Throne of the North

Ryan and Brand explained that he had enough patience and tolerance for his guardian knight.

The young man who grew up in a sky full of snowflakes grew up little by little. After coming to this world, Brand experienced a completely different life from before.

In the old Exel, he only went out to find food and listened to the village elders telling stories from more than a hundred years ago, but he had never seen a different world outside of ice and snow.

Until he came to the tundra territory and this world, he experienced a lot and saw a lot, but it was precisely because of this that the young man became silent because he needed to adapt to a different world.

But he has never changed his heart. His original intention is still the same Brand who was discovered by Ryan in the village. He is growing and maturing, but he is still him.

Brand is different from the brothers Brock and Atria. The two brothers can still talk. Of course, they are more tireless in blacksmithing.

"If it hadn't been for what Earl Weiss did, maybe the natives of this world would have become our friends, but now that it has happened..."

Lane pointed at the natives Rosen was killing.

"They have never thought of distinguishing us. In other words, they have been dead since Count Weiss captured all their clansmen. What is left of them is only hatred for us."

"What we can do is to strengthen ourselves so that one day we will not become like them."

"Norris Continent, which is our world, Brand, you probably don't know much about it yet."

"I just heard Harrington say that the south is warm and the west coast is prosperous."

Brand said truthfully, he had been to the Imperial City, and what he saw along the way was very different, different from Exnel, different from the Tundra Territory, everything was different.

"But do you know the truth?"

Ryan said:

"One thing I have only recently figured out is that the prosperity of the empire and the prosperity of Norris Continent actually have a huge reason behind it."

"That is to support Norris Continent, the empire has never been a world, a land of resources."

"But many worlds."

"Just like the Tundra Territory, if there is no other world plane, the Tundra Territory will be very poor and miserable."

"Count Weiss is like this, Earl Winter is like this, and the former Earl Sauron family is still like this."

"The Northwind Province is like this, the empire is like this, and the entire southern land is like this."

"Many alien worlds have been found by powerful extraordinary beings. Those legends can even turn divinity into their own power. This is a world, but it is a land connected to the resources of many alien worlds."

"Do you think you are the only outsiders? No, the people living in this world are never just people from one world, but natives from many worlds."

"Some of them even still exist as nobles."

"It's just that you don't know, because their arrival may be traced back a hundred years ago. Many of the people you hear and see now may be the descendants of those who came to Norris Continent from other worlds."

"After all, this is because of the pan-dimensional war of the gods. It is never just one or two worlds that face the inability to survive and the erosion of winter."

Ryan knew a lot about this war in the Northwind Province and heard a lot. Naturally, he also guessed a lot.

For example, the Earl of Winter family, as a big noble from the south, did he abandon all his roots in the south after coming to the North Wind Province?

How big would the fiefdom of an earl noble be? Earl Winter gave up his position as governor of Northwind Province?

It's impossible, but Ryan has never heard of any property owned by the Earl Winter family in the south.

So the only answer is, they don't have land.

He was able to come to the North Wind Province without land, because once he got here, the empire promised to grant Earl Winter a fiefdom after the war was won.

Why would a great nobleman have no land? There are two possibilities.

One is that Earl Winter comes from the northern two-thirds of the Norris continent covered by ice and snow, and is a noble from those lands. The other is that he comes from another world.

Ryan was leaning toward the second possibility, because apart from having relations with some nobles in the empire, the Earl Winter family had little communication with the southern nobles further south, that is, outside the empire.

The circle of nobles is very small, even in the former Norris continent. The nobles of the northernmost kingdom may be related by marriage to the nobles of the southernmost kingdom. As long as there is such a relationship, it is possible to establish a relationship.

As long as the nobility is passed down long enough, it will be a huge spider web. Many corners of the spider web may not be useful, but there will always be times when spiders will crawl into those corners.

And the Earl Winter family is indeed not a noble family with simple background. They have been passed down for a long time. Since it has been a long time, but it has not formed a spider web, what is the answer?

It can only be that they haven't had time to weave their own cobwebs in a new world.

A Earl of Winter is like this. How many nobles like Earl of Winter are there in the empire? There will definitely be no less.

Especially in the provinces on the northern border of the empire, I am afraid that many nobles have such origins.

As Ryan's vision and knowledge became wider and wider, he gradually realized that this kind of thing was not surprising.

He was even thinking about another thing.

That is the marquis among the five nobles.

Among the five nobles, the marquis is special because they all come from the royal family. There are as many powerful marquises as there are provinces in the empire except the North Wind Province. Every marquis is a member of the Columbus royal family. They are the eyes of the royal family, staring at every province.

This also leads to the fact that among the five nobles of the empire, the grand duke is the highest, but the next is the earl. The reason why some earls are close to the grand duke but are difficult to be promoted to the title is the same.

Why is the Columbus royal family so powerful? As the only powerful empire owner who survived the pan-dimensional war of gods, is it difficult for them to make a fortune from war, the fall of gods, and the other world?

Moreover, if the royal family is powerful, then aren’t the four grand dukes powerful?

Grand Duke Meyers conquered the entire North Wind Province and was sent away with a basket of pioneering orders without turning against the empire. Why?

Because these losses of interests are not enough to turn against each other in the eyes of Grand Duke Meyers. Simply put, it is not worth turning against the empire and the royal family for such a small matter.

In the same way, isn't the Earl of Clayton's family, where Ryan comes from, powerful? Do you really think that Earl Clayton led 30,000 Flame Dragon Knights into the North and killed through the Mammoth Man's territory because of legends and dragons?

How did their strength and wealth come from?

This is not difficult to guess.

As Ryan stepped into a larger and higher circle, many truths were self-evident.