The ceremonial chariot drove into the square of Loxenakin, and the white marble square was already filled with countless nobles, both men and women, all dressed in formal dresses that strictly conformed to the rules of today's ceremony, and the pomp and circumstance opened the eyes of the citizens who followed the convoy, and they saw so many noble people for the first time in their lives......

"Look! That's not Sir Willis! ”

"Oh! And the lord of the mansion where I last served, I saw it once at the gate! ”

"Where? Where is it? Let me see! ”

Outside the square, people rushed to see the usually rare big shots, and at the same time pointed at the protagonists who got off the ceremonial car.

"Oh, that gentleman looks like the son of a family where we used to live on the third street! The son of that family seems to be in the army too! ”

"How is it possible, don't be kidding, that's a noble lord!"

"Maybe it is, maybe someone has made a great contribution and become a noble nobleman at once!"

As soon as these words came out, everyone held their breath, and it took a long time to wow, and they discussed it even more excitedly:

"Oh my God!"

"I'm going to let my youngest son join the army too!"

"It is said that the next registration will start soon!"

The honorees were unaware of the discussion and shock of the crowd behind them, and the voices were as mixed as before, and the fragrance of flowers and the enthusiasm of the people were still enough to ignite the end of this summer.

In the middle of the delicate white marble square, a scarlet carpet extends straight from the end of the square to the open palace gate, and behind the wide open ten-zhang palace gate, you can clearly see the steps up one step at a time, as well as countless huge stone pillars.

Odin and Randster dismounted and stepped onto the scarlet carpet, flags representing their status fluttering on either side, soldiers on either side raising their shiny ceremonial guns, and the medallists following behind, led by the staff salute to the open door. The solemn and high music reverberates.

The civilians outside the square gradually quieted down amid the music, and occasionally there was some discussion, while the nobles watching the ceremony on both sides quietly watched the ceremony go on, solemnly and solemnly, which was clearly different from the lowly humming civilians outside the square.

Odin and Randster finally entered the majestic palace, and the red carpet continued to the end of the hall, and in front of the high throne, an emperor who had reached the end of his prime, but still powerful, stood in front of his throne, surrounded by his vassals, waiting for the arrival of his meritorious ones.

……

Lin An stepped on the bright red carpet.

At this time, the people inside and outside the square had gradually quieted down. But there was no moment quieter than the moment she showed up, and even the sound of gasping could be heard. That's the sound of thousands of people making it at the same time.

There was never a moment when the music played by the ceremonial musicians was clearer than it was now, as if the bustling square had suddenly become empty.

Lin An could feel that many eyes were focused on her, and at the same time, several lines of gaze with powerful spiritual power swept past her, roaming back and forth on her. The focused gaze of countless people confused Lin An's perception, so that she couldn't even distinguish the direction of those powerful lines of sight.

Lin An felt like a torch, just about to be lit:

Sometimes the quantity reaches a certain distance, which can indeed make up for the difference in quality, and other book lovers are reading:.

Like the sight of tens of thousands of people in this square at this moment, the pressure on spiritual power is already close to that of the powerhouses of the ** division level, although more than ninety percent of the people here are just ordinary people who have not cultivated.

While feeling stressed. Lin An also has a feeling of being the center of the world:

This is the capital of the most prosperous and powerful country in the Muse Continent, surrounded by the collective of classes that represent the largest concentration of power in this capital, and the people of this most powerful country are cheering for you. Eyes revolve around you......

An experience like this, just one experience, already makes people's hearts shake.

No wonder it is said that power is a poison, and once you have tasted it, almost no one can escape its appeal.

If it weren't for the fact that she had experienced a similar experience in her life as a princess in reincarnation. Lin An was afraid that he would have to breathe rough like his companions around him. Difficult to handle.

Lin An glanced at Andre next to him as if he had realized something, Andre seemed to feel something, tilted his head slightly and smiled at her quickly, and turned his head again.

