Throne of the North.

Chapter 525 Kingdom Land Lease
"He is so powerful?"

"Is the bloodline of the Dragon Knight like this?"

A corner of Dawn City.

[Demon Hunter] Rosalind looked in amazement at Ryan's palm that even a dagger could not cut, and also watched him resolve the blood and qi of the abyss poison in just a few seconds. This result was beyond his expectations.

He had tried his best to imagine how powerful a Northern Baron was. The poison in the abyss could kill a Saint, and even a Legend could not escape unscathed. However, he was defeated in front of Ryan.

Rosalind didn't understand how Ryan could be so powerful at this age. As a rising star in the empire, could anyone else be as powerful as Ryan?
He felt that it was not possible. Even the Chosen Emperor Floyd, or Aatrox, who was also of Clayton's bloodline, were definitely not as powerful as Ryan at Ryan's age.

Such a person cannot be killed by a simple assassination.

This answer left Rosalind silent. She couldn't take action herself, nor could she even reveal Meyers' unique methods.

The patrols in Dawn City became more and more frequent, and the knights were furious. Rosalind waited for a day, trying to find a second chance, but the Northern Baron was always on guard and didn't even approach the bed.

The Demon Hunter was not interested in what happened between Ryan and King Andara's previous queen. He gave up other means and would take action himself if the time was right.

However, suddenly, there was a vibration in the sky that seemed to resonate with the earth, and Rosalind looked at the sky of Dawn City in surprise.

"He can command the legend of the Andara Kingdom?"

Rosalind opened her eyes wide. It was not like she had never dealt with this Northern Baron before. She had cooperated with him when she faced the Silvermoon Court of Orcs.

At that time, Ryan was surrounded by only a few cats of different sizes, not to mention the legendary ones, even the holy ones were nowhere to be seen.

But now, how could the legend of the Andara Kingdom listen to him and come to Dawn City?
Or was it because Ryan was assassinated, which made the royal family nervous? But wasn't the king afraid of death? Why did he let the legend leave the palace?

Rosalind knew she had no chance, there was no way she could make a move without being exposed, and the legends of this kingdom were still searching for traces of all the legends in Dawn City.

If the blood curse of the Andara royal family is really purified, then Rosalind should also be careful, because the extraordinary foundation of a kingdom is not just talk.

"Can you find it?"

In the distance, Ryan finally felt a lot more relaxed and asked Daryl.

The latter shook his head. He stood on the ground, connected with the land with an inexplicable rhythm of the earth. Everyone in the entire Dawn City felt a sudden pressure in their hearts, but still could not discover the extraordinary in it.

"He's mysterious."

Daryl said that he couldn't find the legend hidden in this city. Maybe he had left, or he was more powerful than him.

"Let the nobles be on full alert."

Ryan said that if it was a noble from the kingdom, he hoped that the other party would be thrown into disarray. If it was a noble from the empire, Ryan hoped that it would be this one.

From the Andara Kingdom to the North Wind Avenue and into the Flying Wing Canyon, all of them are his eyes and ears. As long as he is still a human being at this moment, he cannot escape this long border unless he flies into the sky or hides underground.

Ryan didn't need to stop him, he just wanted to find out the other party's identity and which noble was plotting against him.

The threat of death is hidden in the dark, so Ryan certainly can't forgive it easily.

The person Ryan sent to the royal city also came back, and that [Ivy] gave Ryan a result.

"It's probably not magic. A sanctuary or legendary shadow magician can do it, but most of them are legends on other extraordinary paths."

There is nothing else after this conclusion. The legendary priest did not have time to help Ryan. He was a legendary priest of the empire, not a follower of Ryan. He was able to come to such a conclusion because of the previously silenced ascetic monk.

"Isn't he a magician?"

Ryan ruled out the answer of the shadow magician. After all, there was a former shadow magician in his own territory. According to Rose, the more powerful the shadow magician, the more he wanted to get rid of him. He probably didn't have time to play the game of nobility.

Yes, a game for nobility.

When Ryan was sure that the other party had many opportunities to kill him directly but did not dare to do so, he had already determined that this was a game between nobles.

A baron is still a king. As long as it is within the rules of the nobility, a baron cannot but kneel before the king, and a king cannot target a baron without any reason.

Dictatorship is something that can never exist in aristocratic rules.

So is assassinating nobles also within the rules of the game?

Ryan pondered for a moment and did not say that this was within the rules, but at the same time, he did not say that it was outside the rules.

