Chapter 448

Negotiations and exchanges between nobles are full of intimidation and lies. Both want to use the asymmetry of information to master the right to speak, so as to subdue the soldiers without war.

At this time, showing weakness means giving in.

King Friedrich was unwilling to show weakness in front of Duke Ludwig. After a moment of silence, he said: "the secrets of the Pantheon and the tribunal are the speculation of the inheritance scholars of the Ludwig family."

"Speculation based on historical facts." The Duke of Ludwig smiled confidently and gracefully, "don't forget the Ludwig family's finch badge."

The noble coat of arms reflects the origin and tradition of the family. Families born as court guards generally use shields and armor as their family coat of arms, military generals use various weapons as their coat of arms, and development lords use some kind of beast as their coat of arms, while families born as internal guards often choose things related to their duties as their family coat of arms, For example, the carriage coat of arms shows that the ancestors of this family used to be the carriage manager of a great noble, the mill represents the chef manager, the hound represents the hunting manager, and so on.

Ludwig family flourished in the heyday of the iron mountain empire. As the court nobles of the iron mountain Empire, they took Li que as the family coat of arms. Li Que's singing marks the beginning of a new day. The founder of the Ludwig family was specially responsible for the daily and internal affairs of the members of the iron mountain royal family. Generally speaking, it means making a bed and folding a quilt to wake up the master's Chamberlain.

The imperial lords despised the court nobles who were born as servants. But in fact, the influence of the court Chamberlain on the Lord and the invisible power of the imperial Lord should not be underestimated.

The reason is very simple. The king or Lord valued how their power was unrestricted to the greatest extent in the process of enfeoffment. Therefore, the LORD hated the free people most, always promoted the non free people as vassals, and gave them certain power and prominent social status. For example, a groom, a blacksmith, or an attendant nearby.

On the other hand, the backward communication conditions made the king need trustworthy people as heralds to convey the king's will to the Lord and mobilize a huge army. The heralds were often court nobles who were servants.

Don't think that the court nobles are all wine bags that only flatter and flatter, greedy for money and lust. There are no fools around the king. Fools don't live long around the king. The court attendants who can stand out have the virtue of loyalty, profound knowledge and outstanding talents.

After more than 2000 years of spreading branches and leaves, the Lique family has served the iron mountain royal family, the RAND royal family, co founded the Dodo kingdom with Friedrich, and another people followed Augustus of Gambis. They lived with the LORD day and night, enjoyed freedom of speech in the court, and acted as bystanders and Admonishers. They know more about the palace than ordinary people can imagine.

Duke Ludwig said that Friedrich had a shallow background compared with the Lique family, which was by no means boastful.

Dunkru nodded and said: "In the age of the chosen one, witches wanted to help their relatives and disciples master extraordinary power through blood sacrifice. As a result, the glorious church did what the ancient witches could not do. The difference between the two lies in blood sacrifice and belief. Considering the special relationship between belief and holy power, it is not difficult to see that trigowar has reason to plan the Pantheon and prepare for the construction of the inquisition."

Through records and statistics, the big family with a long history found that the fewer believers of the Lord of glory, the fewer clergy in the church. However, the proportion of clergy remains the same. This means that the paladin family and priests and paladins divide up the power of faith according to the proportion of clergy set by the early Pope.

The nahtigar family has served as the Pope's guard for generations, and the number of paladins allocated to them is the least. The family of the shining knights, who is full-time fighting and the head of the order, ranks first among the seven paladins, and the number of paladins allocated is the most. The Pope determines the ranking of paladins and controls the six paladins.

Duke Ludwig glanced admiringly at dunkru and said: "Three thousand years ago, the trigoval family won the trust of the Pope and became the chief of the shining knights, with the largest number of paladins and great power. Even the TESL family wanted to marry elijie, the only female Golden Knight in the knights, to trigoval in order to rank second in the paladin family.