Although his expression was not much different from that of the people around him, he had a heart that was not tempted by power, he was only purely excited by the atmosphere of the scene at the moment, but he had no doubts about the temptation on the fork in the road in front of him - he couldn't see that road at all......

――When it comes to the purity of will, after all, Andre is higher, even after experiencing the training of the ice field battlefield, this point still has not changed, the most rare.

Lin An pulled back his gaze and pursed his lips and smiled slightly.

……

In a place that she and Andre didn't know, several strong people who were distributed in various corners also communicated secretly through guò's powerful spiritual power:

"The perseverance of this group of people is indeed very good...... Especially those two little ones with black hair, we have Merlin's successor! ”

"Look at the appearance of that little girl, it's the little guy who is rumored to have opened up the magic pool after a year of promotion! Oh, that's a pity! ”

"It's a pity, didn't the front-line send a message back to take care of this little guy? As long as she's not completely ruined, I don't believe Merlin can't find anyone to restore her! ”

"Not for this reason. This little guy ...... I'm afraid there are some problems behind it, so I think it's better to take a look at ...... first."

“…… Could it be that His Majesty Xià meant? ”

"Those old guys from Sword Saint Mountain are also ......"

The strong whispered.

……

With the sound of music, Lin An and his companions stepped up the stairs on the red carpet, stepping under the palace dome that represented the highest level of power, the thick white stone pillars extended into the depths, and the figures of Lin An and his companions also disappeared in front of countless people.

At this time, tens of thousands of people subconsciously held their breath before they were liberated.

Many people found that their chests had been suffocated to the point of pain as soon as they let go, but if that unimaginable shadow appeared in their sight again, most people felt that even the price of death was worth it.

The sound of tens of thousands of people breathing in a long breath formed a roar, and the huge sound of air echoed over the square like a tidal wave, which seemed to stir up the clouds, and even attracted the attention of the people in the high dome hall.

Odin and Randster stood at the foot of the staircase of the throne, and the ministers on either side lined up to salute. Then they all noticed the sudden silence outside the palace, as well as the echo caused by the inhalation of thousands of people behind, and the waves caused by the air flow reached their ears, as if they could convey the common shock of the hearts of countless people represented behind them.

Odin's mountain-like brow moved, and he glanced up at his father in front of the throne with a relaxed expression.

Then he swept over the younger brothers at the foot of the stone steps where he was, and found that they all looked as surprised as most of the people in the hall, but the young Grand Duke Stuart beside him smiled in surprise.

'What's going on?' ’

He asked Archduke Stuart, who was standing beside him, with his gaze.

Randster gave him no answer, and looked back at the entrance to the palace along with many of the honorees.

Odin, like everyone else in the palace, looked in that direction:

Just a glance -

She came with her backlight. The morning light paved the ground at the foothills, the robes were as white as snow, and the music fluttering in the air was like the chirping of the gods in the clouds. The tall vaults and dense crowds are also distantly distantly made by her presence.

Odin and the crowd couldn't help but think in their minds a sentence from that opera canon that describes the coming of the Muses-

"She fell like a bolt of lightning from the clouds to the mortal ......"

In the main hall, everyone involuntarily took a breath, and then was awakened by the shocking reaction created by this together. Odin heard his third brother Charles, who was standing at the foot of the stone steps, muttering as if to himself:

"Who is she?"

- Who is she?

Similar questions jumped on people's lips, lingering in uncontrollable minds, and everyone who saw the black-haired girl in white for the first time was deeply imprinted with her face in their hearts.

Who is she?

Odin was also asking himself, and then the answer had already come to his mind automatically.

It was a name that was very far away from him and most of the people present, if it weren't for the fact that they had made it to the list of the first recipients. The feats are huge, and a young mage genius who has become famous on the battlefield will not leave too deep an impression on his heart.

After all, for the first in line to the throne of the largest country on a continent, there are too many places for him to look at...... Even in this honored team, she is not the number one person in Odin's mind to pay attention to.

