Throne of the North.

Chapter 490: The Noble's [Family], the Meaning of Blasphemy

Earl Clayton and Ivar were also surprised by Ryan's request.

"What do you need this for?"

Ivar asked directly. He was the only one among Clayton's descendants who knew the value and function of this thing.

"The North is not safe. I need a fortress to stop the orcs."

Ryan was helpless and said truthfully.

"This……"

Clayton and his son still looked at each other in silence, and finally Ivar spoke.

"The orc invasion has ended. According to the decision of the great nobles in the imperial capital, they will not invade the north of the empire for at least 30 years."

If not for this, Emperor Flor would not have dared to directly transfer the northern army to the Thousand Lakes Province and declare war directly on the Holy See.

"What about thirty years from now?"

"When the orcs come back, the Tundra Territory will still be in front of their fangs."

Ivar felt that Ryan was worrying too much. Even if it happened thirty years later, the orc invasion would not be a single problem for the Frozen Territory. By that time, the Empire's army would naturally strengthen its defenses in the north.

Ryan wouldn't explain too much. He couldn't say that he would turn the North into his own territory in 30 years, right?
"The construction of the fortress is a top secret of the empire. Even the grand dukes and provincial nobles do not have complete blueprints."

Earl Clayton said this, and Clayton couldn't control these things either.

"But I can give you something similar."

Some……

Not to mention that Earl Clayton fought many wars in the Flor Empire, he had visited many other worlds, which contained countless wealth and heritage, including all kinds of splendid buildings of human civilization.

There is no shortage of fortresses to defend against the enemy.

"Incomplete. The nobles would not take the initiative to preserve these things when they arrived from the North. If you can find a complete one among them and sell it to His Majesty the Emperor, you should be able to exchange it for a great noble title."

Earl Clayton said this. Everyone knew that Emperor Flor wanted war against the Holy See, but the empire did not have any strong fortresses in the south, and even the war had to be fought in its own Thousand Lakes Province.

It's just that the fortress building in the north cannot be built in the Thousand Lakes Province where there are no mountains, and the emperor probably doesn't have any suitable knowledge.

"Then the contract is concluded."

After Ryan finished speaking, Earl Clayton nodded and said that he would not carry those things with him and could only send them to the Frozen Territory later.

Several people were at ease on the back of the giant dragon, but this world was not at peace at all. The sea was frozen, and the series of impacts it brought were terrible. Various extreme celestial phenomena broke out, and even the temperature changed suddenly. Birds in the sky fell, and countless marine creatures under the ice were killed and injured.

But these had no effect on the Flame Dragon Knights. They continued to gallop, their horses galloping tirelessly until...

The roar of the dragon echoed across the sky.

"It's dusk."

Ryan looked up. To be honest, it was difficult to distinguish between day and night in the sky now. The extreme environment even caused the aurora to appear in the sky.

He could sense the dusk because he had once mastered the origin of the dusk and vaguely sensed that Surtur's power was dominating.

And it was indeed the case before our eyes. The Dusk Dragon's follower, with bone hyperplasia all over its body, was biting the Storm Dragon madly and fighting in the most primitive way. It seemed that it had lost the dragon's natural control over magic power, but its flesh and blood physique was much stronger than before.

The next moment, Ryan realized that he was wrong. The Dusk Dragon spewed out a blazing flaming dragon breath from its mouth, piercing through the huge flesh wings of the Storm Dragon.

Before becoming Surtur's follower, the Dusk Dragon was a tidal dragon, but at this moment, its dragon breath has turned into dusk flames, and Surtur's power has changed everything about it.

"Never mind, just keep moving forward."

Earl Clayton ordered the Extraordinary Legion to continue charging forward. There was a piece of sky between them and the dragon. Unless the dragon took the initiative to descend and attack, it would be difficult for the Flame Dragon Knight Legion to cause damage to the dragon.

Just as Earl Clayton said before, dragons will not be too far away from their great existence, because only when they are close, they are the people of the dragon.

This proximity can be on the spatial level.

As the Fire Dragon Knights continued to advance, a giant dragon finally roared down from the sky.

"kill!"

