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In fact, the emperor's order has already made Catherine suffer, because logically speaking, it should not be started again, but should be directly transferred to her the champion knights that Catherine led. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

But the Knights of Champions are too important, they are the most elite troops in the Griffon Kingdom, they are not many in number, but they are extremely strong in combat. It can be said that it is a sharp knife in the emperor's hand, and if it is handed over to someone else, the emperor will not even sleep peacefully.

That's why he simply asked Catherine to form an army by herself, although it was said that it was a quota of 5,000 people, in fact, it had already counted the guards given by the Holy See, so that he only needed to get a few ordinary soldiers to fill the façade. In this way, you can save your face without creating a threat to yourself, which can be described as killing two birds with one stone.

In addition, there are some fiefs or items and other rewards, although there are a lot of them, but they are not great things, at least in front of the old evil man, it is not attractive at all.

Then there is the reward of the old evil, as the person who has the greatest credit for killing the Lich King, his official reward is not bad, and he is directly a duke. Although it is only third-class, and it cannot be hereditary, it is really commendable for a teenager to be able to obtain this title for merit. In this way, the Stephen family has three dukes at the same time, namely the old mage, the fat man and the old evil.

Although in the end, only one duke title can be inherited to future generations, but this good story of the three dukes can be passed on. Therefore, when the old mage saw it, he was also very happy, so that the old face turned into a flower.

This was followed by a series of rewards, and the blue general who died in battle was naturally the top priority. The others, as long as they are champion knights participating in the battle, are all named nobles, and those who are nobles themselves are directly promoted by three levels. Of course, today's time is relatively tight, and the ceremony of the official promotion of so many people is obviously impossible to handle, so the promotion ceremony will be held later, and today is just an announcement.

The other is the compensation for the soldiers who died in battle, although this time it was a big victory. However, at the beginning, it was a super fiasco, and the 200,000 griffin regular army was almost completely killed in the second line of defense by the Lich King's Sorrowful Forbidden Spell Earthquake Technique. Those who can run out are only the Tempest Sword Saint and the Old Mage and other Sacred Domain masters, as well as a few other major generals, and the rest of them are almost all finished.

Therefore, as soon as he thought of the pensions of so many people, coupled with the large investment in training the new army, and the millions of gold coins were lost all of a sudden, the emperor suddenly felt a pain in his flesh. But no matter how painful it is, he has to pay money, otherwise, who will join the army in the future?

In short, today's ceremony was carried out extremely warmly and smoothly, and both the emperor, the nobles, and the military and civilians were relatively satisfied. It's just more cumbersome, anyway, after all the toss is over, it's almost dark.

The emperor directly ordered a banquet. Today's feast is undoubtedly a state banquet, and everyone who comes can receive free food and drink, which can be regarded as a kind of celebration.

As for the high-ranking aristocrats, they were more elaborate, and they held a grand bonfire in the academy. It didn't end until dawn.

Those drunk aristocrats staggered, and many of them just crawled on the grass and fell asleep. And the old evil is also somewhat tired. It's not that he's really tired, it's just that he drank too much last night. No way, as the hero who killed the Lich King, of course everyone wants to get to know each other and toast again. It is also face-saving to go back and talk to others like this. And the eldest princess Catherine has a noble status and is a princess, and if she is not a person with enough identity, it is not easy to disturb her, so naturally she can only come to find the old evil.

Although the griffin kingdom is large, the circle of nobles is really small enough, and almost every nobleman can have a little relationship with the Stephen family. The old evil naturally didn't know, but the fat man and the old mage next to him both understood, so every time a wave of people came, the old evil had to drink with others.

You know, there are tens of thousands of nobles attending this grand event, even if ten people toast a glass of wine, that's thousands of glasses. And the cups on the banquet are not small, almost half a catty of wine, counting, yesterday the old evil was poured into thousands of catties of wine.

If it weren't for his outstanding Xuangong, he would have forced the wine out as he drank, and he was afraid that he would have been killed a long time ago. However, the old evil also gained something, because after drinking this meal yesterday, almost all the noble circles of the griffin kingdom knew him, which was obviously extremely beneficial to his future development. Although the old evil doesn't care much about this kind of interpersonal relationship, it is also essential. Because he is still very weak now, sometimes he may have to use these people. Of course, if his strength returns to its peak state, then he will naturally have the right to ignore these guys, but unfortunately not yet.

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When he was finally done, the old evil dragged his tired body back to the magic tower and fell asleep, until night fell again, and he got up in a daze. As soon as he walked out of the bedroom, he received a message from the old mage, telling him to wake up and go to the hall on the third floor to meet.

