Chaos Crown

Chapter 111 Fief has never been easy (End)

PS: The king of the ball is on the throne!Messi is awesome!I was so excited that I didn't sleep all night, and the 5800-word super chapter is here.

Aaron was not surprised that Alice Searle broke his idea of ​​wanting a fief.

Because he has already given enough hints, even if Alice Searle hadn't noticed the conspiracy between Aaron and Charlotte before, now the eldest lady has reserved space for the two of them, plus what Aaron said before, the princess If she can't guess again, she should have been driven out of Suzar by the nobles.

Yes, that is what Aaron said earlier, "I am just a Viscount Salian with no fief and no high-ranking position. I am very grateful to you for canonizing me as an inner court knight, but the position of an inner court knight is from time to time. It's a common thing."

On the surface, this sentence sounds like Aaron is making a helpless report, saying that he has no fiefdom and no real power. My power status as an inner court knight is just an appendage of your power after all, and it cannot provide real help.

This is the first layer.

Then the reverse meaning of this sentence is that if I have a fief, I can provide you with practical support.

Further extension, that is, Aaron has implicitly expressed his desire to entrust the land.

This is the second layer.

The princess saw through Aaron's purpose, and naturally saw through Aaron and Charlotte's performance.

But it's still part of the plan!

Aaron is not afraid that you will see through, but he is afraid that you will not!

As I said before, the princess is an extremely independent person who only believes in her own judgment. The more you want to be honest with her, the more she will doubt your sincerity. On the contrary, if she feels that she has seen through your hidden purpose, she will instead Trust your own judgment.

This is the third layer, and Aaron deliberately wanted to let Alice see through.

Then go up to the fourth floor, does Alice Searle really not know that Aaron deliberately let her see through?

Aaron guessed that the princess could probably guess it too, after all, he had hinted to that point.

So in the end, both parties came to the fifth floor: through this incident, both of them clearly conveyed their willingness to further cooperate and communicate openly and honestly, and both expressed their favor for each other. As for whether to see through or not, it became secondary. thing.

This is political communication, one layer after another, disgusting, but you have to taste it.

Moreover, this is because the princess was born in the military, and she has only been in power for a few months, so she is a little immature and a little impulsive. Aaron was only a grassroots civil servant in his previous life, and his level is only at this level.

If it were really two big men engaged in politics, their dialogue would be more obscure, more chaotic, and even more cloudy and foggy, and they exchanged views with each other.

Aaron's comment on this is: Politics is dirty and smelly. Is this what is at the top of human thinking?
The Son of Chaos would rather face the undead snake-hating man again than play political games with the princess, but he had to.

It's still Tzeentch's favourite.

Likewise, a certain lord of humanity and his most loyal servants used this set to play the 21 Primarchs around.

"Aaron, I always have a feeling." Alice Searle's beautiful iceberg face showed a trace of helplessness, she put down the knife and fork, and leaned on the back of the chair: "I always feel that I am not needed."

"Everyone doesn't need me. The nobles hate my dictatorship, the commoners complain about my strict control, the purple dragon knight complains that I don't want to increase military spending, and even Queen's Blade thinks that I am not as good as my father." Under the long table, The shallow, high-heeled, slender heels with gold bottoms and red edges repeatedly knocked on the carpet, and the princess shook her pair of black pearl silk feet, expressing her emotions in this way: "Since I ascended the regent position, , I've always felt that way."

"They always express an attitude that the kingdom seems to be better off without me... Except for the battle mages, heh, I know why, and thanks to you, Aaron, I increased the budget of the battle mages, And you brought the first volume of Salian, and now all the battle mages are fascinated by your and Xia Lu's magic."

"So, Aaron, I need to hear from you, and this time, I mean it."

The blond-haired and red-eyed princess signaled to Aaron that he could speak, and she stared at Aaron.

"Perhaps, Your Highness, you always scare people." Aaron said softly, "You scare everyone."

"Lie, I'm obviously protecting this country!" Alice Searle didn't take it seriously, she raised her glass with a sneer: "Without me, Cormyr would have been split, without me, those refugees would have nowhere to go, without me , what does that trash Kasper know? I..."

"This is why you are scary, my lord." Aaron continued: "As I said before, you only want to listen to what suits you, otherwise you will try to 'persuade' others, sometimes This attempt is limited to verbal, sometimes..."

Aaron didn't go on.

