Chapter 467 The Situation Is Chaotic

King Roger is naturally aware of the undercurrents in the Grant Kingdom.

Although he wears a crown and sits high on the throne, he also participated in the battle to ambush Elena twenty years ago.

In that battle, Duke Brener used Roger as bait to severely injure this opponent.

The Grant family has fought with Elena for more than a hundred years, and the family leaders know that Elena is immortal.

After nearly twenty years, the upper echelons of the Grant Kingdom know that Elena's injuries may have recovered.

Elena is a legendary magician. Not only is her own combat power strong, but she can also affect the outcome of a battle to a certain extent. The most troublesome thing is that the Venus family is still hiding in the dark and constantly infiltrating into the Grant Kingdom.

The Roger Kingdom has no good way to infiltrate the Venus family.

Venus is a thousand-year-old family. Not only does it have legendary magicians hiding in the dark, but there are also many outstanding talents in the Venus family. The power of this family is scattered in several nearby kingdoms. In the two kingdoms of Delong and Maya, there are nobles with Venus blood.

Even some of the hereditary nobles in the Grant Kingdom were also people planted by the Venus family. The last rebellion was just the exposure of the pawns in Gascoigne Province. In other provinces, the Venus family still has a small number of nobles hidden and not exposed.

Hundreds of years ago, the Grant Kingdom could still find the hidden people of the Venus family from the knight bloodline. But now, the knight bloodline of the Venus family has become very chaotic, and it is useless to search from the bloodline.

Moreover, the Venus family also used roundabout means to infiltrate the Grant Kingdom with the warrior profession. Although the Grant Mage Association uses the True Word, there are legendary magicians hiding behind it, and with the blessing of a few brain clearing and consciousness closing spells, the True Word is also useless.

This kind of infiltration method is hard to guard against. Although the royal intelligence department is not a drunkard, it can only grasp a general suspect target, including dozens of hereditary nobles.

Viscount Gauss of the Venus family is on this suspect list, but there is no definite information, and Nolan's headquarters is not suitable for casual actions.

Even if it is the royal family, there is no reason to punish a hereditary noble casually.

In the Nolan Palace, King Roger and important members of the Grant family are holding a secret meeting.

Participating in the meeting are Roger, Philip, Pansy, York, Heaton, and Finney. These six are all ninth-level professionals and important figures in the Grant family.

The strongest among the six is ​​Philip. This prince of the previous generation is also a magic and martial arts practitioner like Richard. Now he is a ninth-level epic knight and a ninth-level priest. His combat power is superior to that of legendary knights. Although he is not as weird and fierce as Elena, he is also difficult to deal with.

It’s a pity that because of the grievances of the previous generation, Philip is now devoted to the church and is not keen on participating in the affairs of the Grant family. He participated in the secret meeting because he actually represented the Dawn Church.

Philip is already the second-in-command of the Grant Parish of the Dawn Church. Some time ago, he wrote a letter to the headquarters of the Dawn Church, requesting to be transferred from the Grant Parish.

Judging from this letter, the Grant family’s affairs obviously cannot rely on Philip.

Although Philip's power is no less than that of a legendary knight, he does not have much identification with the Grant family and will not easily help the Grant family in the actual struggle.

The second strongest person after Philip is Pansy, who is also a nine-ring magician. He has left the Grant Kingdom for ten years and went to the Markholm Magic Kingdom, hoping to find an opportunity to be promoted to a legendary.

After entering the Markholm Magic Kingdom, Pansy got some opportunities and found a treasure that increased his mental power. Now Pansy's mental power has exceeded 40 points. He is not as bold as Evans and rashly breaks through the legendary realm.

After Pansy left, Evans has been the master of the Grant Mage Association in recent years.

Now that Evans has failed to break through the legendary realm, Roger Kingdom can only write to Pansy urgently, hoping that Pansy will return as soon as possible. After receiving the expedited letter from Roger Kingdom, Pansy galloped and returned to Nolan in half a year.

Roger, York, Heaton, and Finney are all ninth-level knights. Roger and York have been promoted to the ninth level for more than 20 years.

Both of them are great nobles who hold actual power and will not take risks easily. It is precisely because they have not had the courage to break through in the past 20 years that the probability of their promotion to legend is not high. On the contrary, Heaton and Finny, who have been promoted in recent years, have a higher probability of success.

However, Heaton and Finny are both distant branches of the Grant family. Once one of them is promoted to legend, the situation of the Grant family will be completely changed.

The Grant family has been passed down for thousands of years and has experienced countless internal struggles. The lineage in power in the family has also experienced many changes.

