Mythical Card Master: Start with the Knight

Inside the collapsed church, the setting sun shone through the broken glass windows, and the late dusk glow showed colorful ripples.

Chu Ming's sleeves fluttered, and vines climbed up and appeared, moving the fallen stones away and clearing a path leading to the courtyard.

The two of them walked quietly in the desolate courtyard, feeling some subtle feelings in their hearts.

"Wait a moment."

Isabel smiled and stopped Chu Ming. She came to the fallen tree in the courtyard and squatted down. After hesitating, the girl stretched out her hands to dig up the soil above.

Chu Ming took a look and stepped forward to help.

He squatted beside the girl and peeled away the soil on top, revealing the clay pot inside.

When Isabel saw that the clay pot was still there, her eyebrows couldn't help but curved.

Chu Ming asked curiously: "What is this?"

The girl smiled mysteriously, "I can't tell you now. I'll tell you later."

Chu Ming shrugged, smiled helplessly, grabbed the girl's muddy hands, and used witchcraft to wash away all the mud.

The two climbed up the old stairs to the attic.

It's just that after the royal capital was captured by the dark wizard, the church was ransacked by the dark wizard, leaving it in a mess.

Coupled with the erosion of rain and strong winds, the furniture inside has experienced weathering, peeling off and many collapsed.

When Isabel saw the scene in front of her, her eyes inevitably dimmed a bit.

Chu Ming stared at her fair face. He waved his hand, and dream manifestation witchcraft appeared. Three dream shadows appeared behind him.

Among them, the dream that belongs to the church attic continues to expand and gradually expand into reality.

The dilapidated and collapsed furniture in the attic gradually disappeared, Chu Ming's dream came to reality, and Isabel's attic temporarily returned to what it looked like a few years ago.

The girl turned around and scanned the entire attic. The familiar feeling returned, and she felt a sense of peace of mind.

Her sky-blue eyes swayed like pure sea water, with little ripples.

"Thanks."

Chu Ming didn't speak, just smiled and rubbed her long golden hair.

The two came to the window sill and looked at the entire royal capital as before.

Chu Ming's dream fell within the scope of the entire royal capital. The streets outside the window temporarily returned to their previous appearance, but the city without people was missing something after all.

They stood in front of the window chatting and reminiscing about the past until nightfall, when Chu Ming took the girl and left the attic.

After Chu Ming left, the dream subsided, and the attic room returned to its desolate look. The cold moonlight shone in, and the room became quiet.

After taking Isabel out for a walk, the girl felt much better.

After returning to the camp, Chu Ming said goodbye to Isabel who was reluctant to leave, and found Edel who was busy in the camp.

"Why are you back so early?"

A look of surprise appeared on Edel's face.

Chu Ming spread his hands, "I'm just here to ask how you plan to restore order to the entire empire."

When Edel heard this, he felt a little heavy in his heart, "This time the God of the Hidden Room ravaged the empire and destroyed a large number of towns. The number of people suffering from aberration disease increased significantly, and the knights and wizards also suffered heavy casualties."

"I plan to hold a grand funeral first, erect monuments for these people who have passed away, and record their achievements. This will also give comfort to the people who have lost their loved ones."

"Nearly half of the empire has fallen, there are ruins everywhere, and there are dark wizards watching..."

Edel rubbed his temples with a headache.

"I hope this funeral can help people come out of the shadows and look forward again."

Chu Ming stared into Edel's eyes and smiled: "This is not enough."

"If we want everyone to come out of the shadow of the past, there must be something new enough to wash away the shadow of war."

Edel was stunned for a moment, "What you are talking about is..."

Chu Ming slowly said: "The new king has ascended the throne."

After hearing this, the man's heart pounded, and he hesitated and said: "Narende, are you talking about me? I may not be very..."

Chu Ming patted his shoulder and said, "Edel, believe in yourself. As the world's number one wizard knight, I believe that your name as the king of wizard knights will spread throughout the world in the future."

