Throne of the North

The King of Serra invited the Archbishop of the Holy See. After Archbishop Adriana entered the palace, she started a conversation with the King about the relationship between the Holy See and the Kingdom. He was accompanied by many nobles and Holy See clergy.

The discussion was naturally heated, but from beginning to end, Archbishop Adriana said nothing and calmly looked at the noisy people in the palace.

The nobles only wanted to agree to half of the king's proposals, because those could expand their interests, and the remaining half were not satisfied.

As for the Holy See, few clergy are willing to accept it, because past habits have been enough for the Holy See to gain a lot of benefits, and they can instruct the nobles.

They were unwilling to accept the new changes, believing that King Serra was weakening the power of the Holy See and weakening the power in their hands.

"As you can see, the Kingdom of Serra has been established for less than two years. We do not have more power to maintain the army. If possible, the Kingdom of Serra hopes to support the war between the Holy See and the Empire through money."

"Too many people have died on the land of the nobles. Last year, because there were too many young people, we relied on the food purchased from the Chamber of Commerce throughout the year and spent too much money."

"In the new year, I don't want the nobles of my kingdom to still need to purchase food supplies."

"We need our people, and not having a war for twenty years is the best outcome, because then we can restore the kingdom's population."

There is no doubt about the king's authority, and the nobles can obey or disobey it, but the king's order is issued at this moment.

"From now on, the Kingdom of Serra will freeze its military status. Without the king's order, no nobles, including churches, are allowed to assemble the army."

The king issued an order, but the nobles of the Serra Kingdom were not qualified to deny it. The clergy looked to Archbishop Adriana. She was the only one who could veto the king's order with one vote.

But until the end, Adrienne didn't speak. She looked at everyone indifferently.

As a result, the kingdom's new policy was decided.

The meeting ended and everyone was preoccupied.

"Exclusion is inevitable. They can't make the king cancel their orders, but they choose to implement or not implement them. The king prohibits military war, but the nobles have many impeccable reasons. It's like Valencia risked all its dignity by declaring war. "

In the manor, Ryan also received an order from the king. The more the king imposed restrictions, the more war friction would break out.

"If you want the nobles to comply, you must let them see the price of refusal."

“If you want the Holy See to comply, you need to make the Holy See see the benefits.”

"Can money corrupt the faith of those in the Holy See?"

Ryan couldn't help but ask himself, and came to a rough conclusion.

"They were already corrupted."

As the king's order was issued, a group of wandering nobles were granted titles and lands by the Kingdom of Serra.

Most of the titles are Lords and a small number of Barons. As for the land, they are all in disputed areas. The Kingdom of Serra was established because of the war. The result of the war was that a large amount of land was divided forcefully. Many nobles did not recognize it, but The lands recorded in the kingdom's records did not belong to a particular noble.

This resulted in that, under the king's order, while the land was occupied by the nobles, it was also given to the wandering nobles by the king.

"What you want to get, you have to pay for."

"I can give you the power to take back your land, but what will you give in exchange?"

Ryan found some wandering nobles and told them that if they wanted to occupy the land given to them by the king, they needed the power to protect the land, which the wandering nobles lacked most.

Because of their wanderings, the proportion of knights trained was pitiful. They had no land to grow food, hunt wild beasts, and even no money.

Knowledge is their only wealth.

"My family once gave birth to a magician from the Holy Realm. He left behind precious magic books, which recorded more than thirty kinds of powerful magic..."

"My ancestor was once a knight in the sky, and his lifelong efforts were condensed into knightly combat skills..."

Ryan obtained a large amount of extraordinary inheritance from these wandering nobles without any blood, making up for the scarce part of the extraordinary inheritance in the Tundra Territory, but it is a pity that there is no legendary level inheritance among them.

Think about it, the birth of legends in the past has been the exclusive property of people who can change the course of history. No matter how prosperous the family of such a person is, the legend alone has protected the noble family for at least hundreds of years, which is enough for them to accumulate a huge amount of heritage. .

Such nobles will either be completely destroyed in history, or they can always leave something behind to prevent them from becoming wandering nobles.

Ryan let the boiled water cool down and lied that it was a life potion unique to the Tundra Territory. He gave it to the people selected by these wandering nobles to drink and gave them spiritual blessings.

"These potions will consume your vitality, and your lifespan will be shorter than that of ordinary knights."

Ryan said this, and the people in front of him had firm eyes.

"We can sacrifice our lives for our family to rise again."

In order to become nobles again, the wandering nobles were willing to risk their lives.

With the improvement of combat effectiveness, they also began to recruit soldiers, or to be more precise, to lease and borrow. Among them, there were a large number of people lent to them by Ryan. These people were the people who were divided into slaves in Ryan Manor during the war.