"I..." Alice Searle was about to refute, but her voice froze.

For the first time since the Regency, she realized that something might actually be wrong with her.

"Sorry, Aaron, I wasn't like this before." Alice Searle covered her head, and she made an apologetic gesture: "Ever since I bathed in the blood of the ancient dragon, I also feel that my character is becoming more stubborn. Personal opinion, overly proud of changes, but I always feel that I can control it, you know, compared to the benefits of bathing in the blood of the ancient dragon, these negative effects are nothing worth mentioning."

"I know." Aaron nodded: "Your choice is correct in every sense."

The rewards for bathing in the ancient dragon's blood are too generous. Not only can you get a substantial increase in the dual attributes of strength and physique, greatly prolonging your youth and lifespan, but you can also gain dragon senses, super resistance corresponding to giant dragon attributes, and even master the dragon. After the power of blood, it can also breathe dragon's breath.

It was the bequest of an ancient red dragon. If it were Aaron himself, he would definitely choose to bathe in dragon blood.

It's just that the red dragon is a mixed evil dragon after all, and the blood bathing in it still inevitably affected Alice Searle.

"But I still don't understand. When my father was alive, he ruled the country like this. I just followed my father's path. Why did I encounter such great opposition?" The Queen Regent finally asked the question she had been asking all along. Come out: "Aren't we all Obesthyr?"

"Because your father is a high-level legendary fighter! He can kill hundreds of thousands of nomadic Tucan legend Khan Yamen in a single duel, because your father is a high-level legendary fighter! He can compete with the strength alone The ancient dragons who could stand shoulder to shoulder with the incarnations of some gods died together." Aaron's answer was concise: "The nobles will have opinions, but do they dare to challenge a high-level legendary warrior?"

"It's that simple?" This was the answer Alice Searle didn't expect.

"It's that simple! Strength is the basis of centralization!" Aaron replied bluntly: "If you can single out the Great Dragon, the nobles will not be able to object to your centralization like your father."

"Otherwise, you want to centralize power, but you don't have the corresponding strength, and you want to control everything, and you need high-level professionals to help you. There is no such good thing in the outer planes. First, you have legendary strength, and we will come again." ..."

Aaron wanted to say more, but Alice Searle raised her hand abruptly, signaling that enough was enough.

The Queen Regent understood that she had already learned enough information from Aaron: "Now, let's talk about your fief."

"Very good." Aaron nodded. After such a difficult trial and question and answer, it was finally his turn.

"You want a fief, Viscount Aaron-Salian, why?" Alice Searle turned to look at Aaron with scrutiny: "I need an honest answer."

"It's... father's wish." Aaron said naturally.

"Is it Manuel's wish?" The regent princess sighed softly, she recalled Aaron's father: "Yes, I served with him at his father's side, in fact, according to your seniority, you can call My sister."

"I'll call you Your Highness." Aaron felt indescribably strange after hearing this, and said quickly.

Why do these women want to be their sisters?

Bully me if you think I'm good-looking, right?
No, I have enough sisters.

"Whatever you want." Alice Searle interlocked her fingers, "But you have to be clear about the fact that your family's fiefdom has been transferred to the Bolingbroke family, and your father has also signed it."

"Yes." Aaron nodded with a wry smile.

"Then, if you want a fief, it must be a new land." Alice Searle wiped her mouth gracefully with a napkin.

The regent princess is really beautiful, even across the table, she is tall and tall, with luxurious gold threads hanging down her head, her wine-red beautiful eyes are slightly narrowed, and under the towering heights, there is a pair of perfect black eyes. Silk long legs.

"Aaron Salian, do you know how difficult it is to entrust a new piece of land?" The regent princess narrowed her beautiful eyes and snorted softly: "Every inch of land under the current kingdom's control theoretically has an owner. "

"Cormyr is not a vast country, and all I can control is the land directly under the royal family, and my father told me a long time ago that it is absolutely impossible to divide the land directly under it unless it is a last resort. "The regent princess said solemnly: "Otherwise, no matter how many territories the royal family directly belongs to, they would have been closed for more than 1000 years. By then, the royal family will be just a mascot, and it will be a matter of time before they are replaced."

"For Obeszier, there is only the reclaiming of the fief and transfer of the fief, and there has never been the concept of entrusting the royal family directly."

"Aaron Salian, you think you should have a fief as a viscount, I can understand, but why do you ask me for a fief?"

