Heir to the Kingdom of 1.4 billion people

Chapter 91 The army sets out! (Seeking monthly votes~)

"Strange, a year has passed, how come I'm the same as I was the first time after coming here?"

In the hall, Brown Nose spread his hands and looked at his body in confusion.

The clothes he wore returned to the tattered linen clothes he wore before, and even his body shape was the same. The height he had gained over the year had shrunk back.

Crackling.

At this time, three burning torches suddenly appeared in the hall, and then Xia Mingyu, Tamerlan, and Hercules appeared one after another.

After bowing and greeting His Highness, Tamerlan seemed to have noticed something unusual and walked quickly towards Brown Nose.

"You've only practiced breathing techniques for one day, and you're about to become a knight's apprentice?"

Tamerlan exclaimed as he leaned over and carefully examined Brownnose's body.

As soon as these words were spoken, even the handsome face of Hegemony beside him was covered with shock.

Because he started fighting in the arena at the age of six, and it took him a whole year to become a gladiator apprentice.

Although this was partly due to his young age at the time, the fact that he could reach this level of cultivation in just one day was enough to demonstrate Brown Nose's high talent.

"It's true that you can't judge a book by its cover. Your Highness's choices are never wrong." Hegemony sighed in his heart, and his respect for His Highness deepened a little bit.

Xia Mingyu's reaction was quite calm. After all, he had achieved the profession of a real magician in just one day.

"Well done, Brownnose. I admit I was wrong. I mistakenly thought you were a fool just because you took an entire night to learn the breathing technique. You will surely become an excellent knight in the future."

Tamerlan patted the boy's shoulder and encouraged him seriously.

Although the other party's rapid progress was largely due to the breathing method "Son of the Sun" which was said to be inspired by the God of the Sun and Justice.

But no matter what, to have reached this level in just one day, he could undoubtedly be called a super genius, only slightly worse than him - he took only one hour to succeed.

"hehe.."

After hearing Tamerlan's words, the boy, who had wanted to explain that he had been practicing for a whole year, touched the back of his head and laughed awkwardly.

Then he looked at the calm black-haired young man not far away, and his eyes suddenly sparkled.

"Your Highness, can you touch my head again?"

Like last time, the boy knelt on the ground, using his knees as feet, walked in front of Xia Mingyu, and hugged his legs tightly with both hands.

"Okay, but you have to stand up and don't do this again."

After Xia Mingyu lifted him up from the ground, he touched his short red hair.

"Want something else to eat?"

"miss you!"

A moment later, the boy, whose belly was full after eating at the long table again, was taken away by Tamerlan.

He decided to give Brown Nose another special training tonight, hoping that Brown Nose could successfully become a knight's apprentice.

There was no conversation that night, and the magnificent palace gradually became transparent.

"Your Highness, Master, I will definitely see you again!"

When they parted, Brown Nose shed tears of reluctance, which made Xia Mingyu and Tamerlan find it a little funny.

He's a grown boy whom you see every night, why would you cry like this?

early morning.

The first rays of morning light quietly fell from the horizon, dyeing the castle's tall towers with a light golden hue.

When Xia Mingyu just woke up from his sleep, he saw more than two thousand soldiers standing in a neat and orderly manner, straight and silent, holding guns in the training ground below the window.

Most of them wore heavy leather armor, their shoulders were tense, their eyes were staring straight ahead, and even the air revealed a sense of solemnity.

dong dong.

At this time, there was a gentle knock on the door of the room.

After Xia Mingyu changed his clothes and opened the door, he saw Berg waiting quietly outside.

His condition at the moment was different from usual. His face was pale, and his eyes, which used to be as sharp as an eagle's, were now bloodshot and even had faint dark circles.

Secondly, there was a faint smell of blood on his body, which was a bit pungent.

"Your Highness, Viscount Hughes has assembled a large army. All we need is for you to board your carriage and set out to attack Night Shadow Territory. Therefore, I have requested that you take me there."

Berg saluted respectfully.

He had practiced all night with the castle's torturer on the most heinous villains who survived the previous purge, and now he couldn't wait to set out and use those methods on his enemies.

"Let's go."

Xia Mingyu snapped his fingers, calling for a breeze to sweep away the bloody smell on Berg's body, and then he followed him away with satisfaction.

At the edge of the martial arts training ground, there was a luxurious carriage. Its body was as smooth as a mirror, and was carved with several lines that shone with a faint light.

The roof was covered with soft purple velvet curtains, the edges intricately embroidered with silver thread.

What is striking is that the cart is not pulled by a horse, but by a giant black wolf with a shoulder height of more than two meters and a body length of about five meters.

At this moment, the giant wolf was lazily lying on the ground basking in the sun, but the moment it saw Xia Mingyu coming, it immediately came over with its tail wagging and tongue sticking out, and licked his palm affectionately.

"Yeah, it feels great."

Xia Mingyu stroked the wolf's head, which was almost bigger than him, and sighed secretly in his heart.

