The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

Chapter 841: The Overconfident Ice Bear Grand Duke

Bouvelles is the capital of the northern Ice Bear County, and it is also the location of the family castles of the Ice Bear Grand Dukes. It is also the most prosperous and lively place in the seven northern counties.

Because Bouviers is located in a ring-shaped valley, there are also a large number of geothermal hot springs in the valley, so even though it is one of the places closest to the endless edge in the north, the temperature here is not low at all, and it can be said that it is like spring all year round.

Also because of the special temperature in Bouviers, most of the lords and nobles of Ice Bear County will choose to spend the winter in Bouviers as long as there is nothing to do in their territories during the harshest winter. This habit has made the nobles in the entire Ice Bear County have a very deep relationship. They have intermarried with each other, and they are almost relatives.

In addition, the nobles and nobles in Ice Bear County all have more or less the blood of the Renault people, which makes them extremely united.

There is a proverb in Daliat, which refers to the nobles of Ice Bear County. Revenge, and the united Ice Bear County is definitely a decisive force in the entire circle of nobles in Daliyat.

only. It may be because of the influence of their own Renault bloodline that the Ice Bear County, from the Grand Duke to the Knight, seems not to like to intervene in the affairs of the outside world of Ice Bear County. As long as those things do not harm the interests of Ice Bear County, they will ignore it. For example, who owns the throne of the kingdom? In the eyes of the nobles of Ice Bear County, it is not as important as whether their barn is filled before winter.

However, this default rule of not interfering in other things was broken by Lazio Faran, the Grand Duke of Ice Bear. Training, ran to Dai Lisha to be the palace minister.

Although, it didn't take long for him to be deprived of the duties and rights of the palace minister by the new queen, and he was driven back to Bouvelles, but the nobles in Ice Bear County knew that this matter was endless, because the Grand Duke was driven back after being driven back. , became crazy, and he could often be heard cursing the new queen loudly in the castle, and deliberately found some women who looked so similar to the queen as maids, and ravaged these women even more. It will be executed directly.

It's no different that Lazio Faran's hatred for the new queen has completely made him lose his mind, even his mind, like a lunatic.

The most serious thing in recent times is that the Grand Duke’s cousin, Earl of Snow Deer, Cambay Farren, has just returned from studying at the King’s Academy of Dellyte and inherited the title and territory. As a result, at the family banquet, he just said that After uttering a word of praise to the Queen, Lazio Farran blinded one eye. Among the nobles who dissuaded him at that time, six people were also severely beaten by Lazio Farran, and one of them had a very high prestige in Ice Bear County. Athos, president of the Society of Pharmacists.

Campbell Fran has a high reputation among the people of Ice Bear County. When he was very young, he saved a pair of commoner brothers and sisters from a furious Ice Bear. When he grew up, he was even more merciful. Treating the poor in every Ice Bear County, they often rescue those civilians who are short of supplies after winter, so the civilians in Ice Bear County also call him the benevolent Campbell.

As for the prestige of Athos, the president of the Society of Pharmacists, among the people, it is not much higher than that of Campbell Farren.

Because Ice Bear County is next to the endless ice sheet, the climate is cold and harsh, and no medical school doctors are willing to come here permanently, so many people from Ice Bear County choose to go to the medical school to study, and after they are ready to study, they will return to the ice Bear County.

But after seeing the colorful world outside, everyone was attracted physically and mentally, and the cold and lonely Ice Bear County was also left behind by them. Only Ados, who was born in poverty, returned to Ice Bear County. He spent a lot of time collecting and arranging Dailiat's unique herbal medicines, improving prescriptions, treating patients, recruiting apprentices, and finally founded the Pharmacist Society that belonged exclusively to Dailiat, and became the first member of the Pharmacist Society. President.

The establishment of the Society of Pharmacists has reduced the death rate due to diseases in the entire Daliyat by more than half, so President Ados has become the most respected person in Daliyat other than the queen.

