I really just want to be a big lord

Chapter 261 Shuffle

"My lord, all the elders of the Shengyou Palace in the holy capital have been wiped out this time, and now there is only one new elder, Pan De Bocano. Doesn't that mean that there are still many vacancies for elders? This may be a new opportunity to reshuffle power ?”

Hearing this, Duke Saltman pondered in silence.

He can judge that the so-called "Marcus was influenced and controlled by the abyss demon god, trying to open the abyss passage in the holy capital Shengyou Palace" is tricky. For example, why did Marcus go to the West Realm and Valli City? De also happened to be in the holy capital, so there were too many doubts.

He even suspected that Marcus was just a scapegoat. The tragedy in the holy capital had other truths. All the elders and most of the disciplinary knights died in the tragedy. I'm afraid it may not be an accident.

If Pendor is in the holy capital, if the source of everything is in the west, in Valli City, then there is a high probability that it has something to do with Kaios.

Whether this was the accidental tragedy brought about by the coming of the abyss, or the man-made result of a certain great lord's careerist taking risks, it was a completely different situation for Saltman.

In any case, this is indeed an opportunity, an opportunity to grab greater power and interests.

But when he became the Duke, he was revealed some core secrets of the Holy Blessing Palace, and he probably knew that he might obtain "eternal life".

It is precisely because the Duke has the greatest "benefit" of "immortality", so the great lords who become Dukes in various places will basically become more "Buddhist", aggressive, expansive, and sometimes even hard power is not as good as those who are expanding strongly, Marquis of asset inflation.

Saltman has just turned [-] this year, and his death is still far away. Moreover, he has a relatively strong personality and is competitive. Let him wait to die like other dukes, but he still can't do it.

But when it comes to the Duke, there is basically no room to go up. The pure increase in assets cannot change from quantitative to qualitative as before. The power of the Duke is always local influence, and it is difficult to go beyond the main city where he is located.

Some dukes will indulge in some careers that consume magic coupons and resources. For example, the descendants of Grand Duke Kane lost the title of duke. The outside world agrees that Grand Duke Kane is obsessed with the "Titan Mage Chariot", a bottomless pit of magic coupon consumption. The root cause of the fall of Duke Kane's lineage.

Apart from accumulating works of art that all dukes will do, Duke Saltman has no other hobbies or careers that consume magic coupons and resources extremely. After the city of Oz, he and several other big lords of the city of Oz naturally bought shares, and then their assets expanded greatly in the past few years, and they all made a lot of money.

However, as the grand duke, no matter he was promoted from a marquis to a duke, or a normal duke became a duke, he would go to the Shengyou Palace in the holy capital. Only then did he know why his father, the old duke, spent so much magic coupons to buy With so many works of art, why are the nobles of the Holy Blessed Alliance flocking to works of art.

Yes, even the only son of the duke, Saltman, who was destined to be the duke long ago, did not get any secrets about the "Duke's eligibility for immortality" from his father, the old duke.

However, after he took the title himself, he knew why it was so. When he took the title, he needed to perform a separate contract ceremony in the Shengyou Palace in the holy capital, as a precursor to the future soul contract, and added some other restrictions. ——It is impossible to disclose any relevant information to others, no matter whether it is speaking or writing, as long as there is such an idea, it cannot be done.

But even when the duke attacked the duke, the information he knew was actually very limited.

He probably knew that when he was about to die, he had to go to the holy capital—to die in the holy capital.Even when necessary, in order to ensure that he can die in the holy capital, he can make all preparations and ask someone to "help".

Then, after death, the soul as a whole can exist in another place—called the "God Kingdom" by Shengyou Palace—permanently.

Even at certain moments, it is possible to return to the world as a body. This kind of "immortality" is naturally yearning for people.

And what kind of abilities they can have after entering the "Kingdom of God", what kind of life they can live, and what kind of status they can strive for all depends on their own "artistic attainments" or appreciation of works of art.

It is precisely because the duke, the highest level of nobility, spares no effort and spares no resources to pursue all kinds of art and artworks and artists for a long time, so that almost all nobles from top to bottom in the entire Holy Blessed Alliance have begun to get involved in art. Art has also suddenly become something used by nobles to mark their status and create a sense of superiority.

It's just that 99% of the nobles don't even know what the real purpose of those top lords and grand dukes is to pursue art?
Even the grand dukes have a clear purpose, but they don't really understand why understanding, creating, and appreciating works of art can bring benefits in the "Kingdom of God".

But Saltman, because of some special reasons, came into contact with a lot of soul spells and even undead spells, and vaguely knew what the "Kingdom of God" represented.