"Later, Elijah captured his majesty dravin Wimbledon and abandoned trigowal..." at this point, Ludwig smiled slightly contemptuously: "Funny to say, the holy realm is not only the advantage of paladins, but also their disadvantage... This divine skill weakens the erosion of the element sea on the golden paladins, makes their life reach the limit, and can display the element realm of legendary knights, but they also become emotional. Alize is trapped in the charm of the sword saint, and trigoval has done a series of stupid things because of jealousy He not only lost his own life, but also made the family unable to turn over. "

"The legendary ogre king, volgan, the broken city, united the Centaur, ogre, jackal, sheep and goblins to attack the human kingdom. The orc army was unstoppable and the ANZ empire was fragmented. At that time, the only way to turn the war around was to kill volgan, the king of the ogre Kingdom, and split the orc army and break it one by one."

"However, under the eyes of a group of Ogre supervisors, it is not easy to kill the legendary ogre king?"

"The Lords proposed two decapitation schemes, either to invite the divine Knight verotika basselius, or to ask Pope Paul III to sound the Golden Horn and summon the glorious angel. But no matter which scheme is adopted, the two strong men of mankind are in danger of falling." Duke Ludwig shook his head and said: "It was hard for both sides to make up their minds, so they were in a stalemate... At the most dangerous moment, for the sake of Queen verotika, Draven volunteered to kill the legendary ogre. But he needed someone to distract the guard of the ogre king. However, jealousy overwhelmed the head of the grand commander trigoval. He insisted on asking His Majesty the Pope to help and refused to send the shining knights to assist Draven In the end, it was Elijah who led the two legendary paladins of the testil family and queen verotika to lead away the ogre inspector and make his majesty Draven famous in the first World War! "

King Friedrich laughed and said, "this can't blame trigowal. At that time, no one knew that Enoch's descendants were not the first Pope. Paul III was too weak to blow the golden horn, but he needed to keep this secret. Trigowal also wanted the Pope to establish the authority of the clergy, but the flattery was on the horse's legs."

Duke Ludwig smiled and said: "Delavin returned with the head of the broken city. Paul III was overjoyed. He made friends with delavin and personally baptized the children of delavin and alize, in fact admitting their marriage. Alize served as the head of the shining knights, and TESL ranked first in the paladin family. The trigoval family fell out of favor and slipped to the bottom of the paladin ranking. ”

"In desperation, trigoval proposed a knight duel to delavin, and achieved the title of sword saint of delavin with his life."

Duncruz thought for a moment and sighed: "From another point of view, trigoval at that time made the most correct choice. If his Majesty's assassination failed, the legendary paladins serving as bait would be chased to death by the violent ogre king, and no one would be spared. The Golden Knight is not the lettuce in the field, and the paladin family can't afford to lose it. If the shining Knights don't go out, Queen verotika won't love it People take risks and have to cooperate with Draven. The addition of divine knights is enough to ensure that the decapitation plan is safe. The grand commander of trigowar saved the Golden Knights of the seven paladins and laid the first foreshadowing for trigowar's rise again. "

"His majesty delavin turned the tide with great strength and high prestige. He gave birth to descendants with divine knights and created the iron mountain empire. The secular influence of the sword Saint surpassed that of the Pope, and his close relationship with the shining Knights frightened the Pope. Trigoval proposed a duel to his majesty delavin at this time. Only the pope had the right to stop trigoval, but he not only didn't stop, but also let Ellie Colonel Jie stood idly by. It can be seen that the pope also hopes that trigoval can get rid of delavin. "

"Trigoval won the duel. Although he was notorious, he showed his loyalty. Even if he would not be reused by the Pope, his family could win the favor of the Pope again. Trigoval's death made the paladin family see the true face of the Pope."

"This is the second foreshadowing he buried."

"The Pope was corrupted by the supreme power, blinded his mind, and lacked the responsibility and courage of a leader, so he lost the support of everyone." Said the head of the iron wall knights.

Friedrich remained silent for a moment and said with emotion: "the king's style lies in the responsibility and courage in the face of danger. The decline of the Pope comes from this."

Duke Ludwig nodded and said, "the duel between trigowal and dravin has created an irreparable rift between the six paladins and the Pope, leading to the current political pattern. However, in this process, many interesting historical events have taken place."

