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Chapter 14 The Incoming Lion Pride

When Viscount Claude saw Ronan's purple eyes and realized his identity as the Ordosius family, he shrank aside and pretended to be dead.

Ronan ignored him and asked the white-haired old man about his doubts.

"What do you mean by the so-called lions and the Rhineland?"

"My lord, I was just about to explain to you." Old Mo's eyes were full of lamentation, "The 'Lion Pride' is a group of powerful thieves roaming around the border. All the people of the kingdom living there are like a group of powerful lions, focused on hunting, fast and efficient, and their sharp claws are tearing the flesh and blood on the surface of the kingdom."

"Not long ago, they attacked the Rhine Territory and occupied the channel of the Insel River."

"Do the nearby nobles not care?" Ronan frowned, not quite understanding.

In a chaotic environment, it is normal for thieves to rebel and other things to happen, but it is often not long before the nobles lead the knights to extinguish them.

You must know that the extraordinary power of this world is basically in the hands of the upper class.

Practicing breathing requires a lot of meat for energy supplementation. Only nobles with territories can afford these big eaters.

Although the Black Death killed countless civilians, it did not threaten the knights. It made no sense for a gang of thieves to act recklessly on the territory.

"Because they are not ordinary thieves, just like the name of the 'lion group', we who have been monitoring the border all year round know that it is the golden red armor of the northern lion knight hidden under the cover of the old leather jacket!"

"They are the knights of the Northern Lion Principality! They are loyal to the gatekeeper of the Death Mountain, the leader of the lions, and the most powerful man in the empire—the Duke of Furious Lion!"

Listening to Old Motou's description of the border situation, Ronan suddenly understood two things.

Things were bad for the Kingdom, not so bad for the Black Death.

Why do so many nobles take the risk of traveling across mountains and rivers to take refuge in the triumphal city in the center of the kingdom?

You must know that there are no high-speed trains in this era, and the time it takes for long-distance travel is calculated in months.

Not to mention the poisonous insects and beasts that may be encountered on the road, disease transmission, etc.

At first Ronan thought it was the horror of the Black Death that frightened the nobles.

After all, in his memory, this disease is indeed ferocious, and the death of the infected is extremely tragic, which is frightening.

But there is extraordinary power in this world!

Among other things, these knights alone can deal with those infected people from the source with their super mobility.

It may not be possible to solve the spread of the Black Death, but it can prevent the spread of the disease to the greatest extent.

Just like Triumph City, the three comfort zones of nobles are actually not much different from the old days.

Everyone was still sensual there, the banquet continued, and the order in the city was also stable.

In Triumph City, Ronan didn't struggle with this problem.

Because the aristocrats who had fled were invariably exaggerating the horror of the Black Death.

It is a helpless move to express that they left the territory, not because they were disloyal, but because of natural disasters and force majeure.

But now it seems, well, at least half of them are fooling around!
The real reason is that the Principality of Northern Lions has sent troops to the frontier, sharpening their knives, and may launch a war of aggression against the kingdom at any time!

If it was really just to avoid the disaster of the Black Death, these nobles near the border could choose to take refuge in the big nobles near them and hide in the other's fortress city to avoid disaster.

The security there is no worse than Triumph City.

Just like Viscount Claude, theoretically speaking, it is the best solution for him to go to the territory of Earl Cobo, which is entrusted to his family.

But he traveled thousands of miles and chose to run to Triumph City.

Because the former will only be judged, but the latter will be tolerated.

"Isn't there really going to be a war?"

Ronan thought worriedly. You must know that the North Lion Principality and the Ordovician Kingdom have had a long-standing feud, and the two sides have accumulated a lot of conflicts in history.

The politics of the aristocrats in this era relied on blood ties. The upper-class aristocrats were married to each other, and everyone was more or less related.

Even an ordinary baron might have something to do with the emperor going back.

But the Northern Lion Principality is an exception.

Due to the high altitude and harsh environment there, coupled with the special local highland race, the people there are generally tall, with thick hair, black and red complexion, and very rough to the touch.

After the appearance contrasted with the delicate and fair complexion of the Kingdom people, it naturally led to rejection.

Therefore, the nobles of the kingdom do not want to have too much involvement with these highland barbarians at all, and only hope that they will honestly guard the fortress of the Death Mountain for the empire.

Even discriminatoryly called them barbarians in the communication of the banquet.

Without blood ties, it is conceivable that the contradictions and barriers between the two countries will only grow deeper and deeper over time.

In order to break the deadlock, the incumbent emperor, Ronan's uncle, tried to let his eldest son marry the only daughter of the Duke of Nushi, hoping to ease the relationship between the two parties.

Although this move was opposed by a large number of nobles in the kingdom, especially the Earls of Cobb and Alder.

These two represent the interests of the two great noble groups of the Western Great Plains and the Southern Great Plains, covering almost three-quarters of the kingdom's power.

They are the supporters of the eldest son, and they are also the family that should give birth to the imperial concubine.

But the tough emperor resisted all opinions and finally decided on the marriage.

And asked the eldest son, Prince Colt, to go to the North Lion Principality to marry the Duke's daughter.

Then there was the blood clan assassination that shocked the entire empire.

On the border between the two countries, the vampires from the Death Mountain attacked the convoy of Prince Colt, who was returning with the Duke's daughter, and killed the Duke's daughter.

That happened ten years ago, Ronan recalled carefully.

He was only six years old at the time, but he could still feel the turbulent atmosphere around him. The nobles of Triumph City did not hold endless banquets that day, put down their wine glasses and handkerchiefs, and gathered around the palace.

On the road to the Central Palace, countless strange faces appeared.

Everyone was waiting for the Duke's reaction, because Prince Colt survived.

In the end, the northern lion knights retreated silently after galloping back and forth at the border where the assassination took place.

Ronan still remembered that his mother couldn't help crying when she heard about it, because his mother's family was one of the few families that had a blood relationship with the North Lion Principality.

A few years before the assassination, the duke's daughter visited relatives in Triumph City under the leadership of her mother, and lived in Ronan's home for a while.

But at that time Ronan was too young to retain his memory.

The truth behind that assassination is still unknown, but there is no doubt that since that day, the relationship between the Kingdom and the Northern Lion has long been reduced to hatred.

(End of this chapter)