Chapter 231 Chapter 713 Walking (Axis)
Chapter 231 Chapter 7.13 Walking (Axis)
Finally, we arrived at the core area of the empire.
Looking at this big city with at least fifteen towering magic towers, Wei Keng calculated the rules of operation of this city. That is: how many people are around supporting magicians and nobles, how many are around business, and how many are in the fields of craftsmen, forging and other small and medium-sized citizens.
Of course, when the gate of the city was opened for Wei Keng.
A team of knights ran out. Wei Keng counted with the Eye of Truth (with system analysis). There were 30 regular knights in the team of 120 people, and the leader was at the same level as Nord.
For a large kingdom like Eger, the core knights of its imperial capital are actually less than 1,000 people.
Please note that this is a knight! When charging in groups on the battlefield, their various values are no less than those of aliens. Each of their fiefs is supplied by a village of 100 households. And they are loyal to the Eger royal family, and the armor and weapons they are equipped with are all enchanted equipment.
What is the concept? If the most crude leather armor is engraved with runes that can prevent puncture, most bows and muskets will not be able to penetrate it. If such a knight is close to the infantry array line, it will definitely be a bloody storm. This is why Carret is so eager to build a mechanized army.
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The Knights are the core combat power of the Eger Empire (actually the Kingdom).
The existence of such a Knights indicates that the vitality of the empire is intact.
If such a Knights is destroyed in a large-scale battle, the empire will be completely crippled. It will have to rely on the military force of other great lords to maintain order.
On the other hand, the Knights, as the cornerstone of the empire, must also rely on the royal family!
Knights who are directly loyal to the royal family have privileges compared to knights in the countryside. In addition to the basic fief (basic salary), the salary (local bonus) paid regularly in the imperial capital is more generous than other regions. In addition, there is equipment and the importance of the position, which can make them speak tough to higher nobles!
For example, the earls and marquises who are in power in the empire now cannot use titles to suppress the commander of the knights who are directly under the royal family.
The loyalty of the knights makes the issue of royal succession affect the stability of the knights to a great extent.
For example: if there are two legitimate heirs in some royal families and the knights are divided into two factions, the kingdom will be seriously injured immediately.
When the previous king of Egg passed the throne, the current king turned to the great nobles of the kingdom, causing an imbalance of power.
But fortunately for the kingdom, Dad Carret was a waste, so the knights at that time did not have to make a choice, and they still expressed their position directly in the end.
Although most of the power of this king was restricted by the Duke of Golden Blade, the knights still recognized it. And accepted the Duke of Golden Blade's personnel placement in the knights.
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So, the bigger problem is here. That is the issue of the next generation of heirs.
That is, so far, the issue of heirs in the Xingche family.
Oh, in biographical novels, the issue of knights protecting princesses is often described. Now the knights are no exception.
So!
Wei Keng, standing on the steam train, looked at the knights who were half-surrounding him, and asked Nord with a smile: "Are you inviting me, or are you controlling me?"
Under the furious expression of Master Wei, he excitedly said to himself: "Tsk tsk, the opportunity to turn against each other has come."
Nord: "Please believe me." - As a great knight who traveled with Carret, although Nord thought that Carret had problems, there was no problem as the heir to the empire.
Carret shook his head: "It's not that I don't believe you, Lord Knight, but you can't guarantee the changes in the situation in the kingdom."
Nord shouted to the Knight: "Sudka, what are your orders?"
Sudka ignored his colleagues' questions and shouted directly to Carret: "Your Highness, the king summoned you half a year ago. Please follow us to see His Majesty."
Carret used the loudspeaker: "Sudka, right, the purpose of this visit is to pay homage to my elders. It's not that you lead me and hold me! You can follow me, but when to see my uncle is up to me!"
Carret tore the scroll while preparing.
Oh~ This scroll is just a cover-up. Carret's seven-ring magic is already being constructed.
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Sudka: "Your Highness, are you ready to give up your inheritance rights?"
Carret was happy. As the heir of the five thousand years of Eastern culture, although he was not a smart person, these iron fools wanted to catch him, and his Taoism was still lacking this little bit.
Moreover, it is so obvious that the most critical topic is thrown out so early, and its weakness is exposed.
