Chapter 217: Title Deed
"You fought the undead for covering your family and friends, and in the end you got separated from them, and you didn't have a penny. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info And in between, there is a blank period of up to 7 days. Seven days later, you rescued Brill's former garrison, Anderson Mario. Then, you have magic packs during this time, as well as a large amount of coins. ”
"What is the concept of magic bags, I want everyone here to know their value!" Viscount Quiper looked at everyone present and untied a silk magic bag from his belt. "Each of them is made by mages, and ordinary people can't get it."
"Can you tell me what you've been doing all this time? How do you get the magic pack, and the money? If you can't give a reasonable explanation, I'll doubt you, because the cover family was captured by the necromancer. What a wicked deal you made with those necromancers in order to survive. They let you back and gave you coins and magic packs! ”
Viscount Kuiper pointed at Locke and sneered, "You're back under their cover." You may be one of their allies! You may have appeared seven days later to return to humanity in an attempt to subvert and disrupt our human rule! ”
"If you can't give a reasonable explanation of the source of the money, then you will be a collaborator! Traitor! ”
Viscount Quapel looked at Locke with a sneer, and the other members of the noble council also applauded him.
This hat is not small, and it looks plausible. If you can't give a reasonable explanation, you may be mistaken as a collaborator.
Locke looked at him coldly, and Viscount Kuiper looked at him with a smile on his face.
"Justice! Ladies and gentlemen, members of the grand jury. Do I have the right to refuse to answer this question?! Locke asked the paladins and priests seated.
Ethan Lien, who was the judge of the hall, was obviously a little unsure, and he first turned to the jurors and consulted with them. Then he went to the pastors of the grand jury, listened to them, and finally returned to the judgment seat.
"Paladin Harvey, you have the right not to answer this question! However, this will affect the jurors and the grand jury, adversely affecting the assessment of the crime against you. Ethan Lien looked at him, "You need to think about it. ”
Locke groaned for a moment, then looked up at Viscount Quuppel.
"Well, I would like to ask Viscount Quapel one thing. The laws before our kingdom of Lordaeron still count? ”
"Of course it counts." Viscount Kuipel smiled and said, "There is no doubt about it. ”
"So, what about the law of territorial succession?" Locke asked, staring into his eyes.
"Just as effective!" Viscount Kuipel put away his smile, he was a little puzzled, he didn't know why Locke was asking this.
"That means that if someone finds a noble lord whose title deed, he will be able to inherit the entire domain except for the title, and all the property on it, right?" Locke continued to ask in hot pursuit.
"It needs to be added that the premise is that all of the lord's immediate collateral family members have passed away. And those who want to inherit the territory must also have a knighthood. Viscount Kuiper looked at Locke with some vigilance, "Otherwise, the territory will still be handed over to the kingdom, and the title deed will not be counted." ”
"So! Is knighthood? Locke asked, still staring at him.
"Count." Viscount Quiper nodded, but he still interrupted Locke's rhythm with his words, "Justice, the question asked by the defendant has nothing to do with the incident I asked. I beg the accused to answer my questions truthfully, otherwise, I will prosecute him as a traitor and collaborator! ”
"Paladin Harvey, please answer the question truthfully. Otherwise, the court will assume that you are no longer defending the challenge. Ethan Leon had to speak out to alert Locke.
"Good!" Locke then turned around and looked at Viscount Kuiper with a smile, he had never been more happy at this moment! A large boulder in my heart fell.
"Don't you want to ask where my money comes from? Where did I go in those 7 days, now I'll tell you! Locke glanced at him with a sneer.
The latter kept his face cold and watched Locke's performance.
Locke reached into his magic backpack and fumbled with it, pulling out a large stack of parchment paper.
"In my hand, I have a title deed!" Locke held up the parchment paper in his hand and showed it to the surrounding audience, "It will tell you the answer!" ”
Viscount Queppel looked at Locke with some disapproval, and kept beating a drum in his heart.
"According to Viscount Kuipel, according to the laws of the kingdom, I will be their new lord!" Locke raised the title deed in his hand and shouted loudly, and everyone around him looked at him inexplicably.
"It's... What the?! Viscount Kuiper smiled disdainfully, "Where did you find a few pieces of parchment to coax anyone?!" We're now pursuing you, where did you get the money! ”
"My money comes from this title deed!" Locke smiled and said, "Lots and lots of money." ”
"Hmph, who are you fooling?" Viscount Kuiper looked at him with a sneer, "In the Tirisfal Woodland, there is only one nobleman who can own such property!" ”
"Don't worry, I haven't said anything yet!" Locke looked at him with a smile and carefully took the parchment paper in his hand, "This title deed is from the Agamande family. ”
Rumble!!!
The audience around the fryer!
"What! This is the title deed of the Agamander family?!!! ”
"Unbelievable! They weren't destroyed by a natural disaster?!! ”
"That's not true!!!!
"Oh my God! Am I going to witness the birth of a great lord today?! ”
Everyone looked at the parchment in Locke's hand in amazement, and even the Grand Lord Mograini looked at all this in amazement!
