"Neither the Dodor, nor the Neville, nor the Church of Radiance, do not want to see the Rand Empire re-emerge, even though His Majesty Neowest has stepped into the realm of legends. Therefore, the imperial family can only end this war by swallowing the eastern three provinces of the Kingdom of Gambis in the name of punishing the rebellion. In fact, the royal family of the Rand Empire has been weak for many years and does not have enough strength to continue the war. ”

Edwin is worthy of being a master scholar of the Silver and White Tower, and in the next few days of his journey, he showed everyone the profound knowledge of a scholar master, and his exquisite explanation of natural species, geography and history, humanities and politics made Victor feel a sense of enlightenment about the world.

This made him secretly glad that this journey was accompanied by this gluttonous and erudite old man.

"In the name of punishing rebellion, the Emperor of the Rand Empire hanged two dukes who had taken refuge in our kingdom of Gambis, and also reclaimed their fiefdoms. And what reason is there to annex the territory of our House of York?"

Nicole, who was cooking pine nut tea for everyone in the carriage, couldn't help but feel a little indignant when she heard Master Edwin talk about the war that uprooted her from her homeland a few years ago.

Looking at the Bruce Knight sitting on the side with a solemn expression, Victor actually had a funny feeling in his heart.

Although Victor is also a nobleman of the Kingdom of Gambis, as a time-traveler, he does not have a sense of belonging to this kingdom, and from the perspective of an onlooker, Victor has a more objective understanding of the war and the situation in the kingdom.

The kingdoms of Gambis, Dord, and Neville were all nominal vassals of the Rand Empire. It's just that the Rand Empire has long since declined in its thousand-year-long history, and the center of the empire has gradually lost control over the local nobility.

Although the imperial family has never canonized princely lords, those lords and nobles who have long been free from the control of the empire have been driven by ambition to annex and merge with each other, gradually forming three powerful forces, and finally under the mediation of the Glorious Church, the weakened royal family of the Rand Empire had to canonize these three powerful lords as kings.

Since then, the once powerful Rand Empire has officially split, and the imperial family can only survive on a limited territory.

All believed that the three powerful kings would build a new empire to replace the Rand Empire through a brutal annexation war.

However, the Sassans came.

The mighty and barbaric Northern Empire has finally defeated the nomads who blocked its southward movement and opened its greedy jaws to the extinct Rand Empire.

Under pressure from the Sassanians, the brewing War of the Three Kings quickly turned into an alliance of the Three Kings. The most powerful of these, the kingdom of Dordor would face the attacks of the Sasanians, while the kingdom of Neville had built many forts in the northern mountains that were easy to defend and difficult to attack, and every time the Sahsanians attacked the kingdom of Dordor by the Savilles, Neville's army would attack the territory of the Sasanians. The richest kingdom in the south, the Kingdom of Gambis, has long provided gratuitous military aid and logistical supplies to the Kingdom of Duoduo and the Kingdom of Naville.

A new balance has been formed, and the royal family of the Rand Empire has been preserved in this new balance.

It's just that no one thought that three hundred years later, the royal family of the long-lost Rand Empire would have an emperor who stepped into the legendary realm - His Majesty Neowest.

The Golden Knight is already the pinnacle of knighthood, but how powerful is a knight who has broken through the pinnacle and entered the realm of legends, and how can an emperor with great power tolerate the decline of the royal family?

It just so happened that two hereditary counts in the territory controlled by the Rand Empire had defected to the Kingdom of Gambis twenty years earlier, and they were canonized as dukes by the royal family of Gambis, and their territories were incorporated into the three eastern provinces.

In the name of punishing rebellion, Neovest brazenly sent troops, which led to the war between the royal family of Gambis and the imperial family, and caused the kingdom of Gambis to lose the three eastern provinces, including York.

However, Victor believes that another main purpose of the Imperial Family's war is to kill His Majesty King Ryan of Gambis!

The perennial war with the Sassanians has weakened the kingdom of Duoduo, and the territory of the kingdom of Naville is barren and congenitally deficient, and it is difficult to achieve a climate. Only the rich kingdom of Gambis, located in the south, has gradually become the most powerful of the three kingdoms after years of development, and as Gambis develops the vast human hills in the east, the other two kingdoms are even more uneasy.

Neovest should have seen this situation before launching an attack on Gambis, and sure enough, at the beginning of the war, both Dordor and Neville stood by, and the Kingdom of Dordor even laid troops on the border line of the Kingdom of Gambis, forcing the military minister of Gambis, the Marquis of Golden Knight, to lead the main army to confront it, and it was not until the knightly duel between King Ryan and His Majesty Neovester that the Emperor showed his strength beyond the Golden Knight and killed the opponent, and Dordor and Neville officially intervened.

As a result of the war, the Imperial Family occupied the lands of the three provinces, but the powerful Emperor was wounded, and the Kingdom of Gambis not only lost part of its territory but also lost a powerful king, which plunged the increasingly powerful Kingdom of Gambis into internal friction.

This pleased everyone, except Gambis.

Victor even suspected that Neovestre had been wounded in the battle on purpose, otherwise Dordor and Neville would not have easily allowed the Imperial Crown to annex York.

Sylvia, the de facto controller of the York family, gave up the rich territory that the York family had operated for hundreds of years during the war, and moved westward to avoid the destruction of the family.

This made Victor deeply admire the wisdom and determination of this beautiful lady, and at the same time secretly fearful.

