After the time entered February 1510, the drum kingdom that gradually stabilized finally regained new vitality like early spring.

Last month, the Port of Vilia was finally captured by the Kingdom Army. The city lord Gilbert committed suicide in his castle for fear of guilt. The Kingdom of Magnetic Drum ended the civil war for nearly two years and restored peace.

However, under the surface of this peace, there is a surging undercurrent hidden because the new king Herbert suddenly fainted during a court meeting.

Although the imperial physician finally gave His Majesty the King's recent overwork has caused physical discomfort, it has finally attracted the attention of many ambitious people in this country who want to go further at the peak of power.

Herbert is 68 years old this year. He is definitely a master in the Winter Island country of the Magnetic Drum Kingdom. Before the outbreak of the civil war, Herbert, who had the skills to maintain his daily life, actually had a head of thick blonde hair, but since the outbreak of the civil war, his hair volume has decreased and turned white quickly.

After successfully ascending the throne, Herbert was already a bald old man with white hair, usually carrying a trace of decayed dusk energy. After the sudden fainting incident that happened not long ago, many ministers in the court had discovered that His Majesty's energy was not as good as before, and many things were gradually left to the eldest princess Elizabeth to handle.

"Did Your Majesty have a meal today?"

In the eldest princess' room, Elizabeth asked a maid who had just come in.

Because the room is burning with a fireplace and heating supply, the room is very pleasant compared to the cold outside.

Elizabeth was wearing a white gauze skirt, with a golden belt embroidered with a redbud pattern on the surface perfectly set off her slim and swished waist, revealing her long legs wearing black silk and deer leather boots. The slim and fit gauze skirt also exposed her graceful figure.

Since becoming the position of Minister of Finance with great power, Elizabeth, who wears the princess crown, has become more majestic every day. Her intoxicating face makes people dare not look directly at it. Her outstanding ability to govern the country has also caused many young nobles to look overshadow in front of her.

The pretty maid who looked pretty good heard Elizabeth's words immediately bowed in front of Elizabeth and reported: "I used it, but I just ate a little."

"I see."

Elizabeth answered expressionlessly, then waved her hand and asked the maid who usually serves Herbert to go out.

After the maid left, Elizabeth's pretty and tender face finally showed a hint of expression. Her eyebrows were frowned, her eyes were lowered, and her red lips were pursed, revealing a deep sense of worry.

Elizabeth, who cares about her father's physical condition every day, knows the most.

To the outside world, it was a little uncomfortable in the body, but in fact, because Herbert became ill due to overwork, his age and his long-standing spiritual pillar (end the civil war and complete unification), his body finally became exhausted and he had not had enough time.

"Oh, it's been a long time since the civil war ended. Good days have just begun, and the situation has happened again. If a country that has just left the haze of the war may not be well done, it will fall into a protracted civil war."

Elizabeth said with great concern.

There were two people in the room at this time, one of which was Haru, who was a foreign minister at a young age. The foreign minister recommended by Elizabeth to hold power was the solid princess party.

One man was wearing a wolf-headed mask and wearing thick heavy armor, standing at the door like a sculpture.

Haru heard Elizabeth's words of worry and immediately said, "This is not possible. Princess, we must take action. His Highness James, His Highness Viron, His Highness Hubbard and other princes have already started to take action privately. If we cannot win the support of other ministers in the court, we will be very passive. And I heard that Prince James has already followed the world..."

"I know, I know, Haru, don't worry, I know how to do it."

Before Haru could finish his words, Elizabeth interrupted him and said seriously.

"Yes, Your Highness, Princess, but please issue an order as soon as possible. The positions of many people below have begun to shake. At this time, you must not act emotionally." Haru sighed.

His Majesty the King is in good health, so the battle for the throne will naturally begin. Anyone with a certain political literacy will pay attention to this kind of thing. After all, this is a good opportunity for the children to ascend to heaven.

Logically speaking, Prince James, as the eldest son, would be the most powerful competitor, but the eldest princess showed excellent ability to govern the country and received temporary agency rights granted by the king. The most powerful competitor is no longer James.

However, in the new drum kingdom, the aristocratic forces following the old traditions are very powerful. People like the Queen who have never appeared in the drum kingdom are obviously not accepted by traditional aristocratic forces.

Now, many traditional aristocratic forces have begun to gather around other princes and waving flags and shouting behind them, which has gradually begun to shake Elizabeth's position in the court.

