The next afternoon, the Counts of Golden-Eyed enjoyed their afternoon tea on the balcony of the master bedroom of Nightingale Manor.

Dressed in a loose and comfortable silk nightdress, with her bright purple hair on her shoulders, Sophia gracefully tasted a piece of pine nut cake, and under the round table, her legs were folded, and her snow-white slender feet rested on Victor's knees, and from time to time she teased her husband, who was reminiscing about the Shertea of the Arrett Plateau.

The strange feeling of reunion after a long absence quickly faded from the passionate joy, and Sophia regained the feeling of intimacy with Victor, the difference is that she now enjoys being pampered by her husband, who used to be her little husband.

After all, Victor is now a Sanctuary powerhouse. Before coming to see him, Sophia even feared that the change in realm would cause Victor to stop liking her. The Sword Saint Draven is a lesson from the past, and after he landed in the Sanctuary, he gradually alienated his lovers below the Golden Rank.

Sophia was obviously overly concerned, Victor was still Victor, but she naturally put herself in a lower position to please her husband and enjoy his favor.

It's a fresh and beautiful feeling.

After eating the snack, the tip of her pink tongue licked her crystal red lips, and Sophia asked softly, "Honey, how does the new Shertea taste?"

Victor put down the beautifully shaped silver cup and bowed his head, "Great, I like it." ”

Pulling her hair back to her shoulders, Sophia raised her thin purple eyebrows, and asked with a lazy and coquettish expression, "How is it better than me?"

When she's not running, she's a goblin...... The primordial race of the purple-eyed bloodline may have the extraordinary ability to charm the strong...... Victor muttered in his heart, as the master of the mind, he interpreted Sophia's current psychological state from a professional point of view.

"How can the taste of shertea compare to that of my wife?" said Victor very "seriously" to the countess.

"The konjac potion has saved me from being assimilated by the Elemental Sea, but it doesn't taste as good as my little Victor. Sophia pursed her lips and smiled, holding her cheeks in her hands, and said with crooked eyes, "That...... Andrea, and Gillian compare to me?

"Uh...... My dear, do you know the source of the purple-eyed bloodline?"

Victor coughed and wisely changed the subject, only to be greeted with a charming roll of Sophia's eyes.

"How do I know the source of the purple-eyed bloodline? The Eastern Alliance is a place of exile for knight nobles, and there are many, many knight bloodlines. In the early days, the Eleano family desperately collected knight blood, which can be described as 'hungry for food'. They obtained the purple-eyed bloodline purely by chance, I'm afraid that the Suss Kingdom doesn't know where the source of the purple-eyed bloodline is? What's more, I'm not a direct descendant of the Eleano royal family, I'm just a stubborn wild knight, and my luck is a little better, you ask me, but I'm looking for the wrong person. Sophia pursed her lips disdainfully, and the appearance of her red lips pursing slightly was also charming.

Victor said with great interest: "I suspect that the purple-eyed bloodline originates from some ancient intelligent race, and their bloodline laws are so strong that they can hinder the purple-eyed knight from advancing to the gold rank. You see, the purple-eyed knights of the Eleano royal family are all women, and there has never been a golden knight. This is because the knight's bloodline leads to the elemental sea, and the purple-eyed bloodline is a law that belongs to the real world. So, like Eleano's purple-eyed noblewoman, you are born with a talent for charm, but you have resonated with 36 elemental bits, pushed open the door of the elemental sea, and reached the realm of semi-gold, and your eyes are only turquoise when you are running your fighting energy, and you are usually purple. This is completely different from ordinary Raging Wave Knights, indicating that the purple-eyed bloodline is preventing you from going deep into the Elemental Sea......"

"Sylvia said I had a chance to move up to the Gold Rank...... I believe in Sylvia. ”

Sophia raised her delicate palm to cover her small mouth and yawned to show that she had no interest in the topic, but shook her jade feet under the table, teasing her husband.

Victor sighed helplessly and said, "Okay, let's talk about something else...... You, a big business nobleman, are welcomed by Lord Sassan, unlike me, even Princess Angel hides away from me, these days, have you received any new news?"

