5. Foothold Chapter 68 Meeting the King

In order to receive the title of hereditary nobility and the title of the land, Donald had to gather himself in the royal capital and participate in the official royal ceremony of the royal family, just like the new nobles.

If, in normal times, only a manor or other reward is given, it is only formally accepted in the presence of the king's envoys and clergy.

There was nothing to say all the way, and Donald only took Uther on the road alone on this trip to the royal capital, which was because the annual knight assessment was held in the royal capital at this time, so he ordered Uther to accompany him, otherwise he planned to go alone.

Zai An took the goblin airship summoned last time, and summoned two new goblin pilots to come out, and after half a day, Donald was already ten miles away from the royal capital.

Only then did he collect the boat, take out the carriage from the storage space, summon two horses, and let Uther act as a coachman, and hurried to the king's capital.

The capital of the Celtic kings, Kosoti, is a beautiful and fertile city, although it is not as famous as those famous cities on the mainland, but it is not inferior to the capital of any country on the mainland in terms of size and appearance.

It is worth mentioning that Kosovo, known as an undefended city, is the only capital of a country on the mainland that has not built a wall.

Yes, when the founding monarch of the Sert Dynasty chose the site to build the royal capital, he took a fancy to the vast and fertile plain of the central part of the Northlands, and built a city there that could accommodate 10,000 people. However, after the city was built, it was found that there were few mountains in the plains, and there were not enough materials for building the city walls, and the cost of pulling stones from hundreds of miles away was too huge to complete half of the national treasury even if it was emptied, so the construction of the city walls was put on hold.

It was not until the accession of Sert VII after a few hundred years that Kosovo had expanded into a large city that could accommodate more than 100,000 people. Celt VII had great ambitions in mind, believing that the royal capital was in the center of the entire Northland, as long as the kingdom did not fall, Kosovo would never fall, and if the kingdom was on the verge of extinction, no matter how tall and strong the walls of Kosovo were, it was only a matter of time before they fell, so he ordered that the walls of the royal capital should not be built permanently, and that the construction of the kingdom's military, economic and other aspects should be monographed and improved.

His Majesty the great Celt VII proved to be prescient, and in the hundreds of years since he followed, Celt had several minor rebellions, but the war never reached the royal capital.

After all, whoever started the rebellion wanted to get an intact Kosovo "instead of paying a huge price for a useless ruin."

Of course, the royal capital can stand on a thousand years and remain stable, which also has a lot to do with the High Mage Tower in the center of Kosovo. Although there are no walls, a High Mage Tower provides a powerful spell defense that is stronger and more flexible than a stone wall.

As the tallest building in the royal capital, as long as you look up in Kosovo, you can see the tower that shone with mysterious and powerful arcane brilliance on the high ground outside the royal palace.

Entering the Kosovo city, Donald felt as if he had entered the medieval city described in the novel, but the arcane light shining at the top of the tower in the distance reminded him that this was a different world with magical beings such as magic and gods.

First of all, Donald went to see the countess, and the news that he was going to the royal capital had already been transmitted to the other party through the owl.

At the foot of a famous hotel on North Street, where the two had met, Donald saw his owl standing on top of a carriage, and he knew that the countess had arrived early and was waiting for him upstairs.

"Catherine!"

In the guest room on the second floor of the hotel, after being separated for more than half a month, the countess was a little cleared, but her mental state was glorious, "Obviously, a few days ago, it took a lot of effort to find a territory for herself, but she just thought about her man a little, and she was naturally in a good mood when she met."

"Donald, you're finally here!"

Despite the presence of shì, the countess couldn't help but throw herself into Donald's arms for a moment.

Donald waved his hand to Uther to stand down, and the two of them exchanged some tender words of love to each other, and then collected their mood and talked about the recent situation in the royal capital.

Because of Donald's identity as a summoner and his brave deeds on the battlefield, the old king felt interested, and specially ordered that as soon as Donald arrived in the royal capital, he would be summoned to the palace!

"You don't know, Your Majesty's body is getting worse day by day, the two princes are competing for that position, Her Majesty the Queen, as the mother of the second prince, even if she is unwilling, is destined to participate in these things, the queen and I are like sisters, afraid that I will be implicated in the future, so I arranged for me to leave the palace, after knowing the relationship between you and me, she was very happy, and persuaded me to leave the royal capital as soon as possible, but how can I bear to leave the queen here alone......"

"Don't worry, the situation shouldn't be as serious as you think, I also have some friendship with the heir of the Ansel family, their family supports the second prince, as long as the second prince ascends the throne, then the situation you are worried about will be solved!"

After listening to the countess's words, Donald had a good impression of Her Majesty the Queen.

Intrigue was common among the nobility, and even close brothers could calculate with each other for the wealth of the title, and the queen and Catherine were married together from the Duchy of Sirens, the sister of the current Grand Duke of Sirens. Catherine, on the other hand, was the daughter of a minor nobleman, and her family had migrated from Sauron to escape persecution a long time ago, and three generations had been worshiped by the Siren Grand Duke.

