As the reception dinner ended, the news of the Duke of Aisya, one of the heirs to the throne, gave up his right to the throne and submitted to the Count of Castel.

And along with this bombshell news, there is also a peace agreement between Charlotte and the Bloods, as well as Charlotte's trial of Archpriest Campbell at the banquet and the miracles caused by everyone's eyes.

The heir to the throne submitted, and the blood clan behind it also compromised.

The Lilac nobles, who had no foundation and no leader, surrendered one after another in the next few days, and the shadow of the civil war that had been on the verge of breaking out in the Kingdom of the Falling Star disappeared almost instantly.

Putting aside the influence of the blood clan, strictly speaking, in fact, the nobles of the falling stars are not resistant to Charlotte's succession, and even on the whole, they are quite welcome.

This is not only due to the prestige of Charlotte's "Holy Daughter", but also the promise of the Parliamentary nobles to the Falling Star nobles -

After the abdication in the future, the old system of electoral succession will be reintroduced.

This kind of monarch who is willing to delegate power to the nobility will naturally be welcomed by the aristocratic group, even if it is only a promise of the future.

Over the next few days, there was a steady stream of aristocrats heading to Falling Star City to meet Charlotte.

The general trend has been decided, dukes, counts, viscounts...... Whether it was the neutral faction or the lilac faction, all the fallen star nobles who learned the news chose to surrender.

Although it has not yet been officially crowned, the title of Her Majesty has been put on the lips of all the nobles.

At the same time, with the help of the miracles at the banquet, Charlotte took the opportunity to promote the cooperation between the High Priest Campbell and the "Fallen Blood", and directly nailed the Sacred Royal Court Branch of the Falling Star Kingdom to the Pillar of Shame.

The Divine Royal Court branch of the Falling Star Kingdom was already declining under the unanimous exclusion of the local nobles of the Falling Star and the Ness Clan, and Charlotte's approach was almost equivalent to directly tearing down their foundation in the Falling Star.

As the "Holy Woman", Charlotte almost naturally took over the control of the branch of the Falling Star Kingdom Church.

She didn't even face resistance from the priests.

And that's not all...... Many of the priests were still cheering at her arrival.

This development was unexpected by many Bloods.

In fact, the Elders of the Ness Clan have already prepared for the intervention of the Holy Court after the True Ancestor takes over the Falling Star, and there may even be a religious war.

Outcome...... The intervention of the Holy Court did not come, and the church in the Falling Star Territory "welcomed the king".

The Ness hierarchy did not know the true identity of Count Castell, but they knew that Count Castel was a "true ancestor".

Though...... This "True Ancestor Family" doesn't know why he became a saint of the Holy Court.

It can only be said that this world is so wonderful that even Bardock, who has lived for 2,000 years, will not be able to fix it.

The bloodlines didn't know how their ancestors did it, but they felt that the true ancestors who had returned seemed to be more powerful and more mysterious.

However, although Charlotte took control of the Falling Star Chapter of the Holy Court, she did not rush to start preaching in the Falling Star Kingdom.

Her foundation in the Falling Star is still unstable, and her control over the Falling Star Chapter is not stable, and she plans to gradually infiltrate it and gradually transform the Falling Star Chapter into a branch that believes in herself.

And when the time is right in the future, we will gradually build momentum, and finally find a way to merge the transformed Falling Star Branch with the Night Order.

is a very bold idea, and it can be regarded as openly prying the corner of the Divine Court, but at the moment when the "Divine Lord" has personally brushed the miracle, it has considerable feasibility.

The only thing Charlotte needs to pay attention to is probably interference from the clergy.

Of course, considering the distance between the clerical kingdom and the kingdom of the falling stars, it may be that I don't know how long it will be.

And five days after Duke Althea announced that he would renounce the succession to the throne, Charlotte, who was busy non-stop, finally welcomed a group of visitors with special status-

Legendary transcendents of the Kingdom of the Falling Stars.

"Praise be to the Divine, Your Majesty, your prestige and deeds have spread to every corner of the Kingdom of the Falling Stars, may the Falling Stars be with you, and may the Holy Light be with you."

In the Red Palace, three elderly transcendents saluted Charlotte.

Charlotte sat on the throne and looked at the three people in different costumes in front of her, and the information about the three people she had learned in advance also came to her mind.

The legendary swordmaster of the Falling Star Kingdom, the representative of the neutral aristocracy who guards the northern coastline of the Falling Star Kingdom and fights against sea beasts all year round - Duke Gael.

The legendary mage of the Falling Star Kingdom, who is rumored to have a good relationship with the blood clan, but has never been concerned about politics, and only serves as the honorary president of the Kingdom Mage Association, and is obsessed with all kinds of magical research.

The Red Dragon Knight of the Falling Star Kingdom, with elven blood and an adult red dragon as a contract partner, is a legendary mercenary who has personally participated in the Star and Moon War, and is also the leader of the largest mercenary group in the Falling Star Kingdom, the Red Dragon Mercenary Group - Viscount Lorency.

