Shaman from Afar

Byrne, Red Blood Castle.

There are five days to go before the agreed celebration banquet and "mysterious wedding".

Even so, the red blood castle has been bustling up and down as if it has been held countless banquets.

From the palace to the outside of the city walls, there is a lot of human voices-from planning to formal publicity, Charlotte, with the power of the Bayern Church, passed this celebration to the ears of every Bayern!

Wandering knights traveling with swords, small businessmen, farmers who have almost never left their own land, and nobles who have brought their own ties with the 13th Earl; there are dwarves in the south, horsebacks in the big green sea ...

Relying on the prestige that Loren won in the battle of Ebden, Baien, who has been silent for a hundred years, finally once again became the home of knights in the minds of the Empire-countless foreigners, or because of the admiration of the dark-haired wizard Or pure curiosity, or simply want to challenge, and see what is great about this duke ...

Regardless of the reason, cause, and purpose, the unprecedented flow of people in all directions converged to the Red Blood Fort, so that the entire Red Blood Fort and even the entire Bain have never been as lively as they are now.

The number of outsiders gathered in the villages and towns outside the city has tripled the number of castles-and looking at the endless road that day and night, I am afraid that this number will have to double in five days!

At this time, the 13 Earl Counts gathered in the Round Table Parliament were all fortunate. If they had not concentrated their troops in the Red Blood Castle in advance, there was no way to raise enough manpower to maintain the security of such a huge flow of people.

Even more fortunate is the Principality's tax officer, Little Yod, because of the arrival of these people, the dark bread that has been backlogged in the warehouse has finally appeared on the table in the tavern; and the grapes that have become vinegar It can also be sold as real wine ...

The flow of people is gold! Is wealth! When a group of people are walking on the road, they are mobile wallets, long-legged businesses-although the Bayerns are not good at doing business, when they see the tavern and hotel owner increase the house price three times, " The "hospitality" Bayerns also used their spare space to entertain guests.

Of course, it is absolutely charged.

And the nobles of Byrne, especially the Round Table Parliament, immediately recognized the significance of these flow of people-regardless of the final outcome, Byrne and this celebration of Byrne will follow their footsteps and spread throughout the empire.

Holding a legendary celebration and banquet to make the prestigious home of the cavalier resound throughout the next 100 years ... immediately became a consensus in everyone's mind.

Recognizing that this is not just the counts similar to the Midsummer Festival celebrations, they immediately began to mobilize the families in their respective territories. While sponsoring the Turin family, they should also hold banquets for their families in the city and entertain knights from all directions for free Them.

For Bishop Weber of the Bayern Church, this would also be his only chance of being heard—whether he succeeds or fails, his doctrine will be sent to all parts of the empire with these returning knights.

This will be Weber's first step against the Holy Cross Church!

After setting his goals, Weber even put down the church work and took the priests to the streets to promote his "new doctrine" to the people in the countryside.

Pious but not fanatical priests, wizards who live peacefully with the church, hospitable aristocrats, a wide variety of commodities, rich land and people ...

What the nobles, businessmen, and tourists from all over the empire saw, heard, and touched was a brand new "Principality of Bayern" that was completely different from what they had imagined and more completely different from the memories of the past. ".

Only when they saw it with their own eyes, they really understood why the Bayern of the past fourteen generations always had the courage and strength to resist the courts of the Empire.

The Red Blood Fort alone was wealthy to this point, sitting on the thirteen-collar, and connected with the blood of the Principality of Boe, the empire could not contend with it only by the human and material resources of the two Sacran collars!

Of course, they do n’t know that now Bayern has completely defeated the dwarves of the Southern Civil War after the Centaur War. Several dwarf city-states on the border have become a subordinate vassal of Bayern; the Ebden wizard who has lost his territory has also With the persuasion of Master Harlemfan Ashamah, he joined the Wizarding Guild of Byrne.

Today, Byrne is clearly a principality, but in fact already has no less than the financial strength of three principalities, the strength of two principalities and two or three powerful allies in the periphery;

If the Byern Church has been completely separated from the Holy Cross Church, Byrn ... has absolute control over the southern part of the empire and part of the east, and has reached a level of resistance against the heavenly palace!

Without this power, even if there is still a dragon alliance, Charlotte would never dare to imagine that he could take away the rule of law from the hands of the Dessarian family; and Connor would not agree to Lena De The marriage between Saarion and Isaac compromised with Byrne.

Connold is a very practical person. After the "empire governor policy" led by him completely failed, he understood that the rise of Byrne is inevitable; then since it is inevitable, it should be used to let Byrne in this Take more responsibility in the Elven War.

The same is the case of Brandon, the Prince of East Sackland who is "coming home"; Connold's purpose is simple and clear, whether it is Brandon who wants to seize power or wants to rise Byrne, they must all be united under the empire to win the Elven War, otherwise everything they have tried will be in vain.

Because of this consensus, both parties can make compromises and concessions with each other, and focus on the common enemy-as to how the future empire should recover or maintain power, that is not what he should consider now.

The empire still exists, and everything has a basis for discussion, otherwise it is meaningless.

Maintain the legal principles and rule of the empire, win the invasion of the Azores and all possible invasions, and ensure that the empire can be smoothly handed over to the next emperor as complete as possible, that is, he is the fourteenth emperor duty of.

Connor thinks so.

But this does not mean that everyone is the same as he thought.

At least Silvik didn't think so at all.

The sullen-faced deacon of the Holy Cross Church sits alone in a corner of the banquet hall, looking at the cheerful and diverse people in the hall indifferently, and the endless anger is suppressed in the pupils.

