Throne of the North

"These clergy of the Church are more greedy than I thought."

Lian looked at the results provided by those wandering nobles and couldn't help being surprised.

From the fact that the Empire was able to win in the process of royal power and divine power, Ryan gradually understood that the strength of the Empire was half of the reason, and the other half was due to the corruption within the Church.

But he didn't expect that the clergy of the Church would fall so directly and quickly.

Money, maids, and some other messy things, they didn't even act.

In this way, Archbishop Adriana is simply a rare species in the Church, a national treasure.

"In this way, the Church will also abide by the changes in interests. They don't care how much the Church can get, but how much they can get."

"It's done."

Lian took a deep breath and finally relaxed. The plan he told the king finally came to an end more than a month after the king issued the order.

When those territories gradually stabilize, Ryan's voice in the Kingdom of Sera will be terrifying.

Because he will represent many people, his power in this land does not even come from the king here, but from the nobles who rely on him to have today, and the authority of the empire.

He will affect the future of the Kingdom of Serra. At the same time, because of the plan between him and King McReynolds, Ryan also understood that the kingdom is not only the king, but also the nobles.

The Kingdom of Serra belongs to the McReynolds royal family, but just like the empire belongs to the emperor, the four grand dukes, and the great nobles, the Kingdom of Serra has also taken this step, and Ryan's name is also engraved on the list of the owners of this land.

As for whether Ryan's power is greater or the king's power is greater, it is a test of whether Ryan can gain more nobles like Connie Dean-soldiers on this land.

He can finally return to the frozen land territory. Leaving at this time will not change his influence here.

But he didn't expect to encounter an uninvited guest before leaving.

"Archbishop Adriana, why are you here?"

Strictly speaking, Ryan's manor is now the enemy of the Church, and the hundreds of thousands of fanatics in the Unicorn Fortress are gritting their teeth at him.

"I came for the glory of the Lord."

Adriana raised her head and looked at the sun above her head with infinite piety and awe.

"I am a baron of the empire, and it is impossible for me to believe in the dawn. On the contrary, my heart is full of piety for light."

Ryan said this, but Adriana was not angry.

"Baron Ryan's faith is no different. The dawn and light are both great my Lord. Those who serve Him will be watched by the glory."

Adriana said, and her answer surprised Ryan. She didn't reject the difference between light and dawn at all?

"It's just that my Lord hasn't released His power in this world for too long."

After the end of the Pan-Plane War of Gods, the Lord of Dawn, or the God of Light, has never really descended to power. Those miracles can only prove that He still exists, but cannot prove that He is still watching the Norris Continent.

This is also the reason why the royal power of the empire and the divine power of the church can cause disputes. The gods no longer give the church unparalleled authority.

"Everywhere I have seen, there is endless darkness. The light of the Lord cannot illuminate any land in this world."

Archbishop Adriana said sharply. If she said it out, the first person to target her would probably be the Pope of the Holy Mountain.

"I received an oracle to use fire to dispel the darkness, let the light of the Lord burn the darkness in the form of flames, and bring eternal brilliance."

A ray of golden flame slowly emerged in the palm of Adriana's hand. Ryan subconsciously retreated. He felt an extremely terrible threat. At the same time, his spiritual panel was actually shaking.

"Fire will dispel darkness."

"The existence of the North has chilled my Lord's faith. I will lead my Lord's true believers to dispel the North."

Adriana's words are shocking. She actually wants to make the two-thirds of the land covered by the North revitalize, let spring, summer, autumn and winter reappear in the northern world, and completely end the North?

Is this possible?

Is this really an oracle? Is it the reason why Adriana has been unwilling to pay attention to the internal struggle of the Sera Kingdom for so long?

She doesn't care about the affairs of the Sera Kingdom, but urgently needs to fight against the North. Compared with the latter, the former is as weak as a mayfly.

The North...

"Fighting the North is a challenge I have always dreamed of. I wonder what I can do to help the Archbishop?"

Ryan asked. Adriana would definitely not come to him just to talk.

"I need Baron Ryan to help me build a settlement in the North."

"The fire will dispel the cold, and the Lord's believers will survive in the North."

Adriana said that she wanted to build an environment suitable for human survival in the North, rooted in the ice and snow like an anchor.

But to build these things, you need stones, wood, food, tools, and...

everything necessary for human survival.

And, there will not be one or two such settlements, but... countless.

Maybe there will be one this year, ten next year, and a hundred the year after.

"The archbishop can tell this oracle to His Majesty the Pope of Dawn, and he should not reject the oracle of the Lord of Dawn."

