After the victory at the Absburgs, Isaac had a short, peaceful time.

Due to the disappearance of Benedict II, the young age of Bob supported by Gray, and the refusal of the Holy See to canonize Bob as king, it is only natural that Gray should be the ruler of the kingdom of Isaac during this period. After all, only Gray, who is also a nobleman, holds the title of Paladin, and is the victor of the war, has this prestige.

Well...... This was Gray's first time in office. There is always a first time for everything, and for the first time, there is usually something out of the ordinary. Everyone has a hunch about this.

Including Irene, including Count Grugru, including the two demons watching from the sidelines, including Dean and Archmage Andrew, and the Holy See who was quietly watching Gray from afar.

However, they still underestimated Gray too much after all.

On the second day of his official administration, Gray sounded the clarion call for reform. The first decree he issued was...... Send money. Yes, money is sent to residents.

It's good, it's very simple, it's very violent to boost support.

When they heard the news, those who were expecting Gray to fall and fight, especially the people of the Holy See and the royal families of the surrounding countries, laughed. After all, many kings have done this kind of thing in the past, but it is generally ineffective and mere formality. There are so many people, how much money do you have to give?

However, they didn't laugh long, and after just one day, they couldn't laugh anymore.

"I want to divide the wealth of the royal family among the poor, is that okay?" asked Bob.

"For the poor?" said Bob, confused.

"Yes. Gray said earnestly: "As a knight, as a believer in the Holy Spirit, one should help those in need, and one should demand oneself with the virtue of frugality." This is the attitude that a good person with chivalric ideals should have. But before I do that, I need to ask for your consent. After all, you are the rightful heir to the royal wealth. ”

"As a Paladin's servant, I'm sure I'm a man with knightly ideals! I agree!" Bob, who is a Paladin's fan, agreed without thinking.

"I think he'll regret it when he grows up. The black cat muttered quietly.

Yes, Gray is eyeing the enormous wealth of the Isaac royal family, and he has been eyeing that kind for a long time. It has to be said that after the accumulation of many generations, the Isaac royal family does have astronomical wealth. Now, as a lover of knightly novels, he has his eye on it, and can't wait to learn from the protagonist of the novel, who uses the wealth of the royal family to give money to the poor, and it is all paid, except for the lion palace and the necessary expenses.

It's shocking.

When he heard the news, whether it was the Holy See, the surrounding royal families, or even Archmage Andrew, who was lurking in the Lion King Capital, his eyes almost fell off.

No one has ever done this, and no normal person would do that.

Unfortunately, Gray is a lich, and a lich is not a normal person. By the way, the Lich's ability to do death is among the highest among all races in the world. Second only to doing experiments to blow yourself up to the brink of extinction.

Anyway, Gray decided and did so.

Next, the ill-intentioned ones began to expect Gray to make a mistake in the execution. After all, some things are easier said than done. How do you make sure that the money actually goes to the people in need, how do you make sure that the money actually helps them?

Many people with great prestige in history have been left behind for 10,000 years after they came to power.

It is true that Gray encountered some difficulties in the process of execution. But soon, he adjusted. Or rather, it's been adjusting.

You have to admit that no race can compete with the Lich. And energy is extremely useful, both on the battlefield and in governance.

Lich things basically have no EQ, but without exception, they have a high IQ. Gray was able to take out the attitude of a lich experiment, observe day and night, and carefully adjust.

The key is that he doesn't have any baggage as a ruler, and if he is wrong, he readily admits his mistake and starts again, and if he doesn't work, he changes his behavior.

That's tenacious.

Helplessly, the vast majority of people who expected Gray to make a mistake could only admit that he won the first game.

Of course, there are also those who do not admit it.

"Does this work?" Andrew scoffed: "There must be a reason why poor people are poor." Can he post it once, and he can send it all the time?"

Irene thought the same thing, albeit from a slightly different angle: "Gray, I don't think it's right for you to do this. Distribute all the money to the poor, what if we need it again? After all, our relations with the Holy See are still very bad, and they may do anything at any time. When the time comes, how will we recruit troops?"