"Just relying on you to solve the goblin camp and the kobold camp? Sorry, I can send a team of purple dragon knights to do the same."

"Just because you summoned the incarnation of the gods to resist the outer gods? Sorry, Aaron, I approve of your heroic behavior, but it is far from enough. It is not surprising that the gods send incarnations to protect their followers or heirs. You are Soul Warlock, I have also given you the reward you deserve."

"Why do you want a fiefdom from me? Aaron Salian?" Alice Searle pursed her lips, her scarlet eyes were dotted with indifference and scrutiny, and her soft eyebrows stood vertically like swords: "Secretization is the highest level. reward."

"The you now are not worthy of this kind of reward." The Queen Regent raised a beautiful leg, wrapped in black pearl silk, her jade feet were free from the shackles of the red high heels with a gold background, and her feet painted with bright red nail polish The toe hooked the toe of the shoe, and gently picked up the shoe and shook it back and forth: "As for the introduction of the dwarf rune craftsman you said, it is a credit, but I still say that it is not enough, and entrustment is the highest level of reward. "

"You have to let the nobles and common people in the whole kingdom recognize your achievements, and you have to do a truly great feat to prove that you are worthy of a fief." Alice Searle laughed at herself when she said this: "I But I can’t help you, Aaron, as you know, the nobles of the kingdom are now divided into two factions, and for Obeszier, they are the neutral faction and the opposition faction.”

"Pfft!" Aaron chuckled, and he remembered two jokes circulating among the nobles.

"The first joke is that His Majesty (Azan IV) only allows two things: this is not allowed, and that is not allowed."

"The second joke is that His Majesty (Azan IV) only manages two places: this and that."

So it is no wonder that there are only two factions of nobles in the kingdom.

"Father once said a word to me, and I pass it on to you now: don't always think about what the kingdom has given you, but think about what you have done for the kingdom, Aaron-Salyan." Alice Searle is ending this topic.

The attitude of the princess is very clear: Fiefdom?Judging from your current state, don't even think about it, you don't have any particularly noteworthy contributions to the kingdom.

However, Aaron was a little dazed when he heard this sentence.

If this sentence was put in Aaron's previous life, he would probably laugh outright, because it was a straight-forward joke. Just because of the 30-year mortgage on his body, he would dare to pat his chest and say that he was worthy of anyone.

But when he heard this sentence in his life, he had a different feeling.

He was a nobleman all his life, a nobleman receiving a salary, and the Viscount of the Zilong Kingdom Cormyr. He enjoyed the status of a nobleman, the property and status left by his parents, and the salary.

He has always felt that this is what he deserves, that his parents paid for it with their lives, and he feels at ease.

But, is that really the case?
Alice Searle's words are quite correct. As Aaron Salian, don't you just ask for the kingdom with peace of mind all day long?Ask for money, ask for status, ask for rewards.

Do you really want to do something practical for Cormier?
No, in most cases, it’s just a matter of chance. Killing the hobgoblin warlord is a matter of fact, solving the warlock is a matter of fact, and trading with the dwarf god-king Moradin is also a matter of fact. I have never really considered it for the kingdom, but I enjoy it as a matter of course. Everything the kingdom has given to itself.

That's right, why should I ask the prince for a fief as a matter of course?Have I really done anything for the kingdom?
Subconsciously, Aaron shifted his gaze to Alice Sale.

Her father, the great king, Asan IV.

Thinking of this king, Aaron felt infinite admiration in his heart.

King Athan IV fought for his kingdom from the time of his manhood, and the life of this legendary king was a life of fighting, he lived and died fighting.

Why are few fighters able to live to be legends?
Because they are all dead.

Only King Asan IV faced up to the difficulties. This king was brave and strong, and he came to the world alone. He vowed to smash all the enemies of Cormyr and create a bright future for this forest kingdom.

He ushered in a golden age, and what he left behind was an elegy.

Yasan IV didn't have to die. He is a high-level legendary warrior. As long as he doesn't want to die, unless the gods or the supreme beings in the outer layer personally take action, otherwise there is nothing that can trap a high-ranking warrior who can confront the ancient dragon head-on. super legend?
Death is his choice.

The ancient red dragon is too strong. Any ancient dragon can live for tens of thousands of years. It can be defeated, but the arrogant and vengeful ancient dragon will fight back one day, and by that time, King Asan IV will no longer be alive. Well, even legendary fighters have a very limited lifespan, and they will never be able to compare with Taikoo Long.