"Only you can convince those counts and the people."

Edel asked doubtfully: "What about you?"

Chu Ming smiled and said, "I will probably choose to visit the world outside the empire."

"That's right..." Edel sighed, "If I had the legendary power, I would choose to go out and have a look."

"Don't worry, I will clear all obstacles for the empire before going out."

…

The two chatted happily in the camp until midnight, and then summoned the earls who had been planning to meet Chu Ming to announce the new king.

Not only did the several earls not object, but they were overjoyed and strongly approved of Edel's ascension to the throne, and seemed a little impatient.

In the view of these earls, Edel himself was the earl of Fengyang Empire, and it was legal to take over the throne of the empire.

Secondly, compared to others, Edel is more kind...er, or easier to fool.

But with Chu Ming here, they wouldn't dare to put eye drops on Edel even if they had ten guts. The legendary intimidation was no joke.

Moreover, Edel himself is also an epic, and he is too young compared to old men like them. The future is limitless, and the empire may shine with new brilliance in his hands.

After Chu Ming finalized the enthronement matters with a group of counts, he planned to announce the news that Edel was about to ascend the throne on the day of the funeral, and hold an enthronement ceremony after the order of the empire was restored.

Half a month later.

With the help of the wizard, the carving of the stone tablet and the construction of the cemetery went smoothly and took only two weeks to complete.

The funeral was held as scheduled at the Heroes' Cemetery next to the pass fortress.

On the day of the funeral, light rain fell in the sky, and mournful wails echoed throughout the cemetery.

Watching the corpse of a famous knight, wizard or citizen being buried under the stone monument, people's suppressed emotions for several days were finally released, and the scene was filled with a sad atmosphere.

After burying the past, everyone present looked worried, full of confusion about the future.

At this moment, Edel and a group of counts stepped forward to announce to everyone that they were about to ascend the throne, and promised to restore order in the empire as soon as possible, severely punish the escaped Count Daun, and expel the dark wizards who threatened the order.

Edel announced his accession to the throne and all his promises, and then looked at everyone present anxiously.

Borrett wiped away the tears from his eyes with joy and clapped with the knights and the wizards of the Tower of Knowledge.

The confused people also reacted at this time, their eyes gradually became brighter, and they clapped their hands to welcome the arrival of the new king.

Chu Ming looked at Edel with a serious face at the distant pass, chuckled and walked towards the south.

Three days later, Chu Ming found the Daun family who had defected to the southern border and the limit-breaking wizard who accompanied them.

What's ridiculous is that when the limit-breaking wizard saw Chu Ming coming, he wanted to use the super giant demon skeleton dragon vine that Chu Ming taught him to deal with him.

Chu Ming just waved his hand, and the nine forbidden dragon-transforming vines surrounded the wizard and his summoned demonic dragon vines like a flurry of dragons. A few seconds later, only some demonic dragon vines were torn apart. juice, the wizard completely disappeared from the world.

Seeing this scene, the members of the Daoen family lost all their souls and could not resist. They knelt down with Count Daoen and prayed to Chu Ming to let them go.

Chu Ming took back the staff given to the wizard, and touched the sky with his right hand. The huge night curtain blocked the sunlight, wrapped everyone in the Daoen family, and teleported towards the pass.

One day later, the news that Chu Ming had captured Earl Daun spread throughout the camp. People who had not yet left the camp gathered together. Many of them were people who were deceived by Earl Daun to go to the Earldom of Winter and were infected with the aberration disease. Even if The church has cured their aberrations, but more than a month of suffering has made them hate Earl Daun.

On the same day, Edel personally sent Count Daun to the guillotine. After the knife fell, blood spread all over the ground.

Seeing this, the earls fell silent and looked at the expressionless Chu Ming and Edel on the stage. They had a new understanding of the new king who was about to ascend the throne.

After the execution, the pass camp began to dismantle, and the residents lined up to return to their original territory.

For Edel, the problem of the Southern Territory needs to be solved urgently. They also need to take back the Southern Territory from the dark wizard and rebuild it.

