Warhammer Throne

Ryan had no reason to refuse Antelm's request. He had to use the power of the Quinalis Champion Knight Brotherhood, and naturally he had to bear the corresponding responsibilities.

However, he made it clear that Su Liya would not participate in this military operation, and attacking the Blackstone stronghold was not a small risk. As his wife, the female knight staying in the territory was much more useful than traveling with her.

Dinner is a delicious feast in southern Brittania, including escargot, red wine chicken, fried foie gras, fish soup, sirloin steak, snails and grilled lobster, carefully cooked by the chef brought by Sulia The food is particularly delicious, and the chef carefully adds truffles to the dishes to ensure that the guests and hosts will enjoy themselves.

By the way, these great southern nobles also despised the poor cooking skills and monotonous dishes of the northerners.

After eating, under the curtain of night, Antelm offered to borrow Ryan a little time and walk out. Ryan nodded. He knew that the earl had something to say to him.

In the endless starry sky, the two holy grail knights were walking slowly in the forest near the hut in the woods under the shining of the stars. Ryan took a half step and he was thinking about what Antelm would say to himself.

He doesn’t know much about the earl. Generally speaking, he only knows that Antelm is a very powerful holy grail knight, with a spear and sword. His age is probably between fifty and sixty. He has had many feats. François' trusted cousin and an important nobleman in the Principality of Winford, loved Sulia very much.

He can be regarded as Ryan's elder, and it is necessary to respect some appropriately.

"Young man, after you came to this kingdom, I saw a series of things in my eyes. You have a big heart, you know?" The two walked along the forest for five minutes, and Antelm considered it. Then he continued: "Some, too big."

"I don't quite understand what you are referring to, Uncle Antelm." Ryan naturally called Uncle Antelm along with Suria. In fact, after he came to this world, he discovered that the name of relatives is far less than that of his previous life in the celestial dynasty. It’s so complicated there. For the elders, either grandpa or grandma, or uncle or aunt, it is a collective term for both cousins ​​and cousins.

"Ryan, let me call you that. You are an outsider. It is your honour to marry Sulia. In principle, our family generally does not marry the duke's concubine to a foreigner." Antelm said. Turned around and looked at Ryan: "But since it's you, I don't have much opinion. After all, you are the lady's champion of choice."

"So?" From this alone, Ryan couldn't hear what his uncle meant.

"However, Su Liya's willingness to marry you does not mean that you are qualified to compete for the throne." Antelm continued: "I know, you may be favored by gods, you may be amazing, you may be from the kingdom. Hero, but you want to compete for the throne, but you are not qualified."

"I am not a duke." Ryan nodded.

"You are a Duke and you are not qualified." Antelm retorted, and the thin wrinkles at the corners of his eyes swayed up and down: "Ryan, it is not that simple to become a king. Raun has the support of the entire northern kingdom. How about you? Is the cousin who will stand up and support you? Well, yes, you have a good relationship with Bastogne and Poldero, but what about it? The Duke of Bastogne, Bohemond, himself has the right to race for the throne. , Boderick of Poldero is at best slightly biased towards you. He will not take his stand until the overall situation is set."

"I know." Antelm's words are hard to hear, but yes, Ryan has too little roots in this country after all, and he humbly accepts criticism.

"What you have to do now is not thinking about the throne. You have to put a duke title in your bag." Antelm continued: "The only title in this country that you can fight for is the Duke of Moussilon. Fortunately, if you are eager to get the title of Duke like a hungry wolf, then I won't come to you at all today."

Ryan's face was very bad. He really hoped to get Mu Xilong first and then consider the Blackstone stronghold, but Su Liya's words made him understand something.

It is true that attacking Mu Xilong and attacking the Blackstone stronghold are both against the undead. However, when attacking Mu Xilong, the main beneficiary is Ryan himself, and the main beneficiary is the entire kingdom threatened by Kemmler.

There is no need to say the following words, because Ryan understands, there is no need to say so clearly between the two.

Finally, Antelm patted Ryan's shoulder vigorously: "Fortunately, you know how to control yourself. If you really do anything to move the lady out, Jin Jue also relies on the lady's favor and oracle. Otherwise, I might keep thinking, why not me?"

