Throne of the North.

Chapter 566 The Madness of Dividing Up Profits

Lord Clayton never imagined that Ryan would want to kill King Olsen.

Even between father and son, once they have separated and each own their own territory, their interests will differ.

Ryan wanted to kill King Carlos, but for Earl Clayton, especially after experiencing divine punishment, King Olsen's survival was a better outcome for the imperial nobles.

The reason is simple: in a world with gods, if even a god wants to kill someone, and that person is indeed killed by the god, then everything will fall into place. The southern lands will have greater recognition of the Dawn Church than the Empire's Church of Light.

It can be said that Ryan's idea was contrary to the interests of all the nobles.

How dare they! They actually wanted to kill a king.

"If King Olsen wants to regain the loyalty of the nobles, he probably needs an army of his own."

"He wants to gain support quickly, and the only way is to win the loyalty of the few noble families with the Carlos bloodline in the Kingdom of Sera. The noble families of the Kingdom of Sera should be happy to become the royal family of the Kingdom of Carlos."

Beside him, Earl Sterling, unsure why Earl Clayton had suddenly brought this up, pondered for a moment and nodded.

“With the establishment of the Kingdom of Sera, a large portion of the four major noble territories of Carlos were taken away. The Sera royal family has been suppressing them there. You should know this better.”

After all, the war that founded that kingdom was one that Ryan had participated in.

"What would happen if several high-ranking nobles from the Kingdom of Sera came to the Kingdom of Carlos?"

"The Kingdom of Sera will be in turmoil."

Earl Sterling spoke up almost immediately, as everyone knew that the establishment of the Kingdom of Sera would be difficult to gain the approval of all nobles. The royal family of the Kingdom of Sera was established by Grand Duke McCreynolds, who had rebelled against the Kingdom of Andara.

They ruled over four noble territories of Carlos, forming the Kingdom of Sera. It can be said that the establishment of the Kingdom of Sera was built upon the ruins of the bloodlines of the four great noble families of Carlos.

“Once Carlos becomes royalty, he will have equal status with the Sera royal family. They will not give up their territory in the Sera Kingdom; in fact, it can be said that it is their foundation. As for the Carlos Kingdom… we all know that the upcoming war may make it impossible for the Carlos Kingdom to even grow food.”

Earl Clayton frowned; he realized what was happening.

"You mean, if King Olsen invites the four noble bloodlines of Carlos to come here to support his royal authority, it will eventually turn into King Olsen leading the Kingdom of Carlos to wage war against the Kingdom of Sera, thus helping the bloodline of Carlos to reclaim the land that the Sera royal family took from them?"

"It definitely will, and it won't just be between the Carlos bloodline and the Sera royal family; the Empire will also intervene."

"Only the Kingdom of Sera remains in the north. The Dawn Church may not care too much whether the Kingdom of Sera still belongs to the Dawn faith. In order to make the fruits of victory more palatable, His Majesty the Emperor will certainly not mind turning the Kingdom of Sera into the faith of the Light as well."

"The Kingdom of Carlos's declaration of war against the Kingdom of Sera is also a war between the Empire and the Papacy, which is a win-win situation. If the four nobles are in the royal family of Carlos, it will not be considered a betrayal of the royal family of Sera. At that time, the Kingdom of Sera will only have one Griffin Legion left."

"The Emperor will most likely send the Wyvern Legion to deal with the Griffin Legion. Klar said that the Emperor sent him to the south because the Emperor realized that there were no hostile forces outside the Winged Canyon in the east that could threaten the Empire."

"From now on, the Dragon Legion will be free. They are fully capable of suppressing the Griffin Legion. Without the Extraordinary Legion, as long as that reliable little guy Ryan leads the noble army of the Northwind Province, he can defeat the Kingdom of Sera."

Lord Stirling smiled with satisfaction, but Lord Clayton was not so happy.

Is it reassuring? But if it were really that reassuring, there wouldn't be this letter. Judging from the information in this letter, Ryan doesn't want King Olsen or Emperor Flor to point the finger at the Kingdom of Sera at all.

Is he on the same side as the Kingdom of Sera?

