King Charlemagne's eyes widened with rage, and he loudly demanded, "Avril, are you satisfied now?!"
Upon hearing this, Avril nodded in agreement, a look of satisfaction even appearing on her face. She said leisurely, "I've been looking forward to doing this for a long time. Now that it's done, even the air I breathe feels especially sweet."
King Charlemagne was so angry that he was shaking all over, and he laughed in anger, but his laughter was full of resentment and helplessness.
Just at this moment, there was a gentle knock on the door.
"What is it?" King Charlemagne shouted irritably.
The attendant outside was startled by the sudden roar and trembled uncontrollably, but he suppressed his fear and stammered, "Your Majesty, the nobles in the throne room and other nobles in the royal capital are clamoring to see you."
After saying that, he stood outside the door trembling, not daring to raise his head.
King Charlemagne frowned, thought for a moment, then turned his head and said to the shadows behind him, "Go and appease them according to the original plan."
As soon as he finished speaking, a middle-aged man with a stern face slowly walked out of the shadows.
He nodded calmly and then quietly withdrew, as if he had never appeared. Then, King Charlemagne said to the outside of the door: "Go away."
The servant breathed a sigh of relief outside the door as if he had been pardoned, then turned around and left in a hurry.
Avril watched all of this coldly from the side, taking in every detail.
Avril had a faint smile on her face and said, "Dear father, is everything settled?"
King Charlemagne's eyes darkened as he responded with a veiled tone, "They say it's been dealt with, but it seems it hasn't been."
Avril replied "Oh," and then said, "That needs to be dealt with as soon as possible, otherwise, there will be a lot of trouble later."
King Charlemagne nodded slightly, and then suddenly shouted an order to the outside of the door: "Come, capture the traitor Avril Charlemagne!"
In an instant, a dozen fully armed knights rushed in like a gust of wind. Without saying a word, they rushed straight towards Avril, intending to capture her.
At this moment, several figures suddenly appeared in the sky. They were Avril's sky fighters. They rushed towards the study at an extremely fast speed.
At the same time, a flash of light appeared around Avril, and a defensive magic item was instantly activated, forming a transparent barrier around her, isolating those wolf-like knights from outside.
After a while, several sky fighters landed steadily beside Avril and protected her in a protective posture.
Seeing this, King Charlemagne stopped the fluctuations behind him and just waved to the knights.
The knights understood and retreated one after another.
Avril also asked several sky fighters around her to retreat. When the door slowly closed, only she and King Charlemagne were left in the room.
At this moment, the tense atmosphere eased a little, and the two began to talk as if they had a tacit understanding.
During this hour, the room was filled with whispered arguments and sometimes fell into brief silence.
The sunlight filtered through the window and moved slowly across the ground, as if it was also quietly listening to this secret conversation.
Finally, the door opened again and Avril walked out of the room.
There was a meaningful smile on her face, and that smile seemed to hide the pride of achieving some goal.
At this moment in Yulong City, Martin was concentrating on studying the stone statue that Eric brought out from the secret realm of the elves.
Just now, Martin asked the system, and the system replied: Only by contracting the stone statue can the system use energy to remove its seal, and the energy consumption is twice the normal amount.
For example, if the stone statue contained a spirit of gold strength, it would consume 75,000 energies.
Martin looked at the system's reply, carefully selected from the numerous stone statues, and finally chose a stone statue of an elf swordsman with sky combat power.
As soon as the stone statue was taken out, a harsh voice came from inside: "You lowly human, you lowly slave, why don't you rescue me quickly!"
Martin didn't get angry after hearing this. Instead, he ordered Eric: "Take her to my private toilet and put this stone statue in the pit."
After hearing this, Eric had a strange look on his face, but he still obeyed the order and prepared to leave with the statue.
Upon hearing that it was going to be thrown into the cesspool, the elf in the statue became frightened and begged for mercy.
Martin noticed that the loyalty value displayed above her head dropped from minus fifty to minus twenty.
Seeing this, Martin called a halt to Eric, and as a result, the loyalty level instantly rose to minus thirty. This scene made Martin laugh.
So Martin played this game over and over again, and finally his loyalty value stopped at negative five and no longer changed.
At this time, the stone statue seemed to be broken and there was no sound anymore.
Martin thought to himself that if he relied on the system's energy to unlock the stone statue, the cost-effectiveness would be really low. It would be better to invest more resources in upgrading the knights under his command.
Just as he was thinking and making relevant trade-offs, the people sent by the royal capital arrived.
The people who came were a team of messenger knights. They carried an imperial edict and 10 million gold coins and stood respectfully in front of Martin.
The leading knight humbly said, "Grand Duke Martin, His Majesty the King has specifically asked me to bring you a message. He would like you to visit the capital in a month to discuss some important matters."
When Martin heard this, he immediately asked directly: "Do you know what it is?"
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