Warhammer Throne

At the beginning of the empire’s calendar in 2523, an army of about a thousand people walked out of the ice-covered Esso Loren. Aralos, the chosen champion of Ariel, Queen of the Wood Elves, was the commander-in-chief of this army. He was ordered. Lead this army to Sylvania and rescue the little queen Elisa who is still trapped.

To be fair, Aralos didn’t want to do this. For the Wood Elf hero, Aralos, who had just done a great job in destroying Mogul, he just wants to enjoy the peaceful days in the forest and continue to ponder. How to please his goddess Lilith.

For Aralos, the eternal little queen Ellarelli is indeed a top-notch little beauty, but it is not his food, nor has anything to do with him. As for the high elves, although they verbally scream with relatives and relatives, Aralos is in his bones. He also doesn't like the high elves, he especially hates the high-precision and arrogant attitude and the view of Esso Loren as an overseas colony.

The arrival of Eternal Queen Elaruili to Essoloren really surprised Mu Jing, especially since the two sides had not communicated for many years, and the Eternal Queen never left Osu'an.

Isa’s first choice saw Isa’s deity. At this time, Queen Alair’s memory was a little confused. She only remembered that she was sometimes Isa, but when Elarielli knelt down and begged the wood elves to rescue her daughter. At that time, Alaire still agreed, and sent Alalos and a smaller army of wood elves with more than a thousand people.

Sister Twilight’s Allair front was left in Bretania and continued to fulfill the alliance with the Knight Kingdom.

In addition to the passer-by of Aralos, the high-precision trio who arrived in the empire a few days ago, Essarion, Bellanal, and Attila also found the emperor. Karl-Franz felt very embarrassed about this— —The empire is now in trouble, and all the extra troops that can be transferred are transferred to the northern front. The emperor had to write to two people, Elector Marius of Ivy and King Butcher of Karak-Kadrin, requesting them Send troops to aid.

In fact, almost every force hopes that the Bretonian knight army will be dispatched. In this dark age, only the Bretonians will fight and win the battle to keep their country away from corruption, plague, production reduction, and other problems. This kind of threat, but an astonishing news spread in the old world, everyone knew that the Knight Kingdom might not have the energy to lend a hand.

Everyone expressed their understanding, but also felt deeply disappointed.

Hubald, Duke of Carcassonne, told everyone in the entire Knight Kingdom.

That's not a rumor, it's true.

The fairy in the lake is really Lilith, the goddess of the high-precision moon.

At the moment when I learned of the rumors, I don't know how many knight nobles were crying and how many young men with knight dreams had a mental breakdown.

The Duke of Hubald was unable to face all of this either. He could not accept that his family had persisted for thousands of years because of a scam, but in the same way, what the lake fairy criticized made him speechless, and he could not even make any rebuttal. .

Yes, if there were no fairies in the lake at that time, then Bretania would not have existed at all. How dangerous was the situation in Bretania at that time? At the hardest time, the number of Breton knights and the number of greenskins is 1:300! Almost all Bretons are desperate, most of the army is guarding the castle, and the remaining few people are almost completely dispersed.

If it hadn’t been for Arthur, Landuin, and Silluf who had received the encouragement and guidance of the fairy in the lake and the glory of the Holy Grail at the time of despair, and had found their own meaning, goal and courage to fight, the whole kingdom would have been dead long ago. .

So, what to do? Is it a betrayal or a compromise?

Both Duke Hubald did not want to do it. The discouraged Knight of the Holy Grail announced that he would no longer follow the orders of anyone, including the fairies in the lake, including the Sun King, but he would continue to guard the Kacassonne Castle until the end. For a moment, as for the future, let his descendants make a choice!

Just when the Duke of Hubald was discouraged, the Knight King Ryan officially announced to the entire Bretania:

"The Kingdom of Bretania will hold a Kingdom Knights Conference in the capital Curona at the beginning of February. The truth about the faith of the fairies in the lake, the next state policy of Bretania, the future of Bretania, Will be drawn here."

This is the first time after many years, the Kingdom Knights Conference was held again, and now only a small number of people still remember that the last time the Kingdom Knights Conference was held was after John II defeated the Eshuihe.

Ryan appealed that no matter whether you are willing to continue to believe in the fairy in the lake, whether you are willing to stay in this country or not, whether you are still planning to fight for the old world, any kingdom knight should come to Kurona and participate in the kingdom knight conference. .

Many people regard Ryan's actions as a threat. After all, the Sun King, as the champion of the Lake Fairy, is undoubtedly on the Lake Fairy's side.

So is it possible that our Sun King intends to gather our opposition parties together and then kill them all at once?

