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Chapter 1220: The Winner

But compared to the king, Su Xiao's main focus was on the throne.

— The throne, " the king said suddenly. — You're looking at the throne with too much curiosity, " and he looked at Su Xiao carefully. This was definitely not the look of a dying person.

— Both the high priest and Karen knew that there was something hidden under the throne, but they couldn't know what it was. They died in front of you. As I thought, they revealed some secrets before they died, " the king said, patting the arm of the throne before leaning back. "Iron Hand, what do you want to find under the throne?" There's nothing you want to find.

The meeting room was dead silent.

— I'm looking for the key, " Su Xiao was now also ready to talk to the king. At the moment, he didn't know what was under the throne, but judging from the king's tone, he didn't seem like he was going to hide the obvious.

— A key? The king was stunned for a moment, then said — " The key is on the first floor. Do you really need this key… But in the end, you inherited the power of the shadows.

Su Xiao's identity had obviously been exposed by the king long ago. If the king hadn't been able to see the obvious, then he wouldn't have been able to disrupt such a carefully organized undead plan.

This old man looked like he was about to die, but he was actually like an old oak tree.

— It turns out that you were aiming for power, now I feel relieved. If you wanted to take this place, it wouldn't be so easy, " the king took a deep breath, and his gaze was no longer sharp. He decided not to attach too much importance to it, as in his opinion, once Iron Hand decided to go down, he simply wouldn't be able to come out alive.

The king trusted Iron Hand, but he wasn't sure if Iron Hand would be loyal to the new king.

Yes, the king didn't intend to die right now, but before he died, he planned to resort to a last resort to eliminate the last unstable factors.

It wasn't wise to eliminate Iron Hand by force, but killing him with the throne was a good choice, for when Iron Hand was assigned to eliminate the high priest, Iron Hand's real name was added to the following list.

Under normal circumstances, the high priest would have to be dealt with by the Royal Guards, because they were soldiers, and dead soldiers could keep any kind of secret.

Given the king's foresight, didn't he think that the high priest would reveal the secrets of the throne before he died?

All of this was deliberately revealed by the king.

The struggle for the throne was relentless. Joe Valentine, who had worked faithfully for the King all this time, had just passed the test. If Joe Valentine's expression had been even slightly wrong, he would never have left the boardroom.

Whole generations of different officials and ministers, direct subordinates of the king, Iron Hand, Joe Valentine and Huslet… Would the new king really be able to suppress them if anything happened?

So the king ran a series of tests. Huslet took the test first, and Joe Valentine just took it. As for Rowan Harvey, before the king could test him, he gave the king a surprise.

As for the Iron Hand test, he simply couldn't test Su Xiao, because most of the tasks were already about eliminating powerful officials, and just as the king had ordered, he actually forced all the princesses and princes to retreat.

The problem wasn't that the king didn't want to test Su Xiao, it was just that he couldn't test him.

Others didn't know about the power of the Iron Hand, but the King did.

The king was thinking of using the Royal Guards and Holy Warriors to lay siege to Su Xiao, but that would definitely cause a lot of noise, and once the rumors spread around the kingdom, the reputation of the royal family would plummet.

As for why he didn't get rid of the Iron Hand, it even sounded ridiculous. With the exception of the king, the other princes and princesses were frightened as soon as they saw the Iron Hand. Would any of them even be able to attract such a person to their side? It was absolutely impossible.

And beyond all that, the king vaguely felt that there was something wrong with the Iron Hand. What exactly was wrong, he couldn't figure out. Sometimes, Su Xiao's unintentional gaze would scare the king a little.

For example, right now, he felt that the Iron Hand wanted to cut his throat.

And this wasn't the king's illusion, Su Xiao was actually considering this option.

Su Xiao slowly walked towards the old king, causing the king's pupils to narrow.

— Your Majesty, will you allow me to descend under the throne? Su Xiao asked from just a meter away from the king.

At this moment, many doubts in the king's heart became clear.

— There are at least three hundred royal Guards outside, " After saying that, the king glared at Su Xiao, but a smile appeared on Iron Hand's face. For the first time, the king saw him smile. All this time, he had thought that Iron Hand didn't know how to smile at all.

— They can't stop me.

— You...

— This time, Su Xiao's voice no longer had a questioning tone.

— What if I don't let you? the king's muscles tensed and he leaned forward.

— Then I will kill all the direct descendants of the royal family.

— … — the king said nothing. Just now, he had shown his fangs, but he clearly didn't expect that Iron Hand, who had been obeying his orders up to this point, would also show his fangs, causing all the dialogue he had modeled in his head to be useless.

Now, the most ideal development for him was that Iron Hand would die under the throne or be imprisoned there for the rest of his life.

— Who are you? now that it had all come to this point, the king suddenly realized that if the real Iron Hand was in front of him, it would have died long ago from the undead attack.

— It doesn't matter, Bai Herbert, let's make a deal?

— The king looked at Su Xiao in surprise. He didn't expect that in such a situation, they would decide to make a deal with him.

— Let me put my candidate from among the princes or princesses on the throne. As for the authorities, I am not interested in them.

— The king looked at Su Xiao with even more surprise. For the first time, he didn't hide his surprise in a very long time. — How do you know you need someone of your own?" How do you know that?" but immediately after that, the king forced himself to calm down.

The situation was clearly out of his control.

— Perhaps you've forgotten how many people I've killed for you? It's time to make a choice.

— … — the king was dumbfounded for a moment, and then, thinking of something, smiled with relief. "Who's that?" Who exactly? Let him come to me, " the king said, and started to get up, but ended up sitting on the throne.

He realized that Su Xiao was only stalling for time.

At this moment, the doors to the hall opened and two figures entered, after which the doors immediately closed.

But in this short period of time, a little blood managed to flow inside the hall.

Right near the entrance of the hall, there were more than a dozen corpses lying around.

They were all Royal Guards.

Hundreds of royal guards in bloodstained armor stood guard around the hall, preventing anyone from entering or leaving it.

— Father, I've come to see you, " a man's voice said, and behind the owner of that voice was Joe Valentine.

— Ha-ha-ha-ha, " the king laughed heartily.

He was happy. Very happy.

— Martial, you have become my best descendant.

The King was neither angry nor offended. On the contrary, he looked at his son with relief.

It wasn't the first prince that the king had mentioned earlier, but the third prince, Martial Herbert, came to the hall.

The same third prince who lost his main support at the very beginning of the battle for the throne.