Throne of the North.

Chapter 471: The Emperor's Coronation, the Road to Dawn

The corpse of a giant dragon, in the Norris continent, such a thing must be a precious treasure that would arouse the greed of countless people and even start a war, but here, it seems particularly cheap.

Ryan collected some of the dragon blood and gave the rest to the frost giants. Their life growth requires a lot of energy, which the dragons can provide.

"Dragon blood needs to be sealed with magic, and it can be sold at a very high price."

Lagerlov and Lagros stayed in Nidhogg. Lagros in the sanctuary would help Llane defend against the invasion of dragons, while Lagerlov would try to hunt the legendary dragons and find out the sacrificed frost giants.

According to the frost giant leader, he will start a war between the frost giants and dragons.

Ryan was happy with this. The arrival of the Frost Giants could at least effectively prevent the dragons from destroying human civilization.

"It is unrealistic to rely on the frost giants to conquer Nidhogg."

Returning to the Tundra Territory, Ryan thought, he didn't know how many Frost Giants Ragerlov could attract, but the number was definitely not as many as the dragons. The most important thing was that the Frost Giants did not have the power to fight against the two great beings of Nidhogg. This meant that Ryan was doomed to be unable to use the Frost Giants to achieve the ultimate achievement.

While the Frost Giants are fighting the dragons, Ryan needs to think of a better solution.

In the next few days, Ryan did not hear any bad news from the other world, and gradually he felt relieved. After all, dragons do not live in groups, so this reduced Ryan's pressure a lot.

"The next goal is to harvest spiritual energy. Once the spiritual energy is replenished, we can abandon Nidhogg and move all the people to the Northern Wind Province."

Ryan thought like this, and he did not forget what he really needed, which was the spirituality brought by the population, not an alien world.

【Spirituality: 123645】

[Spiritual Blessing: Blessing from the Deer Spirit...]

[Divinity: Eternity, Giant Mammoth]

More than 120,000 spiritual powers are enough for Ryan to squander boldly for a long time, and the balance is still growing. This is the basis for directly improving the strength of his subordinates.

……

There was news from the South.

It's spring now, and in the north some guilds of commerce have already started to appear and move about. In the southern lands, the nobles will move even faster.

The Viscount Melendez family has started the new year's water trade and brought a lot of information to Ryan from the south.

The most important thing is that the miracle of light has been transported to the Imperial Province. Emperor Flor's daily work seems to be very simple. It is enough to show his holiness in front of people and demonstrate the gift and faith of light.

What surprised Ryan was that Emperor Flor actually accepted the gift from the God of Light.

He was officially crowned as the Grand Pope of Light. On this day, Emperor Flor combined royal power and divine power in one.

The weather in Norris changed overnight, and no one knew what the kingdoms and nobles who were loyal to the Church of the Dawn were thinking.

But there must be people who choose to secretly submit to Emperor Flor because of their devout faith and their own interests.

The only barrier that once restricted the nobles from joining the empire is now gone, and everyone can feel the joy of Emperor Flor in the past few days.

Because he allocated the funds.

"Northern Wind Province received 100,000 gold coins to repair the farmland and fortresses destroyed after the war with the orcs. His Majesty Emperor Flor, in the name of the Emperor and the Pope, praised Baron Ryan for his outstanding contribution to human civilization in the war with the orcs."

"His Majesty, Emperor Flor, will grant Baron Ryan three precious Holy Temple potions as a reward to him."

The belated reward, the Templar Potion, is not a magic potion, but an ancient alchemical potion. However, no matter how smoothly magic develops in the empire, the Templar Potion will always be the potion most desired by the knights.

Because it is the best knight potion in the whole world, bar none, for breaking through the sanctuary.

When the Sky Knight reaches the peak and everything is ready, the Temple Potion can increase the Knight's success rate of breaking through the Sanctuary by 30%.

