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The late Earl House—whether father or son, the word "deceased" can be used anyway, it makes no difference—did not know that a small part of their bloodline came from a famous hero.

A tragic hero.

This hero was born in a declining small country, next to a powerful big country, and on the other side was a powerful alien race.

It was the early stage of the great pioneering era of mankind. Along with the expansion of territory under the leadership of the gods of mankind, the war within mankind was also quite fierce. Many countries, big and small—in that era, the aristocracy system had not yet been established, and many of the territories that were only considered viscounts or even barons in later generations also claimed to be independent kingdoms—appeared and then disappeared one after another. The flames of war did not stop burning even for a day, and steel and blood raged on the earth.

In that era, being weak was a sin, and the strong were as greedy and fierce as hungry wolves, and then they were devoured by stronger ones like hungry tigers. Even civilians had to learn some fighting skills. Once a knight was left alone, those seemingly honest farmers would suddenly turn into vicious gangsters, kill them, and plunder all their wealth.

And the country of that hero committed this "sin".

Since he was born, his country has been in turmoil. Before he came of age, his father, the king at the time, was forced to participate in a war that was of no benefit to them. Although the war was won, the king died in the war. It is said that the cause of death was very suspicious. The fatal poisoned arrow was more than 80% likely to come from the friendly army.

After the king died, another king visited them "friendly" and expressed his willingness to marry the king's widow as his wife, so that the two countries could be peacefully united.

The young prince seemed to be calm on the surface, but suddenly attacked at the dinner party for entertaining guests. He poisoned the food and attacked with elite soldiers, and the king who wanted to take advantage of the fire was captured along with his knights. Moreover, he acted very quickly, setting off for the neighbor's territory overnight. On the third day, he had announced his marriage to the king's daughter and completed the merger of the two territories.

As for the king's son... there has been no record of him in the history books since then, as if he had been forgotten.

The following decades were years of conspiracy and war, with blood and lamentations intertwined in these years. For later generations, it was just a page in the history books, just a few epic poems, or even a few chapters in an epic poem, but for the young king, it was his whole life.

He exhausted all his efforts and used all means to maintain and strengthen his country. He used countless clever skills and vicious schemes that were admired and learned by later generations. In the end, when he was old, his country was already quite powerful, from the initial equivalent of a barony to the point of surpassing many marquisates.

However, at this time, fate played a little joke on him. Several powerful legendary monsters started a war in his capital. The once prosperous capital was reduced to ruins in just a few hours. The king who tried to negotiate with the monsters died on the roadside like a wild dog, and his loyal knights were scattered all over the ground.

As the news spread, the country collapsed, and there was no follow-up.

If it were on Earth, the story would have ended here, but in a world with gods and demons, souls and the underworld, the story has a little follow-up.

The dead king became the Holy Spirit of the God of Kingship, and later became the Holy Spirit of the God of Nobles after the God of Nobles replaced the God of Kingship.

The follow-up of the story ends here. As for how the later generations study the life of this king, how the later nobles use his deeds to educate their children, and how the later ambitious people use his name and descendants to stir up trouble, these are no longer important.

The only thing worth noting is that among his descendants, there is a bloodline that, after many twists and turns, finally took advantage of the opportunity of the great western development of mankind to climb to a high position again and became one of the nine earls, the founding nobles of the Gold Coin Federation.

This descendant of House is good at horse training, and the territory produces high-quality war horses. He himself likes horse riding competitions, so he got the title of "Good Horse".

Holy Spirits are different from God's messengers. They are essentially very close to gods. If they want to enter the human world, they must suppress their power to almost nothing. In this form, the only thing that can be used is wisdom. However, wisdom is often useless, or not so useful. Without power, it is still inconvenient. In this case, the Holy Spirits often choose to possess their descendants who are connected by blood, so as to bypass the limitations of the main position and face themselves, and more or less be able to exert some power.

Just like the founding monarch of the Red Moon Dynasty chose to possess "Flower of Ilo" Sophie Red Moon, the ancient king chose to possess the contemporary "Good Horse" Earl, Deken House.

When he possessed him, Deken House was only the son of the previous earl and had not yet inherited the earl's position. This young man had only average talent and had always been honest and dutiful. Apart from his love of equestrian competitions, he had nothing special. But after being possessed by the ancient holy spirit, he immediately underwent a drastic change... All the subsequent things were caused by this change.

This change caused a lot of things, and among these things, the changes of the House family and the possible decline in the future are just trivial matters.

The next morning, before dawn, the troops set out.

The team of more than 200 people at the beginning has now been reduced to about 120 people. The rest of the people are naturally dead. Some of them were executed by Earl House because they could not bring themselves to massacre, and the other part died in the fierce battle not long ago.

The battle was extremely dangerous. Even if an ambush was set up with clever means, it was not an easy task for less than 200 people to fight against more than 300 people. So at the beginning of the battle, Earl House displayed his legendary strength and killed the opponent's leader, a high-level ranger, several officers and a dozen of the best fighters with just one blow.

Although he was suppressed by the main plane after this attack, in order to ensure victory, he still danced on the tip of the knife with ingenuity and determination, and attacked several times in succession, not only completely defeating the high-speed mobile force of the merchant faction, but also preserving his own combat power as much as possible.

For this, the price he paid was the punishment from heaven - the punishment from the main plane barrier. Although it was not serious enough to fall into the sky, the power of the punishment was definitely not something he could bear. Now, even though he was walking and talking as usual, he was actually in severe pain all the time. The most terrifying thing is that his soul is also being weakened. If this continues, it won't be long before he will completely dissipate and no longer exist.

But he doesn't care. He has lived from the great pioneering era to the present, and he has lived too long and too long, and he is a little impatient. Complete death and ashes may be terrible to others, but to him, it is actually nothing.

Even the great god of kingship has fallen, so what is a mere holy spirit?

He felt it was worth dying for the great cause of the gods of humanity.

Moreover... he had already arranged a plan, even his "death" itself was part of the plan and could be used.

Of course, this high-speed mobile force with blood on its hands had also been arranged by him long ago, and would die with him at the right time.

After all... it was all "necessary costs".

But he didn't know that his various plans had already been seen by the gods of war.

Whether his plan would succeed was still unknown.