Tens of thousands of people shouted in unison, and even the giant dragon showed a moment of fear. The next moment, before it could exhale its dragon breath, the horses under the Flame Dragon Knights raised their heads, and fire snakes came out of their mouths, condensing into the center of a storm vortex in mid-air, and then flew towards the giant dragon.

A single flame is not scary, but thousands of flames gathered together would force the dragon to retreat continuously.

But the next moment, the dragon's dignity and tyrannical character made it angry, and it rushed directly towards the tens of thousands of people below.

How could the pride of a giant dragon be defeated by these human ants? It would use the simplest way to make these human slaves feel despair.

"I'm waiting for you to come down."

In the army of tens of thousands of Flame Dragon Knights, as the giant dragons swooped down, figures leaped up one after another. Could it be possible that this huge army did not have powerful extraordinary knights? Impossible.

Even, every one of the knights flying into the sky at this moment is Clayton.

The Earl of Clayton's family has grown over the years, so it's not surprising that they have gathered so few people.

The knights swung their long swords, and the brilliance of their fighting skills was as brilliant as the aurora in the sky.

"The life in this world does not yet know about the Extraordinary Legion."

On the dragon's back, Ryan said that Nidhogg's dragons have not yet updated their understanding of humans to the latest version, and they know nothing about the Extraordinary Legion.

However, the extraordinary legions on the Norris continent all emerged from mountains of corpses and seas of blood.

They exist to fight against powerful supernatural forces and to resist... the gods.

Blasphemy is not just talk.

"We're getting close."

Earl Clayton spoke, and Ryan didn't know what method he used to confirm it. This time, the big brother Aatrox was not with him, and the legendary combat effectiveness was seriously insufficient compared to last time.

Boom! ! !
The bright light like the aurora faded, and the dragon's body collapsed into the frozen ocean. It was dead, but its body was still struggling until its fresh heart was dug out.

The war horses were still galloping, stepping on the dragon blood on the ice, and their bodies seemed to be absorbing the power of the dragon blood. Ryan could see clearly that those who participated in hunting the dragon, at least the Sky Knights of Clayton's bloodline, were eating the dragon's flesh and blood together with their mounts.

They were not affected by the violent energy of dragon blood at all, and the chaotic magic in the void could not interrupt their movements.

Just like that, before Earl Clayton made a move, the Flame Dragon Knights charged all the way, killing their way through a bright red path without any sign of fatigue.

Ryan didn't know whether to say that the path rendered by dragon blood was a waste or terrifying.

"The dragons in this world are too weak." "Their lives are too comfortable, and they don't even have many legends."

The Fire Dragon Christman said sarcastically that dragons are not only found in this world, but this is the hometown of dragons because great beings are sleeping here.

However, a comfortable environment cannot produce powerful legends. Even a dragon will be restricted in its growth in such a world.

Theoretically speaking, every dragon is a future legend. They only need to reach adulthood to become legendary dragons.

But... this future is not fixed. Some dragons can grow up in hundreds of years, while some dragons are still dragon cubs after thousands of years.

Their destinations are similar, but there are shortcuts in the process.

There are no shortcuts for pure dragons like Nidhogg.

The three keys are in the hands of three great beings, two of whom are asleep, and one has fallen and left. The dragon has no chance of leaving here.

"Seventeen."

Ryan didn't care about the greenhouse flower talk. His breathing was a little rapid. In less than a day, the Flame Dragon Knight Corps ran all the way without stopping, and his own Stag Corps could only follow behind to keep up.

During this process, seventeen giant dragons from the Holy Land had fallen in front of the Flame Dragon Knights.

"They will make father's legion stronger."

Ivar was also excited and said, although killing a dragon here is as easy as killing a chicken, the number of dragon deaths is rising rapidly, but everyone understands that the value of dragons is priceless, and every death of these dragons is an opportunity that the Clayton family could never have imagined before.

For example, among the seventeen dragons that were killed, one was transported to the Borean Province. On the same day, Earl Sauron dared to marry all the unmarried daughters of the Sauron family to Earl Clayton, thus tying them tightly to the Clayton family.

In essence, it is not because there are too many dragons in this world, but because of the strength of the Flame Dragon Knight Corps.

