Finally, we arrived at the core area of the empire.
Looking at this big city with at least fifteen towering magic towers, Wei Keng calculated the operating rules of this city. That is: how much of the population revolves around supporting magicians and nobles, how much of it revolves around commerce, and how much of it revolves around commerce.
The fields of small and medium-sized citizens such as craftsmen and blacksmiths.
Of course, when the door to the city opens for Wei Keng.
A team of knights ran out. Wei Keng counted with the eye of truth (linked to system analysis). There were thirty regular knights in the team of one hundred and twenty people, and the leader was of the same level as Nord.
grade.
For a large kingdom like Aige, the core knights in its imperial capital actually have less than a thousand people.
Please note that these are knights! When charging as a group on the battlefield, their various values are no less than those of the aliens. Each of their fiefs is supplied by a village of a hundred households. And they are loyal to the Aige royal family.
The armor and weapons equipped are all enchanted equipment.
What is this concept? If the crudest leather armor is engraved with runes that can prevent puncture, most bows and muskets will not be able to penetrate it. If such a knight is close to the infantry array line, it will be absolutely bloody. This
This is why Carret is so urgent about the mechanization of the army.
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The Knights are the core combat force of the Egg Empire (actually a kingdom).
The existence of such a knightly order shows that the vitality of the empire is not lost.
If such a knighthood were destroyed in a large battle, the empire would be completely crippled. It would have to rely on the force of other great lords to try to maintain order.
On the other hand, the Knights, as the cornerstone of the empire, must also rely on the royal family!
Knights who are directly loyal to the royal family have privileges compared to knights in the countryside. In addition to the basic fief (basic salary), the regular salary (local bonus) in the imperial capital is more generous than in other areas. In addition, there are equipment, and
The importance of his position allows him to be tough when speaking to higher nobles!
For example, the earls and marquis who are currently in charge of the empire cannot use their titles to suppress them when facing the commander of the knights directly affiliated with the royal family.
The allegiance of the Knights has caused the issue of royal heirs to greatly affect the stability of the Knights.
For example: if there are two legal heirs in some royal families, and the knights are divided into two factions, the kingdom will be severely damaged immediately.
When the previous king of Aige passed the throne, the current king turned to the kingdom's nobles, causing an imbalance of power.
But fortunately for the kingdom, Father Carret was a loser, so the knights at that time did not have to make a choice, and in the end they directly expressed their stance.
Although most of the power of this king was controlled by the Duke of the Golden Blade, the knights still recognized it and accepted the Duke of the Golden Blade's personnel arrangements for the knights.
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So, a bigger problem has come. That is the issue of the next generation's successor.
That is, so far, the issue of the successor in the Xingche family.
Oh, biographical novels often depict knights protecting princesses. Now knights are no exception.
so!
Standing on the steam car, Wei Keng looked at the queue of knights half surrounding him, and asked Nord with a smile: "Are you inviting me, or are you controlling me?"
Under Mr. Wei's furious expression, he excitedly muttered to himself: "Tsk, tsk, here's the chance to fall out."
Nord: "Please believe me." As the Grand Knight who traveled with Carret, Nord thought that there was something wrong with Carret, but as the heir to the empire, there was no problem.
Carret shook his head: "It's not that I don't believe you, Lord Knight. It's just that the situation in the kingdom has changed. You can't guarantee it."
Nord shouted to the knight commander: "Sudkar, what is your action order?"
Sudekar ignored his colleagues' questions and shouted directly to Karit: "Your Highness, the king summoned you six months ago. Please come with us to see your majesty."
Karit used the loudspeaker: "Sudkar, right? The purpose of coming here is to meet my elders. It's not that you lead me and escort me! You can follow me, but when will you go to see me?
That uncle is up to me!"
Carrette tore open the scroll while preparing.
Oh~ This scroll is just a cover-up, Karet's seven-ring magic is already being constructed.
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Sudkar: "Your Highness, are you ready to give up your inheritance rights?"
Karite was happy. As a descendant of five thousand years of Eastern culture, although he was not a human spirit, these idiots wanted to take advantage of him, and their moral conduct was still lacking.
And by throwing out the most critical topic so obviously and so early, its weaknesses are exposed.