"Go out, I'm tired."

Elizabeth said with his head turned around.

Seeing this, Haru wanted to speak but stopped, but finally chose to close his mouth, turn around and push the door and leave.

"Mr. Darth, what do you think I should do?"

When Haru left, Elizabeth suddenly turned his head and asked the armored man with a wolf-headed mask.

The former leader of the Darth Gang, Elizabeth's temporary bodyguard, took off his mask and revealed a weathered face, and said coldly: "With your wish, I'm just entrusted by the boy Barn to protect you for a while, and I have no obligation to be your consultant."

When Elizabeth heard this, she smiled bitterly on her face and stopped talking, but she once again told Das that he would come to protect her because he was entrusted by Barr. Her heart that had been suppressing suddenly felt much better.

During this period, due to the battle for the throne, she has been subjected to several precise assassinations in succession.

If she hadn't eaten the devil fruit and kept training, she would have been killed long ago with Darth's protection.

After she entrusted investigations to the Film Organization, it has been found that the people behind the assassination were actually the ones she was close to and trusted around her. Among them, she had been taking care of Youga's younger brother James, which caused her great blow and she was physically and mentally exhausted.

It feels really bad to be betrayed by someone you trust.

Now these people are starting to press forward step by step, trying to covet the throne, and act more and more blatantly, even colluding with the world government to sell national interests.

As soon as he thought of this, Elizabeth's mood, which had been relieved slightly, was covered with a layer of haze again, and her expression seemed very gloomy.

"But for your helping my daughter develop therapeutic drugs, I will give you a clear path. Just eight words. If you want to wear a crown, you must bear the weight. If you don't have the heart to fight, then leave early to avoid harming others and yourself. You have a good relationship with that boy Barr. It's not difficult to get out with him."

When Das saw Elizabeth showing this expression, he suddenly remembered the depressed expression of his daughter Shefia and the smile that often lingers on his lips.

As soon as these words were said, Elizabeth was shocked, and the expression on her face began to change constantly. She was hesitant, serious, sad, and firm.

Finally, she sighed and came to the bedroom, took out a long box from the closet with a large number of exquisite clothes, and opened it to reveal a stinging sword inside.

The sting sword was inserted into the black scabbard at this time. The scabbard was engraved with a large number of snowflake patterns, and the golden handguard on the hilt was engraved with some light blue gems to form a snowflake pattern.

These gems are obviously not ordinary gems, they emit a hint of coldness, and a icy blue light will appear on the surface from time to time.

Elizabeth took out the sword that was so noble that he could tell at first sight, and then endured a cold and heart-warming freezing feeling from the sword, pulled out the sword from the sword sheath, revealing its cold sword body.

This sting sword was given to her by Barr more than a month ago. At that time, it was only a night before Barr challenged Ram. She still remembers the scene where Barr gave the sword to her at that time.

It was late in the morning and the other party suddenly broke into her boudoir without knowing it, and shamelessly got into her bed, bullying her desperately.

Before leaving, she said some inexplicable words to her, but when she recalled it, she found that this man had actually seen through the future of this country.

"I'll give you this sting sword to you. Let me tell you a secret. It was made by me and its quality is definitely not inferior to that of famous swords. Elizabeth, you are different from those conservative and decadent old nobles in this country. You are a very smart nobleman. You know how to keep pace with the times, are very ambitious, and are very beautiful and sexy. I admire you very much. If you are not the princess of this country, I will definitely catch you. If I'm talking about if, if one day you want to conquer the throne, then come here and I will definitely support you."

In Elizabeth's memories, Barr took out the stinging sword out of thin air like a magic trick, held her hand, handed it to her hand, and said with a smile.

"If you want to wear a crown, you must bear the weight..."

Elizabeth murmured as she looked at the stinging sword in her hand.

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On the other side, outside the Ice City hundreds of kilometers away from the royal city of Golden Leslie.

The newly formed legion of Ice and Snow City, the Second Legion of Ice and Snow Legion, is conducting a large-scale practical exercise.

This is a legion of five thousand, all of which are recruits who have been trained at a certain level.

These recruits came from all over the Great Way, came to Ice City for various reasons, and then joined the Ice and Snow Legion to survive.

Now they are about to accept the first life-and-death battle in their military careers.

The Ice and Snow Legion does not leave any food for nothing, nor does it need to be useless. It follows the law of the strong and the strong. Every formal soldier must go through the test of blood and fire. This is clearly given in the recruitment poster when the Ice and Snow Legion recruits.