Sophia pretended to be surprised and said, "You rushed from Wind Chimes Town to Nightingale Manor, and there were no lords to entertain the Raging Wind Sword Saint along the way?"

"Nope. Victor said with a stinking face, "All of them are avoiding me...... Crown Prince Ziggy and Princess Freya have sent secret envoys to find me, so how can I deal with them?"

"My poor little Victor...... There is also a day when people are disliked. Sophia was full of sympathy, and immediately giggled, looking gloating.

It is because of the relationship between Victor and Andrea that the three major lord camps of the Sassan Empire have deliberately avoided contact with the Raging Wind Sword Saint, and the church is even more eager for Victor to get out of the way as soon as possible.

The camp of the Western Lords, led by the Barcelius family, is willing to get close to the Fury Sword Saint, and the noble Randall can be used as a hole card to contain the Radiant Knights and prevent the church from putting maximum pressure on the Barcelius family. Since it is a hole card, it cannot be moved lightly, so as not to intensify the contradiction between the two sides and lose room for maneuver. What's more, His Royal Highness Randall is the great lord of the Southern Kingdom, and the battle for the throne is an internal affair of the Northern Lord. Therefore, the best way to deal with it is to avoid suspicion, anyway, with Countess Andrea Wimbledon, everyone knows that the Barcelius family has a lot to do with the Swordmaster of Fury.

The central lord of Sassan is watching the development of the situation, and graciously invites His Royal Highness Randall as a guest, and there is a suspicion of siding with the Barcelius family, so it is better for everyone not to meet.

Not to mention the Eastern Lords controlled by the Radiant Knights, who, like the Church, hope that the Raging Wind Sword Saint will leave soon. The eldest son of the emperor and the eldest princess made a little contact, and when they saw that Victor did not respond, they did not waste time on him.

Speaking of which, the high-ranking knights of Gombis were given a cold reception by Bronze Halberd City thanks to Victor, and the Diocletian family did not even entertain the Raging Wind Sword Saint, so they could not invite the silver knights of Gombis to the Bronze Halberd City for a guest banquet.

Sophia was happy for a while, her eyes regained their clarity, and she said lightly: "The price of grain in the Sasang Empire has risen, and I speculate that in this year's fire season, the price of green wheat will rise by thirty percent." ”

Victor nodded and said, "This is to use the price of food to induce the freedmen to go to Sidon to open up the territory and accept the consolidation of the tenants of the Lord of Sassang. ”

"In the next three years, the export price of green barley will remain high, and the southern countries should not want to reserve green barley. ”

"There's no problem with Gombis being self-sufficient now. Victor shook his head and smiled: "Western Sassan does not produce green wheat, and the grain reserves are not enough to recruit a large number of tenants. The Knights of Radiance and the Bloodwolf Castle only drove up the price of food, and Barcelius immediately had the upper hand. The wavering central lords also favored Frederick's royal family. ”

Sophia picked up the silver cup, took a sip of the turquoise snow tea, and said, "As far as I know, the Knights of Radiance have added a total of 6 highnesses and 19 silver paladins so far. Tournans' wife, Charlottia Benadikt, was also promoted to the rank of Golden Paladin, which was presided over by Patriarch Friedus. ”

Compared with ordinary knight families, paladins have advantages such as ancient bloodlines, light marks, and divine graces, and a brilliant victory has added several highnesses. Howard Testier was promoted to the rank of Legendary Tempest Paladin, and his realm was lower than Victor's, but in terms of individual combat effectiveness, Victor didn't dare to say that he could win the Grand Master. With this alone, the Knights of Radiance offset some of the influence that had been brought about by Oroxia's ascension to Legendary.

The strength of the Knights of Radiance has grown by leaps and bounds, far ahead of any other power.

But the worldly is worldly, and the theocracy is the church. No matter how powerful the Knights of Radiance were, as clergy, they could not simply and rudely interfere in the struggle for the throne of the Sassan Empire.

