Utopia

Just as Her Majesty the Queen said, the current Acting Grand Duke of the Principality of Aikorn, Mortarion Van Kahn, who comes from the Ascetic Church, is eager to spend his days drinking to relieve his sorrows.

Because on his desk, one report after another about people attacking nobles made him understand something.

The common people of this principality support the Aiken family and are extremely resentful towards the rebellious nobles.

From the simplest sneak attack with slings at night, to the more serious silent arrow shooting with homemade bows and arrows.

To be honest, he has obviously ordered to control all the skilled craftsmen in the Principality of Aiken, but why are there still private craftsmen who can make various weapons?

Obviously, the acting Grand Duke Mortarion, who was born in the royal family of the Karn Empire and was an uncle of the Three Emperors who had been practicing in the Ascetic Church since childhood, did not understand the infinite wisdom of the people.

He doesn't even understand what it means to be poor and change. Even if he knows that civilians are fighting against the decadent aristocratic forces, he doesn't know how to face these people who may have established underground resistance organizations.

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You must know that as his nephew, Emperor Tony, the acting Grand Duke sent to lead the local nobles to maintain the normal life order of the principality, he needs to entrust these local nobles to complete many things.

If he didn't rely on these nobles who resisted Sidney...who else could he rely on? Representatives of the factions supporting Sidney either died on the battlefield where the dark elf mercenaries fought, or were dealt with by the powerful rebel nobles on various charges.

As for the remaining influential representatives, these were the former members of the Knights who led the people in rebellion. Reason and the local nobles all told him a common conclusion, which was to completely annihilate them directly by force.

But, can he do this?

cannot!

Absolutely not!

Killing these knights is equivalent to wiping out the common people of the principality!

As long as he is not an idiot, he will know how a country without civilians will end badly.

If there are no civilians in a country, what is the point of living for nobles like them? Is it possible for them to lower themselves as nobles and work in the farms, fisheries and factories themselves? So what does it mean for them to be nobles?

But what happened was that Duke Sidney was defeated and became a prisoner. The people were completely dissatisfied with his rule, and even so-called independent churches emerged one after another, openly provoking the authority of the Ascetic Church.

Even if the Execution Court of the Ascetic Church sent troops to interrogate, the result...

He saw a pile of the remains of the inquisitors that had been chopped into pieces, and the heads of the inquisitors hanging all over the street.

It no longer matters who hunted the members of the Ascetic Church like lambs, nor does it make any sense how the Archbishop cursed these murderers for how heretical they were.

If possible, he sincerely prayed to the all-knowing and all-powerful Lord to give him revelation and let him know what he should do next.

"The Grand Duke? The Grand Duke? There are guests coming outside."

"who?"

"The Marquis of Ursouda."

"Well."

As soon as the attendant said this name, Mortarion's uncle and acting Archduke Archduke became even more troubled.

The Marquis of Usolda's biggest hobby is to ride a brown horse and whip the passing people with a whip. His happiest thing was the wailing of the people who could not escape, whether they were being knocked down or being whipped with whips.

Of course, this is one of the important reasons why people outside dare not speak out when they are angry, and are unlikely to take action during the day, but use various means at night.

No wonder Archduke Sidney would rather use war to clear out all opposition forces within the principality. Such a noble... If he were Archduke Sidney, he would directly send such a noble scum to the guillotine.

However, he had to rely on these local snakes, otherwise he would not even know what the Principality of Aiken was like.

"Let him...come in."

"yes."

Even though Mortarion was very reluctant, he also guessed that the Marquis of Urthoda came to him, hoping that he could agree to the clearing plan that he had made before.

"Hehehe...see His Highness the Third Emperor Uncle."

"agree."

"Huh? Oh! Thank you!"

"When cleaning up, try not to hurt innocent people as much as possible."

"Yes Yes."

After hearing the reply from such a fat man who smelled like alcohol from time to time, Motarian began to regret in his heart.

Why did he agree to the request of his nephew and the church and come to such a principality where riots were everywhere to act as acting grand duke?

Compared to Mortarion's remorse, Emperor Tony in the palace was in a dilemma. Because the Kingdom of Golson sent him another letter asking for help, asking the royal family or other countries to send troops to resist the invasion of the dark elves.

Obviously, the Goldson Kingdom's request for help is fake and the request for money is genuine. As a kingdom that has long used various excuses to deceive other countries and even the royal family into providing financial support, the Goldson Kingdom's self-respecting behavior made Emperor Tony very disgusted.

After all, since the establishment of the Galson Kingdom, such letters for help have been sent every few years to ten years or so. It is said that there is an invasion from foreign enemies, but the Kingdom of Golson has never been invaded.

There is not even any bandit and robber gang in the country.

But he had to support it. It was said that many dark elf expeditions had appeared in the old capital, Gualegu Echu. Although it was unlikely, he was also worried that the dark elves had the absolute ability to clean up zombies and then swallowed up Gualegu Echu.

Because of this worry, it was difficult for him to refuse the request for help from the Kingdom of Golson.

"Agree to his request, and then... recruit some explorers to go to the northeastern Kingdom of Golson to see what conspiracy they are up to."

"Your Majesty?"

"Queen, I don't want to do that either. Since the palace moved west and the entire Gualegu Echu was handed over to the zombies, I have been a little regretful. If it wasn't really impossible to defend, how could I carry out my father's plan? In short, this is my idea. If possible, establish a small country in the east of our Overflow City to specifically resist the expansion of dark elf forces."

Although he didn't want to see more and more countries appear in the empire, safety is always the most important thing. What's more, he once suspected one thing, that is, would the dark elves be the initiator of the zombie plague?

Of course, he had no ability to verify it. The current royal family relied on the ascetic church to survive in a city with a palace. The princes outside were all out of reach.

So he couldn't even open up more royal land...