Throne of the North.

Chapter 36 The Count and the Assassin

Thundercloud County is home to the highest mountain in the North Wind Province. Every autumn, thunderclouds gather on that mountain.

It is hard to imagine that there is an ancient castle on a mountain that is three or four hundred meters high.

The territory of Count Love Weiss is here. At the same time, the Count is the only noble in the North Wind Province who serves as the county governor but does not live in the city of Thundercloud County.

He preferred to live in his own Earl's castle, where almost no enemy could attack.

But the more important reason is that Count Love Weiss has an unknown secret.

At this moment, Count Weiss was standing in the snow and wind on the mountain, looking towards the distant north, with a look of reminiscence in his eyes.

"After so many years, who still remembers that the Weiss family is the owner of this land?"

Before the Pan-Plane War of Gods, the Province of the North Wind was part of a kingdom called Northgard, where it was spring all year round.

The former royal family of the Northern Gar Kingdom was the Weiss family.

However, the Pan-Dimensional War of Gods came, and following the Lord of Dawn, the Kingdom of Northern Garr also fell into decline after the war, and all the royal family members died.

Later, the winter wind blew from the north, and the nobles continued to migrate south. In the process, the Kingdom of Northern Gar also suffered the impact of the southward army.

The kingdom completely declined, and even the North Wind Province was occupied by the former Grand Duke of North Wind.

Love Weiss was not a direct descendant of the royal family of the former kingdom. He was just a remote branch of that family.

But even though he was a side branch, he was still recognized as a noble under the name of the Weiss family.

That year, Grand Duke Meyers attacked the Nordic Province. Weiss saw an opportunity and was the first to defect to the Empire. With the help of the Empire's carriage and the soldiers he obtained, Love Weiss became one of the three earls of the Nordic Province.

But what no one expected was that in the process of becoming an earl, Earl Weiss crossed the Xiangshan Plain into the northern border, and he found the property left by the former Northern Gar Kingdom.

The kingdom's property consists of only two things. One is the crown, in which is buried the divinity of a thunder giant that was infinitely close to a god and was captured by the Northern Garr Kingdom in the war of gods.

That battle caused the Northern Gar Kingdom to lose more than 70% of its army, which led to a series of consequences that followed.

The second legacy is the training method of the cat-man assassins that the royal family of the Northern Gar Kingdom likes to train the most.

During the wars on the divine plane, the various kingdoms on the continent were experiencing brutal internal strife, and assassins were the most efficient and least costly way to do this.

Count Weiss was very smart. Perhaps he was the first one to put a lowly group like the assassins into the war.

But the effect is significant.

"With the help of the Catman Assassin, the Black Goatman Warrior should be able to inflict heavy casualties on those two guys, hahahahaha."

Count Weiss held a glass of red wine in his hand. This was a product from the south of the empire, and it was said that it took a lot of grain to brew it.

"There are so many good things in the empire."

"pity……"

There was a flash of struggle in Weiss's eyes, but soon his eyes became extremely firm.

"An earl is only an earl after all. I want to be the king of the Northern Province."

His eyes became fanatical, and the crown on his head showed his ambition. He wanted the North Wind Province to be completely defeated in the process of resisting the orc invasion this year, and let the North Wind Province be ravaged by the orcs.

That way, he could use the connections he had built up in the empire over the years to push that matter forward once again.

There are many nobles in the empire who do not believe in the value of the Northern Wind Province. They have proposed several times to split the Northern Wind Province.

In fact, Weiss also knew what those nobles were thinking. They were acting in the interests of the Wing Canyon. As long as the North Wind Province was the territory of the Empire, the existence of the Wing Canyon would be meaningless. Some nobles in the Empire, such as Grand Duke Meyers, proposed to send the troops of the Wing Canyon to be stationed in the Xiangshan Plain of the North Wind Province.

This was the political struggle within the empire over the northeast corner, but obviously, Grand Duke Meyers lost.

But the other part of the nobles did not win either. They proposed to divide the North Wind Province many times, but to no avail. Meyers, one of the four grand dukes of the empire, also had powerful connections.

This was totally against the interests of Count Weiss. He wanted to restore his country. He wanted the Nordic Province to become his own kingdom, the Kingdom of Weiss.

As long as the North Wind Province is the territory of the Empire, he will not dare to do so. Therefore, the first thing to do is to make the Empire give up the North Wind Province and make it a completely ownerless land. At that time, how could the two counts who had caused heavy casualties to their extraordinary legions be a match for Count Weiss?
Thinking of this, Count Weiss couldn't help but get excited, and a trace of lightning appeared on his body.

"As long as the North Wind Province is defeated, the Empire will see that millions of gold coins are wasted every year. They will see that they will need more gold coins to rebuild the North Wind Province. One million gold coins per year is definitely not enough. It will take at least three million or five million per year. The nobles will definitely not agree to it, and even the royal family will hesitate."

"When the North Wind Province is divided by the Empire, it will belong to me, to Love Weiss."

Count Weiss laughed loudly. For the sake of his dream of a kingdom, it would not be a problem even if he had to let the cat assassin help the orcs.

But he still couldn't help feeling uneasy. Earl Winter's Flying Wolf Cavalry was an extremely rare type of flying troop. There were only a few legions in the empire that could fly in the sky.

"Apia, you cat-man assassins won't let me down, right?"

Count Weiss couldn't help but speak, and in the shadow of the forest behind him, a blue cat-man assassin jumped out.

"Mr. Earl, once we have locked onto our target, we will never fail in our assassination."

"Never? You failed once last year."

Count Weiss snorted coldly.

"You can't even kill a child, and you still dare to say that you never fail. If the Baron of the Clayton family died in the North Wind Province, would I, the Earl, have to make a deal with those stupid orcs?"

"If the boy from the Clayton family dies in the territory, the Empire should re-evaluate the value of the North Wind Province at the end of the year, and it can also drag Earl Clayton and the royal family into the water."

"In that case, even if Grand Duke Meyers doesn't want to give up the North Wind Province, he will face tremendous pressure and will have to compromise."

Appiah lowered his head. He didn't know why the mission failed. The assassin who returned clearly told him that the boy was dead and could not die again.

"Then sir, shall we conduct another assassination attempt? I guarantee that this time it will not fail."

The huge force carrying thunder fell on the thin cat-man, and Count Weiss looked at the cat-man slave with a gloomy expression.

"Now that Earl Clayton has returned to the Empire, do you want to involve a powerful earl in the North?"

"It's too late to kill him now."

"You'd better pray that the extraordinary training methods of you cat-people assassins will not lead this war to a direction that I don't want to see."

"Follow your will." Appiah knelt on the ground in fear.

(End of this chapter)