Old World, Britannia, Duchy of Mousilon, City of Jean, Duke's Castle of Llane, Winter Veil Festival.
After experiencing the Battle of Nuer, Ryan originally wanted to take a break and resume the construction of Mousilon with peace of mind. After all, development is the last word.
But life is never what Ryan imagined. When he wanted to live a good year, a huge commotion suddenly broke out in Musilon.
The rebellion first emerged at the canal site in Mousillon. Workers who were digging the canal openly went on strike after learning about the investiture ceremony of the Old Guard. They shouted for changes and demanded more money.
Welfare benefits, more vacations and more pay, they even demanded the establishment of a union.
As a result, Lane's originally planned construction period from the Sandness River in Kurona to the Grays Murray River went bankrupt due to this strike, and stopped only about fifty kilometers away from the Grays Murray River.
Lane had to immediately send out manpower to negotiate with the workers, and then he was stunned by the conditions proposed by the workers. They had already come up with equal pay for equal work and minimum working hours. How could these workers come up with this? What era do they think we are in now? Everyone has it.
Meat to eat? No need to fight against Chaos? Canal digging workers can be considered very conscientious if they can give them food and some wages.
What bike do you want?
Ryan could sense that something was wrong, so he immediately sent people to investigate, infiltrated among the workers, and began the investigation.
Sure enough, Chaos cultists appeared among the canal workers, and they had formed a fairly tight organization, headed by a secret leader of the "Purple Hand" sect.
The Hand of the Purple Purple is one of the Chaos Sects of Tzeentch and one of the largest Chaos Sects in the Old World. After receiving Tzeentch's oracle, this Chaos Sect followed the imperial immigrants to Mousilon and secretly developed followers.
They carefully protected and concealed their existence. If they had not received Tzeentch's oracle, they might have been able to lurk for decades.
When Ryan discovered the shadow of the Chaos Cult, these Chaos believers had grown to thousands of people, and branches had been established in several baronies of the Principality of Mousilon and even in the city of Mousilon. When Lucien, Baron of the Spire Palace, led the army,
When they went to annihilate them, these strange cultists actually summoned the Tzeentch Demon, and once repelled Lucien's attack, it was not until reinforcements arrived that this group of cult gangs were completely annihilated.
By this time, things had become quite big, and the industrial belt along the Mousilon River that Ryan had finally built was showing signs of instability. He had to immediately assemble a standing army of 3,000 people and go there together with the Old Guards.
Musilon pacified the Chaos Sect, and Teresa also went with the army.
No matter how powerful the Chaos cultists are, they will naturally not be Ryan's opponent. It took two weeks, but Ryan was able to eradicate all the new strongholds of the Purple Hand sect in Mousilon with relative ease, at least on the surface, Chaos was completely wiped out.
The existence of sects.
Surprisingly, in the past, the Tzeentch sect had provided a lot of support for the actions of the Hand of Purple. They even did not hesitate to consume divine power to grant magical spells to their believers, give revelations and even dispatch Tzeentch demons. But when Ryan actually appeared
At that time, the evil god quickly abandoned his followers, pretending that nothing happened, and not giving Ryan any chance to fight back.
What’s even more disgusting is yet to come.
First of all, because the Purple Hand emerged and spread from the imperial immigrants, the natives of Mousilon suffered greatly from it. This led to Ryan doing his best to make the natives of Mousilon and the imperial immigrants live in harmony.
and the results that were integrated as much as possible were immediately lost in half, among those who were corrupted by Chaos
In the most serious areas and the areas most severely damaged by Chaos cultists, the Musilon natives and the imperial immigrants had a lot of conflicts after Lane's army left. They relied on Lane's own prestige to suppress them and wanted to restore them to their original state.
In the past, it may take longer to understand and help each other.
This really makes Ryan feel extremely sick. The delay in the construction of the canal is barely acceptable, but trust between people is difficult to restore, and the reconstruction of Mousilon urgently needs the help of imperial immigrants. This is like
Ryan was working hard to build the blocks, and finally half of them were built. Tzeentch rushed out from nowhere, pushed the blocks down, and then ran away with a sinister smile.
This is not the most disgusting thing. Waiting closely behind Ryan is the opposition of the nobles of the kingdom.
Britannia's conservative nobles finally found an opportunity to fiercely oppose Ryan's series of reforms and initiatives within the kingdom's court, especially the promotion of knights from serfs, the serf household registration redemption system and the
These measures to promote the industrial belt along the Grays Murray River are conservative and noble.
The tribesmen believe that Ryan's measures will not change the current situation of Britannia, but will attract disaster and the eyes of the Chaos God. Serfs are serfs, nobles are nobles, this has been the rule of Britannia since ancient times, and
, if one day the serfs stop farming, who will cultivate the land?