"In the following 1500, Pope Paul III's worry still appeared. The descendants of the testier family had the blood of sword Saint delavin and were regarded as' invisible Lord 'and' Paladin Lord 'by the knight lords of the iron mountain empire. Many noble clergy in the church climbed to a higher position through testier's relationship. The five Paladin families also climbed to a higher position because of their relationship with the iron mountain cavalry The marriage of scholars and nobles revolved around TESL. Although the pope had the power to distribute the holy power, they could not regret TESL's position among the clergy. The TESL family firmly controlled the position of the chief of the shining knights, and the other four paladins took turns as deputy heads, and only trigoval was always at the bottom of the list. "

"Constraints, balance, and interests." Said King dodo with a bland look.

"The Pope hates constraints. Ordinary clergy and noble clergy need to be balanced. Trigoval also wants to get more paladins." Duke Ludwig said: "At the end of the iron mountain Empire, Pope Jacob ordered the establishment of the inquisition to deal with the increasingly rampant wizard organizations... What wizard organizations are there in the iron mountain Empire? The Lords agreed that the Pope wanted to use this as an excuse to sanction secular lords and crack down on the aristocratic forces within the church. When the Inquisition was boycotted, some wizards created the famous Kadir village And left the mark of the Pantheon on the scene. "

"The Pantheon is resurgent."

Duke Ludwig sneered: "the Pantheon has disappeared for thousands of years, and their marks only exist in the historical documents of the knight family and the church. How can the new wizard know the Pantheon? Everyone believes that Jacob made the Pantheon..." he paused, shook his head and said: "After some debate, Pope Jacob appointed his highness bethel of the testil family as the director of the inquisition and Godric trigova as his deputy. Only then did the secular lords and clergy reach a compromise on the issue of the inquisition."

"However, Claire, the great wizard of the Pantheon, killed his highness Bethel, the legendary Paladin! In the battle, all the noble clergy in the referee were killed, but godreko trigoval was not present."

"Claire easily annihilated the main force of the inquisition. She can crush Bethel and kill anyone! Clergy and secular lords are in danger. Trigowal took over as the director of the inquisition and set up a trap to lead the Pantheon into a trap, so that the wizard and Pope Jacob died together, including the ordinary clergy and high-level leaders most trusted by Jacob."

"Since then, the papal line has been elevated. The Knights of radiance have the power to distribute holy power. The testil family ranks first and trigoval ranks second. They have served as deputy heads and presided over the Inquisition for generations." Duke Ludwig concluded: "the fact is that trigoval first worked with the Pope to plan the Pantheon, and finally fell to the paladin camp."

King dodo exchanged eyes with Duke duncrore and asked: "I have two doubts about the chaos of the Pantheon... According to the documents collected by the Friedrich family, the Pantheon disappeared after the great wizard Claire and his brother wiped out Bethel's main force. How did godreke lead them out? Second, the Lord of glory cut off the connection between the wizard and the elemental sea. Where did Claire and his brother's extraordinary power come from Come here? "

Duke Ludwig said with a reserved smile, "only a few families know that Claire is in love with a handsome and elegant noble child. Trigowal is using her sweetheart to set a trap."

"Who is that man... No, I want to know what family the great wizard's lover belongs to?" Friedrich asked with a burning look.

Prince Ludwig was silent for a moment, and slowly said, "the royal family of Tieshan has been divided into several families. The family is the last one to inherit the sequence. Now they are in charge of the eagle lion knights and occupy the western territory of the San sang empire."

"Indeed, it is the ancestor of Usain baselius!" King dodo patted the table and said: "I said how they would suddenly give up their rich territory and move to the West. Originally, they wanted to use Claire's power to seek the throne, but fell into the trap of the Pope and trigoval... Ha ha, this exiled Barcelona saved real strength in the subsequent Orc war and carried the flag of the iron mountain empire. Unfortunately, TESL hated them and preferred to support Philip The special family, to establish the Sassanian Empire, should also squeeze them out of the core of power. "

"The second question, I don't have a clear answer here..." Duke Ludwig nodded, looked deeply at the king and asked calmly, "why do you care about the extraordinary power of the Claire brothers and sisters?"