If the distant branch is promoted to legend, it is possible that the small branch will replace the big branch, which is also a huge challenge to the Roger Kingdom.

It was better when the Roger Kingdom was there. Once the Roger Kingdom died, his sons could not control the situation at all. Even if there was no civil war, they would become puppets, just like King Charles of the previous generation.

For King Roger, the best choice is to promote himself to legend. Although the situation forced him to muster up the courage and take risks, other important members of the Grant family did not agree with Roger's conditions at all.

Pansy, York and others all supported Heaton to use true nuclear potions, so that the probability of promotion to legend would be higher.

Faced with everyone's opposition, King Roger had no choice but to propose other conditions in exchange.

Roger Kingdom requested that the southern direct territory be separated out and divided into a duchy, which would be given to the eldest prince Ferdinand in recognition of his contribution to the Grant family over the years.

In addition, after Heaton was promoted to Legend, he would support the Grant Kingdom in launching a war to seize the area north of the Mara River and east of the Gut River in the East Coast United Kingdom to level the front line. The royal family's share of the seized land of more than 100,000 square kilometers will be given to Heaton, Finney and other backbones of the Grant family.

Although the division of the royal direct territory will expand the influence of the Grant family, it is a dispersion of the central power. Even if the two duchies are divided, even if the Grant family's momentum in the noble meeting is greatly increased, it will also weaken the power directly under the royal court.

Such a decision has both advantages and disadvantages for the Grant family. According to past experience, when the great nobles divide the land, it is easy to start a civil war when fighting for the right of succession.

But King Roger is now lacking confidence and is determined to leave a way out for his children and grandchildren.

He had seen the political struggles in the early years, and his father's tragic ending also required him to do so.

The total area of ​​the Grant family's territory in the south is about 360,000 square kilometers. If it is divided out, it is equivalent to a grand duchy. Such a powerful duchy is a threat to the Grant Kingdom. After careful consideration, several major members of the Grant family disagreed with Roger's conditions.

Having sat on the throne for 20 years and won many foreign wars, the prestige of Roger's kingdom has reached its peak, especially in the lower and middle levels, and now it is in full swing.

If he had made up his mind earlier and promoted to a legendary warrior, the Grant family would have become his one-man show, just like the Duke of Brenner 20 years ago.

Unfortunately, after Roger sat on the throne, he had become afraid of death and dared not take risks. His personal strength could not suppress the important members of the Grant family. Many things can only be discussed with the people below, otherwise the Grant family will first break out in civil strife. Without the support of Pansy, York, Heaton and others, Roger alone could not suppress the people below.

Finally, after bargaining for most of the day, the provinces of Steven, Salon, Isaac, Helen, Novena and Campa were separated and directly governed by the Nolan royal family.

Seven provinces including Ferdinand formed a duchy, which was granted to King Roger's eldest son Ferdinand after the situation stabilized. This duchy covers an area of ​​more than 200,000 square kilometers, and its land and resources are stronger than the Duchy of York.

The other people didn't want to agree to Roger's conditions, but Roger had a high prestige and made great contributions in the past 20 years, so they didn't dare to turn against Roger easily.

In the current situation, Roger's interests are obviously different from those of the Grant family. In the choice of different interests, Roger chose himself.

Although this choice is not far-sighted, it adds an insurance for his descendants.

After the Grant family discussed it, they decided to let Roger attract the attention of the Venus family in public and secretly support Heaton to break through the legend.

The strategy of the Grant family confused Elena to a certain extent.

The Venus family thought that Roger's promotion was not likely, so they planned to provoke a civil war after Roger's death and take advantage of the civil unrest.

Unexpectedly, Roger suppressed his suspicion and personally covered for Heaton.

The Grant family united together and prepared to overcome the difficulties together.

In this way, time slowly came to November 3279 of the Dawn Calendar. Heaton drank the legendary true core potion and successfully promoted to legend.

Twenty years after the death of Duke Brena, the Grant family finally had a new legendary knight. After Heaton's promotion, the pressure on Roger's Kingdom was finally relieved.

After hearing that Heaton was promoted to legend, Elena's face became extremely embarrassed.

Although the Venus family was the previous owner of this land, Elena also ushered in a leapfrog development after being promoted to legend. But it is also extremely difficult to restore the throne and wear the crown.

Although Elena was promoted to legend, she is not the most powerful professional in the Grant Kingdom.

On the surface, the most powerful profession in the Grant Kingdom is Senna, the Archbishop of the Grant Diocese of the Dawn Church. As early as more than ten years ago, Senna had been promoted to the second level of legend.

