Throne of the North.

Chapter 472 The Glory of Dragon Blood

Longshan City.

The county seat of Dragon Mountain City is the hereditary fief of Earl Sauron, and it is unique in the entire Borean Province. Cities built on mountains are very common in this world. After all, humans always need such a sense of security to fight against most disasters in this extraordinary world.

After the death of Count Weiss and the decline of the Count's bloodline, Count Sauron became the only ancient noble family that continued to be passed down in this land.

The Earl of Winter's family does not count, as they moved north from the south.

Only Count Solon had been here before Grand Duke Meyers occupied the North Wind Province. His history was even older than that of the Earl of Solon. He was once a senior noble of the Northern Gar Kingdom.

"There are many ancient bloodlines in this land, but now, it seems that only Sauron remains."

In response to Ryan's visit, Count Sauron gave a warm welcome. When he heard Ryan asking about the history of the North Wind, Count Sauron, no matter how old he was but young at heart, couldn't help but fall into memories.

"The North has submerged everything, and the former glory of the Norris Continent is buried under the wind and snow. When we die, no one will be able to remember the once dazzling figures."

After hearing this, Ryan couldn't help laughing.

"To live in both the old world and the new era at the same time is also a precious life experience. Perhaps I can arrange for some bards to help you describe the world before the snowstorm."

"I never thought that my story might keep those bards awake for three days and three nights."

"The Bard will be immensely grateful for your generosity."

The interdimensional wars of gods and the struggle between royal power and divine power are the most torturous and incomprehensible generation gaps for these long-lived nobles.

Count Sauron was also confused, that is, more than thirty years ago, before the arrival of the Grand Duke of the Empire.

The Boreal Province at that time was no different from a hundred years ago, and that was why Earl Sauron felt confused.

He clearly felt that the world had changed, tremendous changes had taken place, but the North Wind Province was like an old snail, always standing still.

He wanted to do something, but he didn't know what to do or what he could do.

Later, the Nightmare Legion became the nightmare of the entire North Wind. Count Sauron thought for a long time and could not figure out what he could do, so he simply joined the Empire, which was rising in the New World.

For more than thirty years, Earl Sauron remained the same as before. He didn't know what to do or what he could do. He just went with the flow and passively advanced with the progress of the times. Earl Sauron, like the vast majority of nobles, followed in confusion.

Over the past thirty years, there have not been any major changes in Count Sauron's family. However, if the timeline is divided into thirty years, even the slightest changes will be very noticeable to the old man Count Sauron.

"In the past, it was very rare for nobles to meet practitioners of the extraordinary path, let alone the peasants. At that time, no matter if they were knights practicing asceticism, magicians, or alchemists, they were all very mysterious. Nobles often had to send a large number of people to find them and then meet them by invitation."

"At that time, we had to avoid the priests of the Dawn Church. If it wasn't for the ability to bribe their priests, the nobles would feel tremendous pressure just to see a magician."

"I have personally witnessed that more than a dozen nobles were punished by the Church for privately contacting magicians and even becoming magic apprentices."

"At that time, the Knights Templar were simply the nobles' worst nightmare."

"The Knights Templar?"

Ryan was surprised. If he remembered correctly, the Knights Templar was now one of the six most powerful extraordinary legions in the Flor Empire and was controlled by the royal family.

"Yes. At that time, the power of the Church in the Empire was great. The Knights Templar were used to monitor and suppress the nobles in the Empire and the surrounding areas. In the early stages of the war between the Empire and the Church, the Knights Templar gained a great advantage with the help of magicians. However, at some point, the Knights Templar no longer belonged to the Church and were instigated by the Empire to rebel."

Count Sauron said this without showing much shock.

"The Vatican used the Knights Templar to supervise the nobility, but all the Knights Templar were nobles."

This is not surprising.

"The Dragon Blood Warrior Legion was established during this process. The bishops of the Holy Mountain still believe that the Knights Templar belong to them, but in fact, the Knights Templar no longer care about what the nobles do and even cover for it."

"The clergy of the Church have long been corrupt. Some of them have sunk into the desire for power. The nobles provide them with a large number of slaves, women and men for their entertainment, so that these priests and pastors of the Church are unwilling to even step out of the church."

"Another part, with the help of the nobles, died on the way to preach. In the days after the Pan-Plane War of the Gods, the common people and slaves even grabbed soil and mixed it with leaves as food. The bread and eggs given to them by the Church were invisible. How could they become believers of the Dawn?"

War wealth is always the first pot of gold for the nobles. In the wars among gods in different dimensions, too many nobles disappeared in history, while those nobles who seized the opportunity soared to the sky and made the rare extraordinary people become their followers.

Even after the turning point of blasphemy, he began to establish his own bloodline system, the Extraordinary Legion.

