Chapter 707: Community of Interests
In order to prevent their souls from becoming such undead monsters after death, many people naturally want to take refuge in the name of the God of Truth.
Even if they don't believe in the soul going to the kingdom of God, they covet the Holy Power's ability to restrain the evil existence of the undead.
It is said that even some of the herdsmen of the Western Odin Empire have abandoned their belief in the god of Odin and turned to the arms of the god of truth.
The reason is very realistic, in the face of the surging revenge army of the dead in the East Odin Empire, the god of Odin did not give them any shelter and help, but the messengers of the god of truth were able to bring them holy power, which was an effective means to kill those monsters.
At the height of his momentum, King Laurie was baptized by Pope George in St. Eden, officially converted to the Holy See of St. Aether, and became a devout believer, enjoying the position of Son, and his status was still above the cardinal, only below the Pope.
Then King Laurie returned to the royal capital Valesta non-stop, and established the Holy See as the state religion, and every king after the Lancelot royal family succeeded him to be baptized and canonized by the pope.
At the end of the same year, she married the Holy Woman Enid as queen.
This series of actions, like a super powder keg, exploded directly in the chest of the Lancelot royal family.
Even the staunchest royalists were skeptical.
Some of the more conservative lords and nobles even resigned from their official positions on the spot and returned to their territories.
Princess Sophia, who was waiting to give birth in the northern fortress, said three good words in a row with an angry face, and then ate three bowls of hand-rolled noodles that Sean personally rolled for her, and no longer reviewed any information about the Lancelot royal family.
To be more precise, he no longer cares about any government affairs, and even the one collar and two systems agreed with Sean are not complied with, and the related affairs of the princess's fief are all handed over to Sean, and he becomes his full-time wife with peace of mind to prepare for the upcoming newborn.
Anyone who knows a little about Sophia knows that this is a sign of her extreme anger.
If she didn't do this, she wouldn't be able to suppress her anger at all, and directly led the army back to the royal capital, killing in front of King Laurie, wanting to ask him what he wanted to do?
In the past two years, she has not been by his side, how much water has been in her head to make such a stupid and ridiculous decision?
What is the difference between this and ceding the Lancelot royal family to the Holy See?
In the future, the king of the Lancelot royal family will be canonized by an outsider.
But her last sanity told her that it wouldn't change anything, because she couldn't change a person's subjective consciousness.
Isn't the previous contract she signed with Pope St. George proof of this?
Even if I repeat it, it will only delay the arrival of this day.
Could it be that she really deposed King Laurie and set herself up as king?
If she really wanted to do this, why wait until today? Ten years ago, when she was at her most powerful, she could have done so.
If he did, what was the difference between him and the reckless King Laurie?
It will also drag the royal family into the quagmire of war, and it is completely thankless for all the opposition forces that were originally aimed at King Laurie to turn on themselves.
Not to mention the physical condition does not allow it.
After three years of gestation, the biological flesh and blood that I have given high hopes for are about to come to this world, and at this critical moment, I moved the fetal gas, so that the child was a little lost, and I regretted it for life.
Since Sophia used this way to say that she would no longer participate in any disputes with the Lancelot royal family, it was naturally impossible for Sean to sharpen his head and burrow into the troubled waters.
This kind of thing that is not clear at all and unprofitable, of course, is to hide as far as you want.
Anyway, it's based on a principle.
There will be no shortage of daily etiquette and exchanges, but Sean himself will never appear in the royal capital Valesta.
As long as the cake on his plate is touched, the Eternal Night Leader is absolutely neutral.
Whether it is King Laurie or Pope St. George, whether it is public or private, they will not touch the mold of the Eternal Night Army in a short time, and they are also afraid of really provoking Princess Sophia back.
They launched at this time, and they saw that Princess Sophia was approaching her due date, so it was inconvenient to come forward.
Although King Laurie's actions made the Lancelot royal family miserable, their next series of actions proved that this was not a simple brainless act, but a series of combination punches.
Soon after King Laurie converted to the Holy See, he held a secret meeting with Archduke Partlem of the Manyu Army, to whom Patreum swore allegiance and became Prince Laurie's Minister of Intelligence.
The shock caused by this news was no less than the conversion of King Laurie.
The Byron alliance seems to be one, but in fact, the pattern of the division of the eight major princes has been inherited for 300 years.