Damn it, this absurd conjecture gave Earl Clayton a headache, and he desperately wanted to know what the situation was like in the north.

The nobles of the empire all thought they had a clear understanding of the situation in the north. Beyond Winged Canyon, the empire had nothing to worry about, but what was the reality?

I'm afraid even the nobles in the north themselves don't know what kind of position they actually occupy.

Lord Clayton could not make a decision based on this letter, and besides, killing a king was no simple matter.

……

The magicians played a decisive role in the victory of the war. On the land of the Kingdom of Carlos, the magicians were also celebrating, as they would erase many of their debts to the magic academy from this war.

A falling star signifies the birth of a legend, which makes magicians even more eager to prove themselves.

As the mage Lyman felt the magical energy in the void submitting to him, even the usually composed and calm Lyman couldn't help but feel excited. Legend, this is the power of a legend.

After the war ended, he finally received his legendary blessing. This war of national destruction gave birth to two legends, with only Brutus and his mage Lyman playing a decisive role in the turning point of the war.

"Legend, legend has finally crowned me."

Master Lyman was thrilled. The dream that his teacher, his teacher's teacher, and his teacher's teacher's teacher had all longed for had finally become a reality in his life.

The legendary mage Lyman instantly became a hot commodity among mages. Everyone knew that Lyman had entered the magic academy, but entering the magic academy was now insignificant compared to becoming a legend. His desire to enter the magic academy was for the sake of becoming a legend. Lyman, who had taken a shortcut, had already achieved his goal ahead of time.

In the world of magic, the mage Lyman has become a king. If he were to establish his own philosophy and system, countless mages would flock to him.

"Congratulations to Mage Lyman on his coronation as a legend."

Many were offering congratulations, and the nobles sent their envoys. Legends were a luxury even for the great nobles. The nobles were being divided up, and magicians were achieving legendary status. Everything seemed to prove how justified the war had been. Compared to these nobles who didn't have to worry about the outcome, the wandering nobles were much more anxious. The emperor had promised to give them land, allowing them to regain their noble bloodline. Now that the war was over, they didn't know if they would get what they wanted.

After all, their role in the war was not that important. The magicians decided the outcome of the war, and the nobles made the war decisions. It was difficult for wandering nobles to take a piece of the pie from these two groups.

Just as the wandering nobles were playing both sides and trying to win over the empire's high-ranking nobles in preparation for getting a share of this huge pie, the elector Volvo quietly approached these wandering nobles.

A few days later, the previously bewildered wandering nobles suddenly began to stand on the side of the kingdom's people. They advocated humanitarianism and believed that the kingdom's people should not all become slaves.

Together with Elector Vol, or more precisely, Elector Volvo, who held political power in the imperial capital, they joined forces with the military nobles who were fighting on the southern front, preparing to gain more benefits from the war.

With the help of the elector, the wandering nobles finally managed to gain a foothold.

As the various parties argued over their interests, by February, many things had become clearer, and the nobles could find themselves reflected in each of them.

First was King Olsen, who solemnly declared himself the master of the Carlos bloodline and demanded that the four great nobles of the Kingdom of Sera pledge allegiance to their king. The latter readily agreed and were already preparing an army to come to the Kingdom of Carlos to form the king's army.

Their arrival will make them the main army for King Carlos to quell the rebellion. As a result, a group of nobles in the south of the Kingdom of Carlos who had betrayed the king had no choice but to unite, forming a fragile alliance.

The empire was in far greater chaos than the kingdom.

Elector Freud, along with a group of nobles eager to profit from military warfare, is preparing to impose military control on the lands that the kingdom has ceded to the empire. Elector Volvo, in alliance with wandering nobles, is helping them reclaim these lands in exchange for their unconditional support of the Elector's adventurer plans on the kingdom's lands.

Some nobles, eager for merit, naturally sided with Freud, while others, desiring land, did not side with Volvo, because their desire for land clearly overlapped with the needs of the wandering nobles, thus creating a power struggle between the two sides.

Therefore, under the leadership of Grand Duke Meyers, these nobles also formed a group of nobles who were eager for land. They would win the political struggle within the empire and then distribute the land of the Kingdom of Carlos to their followers and descendants.