And just because he knew more, he was more afraid of the power of Shengyou Palace in the holy capital.

"Although the elders are all dead, Lord Wally is still alive. What I need to know is what Lord Wally's own wishes are, and whether he can still fully control the Holy Blessing Palace now." Saltman said in a deep voice .

"What the lord means is that Master Wally...may have been presided over by Judge Pan...oh, it should be called Elder Pan now, Lord Wally may have been coerced by Elder Pan? Or...the abyss did not happen at all. What happened, but... an internal struggle for power subversion?" The middle-aged man immediately heard the meaning of Saltman's words, and was startled.

"Normally speaking, it is impossible. But normally speaking, it is impossible for all the elders of Shengyou Palace to die at the same time." Saltman said, paused, and seemed to think for a while before continuing : "Tomorrow, you can contact the Marquis of Nasri and Marquis of Bolton, and tell me that I recently spent 10,000+ magic coupons to receive a few paintings and a few special magic shadow belts, and I want to invite them to appreciate them together. In addition, send someone to Wat Licheng carefully inquires whether Kaios Li has been in Valli City during this time, if not, where he may be, and whether he has come back now. If you can’t find him, check his contracted servant and female guard, Check her trail."

Saltman had thoughts about the "creator" of Kaios before, and now he naturally also has thoughts about the situation of the Shengyou Palace in the holy capital, but he is afraid of the control of the Shengyou Palace, so he wants to incite more big riots. The lord acted together, trying to put pressure upwards, and then he looked at the reaction of the Holy Capital to determine the situation of Shengyou Palace and Wally.

Compared with the duke, the ambitions of the marquis are obviously much greater, and the awe of the Shengyou Palace is not so strong.Originally, there was a good candidate to take the lead in Yulang City, but now that person was also taken to the Holy Capital before the "Holy Capital Incident".

What Saltman didn't expect was that there were not a few great lords who had similar ideas with him.

Holy Blessing Palace - Soul Subordination Contract - Holy Blessing Alliance - Noble Lords - Contracted Servants - Territories, this management and ruling method has been very stable for thousands of years, raising the cost of internal free struggle and limiting it to very small range.

But this kind of stability has actually suppressed the desires of many careerists. Now that they have seen the omens of the collapse of order and the opportunity to grab greater benefits, those suppressed desires have begun to move around.

Every Marquis, especially the Marquis who is still growing in power and is expected to exert power towards the Duke, has the combat power of at least two or three super-level powerhouses. After the "Magic Armor System" is mass-produced and released, Each Marquis has also equipped and trained a large number of Demon Servants.Even after Shengyou Palace imposed restrictions on the size of the magic servants, no Marquis really strictly followed the standard to control the size of his magic servants' magic circle and stopped expanding.

In the past, when the military strength of the great lords reached a certain level, they would naturally turn the overflowing military force to the northern and western boundaries to expand their territories and exercise their military strength.

Especially in the western realm, the super-powerhouses of the various lords almost have to go to the western realm to train and fight for a period of time.

Because the threat to the northern border is relatively simple, it generally does not need to be guarded by too strong strong men, while the western border not only has stronger and more cunning opponents, but also the entire terrain is more complicated. There are also special fields with various characteristics, super It is common for super strong people to overturn their cars.

However, in recent years, while the combat power of the lords of the Holy Blessed Alliance has been continuously improved with the emergence of the "magic array system", the western world has fallen into a strange and delicate balance. Except for an ambush against the "Sacred Law Church" led by the leader, there has been no battle with the Western Realm.

And after the black mist appeared in the "Extremely Evil Forest" and "Wind Shelter Mountain", no lord would think about opening up territories to the west.

So this increasingly stronger and overflowing force will naturally want to find a release point.

Not only the city of Oz, Saltman just tried a little bit, and quickly formed a strong lineup spanning more than a dozen main cities, including nearly forty marquises and four dukes.

Of course, it’s not that the earl, baron, or other lords and nobles don’t want to participate. On the one hand, there is no information channel to know, and on the other hand, Saltman did not invite them.

Saltman hopes that the lowest title is also a marquis, because the "coalition forces" they formed this time went to the holy capital not to "start a war", but to defend the holy capital and the Holy Blessing Palace, "assist" in investigating the deaths of the elders, the abyss The name of the reason that almost came to the holy capital.

It is precisely because of this that so many lords are willing to participate—anyway, if you really want to find out that Shengyou Palace is still the old Shengyou Palace, and you can't get any benefits, then just leave.According to Shengyou Palace's consistent behavior style, it is impossible to hold everyone accountable.