This is also the unanimous idea of most people in this hall:

The temple is too high, and the bitter cold ice field front is too far from the center of power, and the fame of the frontline battlefield is only a list full of backgrounds and meritorious deeds when it comes back to the sight of these powerful people who have every opportunity.

Merlin occupies nearly half of the Muse Continent. What happens every day in this vast territory, and the icefield front is just an important corner of this vast country.

I see myself until today. It wasn't until she struck their sight and minds like a bolt of lightning that people remembered her origins when their minds were blank:

- Oh, it's her!

- Oh, that's what she is.

- Yes, she should have been.

……

If there is someone in this huge hall who has not been affected by Lin An's appearance at all, then it is undoubtedly the emperor before the throne.

For he knew that some of the speculations about the origin of the maiden were more shocking and disturbing than her countenance, and that he had seen the portrait of the maiden long before he had seen her, and the painter apologized uneasily, saying-

"The portrait is not enough to restore one-tenth or two-tenths of the original person's demeanor,:."

The Supreme stood in front of the throne above the stairs with his own queen, swept the mood of everyone in the hall into his eyes, and then watched the reactions of his sons at the bottom of the stairs.

He saw the surprise of his second son, the distraction of his third, the shock of his fourth, the calm indifference under the smile of his fifth, and then he looked at his eldest son, whom he had placed great hopes on, and saw his silent gaze.

Then he gently struck his cane, the scepter representing the supreme power of the continent on the foundation stone of the main hall with a low sound, and everyone quickly came back to their senses, as if nothing had happened just now.

But many people know that the appearance of this girl has made many people's hearts completely different from the moment before.

……

Lin An calmly took the gold plate holding the title and handed it over to the attendants on the side.

As a mage, she didn't need to kneel down and swear allegiance to Emperor Alabham the Great like other recipients, but on the outside of her white robe, there was an extra three-colored ribbon representing the title of a first-class count, representing a meritorious reward. After that, they will be sent to the lodging by the court courtier.

From the time she stepped forward to accept the emperor's gift and reward to the completion of the entire ceremony, Lin An's steps were no different from those of other mages, and that majesty nodded to her as much as everyone else, and said two words of encouragement, but because of her female status, she was favored by the queen and said two more words, and did not get any special treatment.

But everyone knows that she is different, including Lin An herself, but the "difference" she knows is not the difference that most people think, but only a few people in this hall know. Among them is the Supreme.

Lin An retreated into the crowd and quietly looked at the Supreme Standing on the stairs with his residual eyes:

He has the dark hair and blue eyes characteristic of Merlin's royal family, and his contours are deep. But some were unexpectedly thin, and the black hair was already gray. He is in his fifties this year, and in this world where the average age of aristocrats is sixty or seventy years old, he is well maintained because of his pampering. But he only pulled a little tail from his prime, and even he himself could not deny that he had begun to enter old age.

But it is precisely because of this that the powerful heart of this supreme is revealed:

He didn't seem to be afraid of his own aging, and even dared to gamble on the fate of Merlin and even the human race at the chance of a once-in-a-millennium opportunity, and even the suspiciousness and clinging to authority that normal people should have in old age did not appear, and he also had an heir he liked and could hope for. And at present, there is no suspicion of the heir, although it is highly centralized, but the monarch and the minister are single-minded. There is not much internal conflict.

Under his rule, Merlin flourished and reigned over the Muses.

What a powerful emperor this is, as if there is no weakness that a normal person should have.

But if you want to be the enemy of such a powerful emperor, what kind of pressure will it bring to the enemy?

Lin An sighed secretly in his heart.

……

The whole ceremony was solemn and long. It lasted a whole day.

The following feast was not held after nightfall, as Merlin had customary, because after the first day of the investiture ceremony. The next day was a state funeral for all those who died on the front lines of the icefields, and the real celebration did not begin until the third day.

Lin An returned to the lodging specially set aside for the honorees in the outer court, his body became weak due to exhaustion, and he almost didn't want to lift a finger, and was almost hugged back by Andre.