Karet continued to use the amplification technique: "I traveled from north to south, spanning hundreds of kilometers and six provinces. Before arriving at the imperial capital, I expressed my loyalty to the kingdom.
But when I came to the gate of the Imperial Capital, I was suddenly asked, "Do you want to give up your inheritance rights?" Haha, very good, then I already knew from this question that I was asked to come to the Imperial Capital only because someone was concerned about the inheritance rights! ~ I belong to the Xingche family,
I will only fulfill my duties. The inheritance rights have been determined in my father's generation. This is not a decision for me.
And even so, some people are still chasing me! At the same time, some people were sent to surround me to completely solve this problem.
Very good, you have solved the problem, and I can go back. Take me to say hello to my uncle. I will respect all his orders, including depriving me of my right to inherit.
But for the glory of Xingche, I will not accept any coercion."
After saying the last sentence, Carret glanced at the knight standing behind the knights' queue, but actually being protected.
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After finishing speaking, Mr. Wei was very happy and did not allow these fools to refute. He immediately ordered the steam car to turn around.
Nord immediately stopped Carret and escorted him to the city gate. If he really let "Carrett" leave, then he would be a joke.
Several mages also started to cast spells,
However, Karite's spell was released first.
As the light spread, everyone felt that they were being seen through. Many of the city guards were still ordinary people. Suddenly, the memories of the past few months were revealed, and huge fear emerged.
The two great knights Nord and Sudkar were also moved. They originally wanted to raise their swords, but were invisibly hindered because when they raised their swords, countless inappropriate reasons jumped out in their hearts to test them.
The two mages accompanying him unfolded their protective scrolls, but they were still affected.
One of the mages was well-informed and recognized the name of the spell cast from the scroll, Righteous Glare.
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This is a seventh-level spell. Within a radius of twenty meters, all neutral and evil creatures must undergo a round of willpower test. Evil creatures with weak willpower will die directly, and even if they pass the willpower test, they will still
There will be a long period of fear. In fact, the twenty-meter range is just a heart attack. Beyond this distance, even five hundred meters away, evil creatures will still suffer heavy damage.
This is a necromancy spell! It is one of Wei Keng's current six seven-ring spells.
It is quite unpopular. Most of the high-level necromancers' fixed mental spell slots are to control the undead, the rot of entropy, and these dark energy control spells.
As for the fixed positive energy spell, we can only say ~ Wei Keng: "If there is no shortage of attack methods, then complete the defense methods."
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With a glance, the team made a way, and Carret activated the deflagration in the steam car and the restraint rune in the cylinder. The tank had sufficient power and began to leave.
Yes! It’s a real walk, not the retreat art of haggling with the vendors in the City God’s Temple.
A prince who is accused every step of the way and is held back by the right to inherit really has nothing to do! As long as he does not explicitly refuse the right to inherit, but instead blames someone who does not want him to inherit. Then the person who planned all this has no trace of anything.
legality.
As long as one day he has enough strength, he will be beaten violently, and the inheritance of this kingdom will depend on him. And the illegality planted now is the fatal seed.
Wei Keng: "For a strong person, as long as there are things he has not said, he can do anything in the future."
[Narrator: In the ancient times of the main world, after World War II, Bangzi would actively seek compensation. The book was entangled endlessly, but for another country in East Asia, a navy was hired on the Internet to encourage public opinion to learn from Bangzi, and he said, "At least there must be a solution attitude.
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But in reality, as a big country that has the ability to fight back, what attitude does it need? As long as it "remembers history" every year, that is enough. On the contrary, it depends on whether the guys with dirty history have an attitude of admitting their guilt.】
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After about half an hour, the magic effect disappears.
The welcoming team finally came to their senses after all the hesitations. They must not let Carrette's team leave like this.
This month, all parties were watching Carret from the north to the south.
As a result, he was blocked at the city gate, and then turned around and returned. Would the nobles believe this if he said it was Carret's own responsibility? If Carret rebelled against the family, why did it take a month to go south?
Complex processes can sometimes negate the results.
There will definitely be a quarrel at that time.
On this sensitive issue, the king will definitely not admit that Carret came here because of the issue of inheritance! Even if he really thinks so, he can't say it now.
Under any excuse, as long as the fact is that Carret is allowed to return, it is tantamount to clearly asking the Knights to express their preference for Egg to be the next queen.