Since the only qualification for entering the legendary path through the extraordinary path is the arrival of the legendary gift, the Templar Knight Potion is also known as the most outstanding extraordinary potion in the practice of the extraordinary path.

It's very precious, but obviously not as valuable as Ryan's contribution in killing the werewolf king.

Ryan has gotten used to this.

This is the rule of the empire. Grand Duke Mayes was rewarded with a basket of development orders for his merits, and Earl Clayton was rewarded with a baronship for his merits. As for Baron Ryan, it even feels better than the previous two.

However, it is also possible that even the emperor could not reward the two great nobles enough, but for a small noble like Ryan, any treasure the emperor could reveal would be extremely precious.

After three doses of potion, Emperor Flor also included the swampland into the area of ​​Ryan's Frozen Territory.

Although it has a title, in reality it is the same as if nothing has happened. The swamp has already been included in the development area of ​​the Frozen Territory by Ryan.

"At least he's willing to give benefits, isn't he?"

What else can the nobles ask for from the honorable Emperor? Ryan has a calm mind. What the nobles want to get is not obtained by the rewards from others, but by the nobles themselves.

Emperor Flor is even willing to allocate funds to the North Wind Province. It seems that he has gained more during this period of time.

For example, the loyalty of some southern nobles to His Majesty the Emperor.

Otherwise there would be no other reason to justify why he was so happy.

If Ryan can think of it, the Dawn Church can naturally think of it as well.

"The Holy Heavenly Knights will follow the will of the Lord of the Dawn and walk the path of the Dawn again!"

On the Holy Mountain, the Pope's cold voice echoed, causing many nobles to feel fear from the bottom of their hearts.

Dawn Road is not a beautiful word.

The doctrine of the Church of Dawn is to serve the great Lord of Dawn and believe that the Lord's light can illuminate all the darkness in the world and let the world be shrouded in the great holy light of Dawn.

The name of the Road of Dawn was born from this doctrine, the process of the initial preaching of the clergy of the Holy See, and the process of the world's first ray of dawn stretching and illuminating the sky little by little.

The morning light pierced through the darkness of the eternal night. The clergy followed this ray of morning light and killed countless heretics who were unwilling to become believers of the morning light. The road where blood flowed like a river forged the glory of the Church of the Morning Light.

In short, the history of the rise of the Church of Dawn, their process of becoming the world's overlord, and the process of expelling all foreign gods, is the Road to Dawn.

This road is destined to be bumpy, but if the Dawn Church succeeds, it means countless enemies will die in front of them.

The Holy See must eradicate all heretics and make those who disrespect the Dawn disappear into thin air.

The Pope’s anger can be imagined. He absolutely could not accept the southern nobles defecting to the empire.

The Pope tolerated the faith on the land of the Empire because the Empire had grown stronger. The Pope also had reasons to tolerate the faith on the land of the Andara Kingdom because the Andara royal family had blasphemed the gods and suffered the curse of the gods. As believers serving the great existence, they could not help the Andara royal family purify the curse in their blood and simply gave up on the Andara royal family.

The Pope did not give up the land outside the Andara royal family, but with this reason, he was able to accept the current outcome.

This can happen once or twice, but not again or again. The Pope will never allow more nobles to become allies of the empire.

All betrayers will be punished by the holy fire.

The Holy Celestial Knights, a Vatican knight order led by the legendary knight Damon, are not responsible for killing, because the Holy Celestial Knights always represent the best virtues. The knights among them can use their bodies to help believers resist the threat of death, can burn all their vitality to fight for humanity, or...

In short, they possess all conceivable justice in human civilization.

They are the most beautiful part of the morning light in the world.

An army of 10,000 Holy Heavenly Knights began to literally follow the first rays of light of dawn, setting out from the Holy Mountain and moving towards the far reaches of the world.

Their purpose is just to walk through and let everyone see the Holy Heavenly Knights Legion that represents justice. They will help countless people, whether they are civilians, slaves or nobles, and all the difficulties they encounter will be razed to the ground by the Holy Heavenly Knights Legion.

