"You need to calm down! Liam!" Lord Godfrey shouted loudly, "You must remember that you are now the King of Gilneas! You bear the expectations of 200,000 Gilnean people. Don't let hatred blind you. Look in the mirror and see what you've become!"
Vincent Godfrey reprimanded the new king in a disappointed tone. Liam's performance was truly worrying. If he continued to be blinded by hatred, who knows what he would do?
"I…" Liam was about to retort, but a servant really brought over a mirror. He saw himself in the mirror: his eyes were bloodshot and full of blood vessels, his eye sockets were sunken, his face was extremely haggard, and his hair and beard were messy like weeds. His face and hair were even stained with some disgusting Scourge monster blood and rotten soft tissue.
He almost couldn't recognize himself—was this half-human, half-ghostly appearance really him?
Liam swallowed all his words back. He raised his head and saw the people around him looking at him with worry and fear. Seeing Godfrey's disappointed eyes, he finally woke up from his previous deep-seated hatred.
"I understand. I will not let everyone down!" Liam nodded heavily, exhaled a breath of stale air from his chest, and showed the first smile in days, "Thank you, Lord Godfrey. If I ever become like this again, please be sure to wake me up!"
"I will." Godfrey breathed a sigh of relief with satisfaction.
Liam turned around and shouted loudly: "Continue to strengthen the fortifications! We must block the Scourge here and not let them advance a single step!"
His voice sounded full of energy, restoring everyone's confidence in the new king.
Compared to Godfrey's relief, another lord was not doing well. Lord Herivel kept recalling the scene he saw in the forest: the King's heart being pierced by Ashbury, and the corpse being thrown off the cliff.
He had always firmly believed that what he saw was real, but Godfrey told him after the investigation that he might have been misled by the Scourge monsters.
Herivel felt Prince Liam's estrangement and distrust, and even he himself began to doubt whether he had really seen a hallucination. Because he knew that Ashbury's act of killing the King would only benefit the Scourge.
So he began to fall into hesitation. This made his spirit very distracted. Prince Liam was somewhat irrational because of the drive of hatred, while he became somewhat neurotic because of constant self-denial.
Until he saw the second batch of landing fleets, there was a figure there that he remembered deeply—he still remembered when he followed King Genn out of Gilneas City, the King sent him to Stormglen to find Lord Walden and Lord Ashbury to ask for reinforcements. At that time, he saw these two lords personally send someone onto the ship. Moreover, the expressions of the two were respectful, obviously sending off a big shot.
At that time, he was a little curious and asked, but the other party just perfunctorily replied. But now he saw that person again—Lord Auberon Pullman, the special envoy from Lordaeron!
Herivel would never forget this person. He had been by the King's side and had dealt with many foreign envoys. He was very familiar with celebrities like Auberon!
What does this mean?
Walden and Ashbury had secretly contacted the Alliance's special envoy before this, and deliberately concealed it from them.
'Gilneas doesn't need a selfish and short-sighted king like you. The Alliance doesn't need an unreliable ally like you either!'
He recalled what Ashbury said when he killed the King.
Herivel trembled all over, both excited and frightened: he knew the most terrible fact—he was not misled by illusions. It was Walden and Ashbury who conspired to kill King Genn! It was even at the secret instigation of the Alliance!
Even Lord Godfrey was involved—because he stood on the side of the two kinslayers, concealing the facts for them and deceiving Prince Liam!
Oh my God, three of the four surviving great nobles of Gilneas colluded to kill the King. Only he was kept in the dark, and even falsely accused!
With this group of traitors around him, how dangerous was Prince Liam's situation?
Herivel felt cold all over, but his heart was fiery. As King Genn's most trusted confidant, it was necessary for him to protect the noble bloodline of the Greymane royal family.
He must not let those three despicable traitors hold Prince Liam hostage!
With this belief, taking advantage of the rest time after dinner, Herivel avoided the eyes of others, brought Prince Liam out, and told Liam all the news he had seen and speculated.