"Alas, with so many new highnesses, we have to prepare more congratulatory gifts. Victor sighed, and then said funny: "Charlotia has been promoted to the Golden Knight, and Tournans will probably have a hard time in the future." He was not a high-ranking knight, and he did not need to abide by the principle of companionship, and he was eaten to death by Charlottia. ”

Sophia covered her mouth and smiled: "The First Paladin is notoriously afraid of Charlotia, don't you know?"

Victor paused, and said with a dumb smile: "I really haven't heard of such rumors. ”

"Few people dare to say it...... The fact that His Royal Highness Tournans is afraid of his wife is only circulated in the circle of female paladins. How's it going, the Golden-Eyed Countess is very well-informed, isn't she?" said Sophia, raising her delicate chin slightly, reserved and proud.

"So, what other secret news can the beautiful Countess tell me?" asked Victor with a smile.

Sophia blinked, and after a moment of silence, she frowned and said, "I heard a very official rumor in Bronze Halberd City...... When it comes to the secrecy of the Sassan royal family. ”

"The last emperor of the Sassanian Empire had a brief relationship with a female priest of the Testil family. Later, the priestess returned to the Holy See, and her relationship with Emperor Frederick came to an end, but she gave birth to Frederick's daughter in the Church of El, named Valerie Frederick. ”

Victor had listened with relish, and when Sophia mentioned Valerie's surname, his heart moved, and he asked, "Valerie's surname is Frederick, and Bloodwolf Castle recognizes her status as a princess?"

Sophia smiled and shook her head, "The Blood Wolf Castle admits that she does not recognize this princess, her surname is Frederick. ”

Victor said with burning eyes, "It's kind of interesting, go on." ”

Valerie later had a daughter with King Nachtigar, and she passed on Frederick's surname to her daughter, became a priestess in a monastery herself, and died twelve years later. She entrusted her daughter to Grand Master Howard Tystier. ”

"The child, now 18 years old, is named Elisabeth Frederick, and holds the title of Princess of the Sassan Empire...... and the right to the throne. ”

Victor stopped massaging his wife's smooth and tight calves, got up from the chair, paced to the balcony, frowned and thought for a moment, and sighed regretfully: "Now the Barcelius family has no chance. ”

The Barcelius family currently does not have the conditions to restore the Iron Mountain Empire, and the truth of this is understood by the lords of the Gripen. However, Emperor Frederick and the Grand Duke both fell, and the lords attached to the Barcelius family had to propose to the monarch to restore the country, which was a gesture of loyalty and had nothing to do with the political situation. Barcelius, as the sovereign, must respond resolutely, this is the position of the Iron Mountain Empire, and has nothing to do with the personal thoughts of the two dukes.

Sometimes, political games are so stupid that they make people laugh.

Now that things have come to this point, the lords of Gripen must do their best, and Barcelius is not without a chance.

The strength of the Western Sassanian Lords Group is obviously not enough to restore the Iron Mountain Empire, unless they can swallow the entire Sassanian Empire and then erect the Gripon Emperor Banner. The attitude of the Duchy of Teutonia and the lords of central Sassan was crucial to both the families of Barcelius and Frederick.

The Knights of Radiance struck, and a combination of punches came down, leaving the Barcelius family powerless to fight back.

Testiel's first move: Does Barcelius have food? Without food, there is no population, and without population, what can be done?

Second move: The Sidon Khanate has just been defeated, the armies of the northern lords have been damaged, and the Knights of Radiance are now greatly strengthened, do you need the armed forces of the church to maintain the territory and consolidate the results of the war?

Trick 3: Princess Elizabeth Frederick is the golden blood of Nakhtigar, and she can inherit the throne of the Sassan Empire!

The Knights of Radiance cut to the crux of the matter, and both the Western and Central Lords of Sassan knew what to choose.

There is a limit to the spread of the golden bloodline, and the territory of the empire naturally has a limit. The Sidon Khanate and the Sassan Empire were vast enough to accommodate two great northern empires, and Barcelusto took refuge under the wings of the Glorious Knights and buried their heads in development for decades, and the Iron Mountain Empire was bound to revivenation. Oroxia and Uryn symbolically struggled, and then compromised, and the northern lords united in joy.