However, these two people who were highly respected by the common people were wounded by Grand Duke Ice Bear just because of a word. Call Lazio Faran behind his back as the Mad Grand Duke.

The ordinary people in the folk are dissatisfied with the Grand Duke Ice Bear, and the nobles of the Ice Bear County, except for a few nobles who are closely related to the Grand Duke Ice Bear, the rest of the nobles respect the Grand Duke Ice Bear, even if they come to Bouviers During the winter, I will not go to the annual winter banquet again, so as not to be beaten because of a mistake in one sentence.

However, it is clear that the actions of these nobles have angered the Grand Duke Ice Bear. Before the winter feast, he sent envoys to all the nobles in Ice Bear County, including the lowest gentry, and demanded that all The nobles must go to the Ice Bear Castle in Bouviers to participate in the winter feast, including the Earl of Snowbuck, who was blinded in one eye by him at the last winter feast, and Athos, the president of the Apothecary Society. .

Although in the order he didn't express clearly what the consequences would be if he didn't come to participate, but thinking of the increasingly crazy Grand Duke Ice Bear, all kinds of crazy behaviors this year, especially the recent ones, they would think of the consequences. It will be very serious, so each of them dare not resist, and they all came to Bouvelles in advance, waiting for the winter feast to be held a few days later.

Because of concerns about the increasingly crazy behavior of the Ice Bear Grand Duke, the atmosphere of the Bouviers Winter Festival this year is not very enthusiastic. The streets of Bouviers are a bit deserted. There should have been many entertainers here to perform, and a large number of tourists and people Gather here to celebrate the arrival of winter, but now the whole of Bouviers is as quiet as a dead city, the people are staying at home, tourists are hiding in hotels, and the nobles also choose to stay in the hot springs they booked In the hotel, there is no contact with the outside world.

All of them are not only worried about when the mad Grand Duke Ice Bear will go crazy again and do some crazy actions, but also worry about when the Queen and the Church's army will come over and a war will break out.

Because, not long ago, Grand Duke Ice Bear did something crazy to the extreme. On the daily church prayer day, he killed the bishop who was teaching the doctrine to the believers, smashed the statue of the Ice and Snow Goddess, and dismantled the Ice and Snow Goddess. Holy Church, and ordered to expel the Ice and Snow Goddess Church in Ice Bear County.

Although there are not many devout believers in the Ice and Snow Goddess Church in Ice Bear County, with the full development of the Ice and Snow Goddess Church, almost all the people are pan believers of the Ice and Snow Goddess. It is already their duty to go to the church for morning prayer every ten days In daily life, the actions of Grand Duke Ice Bear have undoubtedly angered all the people, and these people are more worried about the attitude of the queen and the church. They are not willing to start a war with the queen and the church because of a lunatic.

"Don't worry, she won't come in these few months, and her army won't appear on the border of Ice Bear County." Grand Duke Ice Bear was regarded as a lunatic by the nobles and people of the whole Ice Bear County. Lazio Faran stood at the highest point of the Ice Bear Castle at this moment, staring at the deserted city below, and calmly answered the doubts in his heart for the nobles who were still loyal to him.

At this moment, Grand Duke Ice Bear is not as crazy as the outside rumors say, on the contrary, he looks very calm and wise. In addition to his already outstanding stalwart figure and his junior high school temperament, those who are loyal to him still respect him. With strong confidence, he did not abandon him like other nobles.

A nobleman asked boldly: "Can you reveal a little bit, what exactly do you want to do? So that we can make preparations."

Lazio Fran turned his head to look at the nobleman, who seemed a little nervous, then he patted the nobleman on the shoulder and said, "You don't need to know too much, just do your own thing according to your usual behavior .”

Hearing Lazio Fran's words, the noble didn't dare to ask any more questions, lowered his head, and responded.

Afterwards, Lazio Fran waved at them, indicating that they could leave, and then changed a direction, that direction was the direction of the national capital, Dai Lisa, and at this moment the calmness and wisdom on his face faded away, and the rest Only ferociously, and gritted his teeth, he said, "Leah Venistan, since I can help you ascend to the throne, I can also pull you off the throne, and the humiliation I will taste will make you feel ten times worse." taste."