"Uncle Walter has guessed."

King Friedrich smiled frankly: "I want to cooperate with wizards outside. I must first find out two key questions. First, are they under the control of the referee? Second, can evil gods affect this wizard organization?"

"I think trigowar has the chance to be the first Paladin family and absolutely does not want to be the second. Therefore, they are not prepared to kill Jacob Pope, but Claire's brother and sister are so powerful that how can they be at the mercy of the Pope and the referee? The battle of Jacob Blizzard's power has become the death knell of the Pope. Jacob may entrust trigowar with the golden horn before his death Tregovar brought back to the Holy See, but tregovar saw the weakness of the Pope's blood and handed over the artifact of distributing holy power to the grand commander of testier. Because tregovar was also a knight, they knew the horror of the wind Paladin and that the ordinary clergy were by no means the opponent of the noble clergy. "

"The force of the church has been severely damaged, and the iron mountain empire is crumbling. The Pope is rigid and incompetent. Under their rule, the population is smaller and smaller, and the power of faith is less and less. Instead of letting the Pope continue to be in power, it's better to let the Knights and nobles clean up the mess and reorganize the flag and drum. Anyway, trigoval just wants to allocate more holy power... If it's me, I will Make the same choice. " At this point, King dodo shook his head: "in addition to holy power, paladins also need divine grace to improve their divine skill level."

"Trigowar is in charge of the inquisition and relies on hunting witches to obtain divine grace. However, the awakening of the wizard's talent is too hidden, and the Knights of the inquisition are not easy to meet. Trigowar thought of captivity and used the wizard organization to gather the Wizards. His nest is located in the most chaotic Eastern League! The masked brotherhood controlled by the inquisition has become the cloak of the wizard organization."

"However, how can wizards with extraordinary power want to be dogs and pigs? They have inheritance, insight, wealth and power, and finally just want to become aristocrats. Just like the moon bear family founded by wizards, and Claire falls in love with aristocratic children... The blood and beauty of Knights have an irresistible attraction to Wizards. From the ancient god elect to today's wizards, they have always been So. "

Ludwig suddenly asked, "what did the Wizards offer you?"

"A real knight, a noble woman, a lord's collar, and the protection of the kingdom." Friedrich sneered: "they have little appetite and short life span... For us, keeping wizards is just inclusive."

Duke Ludwig frowned and said, "so you haven't got the way to infuse the potion?"

"That's not true." Friedrich shook his head and said: "The blood thirsty potion does great harm to people. After taking it, it is easy to cause madness and death, and the success rate is very low. Those witches have put forward an effective scheme. The soldiers eat 15 pounds of crude sugar first, and the potion will not directly drain his physical strength and absorb his vitality. Those witches have a female wizard apprentice in their hands, who can calm the human mind and ensure that the soldiers will not be angry Crazy about potions. "

Duke Ludwig twitched the corners of his mouth and said expressionless, "who has mastered the female wizard apprentice, who has mastered the quota of bloodthirsty soldiers?"

Friedrich spread out his hands and smiled proudly, "Uncle Walter, those wizards obviously trust the king more."

"I'm more concerned about whether these wizards who come to the door are a trap set by the trigoval family!" The head of the iron wall Knights interrupted unhappily.

"Unlikely." King dodo shook his head again, hesitated for a moment, and said, "that... Cunning fox asked the wizard organization to assassinate Viscount Randall. There are signs that they did... The assassination failed, viscount Randall exposed the identity of the popular shooter, and the wizard organization immediately cut off its contact with cunning fox and disappeared without a trace."

The Dodo royal family only kept loyal vassal wizards. Cunning fox sold the wild Wizards of the kingdom to the mysterious wizard organization in exchange for their assistance. This limited cooperation mode confirms the speculation that the magistrates are kept in captivity. But the trigowar family would never provoke the divine knight in order to win over one or two wild wizards.