Mages were once detached from worldly affairs, but after the war, they were no longer so detached. The Mage Association prepared by Grand Duke Rodrigo gained the approval and silence of many, and he actively planned to establish the world's Mage Association on the edge of Pearl Bay.

Within a month, the faith in light was spreading. The Cathedral of Light in the imperial capital sent a group of hundreds of clergy who brought the faith of the God of Light.

The nobles, who had contributed nothing to or participated in the war, were getting anxious. They had been watching for a long time, and now everyone was dividing up the spoils of victory while they had no right to interfere.

Amidst this anxiety, February arrived.

February in the southern lands of Norris had not completely escaped the cold of winter, but the Dawn Church's army, which was surrounding the lands of the Kingdom of Carlos from all sides, still made everyone feel the heat of war.

It is said that the angry pope destroyed countless ancient artifacts that had been passed down for thousands of years on the holy mountain.

In the later stages of the division of the Kingdom of Carlos by the nobles, they gradually came to their senses. The war was not over. After they had made a fortune, they turned their attention back to the enemies outside the kingdom.

When the weather is no longer cold, when spring arrives, war will break out again.

The looming war accelerated the process of nobles dividing up the kingdom's lands. Many nobles compromised because of the war, and the process of exchanging interests undoubtedly resulted in a outcome for all parties.

By the end of March, the wandering nobles had become the biggest victors in the war in the Kingdom of Carlos.

More than thirty wandering nobles regained their lands and titles, and they swore allegiance to the emperor, vowing to defend Emperor Flor's authority and honor to the death. In other words, the victory of the wandering nobles meant that the elector Volvo had gained a significant advantage in the political struggle in the imperial capital.

The Kingdom of Carlos has entered a period of imperial military aristocratic control. As expected, in preparation for the coming war, the empire has once again increased its troop strength in the new year.

Those nobles who coveted the interests of the Kingdom of Carlos finally unleashed their power and joined the war against the Papacy. Many nobles in the capital city were enticing the ambitious Columbus III to wage a war of complete annihilation against the Carlos Empire.

They believed that neither the previous King Kaan Diaz nor the current King Olsen Carlos were the true royal family of that land. To this end, these people even found descendants among their relatives who had a trace of Carlos's bloodline. They were not lying, mainly because there were countless intermarriages among the nobles, and any two bloodlines with a longer lineage could be linked by kinship.

The desires of these nobles accelerated the pace of military control in the kingdom. It is likely that even the elector Freud did not expect that, without doing anything, he would gain the support of a group of nobles skilled in political maneuvering in the capital city. They wanted Freud to destroy the Kingdom of Carlos.

“We will undoubtedly gain a much larger territory, the emperor of the empire will be supreme, and the heavenly flower of the Flor Empire should bloom in every corner of the southern land.”

The nobles sang praises of Emperor Columbus's glory. Fortunately, these people were only a minority; otherwise, the emperor might have actually ordered the destruction of the Kingdom of Carlos and incorporated the other half of the kingdom's territory into the empire's borders.

However, this also allowed King Olsen to see his enemies on the political table of the empire.

As king, he undoubtedly tried his best to stop these imperial nobles who wanted to destroy his country, and therefore needed more support from the nobles, whether it was the upcoming noble army of the Kingdom of Sera or the support from the nobles of the kingdom itself.

As April arrived, spring finally came to the world under the northern border. On the already chaotic lands of the Kingdom of Carlos, another group of restless individuals emerged.

Siren.

These deep-sea aliens, who have been plundering human coastlines for years, launched a retaliatory war against the Flor Empire because of the large-scale massacre of sirens during the rebuilding of the Western Fleet by Elector Volvo last year.

Somewhat coincidentally, on almost the same day, five armies of the Dawn Church from the southern lands also launched an attack on the imperial army of the Kingdom of Carlos.

Shouting the glory of the Lord of Dawn, they launched an attack on the army, whose confidence had been swelled by the empire's repeated victories. The nobles, who had been basking in their own self-interest, were forced to turn their guns on the war against the Church of Dawn.

Throughout the entire Kingdom of Carlos, Ryan could only describe it with one word—chaos.

(End of this chapter)