This is especially led by the current Duke Taubert of Le Angoulan, Duke Fourcade of Montfort, and Duke Casfan of Palaon. These three Dukes have always opposed Lane's reforms.
They issued fierce criticism, believing that Lane's measures were unfeasible and hoping to abolish these proposals.
Lawn, who was in charge of the Prime Minister's affairs in Curona, was very troubled by the impeachment of the three dukes. At this time, the old king Richard, who was about to step down, helped Lane once. Richard asked Lawn to put down these objections.
The reason was that Ryan was only doing this in his own principality and the principality of his father-in-law Francois, and did not force other principalities to carry out similar reforms. Naturally, it was their own business. As the regent of the kingdom, Lawn
No ruling can be made.
Richard's method was a very stupid but effective one. Ryan was initially surprised to learn that the old king was actually willing to speak for him, but he soon understood that the old guy was hedging his bets. His nephew objected, so he
After helping Ryan a little bit, if Duke Taubot supports Ryan, he will definitely oppose it.
Bodrick, Duke of Bordeaux, Francois, Duke of Wynford, and Hubald, Duke of Carcassonne naturally supported Ryan. The regents of the kingdom, Laune, Duke of Connet, and Adehad, Duke of Lyonnaise, secretly expressed their support.
I support it, but I have made it clear that I don’t have to say anything to express my support directly.
As for the other dukes, they are still waiting and watching. They have seen the turmoil in the Lane territory and the vitality brought by the reform. The most contradictory among them is Bohemond, Duke of Bastogne. Bohemond is an Asian
The most orthodox descendant of Se, he naturally changed his mind about Ryan.
He was dissatisfied, but he also saw the changes that Ryan had brought to his territory, especially since Kalad was Devon Hill's godfather. After thinking for a long time, he decided to take another look, but he had already sent people to start forming a
His own elite infantry regiment "Red Dragon Guards".
The fierce opposition and the counterattack of the conservative nobles made Lane upset. Although these opponents could not affect the overall situation, they could not cooperate.
They only need to oppose, but Ryan has to solve countless problems, and there are countless pairs of eyes staring at him at any time, waiting for him. The smallest mistake will be infinitely magnified and become an attack by political opponents.
His excuse.
Is Ryan strong?
He is very powerful, and he has countless identities. He is the Primarch of the Gray Knights who is not afraid of corruption. He is the noble son of the Emperor. He is the divine champion of the Lady of the Lake, the patron saint of Britannia. He is also the Mu
Duke Silon, the perfect man of the Eight Virtues of Chivalry, Landuin, is the orthodox heir of the Victor. He is the Grand Knight of the Holy Grail, and he is even a time traveler. He has actually mastered this country, and has multiple identities and
The huge prestige has given him the conditions to focus on his ideals.
In this way, he was still troubled by a series of recent events.
Obviously, Tzeentch played his own conspiracy in this series of events. The evil god actually did not hope to do anything to Ryan. He simply wanted to disgust Ryan, and it was really disgusting to him.
.
This led to the fact that when Ryan withdrew his troops and prepared to return to Jean City, his face was still filled with black energy and a look of displeasure.
"What's wrong? Ryan, I rarely see you like this." Right next to Ryan, the sorceress Theresa looked at Ryan's appearance and found it really interesting.
This time going to Mousilon to suppress the Chaos Cult, Ryan needs a magical helper. Sulia and Sylvia both need to bring Devin Hill, and Orica is busy with an important magic experiment. Veronica
He was still in retreat and attacking the Holy Land, and in the end, Teresa went with him.
"There are too many things to worry about." Ryan shook his head painfully, and the snowflakes falling from the sky fell on his head. Duke Mousilon was wearing a complete set of ducal clothes, and his face was ugly: "I think I must admit
, Tzeentch really disgusted me now. I have a headache when I think of a lot of things that will happen next. On the Day of the Lady of the Lake next fall, I will ascend the throne in Curona and become the next King of Knights.
But when I think about these countless things..."
Teresa could feel Ryan's troubles, but obviously the sorceress didn't know how to comfort people. She thought for a moment and simply joked: "What? Our great hero, Duke Ryan, who is famous in the old world, will also be killed by mortals."
Are you troubled by Shi’s affairs?”
"I am also a normal man." Ryan glanced sideways at Theresa. After being teased by the sorceress, he temporarily put aside his inner depression and unhappiness: "Otherwise, I should go find a Holy Grail Church and stay there. It will be fine.
Just pray and come out to fight if something happens."
