Chapter 10: "The Secret Alliance" and "Green Branches"
Afternoon.
The little girl, who calls herself "Jean", keeps clinging to the girl and Dimi, and the two are too embarrassed to get her away. In desperation, the girl changed the meeting originally arranged in the imperial capital to the training camp. Anyway, if they ask to see themselves, it doesn't matter if they take a little step or two, right?
Because as soon as he accepted the award, he immediately disappeared, and then he was busy taking care of Elizabeth, and the people who asked to see him had already lined up outside the imperial capital. Most of the people who have nothing to do with her are gone, but there are some people she can't easily refuse.
"The three of them just gave a lot of gifts," sent off the three visitors, and the little Lori "Qin" lay on the sofa and said, "Why don't you accept it?" Victoria. ”
"Because I can't take it," the girl sighed, "the eldest daughter of the Duke of Snowfall." The younger brother of the Duke of Windy Nest. The eldest son of the Duke of Kiyomatsu Castle. It's true, I couldn't find me in the Duchy of Yangyan City, so I went directly to the imperial capital. ”
"Each of the three is the first heir." Dimi also sighed.
With the addition of Maiden and Bina, the next generation of the four principalities of the North is concentrated in this small training camp. The four principalities are in the same spirit, and the girl is a baron who was enshrined in the Duchy of Yangyan City, which makes the four dukes attach great importance to this rising star. The girl didn't want to snub the "three future dukes", but the gifts of the three were too expensive, and the girl didn't want to be soft on people.
In the hearts of the three heirs, the girl deliberately "arranged" Dimi's presence as a means of admonishing the three.
There are many nobles who want to see the girl, and the girl is the only one who is willing to meet you, which means that she still "looks the other way" to the three principalities. It seems that emotionally, the maiden will rank the major northern principalities ahead of the other lords and nobles.
The reason why she didn't accept gifts was because the girl said that she was absolutely loyal to the royal family, so how could she seek personal gain? His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is here, aren't you afraid of being remembered by the royal family if you give gifts openly-I'm afraid she wants to express such a meaning!
As for "Qin", such a little girl who doesn't know her name at all also reminds them that this time they meet, they only talk about feelings, not official business, and there is no secret agreement. It's because everyone talks about it, and it's only a few topics that don't matter if they get out.
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The girl then met with several scholars, mages, and officials from the imperial capital.
The crowd told her about the spread of her librarianship and told her that Angel Ngoor's body would soon be reshaped. And the girl also made it clear to them that she would not give up her activities in the cultural circle just because she devoted herself to the way of the secret warrior.
Soon, they left satisfied.
"Well, all that's left for today is the last wave...... Alone. ”
Representatives from the "Secret Alliance".
Secret Alliance. A community of all the Empire's secret warriors.
The Secret Alliance is an extremely loose alliance. All Mystic Warriors are theoretically automatically members of the Mystic Alliance, but half of the Mystical Warriors never think of it for the rest of their lives. Its supreme leader is naturally the Emperor of the Empire, especially the current Emperor Dietford III is also the strongest secret warrior on the surface of the Empire, and his control over the Secret Alliance is extremely strong.
In the confrontation between the royal family and the great nobles, the secret alliance abandoned some of its members and fought on the side of the royal family, and was an important contributor to the sweep of the great nobles by Dietford III. A few years have passed, and the organization of the Secret Alliance has become slightly tighter than it used to be.
However, the Secret Alliance still has a hidden concern.
The emperor of the empire is not always a secret warrior.
The father of Emperor Dietford III was not. Indeed, the Empire's top three heirs, Dimiteo, Albina, and Katerina, are all genius Mystic warriors, and the Emperor of the Empire will remain the leader of the Esoteric warriors for at least a few decades to come. However, the Emperor's succession law was that men would take precedence over primogeniture, and the possibility that the elder brother did not master the Secret Rite and that the younger sibling became the Secret Rite warrior was always there.
After Emperor Dietford III succeeded to the throne, one of the few minor civil wars that took place in the empire (the emperor allowed the princes of the empire to wage arbitral wars under his supervision), the cause of which was nothing more than a struggle over succession, with the younger brother who was a secret warrior rebelling against his brother who did not have a secret order.
At the beginning of the empire, the number of Mystic warriors was extremely scarce, but the number of Mystic warriors gradually increased, uniting around several different Grexian bloodlines to compete with each other, which led to a sharp decline in numbers.
In the past hundred years, the emperors have tried their best to strengthen the official command of the empire over all the secret soldiers, all the secret soldiers must go to the imperial capital to receive education, and the secret soldiers who are not heirs will almost always be arranged to serve far from home.
The long-awaited tradition of honor has finally made most of the Esoteric warriors more loyal to the Emperor than to the others, at least to the families in their bloodline.
But after a hundred years of roughly peace, the number of Mystic Warriors has long exceeded that of any other era in history. Marriages between Mystic Warriors have also become more common, and if a Mystic Warrior couple can have three or four children, they will most likely have one Mystic Warrior.
In fact, in history, it has also been proposed that the succession of the Mystic Warriors should precede the non-Mystic Warriors. However, this idea has not been widely discussed because arcane and divine spellcasters also claim uniform inheritance priority, and because non-casters may suddenly gain casting abilities under special circumstances.
Revering the Arcane Caster Elrios, the mages finally band together to defeat the founding House of Elrios and change the kingdom to a kingdom of law. After that, the Emperor put the proposal of "priority succession to the secret rites" on hold indefinitely.
Now, hundreds of years later, the Secret League has risen again. Some of them have begun to re-propose the priority of the Mystic Warriors.
Emperor Dietford III is the nominal leader of the Secret Alliance, but now the affairs of the Secret Alliance are in charge of a female secret warrior named Luo Ze. Some believe that she is the strongest female secret warrior in the Empire. Born in poverty, she was only fifteen years old when she got the secret ritual weapon "Shattered Xi", and she was only intermediate in the sea of clouds, but in the space of fourteen years, she became an incredibly powerful secret warrior at the top level of the blue ocean.
At the age of twenty-one, Luo Ze also inherited the organization "Green Branch" from his predecessor.
"Green Branches" is the largest organization of female warriors in the Empire, and both powerful secret warriors and ordinary female soldiers can join. Later, Luo Ze relied on the influence of "Qingzhi" and became the head of the "Secret Alliance".
The authority of the two organizations, coupled with his strong personal strength, has made Luo Ze one of the most dazzling secret warriors in the entire empire. She is still unmarried, and all suitors are mercilessly thrown out by her.
Externally, Roze has claimed that he has tried his best to suppress discussions within the Secret Alliance about the privileges of the Secret Warriors. Obviously, as a woman, Victoria, who is "unaccompanied" and deeply appreciated by the royal family, is the ally she needs to fight for with all her might.