Although Elena was promoted to legend earlier, she also got the fragments of the artifact in the early years, signed a life-sharing contract with the legendary lich, and became immortal, but in terms of the level of magic, she is still a little worse than Senna. She has been promoted to legend for a hundred years and has not found a way forward. Now she is still a first-level legend.

Senna is only the top master on the surface. In fact, the strongest combat power in the Grant Kingdom is the deformed body fused by Princess O'Farland and the remnant of the Undead Lord. If Richard lets go, his strength is also much stronger than Senna, and he should be able to be on par with Princess O'Farland.

The reason why Princess O'Farland was so easy to talk to was not only because Senna was so powerful and could not afford to provoke the powerful divine power in Richard, but also very critical.

Princess Oulan is hiding in the mausoleum, and Richard cannot fight the enemy with all his strength due to special circumstances, but he has the Starlight Necklace in his hand. Even if he does not release the power of the God of Slaughter to advance, it is still a great threat to Elena.

The Venus family has a long way to go to get the crown back.

First, they must obtain the tacit consent of the Dawn Church and make sure that the church does not interfere in the civil war. In addition, they must win the support of the great nobles such as Harland, and finally defeat the Grant family. Only when these three conditions are met can they control the situation.

Twenty years ago, the Venus family could not meet any of the conditions. Twenty years later, they also cannot do any of them.

The Venus family's plan is nothing more than to control the central government of the Grant royal family by inciting civil strife, forming a situation of holding the emperor hostage to control the princes, controlling the central royal court of the Grant Kingdom, and slowly negotiating with the great nobles and the Dawn Church. In fact, it is just a conspiracy and cannot be put on the table.

Moreover, in the process of controlling the central government of the Grant royal family, there will also be many difficulties. After all, the Royal Guards are composed of members of the Grant family as the backbone, and it is impossible to accept outsiders to lead.

If the Venus family wants to control the central government, they need to get rid of the hidden danger of the Royal Guards first.

Twenty years ago, they hoped to use the border army of the Mad Lion Legion to replace the Royal Guards to control the situation. Twenty years later, the conspiracy is probably still this.

Shortly after Heaton was promoted, Elena was angry and dispatched several masters of the Venus family to Nolan, wanting to assassinate the Kingdom of Roger and forcibly create civil strife in the Kingdom of Grant.

King Roger's guards are extremely strong, and he is protected by a 300-man personal guard all year round. These people are professionals, and there are knights and magicians to cooperate in combat. They can easily get support from the Mage Tower and the Guards. Even if the two legendary professionals of the Venus family take action, there is no way to kill Roger.

On the contrary, in this assassination battle, the Venus family killed Knight Harden, and Anthony also lost an arm and lost a backbone.

If the assassination fails, the Venus family will naturally not sit and wait for death. Seeing that there is no hope of restoring the country, Elena made up her mind to pull in foreign aid at all costs. She personally came forward and contacted the legendary magician Marlo of the Bloody Horn, ready to cooperate with the cultists and must provoke a civil war in the Kingdom of Grant.

Although the Bloody Horn is a cult organization, the power it controls is not weak at all. This cult organization believes in the God of Killing and has six legendary professionals. The strength is extraordinary.

Marlo, the Night Walker, is a legendary magician and the third person in the Blood Horn. He is in charge of the three dioceses of Grant, East Coast, and Delong. He is very difficult to deal with.

This person provoked a rebellion in the Kingdom of Grant and was severely injured by Ma Weila, the legendary second-level priest of the Dawn Church.

In the past twenty years, Marlo has been hiding in the East Coast and Delong, and has some connections with underground forces such as the Venus Family.

In recent years, the Blood Horn has always been developing believers in secret, like a mouse hiding in the dark, which can never be killed.

Elena and Marlo joined forces, and the Blood Horn cultists caused a riot, which immediately caused war in the Kingdom of Grant.

Seeing the civil strife in the Kingdom of Grant, the three countries of East Coast, Delong, and Ryan were like wild dogs that smelled blood, and provoked a war together.

The East Coast and Delong countries had just joined the war, and the Blood Horn also provoked civil strife in the two countries. For a cult like the Bloody Horn, the more people die, the stronger the power of the killing artifact becomes, and the easier it is for the God of Killing to revive. They are just some killing maniacs who don't consider the surrounding situation and the overall situation at all.

More than 20 years ago, the chess pieces secretly arranged by the Bloody Horn were cleared by the Grant Kingdom and the Dawn Church. Although the Bloody Horn preached again and arranged hidden pieces, after all, the power was not strong, and the scale of the rebellion it provoked was not large. On the contrary, the two countries of Delong and the East Coast, which Marlo had been operating for many years, had stronger power.

Entering the 3280th year of the Dawn Calendar, the eastern countries have become a mess.