If it was before, with so many of them, it would be impossible for them to get together, and the Shengyou Palaces everywhere would know about it immediately and then stop them.

But now, all the elders before Shengyou Palace in the Holy Capital are dead, and almost all the presiding judges in the main cities have elder backgrounds, so they are naturally at a loss. To a certain extent, they will also hope that Saltman and the others You can test out the current situation in the holy capital and let them know how to choose.

However, not every main city has nobles participating. For the two main cities of Yulang City and Wali City, as well as the two main cities near Wali City, none of the nobles participated, and they even knew that they were going to participate. After what he did, Alan Miles personally went to the city of Oz to persuade Saltman, saying that now that Pender has become the new elder, with his ability, he will definitely be able to stabilize the situation soon. It's time to make trouble for him.

However, this made Saltman more confident, because if the Holy Blessing Palace still has the previous control, then there is no need for Alan to come over to dissuade him-he naturally thinks that Alan is Pender, and Kaios knows After the situation, please come and stop it.

He already knew exactly that Kaios disappeared in Valli City at the same time as Pender, and Marcus must have been to Valli City. There is a high probability that they went to the holy capital together. Back to Valley City.

After the tragedy in the Holy City, Pan De was quickly promoted to the position of elder, and he was the only elder, presiding over various affairs of the Holy City. , or he is still paralyzed, or he has single-handedly grasped the real power.

Something must have happened to Mr. Wally, he was coerced and emptied by Pendor, Kaios, and their henchmen.

With this judgment, Saltman didn't wait any longer, and directly led the gathered "army" of the lords to the holy capital.

In this group of lords, any one is a great lord who can influence one side, and can easily pull out a few super-level leaders, a dozen top-level leaders, and thousands of "magic arrays" to assist combat power.

However, because there are too many top-level lords, everyone still only brings the elite of the elite. Each lord, whether it is a duke or a marquis, only brings two to three super-level powerhouses, a team of no more than ten guards, and There are no more than 50 people in the "magic array".

But even so, the "Holy City Tour Group" composed of forty marquises and five dukes was still terrifyingly large.

The number of servants and stewards serving them by each great lord far exceeds that of combatants.

One of the marquises even had fifteen carriages loaded with personal belongings, and more than 100 servants performing their duties.Saltman only limited the number of combatants with the big lords, but forgot to specify the number of servants. If they don't set out again, let them stay in the city of Oz, even the rich and powerful Grand Duke Saltman will have to hold on. Can't hold it anymore - he made a promise that he will pay for the basic stationing expenses of these great lords in Oz.

On the first day, Saltman couldn't take it anymore, and he didn't care about the face of these big lords. He directly forced all the lords to bring only two servants, and he could only use the magic power he bought from the "creator" High-performance carriage with auxiliary drive.

Other servants, stewards and other identities cannot follow, and they are all left behind to let them return to the territory by themselves.If you don't want to be the lord, then you can leave directly, depending on whether you want to withdraw or go to the holy capital by yourself.

To Saltman's relief, none of the nobles withdrew. Whether it was the Marquis or the Duke, even if they expressed some dissatisfaction, they still fully followed his request and increased their speed.

Of course, even with the so-called "light and simple", the speed of this team is still not fast, at least not up to the advance speed of the elite and strong in Saltman's imagination.

Saltman couldn't help but think of the time when Kaios led tens of thousands of people to move westward to Valli City. They seemed to have fought a battle on the way?
Saltman and the others had envisioned a variety of situations. What if the disciplinary knights from the main cities on the road came to stop them, what to do if the chief judge of the main city dissuaded them, and what to do if Elder Pan De came to see them in person ?
They even thought that Lord Wally would come over in person, or that the legendary super-powers of the Holy Blessing Palace would appear.

But none of these happened. What stopped them was an accident.

……

Calculated according to the speed, basically in two days, Saltman and his elite team of thousands of people can reach the holy capital.

Not only did they not encounter any obstacles along the way, but the people arranged in the holy capital kept reporting back, letting them know that Shengyou Palace in the holy capital did not respond to their attack on the holy capital.

This also made many people more convinced that the current holy capital, Shengyou Palace, must not have completed the final integration of power. No matter who is in charge, it cannot fully exert the true power of Shengyou Palace.

Of course, another possibility is not ruled out.

Shengyou Palace itself has lost that power forever.

The weather suddenly changed.

In the beginning, there was only a wind blowing, and the sky turned dark. The sky that was originally bright and sunny was suddenly covered by dark clouds. It was clearly noon, but it was like late night.

