Chapter 688

The next afternoon, the Earl and his wife enjoyed afternoon tea leisurely on the big balcony of the master bedroom of Nightingale manor.

Sophia wore a loose and comfortable spider silk nightdress with dazzling purple hair on her shoulders. She tasted a pine nut cake gracefully. Under the round table, her legs overlapped, put her snow-white and exquisite fiber feet on Victor's lap, and occasionally teased her husband who was aftertaste the Sher tea of the arete plateau.

The passionate joy quickly faded the strangeness of meeting again after a long separation. Sophia regained the feeling of intimacy with victor. The difference is that she now enjoys being spoiled by her husband, who used to spoil her little husband.

After all, Victor is now a strongman in the holy land. Before coming to see him, Sophia even worried that the change of state would lead Victor to no longer like himself. The sword Saint delavin is a warning. After he ascended the holy land, he gradually alienated lovers below the golden level.

Sophia is obviously worried. Victor is still Victor, but she naturally puts herself in a lower position to please her husband and enjoy his love.

This feeling is fresh and beautiful.

After eating the dessert, the pink tip of her tongue licked her glittering red lips. Sophia asked softly, "honey, how does the new shere tea taste?"

Victor put down the exquisite silver cup and nodded, "great, I like it very much."

After lifting her hair to her shoulder, Sophia picked up her purple fine eyebrows and asked with a lazy and charming look, "how better than me?"

When she doesn't work, she is a goblin... The primitive race of purple eye blood may have the extraordinary ability to charm the strong... Victor muttered in his heart that, as the master of the mind, he interpreted Sophia's current psychological state from a professional point of view.

"How can the taste of shere tea be compared with that of my wife?" Victor praised the countess very "seriously".

"Konjac potion prevents me from being assimilated by the element sea, but its taste is not as good as my little victor." Sophia smiled, held her cheeks in her hand, and said with bent eyes, "well... Andrea, what about Gillian and me? Whose taste makes you miss more?"

"Er... Honey, do you know the source of purple eye blood?"

Victor coughed and wisely changed the subject, but Sophia had a charming white eye.

"Where do I know the source of purple eye blood? The eastern alliance is the exile of knights and nobles, and there are many, many Knight blood. In the early days, the eliano family tried hard to collect Knight blood, which can be described as" hungry and greedy ". They obtained purple eye blood purely by chance. I'm afraid the kingdom of SUS doesn't know where the source of purple eye blood is? Besides, I'm not the eliano royal family I'm just a stubborn wild knight. I'm a little lucky. You asked me, but I found the wrong person. " Sophia brushed her lips disdainfully, and her red lips were slightly tooted, which was also charming.

Victor said excitedly: "I guess the purple eye blood comes from an ancient intelligent race. Their blood laws are so powerful that they can prevent the purple eye knight from promoting to the golden level. You see, the purple eye Knights of the eliano royal family are women, and there has never been a gold knight. This is because the knight blood wants to lead to the element sea, and the purple eye blood belongs to the law of the real world. Therefore, Like the purple Eyed Lady of eliano, you are naturally endowed with charm, but you have resonated with 36 elements, pushed open the door of the element sea, and reached the semi Golden State. Your eyes are green only when you run and fight. They are usually purple eyes. This is very different from ordinary angry riders, indicating that purple eye blood prevents you from going deep into the element sea... "

"Sylvia said I had a chance to be promoted to the golden rank... I believe Sylvia."

Sophia raised her slender palm to cover her mouth and yawned, indicating that she was not interested in the topic, but shook her jade feet under the table and teased her husband.

Victor sighed helplessly and said, "well, let's talk about something else... You, a big business aristocrat, are welcomed by Lord Sasan. Unlike me, even Princess Angel hid away from me. Have you received any new news these days?"

Sophia pretended to be surprised and said, "you arrived at the Nightingale manor from windbell Town, and there was no lord to entertain the angry wind sword Saint along the way?"

"No." Victor said with a smelly face, "everyone is hiding from me... Crown prince Ziggy and Princess Freya sent secret envoys to me. How can I pay attention to them?"

"My poor little Victor... Has been despised one day." Sophia was full of sympathy and immediately giggled with a look of schadenfreude.

It is because victor and Andrea are officially married that the three Lord camps of the Sassanian Empire deliberately avoid contact with the Stormrage sword saint, and the church wants Victor to go away early.

