When he first arrived in the army, he was only 16 years old, which was the minimum age to join the army, and at that time, the Bright Blue Kingdom was fighting with the Kingdom of Switzerlandton for control of the Pingxi Mountain Range, which was not only rich in mineral resources, but also a natural barrier, and whoever could occupy it was equivalent to occupying the other party's gate, and whoever had the initiative in the war.

At that time, he wanted to fight hard and earn military merit in exchange for a large amount of money to subsidize the expenses of the family, he was only a child born into a poor peasant family, with elderly parents and a young sister at home. The war made them live a poorer life, but his father was already old, perhaps in order to prevent his sister from being sold by his parents, he resolutely chose to join the army.

As a result, the veterans there laughed and bullied him because he was too young, and asked him, a newcomer, to do everything to carry things, wash clothes, and clean toilets, saying that it was to train him as a recruit, but these Fnovich silently endured it.

Until the first time he was paid, his military salary was privately withheld by the commander, which was the money he was going to send home, which made his long-accumulated hatred completely explode, but how could he, a new recruit, beat the veterans of his squad.

He went to his superiors to theorize, but because he was only a 16-year-old recruit and was born in a poor family, no one paid attention to him, and then the veterans bullied him even harder, and from time to time found various reasons to physically punish him.

There are rules in the army that superiors have the power to physically punish subordinates, but subordinates do not have the right to do anything to their superiors, which can only make him suffer silently and wait for his promotion to the rank in the future.

In a skirmish, he braved his way and vented all his long-standing resentment on the soldiers of the Kingdom of Swisston, and a 16-year-old boy killed five or six regular soldiers of the Kingdom of Swisston in a row, which was enough to promote him to a sergeant.

As a result, when he reported it, his squad leader threw the credit to his cronies' subordinates, and he went to his squad leader to theorize, only to be greeted with a burst of ridicule and a whip mark on his palm.

What power do you have, there is no way out. ......

This planted the seeds of his thirst for power for the first time, and after that, he silently endured the usual injustices as always, secretly exercising his body frantically, and looking at the whip marks in his hands every time he was about to hold on. Finally, his body became a little strong from the original thin and malnourished, but the people around him seemed to be used to bullying him, and he was also used to suffering in silence.

Until one time, their squad was ambushed by the enemy, and all of the 20-man squad was wiped out except him.

He slumbered in the middle of the pile of corpses until the Bright Blue army spotted him and brought him back to the camp, and he became famous ever since, when the kingdom was on the verge of defeat and the army hierarchy was trying to create a heroic image and boost morale. Deliberately exaggerating this, saying that their squad was surrounded by three times their own strength, successfully counter-killed the enemy, and survived.

He then became the leader of a squad, and his life seemed to have a new beginning, and his men were full of recruits, all of whom looked at Vnovich with a wince. But he didn't deliberately physically punish them, but trained them fairly and positively, which earned him the trust of most of his men and made his squad an elite squad.

This made him feel the benefits of power for the first time, but then the battle became more and more intense, and their team had to obey orders and perform some dangerous missions.

He didn't want to die, he also wanted to go home and see his parents and sister for the last time. But I don't know how long this war will last...... The two nations competed with each other on the hills of the Pingxi Mountains, one day they were still the flag of the Kingdom of Swisston, and the next day they were planted with the banner of the Kingdom of Bright Blue, and the sky was full of magic and arrows that made him live in fear every day.

In order to survive, you can only do whatever it takes...... Climbing up, he ordered his subordinates to go to death for him, and if he didn't agree, let him forcibly agree, and accumulate a lot of military merits step by step through the lives of his subordinates. When a subordinate dies, he puts on a new batch, and so on.

With luck and strength, he managed to survive.