"He will."

Archbishop Adriana said with certainty:

"The wealth of the Holy See cannot support such a huge and in his view unnecessary expenditure."

"But if the Holy See can't bear it, how can I bear it?"

Ryan's own tundra territory is currently struggling to survive, so there are no spare resources to support Adrienne's plan.

“Consecrate to the Lord as much as you can, and if one day you give up your devotion to the Lord, the Lord will not blame you for quitting.”

Adrienne said, then gave the conditions.

"If you agree, I will give you the gift of the Lord."

In her palm, the golden flame burned again, but Ryan only noticed the so-called divine gift in her mouth.

God's gift not only represents a gift from God, Ryan thinks more. If it is really a gift from the Lord of Dawn and the God of Light, then there are too many things he can control.

For example, the most direct point is the two wars between him and the followers of the Holy See in the Kingdom of Serra.

With the divine gift, he is the spokesperson of the Lord of the Dawn in the world. He can say that those believers are heretics, then everyone will know that those believers who attack his army are heretics.

In other words, in more than 99% of the wars between him and the Holy See, he could stand his ground.

The reason why it cannot be 10% to 10% is because of the existence of the Pope and the existence of people like Adriana. They themselves are representatives of divine gifts, not mortals who have received divine gifts.

But the benefits are terrifying enough, and Ryan can imagine that in the future he is destined to be on the side of the empire, not just because of his position, but also because of his own purpose.

Therefore, there will be a lot of disputes with the Holy See.

Of course, the most important thing is that this thing is a death-free gold medal. It is a god-given existence. Even the Pope cannot give an order to kill Ryan.

In addition, within the empire, Ryan, who has the gift of the God of Light, can also control many things. The Church of Light in the empire is rising to fight against the faith of Dawn. If the emperor wants to promote the immortality and greatness of light, then he must Respect the divine gift of light.

Lane will be invincible in the chaotic battle of faith.

He promised Adrianna that he would spend unimaginable resources and could not cut corners, because those were the materials needed to stand firm in the ice and snow of the north.

He will also reap unparalleled benefits.

At this moment, he felt that he had become the wandering nobles in the Kingdom of Sera who had become the vanguard of his political struggle. The price and benefits they paid would be blended together to tease him at both ends of the scale.

He didn't want to say no.

"I promise you that I will support you in establishing a residence in the north to the extent that I can afford it. When I cannot afford it, I will also stop providing extra help."

"I can only try my best, not give everything."

Adriana sent the golden flame into Ryan's palm.

"On the day you suffer failure, this divine gift will be taken back."

She said this, but Ryan raised his eyebrows.

Take back?

He looked at the spiritual panel that only he could see. It had settled down, and in the divinity column, in front of the entry for the giant mammoth, the golden Taisu had a name different from the previous dusk.

[Divinity: Eternity, Giant Mammoth]

One unit of divinity is called eternity.

But it surpassed the dusk divinity of hundreds of Tai element units that Ryan had previously.

Raising his head, Ryan's eyes were golden, like the sun in the sky. They were sacred and majestic, inviolable and inviolable. Surrender and awe were the instincts when facing this color. His expression also became solemn at this moment, losing his humanity. The mood is as majestic as a god.

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There is no doubt that this is a gift from God.

"Lord of the Morning, God of Light, Great and Immortal God, the End of All Knowledge, the Absolute Creator."

His eyes recovered, and Ryan was deeply shocked. He truly felt the horror of this god-given gift.

"As you wish, Your Majesty the Archbishop."

Ryan practices aristocratic etiquette not because he is educated, but because he is in awe of the great power behind Adrienne.

After calming down again, Ryan smiled and said:

"Coincidentally, I recently mined a batch of stones from a different world in the mountains and forests, intending to use them to repair my castle, but obviously the oracle of flames dispelling darkness is more important."

Ryan expressed his sincerity and roughly guessed the reason why Adrianna found him.

In the entire human civilization, is there any place closer to the northern border than Master Ryan's tundra territory?

You have to be down-to-earth to follow the oracle, right? If the distance is too far, the transportation and consumption alone will not be bearable.

Only the tundra territory can transport supplies directly to the north.

This is why Adriana said that if the Holy See supported it, the Holy See would go bankrupt. Just transporting supplies from the Holy Mountain in the south to the North. On this road, can a hundred kilograms of food be sent to the North?

But when both numbers become question marks, it becomes impossible.

Ryan may not be Adriana's only choice, but if nothing else happens, Ryan will be the only nobleman who will agree.