"That's not okay! If you do this, I will have to become a nun with you." Teresa knew that Ryan was just talking, but she was still a little unhappy. She was busy with work and had to study magic.
She and Ryan also spent less time together and separated more, and finally found an opportunity to go out with him. The sorceress didn't like to hear Ryan say such things.
"Isn't this great, Mother Teresa, hahahaha~" Hearing this, Ryan suddenly laughed.
Although she didn’t understand what Ryan was laughing at, out of a woman’s instinct, Teresa still gave Ryan a sanitary eye, because she knew that Ryan must not have good intentions. This was her intuition: “You must be thinking of something weird again.”
What happened?"
Today's sorceress is wearing a black swan and cold witch robe, her long and straight legs are wearing tight brown breeches and a pair of black high-heeled boots. This time she comes back and slightly trims her long, shimmering black hair.
It was a little shorter, changing from waist-length to back-length. The black butterfly-patterned glasses remained the same. Her little hands wrapped in white lace gloves tightened.
She took the reins and rode the mixed-blood elf war horse given by Ryan. Owning an elf war horse was a very honorable thing in the Gloria Council. Teresa named the horse "Laurel". Laurel was often borrowed by fellow witches for breeding.
, but the same thing is that the witches who know nothing about the breeding of elf war horses have tried for a long time without success, and their clothes and clothes are full of the smell of the stable.
The three thousand people led by Ryan continued to advance. Before dusk, they took the time to cross the Grays Murray River and entered the Principality of Bastogne. The army of three thousand people arrived not far from a village and began to prepare.
Stationed while replenishing some supplies to the local serfs.
Naturally, the villages of the Principality of Bastogne cannot accommodate the garrison of so many troops, but when they heard that the Holy Grail Knights appeared, everyone rushed out to watch, and they were also willing to sell some surplus grain to Ryan's army. Many serfs took the opportunity to sell their grain and
After raising livestock and earning a small bag of silver coins, the village elder gave up the best big house in the village for Ryan and others to live in.
After simply settling in, Ryan and Teresa entered the big house. The old guards and the knights' retinues had already paved the inner room of the big house with carpets. There was still some time before dinner, and the two of them looked at the simple environment in the big house.
and the dim light suddenly looked at each other and smiled.
Fourteen years ago, after they set out from the Nordic City, they also came to a village. In the evening, the two of them had dinner together by candlelight and chatted. Teresa stepped on her boots and raised her long legs.
Leaning on the chair: "If you ask me, it feels not bad."
"What makes it feel so good? Such a simple environment." Ryan also sat on the bed with a smile. Fourteen years ago, he had nothing but the title of a kingdom knight and a set of equipment. Fourteen years later, he was already a famous sportsman.
It is no longer possible for human heroes around the world to go on adventures with Teresa.
"A simple environment?" Teresa looked at the walls of the room with nostalgia. The walls made of wood as the main material were not very strong, and there were even occasional air leaks. However, she was full of nostalgia for everything. The sorceress stretched out her hand to touch
He touched the table and the wall, completely ignoring the dust on his gloves: "But I feel it's very warm, even warmer than the bedroom in my wizard tower?"
"What's the reason?" Ryan also understood.
"Reason? Do you still need a reason?" Teresa stood up from the chair. She walked to Ryan, sat down, and looked at Ryan's increasingly mature face: "Wherever you are, it is warm.
.”
"Theresa..." Ryan held the sorceress's hand. He was about to say something, but Theresa had already closed her eyes.
"Okay." Ryan also closed his eyes, and the two of them gradually got closer.
At this moment, the sound of footsteps coming from outside the room made the two people separate quickly.
"Theresa, Ryan?" Aurora's voice came from outside the door.
The Holy Witch is wearing a sandalwood brown style lace-up diagonal long skirt. Under the skirt is a beautiful calf wrapped in black ultra-thin stockings and a nude stiletto high-heeled shoe with a strap behind the heel.
Wearing a butterfly sash, the smooth and delicate insteps are exposed, and her elegant temperament and charming face can be seen from outside the door.
Rushing towards her face, Aurora opened the door of the room. The Holy Witch was a little impatient at first, but she immediately understood something after seeing the appearance of her daughter and Ryan. Aurora's face turned red, and she gently
Coughing a few times: "Dinner is ready, you guys... let's eat first, don't be in such a hurry..."
"Mother, we are just..." Teresa also blushed, and the sorceress quickly stood up: "Lian and I were just chatting!"
"You... chat?" Aurora glanced at the bed. The Holy Witch was not going to argue with Theresa: "Okay, whether you want to chat or do something else, let's have dinner first."
"...Let's go, Ryan." Teresa was embarrassed to say any more, so she quickly stood up.