Throne of the North.

Chapter 373 A Family of Clayton Bloodline

Wing Canyon.

The moment the sunny day entered the Flying Wing Canyon, it was filled and shrouded by cold wind, and the huge team entered the icy white world from the golden sky.

"Why is it so cold in here?"

"Lyan and Norton's territory is in a place like this?"

In the large carriage, the two Countess Clayton and Viscountess Melendez subconsciously pulled down the curtains, and the illuminated magic array patterns blocked the cold wind blowing in from outside.

"Isn't the North Wind Province a little too cold?"

“The two children must have suffered here.”

Countess Ellie Fleming said with some distress.

"Don't worry, mother. They are the blood of the Clayton family and will not be defeated by the cold winter in the north."

A clear voice was heard from outside, and a knight in gorgeous armor riding on the back of a griffin was heard. It was Kaz Clayton, the third son of the Earl.

In the Wing Canyon, Commander Farrell also welcomed the team from the southern nobles in the fortress.

"The Earl of Clayton's family has been the noble family with the highest voice in becoming the fifth Grand Duke in recent years."

"Their strength is said to be comparable to that of the kingdoms outside the empire."

"Many great nobles in the empire have said this, but I didn't expect him to come in person."

Beside Farrell, Baron Enzo said with some envy, and then some confusion.

"It seems that Lord Clayton is not in sight."

Commander Farrell raised his head and narrowed his eyes slightly.

"That person is a dragon knight, of course he won't be in this team."

The moment the words fell, dragons took off into the sky in the Flying Wing Canyon. They were terrified and looked around frantically, trying to find the source of their fear.

Roar--

A dragon roar fell from deep in the clouds. The majestic roar dispersed the thick fog that had lingered over the Flying Wing Canyon for many years. A huge amber dragon descended from the sky, and its huge body of hundreds of meters high pressed down on the fortress.

Earl Leon Clayton, ever since he appeared in the Wing Canyon, Commander Farrell and another royal member, the commander of the Dragon Legion, were all lower than him. If Earl Clayton came here during wartime, he would naturally become the supreme commander of the Wing Canyon.

"Your Excellency, Lord Clayton."

Earl Clayton stood on the back of the amber dragon, nodded to the people below, and his eyes fell on the legendary Farrell.

"You are much worse than Kurami. It seems that the emperor's mind is no longer on the eastern side of the empire."

By changing the commander of Wing Canyon, Earl Clayton easily saw the emperor's political direction for the next ten or even dozens of years. The eastern part of the empire would no longer be the focus of attention.

After saying this, the Amber Dragon took off into the air again, roared at those hybrid flying dragons, and flew towards the North Wind Province.

Of course, the Wing Canyon cannot stop the team of Earl Clayton's family.

"Phew, luckily they didn't come close, I thought I would be exposed."

In front of Kaz, the ordinary knight who was driving the carriage for the two countesses and viscountess spoke. He was wearing ordinary armor, but the person inside was not ordinary. He was the eldest son of Earl Clayton, the heir to the Earl's family, and the oldest of this generation of Clayton bloodline.

Aatrox Clayton.

One, the heir to a great imperial noble family who had killed the successor to the Pope.

No one knew that he was also in this team. Perhaps other nobles of the empire were still speculating that the heir of the Earl of Clayton's family would die in the imperial temple prison.

No one knew he was released.

In the carriage behind him, several noble ladies also raised the curtains again, and vaguely saw a large jewel box in the carriage.

"We have left the Wing Canyon. Now you kids, it's time for you to tell me what's in there, right?"

Ellie Fleming, Countess Clayton said angrily, the magic array protected the cold wind outside from blowing in, she questioned her child.

"I'm sorry mother, this is my father's order. He doesn't want you to worry."

Kaz was just outside the car window, whispering:

"The Flying Wing Canyon is engraved with the God-Slaying Demonic Pattern, and we are also worried that the things inside will be detected."

"Of course I can tell you now that this box contains the divine essence that we snatched back from the altar of the Mammoth Tribe a few years ago."

“He is still alive.”

Kaz's words made the ladies in the carriage breathe rapidly. They looked at the jewel box in the carriage in shock, especially Viscountess Melendez. She suddenly regretted entering the carriage in order to get closer to the two countesses. It would have been much better for her to be in the carriage at the back with her daughter Avril.

"How...how could it be this thing? What on earth do you want to do?"

Krami Sterling, Ryan's biological mother asked in shock. She had always thought that the source of divinity had been devoured.

Viscountess Melendez didn't understand, but the two countesses were both powerful magicians. They knew very well why Earl Clayton traveled three thousand miles to kill the mammoth tribe.

"Father failed before, otherwise the Clayton family would have been the fifth Grand Duke of the Empire now."

The voice of Aatrox, who was driving the carriage, came over, with some regret.

"This is the remaining small part. Father imprisoned His will in the Gem of Destiny to... prepare... to make a deal with a certain great being."

"You are blaspheming God."

