Throne of the North.

Chapter 305 Hunting the Church, Bloodline Grudges (Subscription Request)
"Ryan, stop spitting blood!"

Viscount Dragun looked at Ryan with a pale face, but how could Ryan, who had already mastered the intelligence inside Viscount Dragun's territory, talk nonsense?

This is the fact. Viscount Dragun, who came to the throne illegitimately, enjoys more luxury than any other noble in Lingdu County.

When he was young, he only saw his father's power and wealth, as well as the luxury of being a noble, but he did not see the responsibilities and obligations behind the noble identity.

So, after becoming a noble, how could he control himself when he saw those fair and tender nuns who were said to bathe in milk?

"Really?"

Ryan laughed.

"It's okay, Viscount Dragun. Lord Marquis Beifeng is the patron of light. Perhaps you don't know that his teacher, Mage Brenna, the ruler of the Cathedral of Light outside the Imperial Capital, is a legendary soul magician."

"Even if they are dead, a lot of truth can be extracted from them."

Ryan's words made Viscount Dragun's face even paler. He wanted to take back the bodies, but the army behind Ryan already had thousands of soldiers. They kicked down the Viscount's soldiers in no time, wrapped up the bodies and threw them into the car behind.

"let's go!"

Ryan turned and left, and Viscount Dragun behind him panicked.

"Baron Ryan!"

Turning back, Ryan looked at Viscount Dragun.

"The Viscount seems to have something to say to me?"

Not long after, Ryan walked out of the Viscount's mansion alone with a smile on his face, while Viscount Dragun behind him looked like a deflated ball.

A fire fell and all the nuns' bodies were burned to ashes.

"Continue, next one!"

In the twenty days before the Festival of Grace, the entire North Wind Province seemed to have been swept through. The nobles' armies searched for the priests of the Holy See by ransacking their homes, and finally returned to Thunder Cloud Mountain on the fifth day before the Festival of Grace.

Here… several legends have already arrived, as well as several representatives of noble status.

"There are 415 people in total, including 120 priests, 20 missionaries, 270 monks, and 5 nuns."

"Is this the Vatican assassin you found?"

"Among more than 400 people, there are only two golden priests!"

"You tell me, two golden priests assassinated the Marquis of Beifeng?! Two golden priests stopped the legendary Knight Mulan!"

Knight Mulan was also here. When Earl Winter arrived, he placed him under house arrest in the room. After all, the fact that Legend failed to protect the Marquis of the North Wind was a problem in itself.

But after someone from the south arrived, his suspicion disappeared.

At this moment, the one roaring at the nobles of the North Wind Province in the hall was a young man.

One, Your Highness.

"Your Highness Saifi, what do you mean? Do you doubt that we have found the right person?"

"If someone who was able to kill Marquis Beifeng in a snowstorm wants to escape, we will never be able to catch up with him."

Count Winter stared at the young man and said with a gloomy face.

"Uncle Korisna died in the Marquisate, right under the noses of you nobles. I have reason to suspect that the nobles of your North Wind Province have already colluded with the Church!"

"Otherwise, why didn't you kill the Archbishop of the Holy See when she appeared in the Northern Wind Province?"

"Your Highness, what do you mean by this? Are you questioning the nobles of the Northern Wind Province on behalf of the Emperor?"

Count Winter's voice also became louder, and all the nobles were also staring at this royal highness.

The atmosphere became tense, and at this moment, an old voice sounded.

"Your Highness, calm down. Earl Winter, you should calm down too."

"To be able to block the rescue of Knight Mulan and have so many extraordinary people kill Marquis Beifeng, the strength of the people sent by the Holy See must be very strong, strong enough to kill a legend to kill a Marquis Governor."

Ryan looked at the other party, Count Pascal. The gargoyle Count came to the North Wind Province in person after receiving his letter. As a noble who was once a loyal supporter of the Holy See, he did not want to be caught up in the vortex of this matter.