"You mean, Walden and Ashbury had already gotten in touch with the Alliance, and it was the Alliance that wanted to get rid of my father?" Liam stared at him with extremely stern eyes.
"Yes, yes, Your Highness." Herivel was both nervous and excited, "Lord Godfrey was also involved. He definitely knows the truth! But he chose to deceive!"
Liam subconsciously couldn't believe this news. In his impression, Lord Godfrey had always been loyal to Gilneas, conscientious throughout his life, and without any blemishes. He even woke up Liam, who was deeply mired in hatred, today. How could he believe that this person would persecute his father?
Liam said in a deep voice: "You, immediately bring Lord Godfrey here for confrontation. I want to hear him admit it in person!" He was in a mess. He had clearly sorted everything out during the day. Who knew that Herivel's words would overturn all the conclusions, and even bring out a conspiracy more terrifying than Ashbury's assassination of Genn.
Could it be that Genn Greymane was so resented? The Alliance couldn't tolerate him, and even his subjects wanted to betray him?
Liam didn't believe it!
His father was not that kind of person!
Afterwards, Herivel and Godfrey both appeared in front of Liam. He opened his eyes and stared at Godfrey, not letting go of any subtle expression on his face: "Lord Godfrey, I have a question that you must answer truthfully—how did my father die? I only want the truth!"
Godfrey's heart kept sinking. Just now, Herivel said he was going to bring him to see Prince Liam, and when he found that the meeting place was avoiding outsiders, he realized that something had gone wrong.
He only felt extremely bitter. Was Gilneas destined to not escape this calamity?
He couldn't lie anymore. Just as he was about to admit it, a figure suddenly appeared beside them.
The three immediately became vigilant—it was a ball of glowing stuff, and then it turned into a human shape, a young man with black hair who was faintly glowing.
After Aiden transformed into his own mirror image, he finally breathed a sigh of relief: Fortunately, he wasn't late!
His spirit body traveled all the way from Timbermaw Hold to here, and the journey in between was no shorter than the last time from the Ghostlands to Silvermoon City. Fortunately, he still made it!
He had been infinitely radiating his spirit all the way, and only then did he detect the conversation between Herivel and Prince Liam on the way. The content of which even shocked him:
When he received the news that King Genn had been assassinated by the Scourge, he felt extremely shocked. Who knew that he would hear another version here—this King might have been assassinated by his own subjects!
Aiden still remembered that there was indeed such a section in the original World of Warcraft. When the Cataclysm came, the Greymane Wall suffered severe collapse, and the internal strife caused by the Northgate rebels led by General Darius Crowley led to the invasion of Gilneas by the Forsaken.
At this time, King Genn was still the stubborn, arrogant, and selfish character, which aroused dissatisfaction among the three lords Ashbury, Walden, and Godfrey. They kidnapped King Genn and prepared to hand him over to the Forsaken Queen in exchange for peace.
However, Royal Apothecary Krennan, who was loyal to King Genn, and Miss Gwen launched a rescue operation, dispatching adventurers (footmen) to kill Ashbury and Walden, rescuing King Genn.
Lord Godfrey then angrily shouted at Genn: "I would rather die than serve a king like you!"
Then he jumped off the cliff and committed suicide.
Now that he heard another version of the truth from Herivel, he immediately felt that it was more likely that Ashbury assassinated him—after all, he had a criminal record!
As for Lord Godfrey, he should have been aware of it, but it was not clear whether he participated.
But no matter what, if Godfrey admitted it here, wouldn't that confirm the Alliance's crime of instructing them to kill King Genn? Aiden had met King Terenas. Although he was good at political maneuvering, he was not a despicable and shameless person. He would definitely not be able to do something like hinting to others to kill his own king.
Then only another kind of enemy is very good at this kind of trickery—the Dreadlord!
Just like the damage they caused when they were besieging Scholomance, and also seducing Gavinrad to fall. This is exactly the means they are best at!