Ellie said coldly. At this moment, she had the terrible majesty of a countess, which silenced her two heirs.

"Mother, more than a hundred years ago, all the nobles in the empire were blasphemers. Especially those of us who have survived the aristocratic bloodline. Lord Rice has shown us a new path."

Aatrox didn't say anything else because there were outsiders in the carriage.

"Or...I'll go out first."

Viscountess Melendez said nervously that she was also the daughter of a noble and a noble lady, and she had been educated about some of the nobles' secrets.

"No, from now on, Madam Avina, you will stay with us until we return to Calais Province together."

Ellie said that she didn't expect it. She thought the sudden decision to go to the North was for Ryan's wedding, but she didn't expect it to be such a serious incident.

She looked out the window, her eyes filled with worry, then surprise.

"Why is it so cold in here?"

Outside the carriage, the snow brought by last year's snowstorm had not yet melted, and the white ground made the countess feel distressed.

"Why did Grand Duke Meyers attack the North Wind Province in the first place? It's too cold here. The nobles of the empire would not like such a place."

Lingdu City.

Early in the morning, thousands of majestic cavalrymen galloped across the land. The people of the entire Lingdu City were trembling with fear, and they looked outside in horror.

"Didn't they say that Baron Ryan only had a thousand knights and attendants?"

"Why...I feel like there are 10,000 of them out there?"

Some people's teeth were chattering. Having a thousand cavalrymen and having ten thousand cavalrymen are two completely different concepts.

"As for the one thousand armored bears, I heard from the adventurers of the Hero's Guild that they went crazy in the North and chased the werewolves a hundred miles away."

In the legion of more than three thousand people, four hundred flags with Ryan's emblem and the emblem of the Frozen Territory fluttered in the cold wind. It was already summer, but the world in the north was still not warm. Three thousand extraordinary warriors stood quietly on the ground, slowly looking at the end of the ground in front of them, and the slow team approached.

"coming."

Butler Beard spoke, his eyes lighting up. Beside him, Brand raised his hand with a clenched fist. The two thousand knight squires and a thousand violent war bear warriors behind him fell silent. One difference between Northern warhorses and Highland warhorses is that Northern warhorses breathe very slowly and long, which allows them to remain quiet for a long time.

The giant dragon covering the sky spread its wings. All the people in Lingdu City looked at the figure on the dragon's back enthusiastically.

"Dragon Knight, it's actually a Dragon Knight!"

Amidst the roar of cheers, a giant dragon landed in front of thousands of soldiers, and with its mighty power, it made the northern war horses lower their heads.

However, their movements originated from the knights' servants who had their hands on the hilts of their swords. Facing the pressure from the dragon, the knights' servants did not dare to be careless at all. With their palms in contact with the hilts of their swords, they could draw their weapons and charge forward at any time.

They were not from the Flor Empire. In fact, in the world where many of the servants were, the dignity of the nobles had already gone. They were loyal to Ryan, but they did not fear the nobles of the empire. Therefore, at this moment, the extraordinary army was ready to go.

"Father."

Finally, it was Ryan who spoke, easing the atmosphere that seemed like a battlefield. The knights and servants loosened their hands, and the dragon also panted and looked towards Ryan.

"You are very good to have such an army."

Earl Clayton looked at the army behind Ryan with a smile and praise. Compared to how his offspring grew up, he preferred to see such a powerful army in the hands of Clayton's bloodline.

"These war horses come from the world you discovered?"

Earl Clayton asked, if it were not for this reason, Ryan would have to have ten mountains of gold to be qualified to buy so many war horses.

"Ah."

The amber dragon spread its wings and flew away. It sensed the presence of its kind in the north. A fight might break out between the amber dragon and the frost dragon. Earl Clayton summoned a warhorse for his father to ride.

Facing his father, Ryan didn't know what to say. It seemed that between father and son, it was just like this: you ask questions and I answer.

Earl Clayton and Ryan went to the Tundra Territory side by side. On Ryan's side was Norton, his younger brother, the lord of the North Wind Province, and on the earl's side was Kaz, the older brother.

Behind the two of them was a bloated and huge team.

"Warhorse, you are very lucky."

"Do you know where the Clayton family's warhorse came from?"

Baron Ryan's importance has indeed increased a lot in the eyes of Earl Clayton, and the earl's father began to tell Ryan some secrets belonging to the earl's family.

"Before, when the emperor came to power, in order to show that he was different from Columbus II, there were many conflicts between our emperor and the Holy See. In the end, the emperor was so angry that he wanted to kill the successor of the Pope."

"At that time, two successors of the Pope had died, and the last one was left."

"Your brother Aatrox, my eldest son, was so bold as to go to the Emperor himself and tell him that he would kill the last successor to the Church."

"Then he ran off to the southern lands himself."

"He succeeded. The emperor and the Clayton family fulfilled their agreement. From that time on, the Clayton family no longer had to worry about war horses."

"That's why, in recent years, people in the empire have been saying that our Clayton family is most likely to become the fifth Grand Duke."

