Throne of the North.

Chapter 201 Standing on the highest mountain in Leiyun County
In Thundercloud County, Earl Weiss's castle was built on the highest mountain in the county.

When the army of 10,000 arrived, Count Weiss could no longer resist.

Why were there only 10,000 soldiers left in the army?
Of course, it is because it is spring plowing time, and the surplus soldiers have returned to their homes to farm.

Among the ten thousand people, there are more than two thousand soldiers from Lingdu County.

The Dragon Knights and the Dragonblood Warriors, together with Ryan's hundreds of knight attendants, were an army of 10,000 people that were sent to climb Thundercloud Mountain.

The imagined resistance did not occur, and Count Weiss accepted his defeat and waited for the nobles to arrive on the mountain.

Also waiting were the nobles of Thundercloud County. They all looked very unhappy, but they had to come because only by making things clear here would they avoid being charged with the serious crime of colluding with the Holy See.

Of course, the reason why he looks unhappy is that he will pay a lot of price in the end.

The war was lost, and both the wife and the soldiers were lost. Of course, it was impossible to smile.

Ryan felt that these nobles hated Earl Weiss to death at this moment.

"Count Love Weiss, as a noble of the empire, you are secretly colluding with the Holy See. What else do you have to say?"

Earl Winter questioned the matter as soon as they met. He was the governor of the North Wind Province and he was the only one who could question an earl.

Count Weiss sneered at the nobles who appeared.

"Which noble law in the empire says that we cannot trade with the Church?"

Count Weiss insisted on certain things, and the collusion between the nobles and the Church could not be spoken of openly.

After all, this is a war between theocracy and royal power. Even the nobles of the empire may openly oppose the beliefs of the Holy See because they are also devout believers of the Lord of the Dawn.

This is the change brought about by the real existence of gods. The nobles oppose the church only in certain aspects, not in the belief itself.

Naturally, the so-called collusion with the Holy See cannot be used as a reason for conviction.

Even if a war breaks out between the two sides, there must be reasons and grounds, and they cannot directly oppose the existence of the other side.

"Haha, Count Weiss, you'd better save this for the Elders Council and the Imperial Senate. My mission is only to send all the members of your Weiss family over there."

Count Winter smiled somewhat complacently. He was the winner of the war. No matter how Count Weiss argued, it could not change the fact that he had failed in the war and had colluded with the Holy See.

The nobles had plenty of ways to pin various crimes on Count Weiss and make him confess "reasonably".

Sure enough, upon hearing this, Count Weiss's expression inevitably changed.

According to Count Winter, Count Weiss will inevitably end up with several outcomes, that is, some people will die, especially the direct descendants. With the current tense relationship between the Empire and the Church, the Empire must make an example of him, and the Count Weiss family will be flooded with blood.

The rest will be exiled to those lifeless worlds that have become completely silent and covered in winter due to the interdimensional war between gods, and will live out their lives in solitude. This should include Count Weiss himself.

Some will survive and inherit the honor of the Weiss family, becoming wandering nobles, or continue to inherit titles without land.

But! Regardless of whether they were wandering nobles or heirs to empty titles, Count Weiss could not guarantee whether they were his descendants.

There is a 99% chance that the person has the blood of the Weiss family, but has nothing to do with the current Count Weiss family.

Why? Because we are all nobles, and we are all related to each other in some way.

For example, Earl Winter and Earl Weiss. A kid from Earl Winter's family stood up and said that his ancestor so-and-so came from the Weiss family. After checking, it was found to be true. So does he also have the blood of the Weiss family?
If so, does it mean that there is a one in ten thousand chance of succession? Especially when the members of Count Weiss's family died or disappeared, is the probability getting higher and higher?
At that time, the boy decided to restore the glory of his ancestors and was brave enough to shoulder the responsibilities and noble qualities of aristocracy. Then Earl Winter appreciated it and strongly supported it. Then the boy changed his name and became the new Earl of Weiss, or Viscount.

The Weiss family is still there, but what does it have to do with the current Weiss family?
The inheritance of bloodline, Count Weiss would never allow the bloodline of the Weiss family to be tainted. He stood up and walked towards the study behind him.

"You come with me."

Of course, it was not only Earl Winter who followed in, but also Earl Sauron and Baron Ryan.

It’s not because of his improved status in this war, but because Ryan represents Lingdu County and is the spokesperson for many nobles.

In the study, there were only four nobles and a short cat-man.

"Please spare me, sir. I did everything. I was the one who assassinated Viscount Dragun and Viscount Dragun's eldest son. I was also the one who..."

The cat-man knelt on the ground and cried bitterly, taking all the blame on himself for what Count Weiss had done. However, none of the three nobles present cared about it.

Count Weiss didn't care either.

After they listened quietly, Count Weiss spoke.

"Hector has taken some people to the west coast, where he will live as the heir of the Weiss family and will never come back."

The Earl's eldest son did not appear in the subsequent wars. As the bloodline of the Weiss family, he lived on as a descendant of losers, waiting for the distant future to find an opportunity to restore the honor of the nobility and the glory of his family.

Count Weiss said it bluntly, because it could not be concealed. The nobles who live in the sun are the real nobles, and those who live in the shadows are just mice.

Since he wants to inherit the Weiss family, there is absolutely no way he can hide it.

"hehe."

Count Winter just smiled and said nothing.

Count Weiss didn't care either, he knew that this was not what these nobles wanted.

"As a reward, everything in the earldom will be yours. I will distribute the wealth of the Weiss family to you."

"They would have been ours."

Count Sauron's old face revealed the greed of a hungry wolf.

"Without me, those things will always bear Weiss's mark."

Count Weiss was not polite, but what he said was indeed true.

There is an inseparable relationship between nobility and inheritance, which leads to the fact that in this world, often hundreds of years later, someone will jump out and point out that the ill-gotten wealth in the hands of certain nobles actually belongs to another bloodline.

In short, it's not upright.

"Victory in war requires fruits. The entrance to the alternate dimension world that I control is on this mountain. I will give you the key to divinity."

As he spoke, Count Weiss moved the huge fang from the bookcase behind him.

Ryan was surprised, he thought it was a decoration just now.

"In addition, I will help you identify those nobles who are also involved in the transaction with the Holy See."

This sentence completely blocked the hope of the Weiss family's bloodline returning to Thundercloud County in the future, and finally made the eyes of several nobles light up.

(End of this chapter)