After uttering some harsh words, he turned around and wanted to leave, but at this time a snow eagle flew over from a distance, the snow eagle circled in the air, and flew into the eagle's nest tower not far away.

Seeing this scene, Lazio Faran frowned and didn't leave. Instead, he waited for a while. There was a rush of footsteps coming from the entrance and exit, followed by his chief agent holding a red sealing wax The secret letter came out, and after seeing him, he quickly walked up to him and handed him the sealed wax secret letter.

As a result, after the secret letter, Grand Duke Bingxiong showed a little serious expression on his face, checked the seal on the sealing wax of the secret letter, found no trace of breaking, then crushed it, took out the secret letter inside, and He put it in front of his eyes and took a quick look.

"Humph! She actually found someone to assassinate me. It seems that I guessed right. She is busy with that matter and dare not transfer her people away from Dai Lisa. This will provide me with a few months of support." Time," Lazio Faran said with a smug smile on his face, "a few months is enough, enough! Now she has sent an assassin to assassinate me, which just gave me a handle." Then, He turned his head to look at the spy chief next to him, and said, "I've monitored any outsiders in Bouvelles immediately, and I want to know their every move."

"Yes, master." The spy chief immediately nodded in response.

The place where they talk is the highest place in Bouvelles, the tallest spire in Ice Bear Castle. From here, you can overlook the whole city, and it is also the most suitable place to talk about secret things, because no one can steal here. Hear them talk, at least until today.

However, when Grand Duke Ice Bear was confidently laying out his plan, he didn't know that there was someone standing on the hillside outside Bouviers watching him and listening to every word they talked. Leo rushed over from Cullenville.

In fact, Leo had already rushed over to Bouvelles in the early morning, but he did not enter the city. He could feel that the atmosphere in the city was not right, so he decided to go outside the city to understand the situation inside before thinking about it. Next step.

So he has been using the spirit net outside the city to monitor the situation inside the castle, and he doesn't know if it's because of the influence of Lia Venistan, or because of other reasons, there is also no interference device in the Ice Bear Castle , so that her mental network can still clearly feed back various information after expanding its coverage.

He had already noticed the actions of Grand Duke Ice Bear and others just now, and knew the content of their conversation.

Regarding the fact that Grand Duke Ice Bear was going to use him as evidence against Lia Winistan, Leo could only smile disdainfully and didn't care.

Not to mention whether Grand Duke Ice Bear can catch him, even if he can be caught, it is impossible to threaten Lia Winistan.

Because he knew very well that even if Lia Venistan, who had obtained another demigod's origin, was very weak, it was still not something ordinary people could deal with, not to mention that there were so many fanatics around her, the knights of the church, and so on. For those nobles who are loyal to her, it is almost impossible for Grand Duke Ice Bear to pull her down from the throne.

Unless the Grand Duke Ice Bear cooperates with the two countries in the south, let the two countries send troops to hold Lia Winistan's people, and let either of the two gods, the king of the hill or the lord of life and death, take action, otherwise It is simply impossible to defeat Leah Venistan, who is already a demigod.

Through the exploration of the spirit network, Leo already knows the situation inside the Ice Bear Castle well. It is not difficult to kill the Ice Bear Grand Duke, but he is not going to do so. He is ready to wait for a suitable opportunity to solve the Ice Bear Grand Duke. , By the way, create a little trouble for Lia Winistan, so as to save Lia Winistan from making any noise when he is about to leave.

Although Lia Winistan didn't show it obviously, Leo could still feel that Lia Winistan didn't give up what she told him in the palace, so he decided to take advantage of Lia Winistan Stan first completed the deal while he was still weak, and left here as soon as possible. As for the other part of the deal, protecting her from recovering her strength, he never considered it at all. She has fully recovered, and it is not certain whether she and Sylvia will be able to walk.