What was even stricter was mental fatigue, which was an invisible pressure that made Lin An tense his nerves as soon as he entered the imperial capital. While everyone enjoyed the cheers of the people, she was the only one who paid attention to the defensive prohibitions of the imperial capital.

Back in the room, the gold plate with the medal title had been placed on the table, and a strange ceremonial officer was waiting in front of the door with a list in hand, to hand over with Lin An to select the things on the reward list,:.

Lin An was very surprised by the efficiency of the treasury, so he took the gift list and flipped through it.

In fact, her group of honored mages are basically all from Merlin or Merlin's subject country, and swearing allegiance to join the Royal Mage Group or the Palace Mystic Order to accept the royal worship is a good way out for them, so in addition to Lin An, Andre and Sidney, only Krum and the other three mages did not accept the invitation of the Royal Mystic Order and the Court Mage Group to swear allegiance to the emperor.

Krum's reason is that he is used to freedom, he is not used to being restrained, and he does not like to stay in one place, and he may run back to be a mercenary in the future, traveling everywhere;

The other three mages are people trained by the Principality of Magic, and of course they want to return to Atlantis.

The knighthood rewards received by mages and other honorees are not the same, and the mages who swear allegiance and non-allegiance mages should also be different, and the specific situation of other people Lin An is not clear, because although the relationship is harmonious, it has not yet reached the point where you can ask about other people's family backgrounds.

And even if Lin An and Sidney have the highest titles among mages, one is a first-class earl and the other is a second-class earl, although they usually don't use it, but in this world dominated by nobles, there is a difference between having a title and not having a title, and the difference between a high title and a low-class title is also a world of difference:

To put it simply, if Lin An already had the title of earl when he was in the Pearl Castle. The youngest son of Miss Avril and the Earl would not dare to provoke Lin An, and perhaps there would be no follow-up.

Of course, because there is no territory, the wartime quasi-knighthood system is not applicable to Lin An, because the territory does not need to be issued to the hand, if the merit is verified to be false, the medal will be eliminated directly, and the reward or something has always been issued immediately, after all, Merlin has not reached the point where even the reward has to be stingy to the meritorious minister. This is completely incomparable with the role of the quasi-lord system in politics in wartime, and it is not necessary.

Therefore, Lin An flipped through the rewards he had received and found that he was mainly getting a first-class earl. This title is hereditary, and receives a certain salary from the royal family every year;

This was followed by the production of two medium-sized copper mines, located in the ice fields, which were nominal territories.

However, the mining and sales of minerals do not belong to Lin An, and Merlin, as a military empire, has relatively strict control over polymetallic mining. Lin An is only responsible for collecting the annual profits, excluding various costs and taxes, and can obtain about fifty or sixty percent of the total value of the copper mine.

Since Lin An did not have a slave to drive under his name, it was customary for the royal family to send someone or the royal family to appoint a great nobleman to assist in the supervision, and Lin An was not surprised to see the emblem of Rheinthal's family Bencent on the supervising family, which was the agreement between Lin An and Rheinthal when they were in the ice field. In fact, this is equivalent to Lin An selling the mine under her name to the Bencent family, and she will soon get a large amount of money, and Lin An will not have to take care of the rest.

The cheapness will definitely be taken advantage of. The Benson family is not a big deal after all.

But Lin An is not without benefits.

Although the mining operation is not more complicated than the operation of the territory, it is also very troublesome, and she always has to cooperate with rich nobles or large merchants to develop the mines under her name.

Moreover, minerals are equivalent to territory, although they are not as continuous as territorial taxes. It can be used as the foundation for the continuation of the family, but according to the wartime quasi-lord system. It can't be mined within five years, and the agreement between Lin An and the Benson family is equivalent to skipping these five years, allowing Lin An to realize the value of the mining area early, while the Benson family has to bear a certain amount of risk and the lag of returns, so from a commercial point of view, this agreement is also fair.