Wherever they walked, it was the bloody butcher knife of the Holy See.

Do not underestimate the clergy of the Vatican. They have many ways to find out whether the nobles are still loyal to Dawn.

The simplest ones are the priests, those priests who serve the Dawn devoutly and are blessed by divine powers. They can tell whether the nobles' faith is firm and devout just by asking or even just looking.

If they still stand on the side of the Dawn Church, then there is no problem. The priests will be willing to let their vitality fade away and will help the nobles heal their injuries. No matter what scars or disabilities, the priests have the ability to restore them to their original state.

But if the nobles' faith is not devout enough, then I'm sorry, the priest will pray for every human being, praying that their souls will find peace.

The butcher's knife was not in the hands of these priests. After the priests left, the arrival of the third group of people from the Church was the real nightmare for the nobles.

As an absolutely violent institution, the Holy See possesses a great deal of power to punish heresy.

Emperor Flor's show-off began the Vatican's large-scale purge of the lands under its control.

One hundred thousand gold coins were of no help to the North Wind Province. When they arrived in the North Wind Province, only half of the hundred thousand gold coins were left. Fifty thousand gold coins fell into the hands of the Marquis of North Wind, and there was no further news about the woman on Thunder Cloud Mountain.

"The emperor is still unwilling to let the Northern Wind Province become the only flaw in his political achievements."

Shaya laughed coldly. She didn't have much goodwill towards Columbus III.

"It's normal for him to want to be a perfect emperor. Aren't we helping His Majesty solve the troubles in the Northern Wind Province?"

Chrysus Meyers said beside him. He looked at the Marquis of the North Wind and the baby in the cradle frowned a little.

"His Highness Floyd still hasn't replied to your letter?"

"Uncle, it would be rude if you mention him again."

Shaya looked at Chrysostom with murderous intent. The emperor elect that the Meyers family originally wanted to choose for cooperation was not Volvo, but another one, that is, the father of Marquis Beifeng, Shaya's first man.

"Although we have chosen His Highness Volvo, our relationship with the royal family will not become that of an enemy. Shaya, you must understand this."

"You'd better go and tell the Archduke about this."

Shaya snorted coldly and ignored Chrysostom.

This granddaughter who gave even the Grand Duke a headache, surprisingly, no one in the Meyers family could control her.

Chrysostom could only change the subject.

"If nothing unexpected happens, a new war will break out between the Empire and the Church. There is no longer any threat from orcs in the north. This time, the Emperor will make a big move. Moreover, he will protect the nobles who defected to the Empire and prevent them from being killed by the fanatics of the Church."

"Otherwise, the majesty of His Majesty the Emperor will become a joke."

"To accomplish this, His Majesty the Emperor will need the power of the nobles. I have to go back to the south to stop Earl Clayton from becoming the fifth Grand Duke of the Empire."

"What does this have to do with Lord Clayton?"

Shaya said doubtfully:
"If nothing unexpected happens, His Majesty the Emperor will release Aatrox. Earl Clayton's eldest son was imprisoned in the dungeon for killing the last Holy Son of the Church. Now His Majesty the Emperor has both the identities of Emperor and Grand Pope. His power is nominally higher than that of the Pope."

"He is qualified to release that guy in exchange for Earl Clayton's support for this matter."

"The political struggle in the south is much more complicated than in the Northern Wind Province."

Shaya still didn't understand. The Earl Clayton family was not that powerful. Even if it was powerful, it was not the entire Earl family.

"Why would Earl Clayton be the fifth Grand Duke? Even if he became a demigod, he would not be qualified."

"You overlooked the most crucial thing."

Chrysostom shook his head and said:
"The reason why Earl Clayton is likely to become the fifth Grand Duke is not because of how powerful he is, but because of Earl Clayton's bloodline and his ability to give birth."

The ability to give birth, a topic that has nothing to do with the extraordinary, is Earl Clayton's biggest bargaining chip.

