Chapter 474 Allegiance 1
“Your Highness.”
After placing the chess pieces in his hands on the chessboard, Old Marshal MacDonald raised his head and asked.
"You came to me today not only to play chess, right?"
A smile appeared on Antonio Griffin's face.
His Highness - the second prince of the Gabela Empire - possesses unparalleled beauty. His face is like a sculpture master with obsessive-compulsive disorder who spent his life carving it. Every detail explains what perfection is. things.
The prince's smile is extremely lethal to anyone who faces him, including men.
The old marshal who was playing chess with him was no exception.
What a fascinating face.
The old marshal sighed secretly in his heart, he really inherited his mother's beauty perfectly.
Thinking of the prince's mother, Macdonald fell into long memories for a while.
"Your Excellency Macdonald, can't I invite my comrades who lived and died with me on the front line to have a small gathering for a while?"
Antonio's answer interrupted the old marshal's memories.
He said: "Please forgive me for being blunt, Your Highness. In your capacity, in my capacity, and in this sensitive moment, you do this... Your Highness, or in your eyes, I am a person who only knows how to do it." A warrior who leads troops to fight, but I also have my own thoughts on politics."
Antonio smiled and said, "Haha, if in my heart you are a warrior who only leads troops to fight, then today. Not sitting here. Your Excellency, you are undoubtedly one of the most important pillars of the Empire, both military and political."
He looked at MacDonald sincerely, "Old Marshal, then, what kind of person am I in your heart?"
"Uh..." MacDonald hesitated to speak.
"Please tell the truth, old marshal."
"Okay, Your Highness. You are undoubtedly an outstanding person in my heart, even the most outstanding person I have ever met. Man, I am a general of the empire, but in the military aspect that I am most proud of, your talents are also deeply admired by me. The time when I fought side by side with you was the best time in my life. One of the honors worth recalling. But..."
The old marshal carefully considered his words.
"Based on my decades of experience in observing people - although it is not always accurate - you seem to have a lot on your mind, and this worry, please forgive my bluntness again, is probably not just about your own origins and brothers. From my observation of you, these two things are annoying but not enough to worry you."
Antonio picked up the wine glass on the table and said, "I respect you. A glass for you, Marshal."
McDonald immediately raised his glass in return.
"In this case, Marshal Macdonald, am a person like me a lord worthy of the loyalty of a person like you?"
Prince Antonio's straightforwardness made the old marshal almost choke.
"Ahem! Your Highness, the Lord I am loyal to is Emperor Bartley Griffin - your father."
"I know, Mr. Nike Donner. I mean..."
Antonio said sincerely:
"I mean, if, one day in the future, the empire falls into some kind of difficulty and you need to re-choose your allegiance, how would you choose?"
There was a hint of seriousness in his sincerity.
"Of course, I swear that your choice is absolutely based on your loyalty to my father. I can swear to my mother that I will never do any harm to the morality you uphold."
McDonald was silent, savoring the meaning of the prince's words.
His Highness seemed to point out three situations:
First, the emperor did not clearly designate who was the heir; second, the emperor designated him as the heir;
Third, the emperor designated his The elder brother is the heir.
What His Highness means is that he hopes that he can support him when the first and second situations occur.
In the third situation, he respects his loyalty to the current emperor and will not use any special means to get himself on his side - just like what the Dias family did to him For that.
But if I choose his brother, I think I will meet His Highness on the battlefield.
Antonio's oath - not to do any harm to the moral principles he upholds - should be serious. After all, he is swearing to his mother. MacDonald believes that even if His Highness can take The Lord of Light would not make fun of his own mother.
well!
McDonald couldn't help but let out a deep lament from the bottom of his heart.
What a pity! What a pity!
Destiny likes to play tricks on mortals.
Your Highness, let us meet on the battlefield.
"Your Highness!"
McDonald endured the grief and said: "If you could come to me earlier, maybe I would give you the answer you want - I will stand on your side without hesitation. But Now...it's too late...it's too late."
"Hahahaha!"
Antonio laughed heartily.
"Marshal Macdonald, I know what kind of stone is holding you back."
Seeing the look of surprise on Macdonald's face, he raised his hand to stop the old marshal who wanted to speak.
“I know that a long time ago, when the emperor of the empire was still my great-grandfather, in his last years, the empire also faced the same situation as now, but the protagonist at that time was me. "My grandfather and his brother."
"...The final result was that my grandfather ascended the throne of the emperor and his brother disappeared in the long river of history."
< br>“And your family—Marshal, please forgive me for my cruelty—the original allegiance was to my grandfather’s brother, but due to various reasons, they switched their allegiance to my grandfather.”
When Antonio told the story, the old marshal showed shame on his face.
"So, your family made an oath to at least ensure that the blood of the original object of allegiance can be passed down."
"Am I right? Sir Macdonald."
Old Marshal As if some restraint in his heart had broken, he covered his face and said in a low voice:
"Yes, Your Highness, it is this oath - which is also the witness of the MacDonald family's stain - that makes me unable to On your side."
"I...I can't let that child get hurt, and I can't let my family be humiliated again by breaking the oath."
With a look of pity in Antonio's eyes, he stood up, walked around the stone table where the chessboard was placed, came to MacDonald, and then stretched out his hand to put on his shoulder.
He said: "Your Excellency, I understand the burden you bear. Your insistence on the family oath makes your image in my heart even greater."
"But please listen now. I said."
"This stumbling block..."
"I have moved it for you."
(End of this chapter)