The Western Lord camp led by the balelius family is willing to get close to the Stormrage sword saint. His highness Randall can be used as a card to contain the shining knights and prevent the church from putting pressure on the balelius family. Since it is a card, you can't move lightly to avoid intensifying the contradiction between the two sides and losing room for maneuver. Besides, his highness Randall is the great lord of the southern kingdom and the throne Contention is the internal affairs of the northern Lord. It seems that the balelius family is very weak to ask his highness Randall to intervene. Therefore, the best way to deal with it is to avoid suspicion. Anyway, with the countess Andrea Wimbledon, everyone knows that the balelius family has a long relationship with the Stormrage sword saint.

The central Lord of Sasan is watching the development of the situation and warmly invites his highness Randall to be a guest. He is suspected of standing in line with the Barcelona family. We'd better not meet.

The eastern Lord group controlled by the shining knights, not to mention, they, like the church, hope that the Stormrage sword saint will leave early. The eldest son and the eldest princess made a little contact and saw that Victor didn't respond, so they didn't waste time on him.

Speaking of it, the high-level Knights of Gambis are treated coldly by the bronze halberd City, thanks to victor. The daikrian family doesn't even entertain the Stormrage swordsman, so we can't invite the silver Knights of Gambis to the bronze halberd city for a banquet.

Sophia was happy for a while. Her eyes were clear again. She said faintly, "the price of grain in the Sassanian Empire has increased. I guess the price of green wheat will increase by 30% in the fire season this year."

Victor nodded and said, "this is to use the food price to urge the free people to go to Sidon to open up the collar and accept the integration of Lord Sasan's tenants."

Sophia said: "in the next three years, the export price of green wheat will remain high. Countries in the south don't want to reserve green wheat."

"Gambis is now self-sufficient and has no problem." Victor shook his head and said with a smile, "there is no green wheat in the west of sassanne, and the grain reserve is not enough to recruit a large number of tenants. The shining knights and the blood wolf Castle only pushed up the grain price, and basselius immediately prevailed. Those wavering central lords also favored the Frederick royal family."

Sophia took up the silver cup, sipped the green Sherlock tea and said, "as far as I know, the order of radiance has added a total of 6 Royal Highnesses and 19 silver paladins. Charlotte Benedict, the wife of Tournus, has also been successfully promoted to the golden Paladin. The promotion ceremony was personally presided over by the patriarch of frides."

Compared with ordinary Knight families, paladins have ancient blood, bright marks, divine grace and other advantages. A brilliant victory has added several Highnesses. Howard Testier was promoted to the legendary wind Paladin. His realm was lower than victor, but Victor didn't dare to say that he could win the big regiment in terms of individual combat effectiveness. With this, the Knights of glory offset part of the influence brought by orokia's promotion to legend.

The strength of the shining Knights has advanced by leaps and bounds, far ahead of any force.

However, the secular belongs to the secular, and the divine power belongs to the church. No matter how powerful the shining knights are, as priests, they can't simply and rudely interfere in the struggle for the throne of the sassanne empire.

"Alas, with so many new highness, I have to prepare a lot of congratulatory gifts." Victor sighed and immediately said with a smile, "I'm afraid Tournus will be very sad in the future when Charlotte is promoted to the Golden Knight. He is not a high-level knight and does not need to abide by the principle of partnership. Charlotte ate him to death."

Sophia smiled and said, "the first paladin is famous for her fear of Charlotte, don't you know?"

Victor was stunned and said with a dumbfounded smile, "I really haven't heard such a rumor."

"Few people dare to say... The wife phobia of his highness tournans is only spread in the circle of female paladins. How about it? The Countess of golden eye is well informed?" Sophia raised her fine chin slightly and said with reserve and pride.

"Then, what secret news can the beautiful Countess tell me?" Victor asked with a smile.

Sophia blinked her eyes, frowned for a moment, and said, "I heard a very formal rumor in the bronze halberd city... About the secret of the sassanne royal family."

"The last emperor of the Sassanian Empire had a short-term partnership with a female priest of the tertier family. Later, the female priest was transferred back to the Holy See, and her relationship with Emperor Frederick ended, but she gave birth to Emperor Frederick's daughter in the Ayres state, named Valerie Frederick."

Victor listened with interest. Sophia said Valerie's last name. He moved in his heart and asked, "Valerie's last name is Frederick? Blood wolf Castle recognizes her Princess identity?"

Sophia smiled and shook his head. "Blood wolf Castle does not recognize this princess's highness. She is surnamed Frederick."

Victor said with burning eyes, "it's interesting. Go on."

"Valerie later gave birth to a daughter with king nahtigal. She passed Frederick's surname to her daughter. She went to the monastery to become a female priest and died twelve years later. She entrusted her daughter to the care of grand commander Howard testier."

"The child is now 18 years old. His name is Elizabeth Frederick. He has the title of Princess of the Sassanian empire... And the right to inherit the throne."