If Viscount Randall is assassinated and killed, the angry Sylvia must force the Pope to use great prophecy to find out the real murderer. In that case, the secret of keeping wizards in the referee's house will be revealed to the world, and trigoval will be over. Therefore, trigowal decisively withdrew the wizard organization in the kingdom of Dodo after Viscount Randall shot Austin. Since the witches carried out the assassination, it shows that the trigowar family has limited control over them, and most of them adopt a single line of contact.

The wizard organization is loose and factional, and it is not impossible for the Dodo kingdom to swallow two or three useful wizards.

Dunkru thought about the connection between them, nodded silently, and recognized the plan to establish a bloodthirsty Legion. King Friedrich said anxiously, "the referee dare not trouble us with such things. What I'm worried about is whether there are evil gods behind those Wizards? The struggle between Claire's sister and brother and the church may be influenced by evil gods."

"Even if the Claire brothers and sisters' extraordinary power comes from evil gods, they have lost to the Lord of glory!"

At this time, Duke Ludwig could not let the king back down. He said, "the Wizards we keep now can't hear the whispers of evil gods at all. At most, they are a few fragmented and meaningless sounds. It is obvious that the power of evil gods can't affect the real world through the Lord of glory."

"I hope so," sighed King dodo with a frown

Ludwig thought for a moment and said, "I guess the power of the Claire brothers and sisters may come from the sacred objects of the barbarians."

"In the age of the chosen one, before fleeing south, the Pantheon wizards concentrated their last strength to go deep into arete and seize the sacred objects of the barbarians. The value of the sacred objects is self-evident. Ancient wizards failed to take the sacred objects. Because 1500 years ago, the sacred objects appeared in the hands of the 'Pantheon' of the iron mountain Empire, or it was originally a collection of the Pope. After the collapse of Claire's sister and brother, it was the paladin A legendary paladin of the trigowal family traveled thousands of miles to track the wizard who fled with the holy things until he reached the Assyrian Empire of endless forest. "

"How can the legendary highness of the trigowal family destroy the altar of evil gods in the Assyrian Empire? Maybe the holy thing is gone."

Friedrich nodded. "Well, that makes sense."

Duke dunkru was somewhat dismissive of the king's prudence, "Your Majesty, we refuse the blood thirsty potion of wizards. They can also take refuge in Gambis, Neville, or the basselius family of the Sassanian empire. If the basselius family forms a blood thirsty legion, our development strategy can fail. Now the most important thing is to control the female wizard apprentice. As for the sacred objects of evil gods and barbarians, they are not needed by our dodo kingdom Consider. Have we paid all our eleven taxes in vain? "

"I think too much." Friedrich shook his head and laughed.

"You might as well worry about Sylvia and Viscount Randall as you worry about inexplicable evil gods." Duke Ludwig warned: "maybe Viscount Randall can become the next sword saint. Sylvia killed the count of the Ludwig family, and the assassination of viscount Randall has been exposed."

The divine Knight alone cannot overthrow a kingdom by personal force. Behind Sylvia is the knight Lord of the whole Gambis. As long as she leads the army to appear on the battlefield, Dodo's Golden Knights have to hide in the castle and watch the Gambis army attack the city and land, and dodo's Lord family fall in the wind.

In the knight's eyes, the divine knight is like the incarnation of yuan suhai. This unique feeling is close to faith. The knight bows to the divine Knight without any psychological burden.

The swordsman has a similar effect, and his political influence is even more far-reaching than the divine knight. At least the high-level female knights are very willing to get close to the sun elves, including the legendary female Knights of the paladin family.

Sylvia vented her anger for Victor, which eliminated a hidden danger in the Dodo Kingdom, and the Ludwig family paid a price for it.

Friedrich said in a deep voice, "then follow the unicorn distribution plan. If the royal family trains a bloodthirsty warrior, it trains a bloodthirsty warrior for the Ludwig family. However, when opening up the ghost forest and prairie, I want to see the Ludwig family army. But the newly opened territory is assigned by me."

Duke Ludwig rose and bowed, "as you wish, your majesty."