Chapter 288 288. King Noland’s decision, the changes in the blue chapter
It stands to reason that the Kingdom of Noland has only been officially established for more than 30 years, and these dukes can be considered a big family during the founding period.
Of course I have fought in the war.
But once people enjoy things that they have not enjoyed before, they fall very quickly, especially those whose backgrounds can be said to be mediocre.
They enjoy the superior pleasure brought by this status very much, so they cherish their lives more and wish they could enjoy it for decades more.
In noble wars, generally speaking, the other party would be captured, and then the family would pay a sufficient price to redeem them - this was considered a common operation for all nobles in the entire continent.
But Croya didn’t do this.
He really killed anyone who refused to surrender, and there was still blood on the butcher knife. On the other hand, the army is dispatched to clean up the locusts and move forward steadily.
This is simply clear that the Western Territory, which borders the Northern Territory, has been regarded as one of its own.
People have begun to govern!
When such terrifying psychological pressure made the Dukes hesitate to take something to surrender, His Majesty's army suddenly arrived in the Western Region.
Why did the king come suddenly?
Could it be that he knew that the Grand Duke Hanjiao in the north was planning to disregard the nobles' face, so he came here to suppress it?
The Dukes' eyes lit up, like children who finally found someone to complain to, and they hurried to greet the king.
If the king can reprimand the Duke of Hanjiao, maybe it can give them some breathing time, and then give them some precious treasures, will that solve the problem?
But when they saw the king and had just told the story, before the king could speak, Estner, who was sitting next to him, asked:
"Then do you want to surrender?"
< br>"Or are you planning to cause some trouble for Duke Hanjiao?"
His tone was very casual, as if he was just asking casually, with a bit of a smile.
Although the Dukes knew the young president of the Mages Association, they were a little confused as to what he meant.
Is he on his side?
If this is the case, that would be great. With the king and the president of the Mage Association reprimanding him together, maybe even the gift can be waived.
One of the Dukes, who was slightly overweight, said tentatively: "Your Majesty, he has completely thrown away the dignity of the nobles by doing this. You must rebuke him!"
Rebuke, People killed a duke just for rebuke.
The Fat Duke felt that what he said was tactful enough, and could even be said to be humble.
However, as soon as he finished speaking, the chubby Duke felt a little cold on his neck. The next second, he saw a familiar body dressed in aristocratic clothing.
"Why does this look so much like my body?"
——This was the Fat Duke's last thought, and the deep darkness swallowed up all his consciousness.
Estner, the president of the Mage Association, took back the long sword conceived by the magic power in his hand. The sharp blue cold light was mixed with a hint of blood.
"Obviously he is also a third-level warrior." Estner shook his head disdainfully: "After all, I have been enjoying it for so long that I can't even feel the danger."
King Norant laughed loudly: "Master Estner's sword is very good. I wonder if you are interested in giving some advice to my princes?"
"Of course." Estner No rejection.
Anyway, the relationship between the Mage Association and the royal family will be more closely bound in the future, and it will not be a troublesome thing to teach the other party's heirs.
King Norante chuckled.
At this time, the royal guards had surrounded the remaining two dukes, and the magic-forbidden iron chains were emitting a dull light.
The two Dukes remained sensible and did not move.
They knew that they might really be doomed.
But why?
I usually pay no less tribute to the royal family, not to mention the friendship of marching and fighting together. Even the title was conferred by Prince Norland himself.
Nobles are the foundation of the country. If they really die, won’t other nobles feel sad? Will the country not be in chaos?
Their doubts were quickly answered.
The corpses on the ground were pulled away, the carpets were cleaned, and the carriages engraved with spatial magic patterns were lit with soothing spices.
It's like nothing happened.
King Norante looked at his two dukes, his grin still cheerful: "There are many people who want to be dukes, and I will choose one of your direct bloodlines to inherit the title.
I won’t let you die.
Well... I hope your offspring is lovable enough. "
His eyes were full of youthful passion and burning blood - this is how the two dukes once followed him and destroyed the "rotten" Kingdom of Saisien.
So is this burning passion finally going to target them?
They finally thought... The royal family is actually the biggest noble. How can the nobles not protect their own interests?
The Duke? They took a deep breath.
They bowed their heads respectfully: "Thank you for your kindness, Your Majesty."
There is nothing more to say, the king has made a decision, and they have no way to resist.
King Norland said nothing more, he just took out a bottle of wine that he had collected for a long time and poured a glass for each of the two dukes.
That is "Bliss Burning" produced by the Temple of the Goddess of Love.
It is both poison and one of the most wonderful drinks in the Semrio continent.
Generally speaking, this thing is for low-level believers who want to see their gods. King Norant also spent a lot of money to get such a bottle.
When the two dukes drank the wine, sincere smiles appeared on their faces, and then began to burn out of thin air.
The crimson firelight shone on the king's face, and he drank a glass of wine with an expressionless expression.
In the end, the two adults did not leave even a pinch of ashes.
So far, there is no longer a duke in the western territory of Norland Kingdom.
