On the tenth day after the end of the celebration banquet on the Northwest Frontier, the envoys of the Holy Sword Legion entered the royal capital, and the news of the great victory in the northwest spread in the royal capital. The royal family also made an official announcement confirming the news. For a while, the people of the royal capital celebrated greatly, and the streets and alleys were full of people discussing this great victory over the orc army.

And the information about Donald, the genius mage and summoner of the first day of the North County, as well as Donald's performance in the battle with the orcs, was also spread in the royal capital and even the whole country under the instruction of people with hearts.

In this way, the originally set reward, the land area of a knight's domain seems a little thin, and His Majesty Sert XV declares that for the dignity and fairness of the nobles of the kingdom, a part of the reward will be added.

This decision was very difficult for the members of the noble council, and it was difficult for them to reach a formal resolution for a while.

The final decision on the division of the feud of the nobles of such great merit is generally in the hands of the royal family and the nobles from all over the world, and His Majesty the King proposes a resolution, and if more than half of the members of the council vote in favor of it, then the reward for the other party will be formalized.

The rewards of ordinary life lords and knights only need to be decided by His Majesty the King, and then notified to the noble council for record.

Let's talk about the day when the countess returned to the royal capital. His Majesty had already inquired about her visit, and he had his own thoughts on Donald's request.

The next day, His Majesty once again summoned the people in the council hall to make the final decision on the reward for the great victory in the northwest. The rewards for the other nobles and professionals had already been decided, after all, the most accumulated merit among them was only the elimination of hundreds of defeated orcs, and a knighthood was enough to send them away.

The only problem is the reward of Donald Melinner, the greatest hero, also because of the exclusion of the old nobles and the obstruction of hostile aristocratic forces.

If it weren't for the fact that the Ansel family submitted the merit request document for the first time, so that Donald's military exploits were justified and recorded, and there was no fraud in the slightest, and the statement issued by the second prince Du Rui, which deterred people who did not dare to act rashly, then there would have been a great nobleman's children secretly usurping merit?

This kind of thing has not happened in previous years, especially for civilian adventurers who have no roots.

However, this time, with the Ansel family's strong protection, His Majesty the King and the second prince paying attention, and that genius also has the support of a county mage behind him, it is really difficult to do tricks, so there is no deception, and this is how it makes some aristocratic forces dissatisfied, and weakens the reward results as much as possible.

At this resolution, many noble officials were still ready to argue over the size of the reward, but their King gave them a salary.

"You are all the elites of the kingdom, you don't have to quarrel about some things, the envoy sent to the northern county has returned, here is the request of the genius mage, submit it!"

His Majesty the King spoke, and a waiter had already presented the prepared documents to the ministers and nobles to read.

According to the title from high to low, everyone present read the documents, and many nobles' faces changed slightly, and some of them did not move.

After everyone had seen it, a noble councillor stepped forward and spoke first.

"Your Majesty, is it illegal to restore a piece of land that is already a manor to a noble fief, and there is no precedent!"

Hearing this, Celt XV glanced up at the nobleman, and realized that it was just a puppet of some aristocratic power, so he didn't care, waiting for the opinions of others.

"Your Majesty, I don't think it's impossible to do this, anyway, it was originally a hereditary territory, and it couldn't bring much benefit to the kingdom, and since it was the genius mage's own request, why not go along with his wishes?"

This representative is the southern aristocratic forces, who previously prevented Donald from receiving the big reward, just because it involved their own interests, and now the reward target is far away from their territory, so naturally there is no reason to stop it, but they also said something to help the other party.

As for the biggest rival of the Merlinna family, the nobleman who was bribed by Viscount Macbeth, although he had the heart to oppose it, he was helpless and couldn't intervene in front of several mountains, and Viscount Macbeth's bribery had not yet reached the level where he could offend the big noble.

At this time, Count Dawson, the Marshal of the Kingdom and Minister of War, who had been silent since the beginning of the Parliament, suddenly said:

"Your Majesty, this baron asked the lord of the year to pay a lower reward for his military exploits! After all, he was originally a hereditary nobleman!"

At this time, some of the old people present remembered that the hereditary knight who offended the great nobles and had to be assigned to the most remote land in the North County was not the proud protégé of the old marshal. Although the old marshal had not participated in the struggle between the noble factions for all these years, what he said undoubtedly carried a lot of weight in the entire kingdom.

Chancellor of the Exchequer Rutherford also stood up at this time and said:

"The old marshal is right, a lord's county, and it is also the most remote barren land in the northern county, it really seems too shabby for the battle exploits made by that young mage!

Although the speech of the Chancellor of the Exchequer was secretly arranged by His Majesty the King, this is also because there is a countess in the royal capital, under some money offensives, the reputation of the Donald Terran hero and orc slaughterer will soon be very loud in the royal capital, and even the royal family has to consider the public opinion of the outside world when preparing for the reward.

