Chapter 45: Acting, knighthood
Lear was very grateful to Audrena at first, but at the end of hearing it, he secretly scolded these nobles for not having any good things, As soon as Hohenzollern's surname came out, everyone present showed different expressions, some were envious, some were jealous, some were surprised, and some even had inexplicable hatred.
There are not many people in the entire Starry Sky Continent who do not know the Hohenzollern family, and the fiefdom of Hohenzollern has the largest and richest iron ore, copper ore and silver mines in the Starry Sky Continent, known as the "Duke of Mine", "King of Iron Ore" and "Family on Jinla Mountain".
It has even been joked that in the Homan Empire, the royal family is in control of the Homans' soldiers, while the Hohenzollerns are in possession of the soldiers' weapons.
The vast majority of the married and unmarried men present turned their attention to Audrena who wore a veil to hide her true face - they were not in the least worried that it was a lie, because no one had ever lived more than three days under the guise of the Hohenzollern family.
Only those who knew the Hohenzollern family very well, not only did not covet AudΓ©lena, but sympathized with her. Audreyna is eighteen years old and could have succeeded the Duke of Hohenzollern, but because of serious family infighting, and even involving the royal family, she has not been knighted so far.
Under Holman law, a person who reached the age of sixteen could only receive an official title.
The battle in the ruins continues, and the four high-ranking swordsmen of the Lear family are completely engaged in a war of attrition, ready to drag down Fairward.
It didn't take long for the sword to say to Lear, "Well, I'm surprised that he can master a small part of the peak of the 'technique', but it's useless. I advise you to kill Fairward with your own hands. β
"Why?"
"You'll know later. β
Lear immediately whispered to the general, "Grandpa General, it's time for you to stand up and deter Xiaoxiao, but I want to kill the enemy, and I ask you to help." β
The general already looked at Lear very pleasing to the eye, laughed loudly, condensed the fighting qi lightsaber in his hand, and rushed into the battle circle at an incredible speed.
His lightsaber turned into eight streams of water-like fighting qi and instantly wrapped around Fairward's body, strangled his limbs, and distorted his body. Fairward wailed in pain, but his whole body was sealed by the general, and he had no power to resist.
Lear strode over, raised his sword to the sky, and said bitterly, "I avenge you for the victims of the Lear family!" and he swung his sword hard to cut off Fairward's head.
He grabbed Fairward's head and held it high, and said loudly: "Even if you are a descendant of the Sword Saint, you must atone for the crimes you have committed! Offend my Lear family, even if it is far away in the sky, I will not let go of any of them! Don't you want to take the territory of the Lear family? Come on, I am here! Your sins must be washed away with the last drop of blood!"
Ness looked up at him, her eyes full of adoration, and suddenly felt that as long as she was by Lear's brother's side, everything was not scary.
The general frowned. He is not against Lear's revenge, but he is against revenge that is not self-sufficient.
Lear naturally knows that the forces that dare to seize the territory of the Lear family must be stronger than the Lear family, but he is bound by the contract and must completely kill all his enemies to survive. He didn't have so much time to find the black man behind the scenes, so he could only take the initiative to declare war and force the black hands behind the scenes to show his feet.
"Instead of waiting to be obliterated by the power of the plane, it is better to take the initiative to fight for that glimmer of life!"
Lear looked at the stupid envoy of the king and said, "Your Excellency the envoy of the king, can you start knighting?"
The King's envoy's body trembled, recalling his embarrassed appearance just now, he became angry, and said solemnly: "Charlie Lear, you not only attacked the officials of the kingdom, but also killed the descendants of the Sword Saint, I will sue you as a hereditary baron member of the Imperial House of Lords!"
Lear suddenly laughed, and walked over step by step, and the king's envoy was so frightened by a child that he took a step back, and said inwardly, "You, what do you want to do! Murdering a nobleman is a great crime!"
Lear sneered, casually put the head of the descendant of the Sword Saint on the ground, and said, "I dare to kill even the descendant of the Sword Saint, and I am still afraid of the baron?"
The king's envoy hurriedly shouted: "This is the territory of the empire, no one can murder in public and get away with it!"
Lear smiled and said, "If you dare to bring the murderer of my whole family, and dare to bring the fake title of me, I will dare to kill you!"
The King's envoy hurriedly stepped forward and whispered, "Count Lear, you have misunderstood. I really wasn't involved in this incident, I was sent as a scapegoat. I only ran into that fake halfway through, and I didn't even know the descendants of the Sword Saint of Fire a month ago. β
Lear looked at Cohen, the head mage of the family, who nodded, indicating that what he was investigating was consistent with what the King's envoy had said.
Lear looked at the King's envoy and didn't speak, but the King's envoy whispered, "Don't worry, I'm not stupid enough to go against you, what I just said is just ...... You know, we're aristocrats, and we always need to say something. As long as you promise to let me go, I will knight you immediately. My name is Custer, and my father had some friendship with the old Earl of Lear. I was really framed this time, and now we have a common enemy. β
Lear was speechless, just now he really thought that this baron was such a loyal gentleman, but he didn't expect that it was just acting.
Seeing that he didn't speak, Custer was anxious: "Really, do you think that I will be stupid enough to bring only these few people when I come to Port Lear to put the fake earl on the throne? As long as you let me go, I will support you in the House of Lords in the future." You should understand that I will not gain you by dying, but the death of the King's envoy will surely put you in even greater trouble. β
Lear didn't want to kill him at all, otherwise there was no need to keep him. So he nodded: "Our Lear family likes to make friends, and I am no exception. It's not convenient to talk now, and hopefully we can talk in secret in the evening. β
"You are a merciful earl!" said Custer excitedly.
Lear took a step back and said loudly: "Baron Custer, if you don't give me a knighthood, I will regard you as a criminal who colludes with a fake heir and plots to seize the territory of the Lear family, and I have the right to kill you directly!"
Custer puffed out his chest and said arrogantly, "I can knight you, but I won't bow to you." I reserve the right to sue you in the House of Lords!"
As a result, Lear left behind him to get to know the big names in Port Lear, including the Bishop of Jeruza, who temporarily lived in Port Lear, the director of customs in Port Lear, the representatives of the Chamber of Commerce in Port Lear, and the agents of other great nobles of the Empire in Port Lear.
In the presence of these men, at the corpse of Fairward, a descendant of the Sword of Fire, the King's envoy completes the knighthood ceremony for Lear.
As long as Grant the Great issued a knighthood with the signature of the Speaker of the House of Lords, he was recognized as Earl Lear by imperial law.