Throne of the North.

Chapter 524 Assassination and Embrace

There is no second color at dusk. The flames burning on Ryan's body and the reflection of the sunset are exactly the same. The illusory shadow of a giant dragon falls from the sky and soars deep in the sea of ​​clouds, swallowing up countless brilliance.

Finally, the huge dragon phantom sank into the Rhino Horn Mountain and fell into Ryan's body.

His flesh and blood emitted a faint dragon roar, which was the roar of a giant dragon and also the knight's passionate roar.

There are many traces of Knight's Breathing Techniques in Ryan's body. The different characteristics of these Knight's Breathing Techniques illuminate Ryan's body like stars in the sky. Countless shining points make him extremely powerful.

As a noble, he had never personally participated in desperate battles, and no one knew his strength.

"It's not that difficult for me to become a legend."

Ryan murmured that the legend that other extraordinary people desired but could not obtain seemed to be within his reach. As long as he kept moving forward, he would naturally reach the end of the extraordinary path.

"Legends are not the end. For legends, they are just entering a new starting point."

"There are also differences between legends. Strong legends can absolutely suppress weak legends."

Faced with Rose's words, Ryan had nothing to deny, as he had seen many such scenes.

Looking at Rose, he wondered why the dean of the Alchemy Academy came to see him.

"The Great Wall you want... has little chance of success."

Rose sighed and said this, Ryan's idea was too fantastic. He didn't feel anything before, but after reading the fortress information sent by Clayton recently, he felt like the sky was falling.

"It's a project that is impossible to complete. If you want to build a long wall fortress to resist the threat of the orcs in the north, you can't just pile up stones. Those fortresses are almost all built in the valleys between the mountains, on the only gap."

"You want to build a Great Wall on the snowfield... that land may not be able to withstand it, and the construction of the Great Wall requires too many extraordinary factors, countless laborers, and a huge amount of suitable opportunities."

"At least three types of magic array patterns need to be engraved on a stone, and the magic array patterns on 100 such stones must form an effective magic connection. When there are 10,000 stones, which is a city wall, the magic array patterns need to be hidden by three new magic array patterns. At the same time, special materials are needed to bond the gaps between the stones, so that the city wall is indestructible from the fundamental level and can defend against the impact of wild beasts."

"But the enemies you want to deal with, most of those orcs have warriors on the extraordinary path. They can even call on legends and sacrifice the power of great beings to bring about attacks."

"What kind of fortress could defend against an attack like that?"

"But just to do the simplest part, excluding other unnecessary conditions and the most direct money, you will have to spend at least... 100 million gold coins."

One billion!

gold!

What a terrifying number this is. Not to mention the neighboring Andara Kingdom, one of the nine kingdoms on the continent, even if it were given fifty years, it would not be able to accumulate 100 million gold coins.

This number made Rose feel despair, and this was just his preliminary calculation. In reality, the number would definitely be much higher than this.

What if we don't remove other conditions?
Having money is not enough. Many extraordinary materials, magic potions, and even invitations from magicians themselves require a lot of time and energy. Ryan may not be able to buy all the materials, nor may he be able to invite all suitable magicians.

The weather in the north will not remain unchanged, especially in winter. There will be no mountains in that snowy plain that can help humans resist the horrors of the north.

Additional consumption brought by manpower, such as firewood fuel, houses and tents, transportation and supply of food, etc.

Too many impossible things are about to pile up on this Great Wall fortress.

After hearing what Rose said, Ryan fell silent. Before, the Great Wall had always existed in his ideals, but now that the ideals had been reflected in reality, all that was exposed was confusion and helplessness.

"No matter what, the Great Wall project cannot be cancelled."

"Alchemy... can it replace the engraving of magic arrays in the fortress?"

Ryan looked at Rose. He always believed that alchemy and magic were on par with each other. Even those alchemists were puzzled why Baron Ryan was more confident than them.

“It’s… difficult.”

Rose's expression was somewhat ugly and serious. He did not say it was impossible, because the purpose of alchemists was to turn the impossible into the possible. Their ultimate goal was the Philosopher's Stone, which could do things that even gods could not do. It was also the only chance to answer Rose's "very difficult".

