Before ascending to God, be a good lord

"Lant, why are you still here?"

Just outside the Great Council, just as Lant and Angzang Zhuoqin were confronting each other, Ben Kaul walked over.

As soon as Ben saw Ang Zang, he greeted him politely: "Hey, isn't this Mr. Ang Zang? I heard that you just came back from the south."

"Ah, you are Ben Kaur, right?" Angzang looked at Ben Kaur, "I haven't been back to the imperial capital for hundreds of years, and many people don't know me. You and Mr. Kaur look so similar, no wonder you Your family will make you a legend."

"Thank you," Ben said with a cold face, "Teacher Klein has something to do with Lant, let's go first."

After speaking, Ben took Lant and left, leaving only Angzang behind.

Lant followed Ben to the teleportation hall outside the Great Council. As he walked, he asked, "This Angzang sounds so familiar, but I can't remember where I heard his name."

Ben said expressionlessly: "The empire once had a department that specialized in investigating nobles: the Tribunal, which was the predecessor of the Palace Division. He was the last presiding judge of the Tribunal."

Ben's reminder suddenly made Lant realize: "Oh, I remembered. Albert and you have mentioned him before. He seems to have offended a lot of nobles, right?"

"Yes, in the 699th year of the Emperor of God, Angzang discovered that there was a conspiracy to conspire with demons in the South Bank Kingdom at that time, which involved a large number of nobles and even led to legendary confrontations within the parliament," Ben Kaul said about that year. There is nothing to hide,
  "Later, Teacher Klein personally brought a group of legends to the South Bank Country to investigate. He believed that the then Chief Judge of the Inquisition, Kopel Hurricane, and the investigating officer Angzang Zhuoqin lacked evidence, and even discovered that Angzang himself was in cahoots with the demons. After learning the inside story, Koper Hurricane was deposed and Angzang Zhuoqin was imprisoned.

"Not only that, but their struggle back then also led to widespread antagonism between nobles and civilian mages, so that when the demons launched rebellions in several colonial spaces in 707, there were almost no legends to go to quell the rebellion."

At this point, Lant asked curiously: "So, Ang Zang has escaped?"

Ben shook his head: "No. Later, from 709 to 714, the demonic tide arrived. The fallen demons invaded the empire in large numbers. A large number of legendary and high-level people died. The empire was almost hanging on by a thread. However, there were many so-called false accusations by Koper and Angzang. The nobles have made peace with the demons one after another."

"Is this a reversal?" Lant was a little surprised.

"Actually, it cannot be regarded as a reversal. Before the 600th year of the God Emperor, intermarriage with the six-limbed tribe was originally regarded by major families as a means to improve their bloodlines. In the 600th year of the God Emperor, there was a rebellion of the fallen demons. Your Excellency Zhuo Qin therefore In the Fall of Alien, intermarriage with demons has become a taboo in the empire, but many families still secretly marry him.

When Koper and Angzang were conducting investigations, they focused on those families that had the closest collusion with the demons. They may not have intended to betray the empire at the time, but that would not necessarily be the case once the empire was in crisis. "

As Ben narrated, Lant remembered the hundreds-of-year-old letter found in the salt mine, and also recalled the marriage contract with the demons found in the secret room of Padmilla Palace, and roughly understood Ben's understanding. the meaning of.

"So, after the real demons launched a rebellion, it turned out that what they said back then was right." "Yes," Ben continued, "The legendary mage Koper died in the battle with the demons, and Ang Zang and Zhuo Qin Together with the then-Legend of the family, we killed a demon demigod lord and then broke through the Legend."

"It sounds very inspiring. He rebelled against his family and became a legend in one fell swoop," Lant said with a smile. "What happens after that? I remember that after the Tribunal was changed to the Palace Division, the chiefs of the Palace Division were all high-ranking, right? "

"Yes, after defeating the demons, many nobles were afraid of Angzang's comeback, and they petitioned the God Emperor to expel him. At that time, most of the core power of the empire was damaged, while Kirislav and the Dragon Kingdom were almost unscathed. The God Emperor Due to pressure, Angzang could only stay in the south and isolate himself from the great nobles in the north."

"That means banishing him to the seaside, right?" Lant whispered. Before Lant created the new magic furnace, the empire's magic furnaces were concentrated in several large cities in the north, and the southeast was close to the coast. Although the products are extremely abundant, the number of magic furnaces is extremely low.

For some of the great nobles of the empire, there is no essential difference between the southeastern coast and the Galloping Horse Plains in the northwest. They are both fringe areas of the empire.

"I can understand that he doesn't like seeing the nobles, but why did he target me as soon as he came back?" Lant was a little confused, "I didn't do anything to disgrace His Majesty."

As the two of them arrived at the Magic Tower of the Starry Sky Society, Ben Call said with a smile, "That's because you think you are right for His Majesty. He may not necessarily think so. In his opinion, nobles should be unconditionally loyal to the God-Emperor. "

"Really..." Lant nodded and said nothing. In his opinion, Ang Zang's thoughts were almost like daydreams. "But he is also a legend of your Tower of Purity, right? Shouldn't you support his point of view?"

Ben said patiently: "I support my teacher Klein's point of view. We all believe that the power between the common people and the nobility, the imperial capital and the localities should be balanced. It will not only allow the nobility to continue to grow bigger, but also completely cut off the way out for the common people. We cannot completely suppress the nobility and return the empire to the Dark Ages.”

Good guy, without nobles, humans will all turn into monkeys? Lant complained silently in his heart, "If there are no nobles, we won't go back to the Dark Ages, right?"

"You have also been to the goblin ruins. Isn't the lesson of the goblin empire that the demigods and gods who are great nobles disappeared overnight?" Ben asked,
  "According to the records of goblins, once the demigods and high-level people die in large numbers, the monsters, demons, and lizards will plunder and devour the middle and low-level goblins. Most areas in this world are not in the magic turbulence. Once the clan The high-ranking and above strong people in the group will be suppressed, and the entire group will be coveted by foreign races."

Lant sneered and said: "The nobles have mastered the magic workshop, blood inheritance, magic furnace, and magic goblins. If the interests of the nobles are affected, the entire empire will be shaken. Then the civilian demon supporters will have no chance at all... …”

"My teacher Klein once told me that he spent his childhood as a low-class boy in the music capital at that time. At that time, he always wanted to replace those insensitive nobles.
  However, when he became a legend, he discovered that nobles had a strict set of rules and logic, and all the things he had taken for granted were very ridiculous. "

Ben looked at Lant and said with a smile: "You are now a noble, and a top noble. I hope that after you have been king for 100 years, you can still say those words."

Lant sighed, "This is not an easy task, but I will try my best."

(End of this chapter)