Then, facing the counterattack of the ancient red dragon at that time, the forest kingdom will surely usher in a catastrophe.

So Yasan IV made a choice and died with the ancient red dragon.

As long as any legend has a choice, he can enjoy the prosperity and wealth of the mortal world, or he can travel to the outer planes and travel to the kingdom of the gods.

He chose to die.

That's why the buddy named Sharp who smashed the nose of the statue of Arthur IV was sentenced to beheaded directly, and that's why the Cormyrs don't allow anyone to slander their king.

Aaron recalled the Arables who were queuing up for relief porridge on his way here.

Indeed, I should do something for this kingdom that treats me well.

Aaron gradually strengthened his determination.

He doesn't want to play tricks, play tricks, and use various methods to obtain fiefs anymore. The power of Slaanesh and Tzeentch is enough.

Now is the season of war!
War, war, never changes!

"Your Highness, if I plan to join the Arabel Restoration Army of His Excellency Millman Raul, Countess of Arabel, will you support me?" Aaron said in a deep voice.

"Countess Millman?" Alice Searle said in surprise: "Aaron, you have to know that no one is optimistic that Millman can recover the fallen Arabel from the hands of more than 2 orcs!"

"There are [-] refugees from Arabel in the city." Aaron had already made up his mind: "Didn't you say that you want to see what I have done for the kingdom?"

"I'm going to do it, my lord. Let's discuss the matter of fiefdom. I just want to ask you, my lord, do you support me?" Aaron closed his eyes.

Alice Searle looked at him curiously with a pair of beautiful eyes. As a princess who received the Dragon Legacy, her senses were particularly delicate, and she could feel the sudden changes in Aaron's emotions.

Although she didn't know what was going on, her instinct told her that Aaron was serious.

There was a gleam of light in Alice Searle's eyes, and the eyes that were as cold as knives gradually became soft like water.

She thought of her father, who always looked like this when King Asan IV went to the battlefield.

The difference is that Aaron is really good-looking. His white skin is smoother than himself who has been bathed in dragon blood. His sword eyebrows are slightly wrinkled, his nose is high and straight, and his facial features are as cold and deep as sculptures. Even an elf empire Not even the finest artwork.

No matter how long she watches it, Alice Searle will never get bored.

For an instant, Aaron's face seemed to overlap his father's.

"I promise, if you can really complete this miracle with Millman, then you will be the representative sent by me, Obeszier, to recover Arabel. At that time, I will inform the nobles of the whole country that it will be much easier for you to entrust the land." Regent Princess Nodding: "I'll try to arrange it for you again."

"What if it fails?" Aaron opened his eyes with a half-smile, and it wasn't the first time he was treated like this.

"Then your participation in the war is a personal act, and I, Obessiel, will not be responsible for it." Alice Searle smiled: "But anyway, come back alive, you are right...Charlotte, the kingdom, and me It's important to say."

"So, it's a deal?"

"It's a word."

As soon as this remark came out, this somewhat long lunch was finally coming to an end.

The two got up, and Aaron said proactively, "I hope we can meet often in the future, my lord."

I also hope that Alice Searle is covering her lower abdomen with one hand, she always feels that it seems to be hot and itchy there, since she just looked at Aaron and superimposed the image of Aaron and his father in her mind for a moment.

It was like being on fire, and Alice Searle remembered what Charlotte said to her before: "Then, once a week?"

What?once a week?
I also want to say see you once a month!

Aaron wondered if it was necessary so often?

"How about this, you are on duty on Monday and Tuesday, so let's meet on Monday, and you can cook lunch at noon, we can have lunch in the palace, we have a day to discuss many things, how about it? ' Alice Sale was clearly in high spirits.

"Yes..." Aaron secretly groaned in his heart.

Sunday is to meet Miss Priest, and on Thursday, Friday and Saturday, I have to learn magic at Missy's place, and now Monday is also taken up by the Queen Regent.

I'm very busy!
Will there be enough time in the next week?
Alice Searle had already stretched out her hand, and Aaron had no choice. He took the little hand wrapped in the long black lace glove of the princess, and kissed the back of her hand directly.

"Hmm~" With a soft hum, Alice Searle immediately withdrew her hand as if she had been electrocuted, and a blush flew up on her face.

This feeling is indeed correct.

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(End of this chapter)