"The Philosopher's Stone can replace everything, and it can also create everything. It's just that you can't find so many Philosopher's Stones. It's impossible for there to be so many legendary alchemies in the Pan-Plane."

"If you don't have one, create one."

"Alchemy holds all possibilities, possibilities that are more uncertain than those of magicians. This is the greatest thing about alchemy. You can do everything that magicians can do, and you can also do everything that they cannot do."

“Isn’t this your legendary path?”

"Even the great will of the Shadow Mage cannot stop your breakthrough in alchemy."

Ryan's inspiring remarks failed to arouse Rose's passion and enthusiasm. He was already very old, but after returning, the students of the Alchemy Academy worked hard as if they had been injected with chicken blood.

After seeing off the dean of the alchemy department, Ryan began to worry.

Where can he get so much money? If the Northern Chamber of Commerce and the Northern Heroes Guild want to help him earn 100 million, it will take a long time. Does he really want to be like Yugong and let his descendants work hard for this goal?
"I can't rely on myself, so I can only rely on others."

"There are countless resources in the other world, which can be consumed at any cost. In Norris... who can possess such a huge wealth?"

In fact, there is no extra answer. The Empire and the Holy See are the only two that can possess such huge wealth.

After all, 100 million gold coins and 100 million wealth are two different things.

Ryan cannot become emperor, so it is probably impossible for him to get 100 million gold coins from the empire. As for the Holy See... the current relationship and situation between the two sides may be his only chance.

This opportunity is hard to find.

In the Province of North Wind, because Ryan sent a large number of professional stewards, many nobles have begun to lead their people who have nothing to do in winter to reclaim wasteland.

Due to the limitations of the times and the ability to develop production, there are large amounts of wasteland within the noble territories of this world, not to mention the uninhabited wilderness between territories.

In terms of air quality, this world is ten blocks ahead of the world in Ryan's memory. This is the best description.

But Ryan needed more than just the development of the land in the Borean Province, so he once again went to the Kingdom of Andara.

At the invitation of the King of Andara, Baron Ryan of the Empire, the military earl of the Kingdom of Andara, Ryan Clayton, once again entered the Kingdom of Andara as a defense advisor for the kingdom.

The noble king will rebuild the royal army.

This incident was the result of Daryl exposing the power of the legend. The Andara royal family once again had a legend, which made the nobles unbelievable and suspicious, and the Andara royal family was ecstatic.

They suspect that the curse of the bloodline has weakened and the royal family will rise again.

All of this will become the king's achievement. He excitedly wants to reorganize the royal army so that the situation where McReynolds betrayed him and he is powerless to do anything about it will never happen again.

Ryan came for this reason, but he also said that he was just an advisor and the king had no objection. After all, the royal army must be absolutely under the control of the royal family.

The royal family's intention meant that they would not lack sources of soldiers. They drew from the common people. The nobles were suffering from a lack of opportunities to make a name for themselves. In less than three days, the royal family reorganized an army of more than 10,000 people. This result made Ryan want to laugh.

There were so many wars in the south and north of the kingdom that the king and the nobles could not squeeze out any extra troops. But when the royal family wanted to reorganize the army, so many suitable soldiers and knights suddenly appeared.

The royal family was going to conduct a month-long military training for the army, and Ryan had a relatively relaxed time during this time, so he went to his own Dawn City.

This city snatched from the Dawn Church now completely belongs to Ryan, and this city has become the economic center of the Andara Kingdom.

The final destination of all the chamber of commerce teams from the empire along North Wind Avenue is Dawn City.

Half of the city's land was sold by Ryan, and the remaining half still belonged to Ryan, and all the wealth in it... was concentrated in the hands of a woman.

Queen Leta, because the new King Adams has selected a new queen, Queen Leta is a thing of the past, but she still has an extraordinary status in the Andara Kingdom. Every once in a while, a large number of noble ladies can come here for women's banquets.

This is also one of her few pleasures.

Late at night, Queen Leta became Ryan's pleasure, her body as strong as a dragon emitting scorching heat.

