous head of the family believed that you would bring Griffin and even the entire empire to hell."

In a trance, Tal finally understood everything.

Ah! Ah! Ah! So that's it! Is this the result of scheming to gain power? For his own benefit, in order to be able to sit on the throne more than ten years earlier, Tar Griffin chose to marry his wife.

Finally, by combining the strength of the two families, he reached the peak ahead of schedule.

And what he is experiencing now is the day when the boomerang he threw many years ago returns.

No matter which family leader among the Thirteen Families, it is not easy to reach the top, let alone the Guardian Stone Five Family like the Arctic Giant Elephant.

Relying on the fact that he was younger than the previous patriarch and had room for development, he secured the qualification to be the next patriarch early on.

If things continue to develop step by step, in a dozen years or so, he will naturally become the next head of the family.

But he didn't want to wait.

So he thought about it and contacted the genius who was only one inheritance level lower than himself in the Arctic Giant Elephant Family at that time, hoping to join forces.

That favored girl was extremely beautiful, but she was too strong, and no man of the same age could compare to her.

He knew that the woman was committed to becoming the head of the Arctic Giant Elephant.

But she didn't stand a chance.

Because among those who are one year older than her, she has a dominant advantage.

So when the woman met him, she also said a few words to him.

Basically, it means "If you were not older than me, it would not be your turn at all."

At that time, he wanted to become the patriarch ahead of time, but his foundation was a little lacking.

Somehow, I thought of that woman.

So one day he said to the woman, "Don't you want to be the head of the Griffin family? But you know you have no chance with me here.

How about we form a political alliance, and you use the power behind you to support me to take the position of head of the family.

And after I reach the top, I will also hand over some of the power of the head of the family to you."

"make a deal."

"Then let's put it this way, Madam Griffin."

…

That cooperation ended with the previous head of the family leaving in a not-so-dignified manner.

But it was obvious that because of the coincidence between him and his wife, although the previous head of the family took the initiative to step back in the end, he also believed that he was not qualified to give up everything for the empire.

The four family heads learned from him the "Imperial Prophecy" that only the family heads of previous generations knew.

The previous head of the family’s idea was actually very simple, and it wasn’t entirely directed at him.

I just feel that if Tal one day abandons the interests of the empire for the sake of himself and his family, someone must stop him.

If one wants to make Griffin's descendants afraid to act rashly, five families are not enough to protect the stone.

So he approached the Purgatory Dragon family, which had the most imperial prime ministers, and the Seraph Bird family, which had produced the most prophets.

As for snakes and wolves.

That was more to prevent him from doing something desperate.

"You believe in prophecies so much that you are willing to do anything for a vague prophecy?"

Tal was furious.

Even he was just wandering but not really obeying the prophecy.

Which existence that could reach the pinnacle of demigod would believe this? He didn't understand what these people were thinking.

But Peter Sinek said coldly: "Of course we don't believe it, but in order to maintain the continuation of the empire, we will try our best to use all means with a certain probability.

Tal Griffin, don't think too much, for the empire, we can give everything. "

"Even yourselves?"

"It would be great if it was just me."

At that moment, Tal knew he had lost.

The previous generation of Griffin was truly a model of shrewdness.

These four family heads are the ones who most firmly stand on the interests of the empire among the thirteen families.

Or to put it more cruelly, their philosophy is their biggest political proposition and the cornerstone for them to sit firmly on the position of head of the family.

At that time, he had already become the honorary emperor of the empire.

He couldn't help but listen to the opinions of other family heads.

——Especially when two families guarding Shiwu stand together and the other two families also get involved.

After realizing this, he could only say in a cold voice: "I will communicate with the child. If he refuses, then no matter how much you say, I will not agree."

…

After that, everything seemed like a nightmare.

After his wife left, the child he had tried so hard to protect also left.

At that time, the inheritance mechanism of mortal sin was still unclear.

Because most of the time, it is not just one person who is targeted for serious sin.

A serious crime that has developed often requires several times more powerful people of the same level to work together to target it.

When countless attacks crush the deadly sin at the same time, the authority of the deadly sin cannot be directly inherited by the killer.

If an individual accidentally kills a Sin Primarch that has not yet grown up, or kills it by force, he will often self-destruct because he cannot bear the backlash of the Sin's authority.

So few people actually know this.

Because he protected his son very well and never gave the great sin of jealousy any chance to harm him.

But I never expected that the one who got hurt in the end was not the great sin of jealousy.

