Throne of the North.

Chapter 805 The Initial Establishment of the Knight Academy (Part 8)
Ryan still had something to say.

He definitely doesn't have those strange ideas.

He simply and genuinely wanted the exchange between the two knight academies to be a formal, reasonable, and valuable academic exchange.

This was inspired by the traditions of those raven spirits.

Before Mikragard, wizards often exchanged academic experiences to enhance their power.

Ryan wanted to quickly establish the reputation of the Northern Knight Academy based on the Imperial Knight Academy, and to gain worldwide recognition for the knights who graduated from this academy. Of course, he had to achieve something.

The way to cultivate excellent knights is simply a shortcut to making everyone remember the Northern Knight Academy. Once the nobles in the south have seen it, they will naturally know that the Northern Knight Academy is also an excellent academy.

Isn't that where the recognition comes from?

Unaware that the capital city had become turbulent and unpredictable, Ryan was still pondering what was happening in the south.

He believed that his influence over the South had always been limited.

……

"The baron of the North values ​​the emergence of the Imperial First Legion more than anyone else."

For some, sleepless nights have been a constant struggle. A meeting that should have been lively has become secretive, and discussions surrounding the relationship between nobles and knights have gradually been brought to the forefront.

"But we still don't know what changes the emergence of the Imperial First Legion will bring."

At Grand Duke Meyers's residence in the capital city, a group of his followers gathered to discuss the impact of the empire's rapid changes on their interests.

"What will it bring, and what will it change?"

The elderly Grand Duke Meyers, an important ruler of the empire, suddenly realized that he seemed to be getting old. The new era was full of unfamiliarity, and he could not see what the empire would become.

Around Grand Duke Meyers, the nobles expressed their opinions.

Chrysus's voice was very firm; he had to demonstrate his abilities on this occasion so that all the nobles who followed the Meyers family could see a bright future in him.

"Baron Ryan must want to secure a place in the future Imperial Army."

“We all know that Ryan is a nobleman with excellent military command talent and strength. He is young, but he has experienced more wars than most imperial nobles have ever experienced. His undefeated record makes everyone feel uneasy standing on the other side of his battlefield.”

"My past encounters with him made me very clear that he was a very powerful opponent. Although he was only a baron, I would never underestimate him."

"The emergence of the First Legion of the Empire represents the Empire's rise to another level and future. We all know that this is His Majesty Emperor Flor's desire to eliminate those nobles who control a large amount of imperial interests and relinquish their power."

"Therefore, even His Majesty did not consider what the emergence of the Imperial First Legion would bring."

“The capital city is too complicated, so much so that we are so caught up in it that we cannot see a clear future. However, I believe that the Baron of the North sees things more clearly than many people, outside of all the political struggles.”

Chrysus's words caused some nobles to frown and feel dissatisfied.

“Mr. Chrysus, are you trying to boost the prestige of others by saying that? I don’t believe that Baron Ryan of the North could know everything that is happening in the capital from such a far place.”

"I don't believe it either, but the facts are right in front of us, aren't they?"

Chrysus looked at the other person and offered his sincere greetings.

“Lord Benitez, your Tuva Lake Province is far from the North and you don’t know much about Ryan Clayton. That young baron has a completely different way of thinking from us. If we could tear open his soul, I believe even his soul is different from ours.”

“In our past interactions, I do not believe that Baron Ryan would do something without any benefit. He used the name of the Northern Knights Academy to bring his will into the capital city, and he was able to silence the nobles of the entire empire. I think that in itself is a terrible thing.”

Count Benitez frowned, his obese body showing his disapproval of Chrysus's actions.

"Cryseth, I still think you're making a mountain out of a molehill."

"So, Count Benitez, what do you think the emergence of the Imperial First Legion will change?"

"Of course, it's about strengthening the military power of the entire empire so that we no longer have to worry about the orcs in the north and the Papacy in the south."

