Luke never understood the assassination. However, he consciously strengthened the security of his mansion, and in the matter of His Majesty's assassination, he became the ultimate beneficiary, so who can guarantee that others will hit him Luke with their thoughts in order to obtain greater benefits? Now the vigilance of Luke's mansion is definitely no worse than that of the palace, there is originally a large number of magic arrays designed by the great magician Victor for reconnaissance, and now with additional manpower, the people who live here do not have to worry about their own safety.

Of course, Luke didn't know that the biggest reason for the assassination of Fernando XIII was the glamorous Catherine sitting across from him, and it was this glamorous Queen Her Majesty who helped the Shadow Dancer who had reached the legendary realm to infiltrate the palace, otherwise it would be quite difficult for even the Shadow Dancer to infiltrate the heavily guarded inner courtyard of the Crown. If it hadn't been broken through from within, there would have been too many people who wanted His Majesty to die for hundreds of years to put it into practice.

"Since you can't figure it out, don't think about it, and do what is in front of you first. This is Luke's creed of doing things, that night he decided to fight back under Catherine's persuasion, and controlled the situation in the imperial capital, and then he has maintained a low-key posture, allowing the royal council hall to be noisy, while Luke himself is secretly collecting troops, gathering supplies, and slowly controlling the overall situation.

But the biggest consequence of Luke's doing this is that it has led to the loss of control of the situation in the empire, after all, a huge empire has failed to function in a short period of time, the northern defense line has been breached, the southern lord is ready to move, and the Clay people on the prairie actually dare to snipe Orlando in a grand manner, but the empire has remained silent, even if Ryan and they returned to the imperial capital with the defeated army of Thor Fortress later, the empire did not immediately start to prepare for full war, and it was still noisy.

As soon as Luke thought of this, his heart was slightly distracted, he knew that the current situation of the empire was related to his intentional indulgence at that time, but he did not regret it, even if he knew that it would be the consequence at the time, Luke would still unswervingly take the method he took at that time. In Luke's view, the biggest factor affecting the empire is those decaying nobles, if no changes are made, even if Fernando XIII controls everything, most of the orders of the rulers of this empire will not be able to leave the imperial capital, at most they will have a little influence in Sunrise City and Seabreeze City.

"It's been 200 years, and the empire is still slowly getting old. Luke's face was full of vicissitudes, and he sighed secretly in his heart.

"Luke, Luke?" Catherine's voice brought Luke back to his senses, and he secretly blamed himself, he was actually distracted on such an occasion, was he really old?

"Luke, it seems that everyone has almost eaten it, why don't we rest early, there is still a lot of work to be done tomorrow!" Catherine saw that Luke had come to her senses, and proposed her own proposal.

Luke nodded and agreed to Catherine's suggestion, and then he personally sent Catherine to the place where she was resting, which was next to the courtyard where the Faras sisters lived, and Maia and the others naturally lived with Ryan and the others, naturally one person in one room.

After settling everything, Luke remembered that the magic scroll that Victor had given him had not yet been handed over to Ryan, and he had already walked to the door of his bedroom at this moment, and couldn't help but turn around and walk out with a wry smile. If it was normal times, Luke would definitely wait until the next day, but now is the very time, who knows when the orcs will come, and Luke will definitely be busy tomorrow morning, it is better to hand it over to Ryan earlier, and if necessary, Luke even wants to send his two daughters to Victor's magic tower, which is definitely safer than his own mansion.

An army of 500,000 orcs can level a mountain and conquer a city, but they can't find Victor's magic tower. Although Luke doesn't know magic, Luke has always had blind trust in Victor, even if he is surrounded by 500,000 troops, as long as Victor makes a move, he can still get out of the way.

Soon, Luke saw Ryan in his study, and Ryan was surprised that Luke was looking for him so late, but he didn't say anything about his doubts. It's not a short time to know Farrath, although Ryan is not enthusiastic about politics and power, but he also knows a lot of taboos, such as not asking what should not be asked, not being able to say, not going to participate, many things can make you know that nature will tell you, and if you don't tell you, there must be a necessary reason.

Luke simply told Ryan what Victor said, and handed the magic scroll to Ryan, Ryan took the scroll with an excited face, and looked at it over and over, if he guessed correctly, this scroll must be a magic similar to space-time teleportation, he doesn't know much about Victor, but he is still very curious and admired that Victor can make a huge teleportation array on a small magic scroll.

Luke smiled and shook his head, this Ryan is really simple, he is still thinking about magic at this time, but it is also Ryan's character that makes Luke not object to the matter between him and Farath, after all, Farath is the daughter of the Imperial Chancellor of the Exchequer, there are countless men who have intentions for her, if Ryan can always maintain a detached attitude, not intervene in the aspect of power, and only let Farath live happily for a lifetime, it is also a good thing.