War is often the fastest way to move up the ranks. The decade-long war finally made Vnovich the head of a cannon fodder regiment, but due to his ardent desire for power, he also neglected to contact his family, and finally the kingdom of Bright Blue and the kingdom of Swisston were exhausted, and under the mediation of the church, they both agreed to a truce, and the two sides used the Pingxi Mountains as the border, and they must not invade again, otherwise they will face the blow of the Silver Knights of the Church.

That's it, the war ... It's finally over.

However, he was the only civilian-born of all the legionnaires, and no matter how hard he tried, he was never recognized by the other legionnaires.

So he retreated, gave up all his positions in the army, and in exchange for a marquis title and a large area of land in the current Thorn Territory, and returned home with some of his subordinates who were loyal to him.

He didn't tell his family about his situation, and because he was obsessed with power struggles, he hadn't heard from his hometown for a long time. I returned to my hometown with excitement, only to find that things had long been different......

A year ago, a local noble lord with royal blood took a fancy to his sister and forced her to be a concubine.

But I heard that he is just a flowery aristocrat who has finished playing with other people's bodies and abandons him when he gets tired of playing.

The elder sister swore that he would not die, so the nobleman killed his parents, and his sister was nowhere to be found, and he heard from the neighbors in the village that his sister had gone to the northern Pingxi Mountains to look for him.

He went crazy and sent his men to look for him, but he was never heard from.

Angry, he secretly sent someone to kill the nobleman, and then secretly developed his own power in the Thorn Territory alone, in order to give himself more say in the future, the Thorn Territory, which had been barren due to the war, finally became rich under his hard work, and finally attracted the attention of the king.

How could King Yaolan see that a remote nobleman is getting stronger and stronger, so he tried every means to suppress Vonovich, and he didn't even know why, King Yaolan actually turned up the mysterious death case of the royal nobleman more than 20 years ago, and all kinds of clues pointed to him, which made him have a sense of crisis who originally decided to let go of some power in his hands.

He thinks that if he blindly forbears in exchange for not necessarily a good result, but a direct assassination of the imperial capital.

Nobles large and small appeared in the Thorn Territory and carved up his power, but he still endured it again and again.

Suddenly, a mysterious organization approached him and offered to cooperate with him to overthrow the country. After they showed some magical strength, the ambition buried deep in his heart resurfaced, and he decided... Start a rebellion!

He himself was born in the Thorn Territory, plus more than 20 years of hard work, the people trusted him very much, plus the terrain is dangerous, easy to defend and difficult to attack, many loyal veterans. He was confident in building a new country.

"Lord Marquis," a voice came to Vnovic's ears coldly.

The Marquis silently opened his eyes, this kind of thing he had long been used to, and this man in black had suddenly appeared in his study with the many guards in his courtyard in the first place.

"What's the matter?" Laurente" Fnovic half-opened his eyes and silently looked at the black-robed magician hidden under his hood, his instinct as a soldier told him that this black-clothed man had at least seventh-order strength, or even higher, and he was fully capable of killing him, but he could not escape among the many guards in Thorn City.

In the Dawning Continent, even an eighth-order powerhouse could not slaughter a complete legion alone. And the ninth-order powerhouse, when encountering an army of 100,000 strong-willed, will also hate on the spot. Only by slowly depleting can an army be consumed to death.

"I heard that the envoys of the second wave of the imperial capital have been imprisoned in a cell by the Marquis," Laurent said with a strange smile on the corner of her mouth.

"Yes and what" Fnovich looked at Laurent coldly, if it weren't for the fact that the king seemed to have found out more than 20 years ago that he secretly sent people to murder nobles of royal blood, no matter how ambitious he was, he would not rashly launch a rebellion, and he could have been a leisurely lord in this remote area.

"Could it be that Lord Marquis, you still want to keep a little room for maneuver," now Vonovich only had the idea of rebellion, but he did not put it into action, and he had a hundred ways to detain and murder the envoys of the royal capital, and he had a hundred ways to leave them to those small nobles who were under his house arrest.

