Chapter 197: Knight Hanbaani's Plea for Help
The yearning for warm seas and fertile lands has made the Asrofik Empire greedily covet the lowland countries at the bottom of the Three Rivers Valley since its birth. Each time, after accumulating enough strength in the wild ice fields of the east, the Asrofik Empire would launch a large-scale eastward invasion in an attempt to break through the Eden Corridor and annex the Low Countries to gain fertile land at the mouth of the sea.
However, the ambitions of the Asrofik Empire were completely shattered by the Kingdom of Ray Grace every time. Although the Asrofik Empire has the toughest warriors, the most fierce will to fight, the most vast land, the largest number of barbarian tribes, and a large number of individual strongmen. But in front of the three knights of the kingdom of Rain, every time they have to meet and break their blood.
For the Asrofik Empire, the Kingdom of Ryan Dian and his three knights are already an impenetrable wall, firmly keeping the empire out of their coveted land, and they are their absolute mortal enemies.
The emperors of the Asrofik Empire have always been obsessed with defeating the kingdom of Ryan Dian and seizing the crown of the overlord of the Northlands. However, the power of the Knights is too strong, and the Asrofik Empire has hit a wall again and again, and the sacrifices of countless warriors have only confirmed the fact that the Knights are the pinnacle of force in the world again and again.
Therefore, obtaining a knight order belonging to his own empire is also a dream of the Asrofik Emperor in the past. Unfortunately, Knight Tan is the ultimate embodiment of the order and faith of the Legion, the manifestation of a miracle after completing the almost impossible battle against the sky, and the perfect embodiment of chivalry and will to fight. Although the Asrofik Empire has the most courageous warriors, they are chaotic by nature, like to be brainless and reckless on the battlefield, and lack knightly culture, and their understanding of war is still at the level of fighting by courage and fearlessness to death, so they have not been able to give birth to qualified military spirits, let alone knights.
This generation of Astana the Great is an alternative, he did not follow the customs of the Asrofik, go to the wild ice field to experience, and kill an ice bear as his own coming-of-age ceremony, but according to the ancient knightly tradition, he was sent to the court of the Dro Empire where his mother was born when he was a child, as a knight squire, and learned everything about knights from the very bottom.
After becoming an adult, he traveled to the mainland countries under a pseudonym, personally went deep into the bottom to investigate, and explored the root cause of the strength of the major powers on the mainland. Immediately after his return, he carried out drastic reforms as the crown prince.
He sought to change the traditional tradition of tribal alliance in the Asrofik Empire, strengthen the centralization of royal power, and transform the Asrofik Empire from a pseudo-empire of large tribal alliances into a real empire with efficient centralization.
He ordered the reduction of the private soldiers of each tribe, and ordered each tribe to allocate a certain amount of troops to form a regular army of the empire, and imitated the major empires to establish knight academies in the capital, and called on all noble children to come to the knight academy to receive knight culture education. He also worked to foster commerce, greatly elevate the status of merchants, restrain the raiding activities of the tribes, and encourage foreign trade and exchanges.
His reforms, while greatly enhancing the national strength of the Asrofik Empire, also greatly touched the interests of the traditional aristocracy, and unsurprisingly attracted huge opposition. In the face of the constant rebellions and conspiracies, Astana, who was still the crown prince, did not hesitate to raise the butcher's knife and mercilessly slaughter all opponents, and in the final face of the shaken king's father, he did not hesitate to launch a coup d'Γ©tat with his followers, and stepped on the blood-stained throne with the blood of his loved ones.
It can be said that the emperor's iron-blooded reform directly raised the civilization level of the Asrofik Empire by an era, and also made the Asrofik Empire truly a big problem for the Kingdom of Ryanda.
Now, Alicia's father, King Gusta, worries about every day, in addition to the contradiction between the increasing number of knights in the Northland and the fewer and fewer divisible lands, is how to curb the rise of the Asrofik Empire.
"Emperor Astana, His Majesty Frederick, Grand Duke Star-Eyed, and the Pirate King Locelik, who is left?"
Carl couldn't help but sigh, the world is big, the world is small, so many big people appear at the same time, it can only be a coincidence of fate. At the same time, he can't help but be a little curious about the identity of the last person, who can be on the same stage with the big shot, must also be a big shot!
"That one?"
Mrs. Loris couldn't help but smile playfully, looked at Carl with interest, and said, "Guess what?"
"I can't guess!"
Carl is not a native of this world after all, although he has some indigenous memories on his body, but what others don't mention, it is difficult for him to think of it, where did he guess which legend of this world is this!
"Just a hint, he has the same blood as you!"
"......," Karl said, still not guessing.
"Just a reminder, he's the only real dragon knight in the world!"
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Carl said that he still didn't understand, the dragon knight or something, it seems that he had only heard of Catherine, the double dragon knight of the Baiotin Empire, or something, but it was a peerless beauty who was said to be comparable to Alicia, but it was not a man!
"Then let me remind you that his mother is a member of the Xibai royal family, and his father is the biggest enemy of the church!"
Mrs. Loris couldn't help but wonder, a little suspicious that Carl was playing dumb, although the "Dragon Protector" Clovis was not as famous as his father "Dark Sage" Crane, but the profession of "Dragon Knight" was a natural topic, no matter what the era, people were very curious, the relationship between the Dragon Knight and his dragon, whether it was a dragon rider or a human dragon - about this, there was also a master who wrote a monograph called "Dragon Messenger" to discuss in detail.
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Carl could only say that he still didn't remember that there were many legends of the Xibai royal family, but because of the hostile relationship with the Holy See, the news of the Xibai royal family was blocked in most parts of the mainland. In Alicia's memory, the more well-known powerhouses of the Xibai royal family were the legendary knight who gave up the throne and specialized in mixing in the low-level mercenaries, and the fallen paladin who turned his back on the knightly virtues and relied on unknown forces to promote the legendary - the rebellious powerhouses of the Xibai royal family are as famous as their closed and conservative.
Fortunately, just as Lady Loris was about to cross-examine him further, the old butler arrived and relieved Carl.
"Madam, the Knight of Hanbani has sent a message that he is preparing to raid Sir Stirling's secret stronghold, and take this opportunity to wipe out all of Sir Stirling's power in the City of Silver Tide!"
"He also pleaded, I hope you can send a knight to help!"