Throne of the North

When the nobles arrived with the army, there was no one beside the corpse.

The nobles looked at the corpse on the ground with extremely ugly faces. They should have been angry, but now the atmosphere was reduced to the extreme.

"Now... what should we do?"

Baron Freeman said, he swallowed his saliva, and didn't dare to speak loudly at this moment.

They couldn't be sure of the cause of the missionary's death, because the cat assassin only appeared in a few places, Lingdu County, and the battlefield of Hongyiyuan at the time, and there were no nobles from Tieshan County participating in these places.

The reason for their silence was that the missionary was dead, and it was certain that he was not killed by suicide.

The murderer who killed him, no matter who it was, could not be a member of the Church, so the answer could only be the nobles of the empire.

The nobles of Beifeng Province.

Are they from Tieshan County?

No, who would it be?

No matter who it is, it will be a big trouble.

"Throw his body away."

Viscount Walter gritted his teeth and said, he didn't want the body to be on the edge of his territory.

The soldiers took action, but after moving the body, a line of carved words appeared on the stone on the ground, with traces of divine magic on it, which could not be copied by outsiders.

"The blasphemer of the Lord, the heretic who claims to be the light."

"Damn it!"

Viscount Walter asked the soldiers to leave the body behind, and then returned to his castle without looking back.

One day later.

The Archbishop of the Holy See, Adriana, led the remaining missionaries to break into Thunder Cloud County again. This time it was no longer a visit. They began to question the Marquis of North Wind as envoys of the Holy See.

At the same time, in the Earl's mansion in the mountains of North Wind County, which was easy to defend and difficult to attack, Earl Winter looked at the letter in his hand and the news from afar.

"Count Sauron? How could that old guy Muir do such a thing? Or was it a play directed and performed by the little guy Baron Ryan?"

"Not likely, then the most likely one is the old guy Muir."

"Why?"

Only the three of them knew about the existence of the cat assassins. After all, this method did not fit the image of the nobles, and assassins were useless if others knew you had assassins, so they said to the public that all the cat assassins were killed.

For this reason, a lot of cat corpses were brought out as evidence.

Count Winter did not doubt Ryan very much, because the corpse was found in the frozen land, which was not a good thing for the frozen land.

"Will the old guy Muir target me?"

No matter who did it, it was apparently the struggle between the Marquis of the North Wind and the Church, but under this situation, the political struggle between the nobles was not a monolithic one.

Since the Marquis of the North Wind did not do these things, he would certainly be angry at the murderer who did these things.

No matter how you look at him, Count Winter is the one with the greatest motive for murder.

After all, he lost so many gold coins every year.

Bang!

Thinking of this, Earl Winter couldn't help but slammed the table heavily.

"No, I have to fight back."

...

Longshan County.

Earl Sauron naturally received Ryan's letter, and because of the distance, it was earlier than Earl Winter.

"Ryan, this little guy, is really smart."

"It seems to be asking, but in fact, it is telling me that he may tell the truth at any time. Anyway, the target is on our two earls and nobles."

"The storm is already brewing, but he can always find a way to divert the center of the storm."

"It depends on whether we can gain the most in this political struggle."

Earl Sauron put down the letter. He knew that this was a game. The nobles in the game were the three of them, plus the Marquis of the North Wind who had not yet responded to participate.

"There are only a few people from the Holy See, and I don't know what they are thinking."

Earl Sauron was looking forward to the means of the Holy See, but by then Ryan was thinking about the empire.

"Faith needs believers. Marquis Beifeng will not really plan to preach in Beifeng Province and then cultivate believers."

"This is too slow."

He knew very well that what the empire needed was not a brand new church. The greatest role of the God of Light was still on the royal power.

The combination of divine power and royal power, the so-called faith in the God of Light, is not the most important. What is important is to make people understand that the Columbus royal family is the spokesperson of the gods. They have secular rights and the right to believe.

All light is for the royal power of the empire.

So, they don't need real believers and faith at all. They just need to do it on the surface.

This is why the hatred of the church is so great. If the faith is not pure, it means absolutely no faith.

But they are swaggering in the name of the Lord.

The archbishop of the church broke into Thunder Cloud Mountain. On the peak of that mountain, an astonishing movement finally broke out. Some people saw that the divine art covered the sky within a hundred meters and turned into a snow-white sharp blade falling, but was stopped by a powerful knight on Thunder Cloud Mountain.

The Archbishop withdrew from the Marquisate, and the Marquis of Beifeng finally did the second thing after arriving in Beifeng Province.

To be precise, it had to wait until this time.

Because just half a day ago, a large team from the south crossed the Wing Canyon and arrived in Beifeng Province.

They came from various provinces and noble families in the south.

The team was huge, with more than 10,000 people, but the key ones were only 100 people.

Their identities were extraordinary. They were the heirs of nobles, second sons or favorite children, and some were the descendants of some powerful and extraordinary people. They came to the North Wind Province together.

Without exception, they entered the Thunder Cloud County and took out their pioneering orders under the witness of the Marquis of the North Wind.

The Lordship system finally took shape.

These sons of nobles did not have the right to inherit, but their fathers had planned a better future for them than before, becoming lords and becoming real nobles.

Before the Lordship system, they could only become pioneer knights at most.

But after the Lordship system, the status and voice of the fifth-class nobles behind them increased, and they could become lords.

But as a compromise, these people were also devout believers of the God of Light. They were... pioneers of light.

Although every pioneering noble was a pioneer of light as the empire said, it was obvious that other nobles were different from these true "believers of light". They had to fulfill their duties as believers, whether they were sincere or superficial.

After these people arrived, all the remaining unowned lands in the North Wind Province had owners. Of course, the number was too large, so more than half of the pioneer lords really had to become true pioneers in the wasteland.

At the same time, the first thing that the North Wind Marquis did also had results, that is, he spread the faith of the God of Light, which also had an effect at the bottom level.

He gave those people to 23 lords with great noble backgrounds.

The source of these people, of course, was the people of the former Earl of Weiss in Leiyun County, and the population that other nobles in Leiyun County had to pinch their noses to take out.

"Light is the creator of all things, and we are believers and devout servants of light."

"The great Columbus royal family is the incarnation of the God of Light in the world and the absolute ruler of the empire."

These lords spoke of the faith in light and swore loyalty to the great light walker, Emperor Columbus.

The combination of royal power and divine power also began to unfold at this time.

On the third day after this incident spread, Ryan in the Frozen Territory received two messages.

First, the familiar Twilight Territory, the barony without a lord in Thundercloud County, was given to a lord, a lord from the Grand Duke Meyers family - Valent Meyers.

Second, he died on the way to take office.

Along with him died a member of the Earl of Winter's family, the Earl's nephew, the second son of Lord Hora, the Sky Knight, who originally represented the attitude of Earl Winter.