"That's too broad, Count Benitez. Recently, many self-proclaimed philosophers have appeared in the capital, and they've come up with a very interesting term."

"It's called 'Why does a loach stuck in the mud look at the whole mud from the Lord's perspective?'"

"What does it mean?"

I totally don't understand.

"This means that the loach is deep in the mud, and it is not even sure if it can survive. Yet it is thinking about what the mud will become in thousands of years. Shouldn't it first consider whether it can find food in the mud?"

"What nonsense! Those so-called philosophy scholars should be hanged."

One of the nobles frowned, already planning to teach those guys a lesson after he left.

Upon hearing this, Chrysus laughed.

"In fact, the criminals who have recently been killed in the capital are all these people."

"They were accused of distorting faith and undermining the empire, and were sent to the gallows."

"Why weren't they all killed?"

"Because there are quite a few nobles among them."

"As you gentlemen should know, there are too many idle fellows in our family who have nothing to do, so they hang out with these philosophical scholars."

"It seems these guys are too idle. They dare to spout nonsense even in the capital city. They should all be thrown onto the battlefield in the North to fight those disgusting orcs."

"Let them see who the real slippery eel is."

The nobles were very dissatisfied with these guys who mingled among the crowd. Kryseth only listed a few of their comments, but the nobles couldn't stop sneering and had already figured out how to deal with them.

Ironically, there were even members of their own family in there.

"Damn it, send them to the North when we get back!"

"The Zishan Province keeps saying they want to deal with the orcs, so let's feed all these guys to them."

Upon hearing this, Chrysus finally smiled.

"Coincidentally, that Baron Ryan had the same plan."

"However, unlike what you gentlemen have thought, his plan is to send his students, the knights of the Northern Knights Academy, into the Imperial Army in the North."

"His Majesty the Emperor has issued an order that, three years from now, all the knights of the Imperial Knight Academy will enter the Imperial First Legion and become junior officers."

"These noble knights from various provinces of the empire will appear in the First Legion in the North under the same identity, where they may encounter Baron Ryan Clayton's students."

"They will appear in the same land, on the same battlefield, and before the same orc, and they will become close friends because of their respective strength."

"The knights, carrying the honor of their families and their surnames, became friends with the knights of the North who carried out the will of Baron Ryan."

"When they return home, their fathers and grandfathers will know that the barons of the North have trained many outstanding war knights." "And they are all officers of the Empire's First Legion."

In fact, most of the politically astute nobles present had already realized what Chrysus meant when he was halfway through his speech, and by the time he finished, the remaining nobles understood what he was trying to say.

"A baron from the North, using the emergence of the Empire's First Legion to spread his glory and splendor, actually wants to extend his power to the South?"

The nobles were both shocked and furious, because in Chrysus's statement, the Baron of the North was undoubtedly extending his tentacles.

Like a spider weaving its web, his prestige should have remained in the North, but now the web is expanding southward.

What does this mean?
This means that in the future, Ryan will be able to influence the unity of the southern nobles, and thus their interests.

Although no one knows yet what interests they have suffered, this kind of behavior—extending their claws into their territory—will definitely not make them happy.

The only problem is...

"Isn't this Baron Ryan a bit too confident? What makes him think that the knights he trains can be stronger than the knights of the Imperial Knight Academy?"

"That's why the nobles are unwilling to believe it."

“None of you think so, but in reality, that baron is just as arrogant as his arrogant dragon knight father who wanted to become the fifth grand duke.”

"But unfortunately, His Majesty the Emperor has already agreed to his request, which has changed the nature of the exchange between the two knight academies."

After Chrysus finished speaking, he described the passages written by Ryan on the scroll about the way knights communicated. The nobles were all speechless.

"This... tests a knight's ability to become an officer. On the battlefield, isn't it simply a matter of who is stronger?"

The nobles fell silent.

Just from verbal accounts, they were already at a loss for how to question Ryan's military command capabilities.

“None of you think war is like this, right? But you gentlemen inevitably think that what Ryan said is true.”