Viscount Miles killed Viscount Dragun on the battlefield, and then died at the hands of his own son. The nobles of the Borean Province also killed Earl Weiss in the war. Marquis William died in an assassination by the Vatican, and Nyx Columbus also died in the Church of Light in the Kingdom of Andara.

They are all aristocrats.

After experiencing the bloody civil strife and chaos, the empire had an iron law that prohibited the nobles from killing each other in any way.

If I'm playing word games... it doesn't say that non-nobles should kill nobles.

Of course, this is not allowed, but it's just like when Ryan encountered a cat-man assassin on his way to office. As long as he doesn't get caught, won't everything be fine?

This is why the assassin did not dare to assassinate him openly.

"I must at least know which of my enemies is beginning to grow impatient."

Ryan was obsessed with this. He didn't know where the enemy was, so he didn't know how to counterattack.

After what happened, Ryan couldn't stay here any longer. He didn't dare to go back to the Frozen Territory easily, after all, he had to pass through too many uninhabited lands along the way.

He went to the kingdom's capital city, just in time to serve as a military advisor to inspect the results of the royal army's training.

"Each of these 10,000 people has noble aristocratic blood. They are the king's loyal followers and will serve him till death."

Daryl is naturally the commander of the royal army. The Andara royal family wants to rebuild the Palace Legion. Ryan has never seen that extraordinary legion, but the old king was able to lead it to fight against various alien races and win, so it is naturally not weak.

The Andara royal family seemed to have purified the curse of their bloodline. Each royal member was enthusiastic and had brought out a lot of royal heritage. There were not many royal members to begin with, so almost every one of these people knew some royal secrets.

"In the spring, let this army go north."

"It's time to solve the problem of the Rhinoceros Orcs. When the time comes, Grand Duke Leta will go to the south and put enough pressure on the Kingdom of Sera. The war may stop as a result."

Ryan said, looking back at the army.

"It doesn't matter whether they have noble blood or not. Only those who survive can become a member of the Extraordinary Legion."

The royal family's formation of a supernatural army is certainly a good thing for Ryan. As the situation on the Norris continent becomes more and more tense, Ryan begins to need to strengthen his territory. This piece of land in the north cannot be defended without sufficient strength.

As for why Ryan judged the situation to be tense, it was also related to this assassination.

In the past, the nobles would not do such a thing, but now that they do it, it means that the eyes of most noble supervisors have been distracted too much by other things, resulting in their attitude towards the death of nobles being no longer so positive and absolute.

Of course, the fact that the emperor has been fighting a war for a year without any result, but still stationing troops in the Thousand Lakes Province in the south is also a signal that what was not accomplished last year, Emperor Flor will probably be even more crazy this year. He must win a victory over the Holy See in order to consolidate the confidence of the imperial power in fighting against theocracy.

To be honest, even Ryan, a time traveler, has no confidence in facing the enemy of the Dawn Church. God knows what the Dawn Church, which has ruled Norris for countless years, can come up with to restore order.

Daryl doesn't have a lot to do, as a legend he just needs to stay alive.

So for the next period of time, Daryl kept looking for Rosalind's whereabouts, which made the legendary "Demon Hunter" couldn't help but feel angry.

Demon hunters are not good-tempered people.

Another legend was constantly searching, forcing him to do some embarrassing things in order to hide most of the time, but the legendary knight with the title "Mammoth" was no match for him.

Rosalind could not find any opportunity, and taking action in the royal city might even prevent him from leaving alive. After several years of development, this royal city had more means to fight against the extraordinary.

And there is also a legendary magician in that Church of Light.

He left, ready to return to the empire and wait for the next opportunity.

During his time in the royal city, Ryan not only served as a military advisor, but also counted the resources of the Andara Kingdom.

Mr. Rose gave him a staggering number, so naturally he couldn't help but check what resources were needed within the Andara Kingdom.

At first glance, it seemed that a little bit of everything was needed, but Ryan also discovered a problem.

"There are no strategic resources within the Andara Kingdom."

What are strategic resources? For example, the iron ore in the Borean Province is one of them.

Metal iron can produce a large number of iron tools, and can also be used to forge weapons and armor needed for war. This is a strategic resource. After all, even an extraordinary knight can fight against many enemies at once if he has equipment suppression.

For example, precious extraordinary resources such as magic crystal ore, or wealth such as gold mines and silver mines that are necessary for fighting a war of attrition.

The Andara Kingdom had none of them.

There were no mineral veins under this land, but Ryan was a little surprised by the fertility and prosperity of the soil.

Except for the past two years when the nobles had to purchase food from the empire due to the impact of the war, the Andara Kingdom had hardly encountered any major food crisis before.

