Chapter 10: Separate Operations

The news that Anson got from the mouth of the pirate with the broken leg was about a 'treasure'.

The news is said to have come from a book scribe in the city of Knowledge—people who deal with old books on a daily basis do occasionally make startling discoveries.

And this time, the scribe discovered a big secret.

The secret is an ancient quarter, or an ancient ruin, that the Griffin Knights have never been discovered.

The pirates kept going to the city of Knowledge, and drove their ships to and from the rivers of the mainland, in order to find out the station.

The kingdom of Gupende once ruled the entire continent – and to this day, the continent is still named after Pande.

And the Griffin Knights were once the national knights of the Kingdom of Gupand, and they were also the strongest knights on this continent, and there was no one.

However, it is said that one hundred and fifty years ago, under the conspiracy of the Cato raiders and Alfred, the Lion Duke, all the griffin knights were killed in the town of Long River.

After the fall of the Griffin Knights, the Duke of Lion stole the kingdom and destroyed all the forces loyal to the royal family of Pande, established the Kingdom of the Lion, and the Lion Knights who supported him became the National Order.

Since then, the Griffin Knights have been declared illegal by the Lion Kingdom, and the white griffin coat of arms with countless legends on a black background will never be seen in the continent again.

And their mysterious location has been buried by the years, and no one knows.

How many treasures will the Griffin Knights, a secret base left behind by such a legendary force, be there?

Just thinking about it makes me feel fascinating.

And the pirates, after a long effort, confirmed the approximate location of the station—probably at the source of a river near the town of Long River.

But there were countless rivers in the vicinity of Long River, and they still hadn't found them, so they went to Boshi City again, hoping to find out if there was any information that had been overlooked from the scribe.

Leon understands the pirates' desire to find treasure or get a secret station, but he scoffs at the act of doing so—is it a pirate or an explorer who spends a lot of manpower and material resources searching for a legendary 'mysterious station'?

It's just not a good job......

He just silently wrote down the matter and waited for the right opportunity in the future.

The most important thing right now is to go to Lion City and register as a Pioneer Lord.

The team, which had received a lot of loot, was now renewed, and its morale and spirits were much better than before.

But Leon had to go alone before he was one step ahead of the Duke of Alma and had to register with the House of Lords.

That's Anson's advice.

As a child of a nobleman, even if he is not from the Lion Kingdom, Anson still knows more about the behavior of nobles than Leon or Klose.

Leon is still a commoner at best, and his father's Order has been wiped out, and it is even possible that it would have been declared illegal long ago - otherwise he would not have kept silent for the rest of his life.

If he arrives in Lion City after Duke Alma or the bastard, there is a good chance that his Pioneer Baronial Certificate will be declared invalid by a few gossip from Archduke Alma, as King Ulrik must have liked, given that there are already too many nobles and no realm has always been enough.

But this kind of thing is not usually solved by a letter or an order from the duke, who must also go and speak to the king face to face, and the king will give the order. After all, the certificate issued by the House of Lords method represents the authority of the king.

And, more often than not, such anger does not lead to any targeted catastrophic consequences – at least not by sending people to intercept them. After all, he didn't offend much, he just failed to fulfill the wish of the illegitimate child, which is not much hatred.

Therefore, before Duke Alma's convoy returns to Lion City, it will probably not be a problem to register as a pioneer lord in the House of Lords.

It should be the Red Brotherhood who really wants his life, so the farther away from a chaotic place like the West Coast, the safer it is.

Leon felt that Anson's words made sense, so he rode Alice on the road alone, and galloped all night.

They agreed to regroup near the town of Changhe in order to facilitate the procurement of supplies in the town.

Leon wasn't worried at all that his men would leave him behind—he could see them in the team panel.

This half-hung subsystem, where you can't see the basic attributes of the character, doesn't compromise on the functionality of the team panel.

Alice was indeed a good horse, and at noon on the third day, Leon crossed thousands of miles to the outside of the Lion City.

Lion City is the capital of the Lion Kingdom.

But it used to be called Kavala – the name of the founder of the kingdom of Gupande.

It was once the capital of the kingdom of Gupend.

The walls are fifteen meters high – a city that is almost impossible to conquer from the outside.

Indeed, the city has changed hands three times, each time from within......

Although the Lion Kingdom has been established for 150 years, from a distance, the silhouette of a huge griffin relief can still be seen on the walls of this majestic city—only deliberately bulldozed, and then repainted on its surface in the shape of a lion with teeth and claws.

But in any case, the security here is much stronger than that of Fogcage City......

At least there weren't any sneaky gangs on the streets.

The guards at the gates didn't stop Leon, or even let him stop to check—they probably thought that the one who could ride Alice the golden-maned horse into the city must be a nobleman and didn't need to ask for trouble.

This is also the main reason why Leon always wanted this horse, not because of how good Alice is in speed and stamina, but because it looks good.

Leon ran wildly through the wide streets.

The destination is naturally the Lion City House of Nobles, the official body that oversees all the nobles' fiefdoms in the Lion Realm.

The House of Lords is not easy to find, which is very unconventional – it is said that more than 100 years ago, the House of Lords of Pande was the tallest building in the center of the city, and its high dome can be seen anywhere in the city.

But since the first Lion King, the Duke of Lion Alfred, stole the kingdom to become king, the tallest independent building in the Lion Territory has since become his family's private property—and now King Ulrique's.

The new House of Nobles, on the side road next to King's Road, is hidden in a deep alley, and is basically indistinguishable from the apartments of the minor nobles.

Perhaps this is because the former Pande House of Nobles had a large number of documents hidden in it, and it was afraid to be known;

Or perhaps to make officials more approachable and less corrupt;

But Leon felt that this was probably because the Lion King didn't want higher buildings to appear in the realm, lest anyone be 'above them'.

After all, the reason why the country thief can become the lion king is because he is 'unwilling to be subordinate'.

Looking at the towering building in the center of the city, which was more than thirty meters high, Leon shook his head and asked all the way along the King's Road, finally finding the gate of the House of Nobles.

Above the main entrance is carved a solemn goddess wearing a long robe, holding a spear in one hand, a code of law in the other, and an owl standing on her shoulder.

This is the main god of the Gupends, and the official belief of the Lion Kingdom today, the god of order and zeal, Yunomia.

The statue is delicate, but somewhat incongruous - Yunomia's chest should have a pendant representing the time of the sun and the moon, but this statue has replaced it with a lion's head.

Even the image of the Lord God has been changed...... This sycophant skill is obviously extremely high.

It's just that I don't know if this god of order, who has no time sequence of the sun and the moon, is willing to bless this lion kingdom that claims to inherit the orthodoxy from ancient Pande.