Of course, the Knights of Radiance blatantly interfered with the succession to the throne of an empire. But this question depends on two sides, the Eastern Lord of Sassan was originally a secular force of the Paladin family, and the Radiant Knights did something to their own people, and no one could say anything.

On the other hand, does Lord Sassan want to draw the golden blood from Frederick's royal family? Lord Sassan acquiesces to Elizabeth's ascension to the imperial throne, and the outside forces can only stare dryly, and even if anyone jumps out to accuse the Glorious Knights, they will be sneered at by Lord Sassan and say that he is talking nonsense out of jealousy.

The key is that everyone is willing to be patient and wait to see the quality of Empress Elizabeth Frederick's bloodline. The Radiant Church has preserved the ancient knight's bloodline for nearly 10,000 years, and the paladin can now take out the first golden bloodline, and he can take out the second. If Nakhtigar's Golden Bloodline is stable enough, even if the Secular Lords can't raise the Family Bloodline to the Gold level through marriage, it would be very good to be promoted to a Silver Bloodline Family, and they would be able to consolidate a large new territory in the Pioneer War.

Moreover, the Radiant Knights' permission to restore the Iron Mountain Empire marks the departure of the Paladin family to the neutral camp, otherwise, it can be regarded as interfering in secular politics, and at that time, it is not too late for the lords to collectively resist the Radiant Knights.

Victor shook his head and sighed, "I finally know why Patriarch Friedes asked Nakhtigar to deal with the Centaur Great Khan...... This is to build momentum for Queen Elizabeth. I also want to take advantage of the time when the Knights of Radiance and the Barcelius family wrestle to do something, but it seems that it will not work. ”

Sophia hugged Victor from behind, her soft chest pressed against his back, and chuckled, "None of this matters, honey...... Sylvia's gift is already on the way, and it is personally escorted by His Excellency Harald, the Barbarian Elder....... you have done such a big thing without me, I can ignore it...... How are you going to reward me?"

Victor turned around and put his arms around Sophia's slender waist and laughed, "Honey, what do you want?"

Sophia bit her red lip and said with a smile: "A child...... Inherit our Golden Regiment. ”

"Okay! We're working hard, and maybe we'll have it. ”

Council of Shadows, Temple of Dreams.

The knight, who was like a dark shadow, knelt on one knee in the middle of the empty hall and said in a deep voice, "Master, we have failed. The Shadow Bishop fell to the Manticore, and the Ron Paladin, who secretly supported him, disappeared, and Trigovar was ordered to purge the Shadow Priests who were loyal to the Shadow Bishop, as well as all the bait wizards of the Shadow Council. Now, no new Shadow Bishop has access to the Dream Hall, and we have lost contact with the members of the Shadow Council. I believe that in a few years, the Shadow Councilors under your control will find their own way and turn to the secular lords. ”

"...... Keeper of the Secret has entered a dark period, and we can only remain silent, waiting for a new Shadow Bishop to enter the Dream Hall and reorganize the Shadow Council. ”

Dark Period...... Silence...... The Speaker of the Secret Keeper appeared in front of the Shadow Knight in the form of an ordinary adult, his expression was heavy, and under the maintenance of the spell of the Dream Palace, he was actually lifelike, which showed that he was in a very bad mood at the moment.

The Dream Hall has recorded a number of dark periods, the shortest 13 years, the longest 142 years, during this period, the secret keepers can only be silent, except for the Shadow Knights, they have lost contact with the shadow priests in the outside world, and must wait until someone practices the Shadow Bishop's meditation method to the sixth level and re-enters the Dream Palace, so that the two sides can continue to promote the inheritance of the Shadow Council.

The Speaker of this generation of Secret Keepers is not young, and as a Legendary-level spellcaster, he should enjoy power, not disguise himself in obscurity. It's like a rat in the gutter, no matter how good it is, dying in the gutter is still a stinky rat that no one pays attention to. In fact, when it comes to the Legendary Level, it is impossible to go further without the favor of fate, and the favor of fate must come from the shoulders.

