Proof of the Sun King

Ryan had no reason to refuse Antelm's request. He had to rely on the power of the Quinalis Champion Knight Brotherhood, and naturally he had to take the corresponding responsibility.

However, he made it clear that Surya would not participate in this military operation, and attacking the Blackstone stronghold would be quite risky. As his wife, the role of the female knight staying in the territory was much more useful than going on an expedition with her.

Dinner is a sumptuous meal of delicious southern Brittany, including snails, red wine chicken, pan-fried foie gras, fish soup, sirloin steak, snails and grilled lobster, cooked by the chef brought by Surya , the food is particularly delicious, and the chef also carefully added truffles to the dishes to ensure that guests and hosts enjoy themselves.

By the way, these big nobles from the south also despised the poor cooking skills and monotonous dishes of the northerners.

After the meal, under the darkness of night, Antelm offered to borrow Ryan a little time to go out for a walk. Ryan nodded, he knew that the earl wanted to say something to him.

In the boundless starry sky, the two Holy Grail Knights were walking slowly in the forest near the hut in the forest under the starlight. Ryan took a half step, thinking about what Antelm would say to himself.

He didn't know much about the earl. He generally only knew that Antarm was a very powerful Holy Grail Knight. He was skilled in both spear and sword. He was between fifty and sixty years old. Francois' trusted cousin and an important noble in the Duchy of Winford, loved Suria very much.

He is also Ryan's elder, and it is necessary to respect him properly.

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

"I don't quite understand what you're referring to, Uncle Antelm." Ryan naturally called Uncle Antelm along with Surya. In fact, after he came to this world, he found that the name of relatives was far less than in the previous life in the Celestial Dynasty. It's so complicated there. The elders are either grandfathers or grandmothers, uncles or aunts, whether they are cousins, cousins ​​or cousins.

"Lane, I'll call you that. You are an outsider, and it is your honor to marry Suria. In principle, our family generally does not marry a duke's direct daughter to a foreigner." Turning around and looking at Ryan: "But since it's you, I don't have much opinion. You are the lady's chosen champion after all."

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

"However, the fact that Surya is willing to marry you does not mean that you are qualified to compete for the throne." Antelm continued: "I know that you may be favored by God, you may be amazing, and you may be a member of the kingdom. Hero, but if you want to compete for the throne, it's not enough."

"I'm not a duke." Ryan nodded,

"You're not qualified to be a duke." Anthelm retorted, the thin wrinkles at the corners of his eyes swayed up and down: "Lane, it's not that easy to be a king, Lawn has the support of the entire north of the kingdom, how about you? Is it the cousin who will stand up for you? Well, yes, you have a good relationship with Bastogne and Boldero, but so what? The duke of Bastogne, Pheximond, has the right to compete for the throne in his own right. , Poldro's Bodrick is at most slightly biased towards you, and he won't make a statement until the overall situation has been decided."

"I know." Antelm's words were ugly, but yes, Ryan's roots in this country were too shallow after all, and he humbly accepted criticism.

"What you have to do now is not to think about the throne, you have to put a duke title in your pocket first." Anthem continued: "The only title you can fight for in this country is the Duke of Mousillon, and Fortunately, if you were as eager as a hungry wolf for the dukedom, I wouldn't have come to you today at all."

Ryan's face was very bad. At that time, he really hoped to win Musilon first, and then consider the Blackstone stronghold, but Suria's words made him understand something.

Yes, the attack on Musilon and the attack on the Blackstone stronghold are both against the undead, but the main beneficiary of the attack on Musilon is Ryan himself, and the attack on the Blackstone stronghold, the main beneficiary is the entire kingdom threatened by Kemler.

In the following words, Antelm doesn't need to say more, because Ryan understands, there is no need to say so clearly between the two.

In the end, Antelm patted Ryan's shoulder hard: "Fortunately, you know how to control yourself. If you really do everything to take out the lady, Jin Juezhong also relies on the lady's favor and oracle. Otherwise, I might have been thinking, why not me?"

"???" Ryan's boots stepped on the damp forest floor and made a footprint.

"Why can't I be the Lady's Chosen Champion? I'm not good enough? I completed the Holy Grail Crusade in my forties, and I'm not strong enough? Horde, killed a gall troll, I was very hopeful to inherit the title of duke, even after my cousin inherited the title of duke, I was still the third in line after Surya, why can't I be Ladies' champion?" Anthem said with a smile: "Can't I be king? Why did my cousin choose you instead of me? Just because you are my cousin's son-in-law? For you? Why? Ryan, you're just a Nord country bumpkin, and I'm still the direct bloodline of the Duke Winford family!"

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

"There are many great nobles in the kingdom who think so, right?" Ryan heard what Antelm meant.

"Yes, Ryan, not everyone knows the current affairs, really want everyone to be smart and aware of the current affairs. Back then, His Majesty Arthur would not have desperately resisted against the green-skinned army thirty times his size. His Majesty Ludwig would not have called upon all the Imperials to unite against Chaos if the capital fell, and even Emperor Karl Franz across the mountain would not have been in the The first round of voting ended with a narrow 8-4 victory against Boris Todbringer for the throne."