But the helpless thing is that Marquis Beifeng is surrounded by the gargoyle guards he arranged.

Originally, this was intended to prove the loyalty of the Pascal family, but after the death of Marquis Beifeng, the meaning of this loyalty was no longer right.

He had to show up to make sure that the consequences of this incident would not lead to any consequences for him, otherwise it would become a political attack on him by other nobles in the empire.

"Without the power to kill legends, it is impossible to kill Marquis Beifeng. I am also very curious about how the Marquis was killed."

Ryan spoke, attracting many people's attention.

"Who are you? Why is a baron standing so far out front?"

Ryan performed aristocratic etiquette and said:

"Baron Ryan Clayton of the Frozen Territory greets His Highness Saifi."

"Someone from the Clayton family? Humph!"

Saifi stared at Ryan and said coldly:
"You have no right to speak here, Mr. Baron. You should stand at the back."

Ryan didn't move, looking at the royals in front of him with a surprised expression.

"Is His Highness Saifi already the first in line to the throne? This is really cause for celebration. Ryan, congratulations to His Highness Saifi."

His words made the nobles look strange. How could the first heir to the empire appear in such a dangerous place as the mansion of Marquis Beifeng where a great noble had just died?

Not only the first successor, but also the second and third are impossible to appear.

"I am the descendant of the great emperor and a member of the imperial family, Baron Ryan, watch the tone you use when speaking to me!"

Saifi blushed and started to yell loudly.

"Not the first elector? Not the second or third?"

Ryan looked surprised, and put away his noble etiquette. His voice became cold and he said:
"So, Your Highness Saifi, in what capacity do you question a noble of the empire?"

In this world, the royal bloodline is noble, and there is no awareness that the emperor is the one with the strongest soldiers and horses. But just like the empire seized power from the church after it became strong, the nobles are equivalent to princes. They became powerful in the war between gods and planes, and then snatched a lot of power from the royal family.

The royal family was still powerful, but the nobles were no longer weak, and the four grand ducal families had even become powerful enough to threaten the direct lineage of the royal family.

This also means that the emperor is the most honorable, and several royal heirs are also honorable, but apart from them, royal members with no higher status also need to bow when they meet great nobles.

This is the change brought about after the Pan-Dimensional War of Gods.

The change in power raised the status of the nobles. The royal family could not absolutely suppress all the nobles and could only compromise and make concessions.

Ryan's strength allows him to be on equal footing with the great nobles of the North Wind Province. If he were weak, the descendants of Earl Winter and Earl Sauron would be the ones he would have to show respect to.

For example, during the land war in Lingdu County, Artel Weiss could yell at Ryan, and that guy was not even the eldest son.

His Highness the Empire, other members of the royal family except the three electors, are not that noble.

The nobles robbed a lot of things from the royal family, and also gave some things to the royal family, such as the Marquis.

In the past, every member of the royal family was noble, and even a grand duke had to pay homage to a minor prince. Later on, only a few royal members had noble bloodlines, and the royal family was certainly unwilling to accept this.

The change in the title of Marquis also had such a reason. The royal family needed more noble royal blood. The Marquis could not only help monitor the empire's territory, but also be noble in title.

This alone would allow the great nobles to perform their greetings, because this was the dignity of the title, not that brought by royal blood.

Political compromise is full of complex factors and results. It is normal for one thing to affect hundreds of things.

Is the Saifi in front of us qualified?
"I come here on behalf of the royal family!"

He held up a ring, a sacred artifact that made the nobles marvel at the royal family's wealth.

"Representing the royal family to find out the truth about the murder of Marquis Beifeng? Why do you care where I stand? If you can find the murderer if I stand in the back, then I will go now."

Ryan said with a smile, turned around and walked back. All the nobles moved to the sides to make way for him.

He came to the back, but there was still no one in front of him. No noble was willing to block Baron Ryan's sight.

"Now, Your Highness Saifi, can you tell me where the murderer who killed Governor Beifeng is?" Ryan's voice echoed in the hall. Saifi stared at him angrily, but didn't know what to say.

