Out of the cage

Finally, they arrived at the core area of ​​the empire.

Looking at this big city with at least fifteen towering magic towers, Wei Keng was thinking about the rules of operation of the city. That is to say: how much of the population revolves around supporting magicians and nobles, how much of it revolves around commerce, and how much of it is in the fields of small and medium-sized citizens such as craftsmen and blacksmiths.

Of course, when the gate of the city was opened for Wei Keng.

A squad of knights ran out. Wei Keng counted them with the eye of reality (with system analysis). Among the team of 120 people in total, there were 30 regular knights, and the leader was of the same level as Nord. grade.

In a large kingdom like Eiger, the core knight order in the imperial capital actually has less than a thousand people.

Be careful, this is a knight! When conducting a group charge on the battlefield, its various values ​​​​are no less than that of Alien, and each of their fiefs is supplied by a village with a hundred families. And they are loyal to the royal family of Aiger, and the armor and weapons they are equipped with are all enchanted equipment.

What is this concept? If the roughest leather armor is engraved with runes that can prevent punctures, most bows and muskets will not be able to pierce it, and it is absolutely bloody for such a knight to get close to the infantry array. This is why Carret is so urgent about the mechanization of the army.

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The Knights are the core combat force of the Aiger Empire (actually a kingdom).

The existence of such a knightly order shows that the vitality of the empire is not damaged.

If such a knight order is destroyed in a large-scale battle, then the empire will be completely lame. Will have to use the force of other great lords to try to maintain order.

On the other hand, the Knights, the cornerstone of the empire, must also rely on the royal family!

Knights who are directly loyal to the royal family are privileged compared to country knights. In addition to the basic fiefdom (basic salary), the regular salary (local bonus) in the imperial capital is more generous than other regions. Furthermore, it is the equipment and the importance of the position, which can make it tough when speaking with higher nobles!

For example, the earls and marquises who are currently in power in the empire cannot use their titles to suppress when facing the head of the Knights Legion directly under the royal family.

The allegiance of the Knights led to the issue of the heir, which greatly affected the stability of the Knights.

For example: if there are two legal heirs in some royal families, and the knight order is divided into two factions, it will immediately hurt the kingdom's vitality.

When the previous king of Iger passed the throne, the current king turned to the great nobles of the kingdom, which made the power imbalance,

But fortunately for the kingdom, Carret's father was a waste, so the Knights at that time didn't have to make a choice, and in the end he directly expressed his opinion.

Although most of the king's power was restricted by the Duke of Golden Blade, the knights still recognized it. And accepted the placement of the Duke of Golden Blade's personnel for the Knights.

~

So, here comes the bigger problem. That is the question of the next generation of heirs.

That is, so far, the issue of heirs in the Xingche family.

Oh, and in biographical novels, it's often a matter of depicting knights guarding princesses. Now the Cavaliers are no exception.

so!

Standing on the steam car, Wei Keng looked at the half-surrounded cavalcade of knights, and asked Nord with a smile, "Are you inviting me, or are you controlling me?"

Under the wrathful expression of Master Wei, he said excitedly to himself: "Tsk tsk, the opportunity to turn around has come."

Nord: "Please trust me." ——As a great knight who traveled with Carret all the way, although Nord thinks that Carret is faulty, he has no problem as the heir to the empire.

Carret shook his head: "I don't believe you, Lord Knight, it's just a change in the situation in the kingdom, you can't guarantee it."

Nord shouted at the knight commander: "Sudeka, what is your action order?"

Sudeka ignored his colleague's question, but directly shouted to Carret: "Your Highness, the king summoned you half a year ago, please follow me to see His Majesty."

Carret used the voice amplification technique: "Sudeka, right, the purpose of coming here is to meet my elders. It's not that you lead me and hold me! You can follow me, but when are you going to meet me? That uncle, it's up to me to decide!"

Carret tore open the scroll while preparing.

Oh~ this scroll is just a cover, Carret's seven-ring magic is already under construction.

~

Sudeka: "Your Highness, are you planning to give up your right of inheritance?"

Carret is happy, as the inheritor of the five thousand years of Eastern culture, although he is not a human being, but these iron fools want to catch themselves, and their morality is still lacking.

Moreover, it is so obvious that the most critical topic is thrown out so early, and its weakness is also exposed.

Carret continued to use the voice amplification technique: "I have traveled hundreds of kilometers from north to south, across six provinces, and I have already shown my loyalty to the kingdom before arriving at the imperial capital.