The Shadow Priest, the Shadow Bishop, and the Shadow Councillor couldn't stand the silence, and the Speaker of the Secrets was equally unwilling to be nameless. He and his companions have been planning for a long time, and even used the unique spells of the Keeper of the Secret to push the aftermath of the Great Prophecy and turn the future changes in their favor.

But they still failed, and they failed. It doesn't matter that the shell that the Shadow Bishop threw at the Trigovar family is cleaned, but the Shadow Bishop is dead, the messenger of the Speaker of the Secret is dead, and the real Shadow Council is completely out of his control. Worst of all, the Shadow Bishop's good friend, the High Paladin Ron, is gone, and there is no one left to protect the Shadow Priest, and Trigoval can dispose of the rest of the Shadow Priest at will, disrupting the Shadow Master's various arrangements, including executing his valued heir.

The next Shadow Bishop is far away, and the Speaker of the Secret Keeper is not even sure if the shadow priest behind him will practice meditation.

What if someone were to succeed in building a magical model for the Hall of Dreams? In less than ten years, the Council of Shadows would fall apart, and the Speaker of the Secret would have to form a new Council of Shadows, which might be decades away, or never again.

The spread of the tenant system will make it easy for the newborn little wizards to fall into the hands of the lords and the church.

The Speaker of the Secret Keeper shook his head and muttered to himself, "Why did you fail? Why didn't Nakhtigar want to kill the Great Khan of the Centaurs? If he gained honor and prestige and intervened to mediate, the Barcelius family and the Grand Lord of Gombis would definitely change their minds and support the Shadow Priest to come to the fore. Isn't Nakhtigar unreliable?"

Nakhtigar responded that the Centaur Great Khan did not go to the Teutonic principality, but to the Wharton steppes, which was not in line with the original plan. The Shadow Knight said with his head bowed.

"It was an accident! The change of the fate line is elusive, and accidents always happen!" the Speaker of the Secret Keeper roared, and the Dream Hall fluctuated, and the twelve statues of the Shadow Winged Angels turned their heads in unison, as if they had come to life.

When the Secret Keeper calmed down his anger and the Dream Hall returned to normal, the Shadow Knight said respectfully, "Honorable master, I have a suggestion. ”

"Say!"

The Shadow Knight raised his head, the white-gold eyes on his face made of black mist shining brightly, "Master, no matter how hard we try, it won't help, because we don't have a reputation. In the eyes of the High Lords and High Priests, the Unknown can be deprived of their fruits at will. ”

Not to mention the lord, even the lord will deprive the exile of his property, and as long as he does not have a master and does not pay the entry fee to the border guard, he can all be regarded as a bandit with bad intentions. In fact, these people do commit illegal activities such as poaching and poaching.

If there is no master, there is no right, and if there is no reputation, there is no power, and the general perception of the human kingdom has always been like this.

"Master, just because we have no legitimate reputation, the Earl of Golden-Eyed will kill me as soon as he sees me, and he will not listen to me at all, and the Barcelius family is only using us to obtain the secret methods of the Blood Guardian and the Shadow Warrior, and they will not really cooperate with us. As for Nakhtigar...... There is no difference. ”

"No difference?"

"Nakhtigar is no different from His Highness Randall, from the Barcelius family, from the Paladins! Even if the Lightward gains a voice within the Church, Nakhtigar will treat the Shadow Priest the same way Trigovar did. The hosts, there will be no difference ......"

"Haha, we're eager to gain a legitimate reputation, so we're working with Barcelius, Nakhtigar, and Count Golden-Eye. Because we don't have a legitimate reputation, they either want to kill us or they're just cheating on us...... There is no solution to this problem at all, so it is, so it is...... "The chief of the secret keeper laughed and shook his head, "It took so much effort to figure out such a simple problem. ”

The Shadow Knight bowed his head deeply, his forehead almost touching the floor, and said in a deep voice, "Master, we have only one way out. ”

"What's the way out?" asked the Speaker of the Secret Keeper with a lonely expression.

“...... Awaken the Lord of Shadows......"

As soon as the words fell, in the empty hall, twelve statues of Shadowwinged Angels turned around in unison, and twelve pairs of indifferent white-gold eyes stared at the Shadow Knight kneeling on the ground.