Chapter 101: Plans

"Mason Asplin, 25 years old, with dark hair and black eyes, has no living relatives. His grandfather made a name for himself as a hired knight, was promoted to hereditary nobility and received a small fief. However, due to poor management, this generation has already owed a huge debt, and has to sell the territory to pay off the debt, and only retains the title of nobility......"

After reading the information he had just gotten, Zhang Cheng couldn't help but smile and shook his head, secretly sighing that this old man was really miserable.

As a nobleman, he was forced to sell his foundation land in debt, and if nothing else, when he died, his son or daughter would lose his title of nobility and be reduced to the company of commoner merchants.

The reason is simple, in the feudal system, the land determines the grain output, which in turn determines how much of the population can be fed, and the population determines how many professional soldiers can be trained, which is the so-called war potential.

Anyone with a little bit of brains understands that a nobleman who has lost his territory is like a tree that has lost its roots, even if it seems to be flourishing on the surface, it will slowly wither and die in a short time, and there is no value at all.

Since there is no value in wooing, then naturally there is no need to marry, a man who can't marry a woman with aristocratic blood, will the child born be recognized by the aristocratic circle?

The answer is clearly no.

Casually igniting the materials and throwing them into the copper basin, Zhang Cheng quickly shifted his attention to a pair of silver-white armor.

You don't need to ask to know that this is the enchanted armor he specially prepared for the tournament, but due to the differences in energy systems between different worlds, it has never been completed.

Seeing that the jousting tournament was about to begin, he had to abandon the original design and replace it with a half-finished product that relied on himself to provide arcane energy.

Of course, metal and leather can severely hinder the flow of arcane energy, so when he puts on the armor, he loses his temporary ability to cast spells.

Zhang Cheng sometimes wonders why the parchment makes him travel between different magical worlds, and what it constantly implies.

After all, judging from the three worlds he has experienced so far, each world has its own unique power system, and although the knowledge of the other two worlds can also play a role in some reference, it cannot be used directly, and a small part of them must be integrated through a lot of research and practice.

Perhaps the purpose of the parchment paper is to allow him to discover the common denominator of all these incredible worlds through research and exploration, and then achieve some ulterior purpose.

As an observant person, Zhang Cheng felt as if he had grasped a key point, and that was energy.

Whether it is the ubiquitous arcane energy, shadow energy, natural energy, divine energy, etc., in the world of Azeroth, or the mysterious energy whose name is not yet known on the magical version of the earth, it is the foundation that supports the huge supernatural ability group, and if these energies are lost, the power systems of these two worlds will collapse in an instant.

But the world in which A Song of Ice and Fire takes place seems to be slightly different from the first two, and its mysterious energy does not always exist, but takes on a specific periodicity.

According to the books and TV series, once the mysterious energy begins to return, whether it is an extinct dragon or someone who suddenly has mastered magical powers, everything will spring up like mushrooms.

If Zhang Cheng can crack the secrets before the tide of energy falls, he can instantly become the most powerful individual in the entire continent of Westeros, and can easily decide the outcome of a war, even Daenerys Targaryen and her three dragons can only stand aside.

After thinking about this, he immediately made a series of plans.

The first is to win the championship of the jousting spear competition, and then use the generous prize money to raise a mercenary army of about 300 people, and try to make a splash in the next battle of the Blackwater River and catch a ride on the Lannisters.

As for why the Lannisters, not the Stark, not Baratheon, not Tyrrell, and not the Targaryens on the other side of the ocean......

The reason is simple, they have an unbeatable advantage, and that is that they have always been firmly in control of King's Landing, the capital of the Seven Kingdoms.

Add to that the fact that the old lion is far more intelligent and endurant than the leaders of the other families, and the Lannisters have a tradition of paying their debts, and anyone with a little brain will know who to choose which is better for them.

In addition, according to the plot, after the old lion was killed by the little devil, he could also take this opportunity to make a bold move, with the help of marriage and other means, to seize the borderless land of the High Court.

Anyway, after the church bombing, the Tyrells family lost almost all of their heirs, and all Zhang Cheng had to do was to get an unmarried woman from the Tyrell family in advance to make sure she didn't show up at the scene of the explosion.

Secondly, privately send someone to find out the whereabouts of the dragon egg, and try to find a dragon egg that can hatch before the energy tide arrives.

Finally, and most importantly, find the place where the Children of the Forest once lived and gather the knowledge and magic they left behind.

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After finalizing a few things he needed to do in this world, Zhang Cheng quickly devoted himself to the transformation of his armor, and completed all the processes in just one afternoon.

In fact, this armor is more of a disguise than armor.

When arcane energy is injected into the armor along the runes, ice armor and mana shields are immediately generated, and any weapon that collides with it will instantly produce an incredible deflection, and because there is a layer of iron plate on the outside, there is not much abnormality to see.

However, if it is cast directly, a translucent energy shield will appear around his body, and unless everyone is blind, it will definitely cause a huge riot.

Just as he was about to put on his armor and try it out, there was a sudden knock on the door.

Bang! Bang!

"Sir, someone has just sent me the list of battles for tomorrow's tournament, and I should take a look at it. Derry's voice came through the door.

"Oh, so fast?" Zhang Cheng didn't bother to try on the armor, quickly opened the door, and took the paper in the other party's hand.

I saw Mason Asplin appear in the fourth row, and the opponent was none other than the famous "Knight of a Hundred Flowers" Loras Tyrrell......

Thinking of making this faggot, who likes to be particularly "coquettish", a strange smile suddenly appeared on his face, and he said to himself: "Isn't it just acting, tomorrow I will let you know the self-cultivation of a real actor......"