Throne of the North

No one thought that King Andara would issue such an order, so the nobles who were looking for trouble once again mentioned Adams's unorthodoxy.

"After the crown prince Hernan became a heretic, the king of the Andara Kingdom should be King McPherson Andara."

Obviously, this was a noble who stood on the side of the Holy See. For this, several nobles of the empire cut off trade with the other party. Now, the nobles no longer dared to say it openly.

"Praise the light."

The king of the Andara Kingdom said this proudly. As the imperial people entered the kingdom to build the Kingdom of Light Church and the Magic Academy, his confidence rose all of a sudden.

Ryan could not comment on Adams' actions. Whether it was good or bad, I am afraid we will have to wait until later to know.

In front of him, Mage Lula was thinking about what kind of materials her magic tower needed, and finally concluded that there was no standard for magic materials, and you can only know it after seeing it in person.

"Floating stones are necessary. They can save the consumption of floating magic and magic power, and make room for other magic, but the reserve of floating stones is not enough, and we need to order a batch."

"The magic academy must have a way to do this. I will buy it from the magicians through the way of Master McKen."

"The remaining materials will be sent with a list. Those chambers of commerce have such means. It is said that magic materials are all illusory images, and some magicians will even leave their own experimental processes to ensure the stability of magic materials."

Lian also went to Master McKen with the same words, but Master McKen had already thrown a list before he opened his mouth.

Yes, this is a legitimate master of the magic academy. What he needs now is just a dedicated magic tower. He knows much more about magic materials than Ryan.

"A total of 670,000 gold coins."

Lian nodded at the list and the price that was almost impossible to reduce, which made Master McKen curious.

"How much did you earn in the kingdom? This is 670,000 gold coins, and the actual payment may be more than 700,000."

"Not much, more than 2 million gold coins, of which 300,000 or 400,000 cannot be converted into gold coins."

Ryan laughed after he finished speaking.

"And who said that 600,000 or 700,000 gold coins need to be paid in one lump sum?"

Master McKen was suspicious and said:

"Those magicians are not people you can owe money to."

"I believe in your judgment, but what if they owe me money?"

"This is a rare opportunity."

The economic development of the frozen land territory needs to go in volume and take the low-end route at the beginning.

But in the final analysis, it still needs to reach the high-end market, especially the extraordinary market, which is the real profiteering.

The magic tower needed by Master Luna and Master McKen is the stepping stone for Ryan to enter the extraordinary field market.

First of all, the materials of the magic tower show that the tickets in Ryan's hand are at least two great wizards, which is enough to be recognized by the magicians.

Secondly, having tickets means that Ryan needs them, but do they no longer need Ryan?

The extraordinary also needs the help of mortals. If they are just mortals, then the extraordinary is superior, but if the powerful nobles rule over mortals, then this is an equal transaction.

Transactions will generate benefits.

Benefits will bring unexpected results to Ryan.

Not long after, Rose also came. The things needed by this sanctuary alchemist were less than Ryan imagined.

"Alchemists will not trust other people's crops. We hope that everything is created by ourselves."

After Rose finished speaking, Ryan also understood why the things he needed on his list were all basic tools, such as crucibles.

"By the way, the things you asked me to research before that ordinary people can control or even make have some clues."

Rose said, and then took out a piece of paper with a picture of a logging machine.

"This is..."

"It is used for logging. Its energy consumption is currently gold."

"Gold?"

Ryan opened his eyes wide. It was the first time he heard that gold could also be used as energy?

"Well, gold is one of the best materials for guiding magic. The tools you want for ordinary people cannot be fully used for the time being. I can only use alchemical methods to combine gold to make it an energy source, but in essence, the role of gold is to absorb and guide the magic factors in the void, thereby generating mechanical power."

"Can't it be simpler?"

Rose shook her head.

"It can't be simple. Pure mechanical power is more wasteful than chopping trees with an axe."

"But if there are higher research results in the future, maybe gold can be replaced with something cheaper."

"It's also very troublesome to make. There are probably only one or two people in the frozen land who can make such a creation."

It goes without saying that they are the two. There is no one in the frozen land whose craftsmanship exceeds that of the Brock brothers and sisters.

Ryan can only give up. This extraordinary world and extraordinary means always have something that makes him shine.

"I will also send someone to find new energy for you."

The three high-ranking extraordinary people made Ryan's wealth disappear by half at once, and made him understand that war is definitely not the best way to get wealth.

Not long after, Rose, who had left, came back again, with a tall skeleton puppet behind him holding a dozen dried corpses.

"Found outside the territory, I think they are targeting you."