The king, who now tends to balance the situation, is unlikely to admit it!
Moreover, the Knights are not unified on this issue.
These neutral factions are not supporters of Carret now, but they are also not supporters of the "Queen". If the Duke of the Golden Blade acts so obviously domineering, they will also have a sense of crisis.
Similarly, such a result is not what the powerful Duke Golden Blade wants. The opposition in the empire will rise up and attack.
This is definitely a political crisis event!
It's not clear who will resist the thunder, but Sudkar definitely can't escape, and Nord is also to blame.
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It's just that this group of knights in the imperial capital, how confident they were in encircling them before, are so panicked now as they look for traces of Carret and his party on various roads.
The female knight Leticia, the personal knight of Princess Roxanne, looked at the team of Carrette this time.
Because Roxanne wanted to know how ridiculous that playboy cousin was, she was sent to 'restrain' her. However, she saw this scene at the gate of the city right after.
However, until the sun went down, this female knight who came out of the palace and behaved herself in everything came to a situation she had never encountered before.
This Karite has really disappeared without a trace.
On the road five kilometers outside the imperial capital, all the tanks were parked here quietly, while an honorable man from the imperial capital took care of these war equipment with his servants, and a letter left by Carret.
The content of the letter is very simple. These weapons and equipment were originally intended to be tribute to the kingdom. They have already arrived here, so naturally they will not be taken back. If the kingdom needs them in the future, they will be manufactured for the kingdom.
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As for where Karite went?
The young nobleman led the knight commander to an open space with a magic circle painted on it. It was confirmed that the person they were looking for had left through the group teleportation array.
Good guy.
The young female knight looked at the four 100-meter-diameter remnants of the teleportation array on the ground, which were burned by magic power.
She suddenly felt that this seemed to be a huge conspiracy (trap). Before leaving, Carrette's mysterious smile towards herself was now mocking.
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At night, in the main hall of the empire, the arcane lights illuminate the place brightly. (This is the electrode lamp of the 21st century, but the energy is a gem that stores the capacitor.)
In front of His Majesty the King were Sudkar and Nod who begged for mercy.
One of these two people was responsible for greeting and the other was responsible for escorting. After searching around for a long time with no results, they could only run back and report to the parents "how the naughty child got lost."
The king turned to the two mages and asked: "Have you met Karet's teacher?"
Two mages: "When we went there, we only met His Royal Highness the Crown Prince. The Archmage did not show up."
The last scroll that Karet opened, Glare of Justice, is definitely a magic prop that can only be prepared by the best wizards in the kingdom. Such a magic prop costs at least tens of thousands of gold coins. (Wei Keng does not have the material to carve such a magic guide.
, this was released by myself.)
After the Kingdom Mage monitored the traces of the release of this arcane spell, he lamented that such arcane spells were usually used to fight against large-scale evil events, and they were thrown out directly to hit the Kingdom Knight Squad. That was really the prodigal son of the royal family.
The king said to the mage on the side: "Next month, please send a letter on my behalf. My nephew is ignorant (a prodigal son), and the mage is worried about him."
In the eyes of these mages, Carret, a second-level mage, threw magic props wildly along the way. It can only be said that he was relying on the love of his high-level mage teacher to act recklessly. And after throwing away the props, he came to
At the gate of the Imperial City, he continued to throw four group teleportation props away.
How should I put it? The king was a little distressed that the magic items along the way were consumed. In his opinion, the high-level mage supported the heirs of the Xingche family to arrive in the imperial capital. It was not just as simple as supporting the apprentices, but also wanted to be with the mage of the kingdom.
Some exchanges were reached. However, these resources were used up in this way.
The king can only say that this is the thinking of a mortal!
How willful are the travelers in the main world? How flawed is the system? How outrageous are the agreements reached with the gods of these worlds? Mortals in this world cannot figure it out.
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And on the other side of the palace,
Her Royal Highness was also listening to her knight explain today's situation, and the entire process of the city gate incident was played on the crystal recorder.
When she saw the young man standing on the steam car, refusing to be escorted by the knight, she couldn't help but feel a little flutter in her heart. Of course, this only passed by briefly.
The fight for royal power forced her to think about what she should do now to eliminate the negative factors towards herself.