"This is limited in time. When Columbus III was still the emperor of the empire, our Clayton family had the best relationship with him, so we are the most likely fifth archduke."

Ryan was surprised. He didn't expect that there were so many politics and secrets buried under the rumors of the empire.

"The education of the nobility is destined to ensure that only the eldest and second sons receive the best education. They will be taught the most knowledge and wealth of a noble family. In comparison, the rest of the children will have it much easier."

"That's why I can understand why you are so courageous."

Earl Clayton said this, Ryan did not respond, he was waiting for the next step.

"God, do you know what price the nobles in the empire have paid for more than a hundred years for the dead god's essence and to kill the weak gods?"

"When you wrote to me, I was shocked. It's ok that you discovered the God, but you actually wanted to kill Him."

"As your elder brother, Aatrox only dared to kill the Pope's successor, who wasn't even the Pope's son. But you actually went after the gods."

"You have experienced the war in the Andara Kingdom, so you should also understand why the Andara Kingdom's royal family is so weak. They are cursed by the gods."

"And being cursed by the gods so that the royal bloodline cannot become extraordinary, this is already the most merciful price to pay for dealing with the gods."

"The previous king of the Andara Kingdom was indeed admirable. After his defeat, he still managed to minimize the losses suffered by the royal family."

Ryan remained silent, but his heart was boiling.

The royal bloodline was cursed, and the extraordinary army was wiped out, leading to civil strife, war, and power transitions in the kingdom, with thousands of people dying and blood, and even the royal city was captured.

This is just the smallest loss?

"Let me guess. You have the courage to deal with gods. It seems that you don't fear gods in your heart. This surprises me a little."

Earl Clayton smiled and said that Ryan had no fear of gods, not even the Lord of Dawn or the God of Light, which made him wonder how Ryan grew up.

Is this the environment of the imperial capital?

"You don't think that gods are a kind of powerful life, they were just born a little earlier than us and embarked on the path of transcendence earlier than us?"

Ryan turned his head and blinked.

To be honest, he really didn't know much about the gods in this extraordinary world, but the memories of his previous life influenced him and prevented him from defining any life beyond humans.

Since Gods can be killed by humans, why can't they be called something more powerful - humans?

"The gods are the gods. It was destined from the beginning."

"Magicians have used up all their talents, created countless terrible magics, and even drawn magic circles to kill gods, but they still cannot become gods."

“When a person dies, everything he leaves behind will lose its meaning, but when gods die, they will still leave behind eternal and indelible power.”

"Like curses, like natural disasters, like the North."

"Your actions against the gods may have irreversible effects on the entire bloodline of the Clayton family. Dealing with gods is never the business of a single noble, but a challenge to the gods by the entire bloodline."

"To kill him, we should not use Ryan's name, but use Clayton's bloodline as the blade."

Ryan nodded thoughtfully, thinking about the description of the relationship between gods and humans in these words.

It is an act of blasphemy for humans to want to deal with gods, and when gods whose majesty is offended take revenge on humans, they will not target just that one person.

Rather, it is the continuation of the complete bloodline in that person's body. The angry gods will make the humans who offend them sink into despair for generations.

Death is not the end.

"How does father plan to deal with that god?"

Ryan asked, causing Lord Clayton to think for a moment.

"How weak are the gods you are talking about."

"The followers he can create are no more powerful than the combat power of the Golden Knight."

When Clayton heard the answer, he answered directly.

"That's easy. Use this sword to kill Him."

Earl Clayton was holding a knight's sword, which Ryan had just given him. It was the legendary embryo that Brock had created in the Imperial Capital.

Ryan was surprised. You taught me so much before, about the power of gods and blood feuds and curses, and you thought I was too simple and crude. But now your own answer is so simple and crude as well?
"I think you're so brave because you're still too weak. It would be just right if you could be as strong as me."

"The moment you wrote to me, the bloodline of the Clayton family was ready to bear the consequences of eternal damnation."

"Either our Clayton family will be destroyed by the gods' revenge, or we will be able to achieve another great success."

Earl Clayton stared at Ryan and said seriously:

“This is nobility.”

"This is how our ancestors once left us, their descendants, with power and wealth."

"We carry the glory of the most ancient nobility, a glory that is no less glorious than that of the gods."

Ryan was speechless. He looked at his father for a long time, took a deep breath and said:

"I think you are braver than me."

Nonsense, why did Master Ryan dare to deal with the gods? He has the spiritual panel. If the hound god's revenge and curse can make the spiritual panel disappear, otherwise Master Ryan will always have the confidence to make a comeback.

He can easily open the door to the plane. With such a simple action of opening and closing the door, no matter how angry the gods are with him, would they dare to come to the world illuminated by the Lord of Dawn and the God of Light to cause trouble for Ryan?

On the other hand, the person next to him is always trying to drag the entire Clayton family into an irretrievable situation.

You tell me I'm brave?

(End of this chapter)