What's more, it is said that Bencent also moved for her title, of course, Lin An has no connections in Merlin, so he can't verify this.

In the end, in addition to the knighthood minerals, there are a series of rewards:

an earl's mansion;

a former royal estate;

two large plantations with different planting species;

a fine horse farm and four plain pastures of varying sizes;

Then there is a trained housekeeper and servant tenant who is matched with these mansions and manors, as well as two knights and a private guard of fifty people, the private guard team wants Lin An to recruit by himself, and the salary is responsible for himself, of course, it is okay not to recruit, and the knight is a lifelong system, which can be reported after being selected among the retainers, and the state will help Lin An to raise it.

Finally, there is a certain amount of money, a certain number of clothes and chariots, a certain amount of jewelry, cloth and spices......

All in all, the above rewards are not ungenerous, for a Count of Honors, if it is properly managed, it is enough to support the continuation and dignity of a family, especially Lin An is still very high, and he has directly stepped over the lower nobles and entered the ranks of the higher nobles.

But these are only troubles for Lin An, God knows what she can do as a mage, if she can afford the dignity of the earl, she can't wait to exchange all these things for mage equipment materials in the treasury, otherwise it can be exchanged for money!

Lin An could already predict that in the next period of time, everyone would sell a large number of their properties in exchange for money and materials.

Mages have never been managerial talents, as long as they have spare time, no one will be willing to be distracted by mundane affairs, after all, age waits for no one, and after the most promising age of promotion, it is too late to regret it, like James, who has a family as a backer, of course, can be managed by the family, but if you want to think of a wanderer like Krum and three mages from another magic principality, there is obviously no similar background to rely on.

Sure enough, not long after Lin An returned to the room after handing over the gift list, there was a knock on the door.

Sidney didn't wait for her to answer and came in directly, threw the gift slip to Lin An, left his handover court official, left a sentence of "you solve", and ran away.

Lin An flipped through Sidney's list and found that the rewards were similar in all aspects, and the regulations were one level lower, except for the most valuable mine with one less, and Sidney was only one level lower than her.

There were three people who received the title of earl this time, Lin An and Sidney were in the first and second rank, and the other third earl was Hemer, who was affected by the wartime quasi-knighthood system and had a five-year brigadier period.

That is to say, in fact, only she and Sidney are currently being rewarded by the earl and above, although the reward is extremely rich, but the reward for the title is quite stingy, and the title of Lin An is more lenient, and the real field earl title, among the more than 500 recipients, there is only one Hemer.

This is also the consistent practice of Merlin's knighthood, as a military country, Merlin's control of the title is very strict, this award ceremony has hundreds of meritorious people to obtain the title, it is already a rare event, except for the founding of the country, Merlin has not had such a large number of awards for many years.

(To be continued)

ps：

Thank you Blue Feather Zhi for the big pink ticket! o(n_n)o~

So I routinely saved up character on the weekend.

This chapter may be a bit complicated, and it often changes perspectives, so I don't know if you are used to reading it. I checked a little bit of information about the reward.,But there's too little information.,Most of it was written by my own imagination.,I don't know if everyone will think it's unreasonable.,Anyway, I've tried my best to write according to the background.。

That's it for this awarding ceremony.,I won't write about the state funeral in detail tomorrow.,Because I want to speed up the plot.,Anyway, you shouldn't want to watch it this time when I wrote about the funeral last time.。

ps: Last night, I blew my head on the air outlet in the middle of the night, as if I had a cold, and I woke up once in the middle of the night, and I was dizzy, and the ceiling was turning in my sight. I thought I wouldn't be able to get up the next day, maybe I was going to skip the ticket again, but I didn't expect to get up the next day, and I found that my head was just a little heavy, but I wasn't dizzy, my nose wasn't stuffy, and the cold was cured without medicine...... It's amazing! Could it be that the opening of the National Games today gave me positive energy? Or did Titi cross over??_?