"This ..... This is.... Fake! It's your fake! A layer of cold sweat flowed down Viscount Quepel's face, and he wiped his hands and feet tremblingly with a towel, and his mouth was still shouting, "The town of the Agamande family has long been destroyed by natural disasters, and it has now become the hardest hit area of natural disasters, how can there be such a thing?!" ”
"This can't be!!"
Viscount Quappel's heart trembled.
Not all lords and nobles are greedy for life and afraid of death. At the time of the Scourge, many nobles armed civilians in their territories to fight the Scourge and were eventually outnumbered, and they were all killed by the Scourge and became one of them.
Because their families were ruined, the children of the nobles died under the strangulation of natural disasters, and their territories became borderless. When there is finally peace, it will be recovered by the kingdom and used to continue to reward new nobles, and the cycle will continue.
And those nobles who fled, unless the kingdom fell or the king fled, they would also be deprived of their territory if they abandoned their territory without permission.
Their Council of Nobles has returned from the Stormwind Kingdom this time, basically for the Tirisfara Glades, the Silver Pines Forest, and parts of the Eastern Kingdoms, and they are ready to take over these ownerless lands without lords in the name of trusteeship.
During this period, if there are no new promoted nobles, then these lands will always be in their hands. To create economic benefits for them, they can even use these lands to control some nobles and military officers, thus achieving the goal of controlling the kingdom.
Their ultimate goal is to slowly replace the Minethil family and become the new magnates of the Lordaeron Kingdom.
And the law of territorial succession that Locke relied on was originally just an excuse for the kingdom to reclaim the lord's land. Since the enactment of this law, no nobleman has acquired a territory in this way.
What nobleman would put his lord's title deed in a prominent position?
"Show me! Captain Harvey! Viscount White sprang out of the audience, and he eagerly reached for the title deed in Locke's hand, who turned away from him.
"I'm sorry, Viscount White, I can't trust you." Locke smiled at him, ignoring the dark face of the other man.
The surrounding order began to be somewhat chaotic, and the Grand General Abydis came in with the Judgment Soldiers and began to suppress order in the Temple of Justice.
Ignoring the noisy crowd around him, Locke shouted to the courtroom, "Grand Commander, Grand Mage, Grand Lord, Grand Chancellor, Baron Tairosus, Grand General!" I ask you to verify the authenticity of this lord's title deed with Viscount White and Viscount Quaper! ”
"Of course it's fine!" Several members of the jury, as well as Ethan Lien walked down. They had long seen that this group of vampire nobles was dissatisfied, and they did not care about Lordaeron's fate at all, and only cared about the immediate interests.
Dassault Khan, Mograine, Baron Tyrossos, Duane, and White soon gathered together to look at the papers, along with the maps and papers.
"It can't be!" Baron White takes a step back! His face turned pale.
"This must be a forgery! This is fake!! ”
"Haha, well done boy! Haha, you vampires, I didn't expect that! Viscount White, don't you want to admit it yet? You can see clearly! It has the coat of arms of your noble council, which no one can forge! Archmage Duane laughed loudly as he pointed to the coat of arms on the paperwork, taunting the Council of Nobles.
Grand Lord Mograini and Grand Commander Dasuo Khan looked at each other and breathed a sigh of relief and laughed.
In fact, the biggest reason for Locke's crisis this time is because of land and rights. A collision between a collection of nobles from the Council of Nobles and a crusader.
In the Tirisfara glades, the Crusaders had long since begun to build watchtowers. Even the headquarters of the Forsaken, once the royal city of Lordaeron, was set up by the Crusaders to contain and spy on them.
This was the development plan of the Crusaders at the time of the meeting, relying on the former watchtower of Lordaeron, or building a new tower, outside the main gathering place of all the Scourge undead, to serve as a stronghold for the Crusaders.
These stint camps, along with Brill, Gallen, Gadar, and the Undead Barrier, will be the perfect defense system to defend against the Forsaken and the Scourge Legion, as well as to reclaim land in those areas to feed an ever-growing army.
But in doing so, it brings up issues that were previously overlooked.
Land.
When the undead are raging, who would think about the question of landowners?
And when the nobles returned, they expelled the soldiers and civilians who had taken root in their domains, which was clearly not what the Crusaders wanted to see.
So the nobles wanted the crusaders and paladins to submit.
And Locke's trial is the outbreak of contradictions, the big lords have the ability and strength to resolve the crisis for Locke, but the development of the crusaders is still inseparable from the nobles.
And if Locke had owned the title deed, the situation would have changed immediately. The extent covered by this territory will be enormous!
"How is this possible! How is this possible! Layers of sweat began to appear on Viscount White's bald head, and he kept muttering.
Behind him, the group of nobles rushed up and came to look at it too.
Suddenly, a nobleman tried to steal the title deeds and papers, and the great general Abidis suddenly appeared behind him with the adjudicator, grabbed him by his clothes, and grabbed the papers and the title deeds with one hand.
And the archmage Duane used magic to immobilize all the nobles.
"Hey, you're not doing the right thing," General Abydis pulled the nobleman's clothes and looked at him with a smile, "Guard! Invite this noble lord out and get some fresh air! ”
The red-clad adjudicator sergeant dragged the nobleman who had robbed the document out.
In the face of this incident, the solemnity of the Temple of Justice vanished...