The remaining manpower came from the noble territories in the Kingdom of Serra that originally followed the McReynolds family, such as the Count Fragoso family, who rebelled against the Andara Kingdom and became part of the Serra Kingdom.

The three major factions of the kingdom are the heroes who followed the dragon, led by Count Fragoso, the nobles who later went south from the Andara Kingdom, and the nobles of the four original noble territories on the land of the Serra Kingdom.

The first batch of nobles are of course worry-free, and the latter two batches of nobles have many conflicts and are not so close to the royal family. It can be said that the first batch is a staunch royalist, the second batch is a faction pursuing interests, and the third batch is purely a victim. The resentment against McReynolds may not disappear for a hundred years.

What a coincidence that, under the king's order, the lands obtained by the wandering nobles were all closer to the third batch of native nobles on the land.

"You have already paid the price for gaining power, the price for gaining land, I hope you can live up to the trust of His Majesty the King in you."

Ryan's words made the wandering nobles look cold.

"Don't worry, Lord Ryan, we... will never let them live."

The wandering nobles will take revenge on their enemies, which is something that each of them has experienced personally, so if possible, they are absolutely willing to cut the grass and root it out, because they know very well that the land they have obtained is robbing the territories of those nobles.

The most important thing is that Ryan told them personally that they can kill them all.

"This land needs a new group of nobles, nobles from the Kingdom of Serra, not those who claim to be the orthodox descendants of Carlos."

The establishment of the Kingdom of Serra still has hidden dangers, the most obvious of which are the nobles who escaped and claimed to be the direct descendants of Carlos. They have obtained a lot of help and support from nobles in the southern lands, and they clamored in the noble circles to take revenge on McReynolds and take back their land.

The Kingdom of Serra has no shortage of internal and external troubles.

This is also one of the forces that pushed King McReynolds to agree with Ryan's idea. The establishment of the kingdom is definitely not smooth sailing. It is accompanied by blood and fire, which will burn any noble who tries to subvert the rule.

One day, two days, the atmosphere in the Kingdom of Serra was terribly quiet.

Until the fifth day, chaos broke out. The army formed by the wandering nobles went to their own lands with the king's order, and found that another noble had already occupied those lands without surprise.

"This is the territory of our Lord Fisher? Why are you here!?"

The Fisher family shouted loudly, and the other side naturally could not give up the soil that had been cultivated for more than a hundred years. The war broke out between the hoe and the fork, and intensified in front of the knight's sword.

Baron of Valencia.

As the most outstanding representative among the wandering nobles, Baron Valencia had to make more efforts. They finally got the news that Archbishop Adriana did not trade anything from Baron Mendes, and the archbishop left the baron in disappointment.

"Revenge! Revenge! Revenge for Zar!"

The Valencia family, and Connie Dean, who was avenging his brother, once again led the army to attack the territory of Baron Mendes.

In less than three days, the two armies tacitly broke through the defense line of Baron Mendes, and Baron Mendes had to announce the defeat of the war and surrender.

"My brother died at your hands. Mendes must pay the price."

Connie said angrily, and then obtained the ownership of the forest and monetary compensation from Baron Mendes.

He had killed all the knights of Mendes and returned to the Dean family with victory. For a time, the reputation of Connie's heir overwhelmed Baron Dean.

Next, it was Valencia's turn.

"The dignity of the Valencia family cannot be desecrated!"

In panic and despair, Baron Caird Valencia killed Baron Mendes. More than a hundred people from the Mendes family were killed, and the Baron's castle became a ruin in the fire.

In the dark night illuminated by the flames, Caird was trembling all over, and he was also afraid. He killed all the people in Mendes. Even if it was announced tomorrow morning that Baron Mendes overturned the candle and caused the fire to burn because of the failure of the war, it would not change the nobles' suspicion of Valencia.

The most important thing is that he never thought it would end like this.

Lord Ryan said that for the future of Valencia, he had to do this. Similarly, in order for the king's orders to be implemented, nobles like Mendes who did not obey the king's orders must die.

"I am right, for loyalty to His Majesty the King."

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Kelder kept brainwashing himself, and gradually, he was no longer afraid when he saw the castle in front of him with flames.

Baron Mendes was the first noble to be exterminated, but in this kingdom, there were many nobles caught in the war. The ferocity of those wandering nobles was as barbaric as the orcs in the north.

They had nothing, so they could risk their lives to plunder.

Even so, Ryan once again gained more inherited knowledge, including a whole knight breathing method that could become a legend.

"The Violet Knight Breathing Method comes from an ancient kingdom on the Norris continent."

