Lord of War

After Sean took over, Black Swan Castle has undergone five renovations. Although it cannot be said to be a reconstruction, basically many places have been overthrown and rebuilt. However, the only thing that has not undergone any rectification is the underground structure of the Black Swan Castle.

Here is already the lair of Sheena Vorst and her Crypt Frost Spider Queen—the soldiers in charge of guarding the Black Swan Castle call this place the Ice Lair.

Of course, Hina will definitely not sleep in this kind of place. She has a room of her own in Black Swan Castle, and she has undergone systematic training from Rina before, and after receiving the power feedback from the Crypt Cold Spider Queen, Hina's personal strength has also been steadily improving. Although she is only fourteen years old now, she already has the strength of a lower-ranked bronze. From a certain point of view, this can be regarded as the category of genius.

Moreover, this Crypt Frost Spider Queen has also started laying eggs in the ground—since Hina signed the contract with the Crypt Frost Spider Queen, more than a year has passed now, just in time to usher in the first birth of the Crypt Frost Spider Queen. egg stage.

The so-called initial egg stage is the first egg laying by the Pit Cold Spider Queen. The cold crypt spiders hatched from these eggs have stronger combat effectiveness than the cold crypt spiders born later. Their duties are similar to the existence of the queen's guard, so in terms of finding food and so on, these ground cold spiders will be more powerful. Cave Spider Guardians will not attack, they will only attack enemies that threaten the Crypt Spider Queen.

Basically, every Crypt Frost Spider guard has the strength of a sixth-level monster, that is, the combat power of a low-level gold.

now. Ordinary people no longer approach the "Ice Nest" at will. Even with the restraint and suppression of Hina and the Crypt Frost Spider Queen, there is no guarantee that no one will do some weird behaviors. And once the Crypt Frost Spider Guardian judged it to be threatening. Then they will attack immediately. With the strength of the sixth-level monsters, even if Hina and the Crypt Frost Spider Queen want to stop them, it is absolutely too late.

Therefore, both William and Neil issued clear orders to the people of Black Swan Castle, forbidding anyone to go to the ice nest.

Over time, newcomers came to Black Swan Castle. I didn't know that there was a special place called Ice Nest under the castle.

Like the Marquis of Floris, even though his personal strength is very strong, he still hasn't discovered what is hidden under the castle. In his eyes it seems. There is no difficulty in capturing Black Swan Castle at all. Even if he is only given a small army of about a hundred people, he has several different tactics to take this castle within a day. Of course, the premise is that the castle guards The strength is also around a hundred people.

Think about it. Marquis Floris, who was sitting in the meeting room of Black Swan Castle, smiled helplessly: "Occupational diseases."

There was a knock on the door.

Interrupted the divergent thinking of Marquis Floris.

Pushed the door and entered. It was Sean, and there was no one else behind him.

"Your Excellency the Duke." After seeing Sean enter the door, the Marquis Floris hurriedly got up and said.

"Lord Floris, you're welcome, we're all so familiar." Xiao En smiled, and walked quickly to the side of the conference table. He didn't choose to sit opposite the Marquis Floris, but Take a seat at the nearest location next to you. To some extent, this can indeed show Sean's attitude.

At this very moment. He didn't want to break with the Ryan Kingdom yet.

"About your encounter on the Finnistine clan this time,

His Majesty the King expresses great concern and has therefore sent me to offer you my condolences. "The Marquis of Floris originally thought that Sean was so young, so he would be furious at this time because of the previous experience. He even prepared several sets of excuses for this, but seeing Sean's calm appearance, it seems Marquis Loris's heart sank.

He has dealt with Sean more than once, so he has a basic grasp of Sean's character. If Sean was very angry, it could at least show that he didn't take this matter to heart, at least there were many ways to appease Sean. But once Sean shows a calm attitude, it proves that this matter has been fully included in his priority range, which proves that it is obviously impossible to simply smooth this matter out.

"Thank you, Your Majesty, for me." Sean replied very politely, "Lord Floris, I have already prepared five thousand barbarians for what we mentioned in the capital, this time you leave You can take it with you when you arrive. I will arrange relevant guards to accompany you and be responsible for your safety on the road.”

Hearing what Xiao En said, Marquis Floris finally sighed helplessly.

After a moment of silence, the marquis said: "Your Excellency Xiao En, I am indeed sorry for the previous situation, but His Majesty the King did not expect that the Finnstein family would do such a crazy thing. Wait until we know When the situation arises, it has already been stopped at the fastest speed... At present, all participants, as long as they have real evidence, have been arrested."

