"Honorable Lord, Lord Ransenlot, has been away from his subjects long enough. Pen ~ Fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info"

Danas Bell, the chief interior officer of Sword Bay, who was born as a civilian, felt a faint tingling pain in his forehead with his right hand on his jaw, and he hadn't slept well in recent times.

"In the past records, apart from burying oneself deep in the depths of the earth and practicing alone in silent darkness, the longest period of travel was to Banduras, the Ridge of the World, to visit His Highness Zandar Fesin of the Silver Dawn, which took only three days. ”

The sheriff to the left of Danasbell, Talamantus Urta, had a trace of sorrow on his brow that made the hoarfrost on his sideburns look older and older.

"It is said that he has fallen near the Black Castle, where the Orc rebels have fallen, and the man who strikes is likely to be the White Knight with the title of Parantulu. ”

Justice Lothar Koch routinely struck his wooden hammer, "Everyone, let's talk about it." ”

Inspector Satur sneered: "Tsk...... It's just a human being, how can it be possible to cause the fall of the descendants of the Lord of the Dawn?Is the rumor reliable? It can't be a rumor spread by some people on purpose, right?"

The right and left hand of the Interior Officer, Vice-Chancellor Christine shook his head slightly: "In any case, as long as you ask yourself, do you all have the sadness of loss? So the question is, what do we do?"

Chief Inquisitor Manlius put his hands on the table and clenched his fists against his chin: "The family private soldiers of Count Fern Munster have taken possession of the prosperous commercial city of Veran City under the banner of maintaining order in the riverbend region. Ostensibly quelling the vicious competition for salt prices and protecting the small merchants won a certain amount of applause and cheers, but we should note that without a strong pillar of force, the nobility would stretch their dirty hands into this land of freedom. ”

His good friend, the presiding judge of the First Tribunal, Onahika, nodded lightly in agreement: "There is only Fern Munster, an unsuccessful little cub, I don't care about his greed, the only thing that worries me is this loyal dog of the Grand Duke of Summer, maybe it is just a temptation to play the outpost." Perhaps there was a group of hungry nobles behind him, who regarded Sword Bay as a piece of fat to be slaughtered at will, ready to hold a gluttonous feast for partition. ”

Inspector Satur sighed: "That's right! In the face of a group of greedy jackals, anyone who wants to escape the fate of being eaten can only give up each other's prejudices and unite completely. Thinking about the past, we can even resist the will of Lord Ranson Lot......"

Vice-Chancellor Christini spewed a mocking cold air from his nose: "Hmph! The Lord just doesn't care that we disobey his will, not that we can actually stand up to him. Don't forget that the manors and territories owned by the knights of the Twilight Knights are all from him, and the dark knights of the Eye of the Night are also completely dependent on his protection, otherwise how could they stand firm. ”

Satur's expression was slightly stunned, but he knew in his heart that this was true, but he immediately counterattacked: "Twilight and Dark Night are the left and right arms of Lord Ransenlot, and now that we have lost our only allegiance, can we buy them over and switch sides and sides?" ”

Christine's nonchalant eyes stung the Ombudsman's pride, and he asked in a non-malicious cross-examination, "What conditions can you offer?"

Ignoring the gaze of the sheriff Talamantus Urta, Satur puffed out his chest and chose to speak the truth: "Money! Maybe you can get some of the Black Knights from the Eye of the Night." Sharing rights may be able to buy off the Twilight Knights, who all want to participate in the council, so they might as well give up a few seats. ”

"It's ridiculous! Those knights who stay in the manor and play in the mud and are covered in stinky clothes want to be on our side?"

His proposal was out of line, and even the three giants who remained silent retorted, and the voices of echoing became louder and louder, even in the empty council hall.

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Quarrels, constant quarrels, the ministers of Ransenlot's trusted domain, after determining that the lord of Sword Bay has a high probability of falling, except for some people with a sense of crisis who are preparing for a rainy day, most of the eyes only see the short-sighted people who can be satisfied under the nose and the mouth part, they will only pull each other's hind legs, and do not let any of their colleagues have a chance to reach the top of the throne.

Count Finn Munster seized control of the city of Veran with his family's private army, and de facto occupied the commercial city without any blow.

The two members of the Twilight Knights choose to back down, unable to make such a big decision and leave everything to the ministers in the council, as has been the practice until now, but the bickering officials have lived up to their expectations.

He chose to ignore and acquiesce to the established reality of Count Fern Munster's seizure of the city of Wieland, hoping that this gift would satisfy his appetite, and that he would take time to digest it and stop his progress.

Unfortunately, this strategy of compromise for peace did not pay off, but on the contrary it was the weakness of the ministers who governed Sword Bay, which not only aroused the ambition of Finn Munster, but also made the other earls in real power see the truth.

Without the spur of Grand Duke Summer, they spontaneously stretched out their greedy claws to the rich and prosperous riverbend region, trying to make up for the losses caused by the rebellion of orc slaves with the wealth they had accumulated over a long period of time.