Many knights and nobles have this idea. Among them, the new Duke Campbell of Le-Angouran of the "Free Bretania" faction and Jihad, Duke of Lyonace, are the leaders. They do not want to participate in the Knights of the Kingdom. What I want is a coup, a military coup.

On the surface, Free Bretania gave the Sun King Ryan fifteen days of "preparation time", which seemed to be generous, but in fact they also reserved enough preparation time for themselves to facilitate the assembly of the army.

What the Free Breton faction never expected was that these **** serfs, they refused to respond to the call of the knight masters! Refused to go to Curona with the knight masters to seek justice, and even refused to do anything to the temple of the fairy in the lake!

Inverted! Inverted! The serfs didn't listen to the masters!

The knight masters were very angry, but this time was different. No matter what they said, the serfs were unwilling to accept the call.

So are the serfs really stupid?

Not at all. In fact, the serfs calculated the accounts very clearly.

Under the glorious leadership of Ms. Huzhong and Ryan, the Sun King, are our lives getting better or worse?

Of course, the better!

So, what did the lady in the lake do to us serfs?

Obviously it was very good. The serfs didn't know anything else, but they knew the following three things.

First of all, in the past few years, the Lake Fairy Church announced tax cuts, reducing the original ten tax one to fifteen tax one.

Don't underestimate these points, these points are often the gap between starving, eating chaff and drinking water, and barely getting enough food and clothing! There are also various activities held by the church all day and every New Year’s and holidays, such as giving cookies and liqueurs according to household registration, porridge and barbecue organizing from time to time, as well as various worship activities, bard, circus tour performances, then But they are all very popular, especially in recent years because there is too much food, the church has offered "tithe tax rebates" from time to time, and the serfs' days are much better!

Secondly, needless to say how good His Majesty the Sun King Ryan is to our serfs, right? As long as your Majesty Ryan is mentioned, the first reaction of any serf is a thumbs up, and for the simple heads of serfs, isn't the Sun King tied to the lady in the lake?

We are not against His Majesty the Sun King, on the contrary, whoever speaks ill of His Majesty, we will blow someone's head!

Finally, the serfs had a good life. They were most afraid of going back to the dark ages of the past. You must know that the existence of the fairies in the lake also provided the Bretonians with 7 days of statutory holidays each year. This Holidays must be closed. We don’t believe in the lady in the lake anymore. Can't we let them go this holiday?

As for the lady in the lake, is it a human **** or an elf god? What does it matter? Isn't the elves a model of noble civilization? Why is it not a letter?

It doesn't make sense.

The knight masters found that they couldn't instigate serfs, and some knight masters planned to force them.

At this time, the method that Ryan had planned many years beforehand came into play.

Now, who are flooding the grassroots of Serfs in Breton, who are the little bureaucrats, village elders, militia captains, freedmen sergeants, rangers, self-employed farmers, small merchants, and self-employed people?

Veterans! Fought a great expedition with His Majesty Ryan! Many soldiers have even fought more than one big expedition! These veterans returned to their hometowns with glory and wealth, and soon became the group of people with the most status in the local villages and even towns. What they like to brag most is "When I followed Your Majesty's Great Expedition, you were still wearing "Open crotch pants" and other stories.

Who do these veterans recognize? Do you recognize His Majesty Ryan or Master Knight?

you guess?

The grassroots army can't be mobilized at all. Basically, supposing that there are really strong operatives, the knight masters must first send out an army to suppress this group of "mobs".

There is no time, and there is no way for a military coup. A military coup is not good. You can only go to the Knights' Conference together. Let's see what Ryan can do first.

In this way, the knight masters who belonged to the "Free Bretania" faction could only take the family knights and retinues to Curona, and were forced to participate in the Kingdom Knights Conference.

At the beginning of February 2523, inside the Royal Palace of Curona.

During this period of time, the city was full of knight lords who came from all over the kingdom. The capital was under the strictest military control, but there were still more than tens of thousands of knights, knight rebels, and noble private guards arriving in Curona.

The whole city is like a big enemy, and in the center of the vortex of the storm, Ryan also hurriedly moved his court to Curona.

In the king's study, the bright yellow carpet symbolizing the kingship is flanked by red and blue tapestries. Ryan sat behind the desk, dealing with endless paperwork.

Very tired, but necessary, Teresa and Aurora provided a part of the list of knight nobles entering the city, while Beria provided another part. The list of knight nobles is divided.

According to statistics for many years, Bretania now has 3,369 great nobles.

There are a total of 357 holy grail knights (there are 12 others unaccounted for).

210 people who have been awarded the titles of earl and above.

There were 1169 people who had real titles of baron or higher.

There are 4655 kingdom knights, and the remaining 21274 have the title of ranger knight.

