Warlord: King of All Clans

When Leo was in the imperial capital, he learned about the basic situation of the imperial capital through various channels.

The entire imperial capital is roughly divided into three major forces: the royal forces, the emerging class forces, and the traditional conservative forces.

The royal power represented by Charles VII began to play a neutral role after the assassination of Queen Laura and the failure of the reform. It turned a blind eye to the struggles between the imperial classes and acted as a peacemaker at most.

Obviously, Charles VII's strategy was very clear. Since the revival had failed, he would settle for the second best and just keep his status as ruler.

If you can get along well with both sides, you can be a constitutional monarch if you can't be an absolute monarch. It's better than being overthrown.

What the little mouse is doing now is equivalent to taking sides again.

With the protection of Sword Saint Algernon for a short period of time, nothing will go wrong.

But political conflicts cannot be resolved by force alone, and other forces will not sit idly by and watch the royal family rise again.

If we are not careful, not only will the empire be revived, but the imperial capital will be in chaos.

Ideals are beautiful, but reality is cruel. The little mouse was born into the royal family, so the road ahead is bound to be extremely difficult.

Seeing that Leo was silent, Norin continued, "Her Royal Highness said, if you can't clean one room, how can you clean the whole world? The imperial capital is the royal house. Her Royal Highness is at least trying."

Leo nodded and said, "That's true, but you have to be careful and don't let the dust blind your eyes."

Freya was also worried about her little sister, so she grabbed Leo and said, "Let's go to the imperial capital to see the little mouse!"

Leo was very excited and nodded, saying, "Let's wait until the pregnant woman gives birth, and then we'll go to the capital to see the little mouse."

Freya jumped onto the table, clenched her fists, showing off the small muscles on her arms, "I will be fierce to anyone who bullies the little mouse!"

The friends in the room, all of whom were excellent supporting actors, played the role of southern nobles and said they were scared to death and dared not do it.

After chatting for a while, they started reading letters. Olivia held the little mouse's letter and read it word by word to everyone.

"Dear Sister Olivia..."

"Freya, Fisa, Six..."

"How are you guys doing?"

“…”

"Leo, Denise and Sister Noreen miss you too. When will you ..."

When Olivia read this, she glanced at Leo, who was sitting upright, and Noreen, who hid behind the dog to avoid being seen, with only one red ear exposed.

Under the order of His Majesty the Emperor, Noreen would first review the letters written by Little Mouse to prevent the appearance of words that would undermine the royal dignity.

Apparently, Noreen understood the rest of the conversation clearly.

Olivia closed the letter and announced, "The following is a secret."

The friends in the big house dispersed with regret.

When it was time to go to bed, Noreen and Freya surrounded Olivia on both sides and continued to whisper.

Leo walked in and looked, then said helplessly, "Where do I sleep?"

Noreen was about to get up to make room, but Olivia grabbed her hand and ordered, "Go sleep in the attic."

The attic was Freya's bedroom and secret base. When she heard what Olivia said, Freya immediately jumped up and said happily, "Go! One wheat cake a night!"

The Earl of River Bay was forced to sleep in the attic of his own home and had to pay rent first.

The next day, while I was still asleep, Al's voice suddenly rang out in my mind, "Alert! Alert! Enemy spotted!"

Leo turned over and said, "What enemy situation? Who else would be so blind as to set their sights on the river bend at this time?"

"It's a Saint-level expert, approaching the river bend quickly!"

Leo suddenly woke up, got up and asked, "Holy Steps?"

Al: "Start teleportation!"

His vision suddenly became blurry, then the clouds and fog dissipated, revealing a sandbox map of the area surrounding the atrium.

On the north side of the sand table, an orange light appeared a hundred miles north of the Troll City-State.

Before Leo could ask, the orange light suddenly flashed and flashed some distance to the south.

Based on the size of the sand table, Leo roughly estimated that this flash spanned at least a hundred miles!

Flash is a common spell in space magic. Normally, a mid- to high-level space mage can only flash within a distance of ten to twenty meters.

This kind of flash of a hundred miles is simply an alien version of shrinking the earth into an inch, comparable to teleportation.

Before Leo could react, the orange light flashed again, and flashed a hundred miles away, passing the troll city-state and appearing in the gravel hills.

"Can you see who it is?"

El's shared vision quickly zoomed in, the orange light spot grew larger, and the surrounding scenery changed from being virtual to being real.

When you get close to a hundred meters above the ground, the view has become an eagle-eye view of the real scene.

A priest with black hair and beard in a white robe stood in the wilderness.

As if sensing something, the white-robed priest raised his head slightly and looked at Leo.

Leo recognized him immediately. This was Antonisse, the Holy Order priest who was sent to guard the gate to the north.

He felt a little relieved and quickly put on his clothes and went out to greet them.

Noreen and Freya had both gotten up. Seeing Leo in a hurry, they chased after him and asked, "What happened?"

Leo said, "Nothing happened. Master Bobak gave Lord Antonisse a holiday."

As soon as he walked out of the big house, Leo saw a flash of light in the sky above the River Bay Peninsula.

Although he couldn't see anyone, Leo knew that Antonisse was standing above the peninsula, but he had used magic to make himself invisible.

Behind Leo, a blue gate of light suddenly opened, and a huge black dragon rushed into the sky and circled around the peninsula.

This is El activating the atrium defense mechanism and controlling the Alchemical Black Dragon to protect the territory.

Although Antonise showed no hostility, the Saint's intentions were so deep in the sea that even Al could not detect them, so he could only prepare in advance.

Leo looked at the sky, felt a trace of magical fluctuations, and called out tentatively: "Lord Antonisse?"

In front of him, the figure of Holy Order Priest Antonisse slowly emerged.

"It's me."

Compared to before he went to the northern snowfields, Anthony's face is now a little weathered and looks a little older.

He did not carry the aura of death, but the priest's white robe that had originally glowed with golden light was now dull, and the faint light that was unique to the bodies of the holy-level transcendents had almost disappeared.

Obviously, Antonisse has had a hard time guarding the goal in the past two years.

Leo was also very respectful to such an elder. He took the initiative to perform the junior's salute and asked curiously: "Lord Antonisse, how do you have time to visit the river bend?"

Anthony smiled bitterly and said, "I can't help it. I have been guarding the north gate until now, and my magic power has been exhausted. Master Bobak dislikes my low level of cultivation, so he gave me some time off and asked me to come to the courtyard to rest."

"He said the river bend is very interesting and asked me to come and take a look."

Seeing that it matched his guess, Leo was relieved and smiled as he welcomed Antonisse into the lord's house. "Then walk around and see more. There are many new things in the river bay!"