Shortly after William woke up, the king's bodyguard came to convey the king's will.
As for the content of the decree, it was nothing more than reprimanding William again for his dishonest words and deeds and his stubbornness, and finally announced an appointment.
The seventeenth prince William Sides was awarded the title of Viscount.
At the same time, the territory was entrusted to Barron Territory.
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"Barren collar?"
Harry exclaimed and jumped up from his stool, his face full of disbelief.
"Why is it the Barron Territory? Isn't it the southernmost part of the country? No prince has ever been sealed to such a remote place!"
"Are you sure the guard is talking about the Barron Territory?"
"What I injured was my butt, not my ear." William explained patiently, "Although it's a little more remote, the territory is huge. A viscounty is as big as a count."
"No matter how big it is, what's the use? It's barren and dangerous..."
Although William's reason was very good, Harry kept muttering angrily.
He really couldn't figure out why there was such a way of enfeoffment. Not to mention that it should be divided into rich places, at least it couldn't be too dangerous.
However, the Barren collar is very dangerous.
It is located at the southernmost tip of the Kingdom of Sedes, where the land is barren, vast and sparsely populated, and it is close to the Howling Wolf Grassland. Many wars break out every year. If a powerless prince like William goes there, he really doesn’t know how long he can survive.
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"Why is this happening..."
Harry sighed and sat down decadently.
He is William's half-brother. He just turned 15 this year. Like William, he is a transparent person who does not receive much attention in the palace, but the relationship between the two brothers is very good.
William said nothing more. Since the enfeoffment was a foregone conclusion, it was useless to dwell on it. It was better to think more about what to do next.
He carefully counted the capital and power that this body could control, and found that it was not completely zero.
First of all, it is the identity of a prince.
No matter whether he is favored in the palace or not, he is still a prince, and he can definitely use this status as a fulcrum to leverage some benefits for himself.
Secondly, he also has an uncle who is a viscount. That uncle's territory is also in the south, not far from the Barren Territory.
Finally, there is the Heart of Origi.
After all the calculations, it seems that we can only rely on Origi's Heart. At least we already have Selani, and there is also an ancient hero brand, although we don't know the specific effect of the ancient hero brand.
"I have to find time to try the effect of the ancient hero's brand, and test Selani's strength by the way."
Next to him, Harry kept mumbling like a resentful woman.
Seeing that William didn't listen to him, he became even more resentful.
"Have you listened to me? Our brothers are going to be separated soon. Why don't you feel sad at all?"
William was surprised, "No, I'm just...very anxious too."
"Go on, what's wrong?"
Harry said: "I suspect that your current bad situation is all caused by the eldest prince, including the beatings you received and the enfeoffment."
"Why do you say that?"
"Yesterday when you were beaten, he was by your father's side. Who else could he be?" Harry said confidently, and then asked: "But why did you foolishly seek a duel with the Dornishmen yesterday? Did anyone encourage you?
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"Don't think too much. The eldest prince may be bad, but there may be someone worse than him."
William secretly thought that if the eldest prince really suggested that his father beat him, then the person who wanted to kill him would not be the eldest prince.
Because doing so will only harm his interests.
Since the interests of the eldest prince will be damaged, who will benefit?
Anyway, it will definitely not be William himself, because he is the victim, and the real William has already lost his hair.
As for why you wanted to duel with the Dornishmen?
What else could be the reason? Arrogance.
Although the former William was not favored and had no backers, he was confident!
Extremely confident, he was born with an arrogance that looked down on all living beings. Unfortunately, he ran into the iron plate of Dorn and was not given time to cultivate his arrogance into pride.
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The two brothers chatted for more than an hour before Harry left with a sad head.
After watching him walk away, William withdrew his gaze, returned to the room, sat down, poured a glass of water and drank it all.
After thinking for a while, he picked up his sword and came to the courtyard.
He has just turned 16 this year and has just finished training as a knight apprentice not long ago. It stands to reason that he can now try to break through to a formal knight, but he has only reached the minimum standard for trying.
In this world of swords and magic, the way of a knight is the same as the way of a mage, and both are extraordinary professions.
The first stage of a knight is called "Knight Apprentice", which corresponds to the "Mage Apprentice" of a mage.
At this stage, they have no extraordinary abilities, at most they are strong and thoughtful.
There is only one training content for knight apprentices: to train the body.
When a person reaches adulthood at the age of 16, the human body has initially reached a stable level of activity, and you can try to break through the knights. Not only does the success rate of trying too early be very low, but if it fails, it will also cause irreparable sequelae to the body and strain the body.
The function is to increase the success rate of the breakthrough knight.
William held the big sword with both hands and practiced the sword skill skillfully.
This set of swordsmanship is not a profound and extraordinary skill, it is just a basic swordsmanship common to princes and princesses.
Although it didn't take more than ten minutes from raising the sword to lowering the sword, sweat was already showing on William's forehead.
In the process of practicing swordsmanship, he tried to find that unique feeling that the teachers said was a feeling of stability in mind and body.
They say that the feeling cannot be described in accurate words, it is just some specious mental experience. Even if you are a person who has just broken through the knights, if you ask him what it feels like, he cannot accurately describe it...
I can only say one word: unity.
For those who have successfully broken through the Knights, after much thought, only the word "unification" can express the feeling of breakthrough.
It is precisely because of this that countless people cannot become true knights in their lifetime.
It is said that the probability of a knight's apprentice becoming a knight is far lower than the probability of a knight breaking through to become a great knight. However, William does not care about this. He only cares about whether he can break through.
After practicing the swordsmanship once, I feel quite tired, but other than that, I don't feel anything else.
"do it again."
Well, I'm more tired, but it seems a little different.
"do it again."
Hiss...it really feels like it!
"Come again, come again."
Over and over again, until he completely collapsed to the ground. Unexpectedly, he happened to land on his butt, which immediately caused an injury to his butt.
Only then did he remember that his butt was still half rotten...
It's really sad.
William lay on the bed, carefully thinking about the training process just now, and suddenly realized that there was no special feeling, it was nothing more than psychological hypnosis.
"I know that enlightenment and soaring in one day are not something I can have."
"wrong……"
I don't know what I thought of, but suddenly I slapped my hand on the bed: "It's not an illusion, there is really a difference!"
"It seems that the 'King of Severji' has had an effect..." This chapter has been completed!