Chapter 236: The Pretender One
While David and Aidan were researching the dungeon together, Elias Parker, who had been sent by David to the capital of Tiran, also handed over the letter that Winterfell had brought.
By the way, he himself went through the "resignation" procedures.
From then on, he was no longer the ceremonial officer of the royal capital of Tiran, but only the ceremonial officer who served the Winter Lord, Baron David Gramorgan.
After handing over the letter, Elias Parker had nothing to do but stay in the royal capital and wait for His Majesty's reply, and he had a hunch that he might have to stay in the royal capital for a considerable time, because His Majesty King Ebertson-Tiran might not be able to make a quick decision.
In fact, this is also true.
When Winterfell's letter was presented to the kingdom of Eberson, His Majesty was a little confused.
The Northern Plains are under attack by orcs?
He had known the news not long ago, and King Tiran was discussing how many soldiers to send to the Northern Plains?
Just when his subordinates are still assessing the combat effectiveness of the orcs, how many troops to mobilize, how many supplies and food and grass to raise, considering the large number of orcs in intelligence, and even now they don't know the true number of orcs, do they need to send the kingdom's new equipment to fight?
Before any of these matters could be discussed, a letter from Wintertown was placed in front of him, telling him that the threat of the Northern Orcs had been contained by Baron Glamorgan of Wintertown.
The latest attack of the Orcs was repelled by Baron Glamorgan, who had taken over Snowfield Castle, and the Orcs retreated to the eastern part of the Northern Plains, and the Irontree Castle was relieved.
"So...... Baron David Glamorgan has taken control of the entire western part of the Northern Plains......
Wintertown has expanded its power to the line between Frost Town and Snowfield Castle, and the entire western part of the Northern Plains has become the domain of Baron Glamorgan.
The nobles of Irontree were so full of hope that they would be able to acquire new land, and it all ended up being Baron Glamorgan's meal.
"Tsk~"
Ebelson sighed, remembering the young man he had seen this time last year.
At that time, he hoped that David could teach those dishonest Iron Tree Castle nobles a lesson, but he didn't expect to see the results so quickly.
The young man is doing well......
"But it's too good."
This letter, in addition to reporting on the situation in the northern plains, is also asking His Majesty for a reward.
Winter Town's power has expanded many times over, and it has long surpassed the size of the town in terms of territory alone.
Although the population is not very large, it is indeed no longer suitable to be called Winter Town.
Coupled with the fact that Baron Glamorgan successfully repelled the invading alien races and guarded the territory of the Kingdom of Tiran, he is undoubtedly very competent as a border keeper.
These merits and the increase in actual territory add up, and so on, and the promotion and reward are a matter of course.
It's just that...... Is it rising too fast?
Ableson immediately put the question aside, and now the most important thing was that the orcs had appeared in the north of the kingdom, a somewhat troublesome foreign enemy; The kingdom is also turbulent, and it is not peaceful;
As for the surrounding countries? Everyone is just maintaining a superficial peace, and once the Kingdom of Tiran shows something wrong, those guys will pounce on them like hungry wolves, tearing the Kingdom of Tiran apart and swallowing it.
In this case, if David can develop Winter Town and stabilize the northern part of the kingdom, it will undoubtedly be a great thing for Eberson.
Thinking of this, Ebelson had already made a decision: Wintertown would be promoted to Winterfell, Lord David Glamorgan would be promoted to Earl, and the territory would include the entire Northern Plains.
This information will be published and communicated to the whole nation tomorrow morning, and the substantive work will be carried out quickly: considering that the northern plains are still in a state of war, there is no need for the Earl of Glamorgan to come to the royal capital in person.
As for the last suggestion in the letter, Ebertson thought about it and decided to consult it with his close ministers tomorrow to see what had been forcibly relocated
Is the proposal really feasible?
Eberson put away the letter and began to think about more things, very curious about how David, the young man, had managed to grow Winter Town into such a strong place in just over a year.
He realized that the young man was probably not so simple, and there should be some kind of support behind him!
It's just that I don't know that David, a fast-rising nobleman, will be a help to himself and the Kingdom of Tiran in the future? Or is it a new threat?
At the same time, a choice that had been put aside by him flashed through his mind: it seemed that it was time to choose a good fiancé for Sophia......
While Ebelson was pondering what to do with David, a similar topic was being discussed on Irontree's side.
Rather than having to discuss with the minister, Irontree quickly made a decision: they accepted Baron David Glamorgan's proposal in its entirety, and they were willing to recognize Snowfield Castle and Frost Town as part of Wintertown's sphere of influence.
