At this moment, the eyes of the entire room were gathered on the king.
“Dad, I was just talking blindly with a short-circuit in my brain, this matter has nothing to do with me! Dad you must believe me!”Prince Sharai said eagerly.
Although the truth was already obvious, Prince Shalai wasn’t planning to admit it yet, he was definitely going to deny it to the end.
The king glared at him with a grim gaze.
The king wasn’t a fool, he was as clear as a mirror in his heart, he knew that a chief of guards, without someone else’s instructions, would definitely not dare to do such a thing.
However, Prince Shalai was his son, and also the first son, and also the heir he had identified, he definitely had to take sides.
So the king looked at the chief of the guards.
“In the recording, you said that my son and Ibri instructed you to do it right?”The king questioned with a stern face.
“Yes …… yes King.”The chief of the guards could only nod his head.
“Splat!”
The king directly slapped the head guard’s face.
“I see that you are clearly failing to retaliate and are afraid of taking the blame, so you are making things up, even if it’s the words in the recording, you are still lying aren’t you!”The king shouted violently.
After the chief of the guards received this slap, he was instantly confused.
“King, I …… didn’t lie, I …… what I said is true, this really has nothing to do with me! I was just following orders!”The chief of the guards eagerly said.
“Pah!”
“How dare you lie!”
The king slapped them in the face again.
“Men, immediately drag him out and shoot him!”The king shouted.
“Yes!”
Several guards immediately rushed up and escorted the guard leader outside.
Such a drastic change in the situation once again caused both Lin Yun and Igor’s faces to change drastically.
“No! Help Prince Igor, I helped you tell the truth!”The leader of the guards called out for help.
“Dad, he’s the only witness who knows the truth, he can’t just be killed!”Igor immediately stepped forward to plead for mercy.
If the chief of guards was killed, there would be no more witnesses.
“He committed an assassination in the royal palace, the crime deserves death, I’m doing this for you and Mr Lin Yun, to do justice.”The king said slowly with his hands behind his back.
Lin Yun couldn’t help but shake his head.
Lin Yun knew very well in his heart that the king was in such a hurry to execute the chief of the guards, just for the sake of being dead, just to help Prince Sharai, just to let the chief of the guards take on the entirety of the people involved in this matter.
Lin Yun understood that the king definitely already knew that Prince Igor was behind this matter.
However, he wanted to force this culpability onto the body of the chief of guards, and his purpose for doing so was simple, it was clear that he wanted to protect Prince Shalai, and that the chief of guards had become the scapegoat.
Even the family patriarchs and upper nobles present also knew this, but they just wouldn’t be stupid enough to say it.
Lin Yun had made a thousand calculations, and had even kept all the evidence on tape, originally thinking that he could turn Prince Sharai’s army!
But Lin Yun had overlooked one thing, overlooked King Sharai’s determination to favour his eldest son.
Even if the evidence was ironclad, the King of Shalai would be able to shrug off the guilt and absolve the Prince of Shalai with a single word.
In the blink of an eye, the chief of guards was dragged out of the hall.
If the heads of the six great families present, as well as the nobles, had come forward to speak for Igor, there might have been a slight chance of a turnaround, but no one spoke for Igor.
Igor’s and Lin Yun’s faces, they weren’t looking too good.
Prince Sharai, on the other hand, looked very happy, and even looked at Lin Yun and Iggy with provocative eyes, as if to say, ”How about this, you still can’t do anything about me”!
King Sharai looked towards his second uncle, Ibri.
“Ibri, you’re in charge of the security of the royal palace and yet this happened, with immediate effect, you’ll be demoted by one degree to marquis!”King Sharai said with a stern face.
Ibri was originally a duke, the highest level of knighthood.
“Yes!”Ibri could only nod his head.
King Sharai looked at Igor and Lin Yun again.
“Igor, Mr Lin Yun, the murderer who assassinated you, I’ve already executed, Igor you’ve had a shock this time, it just so happens that I also have the intention of knighthood for you, I’ll add you as a Marquis, and then give you a set of Marquis’ residence outside the palace.”King Sharai said.
King Shalai’s purpose for doing this was simple, he also knew that he hadn’t been able to do it for Igor, so he added a title to Igor, counting it as a compensation for Igor.
It was important to know that Iggy was only an Earl before this, which didn’t really match his status, and was enough to show how unappreciated he was.
Including the demotion of Ibri’s title, it was also considered as a compensation for Igor, which was to eliminate the resentment in Igor’s heart.
“Thank you father.”
Although Igor was not willing to have such an outcome, but it couldn’t be helped, increasing the knighthood by one degree was also considered to be barely redeeming a little bit of the loss.
“You guys have also been frightened, go back and rest first.”King Sharai waved his hand.
“Yes father!”Igor bowed.
Immediately afterwards, Igor and Lin Yun then left.
King Sharai also dismissed the patriarchs and nobles present, telling them to go back and rest as well.
After Lin Yun and Igor walked out of the great hall.
“Brother Lin Yun, do you want your wounds treated?”Igor opened his mouth to enquire.
“It’s fine, I’ll just go back and treat it myself.”Lin Yun waved his hand.
This was a superficial wound, Lin Yun only needed to remove the bullet, and the wound would be healed by tomorrow morning, the healing power of a cultivator was a lot more powerful than a normal person, and the higher the realm, the stronger the healing power of the cultivator was as well.
“Brother Lin Yun, I really didn’t expect that it would turn out like this.”Igor hung his head and shook it.
“Now it seems that we were still in a hurry, it’s not that easy to defeat your brother.”Lin Yun shook his head.
Lin Yun had originally thought that he could use this incident to turn Prince Sharai’s army.
Now, it seemed that Lin Yun was still thinking too simply, and had still underestimated the Sharai King’s determination to protect him.
“Yeah, from this incident it’s enough to see how important my father’s support is, if it was me who directed the assassination to be defeated today, even if I wasn’t punished, I would have been chipped away at all my identities and expelled from Shalai, whereas what happened to my brother was to help absolve him of his guilt.”Igor smiled bitterly to himself.
“Of course it’s not without rewards, at least it makes us understand how important your father’s support is, it can even be said that whoever he supports can determine the success or failure of whoever he supports, in addition to the fact that you’ve been given an additional knighthood, that’s also considered a gain.”Lin Yun said.
After a pause, Lin Yun continued, “So our next goal is to gain the support of the six great families and the many nobles, as well as getting your father’s support!”
“I’m just the son of a concubine, and since my dad favours my brother, it’s much harder to gain his support.”Igor shook his head.
“Iggy, don’t forget that the path we’re on is supposed to be a path of a thousand difficulties, trust me, even though no one is supporting you or speaking for you right now, it will slowly get better.”Lin Yun patted Igor on the shoulder.
“Mm!”Igor nodded vigorously.
After so many things, Iggy didn’t know why, but he inexplicably trusted Lin Yun ……