Hearing what Flores said, Sean took a deep look at the other party, and then sighed: "I also know that His Majesty the King is hard to do. In fact, I don't blame His Majesty the King, or the Kingdom of Ryan. When I learned of His Majesty's actions, I was indeed relieved. No matter what the reasons were, I really had to be grateful. Otherwise, I'm afraid I wouldn't be able to leave the control of the Finnstein family. Clan leader."

Sean himself had some guesses afterwards. He had perfect control over his territory for hundreds of years, and even penetrated and controlled the surrounding territories. He didn't think that he could really break through the encirclement so easily. Even with the full dispatch and tacit cooperation of the Void Realm, this is destined to be a tragic and bloody road. If it is said that there is no infiltration and assistance from larger forces behind it, Xiao En will not believe it anyway.

Therefore, the only explanation is that the Marquis of Floris got the nod of King Lane, so he will spare no effort to help.

"His Majesty's decision has been made." Marquis Floris said softly, and then took out a clerical document from his arms. Handed it in front of Sean, "The Finnstein family will be deprived of their nobility and retain the title of hereditary viscount. The fiefdom will be moved to the north. The Dovigo family will be deprived of their title of nobility and completely become commoners. The descendants of the next three generations will receive the title. As for the Sebarox family, the fiefdom will remain unchanged, but the title will be reduced to a hereditary earl."

For an aristocratic family, demotion is not a terrible punishment, anyway, as long as there is war. Then there is always a chance to move forward. But once forced to change the fiefdom, then this kind of punishment can be considered very serious-of course, it may also be due to the loss of compensation in a private war. Instead, you need to pay for the fiefdom that you have worked hard for many years.

The Dovigo family's title of nobility was revoked and they were demoted to commoners. This was indeed a great punishment, even more serious than the Finnstein family's forced request to change their fiefdoms. There is even a condition that blood descendants of three generations cannot obtain the title. This is tantamount to announcing that the Dovigo family will no longer want to be in the Kingdom of Ryan. Basically, there is no difference from exiling the Dovigo family, but doing so is only a little bit nicer in name.

As for why the punishment of the Sebarox family is so light, Sean is also understandable. After all, there are still 40,000 people in the Silent Mountain Range. With a Silent Mountain Range, of course, the title of "Lian's Most Heavy Infantry Corps" will definitely not be kept. And when he thought of this, Xiao En felt a little envious of these nobles with solid foundations.

"I understand." Sean nodded slightly. Expressing acceptance of such a result, in fact, the punishment for these hostile families is severe. It was already in Sean's expectation, but the discussion between him and Hella and others before him probably required him to protest, but he didn't expect that he hadn't said anything yet. The wise king of the first Lion king made such a move.

There really is nothing like it when it comes to reassuring people.

But the next moment, Sean's eyes fell on the document that Marquis Floris pushed over.

"This is another gift for you." Floris emphasized the word "you" when addressing Sean, which surprised Sean.

For a long time, Sean and Floris had been polite to each other in their communication, but they had never been so polite to the current level. So Sean, with some doubts, tore off the sealant on the file bag, and took out a few sheets of paper inside.

This is a contract document in duplicate, or a standard magic contract, which means it is an official document approved by the contract god. Once this document is signed, it means that both parties will act in accordance with this contract document in the future.

But what really stunned Sean was the words printed on the top of the contract document.

The Principality of the Void was established.

"This is..." Xiao En looked down, and sure enough, he found that the King of Ryan, Ingus Ryan, had signed his name on the contract document.

"This is another compensation from His Majesty the King." Marquis Floris smiled, "Congratulations, Your Excellency Sean, I will call you Grand Duke of Void from now on."

"Grand Duke of the Void..." Sean looked at the contract document in his hand in astonishment. He never thought that the King of Ryan would actually give him such a big gift, which means that Sean was completely allowed All autonomous actions on the territory, including the construction and scale of the army, the issuance of currency, the adjustment of taxation, the adjustment of import and export of trade, and various laws that can be completely determined by oneself.

As long as Sean signs this contract document, besides paying a certain amount of offerings to the Kingdom of Ryan every year, he can do whatever he wants, even launching military operations against the nobles of Ryan. , and from then on, they are completely not subject to the command and orders of the Ryan Kingdom!

Void Principality.

This development seems to be much faster than Sean expected.

ps: At the third watch, ask for a monthly pass. I won’t say any extra words, I hope you will join me a lot. (to be continued)【】