Catherine married away with the queen when she was a teenager, and she had no roots and no basis in the northern country of Celt, and the loneliness of a person can be imagined.

Donald felt a little more pity for the countess.

Now that they had come to the royal capital and had more opportunities to get along, they were not in a hurry, and after the two had discussed some more matters, the countess returned to the palace and "ordered someone to report to His Majesty that Donald had arrived."

So in the afternoon of the same day, His Majesty's decree to summon Donald to the palace was brought by the herald to the hotel where Donald was staying.

For this His Majesty, Donald actually didn't have much respect in his heart. After his grandfather's death that year, the butler rushed to the royal capital to accept the royal succession ceremony when he was only seven years old, and should have been summoned by the king to read his orthodox inheritance in person, but because they were only down-and-out nobles without fiefdoms, and two orphans and weak servants, they did not see the king at all, but the noble council sent an official to sign the succession document and sent them away.

In this regard, Donald Jr., who had been sensible a lot back then, had some resentment in his heart, and Donald, who inherited this resentment, naturally did not have a good impression of His Majesty the Fifteenth. Especially the royal family members in the noble council who only know how to reap the benefits, they have no ability, and they are simply silverfish of the country.

To be honest, the kingdom is just a bigger territory than a local lord, and the royal family is just a bigger lord. Generally, the direct territory of a kingdom is about half the size of the entire kingdom. Of course, this does not deduct the mountains, forests and rivers and other uninhabited lands, if only the villages, farmlands and plains where humans gather, then the land directly belonging to the state is only one-tenth of the total territory of the large and small nobles and lords of the country, and the territory of the sī people directly belonging to the royal family is not more than one or two large nobles. This is the restriction of the royal family in this world, and it is a social rule that has been developed over thousands of years.

Under the supervision of the gods, the royal family has the power to judge and supervise its subjects, but the local nobles are self-reliant and do not obey the unlawful orders issued by the royal family.

The two sides restrain each other and develop together under the gaze of the gods, so that there will be no centralized power and collective rebellion against the belief of the gods like the Ancient Arcane Empire and the Ancient Magic Empire.

After all, it is a rule set by the gods to gain faith, and if you don't follow it, then you will face destruction, and the wealth of your territory will be divided among the executors of the will of the gods.

Since the collapse of the Bannai Empire thousands of years ago, to now, the power of the gods has eaten away at most of the human world, except for the largest kingdom Gardre, the mage kingdom Bōrin, and the Northland kingdom Celt, the descendants of the Bannai Empire, the three pure blood descendants of the Banai Empire are still holding the defensive line, and the other continents have all been infiltrated by the Church of the Gods. Even in these three kingdoms, there are many common people who believe in gods, of course, most of them are kind and neutral true gods like the goddess of agriculture and the god of erudition, and few will believe in the true gods of the extreme camp like the three gods of radiance.

Donald has no intention of breaking this law, after all, this world has the situation of this world, would it be beneficial for him to practice socialism here?

And to be the enemy of the human beings of the whole world and the gods in the sky for the sake of an idea that has no interests, isn't it the birthday boy hanging himself?

Donald, who is only in his forties after the combined experience of the two lives, does not think that he has such a great consciousness of liberating human beings in another world, not to mention that he now has a long life span of more than ten times that of ordinary people, hundreds of years of good life, life is a wonderful time, and he has not lived enough!

Riding in the carriage sent by the palace, I thought about these questions all the way, and after a long time, I realized that the carriage had entered the gate of the palace and stopped in front of the inner palace.

The rest of the road requires walking, and no one is allowed to ride in the carriage within the inner palace except for members of the royal family. This was to prevent the Assassins from mixing in with the characters through an outside carriage.

The palace architecture of this world is somewhat similar to that of the West in the previous life, but the difference is that it pursues solidity and stability, so there are few Gothic spires, which look grand and huge from a distance, and are very imposing.

Before the herald took Donald out of the palace, he stopped and said to him, "Lord Baron, please wait here, and your majesty's guard will take you in a moment!"

Donald nodded in understanding, and then just waited.

From the moment he entered the palace, he felt a pressure hanging over his head at all times, and after being reminded by the countess, he knew that this was a normal phenomenon, it was a protection measure set up for the palace by the Grand Mage Tower of the Mage Association a few kilometers away, and within this range, any foreign mage would be mentally suppressed and disturbed, unable to release even a zero-level trick. Only those who wear the sigil issued by the Mage's Tower can cast spells freely in the palace.

For the strong above the gold rank, the suppression is not great, and they can break through the shackles of the defense circle of the mage tower at any time, but if that happens, there will be other people to deal with it, and the mage tower is just a warning role, preventing the gentleman and not the villain. @。