The snow is still falling......

Kevin Stun opened his eyes, not too hard, but the fatigue of the days was more or less overwhelmed the young nobleman, and a wooden desk neatly stacked with large piles of paper documents was in front of him. He sat in a chair, with the Blonde hair of a Holm man, white skin, navy blue eyes, and a delicate trench coat common in aristocratic circles, with his arms through the sleeves lying on the surface of his desk.

He seemed to have just woken up, and from a short nap, he reached out and rubbed the corners of his eyes, opened his mouth and yawned widely—his heart said that his work had been getting more and more frustrating, from the military threats from the outside of the frontier to the mess of trivial matters within the Empire......

The heated fireplace is quietly thrown into it, the wood burns into the gentle air, and outside the window of the room, the year-round snow still fills the city sky like goose feathers.

This is the Helmet City, the northern hub of the Golden Oriole Empire, built on the hilly terrain not far south of the Winter Fortress, and a feathered beast can be seen hovering in the air in that direction on the hills to the east, as if doing a kind of daily military training.

If the eyes were sharp enough – maybe you could tell from those hazy silhouettes in the distance that it was a winged bird of prey called the griffon.

Yes, griffons of the Northlands.

The Snowfeather Griffin is one of the northlands of Emerald Bay that breeds formidable life from the frost all year round, and these overlords of the skies have a appearance that is not unlike the rest of their kind, except for the complete snow-white feathers all over their bodies, and their strong physique, eagle-like sharp eyes, and rebellious nature make it take a lot of effort and energy for the humans of the Empire to tame them willingly become the mounts of a class of troops.

The name of this class is called the Griffin Guard, and legend has it that after the Golden Warbler Emperor Calvinland incorporated this snowy region into the empire, the Earl of the Northlands, who was originally appointed to rule the area, discovered those elegant and fierce creatures in the mountains east of the city during a tour.

The frigid frontier needs a great force to protect it. The soldiers of the Northlands have been domesticating griffons at the behest of their lords ever since, and the griffin guards continue to serve the local de jure lords to this day, as elite private soldiers directly at his disposal, year after year, generation—

Kevin sat in his chair, the history of the Griffin Guard as clear and clear as his ocean-blue eyes. He glanced out the window, and the streets of the city seemed to be no different to his usual eyes, but he knew that beyond the Winter Fortress to the north, it was no longer the same.

The gloomy chill came from the depths of the Great Snowfield, Byron Tas, the realm of the undead founded and ruled by the mysterious zombie king Erdonne, and brought together the forces of Cassius, the Black Duke of the Hill of Mourning, the vampires of the Blood Moon Castle, and the ghoul leader Barnadell of the Decadent Valley, gradually and orderly spreading towards the world of the living......

He suddenly thought to himself, before he knew it, almost two months had passed since the destruction of the expeditionary force.

Viscount Bildigau, who had been elected by the nobles to lead his army, had now returned to the region of Holm, where he was said to have been secretly ransomed by the old Duke Ducatlet's dispatch to Byron Tas.

The young viscount was about his age, but the relationship between the two was anything but good.

At this time, his thoughts were interrupted by the movement of the door opening-

Kevin's gaze shifted back from the window, and he saw another girl with the same blond hair and blue eyes as him walking into the room with another stack of documents that would give him a little headache, approaching the desk in front of him.

With fair skin, long ponytail hair, the girl who came towards him looked much younger than him, sixteen or seventeen years old, but there was a serious expression on her childish face that was about to condense into iron.

"Your Lord." Soon, she came to Kevin, and the information in her hand was placed on the table.

Lord Lord—That's right.

He is the present-day Earl of Northland.

The Stouns are the lords of the Northland Earls, and the hereditary glory will come from the transfer of power from his father, Kevin, who is indeed the lord of the land despite his young age, and also the spiritual leader of the Empire's northern church powers, the latter of which he has gained through absolutely legitimate means.

After all, if it weren't for his gentle reply to the girl next, it would be a bit frivolous......

"Replacing the lord with a brother may be more pleasing to your boss, sweet little Alice."

Belch...... You can hardly suspect that this guy is in fact a paladin.

And he is also a high-level paladin who has already completed the advancement of the Inquisitor profession and the awakening of his soul talent at a young age, one of the most powerful individual combat forces in the current period of the Golden Que Ying Empire, and the weapon worn on his waist is the best proof of his status as a priest - "The Judgment of the Destroyer", a powerful +5 enchanted greatsword, but only expresses submission to the true, good and orderly "Holy Avenger".

The Holy Avengers, along with the Griffin Guards stationed outside the Armor City, now serve the perhaps slightly "unusual" paladin lord.

Alice Stun, his younger sister, has been active in his work environment as his personal assistant for a few years after the tragic death of Sir Stoon Sr. This little girl who doesn't seem to like to joke always puts on a serious and serious expression, and she is short and has a young baby face among normal women, making her look like a stubborn and cute little princess with a straight expression all the time.

But don't underestimate the poker-faced "princess" - she is not a vase, in addition to having a mind that can help a lord with efficient daily work, she has also shown a talented talent for spell casting at the Royal Mage Academy in the Holm region, and almost set a record for the shortest time to go from magic apprentice to full-fledged mage graduation in that mage academy.

Alice gave Kevin a blank look, ignoring the other party's jokes, her eyes falling on the young paladin's face as if the Overseer's surveillance was on the young paladin's face: "Lord Lord, please pay attention to your identity!" ”

Stern – Queenly harsh, though she wasn't.

"Okay, okay, I was wrong, dear Miss Secretary, I was wrong." Kevin hurriedly raised his hands to "admit defeat and surrender" to her, smiled helplessly, and then reached for the document handed in by the little girl, and took the most eye-catching envelope placed on the top.

"A letter from the imperial capital." The young paladin lord glanced at the crimson wax seal, and the frivolity on his face suddenly subsided, and instantly transformed into a steady maturity......

After a long silence, he paused in his tone and opened the letter—

"Your Majesty's secret order?"

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