Ryan nodded. He had destroyed the foundation of the Church in the Andara Kingdom. With the temper of the Church, they would definitely find a way to assassinate him. After all, even a marquis was killed by them.

"It seems that the defense of the frozen land territory should be strengthened."

...

On the streets of the frozen land territory, with the arrival of spring, the lord also returned from the distant kingdom. The frozen land territory has become much more lively. The tavern is overcrowded and the market is also filled with a large number of pedestrians.

Parker followed the old captain who was said to have retired from the battlefield. The five people stepped on the gray stone slab street. The ground under their feet was very solid, and someone cleaned it in the early morning, so they didn't have to worry about the mud.

Wearing leather armor and holding spears, the five-man team lined up in a row and walked on the street. All the people who saw them turned to avoid them on both sides, lowering their heads in envy and awe. This feeling of being high above made Parker intoxicated, and he couldn't help but hope for a better position.

As a son of a commoner, Parker is still a little smart. For example, he knows that if he wants a higher status, the old captain in front of him is his only benefactor.

Although he calls the old captain, in fact, the captain is not old at all. He is only five or six years older than Parker.

The group of people shuttled through two streets in silence and finally returned to their station, a slightly imposing three-story stone house. There are fifty sheriffs in the U-shaped building, responsible for the slightest disturbance of five or six thousand people in the surrounding streets.

"Well, the morning mission is finally over."

Each patrol lasts two hours. Parker needs to go through three patrols every day. Today's patrol is the same as yesterday, and it may be the same as tomorrow. There is nothing big happening on the street, and those noisy residents are not their responsibility. As long as there is no bloody conflict, the governor will solve the problem.

The work of the police station is relatively easy. Going out is also to accept the awe of others. The extra time is either training or on the way to the tavern.

Training is necessary for sheriffs, and the tavern is to show their status in front of others, so that others will envy and agree.

But Parker rarely went to the tavern, which made his old captain look up to him.

As a veteran who retired from the battlefield, Amy was not depressed, so she had high requirements for her team members.

"If you want to be a sheriff for life and get a salary of one silver coin and fifty copper coins every month, then get out of my team."

"Because you have no chance to become a captain and get a salary of three silver coins and one hundred copper coins. This position is reserved for soldiers who follow the lord."

Parker listened very carefully. He knew that although the old captain was strict, what he said was really useful and hit the nail on the head.

"If you want to live in a better house and marry a better woman, the only chance is to pass the identity of a sheriff and become a patrol guard. The guards are already qualified to be loyal to the honorable Lord Ryan directly. If you are good enough and stand out among the guards and become an apprentice knight, then you will have the opportunity to become Lord Ryan's knight squire."

"By then, you will be a noble knight master, and the income of ten silver coins per month is the wealth you can get as a sheriff for a year."

Parker listened intoxicatedly. The old captain also told them that ten silver coins were just the foundation. After becoming a knight squire, there are many opportunities to gain wealth.

He even took out his own knight's long sword, which was given to him by the lord as a reward for his performance in the war.

"Originally, I had another set of armor, but I couldn't wear it anymore, so I put it in my house."

When everyone else went to rest, Parker came to the old captain again and asked how to become Lord Ryan's squire.

"There are two opportunities. One is when war breaks out. You will join the army as a reserve and see if your performance can keep you here."

"The second opportunity is much more common. It will take three to five years to complete at the fastest, but the work of the police station can make you one of them."

"Take time to exercise every day to keep yourself strong and adapt to the cold winter without getting sick. Then I can recommend you and you will naturally enter the guard camp."

"If everything goes well, you won't be in the guard camp for too long. You will pass the assessment and enter the attendant camp in about a year. It is the reserve for knight attendants. When Lord Ryan accepts your oath of loyalty, you will become a real knight attendant."

The status and treatment of the police station are good. It only takes two steps for ordinary sheriffs to become one of the top three circles in the frozen land.

The first circle is the only one, that is the honorable Lord Baron Ryan.

The second circle is Lord Ryan's followers, including those extraordinary magicians and knights, as well as those lords in the territory.

The third circle is the knight attendants.

Parker couldn't fall asleep this afternoon, and kept sweating. His colleagues envied him and said they couldn't do it.

In the afternoon, they needed to continue patrolling. They tidied their faces, put on leather armor, and followed the old captain through the streets with spears in hand.

People around them would avoid them when they saw them. It was no different from yesterday and the day before yesterday.

Parker enjoyed such treatment, but the next moment, the old captain led them out of the middle of the road and stood quietly on the side. Parker, who had his back to the pedestrians behind him, could also see who occupied the middle of the street.