"Recruit the army, why do you want to recruit the army?"

"Forehead ......"

"We don't need that many troops, just have me. If they come again, I will beat them like this time. Gray said.

It's really irrefutable.

So, Gray set his sights on the second money—a fiscal surplus.

Yes, the kingdom of Isaac now has a huge financial surplus.

For the vast majority of lords, the main expense was military spending. After all, the army is the basis for them to maintain their rule and defend themselves against foreign enemies. However, Gray is clearly not needed.

Before the war, the Isaac royal family maintained an army of about 40,000 men, but now that the war is over, all but the 10,000 troops who have defected to Gray have been scattered. This meant that Isaac had a huge financial surplus.

So, unfortunately, Gray was able to keep sending money.

Things unfolded in a hurry, shocking the entire continent.

During that time, wherever he rode his horse, he could see the crowd kneeling on the ground and kowtowing to him, worshipping him as if he were the Holy Spirit. Prestige is no longer confined to the lion king, but to Isaac.

He became known as "someone else's king" in the mouths of the people of the surrounding countries, although he was not a king.

This led directly to the migration of inhabitants of neighboring countries to Isaac, and even led to some countries being forced to follow up with reforms to avoid riots. Although it still doesn't have much effect, after all, they can't improve the welfare of residents like Gray.

After getting the finances and welfare, it's the turn of the law.

During the day, Gray would go to the Lion King's capital to continue to improve Isaac's welfare system and deal with the problems that arose during the implementation of various welfare systems. Bob would always be by his side to "supervise".

In the evening, Gray returns to Pierce Cathedral. Normally, a large group of nobles in charge of justice would be waiting for him in the hall.

There is no doubt that Gray's reform of the law is also unimpeded, after all, no one wants to compete with a paladin who has both power and clerical power. Even, the magnates of the Lion King Capital cooperated in changing their schedules to day and night to cooperate with Gray's work, hoping to gain a favorable position in the new government.

In just one month, a draft revision of the law was introduced, a law that had never been more lenient than ever before.

It's an old trick again.

It's like giving money to the people, which many kings do. Reducing sentences, or pardoning prisoners, is a way to win the favor of the population. However, it is generally a little bit, and it is mainly based on pardons for prisoners. After all, adjusting the law is a big undertaking and prone to many unintended consequences.

However, like handing out money, Gray does the same thing as everyone else, but the scale is directly stretched to the limit. In addition to the special felonies, he commuted the punishment of the law on such a large scale that the people were at first incredulous.

"I thought the paladins were going to introduce a stricter law, but I didn't expect it...... Even the paladins are helpless against the wicked?"

"Maybe the paladin just thinks it's too harsh if it follows the previous law. After all, the Knights of the Silver Moon are different from the previous magistrates, and no evil can escape their eyes. ”

"No sin escapes? Do you know how many sin goes undetected from beginning to end? No one has reported the crime at all, how can he investigate?"

Count Grugru thought the same way: "Did he do both of these things a little too hastily? Did the affairs of the Absburg inflate him? This is no different from indulgence." Kindness does not always come in exchange for goodwill, and in most cases it does not even come into play. Lex laws require strict enforcement, otherwise they cannot be used as a deterrent. However, the current level of implementation is obviously not extremely stringent. After all, there are only a hundred Knights of the Silver Moon, and they can't really be everywhere. ”

Unlike before, when it comes to the reform of the law, not only are opponents not optimistic, but even one's own people are generally not optimistic. Except for Shelley.

However, what happened next left everyone stunned.

Gray turned over a case from sixty years ago. Yes, sixty years ago, and the evidence is conclusive, the arrest of an old lady who is already in her eighties. He proved to everyone with his actions that not only what happened to the Lion King could not escape his eyes, but even the case of sixty years ago could not escape his eyes.

It can only be said that the residents of the Lion King Capital are still too naïve, and they don't know anything about this new ruler.