"If everyone knew the current affairs, the world should still be under the rule of the high elves, and there would be no Charlemagne's empire at all. If everyone knew the current affairs, His Majesty Ludwig had won the great merits of the great holy war. When the power of the 200,000-strong elite army of the new empire came to invite Brittany to join the empire, did the knight king Taylor at that time have to obey?" Anthem continued: "Cousin is more fond of you, no Let me tell you this, but I want to tell you that there are so many people like this. They like to use the results to push back the cause and process to prove themselves correct. They consciously see others clearly, but in fact they can't even see themselves. Qing, fortunately, at least from what you've done so far, they can't pick out too many faults, but there are definitely not many who have opinions in their hearts."

"Sadly, such people make up the majority." Ryan smiled bitterly: "There are many people who want a little change, and very few people who want to make a little change."

"That's all I have said." Count Antelm of Kuyleu signaled that he didn't need to send him off. He blew his whistle, and a Pegasus descended from the sky, carrying the Count away.

The only one left in place was Ryan himself, who was lost in thought.

The Grey Knight Gene Primarch stretched out his hands. He felt the power overflowing in his body. The sparks and lightnings of psionic energy danced happily in his palms. These hands had many uses, but Ryan chose to use them to protect them. , 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. For more than ten years, he has been doing this all the time. In the future, He will also continue.

What he did was by no means for his own personal desires or the interests of his family, for which he had a clear conscience.

that's enough.

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The vacation time of the villa in the forest is always very short. Ryan has not enjoyed enough short-term leisure to continue to devote himself to internal affairs. He has to handle countless government affairs himself, including the preparation and selection of the army for expedition. The great barns, the dwarven trade caravans of the Grey Mountains, and the wood elves from Athel Loren came in and left with loads.

Gradually, summer came, and the scorching hot sun replaced the spring sunshine, scorching the ground, and the conscription festival on midsummer night was coming. This year, the serfs signed up to join the army more enthusiastically than everyone imagined. Worried serfs would speak loudly about conscription. They would bring themselves or their children to the earl's castle for selection. Everyone wanted to join the army. Death is not terrible. The status of a freedman is so scarce that promotion can only be gained by the order and approval of the earl.

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

After Veronica and her apprentices spent three months to inscribe the magic pattern and construct the magic circle, the light magic vehicle from the Imperial Academy of Wizards finally completed most of the settings in the summer, including Adjust the degree of magic overload, construct and imprint the magic circle by yourself, internal repair and magic experiment of the light magic vehicle.

Now, the time has come to complete the assembly, and the future Veronica will be able to stand on this mighty war machine to fight.

Under the scorching sun, Ryan took his female courtier Teresa to Veronica's Dawn Wizard Tower to watch the actual combat power of the Light Magic Vehicle.

The sorceress was a little unhappy. She was originally very dissatisfied with Ryan's priority to provide Veronica with the magic vehicle of light, but after personal experiments, she found that Ryan's priority in purchasing the magic vehicle for Veronica was not entirely out of him. The preference for Veronica is related to magical adaptability.

The Light Magic Vehicle is manufactured by the Bright Academy of the Imperial Academy of Wizards. In principle, it is to give priority to the wizards of the Light Department, and then spread to all the great wizards of the entire Royal Academy of Wizards.

Therefore, Veronica, who is proficient in light magic, is very fast in getting started with this powerful war machine. As the sorceress of the main ice department, Teresa has a gap in her ability to master magic theory. Magic is also not part of the eight winds of magic, which makes her use this war machine a lot of trouble.

For example, Veronica and her apprentice group can take three months to build, Teresa and her apprentice group may take three years, not to mention that her wizard tower is only half-built, the witch The apprentice group has not yet arrived. At this time, it is time to spend money and energy everywhere. The sorceress also gave up competing with Veronica for the ownership of the light magic vehicle, and by the way coerced Ryan to sign a lot of unequal contracts with her. The agreement included going to Boldero alone with her to purchase various magic items for three days.

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

"The weather, especially this hot climate, I think you must understand." Teresa's face was very pale, the sorceress took Ryan's arm, she was wearing a white wavy white shirt and a black one today. Tight-fitting straight-leg trousers and a pair of black pointed-toe high-heeled shoes are barefoot, very refreshing and simple, and have a clean CEO style.

Surya is still very good to the two witches~www.wuxiamtl.com~ After returning to the territory after completing the imperial tour, Surya officially granted Teresa and Veronica the status of female courtiers, and used This is reported to the kingdom. From now on, both Teresa and Veronica can legally stay by Ryan's side. If they have children, they will also be legally recognized illegitimate children. In addition to having no inheritance rights, they can enjoy the treatment of many nobles. and power.

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

No matter it is Brittany, the empire or the southern countries, it is well known that nobles have many lovers. The female courtier system is a compromise between some powerful nobles in the noble system, that is, there can only be one wife and one female. Courtiers allow more.

Charlemagne married five wives and five concubines in his life. Francois had three legitimate illegitimate children besides Julius and Surya, and the Elector of the Empire Wolfen Vamier von Zhukov In addition to the two sons Oleg and Vasily, there are two female courtiers and n lovers, six legal illegitimate children and ten illegal illegitimate children who are not recognized!

"In this season, our ice wizards and warlocks are in this state. If I didn't go to see how the light magic vehicle of Veronica was, I might stay at your brother's building all day. Let’s enjoy the shade in the villa in the forest.” Teresa nodded, with a lot of resentment in her tone: “Converse with me, Veronica’s mana is the strongest in summer, and I am the strongest in winter. , she likes to hide under the covers and read, meditate, sit in front of the fireplace and make a fire, and roll the sheets with you."

"What is the wizard's mana like?" Ryan asked curiously.

"Then I'll explain to you in detail how mana reserves and magic power are chanted."