Ryan had controlled the resources of this world for several months, but he had never seen so many dragon corpses. The spoils of the battle between the frost giant Lagerlov and the frost dragon Areris were not so numerous.

"Seventeen giant dragons, are they enough for the Flame Dragon Knights to advance?"

Ivar looked at his father and saw that Earl Clayton was frowning.

"I think those war horses have grown dragon scales."

Ryan was listening nearby, and finally came to his senses from the strength of the Flame Dragon Knights.

He was thinking in his heart, if the Stag Legion also has tens of thousands of people, can it match the performance of the Flame Dragon Knight Legion?
At present, it seems that he refuses to admit it in his heart.

Thirty thousand Northern war horses and thirty thousand knight soldiers who were at least apprentice knights.

No match for this legion of Fire Dragon Knights that can slay dragons.

Even... Ryan saw the Fire Dragon Knight Legion. The horses of Brand and others who had been running all the way had begun to exhale thick white mist on this frozen sea.

They were tired, and Brand and other knight attendants stared at the Fire Dragon Knight Legion with red eyes, unable to believe the gap between them.

Is the gap really in quantity?

Ryan looked at Ivar, then at Lord Clayton.

He is Baron Ryan. Now he sees the gap in strength between him and the top nobles in the empire, but he doesn't know how to ask Earl Clayton.

"It is impossible to transform. This final step still requires relying on the divine origin."

Earl Clayton shook his head. Why did he pay such a huge price to start this war with the dragon? It was not to help his children, but more for profit.

In a world of dragons, so many dragons are huge benefits in themselves, and Earl Clayton needs them.

"Their souls and bloodlines have not sublimated or evolved."

Earl Clayton shook his head, glanced at Ryan, whose eyes were full of curiosity, and opened his mouth but did not explain.

Ryan understood.

This is a top secret known to Earl Clayton. In the entire empire, there are probably no more than ten times as many people who know this secret.

Even in this case, Ryan was not qualified to obtain the secret.

This is also the real gap between Ryan's Stag Legion and the Flame Dragon Knight Legion.

Sublimation, evolution?
Ryan looked at the knights under his feet. Is this the evolution of the Extraordinary Legion?

What else can they evolve into?
Ryan thought for a long time, and finally could only think about what Earl Clayton was asking for now.

That is the position of the fifth Grand Duke of the Empire.

What is missing from Lord Clayton?
In other words, what do the current four Grand Dukes have?
Meyers's Nightmare Knights Legion.

According to legend, the Nightmare Knights can appear from the easternmost part of the empire to the westernmost part overnight. According to legend, the flames of hell burn on the Nightmare Knights, and their horses can enter the abyss and fight demons. According to legend...

There are many legends, but each one is quite different from humans.

Sublimation, evolution means... inhumanly powerful?
When Ryan thought of this and looked at the Fire Dragon Knight Corps, he was not so shocked anymore.

It is certainly scary to see tens of thousands of Fire Dragon Knights killing giant dragons, but what if these tens of thousands of Fire Dragon Knights were replaced by tens of thousands of ferocious monsters running wildly on the sea?

Are they still humans, or human knights?
Ryan was not sure, but at least he believed that the knights of his Bucks Legion would not be inferior to those of the same rank in a one-on-one fight. He was confident that he could defeat any knight under the command of any noble.

Because he gave his knight squires a variety of spiritual blessings, the basic attributes of each knight squire were greater than those of other human knights.

He had no doubt about the power of the spiritual panel.

Ryan thought of a word that he had been familiar with for several years.

[Familiar]

The followers of the gods, Surtur's followers are so powerful. Once they become followers, Surtur's will will make them fearless and brave until the end of the war.

Ryan had experienced it personally, and he had also personally created it, when he used the divinity of dusk to fight against the werewolves of the North.

Ryan had never cared about the madness, strength and loyalty of his followers, because he subconsciously understood that these were things unique to the gods, and there was no need to pay attention to them. He could just treat them as the puppet army of the gods.

But now, he had to think about this word.

Earl of Clayton, no, this Earl's father is not finished yet.

It was the four archdukes and the royal family of Flor.

They seemed to have accomplished it, they had created [followers] that belonged to them, to mankind.

This is what blasphemy really means.

(End of this chapter)