Of course, such strict requirements give very generous rewards.

After passing the test to become a formal soldier, each soldier can obtain the status of a resident of the Snow City. This is almost the fastest way for outsiders to obtain the status of a resident of the Snow City. They will also be assigned to a house, and their monthly salary is several times that of ordinary workers.

Even if you are unfortunately killed in battle, you will receive a generous pension.

Under the command of the commander, the five thousand new soldiers quickly divided several neat battle formations and then advanced in neat steps.

Their opponents are some skeleton monsters composed of bones, human and beastly. The number of these skeletons is quite large, at least two or three thousand, and they are all monsters who are fearless and fearless. Even if they are cut off their hands and feet, they will continue to act. Only by defeating the strange pale flame in their heads will they turn back into a pile of ordinary bones.

These skeleton monsters that look very scary were naturally created by a devil fruit abilities person.

Their owner is a member of the Ram Gang named Gizas Badges, who will become a member of the Blackbeard Pirates in the future. He comes from a small island country called the Fighting Kingdom on the great route.

Two months ago, the fighting champion was attracted by the rich rewards of the arena opened by Shinjin Town. In the end, he defeated all the powerful players from the first half of the Great Way to win the championship. The championship prize in the arena at that time was the Bone Fruit.

Badgers is undoubtedly a person who admires power very much and likes to solve problems with his fists.

So, after he won the championship, Barr fought with his flesh and blood clone, then completely abused him, and finally successfully pulled the future helmsman of the Blackbeard Pirates into his camp.

After taking the bone bone fruit, Badges gained the ability to manipulate and create bones at will. Under Barr's guidance, he developed a abilities similar to that of Kanmaro in Naruto.

In addition, since the bone bone fruit also involves the abilities of some souls, Badgers can collect souls and then use the bones of the original creature to create undead creatures such as skeleton monsters. Undead creatures basically have no intelligence and can only execute some simple commands of Badgers.

Of course, if you only control a few skeleton monsters alone, Badgers can control them flexibly.

"Weihahahaha, kill all the time, my little cuties."

On the city wall, Badges, disguised as an officer in the Ice Town, looked at the soldiers fighting the skeleton monster below, excited and couldn't help laughing wildly.

The reason why he came here to use the skeleton monsters he had worked hard to fight these Ice City was, firstly, his boss Barr's order, secondly, to use this to improve his ability to control the skeleton legion, and thirdly, to be able to harvest powerful enough souls here.

Last but not least, he likes this bloody battlefield.

"Mr. Badges, please stop laughing. This is war. Please keep it serious."

Suddenly, a cold and very nice voice came from the crowd, causing Badgers' laughter to abruptly.

Badges turned around and found that he was a tall and beautiful female knight.

The fluttering female knight was wearing a fiery red war dress, wearing a pair of female knight armor on her upper body, wearing black leather gloves over the forearm, a black belt on her lower body, wearing long boots over the knees, and an exquisite stinging sword hanging around her waist.

She looked heroic and upright, and looked like a female knight who represented justice.

Badgers recognized her. She was Monica, the commander of the Snow City Lord, Maysfield's personal guards, and the ability of the Blood and Blood Fruit. She was one of the few strong people in the Snow City who could fight him.

"Williahahahahaha, Commander Monica, don't be so serious, they are just some new recruits like weeds. Just recruit them if they are gone. By the way, we haven't been recruited for a while, so why don't we go down and have fun?"

Badges grinned and laughed maliciously.

Faced with Badges' provocation, Monica was not afraid. She pulled out the stinging sword from her waist, raised her head, and said coldly: "Then let me teach you the etiquette of the army."

As soon as she finished speaking, she disappeared from the spot with a sound and stabbed Bages with a sword. During the process, the sword body was already covered with a layer of armed domineering aura.

Of course, Barr also quietly spread the Navy's Six Styles and Domineering Training Methods among the top leaders of the Ice City Army. Among them, powerful people from the Ice City forces such as Monica, Green, and Dalton have learned some Navy's Six Styles and even mastered the domineering nature of the armed forces.

Monica is the most talented among the strongest people in the Snow City power. She has learned to shave, Lanjia, Iron Block and Yuebu, and has also mastered the domineering spirit of the two-color. Her strength is already the strongest person in the Snow City under the city lord Maysfield played by Barr.
Chapter completed!