Throne of the North.

Chapter 259 The Pioneer of Light Arrives

When the nobles arrived with their troops, there was no one beside the corpse.

The nobles looked at the corpses on the ground with extremely ugly expressions. They should have been angry, but at this moment the mood was at its lowest.

"What should we do now?"

Baron Freeman spoke, he swallowed, and didn't dare to speak loudly at this moment.

They could not be sure of the cause of the missionary's death, because the cat-man assassin had only appeared in a few places, Lingdu County and the battlefield of Hongyiyuan. No nobles from Tieshan County participated in these places.

The reason for their silence was that the missionary was dead, and it was certain that he had not committed suicide but had been killed.

Whoever killed him could not be a member of the Vatican, so the answer could only be the nobles of the empire.

Nobles of the Borean Province.

Are they from Tieshan County?
No, who would it be?
No matter who it is, it's huge trouble.

"Throw his body as far away as possible."

Viscount Walter gritted his teeth and said that he didn't want the body to be on the edge of his territory.

The soldiers took action, but after moving the bodies, they discovered a line of carved words on the stone, with traces of divine magic that could not be replicated by outsiders.

"A blasphemer of the Lord, a heretic who calls himself the light."

"damn it!"

Viscount Walter ordered the soldiers to drop off the body and then returned to his castle without looking back.

after one day.

The Archbishop of the Holy See, Adriana, and the remaining missionaries once again broke into Thundercloud County. This time it was no longer a visit. As envoys of the Holy See, they began to question the Marquis of the North Wind.

At the same time, in the mountains of North Wind County, in the Earl's mansion which was easy to defend and difficult to attack, Earl Winter was looking at the letters in his hands and the news coming from afar.

"Count Sauron? How could that old fellow Muir do such a thing? Or was it just a play directed and acted by that little fellow Baron Ryan?"

"Not very likely, so the most likely person is this old guy Muir."

"why?"

Only the three of them knew about the existence of the cat-man assassins. After all, this method did not fit in with the image of aristocrats. Besides, what use would an assassin be if others knew about it? So at first they told the public that all the cat-man assassins had been killed.

For this purpose, a number of cat-people's corpses were brought out as evidence.

Earl Winter did not have much suspicion of Ryan because the body was found in the Frozen Territory, which was not a good thing for the Frozen Territory.

"Isn't this old guy Muir targeting me?"

No matter who did it, on the surface it triggered a struggle between the Marquis of the North Wind and the Holy See, but under this situation, the political struggle between the nobles was not a monolithic one.

Since Marquis Beifeng did not do these things, he would of course be angry at the murderer who did them.

No matter how you look at it, Count Winter is the one with the greatest motive for murder.

After all, he lost so many gold coins every year.

boom!
Thinking of this, Earl Winter couldn't help but slam the table hard.

"No, I have to fight back."

……

Longshan County.

Count Sauron naturally also received Ryan's letter, and because of the distance, he received it earlier than Count Winter.

"This little guy Ryan is really smart."

"It seems like he is asking, but in fact, he is telling me that he may tell the truth at any time. Anyway, his target is us two earls and nobles."

"The storm was brewing, but he always found a way to divert the center of the storm."

“It depends on whether we can gain the most from this political struggle.”

Earl Sauron put down the letter. He knew that this was a game, and the nobles involved were the three of them, plus Marquis Beifeng, who had not yet responded to join the game. "There are only a few people from the Holy See, and I don't know what they are thinking."

Count Sauron was looking forward to the measures of the Holy See, but Ryan was thinking about the empire.

"Faith needs believers. Marquis Beifeng is not really planning to preach in Beifeng Province and cultivate believers, right?"

"This is a bit too slow."

He knew very well that what the empire needed was not a completely new church, and that the greatest role of the God of Light was still on the royal power.

The combination of theocracy and royal power, the so-called belief in the God of Light, is not the most important thing. What is important is to make people understand that the Columbus royal family is the spokesperson for the gods. They have secular rights and the right to believe.

All light is for the royal power of the empire.

Therefore, they don't need real believers and faith at all, it is enough for them to just do it on the surface.

This is why the hatred of the Holy See is so great. If the faith is not pure, it means there is absolutely no faith.

But they parade themselves in the name of the Lord.

The Archbishop of the Holy See broke into Thundercloud Mountain, and on the mountain, an astonishing movement finally broke out. Some people saw divine magic covering the sky within a hundred meters, and it turned into a snow-white blade that fell down, but was stopped by a powerful knight on Thundercloud Mountain.

The archbishop withdrew from the marquisate, and the Marquis of Beifeng finally did the second thing after arriving in Beifeng Province.

To be precise, we have to wait until this time.

Because just half a day ago, a huge team from the south crossed the Flying Wing Canyon and arrived in the North Wind Province.

They came from various provinces and noble families in the south.

The team was huge, with more than 10,000 people gradually increasing, but the key ones were only a hundred people.

They were of extraordinary status, being the heirs of nobles, second sons or favored children, or the descendants of some powerful and extraordinary people, and they all came to the North Wind Province together.

Without exception, they entered Leiyun County and, under the witness of Marquis Beifeng, took out their development orders.

The lordship system finally took shape.

These sons of nobles had no right of inheritance, but their fathers had planned a better future for them than what they would have otherwise had, becoming lords and true nobles.

Before the Lordship system, they were at most pioneer knights.

However, after the lordship system, the status and voice of the fifth-rank nobles behind them increased, and they could become lords.

But as a compromise, these people are also devout believers of the God of Light, they are...pioneers of light.

Although every pioneering noble is what the empire calls a pioneer of light, it is obvious that other nobles are different from these true "believers of light". They must fulfill their duties as believers, whether it is sincere or just for show.

After these people arrived, all the remaining unowned lands in the North Wind Province had owners. Of course, the number was too large, so more than half of the pioneer lords really had to become true pioneers in the wasteland.

At the same time, the first thing that Marquis Beifeng did also yielded results, that is, he spread the faith in the God of Light, which also had an effect at the basic level.

He gave those people to twenty-three lords with great aristocratic backgrounds.

The source of these people, of course, were the former subjects of Earl Weiss of Leiyun County, as well as the population that other nobles of Leiyun County had to give up.

“Light is the creator of all things, and we are believers and devout servants of light.”

"The great Columbus royal family is the incarnation of the God of Light in the world and the absolute ruler of the empire."

These lords spoke of their faith in light and pledged their allegiance to the great walker of light, Emperor Columbus.

The combination of royal power and divine power also began to unfold at this time.

On the third day after the news spread, Ryan in the Frozen Territory received two messages.

The first one was the familiar Glimmer Territory, the barony without a lord in Thundercloud County, which was given to a lord, a lord from the family of Grand Duke Meyers - Valent Meyers.

Second, he died on his way to office.

Also dying with him was a member of Earl Winter's family, the Earl's nephew, the second son of Lord Hora, the Sky Knight, who originally represented Earl Winter's attitude.

(End of this chapter)