These three legends are the strongest in the transcendent realm of the Falling Star Kingdom, they belong to different forces, but they maintain a consistent neutral attitude on the issue of the succession to the throne of the Falling Star.

Charlotte has carefully studied the specific situation of the Falling Star Kingdom in the past few days.

Unlike the Crescent Kingdom, several official legends of the Crescent Kingdom are under the orders of the Crescent King, and can be called followers of Louis V.

But the legend of the Falling Star Kingdom is relatively independent.

They do not directly obey the king, but obey the council of the Falling Star Kingdom and carry out the decisions passed by the council.

It is also for this reason that when the throne was vacant, the kingdom parliament was divided, and the nobles of the parliamentary and lilac factions were quarrelling, they unanimously maintained their neutrality.

It also has to do with the identity, duties, and personalities of these three legends.

The legendary Swordmaster Duke Gale guards the north, fighting the sea beasts that infest the coast all year round, and his mind is not political at all.

The Great Sage Brin is similar, he is obsessed with magic research, and many alchemy props and magic techniques in the Falling Star Kingdom are said to have come from him, and even Yurst has a good personal relationship with him.

The Red Dragon Knight, Viscount Lorency, is a little different.

As the head of the mercenary group, he mainly takes money to work.

However, the Red Dragon Mercenary Group is originally attached to the Kingdom Council and belongs to the mercenary group supported by the Kingdom Council, so although it is in a semi-independent state, it will still obey the decisions of the Kingdom Council.

The power of the kingdom council of the Falling Star Kingdom is much greater than that of the noble council of the Crescent Kingdom, and it can even influence the royal power in more cases, so ...... Obeying the parliament does not mean obeying the king.

This is also the main reason why Viscount Lorenci remains neutral in the heir to the throne.

As far as Charlotte knows, during the Star-Moon War, there were far more than three legends of the Falling Star Kingdom, but those legends who firmly followed the royal family were eventually killed in the war and died under the sword of Louis V, and in the end, only these three conservative and pacifist legends remained.

But that's not to say that these three legends are completely useless.

Although they have maintained their neutrality, they still have the duty to guard the Falling Stars, and they are still loyal to the Falling Star Kingdom, and they are also a force to be reckoned with for the Ness Blood Clan.

It is precisely because of their existence that in the later stage of the Star-Moon War, when the strength of the Crescent Moon Kingdom crushed the Falling Star Kingdom in all directions, it did not dare to hit the Falling Star itself, and at the same time, in the competition for the succession to the throne, the Ness clan did not turn the table.

In the Kingdom of the Falling Stars, there are almost always checks and balances between the different powers.

The king is the ruler, but he is not the absolute authority.

This is not a bad thing for Charlotte, for her, the throne of the Falling Star Kingdom is completely for nothing, and this check and balance of power is conducive to the Falling Star nobles to better accept her, and even helps her to rule the Falling Star Kingdom like a shopkeeper.

As for strengthening centralization......

It's not in a hurry, and it's not necessary for Charlotte now.

Gain the allegiance of the Ness Clan, take control of the church branch, and become the Queen of the Falling Stars......

For Charlotte, she already has the strength and ability to completely control the falling stars, and centralization in the secular sense is no longer so important to her.

Not to mention, centralization is not the only solution, the right one is the best

Charlotte's quest is also different from that of other kings, she wants to become a god and ascend to the pinnacle of supernatural power.

And at that time, centralization or something, in fact, it didn't matter at all.

In a sense, Charlotte and the three legends of the Falling Star Kingdom are also somewhat similar.

For the existence of strength reaching the apex of the world, many times the eyes are no longer on the world.

This is also why, Legends will hardly shoot directly in war, at most it will only be Legend to Legend.

The audience of the three legends further strengthened Charlotte's legitimacy.

This means that the parliamentarian nobles have made peace with the lilac nobles, and the council of the Falling Star Kingdom has resumed normal operation.

Soon after, Charlotte's coronation date was officially set, on February 13, 1447 in the sacred calendar.

This date...... How to say it, Charlotte's mood is quite delicate, but it is indeed the second Friday of February, and she personally set it.

She regretted that she hadn't flipped through the calendar to see what the Blood Moon would be next month.

However, the decision is also set.

The throne of the Falling Star Kingdom has been hanging in the air for several months, and now that the overall situation has been decided, whether it is the parliamentary nobles, the neutral nobles, or the lilac nobles, they actually don't want to drag it out any longer.

Even in terms of checks and balances, the king is the ruler of the kingdom and the leader of the country.

The throne is vacant, the political situation is unstable, even if the nobility is autonomous, many things cannot be pushed.

In particular, the formation of a cabinet.

If Charlotte is not crowned, she will not have the power to reorganize the cabinet for a day, and the current temporary cabinet headed by parliamentary nobles will not be able to support the normal operation of the kingdom at all.