"The Dragonblood Warrior Corps was established together with Grand Duke Beifeng. At that time, Beifeng Province made a desperate move and stole the origin of divinity with the help of a legendary magician."

"Except for the Holy See, all other extraordinary legions came from this way."

Count Sauron did not want to hide anything in this regard. After all, Ryan came from the Clayton family, and Ryan now had his own extraordinary army. Count Sauron did not believe that Ryan had not obtained the source of divinity through some means and used it.

Spiritual blessings...are indeed not something that ordinary people can possess.

"The nobles started high but ended low, immersed in the joy of the birth of the first extraordinary legion, but they forgot... that they couldn't afford to support it."

"A baron's territory has a population of only one or two thousand. A viscount governs a population of 20,000 to 30,000. The population of an earl's territory will hardly exceed 100,000."

"If you take one out of a hundred thousand people, there are only a thousand people. But their growth requires ten families, more than fifty people, to provide for them."

"It takes the wealth produced by ten families to support a knight of the Extraordinary Legion. This is just the beginning. The more powerful they are, the more families they need to support."

"The nobles will also be unable to bear it. The wealth of the great nobles will continue to decline until the wealth accumulated by several generations is squandered and the Extraordinary Legion collapses."

"The nobles have returned to their original starting point."

Count Sauron sighed and said that Ryan's chat with him about the Extraordinary Legion also made Count Sauron gradually feel overwhelmed.

His army of dragon blood warriors is also moving towards this step.

Can't afford it.

"After the Pan-Plane War of the Gods, the discovery of the alternate planes was no longer a legend. The population, resources, and wealth were replenished. The nobles finally recovered from the defeat of the Extraordinary Legion. Some nobles gave up completely, while others barely managed to hold on."

"Because the Empire is powerful enough, there are many extraordinary legions. However, outside the Empire, there are not many extraordinary legions. It was at this time that they began to disappear."

Ryan nodded. It was the same for the Andara Kingdom and the Sera Kingdom. The extraordinary legions of the two kingdoms combined...now there are only three or four left.

They are all going downhill because they cannot maintain such a powerful extraordinary army for dozens or even hundreds of years.

Just like Ryan, without spiritual replenishment, he would not be able to maintain the extraordinary legion.

The Extraordinary Legion is very important. Between theocracy and royal power, the dividing line between being cannon fodder and being cannon fodder is the Extraordinary Legion.

After several years of high-intensity wars, Count Sauron's Dragonblood Warrior Legion has been unable to obtain fresh blood replenishment. The number of knights that can be replenished in his Dragonblood Warrior Legion each year will not exceed fifty.

You have to know that the Dragon Blood Warrior Legion had 5,000 people at its peak.

Five thousand heavy infantry. The word "heavy" can be explained because the North Wind Province has a large amount of iron mines, but five thousand infantry that can withstand heavy armor requires a huge amount of resources.

Count Sauron was able to maintain this extraordinary army by plundering the wealth of other worlds at all costs.

There are not many other worlds to be discovered now, the threat from the orcs in the north has gone away, his former competitor Earl Winter has also suffered heavy losses, the Borean Province is far away from the war, and Earl Sauron finally feels powerless.

"War is only a short time away. One day in the future, perhaps decades from now, humanity will still face threats."

"Now that we have it, we can't give it up."

Ryan said this, and Count Sauron looked at Ryan and laughed.

"You are talking about me now. When I was young like you, I wanted to inherit the Northern Gard royal family and become the king. At that time, my ambition was greater than yours."

"Of course I understand what you said, but..." Count Sauron said halfway, his eyes fixed on a crystal test tube that Ryan took out, looking at the liquid rippling inside that shone like a gem.

He was so familiar.

He raised his head and looked at Ryan with wide eyes.

"Dragon blood?"

Dragon's blood, a brilliant description.

In the ancient legends passed down by mankind, there are many stories below the story at the top of the pyramid, such as the wandering noble heir returning to the family to regain his title, the king's daughter eloping with a baron's heir and being killed in the end, and then their child returning as a king...

These stories are part of the vast epic of human civilization, and almost all of them involve a word.

That is to become powerful by bathing in dragon blood.

The brave man bathed in dragon's blood and gained powerful strength to defeat the evil dragon. The wandering child bathed in dragon's blood and led the army to defeat his father. The illegitimate child bathed in dragon's blood, became a dragon knight and inherited the power of the kingdom.

All these represent that dragon blood is an inseparable part of human civilization.

Mortals can become strong by bathing in dragon blood.

In the world before the Pan-Dimensional War of Gods, such topics were common, and even after the Pan-Dimensional War of Gods, that is, in the past hundred years, dragon blood is still one of the most precious resources.

Giant dragons are rare, and their blood is even more precious.

"You actually have dragon blood."