Retaking the southern territory is not difficult. As long as the knights march south, they can retake the occupied towns from the loose and unorganized dark wizards.

The difficulty is how to allow the population in the northern border to flow, so that the territorial residents can spontaneously build the southern border and live in the southern border for a long time, becoming the southern border population.

And after fighting the dark wizard again and again, Edel found that the loose knights of the earldom were difficult to mobilize at critical moments, and sometimes they would oppose the king's regime.

After realizing this, Edel was determined to change the previous aristocratic system and improve the appeal of the Southern Territory to the people, so he immediately found Chu Ming and asked him about other ways to govern the Southern Territory.

In a room in the Guankou Fortress, Chu Ming put down the book in his hand and looked at Edel in surprise, "You mean you want to strengthen the centralization of the empire?"

Edel was stunned for a moment. Although it was the first time he heard the word centralization, he couldn't help but nodded.

"Narende, I just said that it is definitely right to find you."

Chu Ming smiled. It was indeed difficult to achieve centralization of power in this other world.

The Fengyang Empire itself is very vast. It takes more than a month for the news to be transmitted from Earl Kutz to the royal capital. The king's ability to control the local area is relatively weak, and he cannot even manage corruption problems. This is why the aristocratic system can exist. .

However, it is not impossible to centralize power. We only need to learn from experience and establish a three-level local administrative system of villages, towns, and provinces. Village chiefs are established in villages, city halls are established in towns, and provincial departments are established in provinces to manage at all levels. .

It is not difficult to establish a local administrative system from scratch in the ruins of the southern border. What is difficult is how to deal with the noble territories in the northern border.

Once an administrative system is established in the south, the earls and grand dukes in the north will naturally feel the impact of the new administrative system on the aristocratic system. By then, conflicts between the north and the south will be inevitable, and may even shake the rule of the Kutz family.

After Chu Ming told Edel his thoughts, the man was excited at first, and finally couldn't help but think about how to solve the problem of the Northern Earldom.

Edel said with a sad face: "What should I do..."

Chu Ming took a sip of tea slowly and said, "I don't know how many years it will take you to establish the southern administrative system. Those earls will not react so quickly. Even if they react, they will only be a little worried, not at all." I would have thought that this system could also pose a threat to their title."

"When the conflicts between the North and the South really accumulate, it will be hundreds of years ago, and whether you are still there or not will be a problem."

After saying that, Chu Ming chuckled and said, "Even if this is the case, do you still want to take care of it?"

Edel said firmly: "After fighting with dark wizards for many years, I deeply realized that the so-called Northern Knights are just a piece of loose sand. It's just that the opponents we encountered were even more scattered black wizards. We are not much better than them." .”

"If a true imperial knight army can be established, I think it will definitely change the situation on the entire continent."

"But if we don't make changes, let alone expel the darkness. Whether we can catch up with the darkness is a problem."

Chu Ming looked at Edel and smiled: "Edel, you seem to have really grown up."

"Really, hahaha."

Edel scratched his head, a little embarrassed.

Even though he is about to ascend the throne, he still smiles like a naive child.

"Actually, there is no way to solve it..."

Chu Ming thought for a while and said, "What you have to do is to relax the title restrictions so that members of the earl family other than the eldest son or direct lineage can also obtain titles and territories."

Edel was stunned and worried: "In this way, the empire will issue more titles, and the number of nobles will also increase."

The corners of Chu Ming's lips raised slightly, "If I remember correctly, the territory of Fengyang Empire has not changed in the past hundreds of years."

Edel nodded doubtfully, not knowing what Chu Ming wanted to express.

"Since the territory area remains unchanged, where do you think the territories of the extra nobles will be divided?"

"You mean they will divide their original territory?!"

Edel stood up suddenly and woke up.

