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Soon, the hall was tightly packed with city lords, and Andrei began to question: "Lord Aigi, has the royal family treated you unfairly?"
"good."
"Then why do you want to slander the royal family?"
No beating around the bush, just get straight to the point.
Zhang Mu was shocked: "Your Highness, why are you defaming me?"
Still want to deny it?
With the corner of his mouth slightly raised, Andre waved behind him. A city lord puffed out his chest and said, "City Lord Aiji accepted the royal family's favor but harbored evil intentions. He even slandered the royal family for setting up a blood sacrifice array in the capital, intending to sacrifice us city lords from various places."
After saying this, he thought for a few seconds and said loudly: "He should be sentenced to death by hanging!"
After the words were spoken, the city lords around had different expressions.
These are the city lords who belong to Andre, looking thoughtful and suddenly enlightened.
There were also those who were anxious, worried, and blaming. They were the city lords of the Second Prince and the Third Prince.
Among the latter, someone could not help but walk out of the crowd and said, "Your Highness, Lord Aigi defeated the attack of the Lagu Kingdom not long ago and guarded the border of the kingdom. Loyalty is not necessary..."
"Back off." Andre's eyes were cold.
Another city lord stood up to support him: "Your Highness, you shouldn't act rashly..."
"Rashly?" Andre sneered and reached behind his back, "Give it to me."
The city lord who had just spoken immediately took out a square iron block with a metallic luster from the sleeve of his robe and placed it respectfully in his palm.
"They used transformation magic to impersonate the two great dukes of the kingdom, and even slandered the king for murdering the city lords of various places. This is the evidence."
The two city lords who were arguing were stunned. They could not believe that Andre was so shameless that he even abandoned the prince's face and confused right and wrong and distorted the facts in public.
They wanted to refute, but then they realized that the situation had been saved.
the reason is simple.
As long as Andre raised doubts, the incident would have to be investigated, and no matter what the final result was, he had legitimate reasons to detain Lord Edge during this period.
If someone is taken to his own territory by him, can he come back alive?
The two sighed deeply, said no more, turned around and walked back to the crowd.
One of them passed by Zhang Mu and whispered, "Lord Aiji, you are too rash. You should have discussed it with us before taking action."
Zhang Mu patted his shoulder with a smile, and he looked confused.
Based on his behavior of offending Andre a few days ago, Lord Aggie would probably have to suffer cruel torture before his death. How could he still laugh?
Stepping back into the crowd, he looked curiously towards the center of the hall.
Zhang Mu took a few steps forward and glanced at the phone in Andre's hand: "Your Highness, I have never asked anyone to pretend to be the two Grand Dukes."
"You still want to quibble? There's no point in resisting," Andre said with a mocking look in his eyes. "Richter, play the video."
The city lord who had spoken earlier walked around to him, performed the knight's salute, and then poked the black screen with his index finger.
No movement.
The city lords who were watching the scene began to whisper to each other, wondering what was going on.
Andre frowned and gave him a questioning look.
"Your Highness, I will take it."
"Ah."
After getting permission, he quickly took out his mobile phone and poked the screen.
However, after trying for a long time, the black screen showed no response.
The gloom in Andre's eyes grew more intense.
Cold sweat oozed from Recht's forehead. He fiddled with the phone with his hands, and tapped it from time to time with his fingers.
Just as his vision went dark due to nervousness, his right hand accidentally pressed a button on the side and the screen finally lit up.
"It's activated, it's activated, Your Highness!"
"Play the video."
"As ordered!"
Excitedly, I stretched out my finger and poked it again, but the nightmare came again.
My fingers were about to break, but the picture of the beach wouldn't move.
Damn it!
The image moved when I clicked it, what happened?!
Zhang Mu was picking his ears calmly: "Are you done?"
Andre's eyelids twitched constantly, and he asked in a low voice: "Are you done?"
"It..." Recht swallowed his saliva, "It seems to be damaged... Yes, it must be damaged!"
He quickly walked behind the sofa, took the mobile phones of the remaining four city lords, and tried them one by one.
At this time, the city lords around Andre had already foreseen what was going to happen.
That guy will definitely ask for his phone.
The smarter ones left the hall silently, while the dumber ones were pulled away by the former.
