Chapter 259, Promoted to Earl

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Armand de Aquitaine, the king's special envoy, was standing in the middle of the hall of the baron's castle holding the king's documents.

In the hall, there was a dense crowd, and all the knights and officials in Ryan's territory came. Ryan knelt quietly in front of the king's envoy without saying a word.

"Lian Macado, Baron Jean, since the enfeoffment, you have made outstanding military exploits and martial arts. You have proved your worth to ladies and kings with courage, honor, and faith. Here, the Britannian Knight King Dino A-Jean-Richard de-le-Angourant hereby anoints Lane Macado, Baron of Jean, Earl of Glamorgan, and I hope you will show your loyalty, your life, and your piety to the ladies and The value of the king." Armand said without haste while holding the king's papers.

"I take orders." Ryan didn't say much, he simply replied.

Because he didn't need to say anything more, Richard didn't ask him to go to the capital to accept the canonization, but sent a special envoy to the canonization at random. As far as he was concerned, he was only forced to send a special envoy directly to his fief.

Ryan is too lazy to do those fake things, just make sense of it.

Armand nodded: "May the radiance of the lady light your way forward."

Then the Kingdom's special envoy waved his hand, and the attendants approached from outside holding several clothes. The earl's dress was a dark red velvet coat trimmed with white fur, three mink furs were sewn into the soft hat to indicate the rank of the title, and there was a gold-plated silver ring on the crown. , decorated with 8 silver balls along the upper edge.

Armand hit Ryan's shoulder heavily with the long sword, conferring the sword on the king, and the ceremony was completed.

In fact, this ceremony is a bit out of order. Normally, the king confers the sword to the king, but still that sentence, Richard doesn't want to see him, and Ryan doesn't want to see the king either. It's better not to see him than to hate each other.

From today, Ryan is Baron Jean and Earl of Glamorgan at the same time. Thinking of this, Ryan tried his best to keep his face normal, but his shoulders still trembled slightly.

Twenty-five years have passed since he came to this world for twenty-five years, and he is finally a hereditary nobleman!

Twenty-five years of drinking ice, knowing whether it is warm or not.

The titles of Brittania are divided into five levels, namely baron, earl, marquis, duke and king. Among them, the marquis has only appeared in recent years, mainly to express the special commendation and attention to the earl. There is not much difference between Shang and Earl.

In addition, there are lords and knights. The former rewards nobles, while the latter can reward anyone. Even in the history of Brittania, some serfs have received the title of knight.

But there is a big difference between an earl and a baron.

As we all know, from baron to earl, not only the promotion of the title, but also represents a fundamental change, that is, through his own efforts, Ryan has officially stepped into the ranks of hereditary nobles.

This starts with the status of the baron. In the dark age before the establishment of Brittany, due to the retreat of the imperial power, Brittany fell into a dark age. At that time, the tribes and clans began to divide the territory for autonomy, among them The title of Duke began to appear, and this title was usually awarded to the tribal leader who led the tribe to fight.

After the founding of the Kingdom of Knights, the twelve first-generation Holy Grail Knights were conferred the title of twelve dukes, and they were divided into twelve duchies to form the Kingdom of Knights. Therefore, the duke is the highest title after the king.

In order to facilitate the management of his own territory, the duke entrusted him with earls. The earls mean that "Fang Bo" represents their guarding one side, and the earls obey the duke.

If the earl dares to raise troops and rebel, he will be suppressed by the royal army or sanctioned by other nobles. The title of earl can be inherited by future generations, but the total number will decrease because some earls lack heirs. Currently, Brittania has earls The total number of titles does not exceed one hundred people, and half of them are false titles, that is, they only have titles and no fiefdoms.

Then there is the baron. In the earliest days of the founding of Brittania, there was the title of baron but no title of baron. Baron means "free nobleman" or "servant of the king". By Arthur's eldest son, the second generation knight king During the time of Lewis, Lewis made a large number of canonizations of barons, and most of the senior secular nobles were canonized as barons, but there were only a few barons with actual fiefdoms, and most of them were false titles.

Barons once accounted for a large proportion of the nobles, but later the King of Knights realized that it was not good to indiscriminately appoint barons, so he began to control the number of barons. The lowest rank among nobles.