Instead, it was his son who killed Envy, which became the great sin of the new generation.

In a trance, he had the illusion that good luck had come.

He admitted that he was selfish, but when he learned that it was not his son who died but the jealous second generation, he felt like he had finally escaped from the nightmare of the prophecy.

——But things did not turn out as he wished. After a rainy night, the child mysteriously stopped breathing.

There is no external interference.

There were no signs of injury.

Just like that, I suddenly fell asleep forever in my bed.

…End of memories…

All the past events are things we don’t want to recall.

Before we know it, spring comes and goes, and flowers bloom on the roadsides.

The falling snow year after year turned Tal's hair white.

He had nothing left to lose.

But he refused to accept.

He was unwilling to accept this! When did the Rockies pin their future on an illusory prophecy?

Instead of thinking so much, it is better to see what method can be used to save Roxy's fire.

He looked at the three plans placed in front of him, shook his head and said:

"I never expected that the empire would be so divided internally before it even collapsed."

All I can say is that the situation is worse than he imagined.

He ran his fingers lightly over the three plans.

"escape"

Transfer

"Confrontation"

There are three plans, each with only two short words.

But it also fully reflects the three concepts within the empire regarding the future direction of Lockheed.

"Escape" is the common concept of the Tal Griffin faction and the Red-Eyed Double-Winged Tiger family.

"Transfer" is a concept led by Howling Moon Mad Lion, and its goal is to transfer all the main combat forces of the empire to the East and West Monai Kingdoms.

Howling Moon Mad Lion had already predicted that the Universe Snake under the Monet Kingdom would die.

As the plan unfolded step by step, the Griffin family's prophecy had already been known to the heads of various families.

Howling Moon Lion seemed to firmly believe that the prophecy would come true, so he didn't put any hope on protecting the country.

He and several family patriarchs under him planned to transfer all their manpower to Monet, take control of Monet, use the original imperial land as a buffer zone, and then fight back with Monet and their own soldiers.

In this case, what if the prophecy comes true?

The Lockheed Empire was destroyed, but it still exists in another form.

They may even come back at any time with a counterattack.

In this way, even if it is troublesome to clean up the battlefield later, the foundation of the empire is still there, and the empire still has a future.

Thinking of this, Tal sneered.

The leader of the Howling Moon Lions has really lost his mind.

Why did he think that Louis Charles Julius would be the sinner prophesied?

In order to make the "King of Sin" grow faster, he even lobbied the opposing faction to treat some members of the assassination team as "abandoned pawns" and make them one of the potential sources of soldiers for the Cursed Legion.

To Tal Griffin, this behavior was tantamount to betrayal.

To be honest, the most likely existence of the King of Sin should be a certain black sun of destruction, right?

The only reason he isn't now is that he hasn't gone crazy yet.

Finally, he turned his gaze to the "Confrontation" faction.

This faction is exactly the one composed of the four families who knew the prophecy at the beginning.

They were determined to confront the other side to the end on their own land.

But they seemed to have forgotten how their actions were any different from destroying the foundation of the empire.

The empire does not believe in God, but believes in itself, which is why it has come to this day.

But the opposition faction led by Bart Gene has now gone completely crazy.

They repeatedly allowed Enther to participate in the affairs of Lockexi. Didn't they know that if they were too closely tied, it would easily plant hidden dangers within Lockexi and give Enther the possibility of annexing Lockexi? They chose to let the coalition forces of various countries come to Lockexi to fight together. Didn't they think that this would likely intensify the internal conflicts of the empire, and it was even very likely that the damage caused by the coalition forces would be more exaggerated than that of the foreign enemies.

The above two points are fine, after all, if you want to get more sufficient troops, you have to pay a price.

But the last point was what he could not understand the most.

They actually lobbied the transfer faction to allow churches from all sides to spread their faith within the empire? Without the fighting spirit of the Lokshi people, not only would the upper limit of the cultivation of the God of Self by the later generations be permanently damaged, but the right to speak in public opinion would also be handed over.

How dare these people do this! Thinking of this, he finally made up his mind.

The Escape plan must be carried out.

Only in this way can the real spark be left for Roxy.

After a moment, the communication crystal lit up and a man in a black robe appeared in the video.

"Lord Tal, have you finally agreed?"

"I will cooperate with you as much as possible, you have to be quick."

"Of course, please let the Dark Side of the God of Love give you everything you want most."

(End of this chapter)