Carret continued to use the amplification technique: "I traveled from north to south, across hundreds of kilometers and six provinces, and I had already expressed my loyalty to the kingdom before arriving at the imperial capital.
But when I arrived at the gate of the imperial capital, I was suddenly asked "whether I would give up the right of inheritance". Haha, very good, then from this question, I already know that it turns out that someone asked me to come to the imperial capital just because they are concerned about the right of inheritance!~ I belong to the Xingche family, and I will only fulfill my obligations. The right of inheritance has been determined in my father's generation. This is not something I decide.
And even so, some people are still chasing me! At the same time, some people are 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 respect all his orders, including depriving me of my right of inheritance.
But for the glory of Xingche, I will not accept any coercion. "
After saying the last sentence, Carret glanced at the rider who was standing behind the knights but was actually protected.
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After speaking, Master Wei was very happy. He did not allow these fools to refute. He immediately ordered the steam car to turn around.
Nord immediately stopped Carret. It was obvious that they had escorted him to the city gate. If he really let "Carret" go, he would be a joke.
Several mages also began to cast spells,
However, Carret's spell was released first.
As the light spread, everyone felt that they were seen through. Many of the city guards were ordinary people. Suddenly, the memories of the past few months were turned out, and they were filled with great fear.
And the two great knights, Nord and Sudka, were also moved. They wanted to raise their swords, but they were invisibly blocked, because when they raised their swords, countless inappropriate reasons in their minds jumped out and tested 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 released by the scroll - Righteous Glare.
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This is a seventh-ring spell. Within a radius of 20 meters, all neutral and evil creatures must undergo a round of willpower test. Evil creatures with weak willpower will die directly, and even if they pass the willpower test, they will still be in fear for a long time. In fact, the 20-meter range is just the heart of the explosion. Beyond this distance, even if it is 500 meters away, evil creatures will still suffer heavy casualties.
This is a necromancy spell! It is one of Wei Keng's six seventh-ring spells.
It is quite unpopular. Most high-level necromancers have fixed spell slots for mental power to control the dead, entropy stench, and other dark energy control spells.
And this special attack spell that uses fixed positive energy to sweep away negative life can only be said to be ~ Wei Keng: "There is no shortage of attack methods, and I am very concerned about defending against black magic. ”
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Under the gaze of the arcane-condensed sacred eye, a path was cleared in the imperial knight team, and Carret activated the deflagration in the steam car and the constraint rune in the cylinder. The tank was full of power and started to move.
Yes! It was a real move, not the art of retreat that bargained with the vendors in the City God Temple.
A prince who was controlled step by step and led by the right of inheritance really had nothing to do! As long as he did not explicitly refuse the right of inheritance, but instead shifted the blame to: someone did not want him to inherit. Then the person who planned all this had a trace of illegality.
As long as one day I have enough strength, under the beating, the right of inheritance of the kingdom will lean towards me. And the illegality planted now is a fatal seed.
Wei Keng: "For the strong, as long as there are some words that they have not said. Everything can be operated in the future. ”
[Narrator: In the ancient times of the main world, after World War II, the Koreans would actively demand compensation. The original author was entangled and tired of it, but for another country in East Asia, the Internet hired water army to encourage public opinion to learn from the Koreans, and said "at least have a solution attitude".
But in fact, as a big country that has the ability to fight back, what attitude is needed? Just "remember history" every year, that's enough. On the contrary, it depends on whether the guys with dirty history have an attitude of admitting guilt.]
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After about half an hour, the magic effect disappeared.
The welcoming team finally reacted from all kinds of hesitations and must not let Carret's team leave like this.
This In a month, Carret traveled from the north to the south, and was watched by all parties along the way.
In the end, he was stopped at the city gate and turned back. ——Will the nobles believe that it was Carret's own responsibility? If Carret rebelled against the family, why did he spend a month going south?
A complicated process can sometimes negate the result.
There will definitely be a verbal battle at that time.
On this sensitive issue, the king will definitely not admit that "summoning Carret" is because the capital wants to completely solve the problem of "the choice of the succession right of the Egg Empire cannot bypass the male heir of the Xingche family in the north"! Even if he really thinks so, now I can't say it!