This model has taken root in the hearts of the people.
Now it has been completely broken by two young people.
But everyone knows that the real initiator is the Holy See of St. Aether, Pope George.
Both King Laurie and Grand Duke Patlaim were his godsons.
Archduke Partlem was just the beginning, and in the same year, Archduke Buck, who was led by the Carthusian army, also swore allegiance to King Laurie and became the prime minister of the royal family.
The following year, Archduke Christine of the Brian family of the Flowering Plateau also swore allegiance to King Laurie and became Chancellor of the Exchequer.
In just two years, the pattern of the Byron alliance has changed dramatically, and the four major ducal families have been completely united.
If you analyze the reasons behind the alliance, you will find that the Holy See is just a trigger, and the Eternal Night Army has a role to play in it.
The Eternal Night Army Leader colludes with the needs of the princess's fiefdom, and His Excellency Patlem, with his own strength, will never be able to capture Angel Bena and restore the Manyu Army Territory to its integrity, let alone grow stronger.
If she doesn't want to find a way out of the status quo, one day, with the support of the Eternal Night Lord, Angel Bena will turn around and annex Patlem and become the Grand Duchess of the Manyu Army.
When St. George took the lead, he naturally hit it off with King Laurie, who wanted to expand his influence.
The hundred-year inheritance of the Grand Duke's family, Patalem doesn't care at all, if he can't even be the Grand Duke, what future is he talking about?
As for the old pit viper of Grand Duke Buck, as he had fought with the Eternal Night Army Leader with real swords and guns, he knew better how great the potential of this emerging force was.
The other party is developing wildly, and his own territory is not moving forward, which is a kind of backwardness.
Only by breaking the current pattern can we survive the fate of the Kingsley family being swallowed up.
Since King Laurie, a stunned young man, is taking the lead in the front, and he is naturally happy to enjoy the shade under the big tree, it is nothing more than paying a tax to the royal family when the time comes, and the control of the entire military leader is still in the hands of him, the Kingsley family.
The choice of Grand Duke Christine of the Brian family is also not difficult to understand, he is the biological father of Queen Enid, and over the years, their family has been trying to expand their influence from the Huayu Plateau to other regions, but there has been no good way.
This great alliance is undoubtedly a great opportunity.
As long as the natural danger of the Flower Language Plateau is still there, it will be difficult for other families to extend their tentacles to the Flower Language Plateau, but the Bryan family can exert their influence wantonly, why not?
The Brian family is rich.
The Kingsley family owns the mine.
The Lancelot royal family has food.
The Manyu army has the brave men and coal.
The Holy See of the Aether is faithful and devout.
When they join forces, a deformed behemoth monster is born.
Unlike the Strachs, Princess Sophilia, and the Eternal Night Warlord, the alliance formed by the marriage bond.
This monster that consciously unites, from the moment it is born, has a strong aggressive type.
First of all, the opposition within the royal family of Ranlot was suppressed by King Laurie with a bloody iron fist, including the royalists who once supported his ascension, if they were not eliminated, how to make room for these new allies?
The two are no longer on the same equivalence at all, which is really killing people's heads.
Immediately, the new alliance set its sights on Angel Bena.
To be more precise, with the support of his new allies, Patrium has become emboldened and wants to fake the tiger's power and achieve true integrity of his military leadership.
As I said before, as long as the cake on his plate is touched, the Eternal Night Warlord is in absolute neutrality.
But they reached out and naturally could not sit idly by any longer.
Just as they were about to move, the Eternal Night Army led a military exercise on the Jacob River, and the guns on the building ship rang out.
The new alliance immediately died down.
If you don't do it, the leader of the Eternal Night Army has shown his attitude with practical actions.
If they really attack Angelbena, the Eternal Night Leader will not be a military exercise.
Maybe one day, as soon as they wake up, the Eternal Night will lead the fleet outside the gates of Valesta.
Battleships that are not equipped with artillery and equipped with artillery are not in the same equivalent class at all, and if they are in open water with sufficient ammunition, they may appear in a single dozen.
Since the Eternal Night Warlords couldn't be provoked, they set their sights on the West, the Twin Peninsula under the control of the Witches' Secret Society.
They were the arch-enemies of the Holy See, and if they were uprooted, they would be happy to see them come to fruition.
In order to confront the North Sea Fleet of the Witches' Secret Society, the new alliance began to fight with the Cummins family.