They knew in their hearts that the blood sacrifice formation was most likely fake.
Since the Lord of Edge has informed everyone, he must have a solution.
As these city lords did not want to break up with Andre right now, but also wanted to save Zhang Mu's life, leaving the scene was the best option.
As for the city lord of the second prince's camp, he stood there quietly.
They and Andre had long been on opposite sides, so naturally they had nothing to worry about.
Sure enough, after trying four mobile phones and still failing to bring out the image, Recht randomly turned his gaze to the city lord present.
"Quick, hand over the magic items!"
Perhaps because he was panicked, the first person he went to was the city lord who had just refuted Andre.
The city lord smiled slightly and said, "What magic item?
Mr. Recht, just say it, as long as I have it, I will never be stingy. "
"Don't play dumb with me!" He said with a grim expression, "Edge has given it to everyone, hand it over!"
"Lord Aigi has never given me any magic items." He glanced around, "Everyone can testify to this."
The city lords responded immediately.
"Yes, Lord Aigi never gave me any magic items."
"I didn't receive it either. How about you?" the person who spoke turned his head and asked.
"Same."
The city lord who was asked first smiled and said, "Look, Mr. Recht, no one has it."
Someone crossed his arms and quipped, "What's the situation? Why did Mr. Recht say that everyone has one?"
"I understand." Zhang Mu took over the conversation with a look of enlightenment, "It must be that Recht is secretly dissatisfied with the royal family, so he found someone to impersonate the Grand Duke and slander the royal family.
Then he stuffed a magic item into each person's room, intending to frame us.
It's just that he seemed to have made some mistakes during the execution, or the city lords were vigilant enough, which resulted in him not being able to sneak the magic props into our room."
"You're talking nonsense!" Recht pointed at him angrily, "Why should I..."
"You still dare to deny it?!"
Zhang Mu suddenly jumped up, stepped on the back of the sofa to gain leverage, and kicked Andre's nose with his other foot intentionally or unintentionally. Then, with the momentum of a dive, he punched Recht in the right eye socket.
"My fellow city lords, serve the royal family with all your loyalty, right now!"
Riding on the fallen Recht, Zhang Mu waved his fists and greeted everyone.
For high-level magicians, only releasing magic and mobilizing magic power to fight is considered to be using force; simple hand-to-hand combat can only be called a fight.
The city lords recalled this church rule that they had ignored in the past.
When they came to their senses, all the magicians shouted "How dare you slander the royal family" and walked around the side of the sofa to the five city lords, rolled up their sleeves and started punching and kicking them.
Some people are dissatisfied with the lack of power of their fists, so they simply use their wands as sticks, holding the bottom with both hands and swinging them to hit others.
You know, as high-level professionals, they never hesitate to invest in their own weapons.
Those magic wands were all made of fine steel. Five of them tried to resist, but the city lord was knocked to the ground by the people who outnumbered him. His screams were so painful that anyone could cry!
The city lords of the knight profession who were standing in place here watched everyone beat each other to their heart's content, their hands itching but they could only hold it in. For the first time in their lives, they regretted not choosing to be a magician when they were young.
The group of noble magicians were fighting like peasants in the village without any manners. Andre was stunned for a few minutes before he came to his senses and shouted:
"Stop it all!"
The city lords subconsciously stopped and looked up at Andre, who had a footprint on his left cheek.
Zhang Mu, who was riding on Recht, swung his fists even harder: "Recht's slander of the royal family is slandering Your Highness. He is slandering you, Your Highness Andre!"
When everyone heard this, their eyes lit up: "How dare you slander His Highness Andre!"
After cursing, he continued to swing his staff.
"Stop!"
Andre's roar echoed in the hall. The city lords felt that they couldn't go too far, so they all put away their staffs and stood apart. Only Zhang Mu was still hammering people.
His face was gloomy. "Lord Aigi, it's time to go to the performance review meeting."
"I dont go."
Clenching his fists, he took a deep breath to calm his temper: "Recht and the others have to go."
"Oh, too."
Zhang Mu let go of the bruised and battered Recht and stood up: "Your Highness, I think we should sentence him to death by hanging. He is so audacious... Hey, what's wrong with you?"