Of course, the aggressiveness of the Crescent Kingdom was also another reason, and many nobles witnessed the Crescent Kingdom's covetousness of the mainland enclave of the Falling Star Kingdom at the reception dinner.

Even considering the threat of the Crescent Kingdom, the succession to the throne could not be delayed any longer.

Of course, even if she is not officially crowned, Charlotte has de facto taken over the power of the falling star.

The intensity of ruling a kingdom is not the same as ruling an earlcounty, even with the assistance of a temporary cabinet, Charlotte has seen with her own eyes what is called Wenshan Huihai in this era.

The vision is also different all of a sudden, before, Charlotte was only dealing with the various lords of the Crescent Moon Kingdom, but now...... I'm afraid she's going to start thinking about the countries on the continent.

But in the same way, the power and power to rule a kingdom is definitely incomparable to that of an earldom.

The county of Castel is already a large population, but it has a population of only 4 million and an area of 120,000 square kilometers.

But the kingdom of the falling stars ...... It has a population of 67 million and an area of a staggering 1.225 million square kilometers.

If this area is placed in the previous life of Blue Star, it is almost equivalent to the three eastern provinces plus Hebei and Shandong.

Of course, of the 1.225 million square kilometers of land, more than 900,000 are the area of Luoxing Island.

Words of the army...... There is no way to count, like the Crescent Kingdom, the Falling Star Kingdom also has a conscription system, and the nobles respond to the king during the war and provide conscription.

But the number of extraordinary standing units directly under the kingdom is already quite staggering, full of 30,000 people.

This is not the kind of standing army that the noble lords have privately, for example, in the Boulder-Castel War, although the standing army pulled up by the combined forces of the two principalities also had 30,000 people, the proportion of those who entered the ranks was not even one percent, and the elite and extraordinary standing forces of the two principalities had less than 1:50.

However, the ratio of those who are directly under the Falling Star Kingdom in the Extraordinary Standing Rank has reached an astonishing 1:20!

Of course, just as the council restricts the king's power, the extraordinary standing of the Falling Star Kingdom is not something that the king can transfer at will if he wants to, and after the king orders it, it must be approved by the council.

In the early days of the race for the throne, the military remained neutral.

However, in addition to the extraordinary standing directly under the kingdom, the royal family itself has its own extraordinary standing reserve, which can be mobilized without going through parliament.

There are 5,000 people in this part of the Extraordinary Standing, but it is more elite than the Extraordinary Standing Standings directly under the kingdom, and the ratio of the ranks has even reached 1:10.

Although for Charlotte now, whether it is 5,000 or 10,000 people, as long as she does not completely unfold the magic energy array, with the sage posture to completely explode the power of the demigods, she can wipe out tens of thousands of troops with a single move.

But now the order has not collapsed, and war still has to be about rules.

Under the premise that the legend cannot end up directly and her identity should not be completely exposed, a strong army is indispensable.

Of course, compared to the military strength of the Crescent Moon Kingdom, the Falling Star Kingdom is still much worse.

From Charlotte's knowledge, the number of extraordinary heavy riders in the Crescent Moon Kingdom alone should be about the same as that of the falling stars.

However, the navy is the opposite, as an island country hanging overseas, the Falling Star Kingdom has a powerful navy on the continent second only to the Alliance of Luna Coast City-States, and the number of standing warships exceeds a hundred, crushing the Crescent Kingdom.

Of course, as with the army, the king's use of the navy required parliamentary approval unless there were exceptional circumstances.

As for the financial aspect...... It's a bit of an unexpected crotch pull.

Charlotte took a general look, obviously with ten times the territory and fifteen times the population of Castel, but the annual financial income of the Falling Star Kingdom was less than three times that of Castel.

That is to say, the extraordinary resources are relatively abundant, and the expenses that can be maintained by the extraordinary standing expenses, plus and minus, the financial balance in a year is actually not much, and it is not even a fraction of the rest of Castel.

Although Castel's wealth is well known, it has to be said that the kingdom of the falling stars ...... It's poor enough.

Looking at the Falling Star Kingdom's financial report, Charlotte sighed.

Maybe...... This is the disadvantage of the aristocratic decentralization, it seems that they will have to find a way to make money in the future.

Picking directly from the nobility is a method.

However, Charlotte didn't want to do that for the time being.

Her power comes from the support of the Falling Star nobles, and she is not stupid enough to dig her own foundation without sitting in a secure seat.

Throttling is indeed a solution, but in addition to throttling, there is also open source, and in this regard, combined with the geographical location and development of the Falling Star Kingdom, Charlotte actually has some ideas.

Of course, that was after the official succession.

In the next ten days, Charlotte cooperated with the Falling Star nobles to carry out the transfer of power, while learning about various matters of the Falling Star Kingdom's internal affairs, and at the same time considering how to rule the Falling Star in the future.

Before you know it, the day of coronation has arrived.

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I'm sorry, I'm on a business trip these days, and the update is unstable.