One side is something else, and the other side is a mother with milk, so it is natural to hit it off.
Originally, many areas of the Byron Alliance that were closed to the Cummins family were opened, and some materials that were reluctant to sell were also released.
The Cummins family is like a deformed monster, greedily absorbing nutrients and starting to expand rapidly.
In the western sea, in the inland sea of Zambia, on the Jacob River, where there is water, there are their ships.
The strength shown by the Cummins family really surprised many people.
After all, this exiled family, free from the edge of the Byron Alliance, has been for hundreds of years, most of the time it has been used as a tail car, many nobles with real power do not look down on them at all, in their hearts, this is a noble beggar, how much strength can be left?
As everyone knows, they lost the Miracle Peninsula, but they still have an endless sea for them to develop, an area dozens of times the size of the Ashane Continent, but the competitors are only the territory of the Witches' Secret Society.
If you add up the large and small islands they have in the Endless Sea West Sea, it will be several times larger than their hometown Miracle Peninsula.
At the beginning, on the Danube River, there were only 18 medium-sized warships that could enter the interior of the Third Fleet, and the overall strength can be seen.
They have as many as seven such fleets.
It can only be said that people in the world are so ignorant that they only believe in the part they see with their eyes, but they don't know that it is only the tip of the iceberg, and more things are hidden under the surface of the water.
When some of them began to surface, they were naturally dumbfounded.
The pirate nature of the Cummins family does not change because they put on the royal coat, they are still leeches in essence, and they will flock to wherever there is flesh and blood.
If the local forces are strong enough, they are cunning merchants who keep to themselves.
If the local force is insufficient, then they will turn into jackals at any time, and rush ashore on a full moon and windy night to plunder.
The persecuted new royal court had to continue to strengthen the local garrison.
If the army is reorganized, even if they have sufficient financial, material, and human resources, it will be difficult to see results in a short period of time.
Fortunately, they have a ready-made force - the Holy See Knights of the Holy See of the Holy See.
Now that the Holy See is the state religion, and King Laurie is the Holy Son, these Holy See Knights naturally have to swear allegiance to them, and it is natural to use them as their own armed forces.
In fact, when he suppressed the opponents before, King Laurie had secretly activated them, but in the skin of the royal family.
Now it's just a matter of legalization.
The Lancelot royal family, the Kingsley family, the Partlem family, and the Bryan family are all in one, and King Laurie can dispatch a standing army of up to 300,000, which will be several times higher if he enters the war, not to mention the sea hounds of the Cummins family.
This is where the real strength of the new royal family lies.
When it was discovered that the inland was temporarily unprofitable, the Cummins family, as the new royal family wished, set their aggressive eyes on the Twin Peninsula, which was controlled by the Witches' Secret Society, and launched frequent provocations.
The Witch Council is not good either, and they know very well that this time the Holy Aether Holy See has come to power, and they are no longer able to achieve their desired goals through conspiracy as before.
Therefore, they brazenly launched a counterattack against the provocation of the Cummins family, and showed a hole card as soon as they made a move - the ironclad battleship.
These wooden warships, with the main body and the important parts covered with iron, have a ramming ability that conventional ships do not have.
In water battles, rampage.
Except for the dragon wreck battleship, the other warships of the Cummins family did not dare to give them a chance to get close at all.
The most difficult thing about these ironclad battleships is not only that the shell is as hard as a turtle, but also that it is obviously infused with the magic black technology of the Witches' Secret Society.
For every ironclad battleship, there are several witches on board.
These ironclad battleships have been transformed into water mage towers, capable of casting some large-scale spells far beyond their own strength.
Or increase the speed of the ironclad battleship for a short time.
Or form a sea fog to obscure the trail of ironclad warships.
Or cast a large attack spell to perform a ranged attack.
Although these large spells usually do not last long, the power of the large attack spells is not satisfactory.
However, the outbreak at a critical moment, especially with the sturdy characteristics of the ironclad battleship itself, can often achieve the purpose of a Jedi counterattack.
Several local conflicts in a row.
The Cummins family lost dozens of warships of various types, but only a few of them were slightly injured on the side of the Witches' Secret Society.
It wasn't until the Cummins family transferred back the Dragonwreck warships of the Sixth and Seventh Fleets that the Witches' Order entered a defensive posture again at sea.
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