"But don't worry, he won't succeed. The emergence of the fifth Grand Duke of the Empire is not something that His Majesty the Emperor can decide alone."

"We just have to be vigilant, and Lord Clayton won't stand a chance."

“But after I left…I worried about the land.”

Chrysostom said that as the heir of the Meyers family, he would inevitably need to return to the South to participate in the terrible political vortex there, but his departure would leave a vacuum of voice in this land.

"Baron Ryan, I am very worried about him. Once I leave, the nobles of the Northern Wind Province will quickly turn against me."

"Is he that powerful?"

Shaya frowned, somewhat unconvinced.

"Shaya, don't forget that you were the first to tell us about the abilities of Baron Ryan of the Northern Wind Province. Don't underestimate him."

The heir of the Grand Duke always has the best growth path among the nobles. Even if he is a pig, he has more wisdom and sharper eyes than many nobles.

"Come to think of it, we haven't seen the Frozen Baron for almost four months. I wonder what he is doing."

"The frozen land is covered with snow for six to eight months a year. What else can he do?"

Shaya said this. After coming to the North Wind Province, he had some understanding of the territories of the nobles here, so that he could help his son gain power in the future.

"No matter what he wants to do, I want to win over the nobles of the Northern Wind Province and consolidate Meyers' power here."

Chrysostom said, and Shaya did not refute because this purpose was the same as her interest.

"There were many more nobles in the Northern Wind Province before. I plan to have Meyers marry one of the nobles here."

"I've been thinking about this for two days. This advantage is something Baron Ryan absolutely cannot have. He has no children yet, so he can't compete for the qualifications for these marriages at all."

As a grand ducal family, the Meyers family has thousands of blood descendants.

"The nobles of the Northern Wind Province need to marry the nobles of the South. Meyers gives them this opportunity. As long as the marriage takes place once, Meyers will not lose control of the Northern Wind Province for the next few decades."

"Baron Ryan can't win."

Chrysus said this with a deep look in his eyes, and he did take some measures before leaving.

Aristocratic marriage is always the most direct, quickest and most stable way to form an alliance of interests.

After Chrysostom made his decision, he left the Borean Province the next day. The actions of the Emperor and the Pope forced the Grand Duke to return to the South as soon as possible.

On the day he left, Master Ryan, who had not left the Frozen Territory and entered the North Wind Province for several months, also went to Lingdu City for the first time in the spring of the new year.

"Xilin Dragon, you must be aware of the responsibility you bear."

"And now, you have one more rule that you can't shirk."

Ryan said to the young man, who was the heir and eldest son of Viscount Dragun.

That is, the future successor of Viscount Dragun.

Xilin knelt on one knee in front of Ryan and took Frostmourne.

"Lord Baron Ryan, perhaps you don't know yet, because of my father, my younger brother, the second son of the Viscount, also has a greedy ambition to become a Viscount."

Xilin said calmly, seemingly not angry about this.

"He is very talented. If he can do it, I can allow him to become Viscount Dragun for a period of time. However, if he cannot bear the responsibilities of being a Viscount, then I will take back everything that belongs to me."

"I will pursue great power, and I believe I can do it. And with your support, I am 100% sure."

"The Dragun family will not betray you."

"I believe in you, Xilin. I think we will fight side by side one day in the future."

Ryan patted the young man who was almost his age, and watched him enter the North alone.

Ryan left the Frozen Territory and started from Lingdu City to visit the nobles in the new year.

Baron Hatton has been feeling a little melancholy recently, because Lane has always wanted to lead the adventure group to do something big. Viscount Miles has become much fatter in the new year, and Lane even saw the half-dressed catwoman in his mansion. Baron Enzo has left and is working in the Wing Canyon as the right-hand man of Commander Farrell, learning precious knowledge...

The nobles of Tieshan County finally caught their breath after recuperating. They finally survived the disaster brought by the war and were not completely defeated.

"It's time to visit Count Sauron."

(End of this chapter)