Chapter 467: Coming out of power under the sword

"Maybe I should call you Baron Rolf?" Reich smiled as he looked at Rolf with a stunned expression.

"In front of Lord Viscount, how dare Rolf be called a nobleman!" At this time, Rolf had already come back to his senses, only to see him shake his head slightly and say seriously, "And from now on, I will be a knight under the command of my lord, just like Gukara has a saying, I Rolf will be a person from the Black Wind Territory in the future, and a ghost of the Black Wind Territory in death, so my lord can just call me Rolf!"

"Rolf-" Relch only smiled at Rolf's loyalty, making it impossible to see what he was thinking, "Tell me about the Misty Mountain, I don't know when the leader of your Misty Mountain began to consider himself a nobleman." ”

What Reich said was not much different from what Besture had said earlier when he had mocked Rolf, and there was a hint of banter in his tone. But this time Rolf was not angry, because he did not see any trace of disdain for his 'baron' in Leitch's eyes, Leitch's banter was more of a surprise, and the biggest difference between Leitch and Bestur was that he was a powerful nobleman, and he was also the object of Rolf's allegiance!

So Rolf wasn't angry at all, and he couldn't be angry, and it can be seen from this that this barbarian of the Misty Mountains, who seemed to have developed limbs, actually had a rather cunning character.

"It's not surprising that Lord Viscount doesn't know, for that's what happened only a few months ago. As he spoke, Rolf's tone suddenly became a little more muffled.

"A few months ago?"

"Specifically, in December of last year. Rolf said.

"Last December?" Hearing this, Rykey's eyes narrowed slightly—the arcane explosion of the Heavenly Dome Castle occurred at the end of September last year, and December was not long before the rise of the Red Demon Empire, when the attention of all the human realms in the Dawn Valley was attracted to the Red Demon Empire!

"There are some situations that may need me to explain to Lord Viscount, our Misty Mountain stretches for thousands of miles, accounting for about one-third of the area of the entire Primordial Highland, and there are more than one million powerful warriors! But in fact, we are not united within the Misty Mountain, these million warriors are ruled by thousands of leaders, large and small, among which the Nanshan tribe and the Beishan tribe are the most powerful, and the warriors of the two tribes are more than 300,000!"

The primitive highlands were the name given to the barbarians by the barbarians, and they did not call themselves barbarians, but highlanders, because the word barbarians undoubtedly had a pejorative connotation to them.

As for Rolf's claim that there are a million warriors in the Misty Mountains, Retch does not doubt it, because the entire Barbarian Highlands is about half the size of the Dawson Federation, that is, the area of the entire Misty Mountains is about one-sixth of the Dawson Federation! And there are tens of millions of awakened people in the Dawson Federation, so it is not an exaggeration to say that there are one million warriors in the Misty Mountains.

"In December last year, the leaders of the Nanshan tribe and the leaders of the Beishan tribe received a letter from St. PePaul, the emperor of the Roland Empire, claiming that the Roland Empire is willing to conclude a long-term peace agreement with our Misty Mountain, and the Roland Empire will support each tribe with a generous amount of supplies every year, and at the same time open the Great Wall checkpoint to allow caravans to enter and leave the Mist Mountain!" Speaking of this, Rolf's expression became slightly excited, " Lord Viscount, you don't know, because the existence of the Great Wall has cut off our channels for obtaining supplies from the Roland Empire, so that we can only turn to those cowards in the mountains for help in the year of famine! But those shameful cowards wish we would die, how can they really help us? So every time we encounter this situation, we will have a large number of people starving to death!"

"So when he saw the conditions given by Emperor Roland, the leaders of the Nanshan tribe and the Beishan tribe were really moved!" Speaking of this, Rolf paused slightly, and took a deep breath before saying, "And in addition, Emperor Roland also offered an even more tempting condition - he wants to crown a king for our Misty Mountain!"

"Coronation King, Misty Mountain Kingdom?" said in a deep voice.

At the same time, one person aroused Leitch's strong interest - San PePaul! The current Emperor Roland, who was brave and cruel a few years ago, was given the name of 'Thousand Slaughters' for slaughtering thousands of warriors in the Misty Mountains in a battle;

And it was also during the period of this Roland Emperor that the Inquisition almost reached its heyday in history, secretly controlling several large counties in the north of the entire Roland Empire, nearly one-fifth of the territory, and the price to be paid was just a mere acolyte of the gods!

In short, the current Emperor Roland's actions undoubtedly seem absurd in the eyes of the world, and in the huge arcane explosion that occurred in the city of Two Horses not long ago, he disappeared without a trace along with hundreds of thousands of knights and royal infantry, and his life and death are currently unknown!

Now it seems that in addition to his love of beauty and sowing, this Emperor Roland obviously likes to crown others!