The quiet and peaceful Bay of Swords has since been plunged into a chaotic and turbulent life, and the ministers who have chosen to swallow their anger have been treated with a certain degree of kindness, and their property has not suffered much damage, and if there is, it can be recovered by other means.

The class that most hated the "occupation army" of the Earl's private soldiers were the merchants, who had to deal not only with the exploitation of the newly established tax cards, but also with the extortion of military service.

Gone are the days when there were no taxes and no military service in the riverbend area, and there were no more tax-free cheap goods, and the "occupation army" had to be supplied with excellent young men to replenish the lost soldiers.

That's right, the Earls' family private soldiers invaded Sword Bay not without a price, and the Twilight Knights, who were ordered by the ministers to retreat, would rather risk being disbanded than go against the "enemy".

As for the Black Knights of the Eyes of the Night, they have gone from being guardians of the peace and order of the night to dangerous assassins and executioners of traitors who choose to defect to the "occupation forces".

In order to compete with the hounds raised by the nobles, they choose to fall deeper into the ravine of desire in exchange for a more abundant source.

During this period, there were also members of the Twilight Knights with ordinary talents, who also lamented the strength and depth of their opponents, and gradually deviated from the path of virtue that was difficult to hold, choosing to break the shackles of the precepts and release the beast within themselves.

Especially when Alonso, the deputy head of the regiment, chose to fall, and the situation was slightly reversed. The white knight, who had walked a long way on the rugged mountain road and was about to reach the top, suddenly let go and jumped from a high place.

The flames of rage burned the twisted thorn vine sigil on his full forehead, as if crowned by the source of evil, directly crossing the natural boundaries of the Knight of Wand, transforming into the crown of sin.

The pleasure of being full of body and mind, the anguish of keeping the precepts and the moral code of the heart, is instantly rewarded several times, tenfolds, and dozens of times.

Alonso, the "horn of the wild elephant", was completely gone, leaving only a wild, "unrestrained" knight in shorts, who sometimes - usually at night - he even spared leather pants to cover his shame.

Completely losing the sense of shame in exchange for a massive source that surpasses ordinary white knights, knight skills that were originally regarded as forbidden moves can also be used without scruples.

With such a strong leader, at least at night in the riverbend area, when the "occupation army" is no longer rampant, they usually huddle in their camps, and lie down and rest in full armor, like hedgehogs with all their needles up.

The Bay of Swords, which was not completely chaotic, caught the attention of Aldrich Tris, and when he learned about Ransenlot's right and left hand, the current situation of the Twilight Knights, and the expansion of the Eye of the Night, he couldn't help but value the Eight Virtues he adhered to even more.

As for the enthusiastic and unrestrained Alonso, after observing it up close, he couldn't help but sigh a little: a defective crown knight!

In exchange for greater strength against the enemy, Aldrich Triss wants to attack these knights who do anything to do it, but he doesn't know where to start.

Perhaps this is the reason for the gradual decline of the traditional hacienda knights, who have been hiding in the shadow of Ranson Lot for so long that when the cruel reality comes, they are unsuspectingly swept into the vortex of chaos, pushed by the tide of the times.

"The bastion of traditional chivalry in the old era is constantly crumbling and disintegrating, who can reverse this process? Even if there are such people, they will be completely crushed by the new army armed with gunpowder and guns!"

The footsteps of dusk have quietly approached, the last knightly elegy is about to be played, the anachronistic slavery is doomed to extinction, and the fierce battle for the hegemony of the West continent has shown signs of victory and defeat.

The merchants who had amassed a great deal of wealth in the Bend region, especially some of the brightest among them, sensed that their lives would be threatened by the greed of the magnates of the Duchy of Virginie when the patrons who held up a sky of freedom were gone.

After quietly selling their property for a certain amount of cash currency, they secretly arranged for the family members to leave the increasingly volatile situation in Sword Bay.

Many of the principalities in the south were no longer able to settle down, and the countries of Middle-earth, which were involved in a state of war, were not suitable places to settle, except for the cold north at high latitudes, and the remote western lands, where industry and commerce were said to have flourished, and merchants also had the right to participate in politics.

This is more attractive than all the rhetoric of flowery rhetoric, and the merchants of Sword Bay, who voted with their feet, boarded a merchant ship on a long voyage and headed along the long coastline to the land of freedom in their minds.

After they fled one after another, the "occupying forces", who realized that the tax revenue had shrunk, began to blockade the sea, and in order to compensate for the "losses", they began to raise the tax rate - of course, without taking into account the feelings and opinions of the inhabitants of the river bay area, and directly following their wishes.

After the doubling of the tax rate, the increasingly heavy pressure of life was like a dynamite bag ignited by a fuse, and the tax resistance incident of a small number of people quickly evolved into a large-scale tax resistance turmoil.

As Aldrich Triss expected, the already turbulent Bay of Swords increasingly became the source of civil war, and the frustrated nobles of many southern principalities, the bankrupt and declining knights of the manors, and the mercenaries who did not recognize people appeared on this curtain opening stage, and gradually began to become active.