In other words, if Ryan desperately carries out a national mobilization, Bretania can burst out close to 30,000 knights in an instant, which is the limit for the current knight kingdom with a population of 9 million.

So, of these 4655 knights of the kingdom (about 4,100 people in Curona), how many firmly support Ryan and the fairy in the lake?

The number is small, only 21%.

So how many are from the Free Breton faction?

Not a lot, it's almost 33%.

The most knights at present can be said to maintain a neutral attitude. On the one hand, they cannot accept the fact that the fairy in the lake is actually a fairy god, but on the other hand, it is like the Duke Hubald faced. It can be said that there is no fairy in the lake. Without Brittany, most of the knights remained neutral in entanglement and pain.

So the next Knights' Conference is extremely important. This will determine whether Brittany will be divided, and it will determine whether to regroup before setting off, or completely plunge into a civil war.

"My dear, Duke Campbell and Duke Jihad are frantically forming gangs." Veronica sat on the sofa not far from Ryan. The female speaker drank a hot drink rather easily, and said lazily: "Why don't you rush to win the hearts of the people?"

"..." Ryan gave Veronica a blank look, and the Sun King shook his head: "That's the case. I'm the king."

"Tsk tusk, our dear is the king." Veronica said sarcastically, "Tell me, Ryan, you, the king, must have worked hard enough. You haven't slept for two days, right? Since you became the king. , Have you had a comfortable life for a year? The whole day is war, internal affairs, diplomacy, endless official duties. I have never been a king, but I don’t think many nobles have been as tired as you. God!"

"People have to live for themselves, but people can't just live for themselves." Ryan poked his head out from behind the thick dossier, and then shook his head: "Forget it, I will tell you what this is for."

"Then don't say much." Veronica said with her hands on her hips, the female speaker said with an imposing chest: "Your Royal Legion is just outside the city? There are also the Cold Creek Guards and the Old Guards! Transfer into the city! The Emmanuel Land Cruiser also drive in for me, and crush all the rebels, the dissatisfied, and those who dare to challenge your authority, and it will be over!"

Ryan: "..."

The Sun King waved his hand in annoyance, begging you to stop talking nonsense if you don't understand.

It is not easy to transfer the army into the town to suppress these rebellious nobles, not to mention his royal legion, even if there is only him and the ten gray knight recruits, plus the magic knights of the sons of Bretania directly under the lake fairy. , Is enough to suppress the rebellious nobles.

Then what? 1200 kingdom knights did not die on the way to fight the enemy, died in their own hands?

What would the neutral knights think? What would the whole old world think? What would the civilians in Brittany think?

In addition, these "free Bretania" knights have come to the capital to open the Kingdom Knights Conference, and they agreed to go to the negotiating table with you. Ryan is going to use the knife, so is he the choice of a stranger or a fear of abuse? God's choice?

This made Ryan also feel very entangled. Because she gave up the "New World" plan, the fairy in the lake can now confidently tell the Bretons that I am here to collect debts. You have eaten mine and used me. Yes, if you take mine, of course you have to fulfill your rights and obligations. The entire kingdom is given to you by me. Do you really think you don’t need to be paid?

It’s just that the goddess is happy, and the mess left behind must be cleaned up by Ryan. The 33% of the opponents are 1,300 elite knights of the kingdom who have undergone military training and have proven themselves. 10,000 Breton knights!

If they were "suppressed", what would Ryan use to fight the next war?

There are also those neutral knights who are waiting for the Kingdom Knights Tournament, waiting for Ryan's statement. Ryan can imagine why so many knights are neutral? Why is everyone not talking now?

It wasn't because of Ryan Potian's prestige and great strength that he was willing to wait for him to explain.

But now Ryan is also very distressed. He has repeatedly deduced many times, and has not been able to find a way to solve this problem without bloodshed. He must not compromise, but he is not willing to butcher these people, just like Duke Hubald. The same, they are all good, and shouldn't die in their own hands.

So, what to do?

In the night of the same day, inside the palace, Ryan was sitting in his bedroom, thinking about ways.

A knock on the door sounded: "Ryan, are you inside?"

"I'm here, Suria."

The queen dressed up came in, she looked at Ryan: "My dear, there are guests."

"Guest?" Ryan asked subconsciously: "Is it a lady?"

"No, it's your Majesty the King." Su Liya said softly.

"King? Your Majesty?" Ryan was puzzled: "Which King? Dwarf? Elf?"

"None, it's ours, Your Majesty." Su Liya laughed and went out.

Our King? Ryan's pupils shrank.

The door opened, and a green light and shadow came in.

"Sun King, I think today is a good time."

"I think we should talk."