Will the Kingdom of Sera agree? Impossible. The Kingdom of Andara? That kingdom is now following the Empire. The several nobles further east? They can't protect themselves? Further east, close to the border of the North? That's entering the forest, which is the territory of the elves.

They have their own gods to serve, and they are not familiar with the Lord of Dawn, don't get me wrong.

It's even more impossible for the Empire. If Adriana goes to Emperor Flor today, she will be beheaded tomorrow.

"Does your Excellency the Archbishop need manpower? I can send some people to help you build, but it's impossible for them to become your followers. They can only be temporary assistants, such as when transporting materials to the destination."

"Then thank Baron Ryan for his piety."

Adriana said with a smile, and did not refuse any power that could help her.

For her, following the oracle to disperse the North with fire is the most important thing.

"Praise the light, praise the dawn."

Lian said so.

"Praise my Lord."

Adriana turned and left. She had unparalleled authority in the land of the Kingdom of Sera, but she did not hesitate at all. If she really made the Church unyielding, Ryan did not know when his plan in the Kingdom of Sera would succeed.

Ryan could shake the heart of King McReynolds, but this kingdom was a kingdom where the king and the Church each controlled half of the country.

However, the other half did not resist at all.

"Is this lucky? Or unfortunate?"

Ryan solved the problem of the Kingdom of Sera, but walked into a deeper vortex, looking at the eternal divinity on the spiritual panel, it was just like the name, no matter how many times Ryan used it, the eternal divinity of this Taisu unit would not disappear even a little bit.

Just like the sun in the sky, the sunshine is endless, and the dawn of every day will come on time, and you can't see its consumption.

Eternal and unfallen, it is the sun.

Will he face such power one day? Or will he die halfway, hoping that he will look at his blood like Yugong and try to touch such power.

Ryan didn't know, so he simply didn't think about it. He didn't even understand the mortal world yet.

The five big nets that enveloped him, and now only half of one of them has been untied.

"There will be no accidents in the Kingdom of Sera. His Majesty King McReynolds has become my ally, but the Kingdom of Andara..."

On the surface, it seems easier for the Kingdom of Andrada, which has already surrendered to the empire, to control the discourse power of the two eastern kingdoms. In fact, because there is no external pressure from the church.

The pure political struggle between the nobles is more troublesome.

Faith is black and white, but the politics of the nobles can take whatever they want from Ryan today because of interests, and exclude Ryan tomorrow because of interests.

Ryan's influence on the Kingdom of Andara is not low, but it is not easy to get closer.

He wants to get more, and the Kingdom of Andara will not give it.

But what Ryan has now is not enough for him to have absolute power over the Kingdom of Andara.

In the Kingdom of Sera, Ryan can use the different factions among the nobles, as well as the royal family's distrust of the Church and the Empire, and the nobles and clergy as entry points.

This cannot be copied and pasted in the Kingdom of Andara.

Because the Kingdom of Andara is too rotten, it seems to Ryan to be impeccable.

How should he control the power of that land?

Wealth interests? Ryan has already influenced a large number of nobles to stand on his side through means such as extraordinary crops.

But he can't let the nobles bow down to him, Ryan, because of those extraordinary crops. They can be richer, but they can also guard their own land and be a local rich man. Wealth is very important, but at some times, it is as useless as a blank sheet of paper.

Political prestige? This path is not feasible. Ryan participated in the founding war of the Kingdom of Sera, but for the Kingdom of Andara, Ryan is an outsider anyway, and his political prestige is inherently untenable.

Military strength? He is a baron of the empire. Without the emperor's order, if Ryan mobilizes troops against the Andara Kingdom, it will be a diplomatic incident. Ryan is not strong enough to ignore all the nobles in the entire southern land.

So, although they are close, Ryan's military war threat does not exist for the Andara Kingdom.

The threat of the empire is a threat, and the threat of Baron Ryan of the empire is not a threat.

But if these three ways are not feasible, then how can we control the future direction of the Andara Kingdom?

Ryan is unwilling to hand over the power of the Andara Kingdom to others.

Especially His Majesty Emperor Flor.

The other party's recent actions have been a bit extreme in Ryan's view. The urgent desire to demonstrate the majesty of the emperor of the empire through the war suppression of the Holy See will be counterproductive.

And the more severe the suppression, the counterattack of the Holy See will definitely make the Emperor of the Flor Empire fall in pain.

Ryan didn't think of any way to return to the frozen land, but at this time, the Andara Kingdom suddenly sent news.

In front of everyone, members of the Andara royal family turned into zombies?

What did they turn into?

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