Throne of the North

"Report to the centurion, no trace of monsters was found around."

Hearing this answer, the knights in the dense forest breathed a sigh of relief.

"It seems that those legendary figures have really cleared out the monsters here."

After saying that, he raised his hand and waved.

"Keep moving forward!"

In the rear carriage team, Appia followed a human trade officer and was learning.

"There are already differences in the Andara Kingdom. Grand Duke McReynolds advocates giving the Dawn Church limited rights, while King Andara rebukes Grand Duke McReynolds for selling the interests of the kingdom to the empire."

"The two finally tore their faces openly."

"Therefore, our weapons orders are easier to sell."

"What we need to worry about is that there will be nobles in the kingdom who will intercept us halfway. I heard that some nobles who originally stood on the side of Grand Duke McReynolds returned to the king's side."

Apia is very familiar with the name of the noble, Baron Huffman. I heard that he is now Viscount Huffman. It was he who betrayed McReynolds, stood on the old king's camp, and was granted the title by the old king.

The deal between the Grand Duke and the Frozen Territory was also exposed.

However, did he really surrender?

Apia felt that there was something wrong here, no, that Baron Huffman was problematic.

There were many people in his faith.

His mission was to find out the truth.

The team was still moving forward. They had walked this road several times, and this time was the safest.

However, after another day, a rapid roar like a lion's roar suddenly came from the sky.

"Is it a griffin? No, it's the Griffin Legion. They sent out a large number of griffins. What enemy did they encounter?"

The centurion at the front was surprised, and then asked the soldiers to gather for defense.

The forest in front was shaking, and it seemed that something was running towards this side.

"Prepare to meet the enemy!"

Spears were shot one by one, aiming at the front, until a certain moment, a tree shook violently, and a figure in a black robe fell out of it. He confused the elements in the void because of the knight's breath in front, thus interrupting the magic.

"Soldier?!"

The Black Swan assassin was surprised and wanted to escape, but was surrounded by dozens of soldiers the next moment.

"Kill him!"

At the same time, hundreds of griffins in the sky also fell towards this side. At this time, the Black Swan assassin had died in front of the spear.

The soldiers of the Griffin Legion rushed in all directions. In this complex environment, they were extremely agile, and they shook out the Black Swan assassins one by one with their roars.

Dozens of Black Swan assassins were killed, and blood filled the dense forest. The corpses dried up quickly, and the soldiers of the Griffin Legion came to the front of the team.

"The team of the frozen earth leader? You changed the route again."

"The other road is not easy to go. The number sent this time is more."

The centurion said helplessly, and then asked the Black Swan assassins.

"Why are these guys here?"

"They escaped from your side, but how can they compare with us in the familiarity of this mountain? No one will escape."

"I heard that something happened on your side? A member of the royal family died?"

The Griffin Knight was also curious about what happened in the empire.

"Yeah."

The centurion nodded and said nothing more. They couldn't discuss the death of the nobles.

"No wonder the Grand Duke has been so aggressive against the Church recently."

"We'll go first. You guys come over by yourselves."

The Griffin Legion soldiers took off. They were so convenient and they were also the overlords of this land.

The team soon arrived at the Grand Duke's camp. Cars of weapons and equipment were unloaded and would be secretly transported to the south.

"It won't work this time. We have to send some weapons and armor to the east. The twin cities there are likely to attack us."

"Just wait... for the king's order."

Apia shuttled among some noble territories and received a note from the cat assassin, which contained the major events that happened in the Andara Kingdom during this period.

The first was the transaction between McReynolds and the Empire. The old king directly said it in the hall, angrily accusing the Grand Duke of Griffin of betraying his loyalty to the kingdom. His words were sharp, but he never said the Grand Duke of Griffin's betrayal.

But the impact was still huge. The nobles were in an uproar, accusing the Grand Duke of betraying the interests of the kingdom.

Another Grand Duke of the kingdom, Grand Duke Leta, led the extraordinary army to enter the Twin Cities, directly threatening the heartland of Grand Duke McReynolds.

Many people are waiting for the response of Grand Duke Griffin, but according to some nobles, the Grand Duke, the legendary magician, seems to be in some trouble.

"Grand Duke McReynolds invited us to the Dukedom."

Apia received the news from the caravan, and then got up and followed the caravan to the Dukedom.

His current identity is the leader of this caravan.

...

"Trouble? There is no trouble, just found a rat's nest."

Wind Emperor, Grand Duke McReynolds also heard the rumors outside when Apia and others arrived at the castle.

He looked at Apia who came in with some surprise.

"Catman?"

"Apia greets the Grand Duke. I come here on behalf of the Frozen Territory to trade weapons with your territory."

Nodding, the Grand Duke of the Griffin waved his hand, threw off his robe and sat on the chair.

A huge fang appeared in his hand.

"I heard those mice said that this is the key to a different world in your Beifeng Province. Just use it to offset the gold coins this time. You can take it back."