If it were made into a wolfskin coat with such a good feel, it would sell for hundreds of thousands on Blue Star and still be popular. Meanwhile, on the platform before the army, Karen, clad in jet-black armor and clutching a black sword, his cape rustling in the morning breeze.

His eyes swept across the soldiers lined up in neat rows below the stage like an eagle, and after seeing Xia Mingyu had already boarded the carriage, he began to mobilize.

"My soldiers, I will soon go to war with you. I cannot guarantee that you will all survive, but I am sure that I will fight with you until the last moment." Karen said in a deep voice.

"This attack on Night Shadow Territory is by no means an invasion, nor is it for my own honor."

"I know that many of you are from Nightshadow Territory. Your families have starved to death. That foolish and greedy lord even taxes you for breathing!"

"Don't you want revenge? And the soldiers from home, if we lose this war, do you also want to pay the breathing tax?"

Karen's voice was loud and powerful, echoing in the training ground.

The next moment, the eyes of all the soldiers became fierce.

A breathing tax? What a joke!
If they are forced to pay such outrageous taxes, they might as well die early!
"Tell me, do you want to pay the breathing tax?" Karen demanded.

"No!"

"So what should you do?"

"Kill, kill, kill!"

The soldiers' passionate shouts almost lifted up the entire training ground.

"All troops, move out!" Karen drew out his sword and pointed it at the sky.

Tapping.

The next moment, the army, led by the leading knights, marched forward.

Karen also rode a nimble black horse and gradually walked to the front of the army.

He originally wanted to drive the carriage for His Highness himself, but he felt that it would be too conspicuous and would easily attract fire, so he simply replaced the horse with a Black Abyss Wolf and let it pull the carriage by itself.

He has full confidence in this "dog's" ability to serve His Highness.

On the sofa in the carriage.

Xia Mingyu and Iris sat face to face, and the atmosphere was a little awkward for a moment.

Although the two often read books together in the library, this was the first time they were squeezed into a small, enclosed space.

"Your Highness, thank you." Iris broke the silence first. She looked at the handsome black-haired young man in front of her and said softly.

"Why are you thanking me?" Xia Mingyu looked puzzled.

"At the ceremony the day before yesterday, everyone avoided me, but you were the only one who held my hand when I left, and you punished Lord Night Shadow at that time." Iris said calmly.

She often practiced magic with His Highness, so she could vaguely guess that the overturned wine glass must have been His Highness's masterpiece.

"Because you are really beautiful, that's why I do this." Xia Mingyu said with a hint of playfulness. He wanted to see the girl feel ashamed.

After all, as a man, who can resist teasing a cute girl?

However, unexpectedly, the silver-haired girl in front of him did not blush from her snow-white neck to the tips of her ears as she did in the past. Instead, she nodded slightly and calmly, expressing her gratitude like a lady.

Xia Mingyu: “???”

This is wrong!
"Your Highness, what's wrong with you?"

Noticing the shock on Xia Mingyu's face, Iris asked with concern.

"It's nothing, I just feel that you seem to have calmed down a lot suddenly, and I'm a little uncomfortable for a moment." Xia Mingyu calmed down and explained.

Hearing this, the girl pursed her lips slightly, and a hint of distress flashed in her gray eyes.

"Your Highness, if you like my shy look before, I can try my best to do it, but it may not be very realistic, please forgive me." Iris hesitated.

"No thanks!" Xia Mingyu interrupted her before she finished speaking.

"I just like being with you, not just because you're shy." He said subconsciously.

No, wait a minute!
As soon as he said this, Xia Mingyu immediately realized that this sentence was a bit too ambiguous and did not fit the relationship between them.

He wanted to clarify, but he didn't know how to explain it, and it seemed like the situation would only get worse.

So under his nervous gaze, the silver-haired girl in front of him tilted her head slightly, and used her slender fingers to brush the loose hair behind her ears. A faint blush spread from her snow-white cheeks to the tips of her ears.

In the soft morning light coming through the car window, Iris's face was as beautiful as transparent jade.

Inexplicably, Xia Mingyu actually felt a hint of charm from this scene.

"Iris, you seem to have grown up overnight." After a long silence, Xia Mingyu sighed.

"Because I used to feel inferior because of my heterochromia, I was just trying to get through each day in a daze."

"But my father's actions that day told me that I was born into this world because of love, just like my brother."

"My mother loved me too. She was born a maid and always dreamed of giving birth to a boy to inherit my father's title. However, she gave birth to a girl with heterochromia, a taboo. Even so, until her death from illness, her last wish for my father was to take good care of me."

"So, I decided to live well from now on and cherish every day as a gift from God so as not to waste their love."

Having said that, the corners of Iris's mouth curled up slightly, and a bright smile appeared on her delicate face like a doll.

"Your Highness, you can understand this feeling, right? After all, you must have come into this world because of love."

Xia Mingyu: “.”

I'm an orphan and I'm really sorry.

(End of this chapter)