Viscount Turnis spent two days in Victor's collar, took care of everything that needed to be dealt with, understood everything that needed to be understood, and set out on the way home.

"Tenis, Viscount Victor is very good. Not only is he personable, but he is also thoughtful and decent, which is really rare for his age. ”

Winnie rode a horse and Tenis's carriage side by side, in the past two days, Victor entertained them as a lord, although he ate game and slept in a shack, he was neither reserved and arrogant nor flattering, and his plain and calm demeanor made Tenis and others heartbroken, especially Victor also thoughtfully ordered his subordinates to make a two-wheeled carriage for Viscount Turnis to travel. This gave Winnie a good impression of Victor.

The so-called horse-drawn carriage is nothing more than a pair of seats on top of the two-wheeled cart, although the cart is bumpy but light, even if it encounters roadblocks, several strong soldiers can easily carry it over, which is very suitable for the current road conditions. Such two-wheeled carts were originally used by farmers to transport grain, dry firewood, and even dung, but in the past, Viscount Tenis would never have ridden them.

However, the trip to the Centaur Hills has seen a lot and changed a lot for Tenis. Because of the ant plague, outside of Blackcastle Town, the entire Centaur Hill has become uninhabited, full of destroyed farmland, ruined villages, roads washed away by rain and no one has repaired them, and the desolate scene has greatly touched Tenis, which is by no means something that can be experienced by looking at the report in the royal capital. In addition, Tenis did not expect that the journey on horseback would be so difficult, let alone that the shack covered with leaves would be very comfortable to sleep on, and the roast gopher meat would be delicious.

"Go to the Centaur Hills! When you come back, you'll find that everything is different. These were the words of the Secretary of State to him before he left. At this time, Tenis understood why the Secretary of State asked him to fight for this mission, not for political capital, but for his own growth!

This mission broadened his horizons and uncovered his tenacity, and Tenis was pleased with the gain, but he was amazed and puzzled by the change in Viscount Victor.

Victor doesn't know Turnis, but Turnis meets Victor. While in the royal capital, Tenis attended a banquet hosted by the Marquis of Sophia, when Victor had just been canonized as a baron, and although he tried to show the demeanor of a noble lord, Tenis could see that he was pale and weak. This is not surprising, Victor's background and bloodline are destined to be the collection of great nobles, like a delicate crystal vase.

With the Queen's break with the Marquis of Sophia, it was rumored in the aristocratic circles of the royal capital that the Marquis Sophia gave her most beloved pet to Lady Sylvia in order to gain the support of the York family. And Sylvia really loves Victor very much, and even put purple cane wine, snow sugar, and coffee into Victor's name. The rumor that Sylvia likes handsome young men has become the talk of the nobles of the royal capital after dinner, and even many people who are interested in this area are using their brains, but the blood of the moon elves is very rare, and the teenagers among them are even rarer, in addition to Victor, there is also the eldest son of the Grand Duke Peter of the Borui Kingdom, Raymond Peter. Duke Peter is powerful, and he is a powerful golden knight, so no one dares to fight Raymond's idea.

In short, there are very few people who pay attention to Victor, and even Tenis thinks that Victor is still that delicate vase, and he is also a puppet of the York family. Now, Tenis doesn't think that way anymore.

After two days of getting along, Victor left a deep impression on Tenis, he was physically strong, quick thinking, even if he lived in a shack and ate wild vegetables, he also had a natural and noble bearing, this calm atmosphere made Tenis realize that Viscount Victor was the real owner of that territory, he was by no means a vase, let alone a puppet!

"Viscount Victor is strange, he is completely different from the rumors! How could he have changed so much?" said Tenis softly.

"It's powerful. Knight Romon said beside him.

Winnie was a little surprised, since meeting Nelson, Romon had been silent and easily refrained, he didn't expect him to give such an evaluation. Winnie raised her eyebrows and said, "Do you think that fierce warrior is the confidence of Viscount Victor?

Romon glanced at Winnie faintly and said, "I'm talking about Viscount Victor. ”

"What?!" Tenis and Winnie whispered in unison.

"Viscount Victor has a smell on him, exactly like those great knights who manipulate the void element. Romon was silent for a moment and whispered.

Turnis was shocked, Romon was different from Winnie, he served in the royal capital Praetorian Guard, had rich combat experience, and participated in the wars of the Three Kingdoms and the Sassan Empire many times. As a result, he is very familiar with the Silver Knight.

Tenis couldn't believe Romon 's judgment, he lowered his voice and asked, "Viscount Victor is a silver-rank knight?

"Victor is definitely not a knight!" Romon shook his head and said, "But my feeling can't be wrong, when his gaze sweeps over, it gives me a very big sense of oppression, just like the Silver Knight." Winnie, don't you feel it?"

"Ugh. "Winnie is only interested in admiring the delicate appearance of the elves.

"The talent of the elven bloodline!" Tenis's eyes flashed, and he laughed in a low voice: "I see, Viscount Victor's change stems from self-confidence!

"What is the Windwalking talent, is it comparable to the Silver Knight?" asked Winnie curiously.