Count Sauron naturally thought that it was the help of Count Clayton. After all, there was only one dragon knight in the empire, and there was only one frost dragon in the Borean Province. Both dragons were related to Ryan.

The Fire Dragon was his father's mount. The Frost Dragon once took Ryan to the Kingdom of Andara, and the Chamber of Commerce brought back the news.

However, Count Sauron was puzzled. The dragon was so proud and tyrannical, so why would it give Llane blood?

"I have a lot."

Ryan casually opened the crystal test tube and poured it into his mouth. He had to admit, after drinking so many delicious drinks, none of them was as sweet and delicious as dragon's blood, which made his blood, pores, and even his soul intoxicated.

Dragon's blood is not bloody. On the contrary, it is full of the purest sweetness in the world.

In this extraordinary world, there are similar descriptions.

The nectar of God.

Of course, the power of this divine nectar is violent, but Ryan's body is too strong, so strong that in his mouth, the dragon blood is just a delicious drink.

The scene of Ryan's extreme waste made Count Sauron extremely jealous.

His rapidly rising and falling chest showed that the Earl was in great turmoil.

He had talked so much with Ryan before, and said so many frustrating words, but if there was a choice, which noble would be willing to let the Extraordinary Legion disappear in his hands? If they could maintain it, they would have to spend all their money to maintain it, and even find ways to expand it, expand it!

What Count's old age, what Count Sauron is old, are all bullshit in the face of sufficient resources. Count Sauron, who has lived from the old era to the present, is at the perfect age to start a business!
After a long time, the noble finally forced himself to calm down.

He almost failed to maintain the etiquette of aristocracy.

At this moment, of course, he understood that Ryan was not here to chat with him.

Taking a deep breath, Count Sauron's heartbeat was still a little violent.

"It seems that your ambition is similar to mine back then, but you may have arrived a little late."

Ryan looked at Count Sauron in surprise, and the latter continued:
"Before you came, Chrysos from Meyers agreed to marry the nobles of the Northern Wind Province. If it is appropriate, the Meyers family will marry the nobles of the Northern Wind Province."

"You should know that the forest world on Thunder Cloud Mountain will only last for one or two years at most. The nobles need to consider the future after the forest world disappears. In addition, the Grand Duke Meyers family is the best choice in all aspects. We can finally enter the southern noble circle."

"If you take out this thing, Zoro will stand by you and refuse to marry into the Meyers family."

"But I can't stop the other nobles."

It's a new year, the life of the mountain and forest world is coming to an end, the war is over, and the North Wind will no longer face the all-round threat of orcs.

Just like the emperor, after the war, the focus was placed on the confrontation with the Holy See in the south.

The same goes for the nobles of Beifeng. They have been working hard over the past few years to integrate into the South and the aristocratic circles of the entire empire, so as to expand the network they have woven and increase the glory and influence of their surnames.

Keep it simple and direct in order to expand your territory to a whole new level.

Opportunities are now readily available.

Resources, interests, and politics are all particularly unfavorable to Ryan.

Chrysostom cut off Ryan's attack.

Ryan was a little surprised. He didn't expect Meyers had this trick. It really made him feel a little tricky.

Of the five big nets covering Ryan, the first one to be untied was the two kingdoms in the east. Now, the second big net, the North Wind Province, has also encountered new problems.

but……

"I am not here for other nobles. Lord Earl Sauron, you are the most important to me."

Ryan said with a smile, and looking at his still confident face, Count Sauron was also at a loss.

However, seeing the dragon blood that Ryan took out again, Count Sauron gradually felt at ease.

Even Count Sauron was tempted by the conditions offered by Chryses, but now hasn’t he chosen to give up the marriage?

Maybe Ryan has a better idea.

"I heard that dragon blood will emit a gem-like brilliance under the sun."

Ryan raised his hands and looked at the sunlight reflected by the rippling dragon blood, what a perfect color.

Marriage is indeed an advantage that Ryan cannot have. He is the head of the Ryan family, not the head of the Clayton family. Even if Clayton's bloodline is allowed to marry with the nobles of the North Wind Province, it does not belong to him, Ryan.

Ryan can't run on this track, so even if he wants to arrange a marriage, it won't work.

But he also has advantages that Meyers doesn't have.

The Meyers family's advantage is in the south, while Ryan's advantage is in the north.

"The vast land of the North has never lacked wealth."

"Only the bravest adventurers can obtain the precious treasures from there."

"Everything you wish for can be obtained under that snowstorm!"

"A giant dragon destroyed the earth. Ancient treasures are buried in the collapsed underground caves. We sincerely invite adventurers to join us and go to the North to search for countless gold!"

In the new year, Lingdu City is very lively. Thanks to Ryan's efforts last year, the nobles have more or less reserved places for adventurers.

(End of this chapter)