Victor stopped massaging his wife's smooth and tight legs, stood up from his chair, walked to the balcony, frowned and thought for a moment, and sighed with regret: "now the balelius family has no chance."

At present, the basselius family does not have the conditions to restore the iron mountain empire. The Lords and lords of the eagle lion understand the truth. But Emperor Frederick and Archduke both fell, and the Lords attached to the balelius family must make suggestions to the Lord to restore the country. This is a loyal statement, which has nothing to do with the political situation. As the Lord, Basilius must make a firm response. This is the position of the iron mountain Empire and has nothing to do with the personal ideas of the two princes.

Sometimes political games are so stupid that people laugh.

Now that things have come to this point, the Lords of the eagle lion must do their best, and Barcelona is not without a chance.

The strength of the Western Lord group of sassanne is obviously not enough to restore the iron mountain Empire unless they can swallow the whole sassanne Empire and set up the eagle lion emperor flag. The attitude of the Principality of Teuton and the Lords in the middle of sassanne was very important to both the Barcelona and Frederick families.

The Knights of radiance shot, and a set of combined punches came down, and the Barcelona family had no power to fight back.

TESL's first move: does Barcelona have food? Without food, there will be no population. What can we do to restore the country without population?

Second move: the Sidon Khanate has just been defeated, and the armies of the northern Lords have been damaged. The strength of the shining Knights has increased greatly. Do you need the armed forces of the church to maintain the territory and consolidate the results?

Third move: Elizabeth Princess Frederick is the golden blood of nahtigal. She can inherit the throne of the Sassanian empire!

The shining Knights hit the key to the problem. Both the Western lords and the central lords of Satan knew how to choose.

There is a limit to the spread of gold blood, and there is a limit to the territory of the Empire. The Sidon Khanate and the vast Sassanian empire can accommodate two great northern empires. Basselius sheltered under the wings of the shining knights and buried himself in development for decades, and the iron mountain empire is bound to revive. Oroksia and Urien struggled symbolically, and then they compromised. The northern lords united and were happy.

Of course, the Knights of glory openly interfered with the succession of an empire. But this problem depends on two sides. The Lord in the east of sassanne was originally the secular power of the paladin family. The shining Knights did it to their own people, and no one can say anything.

On the other hand, does Lord Satan want to draw gold blood from the Frederick royal family? Lord sassanne acquiesced in Elizabeth's accession to the imperial throne, and external forces could only stare. Even if someone jumped out to accuse the shining knights, Lord sassanne would scoff and say that he was talking nonsense out of jealousy.

The key is that everyone is willing to wait and see Elizabeth patiently The blood quality of Queen Frederick. The glorious church has preserved the ancient Knight's blood for nearly ten thousand years. Now if the paladin can take out the first golden blood, he can take out the second. If the golden blood of nahtigar is stable enough, even if the secular Lord can't raise the family blood to the golden level through marriage, it's very good to be promoted to the silver blood family, which can consolidate a large piece of new territory in the pioneering war.

Moreover, the glorious Knights allowed the restoration of the iron mountain Empire, which marked the shift of the paladin family to the neutral camp. On the contrary, it was considered to interfere in secular politics. At that time, it was not too late for the lords to collectively resist the glorious knights.

Victor shook his head and sighed, "I finally know why the Lord frides asked nahtigal to deal with the Centaur Khan... This is a build-up for Queen Elizabeth. I also want to do something when the shining Knights fight with the balelius family. It seems impossible."

Sophia hugged Victor from behind, pressed her soft chest against his back and said with a low smile: "honey, these don't matter... Sylvia's gift is already on the way and escorted by the barbarian elder Lord Harald... You have done such a big thing without telling me... How are you going to reward me?"

Victor turned and put his arms around Sophia's slim waist and joked, "honey, what do you want?"

Sophia bit her red lips and said with a smile, "a child... Inherits our golden group."

"OK! We'll work hard and maybe we'll have it."

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Shadow Council, dream palace.

Like a knight gathered in the dark, kneeling in the middle of the open hall on one knee, he said in a deep voice: "Master, we failed. The shadow bishop fell into the hands of the scorpion tailed lion, and the Ron Paladin who secretly supported him disappeared. Trigoval was ordered to clean the shadow priest loyal to the shadow bishop and all the bait wild Wizards of the Shadow Council. Now, no new shadow bishop can enter the dream palace, and we have lost contact with the members of the Shadow Council In a few years, the shadow councillors you control will find their own way out and take refuge in secular lords. "

"... the Secret Keeper has entered a dark period. We can only be silent and wait for the new shadow bishop to enter the dream palace and reorganize the Shadow Council."