In the evening of the next day, Ryan began to inspect his Dawn City.

"It looks good. Those chambers of commerce have kept their promise to ensure that Dawn City is clean and tidy."

"They won't, because of this clean Dawn City has become a place where more and more nobles want to come to buy supplies."

Ryan turned around and hugged Queen Leta into his arms, then said:

"I need to use the gold coins of Dawn City to fight against the enemies in the north."

When Queen Leta heard this, her eyes widened and she became angry.

"You won't let me return to the palace, nor will you let me return to the Leta family. You've locked me up here. Every time I come here, it's to take away the wealth of Dawn City. What on earth do you want me to do?"

Queen Leta burst into tears. She was young to begin with and was quite emotional.

Ryan could only hug her, and after a long while she calmed down, he said:

"This money is meant to be used, right? Simply storing it won't make it more."

Queen Leta still agreed to Ryan's request. A maid came over with fruit wine. Ryan reached out to pick up the crystal glass, but the maid's arm drooped.

The strength of her arms was not enough, which made Queen Leta a little angry, but Ryan didn't care.

"She just helped you last night, it's normal that she has no strength now."

Ryan laughed, and the woman in his arms blushed. The moment the maid lowered her arm, she pulled out a purple dagger and stabbed at Ryan.

Queen Leta in his arms widened her eyes for a moment, but she didn't know how to react. She instinctively hugged Ryan tightly, watching the dagger that was so close that it tried to pierce both her and Ryan.

It has very evil power, is extremely sharp, and the maid is also very fast.

Fear spread in her heart, and Queen Leta screamed, but she did not feel any pain. When she opened her eyes, she saw Ryan, who was emitting a strong bloody aura, holding the purple dagger tightly in his hand.

Blood dripped down his palm and turned pitch black in mid-air. The moment it fell to the ground, it corroded a large hole in the hard stone.

"For the glory of my Lord!"

The maid murmured in a low voice, and then white flames burned on her body, and she disappeared in front of Ryan.

Throwing away the dagger, Ryan looked at his hands, where a war was breaking out. The knight's vitality and the terrible blood force belonging to him, Ryan, were fighting against a turbid black liquid, which was the blood transformed from part of his blood.

The mutual annihilation eventually made Ryan weak, but even the maid probably didn't expect Ryan's vitality to be so terrifying. After a few breaths, Ryan's face had returned to calm.

Looking at the maid turning into ashes after burning, Ryan's expression was gloomy and indifferent.

Queen Leta trembled in his arms.

"No, not me. I don't know."

She cried, and Ryan gently hugged her with one hand and said:

"Don't worry, I don't doubt you, but she is actually an assassin from the Dawn Church?"

Ryan was puzzled, and Queen Leta also said:

"Melanie has been my servant since I was in the Grand Dukedom. She can't...can't be a Dawn believer."

"It's really impossible."

Last night's performance was so intense that no matter how well hidden one's emotions and personality were, they were exposed, but what happened today was not false.

and so……

"Just today, even as we were sleeping, someone appeared by our bed."

"Instead of killing me outright, he infused her with extraordinary power."

Ryan looked up and saw that the surrounding soldiers had already blocked all the main roads. Brand was searching every dark corner angrily.

"She really wanted to kill me, and she wasn't a black swan."

"She is not from the Vatican."

Ryan laughed. He didn't dare to kill himself while he was still sleeping, but he used this dark method to put himself to death.

"A noble?"

Ryan gently stroked Queen Leta's back. He didn't expect that he didn't have to wait for the fatal means of the Dawn Church, but the nobles had the murderous intention to him first.

Who is it?
The nobles of the kingdom wanted to kill me, the imperial baron who was trying to control the kingdom? Or the nobles of the empire? For example, Meyers. After all, my behavior has been quite bold recently, which has threatened and impacted Meyers' interests.

He didn't know, because he didn't know who could turn a maid who was originally loyal to Queen Leta into a cold and elite killer.

That person might even still be in this Dawn City, watching whether he dies or not.

Thinking of this, Ryan couldn't help but look around.

Nothing can be seen.

(End of this chapter)