Puff~

The tall northern warhorse required him to look up, not to mention the knight riding on the warhorse, whose armor shone brightly in the sun.

Parker's breathing stagnated. At this moment, he understood how those ordinary people felt when they looked at him. No, it was a hundred times worse than that, because even if he looked at the tall warhorse and didn't look at the majestic knight, he felt that he was infinitely close to the edge of death.

He found out sadly that he might not even be able to beat this horse.

A group of ten people, ten fully armed knights, their cold visors made it impossible to see their faces, and the quiet sound of the armor skirts gently colliding suppressed the noisy voices on the street. It was not until they left for a long time that the people on the street seemed to have ended the process of being frozen and numbly started to move again.

Some people were discussing how majestic the knights were just now, imagining what would happen if they were them.

Some people were curious about why the knights appeared today. They usually patrolled the streets near Rhinoceros Horn Mountain. Today did not seem to be the time for the knights to patrol this area.

"It's General Michaela."

It was the first time that Parker saw his old captain with such a fiery look. He knew the knight, which was why Parker thought the old captain would be his benefactor. The other party was retired from the army. He knew many big figures in the frozen land, even if those big figures might not know him at all.

Moreover, the general mentioned by the old captain made Parker stiff and numb at this moment.

"Brother Amy, you said that you can only get the rank of general granted by Master Ryan if you can command a thousand knights and attendants?"

He asked in shock, as if he could not believe that he would see such a person on the patrol street.

"Of course, Lord Michaela is the first general of the Frozen Territory and the deputy of the commander of the Brand Legion. After the war, Lord Ryan personally asked Master Brock to tailor a series of equipment for him, including armor and weapons, but Master Brock should not have finished it yet."

"I said before that if you become a knight's squire in the end, but as a knight's squire, you will have decapitations and centurions above you, and above the centurions is the general."

"Lord Michaela is a powerful silver knight. He won the merits of Zhuoyue in the war of the kingdom. I followed him at the beginning."

Amy said enthusiastically:

"Those merits may even make Michaela a golden knight."

In front, there were crowds of people. Parker and others ran over to maintain law and order. Although it was to keep pedestrians in order, in fact, they also wanted to drive away other people and see what happened in front.

Standing at the front of the crowd, they could not move forward, because the guards wearing armor stood in front of them with a chill, and a well-dressed political officer was explaining to everyone what was written on the parchment paper posted.

"The honorable lord, Lord Baron Ryan, will recruit a team of 300 people to walk on the land of the kingdom and the empire in the name of the frozen land, requiring..."

This afternoon, Parker did not have a good rest, he felt that the opportunity the old captain said had come.

"Perhaps, this is indeed an opportunity."

The old captain said this, and Parker made a decision.

"It's just... there are only 300 people, and there are only 50 places for the guards."

Parker hesitated, he might not be able to compete.

Amy patted his shoulder.

"I still have some connections up there, since you have made up your mind, I will definitely let you in."

The night patrol, which is also the last patrol of the day, is more intense than the daytime patrol.

Patrolling during the day is their time to show off their power, but at night, recently, it was heard that an assassin had entered the frozen land territory and wanted to assassinate the honorable Master Ryan. The adults of the police station angrily cancelled everyone's vacation. Every night, everyone in the police station would appear on the street to look for all the sneaky guys.

"Stop!"

Parker shouted. He knew that he was mediocre. Although the old captain helped him, he couldn't be too mediocre. He needed credit.

He rushed out and forced the shadow in front of him to hide in the alley. This alley was originally used as a ditch, and only one person could pass sideways. Parker was a little nervous. The dimly lit world made him unable to see what was inside.

At the critical moment, the more perceptive old captain had already stood on the other side of the alley and shouted loudly to the people inside to come out.

"Someone dared to sneak around in the frozen land territory."

The people in the alley were a little nervous. Finally, after other people gathered around, they couldn't help but walk out and kneel on the ground.

"Wright?"

The old captain was surprised. He recognized who this person was.

Then he said sharply:

"Why are you sneaking around in the middle of the night?"

He scolded, and Wright said it after hesitating.

"I'm going to find Fox."

"What do you want to do?"

The old captain's voice was filled with murderous intent.

Because he knew the identity of the person in front of him, and also knew the identity of Fox he was talking about.

They have the same origin, that is, they were conscripted into the Kingdom during the Kingdom War.

"I... we just want to bring our families over."

During the conscription process, women, children and the elderly were certainly not allowed to join the army. These young and strong men were important laborers and pillars of the family. After coming to the Frozen Land, they missed their families.