Chapter 58: Return 4
Atwood isn't stupid.
So he could guess that his father's last words told him to destroy the coat of arms and not think about revenge.
It's nothing more than out of love, feeling that he can't compete with the Mills royal family alone, and doesn't want him to die in the process of revenge.
But he could not understand the exhortation that "the fate of Teutoni is over and that he should leave the north".
The glory that the family has adhered to for hundreds of years and the glory that countless ancestors have fought for with their lives, how can they give up easily!
Moreover, is the Teutonic who left the north and no longer fought against the centaurs still a Teuto?
What about the so-called "new life for the Teutons"!
Perhaps, it was because my father didn't know about the imminent fall of the human demigods when he was killed, so he asked me to leave the north.
Atwood, who had thought about it for a long time, chose to explain it this way.
For only such an explanation can make sense as to why his father's claimed Teutonic fate has ended.
As for the fall of the Teutonic family before the human demigods entered the northern steppes alone, returning with the heads of two centaur khans and wounded, Atwood chose to ignore it.
Sometimes, you don't have to worry too much.
Before returning to the valley, he went to the northern grasslands first, and had already taken the first step to avenge his family!
After more than 20 years of loneliness, he is always looking forward to the moment of revenge, so that he has taken revenge and reviving the glory of the family as a kind of faith, the only struggle in this life!
So, he won't change his decision.
Even if the bones are broken, even if the father told him in his last words.
"I'll be back!"
Unlike before, Atwood's words as he left the valley this time were unusually firm, full of enthusiasm for the future, "When I come back again, the northern lands will once again flutter the banner of the roaring Snow Monster Skull!" The people of the north will once again sing an ode to the glory of Teuton! ”
With the family coat of arms, it gives him the mark to prove his identity and the confidence to persuade the former Teutonic ministers.
His first stop was the Viscount of Martinez.
It was a territory in the northeast corner, in the cold lands.
It has the only ice-free port in the north, and when the north enters winter, all trading fleets from the eastern islands and the south will visit the ice-free port.
The unique geographical advantage makes this territory very rich and powerful.
But none of that prompted Atwood to visit first.
His grandmother came from this family.
After the fall of the Teutonic family, it was also the first lord to raise the banner of rebellion to the Mills royal family.
It can be said that if the family has forgotten the old lord Teuton, then Atwood should follow his father's last words, and there is no need to daydream about revenge.
However, there must be due courtesy.
For example, after Atwood arrived at the Viscount of Martinez, he did not directly break into the home of the Viscount Martinez with the Teutonic family coat of arms and ask them to fulfill their oath of allegiance. He knew that when the other party raised the banner of resistance, he had already fulfilled his obligations as a Teutonic vassal, and he knew that the other party had lost a lot in that battle of resistance.
Viscount Martinez didn't feel sorry for Teutton, and he couldn't be too selfish.
So, still wearing the brim of his cloak that covered half of his face, he approached a guard of the viscountdom as an adventurer, claiming that he had been entrusted to deliver a letter to the viscount from the city of Gardinanras.
The surname on the newspaper is also that of the deceased old minister.
There is no writing in the letter, except for a seal with the Teutonic coat of arms.
He knew that Viscount Martinez would understand the meaning.
He also knew that if the other party was still looking forward to the return of the Teutonic family to the north, he would definitely come out to find him as soon as possible.
And if he is not found, it means that the other party has chosen to protect the family, and does not want to gamble the future of the entire family as a price to fulfill the oath that has been fulfilled.
My father's cousins, will they come out to me?
Atwood, who claimed that he would be waiting in the tavern by the territorial guard, took a sip of the northern spirits, silently staring at the tavern door, quietly waiting for his future fate.
In fact, he was doing more.
He left the north at a young age and did not understand what it meant to the people of the north to have been consistent for hundreds of years, guarding Teuton in the north with his life.
That's an existence that can make people abandon their faith!
It is no exaggeration to say that if there is a conflict between the Teutonic and the Ice Goddess, then all the lords and their people will choose to spit on the faith side by side with the Teutonic people!
Indeed, the Holy Empire was founded for more than two hundred years!
But in the eyes of the northerners, only the Teutons could be the masters of the north, and they were worthy of their allegiance.
That hasn't changed before.
Now the Teutonic family is gone, but it hasn't changed.
A person like Earl Hughes, who backstabbed the king, no matter how many years he nominally ruled the north, would not be recognized and loyal by the northerners.
Viscount Martinez was such a northerner.
When he took the lead in rebelling against the Mills royal family and avenging the feudal monarchy, he made an oath - the Martinez family will forever be the enmity of the Hughes family!
Later, many families who raised the banner of revenge for the feudal monarch also claimed that Eternal and Hughes were incompatible!
Even if they later compromised, they still chose to isolate the Hughes family.
Yes, their struggle was compromised.
And not to fail!
When they united against the Mills royal family and raised troops against Earl Hughes and the Northern Griffin Legion, the centaurs also took the opportunity to invade.
The Empire sent an emissary from Middle-earth to find Viscount Martinez and gave all the Teutonic vassals two options.
The first is that both sides will stop their wars, leaving the griffons to defend themselves against the centaur invasion.
The Mills royal family promised not to pursue their rebellion, to reduce their lands and increase their taxes, and not to force them under the command of Earl Hughes.
The other is that the two sides continue to fight to the end, making the north a ranch for the centaurs.
Because the Mills royal family felt that since the lords and subjects of the north raised the banner of rebellion, then these people were no longer the subjects of the empire, and there was no need for the griffin army to fight the centaurs for them!
"When your territory becomes a ranch for centaurs, when your people are slaughtered by centaurs, and when there are no more vassals in the north to serve the Teuton, the empire will reclaim the north."
These were the last words of the emissary to convey the royal family.
It was for this reason that the Teutonic ministers were forced to compromise.
Disputes within the Terrans, in the face of the Centaur invasion, they all know which is more important.
Especially at that time, the Mills royal family and the Earl of Hughes killed a young boy and smashed his face and hung it in the valley, claiming that it was the last Teutonic Atwood in the world, leaving them with no object of allegiance.
Today, Viscount Martinez is in his seventies.
The strong man who raised troops to avenge the feudal monarch without hesitation that year is now in his last years and has gray hair.
Fortunately, his spirit is not bad, his eyes have not faded, and his mind has not worn out by the years, so when he sees the letters handed over by the territorial guards, what he does is in line with his loyalty in his bones.