However, the food crisis will probably accompany the Andara Kingdom for a long time, because the most prosperous and fertile grain production base in the kingdom's land... now belongs to the Serra Kingdom.

That is the land between the former territory of Grand Duke McReynolds and the Unicorn Fortress, which can grow a huge amount of food.

Andara lost that land and a food crisis ensued.

"Opening up the land?"

The methods used in the Northern Province cannot be copied to the Kingdom of Andara because Ryan cannot directly control the nobles here.

Therefore, even if he wanted to open up the wilderness, Ryan could not give the land to the nobles.

Two days later, Ryan made a decision.

He went to King Adams and explained some of his intentions.

"lease?"

The king was a little surprised and he resisted instinctively because Ryan was an imperial noble, but he wanted to lease the land of the kingdom?
Not to mention that there is no precedent for this kind of thing, the land itself should not be leased out.

The others around the king were also dissatisfied, and Count Mercers was even more alert. Last time Ryan asked him to participate in the logistics of the war, and now the other party was showing his true colors and was going to take action against the right to speak that he held?

Seeing that the king didn't seem so stupid anymore, Ryan quickly changed his tone and said:

"It's not like I'm here to rent it. After all, my people are all in the Empire. It's impossible for them to walk through North Wind Avenue to the Kingdom to plant land every day."

"This matter was the intention of the Church of Light and Queen Leta."

"The people of the kingdom need a belief, and light is their only choice. His Highness Nix is ​​actively helping the nobles see the immortality and greatness of light. As a result, Queen Leta has become a believer in light."

"As Guangming develops, Guangming Church needs supplies. The church needs to distribute food to its believers. Every prayer day, believers can eat delicious food for free."

"This shouldn't be borne entirely by the kingdom. The Church of Light needs to do the farming itself."

Ryan's words made the king nod his head. Indeed, all the expenses of the Church of Light were provided by the kingdom. The king and the nobles did not say anything, but they could not help but sigh in the face of such things. They had to pay too much.

Renting it to Ryan, an imperial noble, was repulsive, but renting it to Guangming, and to Queen Leta, whose status was not much inferior to that of the king, seemed normal.

"But the kingdom no longer has any extra land to rent to the Light, damn traitor!"

The king was angry again because the Serra Kingdom established by McReynolds took away too much land from the Andara Kingdom.

"Yes, Your Majesty."

Ryan pointed in a direction.

Thanks to the brutality of the Warthogs and the success of the war, a large amount of land was vacated in the north of the royal city. The nobles even went to the south of the kingdom or defected to the Serra Kingdom. They did not want to face the destruction of the orcs.

This resulted in all the population of the Andara Kingdom being concentrated in the south, and the royal city actually felt like it was guarding the country's gate.

"Those desolate lands are deserted because of the snowstorms in the north and the harassment of orcs. They can be leased to the Light."

"The devout believers will not complain about the barrenness of the land. The God of Light will grant them the joy of a good harvest."

Such leasing is doomed to not be on a small scale. The king and Ryan both understand this clearly, which is why they say there is no wasteland to lease anywhere else.

"Well... would Bishop Nix agree?"

The king looked at Ryan, because Ryan made a gesture to him. The rental price was high, and it was also a valuable income for the royal family who now needed wealth to rebuild the extraordinary legion.

"He won't refuse, and you can lease it for ten years. If everything goes well after ten years, you can earn more rent."

Does it sound like a sustainable long-term income? The king was tempted and sent someone to the Church of Light to discuss it with Sven.

The final result left Ryan speechless.

The king generously waived Guangming's rent for the first ten years, and then leased the land to Guangming for a one-time term of fifty years. The subsequent contract also stipulated a term of fifteen years.

This really does not regard those lands as wealth. Ryan even feels that the king is more anxious than him to rent out the land.

It was not until later that Ryan understood that the king did this because he and other people in the kingdom felt that those desolate lands had no value. There had been no nobles who had explored them for so many years. How could there be any wealth there? Moreover, they were afraid of the threat from the north. After renting it to the Light, there was another line of defense blocking the north of the royal city.

The reasons were reasonable, and Ryan couldn't tell whether they were right or wrong.

But it is definitely beneficial to myself.

Although this makes the rent higher, who says Ryan has to pay for this part of the wealth?
His Majesty Emperor Flor, His Holiness the Grand Pope of Light, will never be stingy with the opportunity to expand the faith of light. The believers of light in the Andara Kingdom are just working for him.

(End of this chapter)