"This is my gift to Sir Cloya."
King Norland took out a stack of blank appointment letters without signature, but stamped with the coat of arms of the royal family and the heraldry. Turner waved in front of him.
"How about my sincerity?"
Estner resisted his desire to complain, but still couldn't help but rolled his eyes: "Your Majesty, you are destroying After conquering the Kingdom of Seth, he kept all the occult books belonging to the Kingdom of Seth to himself.
Now, in the entire Norant Kingdom... are there any transcendents above level four?
You want to raise the butcher's knife and they are the lambs to be slaughtered. ”
After these few days of getting along, Estner also learned something. He felt that King Norland’s thoughts were really deep.
He took back the game. The occult resources of Level 4 and above in the Sien Kingdom gave the nobles quite favorable treatment, allowing them to quickly become addicted to it.
From the outside, the entire Norant Kingdom, including the royal family and the nobles, basically had a lot of resources. There is no one who is particularly shrewd and powerful enough to make people feel threatened.
——The former Duke Olivier and Duke Nar may be, but they are dead.
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Although it was Croya's hand, why was it so coincidental that someone told Croya just when they were about to open the ruby dragon's lair?
Astner looked at the king and suddenly remembered that he seemed to have never seen the royal court mage system.
You can build your own occult defense without the help of the Mage Association.
What else is the royal family hiding?
Faced with his naked doubtful and questioning gaze, King Norante did not answer.
...
Soon, the king's team passed by Croya's team. King Norant did not entertain these warriors who helped him clean up the locusts.
In fact, it stands to reason that as the king, he should reward these warriors. After all, they are people who are helpful to the kingdom.
But now he has planned to cooperate with Croya, the Star Town Mage Association and even the Star Council behind Croya, so he is very, very cautious.
Even if it is a little bit that will make Croya feel that he is inviting people's hearts, he will be as cautious as possible.
Under such circumstances, he quickly arrived in the north.
In the reception hall that looked extremely low-key but was actually luxurious, I met the long-awaited Cloya.
This was the first time the two met, and they were observing each other, but it was obvious that King Norant could not see through the young mage in front of him at all.
Kloya said: "Your Majesty, I have not sent you my greetings for a long time."
King Norante chuckled and said: "My Duke has helped me solve so many things. I Very grateful.”
Both of them are obviously the kind of people who smile but don't smile. They look polite, but in fact they are extremely polite and distant.
Such a situation is obviously not conducive to negotiations.
Estner next to him could only explain aloud: "Kloa, His Majesty the King has now agreed to fully cooperate with our Mage Association. He even killed three dukes on the way. The territory belongs to them. , it will be you who takes over.
And..."
He told everything he had reached with the king when he was in the royal capital.
After he finished speaking, Croya's expression finally changed.
Hey, are you so courageous?
If you had been so courageous before, I wouldn't have regarded you as a mascot. You were really well hidden.
Cloya took a deep look at King Norante.
"In that case, I will tell you directly."
"On behalf of the Star Town Mage Association, I will help you deal with the locusts. At the same time, I hope you can occupy as much land as possible in the surrounding countries.
I will provide enough food, and will also send my Warcraft Demonic Plants to join your army to provide sufficient mystical support."
King Norant frowned and said: "Set up. War? ”
“Although starting a war now is a good opportunity, the results may be very bad. I am not sure whether I can deal with the coalition forces of several surrounding countries.”
Croya interrupted him: "No, you can definitely do it."
"Because the Mage Association of Star Town has issued an order, the mage associations in several surrounding countries will help you."
< br>Since Qunxing Town has given itself such high authority, and now King Norant is willing to cooperate, it is better to simply help King Norant annex several surrounding countries.
This can not only solve the problems caused by the locust plague as quickly as possible, but also remove the nails in the church. The post-disaster reconstruction work will also be easy to handle - he has had this idea before and also asked about it. Evelyn.
In the end, Evelin’s answer was: “As long as you don’t let those people in the church take the opportunity to harvest faith, you can do whatever you want.
Cleaning up carrion can be painful.
But it may be the fastest way. ”
Evelin actually means Star Town. Obviously they don’t care about how much painful process it will take to remove the rotten flesh.
If Croya doesn’t participate If he comes in, there will probably be others involved, so he feels that he might as well take this opportunity to fully participate.
Although he doesn't think he is a good person, he can still do something in this world's army. If you can't do it, at least you won't rob civilians casually
As for the nobles...
It is up to his subordinates to identify them themselves.
The most attractive thing about war is nothing more than military exploits and the pleasure of plundering resources. This is not something he can stop. If he stops it forcibly, something will happen easily.
Hearing Croya's words, King Norante felt a little anxious in his heart. He had been silent for a while.
Now is the time when he needs to make a decision.
The other party's price has been set.
Another point is, if he doesn't agree, can he really get out of the north?
He is not irreplaceable.
After thinking for a long time, he said in a deep voice: "I need a contract. Not between Star Town and me, but between you and me, Master Croya."