"???" Ryan's boots stepped on the moist woodland, making a footprint.

"Why can't I become a lady's champion of choice? I am not good enough? I completed the Holy Grail Expedition in my forties, but I am not strong enough? I once killed the Wyvern alone, and annihilated a goblin by myself. Tribe, I killed a bile troll. I used to hope to inherit the dukedom. Even after my cousin inherited the dukedom, I was still the third in line after Suria. Why couldn’t I be Ladies’ champion?" Antelm smiled and said, "Can’t I be a king? Why did my cousin choose you instead of me? Just because you are the cousin’s son-in-law? So I have to know the current affairs and take the opportunity Here you are? Why? Ryan, you're just a Nord's bunny, and I'm still a direct line of the Duke of Winford's family!"

"Why can't I do what you can do? I just didn't get the chance! If the lady chooses me as the champion of God's Choice, I can do it too!" Antelm kept asking a series of questions. Seeing Ryan was thinking, he continued Said: "Ryan, you are not a must for many things, I hope you understand."

"There are many great nobles in the kingdom who think so, right?" Ryan heard Antelm's implication.

"Yes, Ryan, not everyone knows the current affairs. I really want everyone to be smart and aware of the current affairs. In the beginning, His Majesty Arthur would not face the desperate resistance of the green-skinned army that was thirty times his own. He saved the world. His Majesty Ludwig would not call on all empires to unite against chaos when the capital fell. Even if Emperor Karl-Franz on the opposite side of the mountain was really aware of current affairs as many people hoped, he would not be here. In the first round of voting, he competed with Boris Todd Bringer for the throne with an absolute disadvantage of 8:4 and finally narrowly won."

"If everyone knows the current affairs, the world should now be under the rule of the high elves, and there will be no Charlemagne empire. If everyone knows the current affairs, His Majesty Ludwig has won the great jihad with great feats. And when the 200,000 elite army of the new empire invited Brittany to merge into the empire, did the Knight King Taylor at the time obediently submit?" Antelm continued, "My cousin spoils you more, he won’t I'm telling you this, but I want to tell you that there are so many people of this kind. They like to use results to reverse the cause and process to prove their correctness. They consciously see others clearly, but in fact they don't even see themselves. Qing, fortunately, at least judging from your current actions, they can't spot too many faults, but there are definitely not few who have opinions in their hearts."

"Sadly, this kind of people account for the majority." Ryan smiled bitterly: "There are many people who want a little change, and very few people want to make a little change."

"That's all for me." Count Antelm, Count Kuilau, signaled that he wouldn't have to send it. He blew his whistle, and a pegasus descended from the sky, carrying the count away.

Only Ryan himself, who was lost in thought, remained in place.

The Primarch of Grey Knight stretched out his hands, he felt the power overflowing in his body, and the sparks and lightning of psychic energy leaped happily in his palm. These hands have many uses, but Ryan chose to use them for protection. , Guarding the things he cherishes, guarding his relatives and dwarves, guarding mankind, guarding the order, he has used these hands to hold the warhammer thousands of times to kill the enemy, he has been doing this for more than ten years, in the future, He will also continue.

What he did was not for his own selfish desires or for the benefit of his family. For this, he has a clear conscience.

that's enough.

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The vacation time in the forest villa is always very short. Ryan has not yet enjoyed a short enough leisure time to continue to devote himself to internal affairs. He has to deal with countless government affairs, including the preparation and selection of the army for the expedition. The military rations have long been piled up with the Earl’s establishment. The huge barn, the dwarven trade caravan from the Grey Mountains and the wood elves trade caravan from Essolorun came one after another, loaded with goods and left.

Gradually, summer came, and the scorching sun replaced the spring sun, scorching the ground, and the conscription day of midsummer night was approaching. This year, the serfs enrolled in the army enthusiastically exceeded everyone's imagination. Worried serfs would talk loudly about the conscription. They would bring themselves or their children to the earl’s castle and accept the selection. Everyone was eager to join the army. Death was not terrible. The terrible thing was that they would be a lowly serf all their lives. The status of a freedman is so scarce that only the earl’s orders and approval can be promoted.