Appia looked at the fangs in surprise. Of course he had seen them before, more than once or twice.

"How did this thing get into the hands of the Archduke? The mice you found...are those from the Holy See?"

He also reacted.

"Who else besides them, the Marquis of Beifeng who killed you, actually grew so big that he thought he could kill me?"

Grand Duke Griffin said sarcastically that he suffered the same assassination as Marquis Beifeng, but the result was that all the assassins of the Holy See were wiped out.

"Soto, does this old guy actually want to kill me?"

The Grand Duke murmured, and Appia knew who the person he was talking about was the palace priest of the Kingdom of Andala. To a certain extent, the other party was also the highest person in charge of the Holy See in the Kingdom of Andala, and his status would not be under the red coat.

The coronation ceremony of the current king was performed by the other party for the pope.

It seems that Archduke McReynolds's contact with the Empire made the Holy See particularly angry, and even resorted to assassination.

It's a pity that he underestimated the power of the Grand Duke himself.

As a great nobleman, he did not slack off in his fighting ability.

"Is a war about to break out in the Kingdom of Andara?"

Appiah asked directly, making Archduke McReynolds somewhat silent.

"Catman, this is not what you should ask, but you are right. The war is coming soon. When I win the victory on the southern battlefield, he will not wait to let the witch ghost army betray the kingdom. Attack me in the name of

"But did I really betray the kingdom?"

The Grand Duke asked, and Appia didn't know how to pick it up, because this backboard was given by the Kingdom of Andara.

"It is the king who betrays the kingdom, he is the traitor."

Appiah didn’t need to answer because he didn’t understand.

The king of the kingdom betrayed? Rebellion?

I don’t understand. I should have an answer after I tell Mr. Ryan later.

"Okay, Kitty Man, you can go back. This key is my kindness to Baron Lane. You can tell him so."

Obviously, this person knows how terrible the value of this key is.

…

Apia awaits the return journey, and in the province of North Wind, a new year and new events are ushering in.

The successor of Marquis Beifong has arrived.

Standing in the snow, the heavily armed Ryan looked at the team in front of him. A woman with a big belly stepped out of the carriage with the help of a maid. The magic array rippled, dispelling the coldness around her, but the woman still seemed a little uncomfortable. Complaining about something.

She glanced around, surrounded by nobles, but all with troops, and finally stopped at Ryan's delicate and handsome face.

"Is he Baron Ryan? People in the imperial capital are saying that the boy who walked out of the palace became the King of the North Wind. Even Saifei shrank in front of him."

She was curious, and Ryan was equally curious, so she asked Count Sauron who paid three hundred gold coins to buy a northern war horse.

"She is of the same blood as Meyers and the royal family?"

"That's right, but what we are welcoming is not her, but the little guy in her belly."

"That is Marquis Beifeng."

"..."

An unborn baby has become the noble Marquis of the North Wind. Ryan doesn't know if he should be envious, but his expression is definitely weird.

"The royal family is so guarded against the four great ducal families. After searching for so long, we can only find an unborn little guy."

Intermarriage between nobles can be seen everywhere, but as the largest aristocracy and the royal family, it is outrageous that there are not more intermarriages.

Either Meyers is guarding against the royal family, or he is switching over. In short, there is no close aristocratic marriage between the two parties.

Perhaps they all understand that at their current status, marriage is no longer enough to change the differences in interests.

"She was surrounded by followers of the Meyers family."

Earl Winter said in a low voice, and Ryan also looked around the woman. Perhaps this was the last common bloodline between Meyers and the royal family. Meyers did not trust anyone, including the royal family, so all the protective personnel, They are all extraordinary strong men of the Meyers family.

In other words... did the Meyers family even wonder whether the death of Marquis Beifong was directed and acted by the royal family?

Ryan was a little stunned that the political struggle in the South had reached this point.

"So, what is her identity?"

The mother of the Marquis, but she should also have a distinguished status.

"Shaya Meyers, the Grand Duke's granddaughter, the mistress of His Highness the Third Elector of the Empire?"

"Or is that His Highness her chosen...lover?"

The answer was Viscount Hora, who knew more about the royal family.

"None of them are married. The reason why His Royal Highness the Emperor Chosen is not is because of this woman. His mother almost committed suicide in the Meyers family herself."

"The reason Shaya Meyers didn't is because of... identity and behavior."

"Her behavior was crazy. Three years ago, the Grand Duke captured her from a warship on the west coast. It is said that she almost ran to the sea and became a pirate."

Ryan was surprised. This woman didn't look like a fuel-efficient lamp.

but……

She is powerful.

"A sky knight, a twenty-two-year-old sky knight. This is the harsh family tradition of the Grand Duke's family and the indulgence towards her."

The 22-year-old Sky Knight is indeed worthy of this...'wandering' past and ending.

"If nothing unexpected happens, she will be the wife of His Royal Highness the Third Elector."

"Her child is the Marquis of the North Wind. The next child may be able to win the status of the next generation of electors and become a noble prince."