After his "reasonable" request was rejected by Loren, even after being humiliated in person, Hilvik had completely abandoned the idea of ​​"compromise" and was determined to fight this "arrogant wizard" to the last moment.

But the gap between goal and reality is an invisible chasm.

In just one month, the financial, human and material resources displayed by the Turin family reached a point where he was frightened-as part of the real power of the church, especially Hilvik, it was very clear that he wanted to organize such A grand celebration, how much does it cost to maintain order and stability.

But Byrne succeeded, not only succeeded, but the crowded Red Blood Castle could maintain at least stability on the bright side; although the market was chaotic, the price fluctuations were not exaggerated.

What this means, means that the financial resources and materials held by the Turin family are astronomical, which means that they can easily concentrate the entire financial resources and materials of Byrne in their own hands.

In Hilvik ’s memory, only the empire represented by the Sky Vault can do this!

What really frightened him was that the attitude of the Bayern Church to the Holy Cross Church has been "as far as possible" from now on, and it is already full of hostility; the Bishop Weber ’s understanding of the doctrine can be called simply For heresy!

Strong financial resources, efficient execution, not inferior to the military strength of the empire ... coupled with the local churches who are very uncooperative with the church, Deacon Hilvik found out in amazement that he could not come up with any effective means, To contain this arrogant Duke of Byrne.

Just when he had no choice but to do nothing, someone who had never imagined came to the door.

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"Duke Arles?"

Resisting the surprised emotion, Deacon Hillwick stared at the black robe in front of him, dressing up a young man no different from an ordinary priest.

"Yes, Duke Nolan Erde ordered me to come to help the respected Lord Silverwick, the representative of the Holy Cross Church." Under the black robe, the thin and small young man seemed very indifferent:

"The Duke thinks we have a common enemy, and that is the increasingly powerful family of Byrne and Turin."

Silvik raised his eyebrows, but he was not surprised.

Arles is next to Byrne, and it is barren and bitterly cold. Except for monsters such as monsters that are bigger than ogres, there is no "special product" that can be easily handled. The Arles want to survive in addition to doing business. It was robbing and doing business.

In the eyes of the Holy Cross Church, even these so-called "Arles nobles" are basically the same as robber bandits-from the Eder family, basically "great robbers" to "little robbers", each is insatiable And there is no loyalty and integrity at all. Betrayal and rebellion are just blinks of effort.

Under this premise, a strong and united Bayern is definitely a natural threat to the Arles-if Bayern thirteen leaders are united under the Turin family and want to rob this oil-rich neighbor purely It is delusion.

But understanding is one thing, and consent is another.

"As far as I know, Duke Nolan Odd and Grand Duke Lothal are good friends, and Duke Byrne is close to Grand Duke Lothal." Hilvik sneered:

"With this premise, you want me to believe that the Duke of Arles will be bad for Byrne?"

"The friendship between the private and the interests of the two families and even the Principality is not worth mentioning." The indifferent attitude of the young man made Silvik tremble:

"The powerful Byrne is the end of Arles, the age of the Black Duke has proved this."

Seeing the young man's emotionless face, Silvik sniffed.

This is not like what a child would say.

"So, what does Grand Duke Arles hope to do?"

"What to do has nothing to do with our Lord Duke, it should be Lord Silvik you ... and what to do with the Holy Cross Church behind you." The young man shook his head:

"According to the Imperial Code, unless permission is granted from the Sky Dome, the principalities cannot interfere with each other."

This is of course, otherwise, what will the Sky Vault do.

But Silvik knows more that this is the other party's shirk responsibility. Obviously, although the Duke of Nolan Erde of Arles wanted to target Byrne, he did not directly offend the Turin family, so he would never take the initiative. You can only encourage yourself.

This is not surprising for Hilvik, even if it was Bayern during the split, it was not something that a remote and poor country like Arles could provoke at will, let alone now.

But this alone is not enough to persuade Hilvik.

"Even if this is the case, why should I believe you?" Silvik asked. "Even if I can believe in the sincerity of Duke Nolan Odd, why should I believe you are someone he sent, not someone else?" The trap for me? "

Suspected, the young man was still in a hurry and could not even see a little bit of anger, as if he didn't mind it.

This indifferent and extremely calm attitude made Hilvik a little nervous, but also had some convincing ideas faintly.

Hearing doubt, he desperately wants to prove himself, either a fool or a ghost.

"Sir Hilvik, the Duke wants to work with you out of a common interest-we all want to see the destruction of the Turin family, but we don't want to see the destruction of Byrne." The young man said softly:

"A rich but not powerful Byrne is something we are all happy to see; so our goal is only to eradicate Loren Turin, not to completely destroy Byrne ~ www.readwn.com ~ As for whether we believe us The help provided is your problem. Lord Duke Nolan does n’t care-he certainly wants to fight against the Baine and Turin families, but it ’s not as urgent as you and the Holy Cross Church behind you. "

Silvik sneered again.

If it is not urgent enough, why would they find themselves so impatiently; why not know that they and the Holy Cross Church are desperately trying to be hostile to the Duke of Bain?

It is clear that you have already panicked, but you still want to keep yourself out of the way, and encourage the Holy Cross Church to do this thing-hum, dream!

Silvik hadn't thought about it at all. His thoughts were exactly the same as when he encouraged Loren.

"However, if you really need evidence ..." When I said this, the young man who was always indifferent finally smiled, but Silvik, who looked at it with a smile, was horrified:

"We can give you a very critical piece of information, a piece of information that can make Loren Torino instantly defeated!"