The nobles remained silent. Yes, while they did not agree with Ryan's assertion that war required highly capable officers of lower and middle ranks, they also felt that what Ryan said about war and the battlefield was correct.

No one wants to see their army charging haphazardly on the battlefield like orcs. War after war has proven the dominance of [order] in warfare.

"So, is that Baron Ryan trying to expand his power by influencing the war?"

"Yes, Mr. Clinton."

Chrysus nodded and continued:

"So we've come back to our original question: what did the emergence of the Imperial First Legion bring, and what did it change?"

"It caused many of the nobles in the empire to lose their power, including military power and greater political influence."

"The great gods have taught us that nothing can disappear into thin air; if it disappears, it will surely reappear in another place."

"Then, where will those rights that disappeared from the hands of other nobles reappear?"

"The army, the First Legion of the Empire, without a doubt, that is the answer to this question."

"The right to disappear has appeared in the First Legion of the Empire, and in the future Second and Third Legions of the Empire."

"What that Northern Baron wants to divide up is this seemingly newly created right, which is actually a right that was given up by all the nobles of the empire."

The nobles were all too familiar with these words.

Power and profit—this is the glory and responsibility that nobles bear, the cake they greedily crave, and the hereditary legacy they would rather die than give up!

"Damn it, we absolutely cannot allow those brats from the North to take what belongs to us!"

"That's right. He's only had the territory for a few years. These benefits don't belong to him at all. He should stay in his frozen territories and wait for his son to be born!"

"How dare he steal the power that belongs to us."

"Absolutely not."

The nobles agreed with Krysius's words because they also realized that the emergence of the First Legion of the Empire had caused part of the old era's cake to disappear, and also allowed the cake of the new era to be baked.

The key point is that this cake is new, and so far no one except Archduke Russell and the Emperor has divided it up.

"Baron Ryan's intelligence is terrifying; we must stop him!"

Chrysus glanced at his father, who remained with his eyes closed, clearly letting him do as he pleased.

"Yes, we need to stop him. The exchange with the Knight Academy is our opportunity."

"None of us want the Frozen Earth Baron to extend his reach into the capital; the empire has no place for him."

"He's too arrogant. Let's thwart his plan before it even takes its first step!"

The nobles nodded in agreement and began to pay more attention to the Imperial Knight Academy, which they had previously barely bothered to pay any attention to.

After the nobles left, Chrysus gently wiped the cold sweat from his forehead and bowed to his father.

"Father, aren't we doing too much to help Baron Ryan increase his prestige?"

“The nobles in the south didn’t know much about him, but by saying this, we have actually greatly enhanced Ryan’s reputation.”

"He is, after all, our enemy."

Grand Duke Meyers looked at Chrysus with aged eyes.

“Cryseth, you still have too many concerns and are too cautious. You need to understand that in the Flor Empire, no one’s prestige can surpass that of the emperor and the grand duke.”

“There is a limit to how high Ryan’s reputation can be, but you were born with more.”

"You just need to understand whether our goal can be achieved."

Chrysus bowed his head in awe and said:
"We also need to get the nobles to... voluntarily enter the Imperial Knight Academy to reduce the number of nobles."

He knew perfectly well that everything he had just said, no matter how eloquently it was presented, actually had only one fundamental purpose: all the other benefits and drawbacks were byproducts of the execution of that purpose.

"There are still too many nobles."

He murmured to himself, "These words are incredibly powerful."

Thinking of what his father had said in the palace, Chrysus felt a chill run down his spine. No one had expected that a simple matter would escalate to this point.

Even Meyers has begun to reduce the number of noble members within his faction.

Has Father also felt the pressure? There are too many nobles and too little land. In recent years, many members of the Meyers have indeed wanted to obtain fiefdoms, especially after they took over the Northwind Province thirty years ago. However, things did not go as planned, and many people have complained about the Grand Duke of Meyers.

"Ryan is a devil."

(End of this chapter)