"You two should stop arguing. The most important thing now is to find the murderer who killed Marquis Beifeng. The wrath of the empire will burn all enemies."

Putting aside historical issues, Count Pascal is more authoritative than anyone else here, and the deterrent power of the Gargoyle Legion is enough to crush the entire North Wind Province.

"What else is there to find? Only the Holy See dares to do so, and only the Holy See will kill Marquis Beifeng."

"This is nonsense. We all know that the nobles all over the world know that it was the Church who killed him, but even if the gods intervened, they couldn't find any evidence."

Ryan looked at Knight Mulan.

"Legendary Knight Mulan, even if we find those assassins of the Church who besieged you, can we prove that it was the Church?"

Mulan shook her head.

"They were trained by the Vatican, but they are not part of the Vatican."

"So, there is no way to prove it. At the same time, we have arrested so many Vatican personnel."

The Empire could not produce evidence, even if it was something that everyone knew, there was no evidence.

Even if those priests and missionaries were sent south to the Cathedral of Light outside the imperial capital, they probably wouldn't get any answers.

The two Golden Priests might have participated in the siege of Thundercloud Mountain, but they had no idea that someone else would go to kill Marquis Beifeng on the same day. At the same time, the only thing that could be asked was that they were doing it to avenge the faith of Dawn.

After all, Marquis Beifeng has killed many believers of the Dawn in the past few months.

"Go ahead and look for them. As long as they haven't left the Northern Wind Province, we can find them. If they have already left..."

Ryan's words made all the nobles in the North Wind Province look angry.

Because the key, the key to the mountain forest world was taken away, hundreds of thousands of people were still there, and their countless wealth was still there.

"Whether there is evidence or not, the Holy See must bear the wrath of the Northern Province."

Count Sauron said in a cold voice, this is for wealth and for hundreds of thousands of people.

"The nobles of the empire will not die like this. On the battlefield in the south, the Church will bear the endless flames of the empire."

Count Pascal also said that he was expressing his intention to send troops to the south.

"The Meyers family will send an army of nightmare knights to the Thousand Lakes Province after the Divine Grace Festival."

One person spoke and shocked everyone. Grand Duke Meyers was actually going to send his extraordinary army to the south?

The war is about to escalate.

Everyone was aware of this problem. That was the Nightmare Knights Legion, one of the six most powerful supernatural legions in the empire, a legion that came from the will of the Grand Duke Meyers' family.

At the same time, he also understood that the appearance of Marquis Beifeng might be due to some secret things between the royal family and Meyers. Now with the death of Marquis Beifeng, all of this has disappeared.

"The Empire will let the Church know the price of killing nobles..."

Saifi gritted his teeth. He felt that he had endured too many difficulties here and the anger in his heart was beyond words.

"If there is no evidence for retaliation, it will have a great impact on the reputation of the empire."

Ryan said dimly, although everyone knew what happened and who the murderer was, if the Empire retaliated without even producing evidence, how would the world in the South view the Empire?
Impotent and furious, they can only take revenge without any basis? Or is it that the empire can't even find the murderer who killed the nobles?

Everyone knowing it and everyone confirming it are two different things.

Just like the division of interests in the mountain and forest world, everything is full of uncertainty until the dust settles.

"If we can't find evidence, then we might as well let Marquis Beifeng live."

Ryan made a suggestion. In his opinion, this was the best answer. The Empire could and would retaliate against the Holy See on the battlefield in the south, but not with the death of the great nobles as an excuse.

"Uncle Krisna is dead. Does the Baron have any way to bring him back to life?"

Saifi looked at Ryan and tried to stop him in Ryan's way, but what he got was Ryan's look as if he was a fool.

"you……"

"The Marquis of Beifeng died in that blizzard. That blizzard caused snowstorms in Beifeng Province and even Danube Province. The Marquis' body could not adapt to the cold in the north, and he died of illness in his mansion."