"Okay, you can take a look when you have time. Seeing that Ryan seemed to be immersed in it, Luke quickly interrupted his train of thought, when Victor studied magic, he often meditated for three or five days, and Luke didn't want Ryan to become like that, at least not now. "By the way, if possible, Ryan, you should go and meet your comrades in Thor's Fortress. Now that the situation is not in our favor, if you can lead a good team, I believe it will play a big role, and then you will be personally responsible for Catherine's safety, then I will be relieved. ”

Ryan didn't understand what Luke said, and he asked Luke, "Catherine, didn't you say that the Holy Knight was responsible for the safety of the royal family? Why do you want me to go? Ah, could it be that you are pretending to be a public servant?"

Luke's eyes widened suddenly, and he rubbed his chin vigorously, only to find that his beard had long been trimmed and clean, and he had not touched anything at all. Luke couldn't help but laugh and scolded, "Okay, Ryan, you're very fast." It's a little bit of a factor, but it's not important. If I want to protect you, I'll just take you with me, so why bother?"

As soon as Ryan heard this, this was indeed the case, and his eyes naturally showed a look of confusion.

Luke explained, "Since Catherine has decided to stay after this feast, I must keep her safe, or I will be doomed even if I defeat the orcs." I don't feel at ease with the others, so I can only give them to the most trusted people, and with your relationship with Faraz, of course I will choose you. As for the Holy Knights, there is a very important reason for this, that is, the current imperial capital army is weak, but the imperial capital city wall is vast, if the existing army is evenly arranged, as long as the orcs rely on the advantage of numbers to attack, the imperial capital will be breached. ”

"In order to resist the hundreds of thousands of orcs, we must expand our army on a large scale, but the soldiers we have just recruited have almost no training and no actual combat experience, do you think they can have combat effectiveness?" Without waiting for Ryan to answer, Luke said to himself: "I estimate that as soon as they see blood, these recruits will collapse." In order to avoid this situation, the Holy Knights can only be dismantled and scattered, and now Orlando has 5,000 official Holy Knights in his hands, about 5,000 trainee Holy Knights, and every team of 100 people arranges a formal Holy Knight and a trainee Holy Knight, then these people can be used as the backbone to expand into 500,000 troops, this number is actually not enough, but with the 200,000 elite troops, you can barely fight. ”

"Why don't you disperse those 200,000 elites, and besides, the Holy Knights can make these recruits combat right away?" Ryan asked.

Luke explained: "Once the 200,000 elites are dispersed, we will not have an army that we can trust to fight tough battles, and some important places will still be defended by them, and only this elite can confront the orcs head-on." And the Holy Knights, Lane, don't you know, these people have been trained in military skills, in fact, the Fernando royal family has cultivated these Holy Knights as junior officers, and those Holy Knights who can get the blessing of God have become the most powerful army in the Empire in the Royal Knights, and those who cannot pass the test are also the foundation of the army. ”

Ryan suddenly understood, it seems that the king who established the Royal Knights was really far-sighted, so that the empire could come up with thousands of junior officers at any time, and once it encountered the current situation, it could immediately form a huge army.

"Okay, let's not talk about that. Luke smiled and said to Ryan, "Go back and rest, tomorrow will be very busy." I'll leave that to you, it's pretty important. ”

Ryan nodded and said, "Don't worry, I'll do my best." With that, Ryan saw that Luke didn't say anything more, so he put the scroll away and walked out.

Luke poured himself a glass of the best Bordeaux and drank it all. Then he said faintly: "O Chad, Chad, now that all your possessions belong to me, even these superb Bordeaux that you have treasured for more than 200 years and have been reluctant to drink can be drunk as water." Hey, this power is really useful. ”

"Alas, these two daughters of mine, the men they fancy are very good, but unfortunately they are not keen on power at all! Orlando is not to mention, Ryan is also simply like an unused magic scroll. In fact, the hint I just made is already obvious, 'only' the 200,000 elites can fight head-on, and the temporarily recruited army is ultimately just a set of numbers that consume the strength of the orcs in the data. Maybe I've been in a high position for too long, and I've become indifferent to a lot of things, right?"

"Since you are not enthusiastic about these things, then forget it, and make my two daughters happy for the rest of their lives, that is my greatest happiness. Maybe it's time for me to raise a successor, though. Well, let's take a look at which of you two sisters is a boy first. ”

Luke held the crystal cup and fell into deep thought in his study.