Despite little hope, Roland did not give up on trying to find a peaceful solution to the dispute between Kitland and the Dragon's Eye, and as he wrote to invite Andrea for an interview, the eyes of Parnia, Lighthouse Mountain, and Twilight Dales were closely watching the changes in the Northlands. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

The vast expanse of the Far Eastern Province occupied a quarter of the empire's territory (excluding overseas colonies), stretching north to the foot of the Lucia Mountains, south to Beacon Mountain, and east to the ancient half-vampire territory of Parnia.

The Imperial Government had seriously considered conquering the rich city of Parnia, especially after the discovery of the rich reserves of Magic Crystals in the Twilight Valley to the west of Parnia, which bordered the Great Desert, and on more than one occasion sent expeditionary forces to try to take control of the region. However, the imperial authorities soon realized that the expedition was difficult, and that the resistance from the Parnians was only an overt obstacle, and that the interests of the two great princely states of Canaan and Hailan were involved.

The Twilight Dales are located in the narrow corridor between Parniavo and the Great Desert, known to be the land of the Dragons of the Canaanite royal family of Zion. Canaan is a country with a very uneven distribution of natural resources, the territory is mountainous and Gobi, the only two specialties are Zion Pegasus and gem mines, agriculture is mainly concentrated in the oasis near the capital Bethlehem, not to mention that compared with the empire, even among the princely states, it is widely ridiculed for "poor mountains and bad waters".

"Poor mountains and bad waters" can be seen at a glance as long as you look at the territory map of the Marquis of Canaan, while "Diao Min" is more subtle. The royal family of Zion rose in the desert and is one of the many "psionic tribes" in the Celestial Desert. In the last years of the Arcane Empire, the Zion family was still a so-called "cannibal barbarian" who believed in primitive gods and demons, held cruel blood sacrifices, and even took pleasure in headhunting, and was not accepted by the civilized world, until one of the ancestors of the Zion family received the Divine Revelation of Pereau.

Zion I had lost his way in the depths of the desert, and after years of disappearance, his family thought he was dead, but he miraculously returned to the tribe one morning, armed with the zodiac artifact "Holy Lance", claiming that he had converted to the great sun god Pero, and would guide his family to change their barbaric way of life and go out of the desert to fight for their faith. The Canaan tribe thus left their ancestral lands and migrated to the unknown Western world, and Zion I began his career as a revolutionary, fighting as a Vote of Pero against the rule of the Arcane Lords, and rising to become one of the most powerful feudal lords in the new empire after overthrowing the old empire.

The five Electors of Pero formed the Holy Alliance, which gave rise to the Holy Assanic Empire and the four princely states under its protection: the Grand Duchy of Posewa, the Princely of Fizhen, the Princely of Hailan, and the Princely of Canaan. The four princes respected the empire as their suzerain, and only nominally maintained a subordinate relationship between the monarch and the minister, but in practice there were often conflicts of interest.

In the case of the Twilight Valley, there is a serious conflict of interest between the Empire and Canaan. Although the Zion family has moved out of the desert, they have been trying to bring the heavenly region where their ancestors lived back into administrative rule, but the fierce nomadic tribes in the desert are reluctant to convert to the Church of Pero, not to mention that there are mysterious ancient psionic civilization ruins in the depths of the desert, countless inexplicable strange monsters and monsters. The Zion family has been unable to make up their minds to expand into the desert, and the news of the discovery of the Crystal Deposits in the Twilight Valley is a shot in the arm, giving the nobles who support the expansion a reason to plunder the wealth.

The scheming Marquis of Canaan, Albert VI, knew that His Majesty the Emperor also intended to extend his power to the ends of the Far East, and that the use of troops in the Twilight Valley was a foregone conclusion. His Royal Highness did not want to openly break with the Empire, so he secretly financed the Parnias' resistance to the Imperial Iron Cavalry, and made a deal with the Parnians to repay the war loan with magic crystal ore.

Albert's investment paid off handsomely, and the Marquis of La Mer, across the sea from Parnia, saw the need to curb the empire's over-expanded ambitions, and the Marquis of Kaos followed the example of the Zion family by secretly sending a navy disguised as a caravan across the Coral Sea to send shiploads of military supplies to Parnia in exchange for magic crystal ore pressed on the bilge.

His Majesty the Emperor could not bear the surging military expenditures that led to the dismantling of the two princely states, which led to the dismantling of the Imperial Army in the Parnia, and finally replaced the then Prime Minister, who advocated the use of troops against Parnia, and the new Prime Minister immediately announced the end of the war in the Far East and gradually strengthened its control over the Far Eastern frontier in a moderate way of exile and criminalization. So groups of heretics moved from their cells in the Inquisition to the Far Eastern provinces to open up land for mining, and to atone for the sins of their fallen souls with heavy manual labor.

The Canaanites were initially happy about it, but it didn't last long. The Parnias, who had grown up in the war, soon showed a restless side, and the half-vampire nobles carefully weighed the terms offered by the two backstage funders, believing that the Aquamarines were the more profitable collaborators, and the Canaanites were too harsh, and that if the latter still wanted to obtain the Crystal from the Twilight Valley, they should forgive a debt that was about to fall due.

Angered by the treachery of the half-vampire nobles, Albert decided to install a new puppet to replace the Parnias. The Faith of Naraku quickly took root and grew in the soil where the exiles who were forced to mine in the Twilight Dales had a general resentment towards the Empire. The Marquis of Canaan believed that the Naraku faith was "a poisonous apple from the tree of despair", but that the poisonous apple was useful to him and that it was worth cultivating.

Outlaw "The Black Robe" thus became an agent of the royal family of Zion, and worked happily together for quite some time. The rise of the Order of Naro also brought endless troubles and pain to the Parnias, as Albert had hoped, and made His Highness the Marquis feel the thrill of revenge.

Canaan's cooperation with the Order of Nalo continued until the death of Albert VI. On his deathbed, the marquis, out of fear of death or bewitched by the "black robe", invited Outlaw to his sickbed and asked him, "If I convert to Naraku now, can the Supreme One who presides over death prolong my life......?" After this incident was exposed by someone with a heart, it immediately caused a storm in the city, and the whole Holy See was shocked, so much so that His Majesty the Emperor had to write a letter to ask whether the rumors of the Marquis of Zion's intention to apostasy were true.

In order to maintain the foundation of Zion's rule in Canaan, the Canaanite royal family had to try to get the old marquis to abandon the treatment and die early in accordance with the public's expectations.