Chu Ming nodded, "For the empire, the only ones that are difficult to solve are the powerful earls. But as long as the restrictions on titles can be relaxed, members of the earl family will inevitably lose some of their territories. In the long run, the noble territories will return to a fragmented situation. , as long as the empire takes action at this time, those scattered nobles will definitely not be able to withstand the empire's iron fist."

"Wonderful, so wonderful, Narender, how did you come up with such a genius plan?!"

Edel's tone became excited, and his gaze at Chu Ming became more intense.

Chu Ming shook his head and said: "I just learned from the experience of my predecessors."

"It will take at least a hundred years to completely implement this plan. If you don't want the plan to be suspended, it's best to choose a more reliable successor."

"Speaking of which, you are already a grown man. When will you get married?"

"Huh?" Edel looked confused and said with some embarrassment: "I said, don't object."

Chu Ming scratched his head, wondering who could make him object.

Edel glanced at him secretly and said slowly: "Actually, I have a crush on Suraya."

"puff!"

Chu Minggang put down the tea cup and spat out the tea in shock.

When the wizard tower was about to open, Suraya was the half-scarred wizard who ran from the south to the north to join him after listening to Rebecca's recommendation, asking for food and shelter.

After several years of training by Chu Ming, Suraya had already become an epic wizard, and she also followed him to participate in the war with the Northern Knights in the Flowing Water Channel.

As an epic wizard, her most powerful thing is not her combat power, but her ability to make rune equipment. Her production ability is second only to him in the wizard tower, and she can independently create rune equipment with extreme witchcraft.

After Isabel's treatment, the scars on Suraya's face have long since disappeared, and her youthful and beautiful appearance has been restored.

Chu Ming coughed a few times and said angrily: "Hey Edel, when did you pry away the wizard from my wizard tower?"

Edel looked at him carefully, scratched his head, and said sheepishly: "Didn't I ask you to help build the rune equipment of the Witch Cavalry a few years ago? You sent Suraya to our family, and I talked to her. Just chatting..."

Speaking, Edel quickly added: "Suraya is really gentle and careful. She also mended my knight uniform..."

"Okay, okay..." Chu Ming waved his hand to stop Edel, "Are you sure it's okay?"

When Edel heard this, he suppressed his blush for a moment, and it took him a long time to say, "No."

Chu Ming couldn't help but roll her eyes at him, "I don't object to this. You work hard on your own, but don't let me hear Suraya say that you bully her."

Edel wiped his cold sweat and said with a dry smile: "Narende, you know me."

"Okay, you go back and discuss with Burrett what to do. I have other things to do."

After hearing this, Edel bid farewell to Chu Ming and walked out of the room.

When Chu Ming was the only one left in the room, he took out a crystal box that shone with mysterious light from the drawer.

Chu Ming touched his chin and used his spirit to wake up Carlos inside, "Hey, wake up."

Carlos woke up instantly, "What happened?!"

"Narender, what do you want to do?"

Chu Ming thought for a while and said, "Are you just going to sleep like this?"

"I don't have a hobby of collecting old men's souls. I might throw you away one day."

"No, no, I'm still recovering mentally."

Carlos smiled sarcastically and suggested, "How about you create a body for me so that I can move on my own."

"How about a deformed body?"

"don't want."

Carlos decisively refused.

Just kidding, he had just gotten rid of the pollution of forbidden knowledge, how could he be willing to be controlled by forbidden knowledge again.

Chu Ming spread his hands and said, "That's it, I will create a deformed body. You think carefully about what kind of body you want, otherwise I will throw you away or put you in the exhibition room and hang it up."

"A lich wizard is still very rare. You can also find a job and explain yourself."

Carlos heard this and yelled: "Narende, no, what does I have to do with you... Wait, yes, you can help me find a demon body. It's okay if it's broken, as long as it can move."

"The body of the devil..." Chu Ming thought for a moment, "The empire did leave behind many devils from the Magic Era, but those are all old antiques."

Carlos smiled bitterly and said, "As long as you can move, that's fine. At worst, I'll teach myself about magic dolls and build myself a magic doll body."