But before that, Ryan has to look at the goods first.

After Veronica took her apprentices to inscribe the magic pattern and construct the magic circle for three months, the Light Magic Vehicle from the Imperial Royal Wizarding Academy finally completed most of the settings in the summer, including Adjust the degree of magic overload, construct and engrave the magic circle by yourself, the internal repair of the light magic vehicle and magic experiment.

Now, the time has come to complete the assembly. In the future, Veronica can stand on this powerful war machine to fight.

Under the scorching sun, Ryan took his courtier Teresa to the Dawn Wizard Tower in Veronica to see how powerful the Light Magic Vehicle was in actual combat.

The sorcerer was a little unhappy. She was originally very dissatisfied with Ryan's priority to provide Veronica with the light magic multiplier, but after her own experiments, she found that Ryan's priority to purchase the light magic multiplier for Veronica was not entirely due to him. The preference for Veronica is related to magical adaptability.

The Light Magic Vehicle is made by the Light Academy of the Imperial Royal Wizarding Academy. In principle, it is to give priority to light wizards, and then popularize it to all the great wizards of the entire Royal Wizarding Academy.

Therefore, Veronica, who is proficient in the magic of the light element, is very fast in getting started with this powerful war machine. As the sorcerer of the main ice element, there is a gap in the mastery of magic theory by Teresa. Magic also does not belong to the Eight Winds of Magic, which caused her to encounter a lot of trouble using this war machine.

For example, Veronica and her witch apprentice team can take three months to complete the construction, Teresa and her witch apprentice team may take three years, not to mention her wizard tower is only half of the construction, witch The apprentice group has not yet arrived. At this time, it was time to spend money and energy everywhere, and the sorcerer gave up competing with Veronica for the ownership of the Light Magic Vehicle. By the way, she forced Ryan to sign a lot of inequalities with her. The agreement included going to Poldero alone with her to purchase various magic items for three days.

"Theresa, your spirit doesn't look good? Is it because of some problems with meditation recently, or the weather." Walking near the castle, Ryan asked his courtier, he noticed Teresa's The spirit is very bad.

"The weather, especially this hot climate, I think you must understand." Teresa's face was very pale, and the female warlock held Ryan's arm. She was wearing a white wavy white shirt and a black shirt today. Tight-fitting straight trousers and a pair of black pointed high-heeled shoes barefoot, very refreshing and simple, but also a clean president fan.

Suria was very good to the two witches. After completing the empire journey and returning to the territory, Suria officially granted Teresa and Veronica the status of courtiers, and reported to the kingdom with this. From then on, Teresa and Veronica can legally stay with Ryan. If they have children, they will also be legally recognized illegitimate children. In addition to no inheritance rights, they can enjoy the treatment and power of many nobles.

To put it simply, Teresa and Veronica are "organized" in Ryan's backyard, and they cannot be expelled or expelled as courtiers without proper reason.

Whether it’s Bretania, the empire, or the southern country, it’s a well-known fact that nobles have many lovers. The female courtier system can be regarded as a compromise of some powerful nobles in the noble system, that is, there can only be one lady, female Courtiers allow more.

Charlemagne had married five wives and five concubines in his life. In addition to Julius and Sulia, François had three legal illegitimate children, the elector of the Empire Wolfen, Vamier von Zhukov. In addition to the two prostitutes Oleg and Vasily, there are two courtiers and n lovers, six legal illegitimate children and ten unrecognized illegitimate children!

"In this season, our ice-type wizards and warlocks are in this state. If I were not going to see the light magic of that guy Veronica, I might stay at your brother's building all day. Enjoy the cool in the villa in the forest." Teresa nodded, her tone of grievance: "Conversely with me, Veronica has the strongest mana in the summer, and when I am the strongest in the winter. What she likes most is hiding in the bed, reading, meditating, sitting in front of the fireplace and having a fire, and asking you to roll the sheets."

"What is the magical power of a wizard?" Ryan asked curiously.

"Then I will explain to you in detail, the mana reserves and the way of magical singing."