The farmers and craftsmen who originally belonged to the northern plains were all classified as the lords of Winter Town.
Only on the military side, the Marquis Dudley-Morgan demanded that all of them be withdrawn to Irontree, and he would exchange them for the young population or healthy children that David had asked for at the price indicated by Baron David Glamorgan.
Of course, if there are people among the soldiers who are unwilling to return to Irontree and strongly want to stay in Wintertown, Marquis Dudley-Morgan does not insist that they must go back, and whether these people's military membership will be directly transferred to Wintertown, or they will be expelled on the spot, and then re-listed in Wintertown's army list, it can be said at that time.
Once Maddox Hawke finalized all the details, he immediately set out on his way to Wintertown.
Vanessa, who was in charge of observing the whole process, called the Kun fighter when Maddox set off, and quietly left the Iron Tree Fort by taking advantage of the night and the stealth ability of the fighter. Leading Maddox returned to Winter Town for an unknown number of days and reported the situation to David in detail.
After making sure that Maddox Hawke was genuinely defecting to Winter, and after completing all the trades for Winterfell, Irontree Castle, David knew he had another knight at his disposal.
"The message from Elias's side, that Winter Town has been upgraded to Winter City, should be something that will be finalized in the next few days."
The continuous transmission of good news made Davy feel very good, plus the ambulance finally mastered the Holy Light, and Optimus Prime also reached a verbal agreement with the Decepticons, and the Decepticons joined Winter Town and officially entered the countdown state.
The biggest problem facing Optimus Prime now is how to steal Megatron's corpse without hurting his human comrades.
This problem is actually not difficult to solve, as long as David finds time to run, he can steal Megatron's corpse without alerting any guards, and the hermit warrior is very good at infiltrating.
And David only needs to sneak inside, he doesn't need to think about how to escape with Megatron's corpse, after touching Megatron's corpse, he can directly take Megatron's corpse back to Winter Town.
"Before we go to your side, let's see what Tony does!"
It took Tony Stark a lot of time (several days) to finally create a Warframe that could fly into synchronous orbit.
If it's just to make a Warframe that can fly to a synchronous orbit, it won't be difficult for Tony. What really took time was that he needed to add a lot of extra features to this warframe.
Especially the outermost camouflage, in order to ensure that Winter Town will not be contacted in the event of a problem, this armor is made in the style of the Eternal Night Empire, and finally the corpse of a dark elf (a sailor killed on the battleship) will be loaded into it, and various physiological signals will be simulated.
On the surface, the Warframe also looked like an armor that used dark energy, and in order to make the dark technology look like that, Tony dismantled the Dark Elf assault ship.
After physical stealth, anti-reconnaissance, surface camouflage, etc., everyone gathered in the conference room at Fort Glamorgan, looking at the holographic image displayed on the table—through the various detection devices installed on the battleframe, the image in front of everyone's eyes was finally constructed, and the warframe could detect the range
Everything in it is presented to the public.
"Pretender One, activate!" After Tony saw that everyone had arrived, he didn't waste any more time introducing the various situations of Pretender One to everyone here.
Directly ordered Jarvis to activate the armor and let the Pretender One fly quickly west along the Winter River.
Through the detection device of the Pretender One, everyone also learned some information about the west side of the Winter River. As the Pretender's altitude gradually increased, David noticed that the Pretender 1 soon flew to the mouth of the sea and saw a much wider sea.
"It's the sea!" James Norrington is most excited, it's the real ocean he yearns for, but he still has a lot of work to do before he can lead the fleet to sea. br>
Moreover, the real task of the Pretender 1 is not to find an outlet to the sea!
After seeing the sea, the Pretender gradually adjusted its flight direction to an oblique upward direction, which would allow the Pretender to fly farther away, as close to the Eternal Night Empire's sphere of influence as possible.
Especially after flying into a synchronous orbit, you can also detect the western part of the continent where the Eternal Night Empire is located.
However, just as the Pretender 1 was about to reach the synchronous orbit, a golden pillar of light suddenly appeared, hitting the Pretender 1 straight and instantly blasting it into powder - the picture was interrupted.
「……」
There was silence in the conference room for two seconds, and Tony had cut off all contact with Pretender One for the first time, avoiding being tracked here.
"The golden light...... If I'm not mistaken, it flew from above?" Laura's words were quickly confirmed, and Tony paused the scene of the Pretender One's destruction and rewind it frame by frame.
It was clear to all that the golden light was coming from a "higher" place.