"The North submerged everything, but his ancestor was a knight of the Violet family, who preserved the breathing method."

"It's precious, but it's unlikely to be a single copy."

Ryan was very satisfied, and then generously gave this wandering noble more blessings, allowing him to have hundreds of soldiers with the physique of trainee knights.

Don't underestimate the number of these hundred. Even a baron can't come up with so many elite warriors. The barons of the empire can still find a way to squeeze them, but the barons of the kingdom can never raise them.

So, the second noble who was exterminated appeared, and even this time, he couldn't use the fire that was not stopped in the dark to prevaricate.

Because it was on the battlefield during the day, everyone was killed in full view of the public.

The remaining nobles caught in the war finally began to fear, and they began to ask for help, not from the king, but from the four nobles represented by the family of Archduke Carlos.

There are only five and a half nobles in the Kingdom of Serra, Ryan is the half, and the remaining five, except for Count Fragoso, are all of Carlos blood.

In the land of the Kingdom of Serra, they still control a lot of power and resources, such as the obsidian veins, which make Archduke Carlos as rich as the royal family.

The Griffin Corps, which has experienced war after war, suffered heavy losses and was hidden in the depths of the mountains, finally flew in the sky of the Kingdom of Serra again during this period.

To be precise, it is the sky of the territories of the four nobles.

Otto, the leader, carried a heavy hammer and warned these nobles not to forget why they surrendered, and also let Archduke Carlos understand that the Kamikaze Corps had been annihilated and they had no extraordinary power to fight against the royal family.

The king has issued an order to prohibit the outbreak of military wars in the kingdom. Although bloody wars are now breaking out in many lands of the kingdom, the king can pretend not to see it.

Only the great nobles, whenever there is an army gathering, the king's eyes must be sharp.

I have issued an order not to allow military wars to occur, why do you still want to start a war?

At that time, the Griffin Corps will fall from the sky, and these great nobles will be speechless. Whether they question the king or reject the king's orders, they will pay a huge price to calm down. Facing the Griffin Corps, the four great nobles must compromise.

For their own interests, the four great nobles have to pretend not to see the wars everywhere in the kingdom, which also makes the wandering nobles more crazy, biting the flesh and blood of those nobles like mad dogs.

The politics of the Kingdom of Sera has become two distinct sides. The nobles who rely on the king, Ryan, and Fragoso, and the nobles who rely on the four great nobles, seem to have not participated in the chaos on the land of the kingdom, but in fact, all the people in the chaos are pawns in their political struggle.

If the king wins, the king's orders will be perfectly executed. If the four nobles win, then the king's orders will be thrown away.

Power is changing, and some places have already completed the change.

Barony of Valencia.

On the ruins, the church is still bright and beautiful, and the people coming and going will enter the church to pray.

This was originally the church of Barony of Mendes, and now it is the church of Barony of Valencia.

"Father Connolly? Have you finished praying today?"

Baron Caild Valencia looked at the priest who came out of the church. It seemed that he had expected his arrival. The priest took back the hand holding the nun and praised the glory of the dawn to the baron.

"Praise the dawn, the greatness of the dawn is beyond doubt."

Caild said this, and then asked the servants behind him to move the wooden boxes one by one.

The box was opened, and the large amount of dirty copper coins still made the priest's eyes shine, and the box of silver coins in it made the priest unable to move.

"This is the tax revenue of the Church in the barony last year."

"The king's order is to let the Church have the tax revenue in the Kingdom of Serra. From this year, all nobles must obey the king's order."

Caird said this, which made Father Connolly a little confused.

"But you said this is last year's."

"Yes, Father, but you have to understand that the tax revenue that the Kingdom of Serra pays to the Church is for the Dawn Church, not for you."

"The priest is just collecting the tax revenue of this barony on behalf of the Church."

"This is last year, but the king's order will only be implemented this year."

Father Connolly understood, his breathing became rapid, staring at the small box full of silver coins, and stretched out his hand.

Caird reached out and held the priest's hand, saying eagerly:

"Taxes will be paid to the Church starting this year, but you know, Father, my territory has a small population..."

"About, only 500 people."

The baron's territory is more than 500, but the Church doesn't know.

"Each citizen must pay 60 copper coins to the Church, an average of 5 copper coins per month, this is beyond doubt."

Father Connolly said righteously, he understood Caird's meaning, and then said:

"Lord Baron Valencia, your territory has only 500 people."

"I, Father Connolly, have been here for decades. I won't make a mistake in counting this amount."

Kelder laughed and took the priest's hand and put it into the silver coin box. The white silver coins made the priest's hand tremble slightly.

How could he have owned so much money personally?