The law of Brittany stipulates that the baron is not hereditary. If the son of the baron wants to inherit the title, he must be recognized as a knight of the kingdom to inherit his father's title, but the son of the duke does not need it.

Wanting to be promoted from a ranger knight to a kingdom knight requires a life-and-death experience. It can be seen that the succession of a baron gives priority to those with high combat ability and martial arts, while the succession of a duke depends directly on blood.

Therefore, the baron has a low status among the great nobles. Strictly speaking, the baron is a noble with an unstable class, and they are completely military nobles who serve in the war.

To sum up, it is a hurdle from a baron to an earl. Now, Ryan has passed it. He has become a real hereditary nobleman. The earl already has the ability to launch wars independently, appoint officials and independently manage local people. duty.

The king's documents were handed over to Ryan, and the king's special envoy Armand said with a smile, "Hello, Your Excellency the Earl of Glamorgan."

Glamorgan? Ryan always had an indescribably strange feeling when he heard this title, as if it was describing some kind of stupid person or thing.

Now I can't enjoy so much, Ryan smiled and said: "Hello, Mr. Armand."

"Congratulations, Your Excellency Ryan, the lady's champion." Armand said with a smile on his face, "Congratulations on your promotion, can I ask you for a drink?"

Before Ryan could speak, the Marquis Suria came up with a smile on her face: "Of course, Mr. Armand, you are very welcome."

At the same time, the female knight stretched out her small hand, and stroked Ryan's palm with her pale fingertips, signaling him to listen to her first.

Ryan thought that the attitude of the special envoy of the kingdom was very good, and he didn't seem to be deliberately trying to embarrass himself, and he didn't know what Suria meant by doing this, but he still obediently listened to the female knight, so he said enthusiastically : "Of course, please move to the reception room."

The king's special envoy walked towards the reception room, and Ryan deliberately took a step: "Suria?"

The female knight gently took Ryan's hand, and whispered in his ear: "Ryan, don't be rude to your future vassal."

"Future vassal?" Ryan was a little confused, but Suria signaled him to go in quickly. The female knight took out a bottle of Winford's top wine "Lusalus", and went in hand in hand with Ryan.

The exquisite glass goblet was placed on the table. Suria opened the cork lightly, poured red wine into the goblet, and then brought it to Armand: "Hello, Mr. Armand."

"Hello, Suria, congratulations, the laureate of the Knights Conference." Armand nodded and smiled, and then he noticed the hands of Ryan and Suria, and a flash of understanding flashed in his eyes.

Armand's appearance looks to be in his thirties, but the vicissitudes in his eyes indicate that he is no longer young. His black hair is parted twice in the middle. His appearance is ordinary, but his blue eyes are natural. Have their own strength.

"Let me introduce you, the Holy Grail Knight Armand de Aquitaine, the winner of the Knights Conference 21 years ago, one of the first Holy Grail Knights, the last blood of the Duke of Aquitaine, Fredmond, the King's Flag officer." Suria introduced to Ryan.

"So you are..." Ryan opened his mouth wide. The person in front of him is the last bloodline of the Duke of Aquitaine? Or the winner of the Knights Conference? Holy Grail Knight?

"Sorry, I was rude, I didn't recognize it all at once!" Ryan quickly apologized.

There was only vicissitudes on Armand's face, he forced a smile, and endless memories flooded his mind.

He recalled the past. At that time, he was still a young and energetic knight, and his mind was full of revenge for his family and ancestors. He was the last blood of Fredemond, the first Duke of Aquitaine. When the Scarlet Duke slaughtered his own family, his line was spared because he was still fighting in Araby.

Armand swore since he was a child that he would make the Red Duke pay with his blood. He aspired to the crown of the Knights Conference at the age of seventeen. At that time, King Richard had just ascended the throne and wanted to do something. Richard planned to make Armand a baron. , but was rejected by him, Armand didn't want the fief, he just wanted revenge.

In his twenties, Armand embarked on the road of the Holy Grail and started his own expedition. It took him nearly ten years to travel all over the old world, and finally he was near Magritte, the capital of Estalia. After killing a terrifying legendary Beastman Beastmaster, he was recognized by the Fairy of the Lake. He drank from the Holy Grail and became the Holy Grail Knight.