But when I came to the gate of the imperial capital, I was suddenly asked 'whether to give up the right of inheritance', hehe, very good, then from the question I asked, I already knew that it turned out that I was asked to come to the imperial capital because someone cared about the right of inheritance! ~I belong to the Xingche family, and I will only do what I have to do. The issue of inheritance has been determined in my father's generation, and it is not a matter for me to decide.

And even so, he was still pursued by some people! At the same time, some people were sent to surround me to completely solve this problem.

Very good, you have solved it, and I can go back, take me to say hello to my uncle. I will honor all his commands, including my disinheritance.

But for Xingche's glory, I will not accept any coercion. "

After saying the last sentence, Carret glanced at the rider standing behind the knight queue, but actually under protection.

~

After finishing speaking, Master Wei was very happy. Don't allow these idiots to refute. Immediately ordered the steam car to turn around directly.

Nord immediately stopped Carret, apparently escorted to the gate of the city, if he really let "Carret" go, then he would be a joke.

Several mages also began to cast spells,

However, Carret's spell was released first.

As the light spreads, everyone feels seen through. Many of the city guards were ordinary people, and suddenly the memories of the past few months were revealed, and great fear emerged.

The two great knights, Nord and Sudeka, were also moved. They originally wanted to raise their swords, but they were imperceptibly hindered, because when they raised their swords, countless improper reasons in their hearts jumped out to test them.

The two accompanying mages unfolded the protective scrolls, but they were still affected.

One of the mages was well-informed and recognized the name of the spell cast from the scroll—Glare of Righteousness.

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This is a seven-ring spell. Within a radius of twenty meters, all neutral and evil creatures must undergo a round of will checks. Evil creatures with weak willpower die instantly, while prolonged fear persists even with successful Willpower checks. In fact, the range of 20 meters is only the center of gravity. Beyond this distance, even if it is 500 meters away, evil creatures will still suffer serious injuries.

This is a necromancy spell! It is one of Wei Keng's current six seven-ring spells.

Quite quite unpopular, most high-level necromancers have fixed spell slots for manipulating undead, entropy rot, and these dark energy-controlled spells.

And this kind of special attack spell that fixes positive energy to sweep away negative life can only be said ~ Wei Keng: "There is no shortage of attack methods, and I am very focused on defending against black magic."

~

Under the sweeping glance of the sacred eyes condensed by arcane magic, the knights of the imperial capital gave way, and Carret activated the deflagration in the steam car and the restraining rune in the cylinder. The tank was full of power and started gone.

Yes! It's the real walk, not the retreat art of haggling with the Town God's Temple hawkers.

There is really nothing to be a prince who is accused at every step and held by the right of inheritance! As long as it's not that I explicitly refuse the right to inherit, it's just a rejection: someone doesn't want me to inherit. Then the person who planned all this has a trace of illegitimacy.

As long as one day I have enough strength, under the violent beating, the right to inherit the kingdom will lean on me. And the illegitimacy planted now is the deadly seed.

Wei Keng: "For the strong, as long as there are some things that they haven't said, they can be manipulated in the future."

[Narrator: In the ancient times of the main world, after World War II, Bangzi would actively ask for compensation. The book was entangled endlessly, but for another country in East Asia, it was the Internet mercenary trolls who encouraged public opinion to learn from the stick, saying "at least there must be a solution."

But in fact, as a big country capable of beating back, what kind of attitude is needed? It is enough to "remember history" every year. Instead, it depends on whether the guy with a dirty history has an attitude of pleading guilty. 】

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After about half an hour, the magic effect disappeared.

The welcoming team finally came to their senses from all kinds of hesitation, and Karrett's team must not be allowed to leave like this.

This month, Carret has been watched by all parties along the way from the north to the south.

As a result, he was blocked at the gate of the city, and then turned around and returned. ——It is Carret's own responsibility, will the nobles believe it? If Carret himself rebelled against the family, why did it take him a month to go south?

A complicated process can sometimes negate the result.

At that time, there will definitely be a war of words.

On this sensitive issue, the king will definitely not admit that "calling Carret to come" is because the capital wants to completely solve the problem of "the choice of succession to the Eiger Empire, but there is a male heir to the Xingche family in the north" problem! Even if he really thought so, he couldn't say it now!