The old evil had to give up the plan to eat for the time being, and came to the hall on the third floor first, only to find that not only the old mage was there, but even Catherine was there. So he couldn't help but say strangely: "Are you waiting for me here?"

"Yes!" the old mage gave him a blank look and said, "You kid can really sleep!"

"You still have the face to say!" said the old evil dissatisfiedly: "I was poured several barrels of red wine in one breath, and it would be good if I didn't die!" With that, he sat down on the sofa angrily, and then instructed Lilith, "Get me something delicious!"

"Yes, young master!" Lilith hurriedly agreed, turning to go out.

"Hehe!" the old mage smiled, "It's all necessary entertainment, and I can't help it." But then again, you kid is really extraordinary, I thought you were going to be thrown down, but I was stunned to get through. Today, even if you don't have those achievements, just this amount of alcohol is enough to be regarded as a No. 1 celebrity in the aristocratic circle. ”

"What kind of bullshit celebrity is you who can drink?" the old evil pursed his lips disdainfully, and then suddenly said: "By the way, you are looking for me, it shouldn't be just for the sake of being able to drink, right?"

"Of course not!" the old mage said suddenly, "We are looking for you for the matter of summoning the stone." ”

"The Summoning Stone?" the old evil immediately said curiously, "What's the matter with this thing?"

"Alas, that's right!" the old mage said with a little dissatisfaction: "The emperor knows that you have the news of the Summoning Stone, so he wants you to hand it over, and say anything, and let the state collect it." Hmph, to put it bluntly, aren't you going to give it to the third prince and the little princess Lan Snow?"

"Ha, isn't he having a fever in his head?" the old evil immediately sneered: "Lao Tzu's things, how can he give them to him?"

"Who knows what he thinks!" the old mage shrugged, and then guessed: "Maybe the queen wants it, but it's not easy for her to come forward, so let's put pressure on us through the emperor!"

"I don't care who puts pressure on me, I just can't do it anyway!" the old evil said very directly: "The emperor is the same!By the way, Catherine, you didn't give him the summoning stone, did you?"

The old evil was a little worried about Catherine, for fear that she would be deceived by the emperor.

"No!" Catherine shook her head and said, "After all, this is something given to us by the Dwarven King, and it would be a rude act for his old man to pass it on like this." So, I withstood the pressure of my father. But he didn't give up yet, he just told me to think about it. He said, my strength is already very strong, there is no need to waste such a precious thing, it is better to leave it to those who need it. Although he didn't say it explicitly, it obviously meant that he intended to give it to the third brother. ”

"Hehe, it's good if you don't give it, but don't lie to that old guy!" said the old evil with a smile.

However, Catherine shook her head and said, "Although I didn't give it at the time, I am a little shaken now." After all, the third brother's eyes were blinded by me, in fact, it is not impossible to give him this as compensation. I've always been a loner anyway, and it's the same without pets. ”

"That's not good!" The old evil immediately objected: "The third prince was blinded by you because he was to blame, he completely deserved it, and he didn't deserve sympathy at all." ”

"Of course I know what he did to me. But he's my brother after all!" Catherine said helplessly.

"You just don't think he's it!" said the old evil impatiently, "In short, this thing is given by the elders, and you can't transfer it to others at will." Otherwise, it will be difficult to explain to the dwarven country!"

After speaking, the old evil directly turned to the old mage and said, "Can you prepare the magic array immediately and use the summoning stone?" Now it seems that I don't care, but Catherine is afraid that she will have a lot of dreams at night!"

"That's what I think too!" the old mage then said, "But the problem is that the Summoning Stone is extremely high-level, and the magic array required is not trivial, and it requires a lot of rare materials. I don't have all the existing materials in my hand, it's a lot worse!And I heard that you kid has seized the Lich King's space ring, and you have taken all the materials in it, hehe, can you help me make it up?"

How clever is the old evil? As soon as I heard it, I understood that the old mage was using Catherine's guise to come to him to fight the autumn wind. Otherwise, with his worth, how could he not be able to gather the materials for a magic array? After all, how could he say that he was also the chief mage of the Griffin Kingdom, and he controlled the resources of a country.

However, even if the old evil knew this, there was nothing he could do, who told that the high-level summoning magic circle could only be placed by the old mage himself? The old evil didn't even know what materials to use, let alone the formation diagram. Now it is obvious that people have the advantage, so naturally they can only be slaughtered honestly.

In desperation, he had to smile bitterly: "Okay, you give me the list of materials, and I'll see if there are any!"

"Hehe!" the old mage said proudly, "Here, it's been prepared for a long time!" As he spoke, he handed the old evil a beast skin scroll.

The old evil took it and looked at it twice, and shouted angrily: "You are robbing!"

(To be continued)