Back in Korona, Armand got his own endless glory. Like his ancestor Fredmond hundreds of years ago, Armand became the king's banner bearer as the Holy Grail Knight. The military standard of the King of Knights, "Battle Banner of the Lake God".

That's right, it's the banner of blessing that the first knight King Arthur got from the Fairy of the Lake. The banner is painted with a portrait of the Fairy of the Lake holding the Holy Grail and a pattern of irises. This battle flag has the power of the Fairy of the Lake. On this side Under the banner of the army, Arthur led the knights to complete the unification.

It is said that as long as this military flag appears on the battlefield, the knights will never be defeated and fight to the last man. Under this military flag, the knights will never be afraid or run away.

"I just want to say thank you, Lord Ryan." Armand broke away from the memory, he couldn't help his excitement, and his tone was full of expectation: "About the Red Duke..."

"I killed him." Ryan nodded: "It's a complete end to him, I'm sure."

"I don't doubt you, Your Excellency Ryan, but... the Red Duke has always run very fast. He often retreats from the battlefield immediately when the situation is not good. The speed of the zombie dragon is unmatched. I can know how you seized the opportunity to kill Kill him?" Armand asked repeatedly, the king's bannerman was very anxious, as the Holy Grail Knight, he shouldn't lose his composure like this.

But under such deep hatred, no one can keep calm, and the Holy Grail Knight is also human.

"He is Abbot Wallace's family, of course he runs fast, but I am not bad." Ryan said suddenly and playfully: "Because I learned a lot from a lady surnamed Zhang, that is, as long as you run Go fast enough and time won't catch up with you."

"??????" Armand and Suria didn't understand what Ryan was saying, and wanted to ask again, but Ryan signaled that he couldn't say any more, and he took out a sword: "In that case, today I will take this Return the sword to its original owner."

"This is... the Sword of Aquitaine!" Armand immediately reached out and took the sword.

The hilt of the sword of Aquitaine is engraved with patterns of irises, and the body of the sword is engraved with mysterious runes. For hundreds of years, this sword has been passed down from generation to generation by the Dukes of Aquitaine to the Duke of Blood. hand.

Armand took over the sword of Aquitaine, he did not refuse, this sword belonged to him originally, the last blood of the Duke of Aquitaine stretched out his hand to caress the blade, his voice was indescribably sentimental: "Finally came back."

"I tried to purify the sword, but..." Ryan was about to say that the sword of Aquitaine had completely lost its power and turned into an ordinary sword.

But Armand turned a deaf ear, and the Grail Knight cut off his hand.

Hot and holy blood dripped on the blade of Aquitaine's sword, making a scorching sound.

A miracle happened. When the sword of Aquitaine was lifted again in the hands of Armand, it recovered. After five hundred years in the hands of the Blood Red Duke, it could not be completely transformed. During the purification, in the blood of Aquitaine, it was restored, and the decay and rust on the sword body had disappeared, releasing a pure aura like the sky.

Then, Armand knelt in front of Ryan.

"I, the Knight of the Holy Grail, Armand de Aquitaine, swears my allegiance in the name of the lady, to the lady's chosen champion, Ryan Malcador."

Ryan's face was a little surprised, and he even couldn't help doubting it, but he soon realized that the Holy Grail Knight would never make fun of the fairy in the lake, and they couldn't do what they said.

So Ryan put the sword on Armand's shoulder, the Nemesis was burning with white flames, and the flame of purification was burning on the sword: "Then I will make you my knight, my banner officer."

The simple ceremony of conferring the king and awarding the sword was completed. Not long ago, it was Armand who conferred the sword on Ryan, and only a few tens of minutes later, the king's special envoy pledged his allegiance to Ryan in the same way.

Sometimes, life is so magical that reality is always more incredible than it is.

But there is something even more incredible.

Armand took out a huge military standard, which was full of sacred power. The military standard was woven from the soft velvet satin left by the high elves, and it was painted with the icon of the fairy in the lake holding the Holy Grail and the pattern of golden irises .

"This is??!" Ryan cried out, losing his composure.

"The king does not allow me to take this flag away. He said it belongs to the royal family." Armand smiled: "But the lady entrusted me with a dream. This military flag never belonged to the king, it only belonged to the lady."

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