"That's right!" Rolf's eyes were full of blazing brilliance at this time, and his tone was excited, "Lord Viscount, you are not a highlander, and you do not understand the real situation and thoughts of our highlanders—in the eyes of the humans on the other side of the mountain, we highlanders are primitive and barbaric, closed and dangerous, and in fact, there are indeed many cowards, especially those of our nominal kindred in the mountains, and most of them have the idea of sticking to their self-styles, neither daring to provoke the country on the other side of the mountain, nor do they want the people on the other side of the mountain to come, what a group of poor and pathetic cowards!"

Rolf sneered, and had a very obvious disdain for the 'people on the other side of the mountain'. And the 'mountain' in his words refers to the Misty Mountain, and the country on the other side of the mountain and the humans on the other side of the mountain refer to several human kingdoms and humans in the Valley of the Dawn.

"However, we are different warriors in the Misty Mountains, our ancestors have been real warriors for generations! Although we have played the role of raiders for the Roland Empire for thousands of years, what we really want is to obtain a territory under the mountain that is enough for us to survive!"

"We want to be recognized by the humans on the other side of the mountain!"

"We want to enjoy the grassland and the sea breeze down the mountain!"

"We will grow golden wheat with our own hands, and drink sweet ale and mead, instead of drinking blood!"

"We want to have tall walls to protect our homes, and live in clean and bright attics, and not have to endure the cold of the caves!"

"We will send our diplomats to the king on the other side of the mountain, and deliver our letter in the name of the Misty Mountains, instead of being called barbarians in a derogatory sense!"

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"These are the spirit and mission of our Misty Mountain, and they are the aspirations of all our Misty Mountain warriors to pay their blood and lives for!"

It wasn't until Rolf calmed down that Leech said flatly: "A powerful regime never needs the approval of other countries to prove its existence, as long as all the surrounding enemies are defeated, then someone will naturally take the initiative to come to your door to befriend you, and even send a considerable amount of worship every year." ”

"Just like the founder of the Fast Empire, Emperor Nicholas, at first he was just a slave of a nobleman of the Second Dynasty, but in the end he started with a group of five hundred mages, conquered the Valley of the Dawn, fought the Storm Mountains, swept through the realm of the Seven Kings, and finally defeated all the enemies, and finally only he was left with one voice in the entire continent! At that time, he Nicholas himself represented the right to rule!"

"Another example is our Dawson Federation, at first, it was just a slave trade center and transit station of the Karachi Empire, but in the end, the Ten Great Lords led people to rebel, openly overthrew the counterinsurgency of the Karachi Empire, and finally jointly founded the Free Federation! At that time, no one had ever mentioned any ruling rights to the Ten Lords!"

"All in all, the aristocratic game in this world is, in the final analysis, nothing more than 'power under the sword'!"

"Uh-"

Rolf was stunned for a moment, and there was a deep surprise in his eyes - what Retch said was not very profound, but it was somewhat taboo, because Rolf believed that none of the ten lords would like to hear the phrase 'power under the sword', although their ancestors had sat on the throne like this in the beginning! But now Viscount Black Wind said it like this, and he said it without scruples! Could he be so worthy of his trust? Or did his previous 'sincerity' gain his approval?

For a moment, Rolf was shocked and surprised......

It was then that Rolf heard Reich continue, "Maybe you're wondering why I'm saying this to you? ”

Seeing that Rolf's face stiffened again, Leitch just smiled faintly: "Now there are only two of us here, not to mention whether you believe in these words, even if these words really fall into the ears of the territory lords, most of them just laugh." ”

"Don't believe me?" the smile on Retch's face became more obvious, "The vast majority of people in this world have their own desires, and it is estimated that nine out of ten lords have fantasized about becoming kings, but the reason why fantasies are called fantasies is because there are no conditions to put them into practice, and such unrealistic fantasies are called delusions and fantasies." ”

"Fantasy is the greatest freedom of all higher beings, and no one can stop you from thinking about anything, and no one will care what you think if you don't put it into practice. ”

"Even if the Ten Lords don't really believe it, it will cause them to be suspicious of you, right? even go so far as to strangle you in the cradle! After all, this is not too difficult for the Territory Lords at the moment!" Rolf questioned.

"Whether or not it will arouse the suspicion of the Ten Lords is not what I have done, but what they themselves think - if they don't take me seriously, as long as I don't put a crown on my head, I will always be a loyal guardian of the Federation; Richie said in a flat tone.

After being silent for a while, Rolf asked with a hint of unwillingness and curiosity: "According to what you say, I don't know where your way out is?"

"Now that you have entered the game, where is the so-called way out, it is just a struggle between the chess piece and the chess player - if you are a chess piece today, he may become a chess player one day! But even as a chess piece, you must strive to reflect your value as a chess piece, so as not to be abandoned as an outcast!" Leitch said pointedly.

However, Leitch didn't give Rolf time to be sad, paused, and said, "Okay, now you can tell me what happened after the two tribal leaders received the letter from Saint-Pepaul?"

(End of chapter)