"What?!" Travis' request made Joan of Arc stunned. She was a little doubtful if she had heard it wrong.

"You mean, willing to use your title and territory to offset Alex's treason?"

"Yes..." Travis nodded with difficulty: "Your Majesty must have heard of it. Alex is my father, the first duke. When he was in his fifties, he gave birth to a child with the Maid Sailan in his family. Therefore, he was an illegitimate child. In the eyes of the outside world, he has always been a nobleman with no fame. Even he himself is very concerned about his background... Because of this, this kid's mentality is a bit extreme, and he will inevitably make some extreme actions to prove himself! But his nature is not good, but it is really not that bad..."

Joan of Arc nodded: "But there must be a limit to excessiveness. Treason is different from the ordinary!"

"The old minister naturally knew this." Travis nodded: "So, I guess he had taken up his title and territory..."

"Why?" Joan of Arc could not understand at all. Why did this Duke of Travis, who was almost killed by his younger brother, need to bail the real murderer behind the murderer? The other party not only covets his rights and status, but also takes his life!

"Why do you have to do this?"

Travis sighed and shook his head with difficulty: "As the saying goes, family scandals should not be made public... But now, I can't take care of so many things..."

Joan of Arc frowned and listened carefully to Travis's secrets about the family.

"Your Majesty only knows that Alex is an illegitimate child, but he doesn't know how he was born..." Travis sighed, as if he was a little unspeakable: "Actually, this kid's birth was planned by me!"

"What?" Joan of Arc was shocked.

"It's incredible..." Travis smiled self-deprecatingly: "As an elder brother, it actually led to the birth of his younger brother... but I have no choice..."

"I was born with a disability. When my mother gave birth to me, she died of dysfunction. But my father only loved my mother and one woman in his life. After she passed away, he never saw any woman in front of her eyes!" Travis shook his head: "But the problem is that I can't have children in my life because of illness... If my father had only me, then the bloodline of our Dragon Slayer family would be cut off from me..."

"When I realized this, I mentioned to my father more than once that with the prominent status of our Dragon Slayer family, there must be many noble ladies who don't mind age and are willing to marry their father. At that time, as long as I add another younger brother to me, our Dragon Slayer family will continue."

"But whenever I make this point, my father will get angry..." Duke Travis sighed: "Later, I really had no choice but to come up with a way to damage my decency..."

"I added the roots of Emmanuel's flowers to my father's diet... and then locked him and the maid in the room..."

"Emanuel?" This is a noun that Joan of Arc feels unfamiliar.

"That is a flower unique to the Seylan Islands, especially my Silver Moon Bay, which has a special planting field..." Earl Kaos explained: "The roots of this flower are ground into powder and taken, which can inspire people's most primitive **, especially for men!"

Joan of Arc thought for a moment, and immediately realized, his face flushed.

"You can imagine what happened later..." Travis shook his head: "The maid is pregnant with her father's child, and ten months later gave birth to a baby boy, Alex..."

"Because of this, my father was furious at me, and since then, he often scolded me for no reason. But at least, he was a man who would be responsible for what he had done. He gave the maid generous enough to let her live in the manor as a noble wife, but from beginning to end, he never admitted that she was his wife or mistress..."

"Until a few years later, my father had a heart attack. On his dying day, he pointed at the maid and asked her to be buried with him!"

Joan of Arc narrowed his eyes: "Your father still has feelings for her?"

"No, there is no!" Travis shook his head: "He just saw that this woman, after giving birth to a child, had a power ambition in her heart. I cannot give birth to children, and my future title can only be handed over to Alex. If he is influenced by this woman, forgets the honor of my Dragon Slayer family, and turns to the Selans, it may become a disaster for the empire..."

"The loyalty of the great master of the previous generation is meticulous..." Joan of Arc nodded.

Duke Travis nodded and continued, "After my father left, I took on the responsibility of educating Alex. I found him the best teacher, instilled in him the history of the family, made him proud of being a descendant of the dragon slayer, and placed high hopes for him. However, I ignored my concern for him... What this child, who had lost his parents since childhood, needed the most was the care of his family... This was my negligence... It was my negligence that made terrible thoughts arise in his heart, and finally took the wrong path!"

"But after all, he is our Dragon Slayer family, the only bloodline..." Duke Travis stood up with pain, and the Earl of Kaos, who was standing beside him immediately stepped forward to support him.

"If Your Majesty must punish me, my brother who has poor supervision is willing to be punished on his behalf... However, the bloodline of my Dragon Slayer Family must not be cut off!"

"Yu privately, this is related to the continuation of the family! Yu Gong, the unruly Sailan Binghai, also needs a powerful noble to suppress the scene... Even for the stability and unity of the empire, the Dragon Slayer family cannot be cut off!"

Looking at the nobleman who was trembling in pain and still wanted to petition him, Joan of Arc felt a sense of respect in his heart.

To be honest, she had a relationship with Duke Travis before, and had no good feelings for this noble who was tactful, despicable, and had no martial spirit. Although Odygus later pointed out that the Duke Travis was not simple, it was limited to the skills of playing with power.

But today, in front of her was a respectable nobleman who cared about her younger brother, cared about her family, and cared about the country!

Faced with the request of such an old nobleman, Joan of Arc, who was upright, almost agreed on the spot, and might even exempt Alex from his crimes. But at this moment, a knock on the door came from the door, and it was Prince Serey who asked for a meeting.
Chapter completed!