If you are too stingy, it will inevitably cause people to talk and be dissatisfied. Then it will undoubtedly affect the enthusiasm of the nobles, lords and commoner adventurers on all sides of the war next time.

And the reward is too rich, and the royal family, which has always been stingy, is reluctant, and those big nobles will not be willing to divide their own interests.

Therefore, at the behest of Donald, the countess secretly arranged for the noble council to secretly speak.

"Your Majesty, I have a proposal, since that Lord Merlina was originally a hereditary knight, it is better to raise the title to a baron, as for the territory, in addition to the original lordship, the surrounding green cloak forest and the woodland near Boulder City are also divided, although it is barren and barren, but the area is vast, and the value should be worth a rich barony!"

As soon as these words came out, the nobles present were taken aback, and calculated that the land was added together, but it was enough to cover hundreds of square kilometers!

Such a territory is already equivalent to the size of a large nobleman above the earl. But after thinking about it, their faces were calm again.

Considering that most of the territory was occupied by jungle areas like mountain forests, and that they were close to the dangers of the Green Cloak Forest, almost all of which were places that no one wanted, many nobles smiled and nodded in agreement.

Rutherford suddenly said at this time:

"Your Majesty, since the Great Seventh Majesty, it has been too long since my Celtic Kingdom has conquered new territories, and the nobles everywhere are also in a corner of their territory, and they are a little reluctant to forge ahead, and now this Merlina mage has chosen a forest wasteland that was originally ownerless, isn't it the practice of the pioneer knights?"

"Yes, if that mage can successfully open up these territories in the future, that is, open up more territories for the kingdom, it will be a great achievement!"

The same Earl Dawson spoke again in agreement.

"Not only that, if this Merlina mage can succeed, then it will set an example for the nobles of the kingdom, inspire everyone's enterprising spirit, and bring a lot of benefits to the development of the kingdom!"

Even the old marshal spoke, and all the military officials present accompanied him, and most of the nobles who remained neutral immediately changed their direction, because such a reward did not involve their interests at all.

Therefore, for the reward of fiefdoms, the noble councilors of all parties did not have much difficulty.

After all, a lord and a wilderness that the kingdom couldn't take care of at all sent that hero away, which seemed to many nobles to solve the matter at almost no cost!

Celt XV said at this time: "Sure enough, he is a loyal nobleman of the kingdom, and he is worthy of being a genius mage on the first day of the Northern County, so according to his request, the original lord and the two nearby forests and the unowned land in the north of Boulder City will be given to him, do you think such a reward is appropriate!"

"Your Majesty's handling is fair, the rewards and punishments are clear, and we have no objections!"

The results of this award were approved by the members of the royal family and the representatives of the local nobility, and finally voted unanimously at the meeting.

His Majesty the King replied with a wave of his hand:

"Then it was decided, the clerk drafted the decree of the reward, sent the document to the noble council today, and officially announced it to the whole country tomorrow!"

His Majesty's tone was unquestionable, and with the support of several aristocratic forces and the first man in the military, Field Marshal Dawson, the decision was formalized. Seeing that no one spoke out against him, the old king's heart was overjoyed.

Beijun has always been a pimple in the old king's heart, and the kingdom is now full of great nobles, and the gradual decline of central power has already made him very worried, for fear that after he returns to his ancestors, the new successor king will not be able to suppress these big nobles, making their power even more inflated.

The old king knew very well about the old things of Macbeth and Melinna, but at that time, Macbeth was powerful, and as a king, he could not prevent them from annexing a declining knight family territory, and now North County is about to have an additional field nobleman and the lord is still a powerful mage to confront the ambitious Macbeth family. The two sides held each other back, but instead reached a balance. This basically removed Macbeth's ambition to unify the North County, at least while the genius mage was alive, Macbeth's ambition could not be achieved.

And this move can also befriend a genius who is expected to become a high-level mage for the royal family, so why not?

You must know that after becoming a bronze spellcaster, your lifespan will be at least half longer than that of ordinary people, and if you are promoted to silver, then you can live to be one hundred and fifteen years old, which means that there will be one more guardian in the Celt Kingdom in this hundred years.

His Majesty the Fifteenth has been a king for decades, and he has a very accurate grasp of these schemes, and if he does not make a move, he will hit the key point of the Macbeth family.

Most of the nobles agreed, and His Majesty seemed to have made up his mind, and the few nobles who had the intention of preventing the Merlina family from regaining their fiefdom had to agree with this.

Fortunately, all Donald wanted was the Green Cloak Forest and the forests and wastelands beneath Mt. Izumo. Although the area is very large, almost equivalent to a county, it is a dangerous wasteland full of jungles, and no one cares about it at all, and they no longer obstruct it, and they are happy to give this ownerless wasteland to the greatest hero.

(To be continued)