Just as the atmosphere inside the carriage was getting dreary, Nelson rode up and knocked on the wall of the carriage.

"My lord, we have entered the territory of Baron Escre, and our convoy will be able to reach the castle of the Eskeri family before dark. Just now the Baron's servant arrived and brought an invitation. Lord Baron Escre will host you at his castle, Master Edwin and Lord Bruce, as well as all the Knights Trainees. Nelson handed Victor a beautiful invitation made of gold leaf through the car window.

Victor took the invitation, looked through it briefly, and then handed it to the master scholar sitting opposite.

"The dishes at the Escree family's dinner are as rough as their family members, except that the barbecue is the barbecue, or the boiled chicken dipping sauce that Victor invented at noon today is more popular. Edwin took the invitation and pouted.

The Eskerians are also the old nobles of the kingdom, and they are known for their bravery and unity. However, this family has never been involved in the struggle within the royal family, so no political force will try to win over this family, and whoever can ascend to the throne will be loyal to whoever is sold.

Rumor has it that the members of the Eskerry family are brave but not scheming, so they have always stayed away from political speculation. In the aristocratic circles of the royal capital, some people even ridiculed the members of the Eskerry family for having muscles in their heads, of course, this must not be heard by the Eskerie family, otherwise they will make the tongue-in-cheek understand what muscles are.

However, for Victor, he prefers to deal with the Escree family, who have no political leanings.

"Master, out of aristocratic etiquette we should pay a visit to this hospitable lord, and let our party rest at the edge of his castle and buy some supplies. Victor said with a smile.

"Nelson got the word on and everyone was going to work hard, and we spent the night in the walls of Eskerry's house today, and we were going to rest there for the day. Victor instructed Nelson.

Soon after Nelson went down, there was a cheer in the procession.

Nearly ten days of eating and sleeping in the open made everyone feel deeply tired, and everyone was excited to hear that they could rest for a while, which made everyone's increasingly heavy footsteps begin to become much lighter.

When he arrived at the castle, Victor saw Baron Esric dressed in armor.

The baron was not very tall, but he was very stocky, and his beard and brown hair were joined together, making him look like a strong bear. The heavy full-body armor on his body was as light as leather armor, and it was clear that the baron was a powerful knight.

In fact, Baron Escre, like Victor, was the second son of the family, but as a knight, he did not defect to other wealthy nobles, but stayed in the family according to the tradition of the Escree family, and served his brother conscientiously for more than ten years. Due to the limited territory of the family, he could not even give him a manor as a fief, but he did not complain.

Until this expedition to the Centaur Hills, Baron Escrey's brother spent a lot of his savings to buy him a baronial title and territory. In a cold and heartless aristocratic family, the unity of the Eskeri family is indeed very rare.

"Haha, Baron Victor, welcome to my castle. Baron Eskerry laughed and patted Victor on the shoulder.

"Lord Esquery, thank you very much for your hospitality. The seemingly heavy slap landed on the shoulder without any pressure, which made Victor have a deeper understanding of the knight's abilities.

"Master, I am very honored to meet you. "The baron gave a knightly salute to Master Edwin, and the Escree family had a special admiration for scholars.

"Hey, old fellow Bruce, we're meeting again, we've got to have a few more drinks today. Escre slammed Bruce the chest, and the huge force shook the dust off Bruce's leather armor, but Bruce, who didn't move, shook his head with a wry smile.

The Baron then introduced Victor to his family, two stout young men like him, and his two sons, both apprentice knights who had awakened the blood of knights.

When introducing his daughter, the elegant baroness took the initiative to hand her fair hand to Victor, who had to kiss the beautiful lady with almond eyes.

The banquet went on as scheduled, and as Master Edwin had said, the table was filled with all kinds of roasted meats.

Baron Escre's two sons were grabbing a roast leg of lamb and munching on it, and while they were nibbling on the leg of lamb, they were smiling flatteringly at Nicole, who was sitting across from them, and glaring at their brother from time to time.

Apparently these two lovely apprentice knights are showing Miss Nicole the Esque's art of courting women - to see who can eat better. However, they obviously didn't notice Miss Nicole's blue face.

At the dinner table, when Victor offered the Baron to buy some supplies, Baron Eskerry looked a little embarrassed.

"Victor, I can provide you with enough dry wood and weapons, but the food is really not enough for the amount you requested. However, I can give you all these supplies, but I would like to ask you to send some men to help me encircle the gnolls and bandits south of my territory. Lord Escre said to Victor.

It turned out that a gang of gnolloll bandits had entrenched themselves in the southern part of Barony Escre's domain, often raiding his people, and had recently even breached one of his estates. As a powerful knight, Eskeri can easily crush these ugly orcs, but he doesn't have enough manpower, so he can only disperse the gnolls every time, but he can't completely exterminate them. After he left, the gnolls quickly gathered again, much to Esqueri's great headache.

"Of course, I'll send my guards to work with you to exterminate these abominable gnolls, but I'll take part in your encirclement. "Victor hadn't seen a jackal yet, and was a little excited to hear Eskerry's request.

Escre groaned, intending to use some tactful method to refuse Victor's request, after all, Victor was not a powerful knight.

However, when he saw that his wife was looking eagerly at Victor with big watery eyes, he couldn't help but shudder in his heart, and the words that had just come to his lips and were about to refuse turned into two words.

"Okay. ”