"No assassin has ever killed a great noble under the protection of a legend."

"Ryan! Are you trying to absolve the Church of its crimes? Have you colluded with the Church? On what basis can you defend the Church's killing of the Imperial Marquis?"

"Facts? Where's the evidence?"

"If you can produce evidence, the Empire can directly march its army to the Holy Mountain. Without evidence, what can you do?"

"As for concealing it? Who should we conceal it from? After this matter spreads, will there be any noble who doesn't know that it was the Church that killed Marquis Beifeng?"

"Everyone knows what's going on. No one is hiding it. But diplomatic matters cannot be unreasonable."

"The Empire needs to win over more nobles in the south to stand on our side and let them know that the Church has begun to assassinate distinguished nobles by any means necessary. If the Church can kill Marquis Beifeng, it can kill their king."

"Using this incident to gain more diplomatic victories for the Empire is what the Empire needs right now."

"As for the Marquis Beifeng, we will find evidence one day, right?"

"If we can win the war in the South, then even if there is no evidence, the Empire can create evidence. Then we can bring this matter up again and avenge Marquis Beifeng."

"But the Black Swan assassin who killed the Marquis of Beifeng, as well as all the Dawn believers who participated in the snowstorm on that day, must be captured and buried with the Marquis of Beifeng."

The key to the forest world cannot be lost, otherwise hundreds of thousands of people will be lost.

Ryan didn't think that the space gate opened by Countess Winter could last long enough for hundreds of thousands of people to pass through.

This matter could become a political bargaining chip for the empire. Ryan also knew that Roland had gone to the south. As for the Andara Kingdom, he didn't believe that the empire had never had any contact with it.

Most importantly, he needs to use the several legends present to find the key to the mountain world.

"This is also a solution. On the battlefield in the south, the Empire has many reasons to send more troops to retaliate against the Church."

Pascal nodded and said that he and Ryan had communicated secretly, and many of today's results were not unexpected.

"There are many ways to conduct war, and it does not necessarily require an army. The death of Marquis Beifeng is the best example."

"Of course, if the people brought by His Highness Saifi can eventually find the killers, bring them back, and find evidence of the assassination of Marquis Beifeng, that would be the best. The Empire can unite all the nobles in the south to attack the Church. This will be the price the Church must bear."

"Perhaps after this, His Highness Saifi can become the Emperor Elect. What a great achievement that would be."

Ryan looked at Saifi coldly again and said.

……

"That guy, does he have a grudge against me?"

Following Count Pascal, Ryan could feel many powerful gazes behind him. The power wielded by this Count was far greater than that of the two Counts of North Wind Province combined.

"Saifi is the emperor's sixth child. His mother's Bachman family once had an extraordinary army. Later, they were annihilated by the Flame Dragon Knights led by your father in a different world."

"After that, Saifi will no longer have the possibility of becoming an emperor elect. He can only be a member of the royal family or even be qualified to become a marquis in the future."

There are three electors in a generation. One will become the most honorable emperor of the empire in the future, and the other two will become the heirs to the title of marquis of a certain province, waiting for the death of the previous marquis.

This also made Ryan sigh at the royal family's shrewdness. Every marquis' title was not inherited by their children, but by members of the royal family, who were failed electors.

This resulted in a fight for the emperor's position without any bloody scenes, while also ensuring the royal family's control over power and preventing the empire from splitting up due to internal conflicts within the royal family.

"The title of Marquis of the North Wind is the royal family's promise to the Meyers family. The title of Marquis here will always be the common bloodline of the Meyers family and the royal family."

Pascal said that he moved around in the south more often than the nobles in the North Wind Province, and with his status and strength, he knew a lot of secrets.

"No wonder Grand Duke Meyers was so angry that he even sent the Nightmare Knights to the south."

Ryan was surprised and guessed:

"I'm afraid there is no other royal family member with Meyers blood who can replace Marquis Beifeng?"

(End of this chapter)