Chapter 1086 Julia Hercules
Seeing Aiwass and Isabel hugging each other, the people in the audience applauded.
The old duke also clapped his hands vigorously. Even with his lips tightly pursed, one could still see an unconcealable smile on his face, as well as a rare warmth in his deep eyes.
The next step was to cut the cake - this was not a gift or a present from any god, but a dessert made by the elves of the Theocracy.
It was a massive nine-tiered cake, three meters tall. Aiwass held Isabel from behind and cut it open with a crystal sword, gleaming with light and a chilling aura. The very act itself was a blessing.
The misty creatures, their bodies hazy and translucent, shimmering with light, stepped forward and cut the cake into portions. Each guest was presented with two portions: one portion of the food, cut and plated, and the other, a packaged gift, its time frozen in time by a spell of preservation.
Pope Grey raised his scepter forward and pressed it down slightly, signaling people to sit down.
Guests began to take their seats, many of them eagerly anticipating the cake—they were already fully aware of the magnitude of the ceremony they had witnessed. If nothing unexpected happened, this might be the highlight of their lives.
As the old duke sat down, he grabbed Albert, who was sitting on the table, and placed him on his lap.
"How is it? Everything is going well, right? Your daughter and my grandson... they are both good children."
The old duke whispered, slapping Albert's heavy and powerful hand on his butt, making a rather solid sound - although he looked thin, there was surprisingly meat in his fur.
"--At least, they are much better than their father. Don't you think so?"
Hearing this, Albert, who was struggling to escape, immediately shrank back onto the old man's legs and dared not move.
"snort……"
Seeing Albert lying down obediently, the old Duke snorted.
He stroked the cat on his lap and said with a half-smile, "It's better this way. Why didn't you become a cat earlier? Then you wouldn't have caused so much trouble. For you, for me... for Avalon, for Iris. For these children."
Even though they were now relatives, he still had a prejudice against Albert - after all, the mistakes Prince Albert had made had a huge impact. It could even be said that a single thought of his had changed the current world situation.
Albert also felt a little guilty, so he lowered his head and lay quietly without saying a word.
Seeing him lying down and accepting the scolding, the old duke had no choice.
If Albert appeared before him, the old duke would certainly give him a punch - but Albert's new body was too fragile now, and he didn't even dare to photograph him too hard, for fear that something might happen and it would be embarrassing.
The old man hummed softly, his tone low: "Hmph. Never mind. Without that past, perhaps there would not be such a present...
"Do you eat cake? I mean... can cats eat cake?"
"……I don't know either."
Albert spoke, also hesitantly: “Ask someone?”
While the old man and the cat looked at each other.
There was a new movement on the stage——
For some reason, Yulia suddenly walked onto the stage.
Isabel and Aiwass looked at each other.
After Aiwass nodded slightly, she reached out and pulled Yulia to her side.
Seeing this, the guests who had just started eating and drinking were stunned for a moment, realizing that something seemed to be going on, and turned around to look.
"Besides the wedding and the coronation," Isabel said word by word, "there is another important thing I want to tell you today."
Yulia was a little nervous at first, but at this moment she felt inexplicably calm.
"Her name is Julia Moriarty, the younger sister of my husband, Aiwass Moriarty. Both of them were orphans adopted by their adoptive fathers, just as Aiwass's family lineage comes from the Vendôme family of Iris..."
Having said this, Isabelle nodded to the Duke of Vendôme.
Hearing her words, the old duke couldn't help but smile and nodded, while Anne couldn't help but cover her face with her hands and tears fell.
The other guests were also stunned.
Even the Avalonians who were familiar with Aiwass did not know this secret.
...After all, even the person involved had only known about it for less than two days.
However, the Duke of Vendôme had not expected Isabelle to admit this matter in front of everyone - she was obviously not the type to make decisions for Aiwass. Her admission meant that Aiwass had already admitted it.
After all, Anne is not strictly speaking Aiwass's biological mother... although she and Aiwass's biological mother are the same person.
However, she certainly wouldn't remarry. She personally didn't want to, and the old Duke couldn't force her. So now, to outsiders, Aiwass was Anne de Vendôme's child... only then could they truly become a family.
But Isabel's next words frightened the old duke so much that his eyes widened:
"—Yulia's real name is Julia Hercules.
"She is a direct descendant of the royal family during the Helasar Empire."
After a brief delay, the guests burst into an uproar.
Those who accepted the invitation and came here, even if they were not big shots, most of them came from relatively upper-class circles. At least they all had a certain degree of political literacy and could understand the meaning behind this sentence -
Whether it was Star Antimony, Narcissus, Black Eagle, or Iris... these four nations all originated from the wars that broke out after the death of Herasil, due to the extinction of the royal family. Each of these parties claimed to be the most legitimate successor, and the others were merely traitors who fabricated claims.
The Iris Kingdom has the Art Guild and more than one-third of the great nobles from the Helasar era, accounting for 80% of the total proportion of all surviving nobles, so it is very normal for them to establish their own kingdom; the Narcissus Duchy was originally a semi-independent duchy, and there was a real Grand Duke, Narcissus - the younger sister of the Duke of the Moon was the former Queen; and the Black Eagle Duchy represented military power and local petty nobles... The former Marshal of the Helasar Empire forged a declaration and a will, proclaimed himself Duke, and together with the scattered rural knights who did not go to Avalon, they occupied the most fertile plains and forests.
Star Antimony was the most civilian-oriented of the factions... and precisely because of this, the original Valentine's supporters included the Alchemy Association, the Spirit Tower, the Red Keep, and the Demon Academy. Besides the original Valentine's personal charisma, a large part of the reason was that they, with the belief that "adding icing on the cake is better than helping someone in need," supported the Star Antimony Kingdom, the least likely to have a claim.
Therefore, the people of Xingtan firmly stated that the former Herasil royal family had long since died out. The incident was so sudden that no bloodline remained, and there could be no "will." They were the most traditional heirs—Xingtan language, aside from the dialect, was essentially the same as Herasil, derived from the dialect of Valentine's own hometown.
The laws, customs, and traditions were almost completely copied, unlike other countries where they had to undergo extensive revisions. If the Star Antimony represented anything, it represented the common people of the Herasil Empire.
This makes Xingti have the strongest assimilation power in the Helasar cultural circle... but also has a biggest weakness.
Only the Xingtan Kingdom had no claims at all, not even a forged claim - they were able to establish a country purely because there were enough high-level transcendents who forcibly occupied a territory, and there was no explanation of where Xingtan came from or why it was established.
The foundation of their nation was simply "protecting some civilians during the Rift War." Their subsequent pretext for annexing Black Hawk was "suppressing a false monarchy that forged claims and wills." The annexation of Narcissus was due to "mages stealing the political power of Narcissus"—they still "governed on his behalf."
Unless the descendants of Narcissus Duke come forward and publicly declare their intention to inherit the Narcissus Duchy, Xingti will have temporary but unlimited management rights.
It's probably equivalent to what parents say when taking away their children's Chinese New Year red envelopes: "I'm just saving it for you. I'll return it to you when you grow up."
——Maybe, maybe not.
But now the appearance of Yulia has changed this situation——
(End of this chapter)
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