"But it's difficult. The royal family will not allow the Meyers family to interfere too much in the power within the royal family."

"So... who is in charge of the North Wind now?"

Ryan asked at last, and the nobles around him fell silent.

Logically, it is the Governor of the North Wind who is in charge, but now the Marquis of the North Wind is still in the belly. Is his mother qualified? To say that she is qualified, to say that she is not qualified, is also correct.

"The Marquis has brought us a lot of trouble. Perhaps we should first teach him to become an excellent noble governor, so that he can be competent for this responsibility."

"Well, yes, this is the most appropriate."

Since then, the power of the North Wind Province has returned to the hands of a few people.

When these words were said to Shaya Meyers in the Marquis's mansion, the latter widened her eyes and asked.

"Don't you want the power of the North Wind Province to fall into the hands of my son!"

"Absolutely not."

"Well, you want to teach him to be an excellent noble, right?"

The woman pointed at Earl Winter and said:

"You will be his noble etiquette teacher in the future. As a member of the ancient royal blood of a kingdom, you have not given up the glory of your family so far. You are suitable to be his teacher."

Then she looked at Earl Sauron and said:

"The surrenderer of the North Wind, your blood has long been submerged in the cold winter of the North. You who are obsessed with the future, it is best for you to teach my son to be an excellent politician."

Finally, she looked at Baron Ryan.

"Madam, I'm just a baron."

"But you, the baron, have the greatest reputation in the North Wind Province. Did you know that Saifi smashed a fortune worth 50,000 gold coins after returning?"

The woman chuckled:

"You are the most powerful military strategist and noble in the North Wind Province. You are responsible for teaching him to become an excellent commander."

"Madam, we didn't say we agreed."

"Are you excluding the future Marquis of the North Wind?"

The woman asked back, and Ryan was not polite and said directly:

"Madam, are you training a prince?"

The empire once had a prince, but that prince almost split the empire into several kingdoms.

The woman stared at Ryan with her eyes wide open, her chest heaving with anger, and then she said:

"Well, the two of them don't have to be teachers, but you must be his military teacher. As the Governor of Beifeng, if there is a war in the empire, the Governor of Beifeng will gather the troops of the province and wait for the order of the empire."

"The Marquis is born to be the military commander of the province."

"This is his power, you can't deny it."

Ryan wanted to refuse, but Earl Winter shook his head beside him, indicating that he should agree.

I agreed, you are relieved, right?

"Okay, you can go out, Baron Ryan needs to teach Marquis Beifeng military knowledge now."

The Marquis's mother said this, and the two earls hurried to leave, leaving Ryan confused.

"What to teach? Wait a few years, five years old, no, after ten years old, I will become his military teacher."

Who knew that the woman had stood up and came to Ryan's side.

"What do you know? Most of the princes of the royal family and the children of the nobles are trained from the womb. Only the heirs trained in this way are excellent enough."

"Prenatal education?"

Is this world so advanced? How come I don't know.

In Ryan's wide eyes, the mother of the Marquis had taken off all her clothes and stood naked in front of Ryan.

"It's said to be prenatal education. Baron Ryan might as well teach him in the Marquis' womb first."

Bang! ! !

Ryan, wearing a noble robe, ran towards the door behind him, but a gust of wind came from behind him, forcing him to turn around to fight against the power of a sky knight.

His palm locked the raised white leg, Ryan's breathing became rapid, and his pupils almost turned into dragon pupils at this moment.

"Does it look good?"

Shaya Meyers looked at Ryan charmingly.

"The blood of the Clayton family is indeed strong. You are only nineteen years old, but you are already a golden knight, and you are still so powerful."

The speed of the hurricane made the other one hang on Ryan's body.

This woman is even crazier than Viscount Hora said. The moment she hung on him, she lost all her strength and fell down like a piece of soft meat.

"Be careful, you are going to teach the future Marquis of the North Wind. The Meyers family can't find a second candidate."

"Woman, do you really think I dare not?"

Ryan stared at the Marquis' mother whose lips were already leaning down.

"I have tasted the blood of the golden lion, and I really want to try the blood of the flame dragon."

The woman's eyes were also burning with fire, and then a painful scream came from her mouth.

"It's okay. I have already laid a forbidden spell-level magic secret pattern here, and it can't be heard outside."

"Big guy of the Clayton family, let me see your ability."

...

"What do you think this woman means by leaving Ryan?"

Earl Winter said puzzledly, and Earl Sauron snorted coldly beside him.

"What else? It's nothing more than trying to win over Baron Ryan to deal with the two of us old guys and divide the power of the North Wind Province."

"Ryan is very smart, and my wife sent back the news that he actually hid a gold mine in another world!"

Count Winter gritted his teeth and finally understood who benefited from the seemingly fair contract.

"A gold mine can make him have everything he needs. What else can that woman use to attract him?"

"That's her business. Maybe it's something we can't come up with."

"I hope there will be no new unrest in the North Wind Province."