Letting Carret return is tantamount to clearly asking the Knights to express their position and favoring Iger's next queen. ——This is difficult for neutral knights to argue.

It is impossible for the king who is inclined to balance the situation now to express his position!

Moreover, the Knights are not unified on this issue.

These neutral factions are now not supporters of Carret, but they are also not supporters of the "Empress". If the Duke of Golden Blade is so obviously domineering, they will have a sense of crisis.

Similarly, such a result was not what the power minister, the Duke of Jinren, wanted. Opposition groups within the empire would rise up and attack.

This is definitely a political crisis event!

It's not clear who will resist the thunder, but Sudeka will definitely not be able to escape, and Nord, who escorted Carret along the way, is also to blame.

~

After the magic effect of the Eye of Justice, the knights of the imperial capital immediately started chasing. It's just that the knights in the capital were so confident in handling Carret before, and now they are so flustered that they can't find any traces of Carret and his party on all roads.

The female knight Leticia, the personal knight of the princess Roseanne, followed this time to watch the action of the escort team.

Because Roseanne wanted to know how absurd that dude's cousin was said to be, so she was sent to 'restrain'. But then I saw this scene at the gate of the city.

However, until the sun set, this female knight who came out of the court and followed the rules determined a situation she had never encountered before.

That "prince" really disappeared.

On the avenue five kilometers outside the imperial capital, all the tanks were parked here quietly, and a nobleman of the imperial capital took care of these war weapons with his servants, and a letter left by Carret.

The content of the letter is very simple. These weapons were originally intended to be paid tribute to the kingdom, and they have already arrived here, so naturally they will not be brought back. ——If the Kingdom needs something in the future, it will also make it for the Kingdom.

~

As for where Carret went?

The little noble brought the captain of the knights to an open space. A magic circle was drawn on the open space. It was confirmed that the person they were looking for went away through the group teleportation circle.

Good guy.

The young female knight looked at the remains of the four teleportation arrays with a diameter of 100 meters and burned magic power on the ground.

She suddenly felt that this seemed to be a huge conspiracy (pit). The mysterious smile that Carret gave herself before leaving was now a sarcasm.

~

At night, on the Great Hall of the Empire, the lights of the arcane light illuminate the place transparently and brightly. (That's the electrode lamp of the twenty-first century, except the energy is the jewel of the storage capacitor.)

In front of His Majesty the king are Sudeka and Nord who are pleading guilty.

One of these two is responsible for welcoming and the other is responsible for escorting. After searching around for a long time, there was no result, so I had to run back and report to the parents "how did the bear get lost".

The king turned to the two mages and asked, "Have you met the teacher of Carret?"

Two mages: "When we went, we only saw His Royal Highness. The great mage didn't show up."

The last scroll opened by Carret, Justice Glares, is definitely a magic item that can only be prepared by the best mages in the kingdom. Such magic props cost at least tens of thousands of gold coins. (Wei Keng didn't have the material to engrave such a magic guide, he released it by himself.)

After the kingdom mage monitored the traces of the release of this arcane method, he lamented that such arcane methods are generally used to fight against large-scale evil events, and directly threw it out on the kingdom's knight team. That's really - the royal prodigal son.

The king said to the mage at the side: "Next month, please send a letter for me. My nephew is not sensible (prodigal son), and the mage is worried."

In the eyes of these mages, Carret, a second-level mage, frantically threw magic props along the way. It can only be said that it is reckless and reckless relying on the doting of the teacher of the high-level mage. And after throwing the props like this, he came to the gate of the imperial capital, continued to throw the four group teleportation props and slipped away.

how to say? The king felt a little distressed that the magic props along the way were consumed. In his view, the high-ranking mage supported the descendants of the Xingche family to arrive in the imperial capital, not just supporting the apprentices, but also wanting to reach some communication with the mages of the kingdom. However, these resources are used in this way.

The king thinks so, it can only be said that this is the thinking of mortals!

How capricious are the main world traversers? How cheating is the system hanging? How outrageous the agreements reached with these world gods are, mortals in this world cannot understand.

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And on the other side of the palace,

Her Royal Highness is also listening to her knight explaining today's situation, and the whole process of the city gate incident is played in the crystal recorder.

When she saw the young man standing on the steam car and refusing the escort of the knight, she couldn't help but feel a little throbbing in her heart. Of course this is only fleeting.

The struggle for royal power made her think about what she should do now to get rid of the negative elements towards herself.