Dark period... Silence... The speaker of the Secret Keeper appeared in front of the shadow knight as an ordinary adult. His look was heavy and lifelike under the magic of the dream palace. It can be seen that he was in a very bad mood at the moment.

The dream hall has recorded many dark periods, the shortest 13 years and the longest 142 years. During this period, the Secret Keeper can only be silent. Except for the shadow knight, they have lost contact with the shadow priest outside. They can continue to promote the inheritance of the Shadow Council only after someone has trained the shadow Bishop's meditation method to the sixth level and entered the dream hall again.

The speaker of this generation is not young. As a legendary caster, he should enjoy power rather than disguise himself in obscurity. Just like a mouse in the gutter, no matter how capable it is, it dies in the gutter or a smelly mouse that nobody pays attention to. In fact, at the legendary level, it is impossible to go further without the care of fate, and the care of fate It must come from the shoulder.

Shadow priests, shadow bishops and shadow councillors cannot stand silence, and the speaker of the secret speaker is also unwilling to be silent. He and his companions have been planning for a long time, and even used the unique magic of the secret keeper to promote the afterwave of the great prophecy and make the future changes develop to the advantage.

But they still failed, completely defeated. It doesn't matter that the shell thrown by the shadow bishop to the trigoval family was cleaned, but when the shadow bishop died, the messenger of the speaker of the secret speaker died, and the real Shadow Council was completely out of his control. The worst thing is that the shadow Bishop's good friend, high-level Paladin Ron, disappeared, and no one can shelter the shadow priest. Trigowar can dispose of the rest of the shadow priests at will and destroy various arrangements of the shadow bishop, including the execution of his valued heirs.

The appearance of the next shadow bishop is far away, and the speaker of the Secret Keeper is not even sure whether the shadow priest behind will practice hard.

What if someone can successfully build a magic model of the dream palace? In less than ten years, the shadow parliament will collapse, and the speaker of the secret speaker must re-establish a shadow Parliament. This may be decades later, or there may be no chance.

The promotion of the tenant system will make it easy for the newborn little wizards to fall into the hands of the Lords and the church.

The speaker of the Secret Keeper shook his head and muttered, "why did he fail? Why did nahtigar not want to kill the Centaur Khan? If he gets honor and reputation and mediates again, the baselius family and the great lord of Gambis will certainly change their mind and support the shadow priest to come to the front desk. Can't nahtigar be trusted?"

"Nahtigar's response was that the Centaur Khan did not go to the Principality of Teuton, but to the Wharton prairie, which was inconsistent with the original plan." Said the shadow knight with his head down.

"That's an accident! The change of fate line is elusive. There are always accidents!" The speaker of the Secret Keeper roared, the dream hall fluctuated, and the twelve statues of Yin wing angels turned their heads together, as if they had come alive.

When the Secret Keeper calmed down his anger and the dream palace returned to normal, the shadow Knight respectfully said, "dear master, I have some suggestions."

"Say!"

The shadow Knight raised his head, and his white golden eyes shone brightly on his face composed of black fog. "Master, no matter how hard we try, it won't help, because we have no reputation. In the eyes of the grand Lord and high-ranking clergy, the achievements of the unknown can be arbitrarily deprived."

Not to mention the Lord, even the leader will deprive the refugees of their property. As long as he has no master and fails to pay the entry fee to the border post, he can be regarded as an ill intentioned bandit. In fact, these people do engage in illegal activities of poaching and poaching.

Without a master, there is no right, and an unknown voice has no power. This has always been the general understanding of the human kingdom.

"Master, just because we don't have a legal reputation, the count of golden eyes killed me as soon as he saw me, and didn't care to listen to my words at all; the Barcelona family is only using us to obtain the secrets of blood guards and shadow warriors, and they won't really cooperate with us. As for nahtigar... There's no difference."

"No difference?"

"Nahtigal is no different from his highness Randall, from the family of Barcelona, and from the family of paladins! Even if the guardian of light has the right to speak within the church, nahtigal will treat the shadow priest like trigoval. Master, there will be no difference..."

"Ha ha, we are eager to get a legal reputation, so we asked basselius, nahtigar and count golden eye to cooperate. Because we have no legal reputation, they either want to kill us or just deceive us... There is no solution to this problem, I see, I see..." the speaker of the secret speaker laughed and shook his head: "It took so much effort to figure out such a simple problem."

The shadow Knight lowered his head deeply, his forehead almost against the floor, and said in a deep voice, "master, we have only one way out."

"What way out?" Asked the speaker, the Secret Keeper, with a lonely look.

"... awaken the king of shadows..."

As soon as the voice fell, in the open hall, twelve statues of shadow wing angels turned around, and twelve pairs of indifferent white gold eyes stared at the shadow Knight kneeling on the ground.