"I will definitely leave a way back for myself, because I am on the surface, unlike you, I don't even have a name" Fnovic said coldly, he still doesn't even know the name of the other organization, only that the other party is very powerful.

"Name, hehe" Laurent smiled: "Our organization has just been established not long ago, and you don't know if you say it"

Fnovic looked at the man in black coldly and didn't speak, now that his power was basically controlled by the other party, and he knew almost nothing about them, this feeling made him very unhappy.

"Forget it, it doesn't hurt to tell you" Laurent looked at the Marquis's expression, knowing that if he didn't say something, this precarious alliance would probably break off, and raised his head with a fanatical look: "I come from the Church of the Damned, a great church looking for a way to live forever"

"Imperishable?" Funovic's eyes narrowed slightly, this kind of immortality was still very tempting for a high-ranking figure like him, but this kind of somewhat unrealistic goal he just thought about it, and didn't have to take it seriously.

"Then why are you helping me?"

"Because the master wants us to help you, so we'll help you," Laurent said mysteriously.

Of course, Vonovic will not believe such perfunctory words, but he will not continue to ask, as long as it is beneficial to him in practical actions, what can he do without asking.

"You said you wanted to help me, but I haven't seen any meaningful practical actions from you so far, you just broke the magic barrier of the Elven Forest, and the things of the Blood Wolf Thieves Group and the envoy of the royal capital are all secretly controlled by me"

"There will be actual action, but the time has not yet come, please be patient with Lord Marquis" Lawrence said in a deep voice: "Whether it is the approval of the church, the help of the Kingdom of Swisston, or the help of our cursed church people, it will come"

"That's good" Fnovic's expression softened, and at the same time, there was a trace of fear for the Cursed Church in his heart, which was able to extend its power to the Kingdom of Swisston and the Holy See, and it also had a certain influence on these two forces.

"The news of the undead dragon in the Pingxi Mountains was released by you," Laurent snapped his fingers and let out a crisp sound.

"Undead Dragon!?Didn't a mercenary find it, I was afraid that it would attack the civilians in the northern part of the Thorn Territory, so in order to gain the support of the people, I sent someone to issue a bounty. You must know that the most important thing in building a new country is the approval of the people. Fnović frowned slightly, he didn't like to see others do such frivolous movements in front of him.

"Heh, a mercenary actually has that kind of skill and spirit, your thorn territory is really amazing" Laurent said coldly: "I know you want to test our intelligence, believe me, we won't let you down, and by the way, help you suppress the disobedient nobles nearby, help you establish your prestige or something, anyway, that undead dragon is just an experiment"

"Yes, then thank you very much" Funovic said lightly, of course those mercenaries were sent by him, all kinds of signs showed that this group of black-clothed people came from the Pingxi Mountains in the north, so he secretly sent people to investigate, and found an undead dragon and some magicians who were also wearing black robes.

In order to learn more about them, he published information about the Pingxi Mountains and quoted a high bounty. The purpose is to attract mercenaries and adventurers from the entire Thorn Territory to check it out.

"By the way, I heard that the Marquis used to have a sister," Laurent said coldly.

"What? How do you know?" said Vonovich's expression, how they knew about the events of more than twenty years ago, which only some of his most loyal subordinates knew.

"This is also what I accidentally learned, if the Kingdom of Thorns can be successfully established, maybe the Marquis, no, the King of Thorns, can meet his own sister again," Laurent said, and turned and walked out of the room.

"What did you say?" Vonovich didn't have time to speak, he lay down in his chair with a complicated expression, he was a soldier in the north when he was young, and as a result, he was a soldier for ten years, and he didn't see his parents for the last time, which has always been a thorn in his heart, and now he learns that his sister is still alive.

Even though it has been more than 30 years since he last saw his sister, he has had an excellent relationship with his sister since he was a child, and the years of power struggles still make him feel a little tired in his heart, and a trace of longing for family affection suddenly ignites in his heart.