No one knows if no one reports it? I'm sorry, but as an undead, there are undead law enforcement methods.

During the day, Gray was busy with welfare matters, in the first half of the night Gray was busy with legal reform, and in the second half of the night, didn't he still have four hours of "sleep"?

These four hours of "sleep" Gray used to receive the ghosts of the city. Or more accurately, he used his magic to revive a large number of sleeping ghosts, and renew the lives of all of them, allowing them to serve as his free eyeliner.

Ghosts are almost zero in strength and have almost no deterrent power, but there is an advantage that the living can't see them, while they can see the living, and the magic cost is extremely small, making it the best choice for eyeliner.

During that time, Andrew felt that the whole Lion King had become gloomy.

Looking at the ghosts floating by from time to time outside the window, he whispered, "There is at least one necromancer in the Lion King Capital, and he is reviving the sleeping ghosts. There are probably tens of thousands of ghosts. ”

"Tens of thousands of ghosts! That's a very powerful necromancer?" Dean was taken aback.

"No, after all, ghosts are useless in the first place. Just a little magic can revive them. Andrew said casually: "Regardless of him, let's hurry up and do what you have to do." ”

"Yes...... Be. ”

You have to understand that as an obsessive-compulsive and energetic lich who treats time and money like dung, it is impossible to allow a huge hole in his plans. Unless he doesn't feel like it's a loophole. Or maybe he had a patch for that vulnerability in place.

"Sir, are you saying that your neighbor dumped garbage in front of your house late at night?"

"Uh...... Not really. I just died in that house, and my family moved out years ago, so it can't be considered mine. But the guy next door did dump the garbage, I saw it with my own eyes. ”

"Okay, I see. Thank you, sir. Karl, send someone to deal with it. ”

"Yes!"

The translucent ghost of the old man swayed away with a blue glow. There was also a long string of ghosts lined up in the back. These ghosts, all of whom are Gray's free spies, have fallen in love with the job of reporting people every day with the support of Gray's magic.

The black cats were dumbfounded. Shuddering, real shuddering.

There is no doubt that the privacy of the entire Lion King has been wiped out, even though they themselves do not know it.

Although the Knights of the Silver Moon no longer followed day and night as before, it was soon discovered that law enforcement had not decreased, but had increased. Straight to the top.

Here, no matter what you do against the law, no matter how stealthy it is, the members of the Silver Moon Knights will stand in front of you the next morning, even if you litter. Would-be killers will be stopped halfway through. Even if the person who commits the crime of passion escapes from the Lion King Capital, he will be arrested quickly and accurately. The processing time of any case will not exceed 48 hours.

In just three months, the Lion King has become the human city with the lowest crime rate, the best public security, the fairest, the most just, and the richest on the entire continent. Gray, on the other hand, is undoubtedly the most rigorous, industrious, upright, and generous ruler on the continent.

A real "king of other people's homes".

Each of these achievements was like a whip on the face of the Holy See. Whip after whip.

"If Paladin Gray represents justice, then what does the Holy See, which is completely different from Gray, or even severed from Gray, represent?"

"Must ...... He must be stopped!"

"But how do we stop it? Are we going to stand up and say he's not doing it right?"

"We're going to be in a worse place......"

The cardinals of the College of Cardinals have completely exploded, this time not only with a sense of crisis, but also with a serious sense of urgency.

Anyone can see that the rift between Gray and the Holy See, and even the surrounding countries, is not moving towards healing with the temporary end of the war, on the contrary, the rift is widening and the contradictions are intensifying.

If anyone didn't see it, it was probably only Gray himself. The Lich Paladins may not know, or may not care, but they still change the whole of Isaac regardless of it, desperately trying to turn the Lion King into their ideal hometown to prove that they are right.

The Pope, with his eyes closed, said with a solemn expression: "Send a message to Archmage Andrew, we need a result. Needed immediately. Don't wait any longer, even if you're not ready. ”

"As you command, Your Excellency. The cardinal on the side said respectfully.