Letting Carret return is equivalent to asking the Knights to make a clear statement that they prefer that the next Queen of Egger. ——This is hard for the neutral knights to argue.
The king who is inclined to balance the situation now will not make a statement!
And the Knights are not unified on this issue.
These neutral factions are not supporters of Carret now, but they are also not supporters of the "Queen". If the Duke of Golden Blade is so obviously overbearing, they will feel a sense of crisis.
Similarly, such a result is not what the powerful Duke of Golden Blade wants. The opposition in the empire will attack together.
This is definitely a political crisis event!
Who It is not clear whether they came to resist the thunder, but Sudka definitely could not escape, and Nord, who escorted Carret all the way, was also to blame.
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After the magic of the Eye of Justice took effect, the group of knights in the imperial capital immediately began to chase. It was just that the knights in the royal capital were so sure of Carret before, and now they were panicked when they could not find any trace of Carret and his group on the roads.
Female knight Leticia, the personal knight of Princess Roshan, followed this time to watch the action of the team escorting Carret.
Because Roshan wanted to know how ridiculous the cousin of the dude was, she was sent to "restrain" him. However, she saw this scene at the city gate right after that.
However, until the sun set, this female knight who came out of the palace and followed the rules in everything confirmed 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 quietly here, and a noble of the imperial capital was guarding these war weapons with servants, and a letter left by Carret.
The content of the letter was very simple. These weapons were originally intended to be tribute to the kingdom. They had already been driven here, so they would naturally not be taken back. ——If the kingdom needs it in the future, it will also be made for the kingdom.
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As for where Carret went?
The young noble brought the knight commander to an open space with a magic circle drawn on the open space. It was confirmed that the person they were looking for had left through the group teleportation array.
Good guy.
The young female knight looked at the four teleportation arrays on the ground with a diameter of 100 meters and the remains of the magic burning.
She suddenly felt that this seemed like a huge conspiracy (pit). Before Carret left, his mysterious smile to her was now a mockery.
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At night, in the palace of the empire, the arcane lights illuminated the place. (This is the electrode lamp of the 21st century, but the energy source is the gemstone that stores capacitors.)
In front of His Majesty, Sudka and Nord apologized.
One of them was responsible for welcoming and the other for escorting. After searching for a long time without any results, they could only run back to report to the parents "how the naughty child got lost".
The king turned to the two mages and asked, "Have you seen Carret's teacher?"
The two mages: "When we went there, we only met His Royal Highness the Crown Prince. The great mage did not show up."
The scroll that Carret opened at the end, with a righteous glare, is definitely a magic prop that can only be prepared by the best mages in the kingdom. Such a magic prop is at least tens of thousands of gold coins. (Wei Keng didn't have the materials to engrave such a magic guide, so he released it himself.)
After the kingdom mage monitored the release traces of this arcane magic, he lamented that such arcane magic was generally used to fight large-scale evil events, and it was thrown directly at the kingdom knight team. That was really a royal prodigal.
The king said to the mage beside him: "Next month, please send a letter for me. My nephew is ignorant (prodigal), and the mage is worried."
In the eyes of these mages, Carret, a second-ring mage, threw magic props all the way. It can only be said that he was doting on his teacher, the high-level mage, and he was reckless. After throwing all the props, he came to the gate of the imperial capital and continued to throw four group teleportation props and slipped away.
How to say it? The king felt a little distressed about the consumption of magic props along the way. In his opinion, the high-level mage supported the descendants of the Xingche family to arrive in the imperial capital, not just to support the apprentice, but also to reach some exchanges with the mages of the kingdom. However, these resources were used up like this.
The king thought so, and it can only be said that this is the thinking of mortals!
How willful are the travelers from the main world? How bad are the system's cheats? How outrageous are the agreements reached with the gods of these worlds? The mortals of this world cannot figure it out.
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On the other side of the palace,
Her Highness the Princess was also listening to her knight's description of today's situation, and the crystal recorder played the whole process of the city gate incident.
When she saw the young man standing on the steam car and refusing the knight's escort, she couldn't help but feel a little throbbing in her heart. Of course, it was only a flash.
The struggle for royal power made her think about what she should do now and eliminate the negative factors about herself.