Then, the thick cloud began to change, becoming hideous.

The celestial phenomena have begun to be strange, and many strong men on the ground, as well as marquises and dukes, have also noticed the abnormality.

Although there seems to be no problem with changes in the aura, magic power, and environmental elements, everyone thought of what happened in the holy capital not long ago, when it was said that various strange celestial phenomena also appeared.

Although many great lords, including Grand Duke Saltman, doubted whether the abyss passage and abyss invasion really appeared in Shengdu, they still felt instinctively nervous when they saw these visions.

Soon, bursts of smoke began to rise from the ground, and then gathered into a black mist, and the thick clouds in the sky above continued to spread downwards, and thin black lines appeared, as if to connect with the black smoke on the ground stand up.

Covering the sky and blocking out the sun, a black mist filled the surroundings quickly formed. In just ten minutes, it gave people a feeling of traveling to another world.

Although there is still no abnormality in the level of aura and magic, and all magicians and auras can still use and perceive their own magic and aura normally, everyone knows that this is definitely not a normal black mist.

"It's nothing, even if the abyss channel really needs to be opened, even if there are some abyss demon gods, our strength here is enough to resist, just beat them back, maybe we can catch a few alive and make them pets." Marquis Nasri of Oz smiled at the dignified Saltman.

Saltman thought about it with a group of worried dukes and marquises, and they seemed to be right.

Although the lineup of the investigation team of the Nine Super Orders had suffered heavy losses during the investigation of the black mist in the western realm, their current lineup is far stronger than that of the Nine Super Orders.

It can even be said that it is not an exaggeration to say that most of the combat power of the entire Holy Blessed Alliance is here.

If Shengyou Palace didn't have some special means to "take the bottom line", these lords even believed that it would be no problem for them to sweep all the main cities all the way, push them directly to the holy capital, and then push the holy capital away.

After all, according to the definite news they received before, almost all the strongmen above the high level of the Punishment Knights in Shengyou Palace in the Holy Capital have been wiped out-this is why they don't believe that there is really an abyss passage and the abyss descends. Since the battle of the demon gods can be won, how can it be possible to wipe out all the people, and the buildings of the Shengyou Palace only damage a small corner of the Holy King's Palace?

Even with the existence of the super protection formation in the holy capital, it is impossible to confine the movements to the Shengyou Palace in such a super-class battle that wiped out the entire army, and there are no witnesses in the entire holy capital.

……

When abnormal celestial phenomena appeared, the "magic attendant formation" in the team entered the state of combat readiness one after another, and all the magic outfits on their bodies were connected with magic wands, and all of them were activated.

Several top-level magisters have also set up defensive energy shields.

In this terrifying lineup, the top-level magister and top-level holy spirit guard cannot even be the main force, but can only be responsible for supporting.

With more than a hundred super strong men, it can almost be said that it is the strongest single combat force in the history of this continent, even in the era of the Three Kings.

Although it is generally believed that any one of the three kings is stronger than the strongest super-level powerhouses today, but at that time, except for the three kings, other top-level combat powers were out of gear, and super-level powerhouses were far stronger than those who did not. up now.

In the view of Marquis Nasri, their current team almost represents the strongest combat power of mankind, almost invincible.

Even in order to deal with the possible double-forbidden areas, they have made full preparations—after all, the nine-super-order investigation team that investigated the black mist in the western realm before, although suffered heavy losses, some people still came back alive. There is a lot of knowledge about the fighting power and fighting methods of the abyssal creatures and the so-called abyssal gods and demons.

Therefore, many lords are equipped with "area lock magic circles" manufactured by "creators" or other brands that independently develop "magic magic circles", or other magical equipment with similar functions.

The principle of this kind of equipment is actually very simple and crude. It is to specialize all the specific magic elements in a small area in a short period of time, so that it can form a "barrier" that isolates it from the surrounding magic element environment.

In this way, even if the surrounding area enters the forbidden magic field, the magician in this enchantment can still call a certain magic element to cast magic.

Although compared to their heyday, the strength of magicians will be discounted, but dozens of hundreds of super-level magicians, and even more top-level magicians, casting spells at the same time, this kind of power is very scary even if it is discounted .

As long as it lasts until the forbidden magic domain is broken, the function of the "enchantment" has been completed.

Soon, the black mist spread to every corner, and it was already difficult for people in it to see the scenery five meters away, and any lighting magic seemed to be ineffective, unable to completely penetrate the strange black mist.

No one is lucky anymore, everyone understands:
They ran right into the abyss!

(End of this chapter)