"I I don’t trust Qunxing Town, just like I didn’t trust the Earth Mother Church.”
"Of course you can force me to do it, and I will do it."
The king looked at Croya with burning eyes.
But Croya couldn't help but laugh. He looked at the empty place next to him and teased: "The reputation of Star Town is not as good as mine. Ms. Great Magician, what do you think?"< br>
Evelin's figure slowly appeared, and she spread her hands helplessly: "I have known this for a long time, the reputation of magicians has never been very good.
In this case, are you willing? ?”
She seemed to be asking Croya, but her eyes were fixed on King Norante. The magic power of the tenth-level magician was floating around at some point, forming a lie detection circle that could detect mental fluctuations.
"Of course."
Cloya nodded: "If I am willing to sign this contract, you should feel more at ease, right?"
The Great Magician The lady smiled awkwardly.
Hearing that Croya was willing to sign the contract, both she and King Norante were relieved.
To be honest, no one trusts anyone in their cooperation, and they are in urgent need of a middleman to mediate. You know, the support of Star Town means that the territory of Norland Kingdom can be expanded several times.
This is a "gift" and naturally requires someone to supervise it.
So Croya then signed a contract with King Norante, who was really relieved after signing his name.
It is true that he doesn’t trust Croya very much, but he trusts his son, after all, that is his only bloodline.
With the signing of the contract, the atmosphere suddenly relaxed a lot.
Upon seeing this, Ms. Evelin picked up her fishing rod and waved her hand and left: "You will be fully represented by Cloya in Star Town. I made a fishing appointment with Mr. Oak, so let's take the first step!"
After saying that, she used space magic and disappeared.
Kloya, Estner and King Norante were the only ones left in the room.
Kloya clapped his hands, and immediately a small space magic circle brought delicious food up.
“The north is barren and there is nothing good about it.”
"You two, just eat whatever you want."
The president of the Mage Association and the king looked at the delicious dishes on the table that were all made of magic ingredients and even specialties found only in the mermaid tribe in the depths of the ocean. , I didn’t know what to say for a while.
Should I complain about Cloya’s pretense, or should I say that in other people’s eyes, these things are really just a casual snack?
Just when the two people were thinking like this.
Kloya added: "What I mean is that these things are eaten casually. We are all smart people, and there is no need for me to say pretentious words to you."
Because what he said was indeed very reasonable, the two of them immediately felt that the delicious and delicious food in front of them didn't seem so fragrant.
But the taste of these meals is indeed very good - heavy on oil and salt, plus good ingredients, it would be really strange if the food was not delicious.
They immediately started eating and drinking.
From time to time, the three of them chatted about some random topics. Among them, King Norant talked the most about his experience in conquering the Kingdom of Saisien.
There were indeed many interesting anecdotes during the period, and Croya listened quite seriously.
In the end, I didn’t know whether he could get drunk even if he drank wine, or whether King Norante was doing this on purpose.
Anyway, he said bluntly: "Without the book given by the Earth Mother Goddess Church, I would never have been able to cross the thorn barrier of King Seth's capital in any case."
"I am indeed very grateful to the Church of the Mother Earth, but they regard me as their loyal hound, and even want my son to be a bishop, which cannot be denied."
As he said, he will He took out the book given to him and handed it directly to Croya.
"Grand Duke Hanjiao, this book is my gift to you."
Hmm... The turn of the topic was a little abrupt. Croya originally wanted to refuse, but when he saw the name on the book, he swallowed his refusal.
Because this book is called - "The Miracle of Death: The Balance of Life and Death".
The name is so familiar, and the book looks so familiar. It is clearly the "Miracle of Death?" that Evelin gave him some time ago. The Buried Magic》!
He was originally struggling with that book because there was no one, so now he is stuck in a place where he is neither up nor down. All magic books are step-by-step, and the first one is very important.
The result is delivered to your door now?
Croya suddenly felt that King Norante looked much more pleasing to the eye.
He put away the book with satisfaction, and just when he was about to say a few words, King Mu Yaoqu Vine suddenly emerged from the void, touched him lightly, and sent a message.
The prophecy at the highest level of the Mage Tower...has been solved.
"Untied?" Croya's first reaction was why it was such a coincidence, and his second reaction was to look out the window.
In fact, there is no need to say Mu Yao Qu Teng Wang.
Now he turned to look outside and could already see many strange stars suddenly appearing in the originally bright sky.
The stars blocked the light of the sun.
They shine with starlight wantonly, and the clear and mysterious blue halo falls like a waterfall. The location is the Mage Tower on Hanjiao Island!
It’s like a big hole has been broken in the sky, and the starlight is eroding the magic field of Hanjiao Island!
What level of prophecy is this that can produce such a vision?
What made him feel even more weird was that the cyan chapter in the "Poetry of Rainbow Colors" that he had not touched for a long time was fluctuating.
It was only then that he suddenly realized that he had never paid attention to the cyan chapter before.
It’s like after red, orange, yellow and green, the only ones that care about are blue and purple, completely ignoring cyan.
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