Tenis explained: "Fengxing is a marksman talent, which is essentially similar to the Silver Knight elemental control, strong and weak. But Fengxing has a fatal flaw, the duration is far less than the time for the Dou Qi to run, and it is similar to the divine skill of the Holy Warrior, which will not exceed two quarters of an hour. However, Viscount Victor can give Romon a sense of oppression, and the degree of awakening of his talent should be relatively deep. ”

Romon and Winnie breathed a sigh of relief at the same time, the knight's fighting spirit had been running for at least thirty quarters of an hour, and the fighting spirit had recovered quickly, with this advantage, Feng Xing was not worried, they would never believe that they would not be able to resist the shot of the bow and arrow after putting on the armor.

"Both, don't spread the word about Viscount Victor. I think he's more of a good investment. Tenis whispered to the two knights of the family.

Most of the nobles of the royal capital will secretly befriend some local lords, which is in the interests of the family. Because of the relationship between Victor and Sylvia, Tenis originally planned to befriend Victor, and now Victor has shown his potential and self-confidence, which makes Tenis feel that this is a rare investment opportunity, when the other party is the weakest, the investment cost is low and the return is large. Tenis decided not to report to the top about Victor.

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Victor played with the seal in his hand, the seal was not large, and the whole body was made of pure gold, which was quite heavy. Victor would love to give the sigil to Busso and let him build a knife that could cut through the tendons of the Ant-Man leader, but that could only be an idea. This seal represents the status of a viscount lord of the Kingdom of Gambis.

Viscount Turnis's visit was the first time that Victor had face-to-face contact with the central nobles of the kingdom, and it was also the first time that the formed alchemy militia was shown to other nobles.

Accompanied by Victor, Viscount Turnis investigates the situation with Ant-Man in the realm and redefines the boundaries of the Viscountdom. Viscount Turnis also roughly estimated the output of the territory, and after canonizing the title of Viscount Victor, he euphemistically said that Victor needed to pay an annuity of 30,000 gold soles to the kingdom this year.

Victor was taken aback and inquired and learned that the viscounty needed to hand over 20% of the property in the realm and 15,000 gold soles, and if he did not pay the full amount of the property, he would have to pay twice the amount of the annuity, and the annuity was determined by the size of the territory and the title.

Viscount Turnis hinted that Victor could ask the York family for help, Victor was silent on the surface, and secretly angry in his heart, he was suffering from the disaster of the pond fish, and the kingdom obviously regarded him as a puppet of the York family, obviously a knife to the York family, but it fell on his head.

In desperation, Victor could only comfort himself with the title of viscount. Titles were not valuable to the nobles of the court, but they were important to feudal lords like Victor.

A baron can be canonized as a lord, and a viscount can be canonized as a baron and a lord. Victor was now a viscount, and he had land and the ability to make a baron, which was a great attraction for knights. As long as Victor takes out enough land and a baronial title, there will even be a Silver Grand Knight who is willing to join him and become Victor's vassal lord. Therefore, the title and the land are the foundation of the lord's growth.

A vassal lord may be more powerful than a lord, but can never surpass the lord in status, and a vassal lord needs to raise the lord's title first. This means that the stronger the vassal lord, the more resources they will feed back to the lord, and even if the lord is weak and the servant is strong, it will not change this solid relationship.

The kingdom does not collect annuities from vassal lords, but if the vassal lords dare to betray their sovereigns, and the sovereigns are powerless to sanction the rebellion, the kingdom will crush the betrayed vassal lords, and this is the power of the system. Over thousands of years, this relationship has formed a deeply rooted moral system that betrayers, even enemy countries, dare not openly accept.

Everyone believes that Victor obtained the viscount title because of Sylvia's favor, and only Victor and the upper echelons of the York family know that this is Sylvia's compensation for him after obtaining the recipe for the rock bricks. At the same time, it was Sylvia who showed Victor that she had no intention of controlling Victor.

If Victor is a baron, because the title is too low, he can't recruit knights at all, and after becoming a viscount, there will be no obstacle in this regard, and he can establish his own family power. Although Sylvia is a woman, her open-mindedness makes Victor admire.

It's a pity that Victor didn't have the idea of recruiting knights. Low-level knights have no meaning to him, high-level knights can't be recruited and difficult to control, and because of the bloodline, the knights are too deeply connected with each other, and recruiting knights is easy to expose the secrets of the Alchemy Tower. Of course, the main reason is that the growth rate of power in this model is too slow, and it may take several generations to form a cohesive family, which does not meet Victor's needs, and he does not like this development model.

"Titles are useless! By the way, it would be nice to bring the lovely Nicole over and give her a baronial title, haha, that's it!, but what about the 30,000 gold sol protection fee? Do you really want to find Sylvia? No, it's too embarrassing!" Victor thought wildly as he shook the viscount seal in his hand.

"Sir! Nelson walked over and said in a deep voice.

Victor stood up suddenly, his eyes lit up, and he asked happily, "Is there a retreating Ant-Man leader?"

"Yes, there are two Ant-Man leaders chasing a female knight, and the coat of arms on her armor looks like that of the Chebman family. Nelson said.

"What a hassle!" Victor frowned.

The secret of the leader of Ant-Man has not yet been revealed, should he save it or not?