I really just want to be a big lord

Chapter 263 Shuffle

This place is not far from the holy capital, but it is not close.

According to the plan, they will arrive at the holy capital in two days, and if ordinary people drive with all their strength on ordinary horses, they will arrive almost before the sun sets today.

In fact, they thought that Shengyou Palace, the holy capital, would send people earlier, and they might even send the Punishment Knights to stop it.

In fact, they are already ready to fight against the punishment knights of Shengyou Palace. In their view, if Mr. Wally, who has mastered certain core abilities, does not make a move, then the current punishment knights of Shengyou Palace will not be able to fight at all. May be capable of fighting them.

Not to mention the present, but without the previous tragedy in the Holy Capital, when the strength of the Shengyou Palace in the Holy Capital was not damaged at all, when confronting head-on, head-to-head contract servants and disciplinary knights duel, they are all crushed here.

However, the one sent by the Holy City was not the army of the Punishment Knights, or even a top-level or super-level powerhouse, but a lonely messenger.

"Which one is Grand Duke Saltman?" The messenger officer was just a junior aura practitioner. After being brought over, he got off his horse and strode over with a letter.

Although the person standing in front of him is either a super-level wizard or a super-level martial saint, and even the person who brought him here is a top-level holy spirit guard, in addition to the Duke, Marquis and other top lords of the Holy Blessed Alliance, but this A young man wearing disciplinary knight-style armor with only elementary aura strength showed no signs of timidity.

"I'm Saltman, Lord Pendor asked you to come?" Saltman asked.

He didn't address Elder Pan De, but he still called him "Master Pan De". To some extent, he left some room.

"Elder Pande sent me here, but this letter is a resolution of the Presbyterian Church of the Holy Blessed Palace, signed by Elder Pande and Master Wally. The nomination is received by Duke Saltman. Duke Saltman reads Afterwards, you can choose to show it to other dukes and marquises, and handle it freely."

After the disciplinary knight finished speaking in an unassuming manner, he handed the letter to Saltman.

Seeing the disciplinary knight get on his horse, he was about to leave. Saltman subconsciously stopped him: "Won't you wait a while? Maybe I have something for you to take back?"

But the disciplinary knight smiled and said: "Elder Pan De explained, you will naturally make a choice after reading it, and there is no need for any reply."

Saltman frowned slightly, looking at the punishment knight: "What's your name?"

"My name is Black Wind." The punishment knight said.

Saltman was startled, the style of this name is a bit special.

He still wanted to say something, but after a slight pause, the punishment knight named Heifeng had already rode away.

"This disciplinary knight is too rude. He is talking to a grand duke with such an attitude!" Marquis Nasri said very displeased.

A Grand Duke also thoughtfully said: "This disciplinary knight doesn't look like a disciplinary knight..."

"It's probably a newcomer." A marquis understood what he meant in seconds, and said, "Didn't the disciplinary knights in the Holy City Shengyou Palace almost wiped out the entire army? If it is too late to transfer people from the surrounding main cities, then recruit newcomers to serve as punishment." Knight, there is nothing strange."

"The training route for disciplinary knights is not ordinary. You can't just find an aura warrior outside."

"At this very moment, even the elders have been wiped out, so there is no choice."

"I don't think he is someone who is 'casually found'. Do you think that if you randomly find a novice spirit fighter, you can face so many marquises, dukes, so many super-level and top-level powerhouses, and still look at ease , relaxed and casual?"

"It makes sense. This disciplinary knight is probably not an ordinary person. Could it be that he was a trusted contract servant of some great lord before?"

"Come on, which of the great lord's trusted and contracted servants will be a rudimentary aura?"

"There is another strange thing. The punishment knight didn't react at all when he saw the place where we were standing."

"What kind of reaction can there be? If it weren't for the Eye of the Sky before, we wouldn't be able to see that this side is actually a big footprint."

"But he came from a high place, so he can definitely see it."

"Could it be that they sent someone over immediately after the black mist dissipated, because they knew what we saw!"

"What are you thinking? If he came from the holy capital, he would have to leave at least half a day earlier. How could they predict it in advance..."

"What if they could predict it in advance?"

"Impossible, absolutely impossible!"

"The situation in the holy capital seems to be more complicated than we expected."

"Don't you all have informants in the holy capital, do you all have sources of news, haven't you been sending back news all this time, is there anything unusual?"

When the several lords discussed the behavior of the disciplinary knight one by one, most of their eyes and attention were actually on Grand Duke Saltman, or to be more precise, when he was watching on the letter I was writing.

Saltman is also very clear about this, and he knows that if he hadn't experienced the black fog first and truly felt the despair from the "falling from the abyss", in the situation just now, these marquises and dukes would definitely reprimand him directly The disciplinary knight who was not very polite was gone.

When the disciplinary knight was there just now, they were all silent. From this point, we can already see some of their attitudes.

Obviously, at this moment, they were all frightened.

The idea of ​​controlling Shengyou Palace before is no longer so strong.If they were given a choice now, whether to continue to the holy capital or turn around and return to the territory, at least 1/3 would choose the latter.

But now Saltman doesn't have the time to think about what these big lords think. The information in that letter is a bit too shocking. This shock is not even inferior to the abyss in the black mist before.

Seeing Saltman's expression of astonishment that could hardly be concealed, and the gesture of holding the letter for a long time, the other lords couldn't help it anymore, stopped communicating with each other, and began to ask directly:
"Grand Duke Saltman, what did the letter from the Holy Capital say?"

"That's right, Grand Duke Saltman, didn't that disciplinary knight say that this letter was a joint decision and signed by Pendor and Lord Wally?"

"Yeah, Grand Duke Saltman, don't watch it alone, take it here and let everyone watch it together."

If it was normal, even if Saltman wanted to show them such semi-threatening words, he would definitely not be very straightforward, and he must take the initiative back in terms of momentum.

But now, he no longer cared about these things, and directly handed the letter to Marquis Nasri who was closest to him.

Although according to the habits and etiquette of the nobles, generally this kind of letter that needs to be read by everyone should be passed on according to the rank of the title, and then read one by one before showing to the next, to be decent.

However, by handing the letter directly to Nasri, Saltman has already crossed this set of "rules". The other lords have also realized the importance and impact of the content of this letter, and they don't care about decency. He directly leaned over, gathered around Nasri, and watched with him.

"Let's talk somewhere else."

Saltman said with a long sigh.

Including Marquis Nasri, several great lords who had already read the contents of the letter immediately understood what he meant when they heard this, and didn't say much.

After a while, all the lords got together, and the nearest of their trusted and contracted servants was 20 meters away, and an energy barrier was set up around them to prevent the sound from being transmitted out of this space.

None of the forty or so great lords had contracted servants, and after reading the letter, they all understood why Saltman did this.

"If what this letter says is true, then we probably have no other choice." Saltman said while holding the "Letter from the Holy Capital" that came back to him again.

The expression of each lord is not very good, some are sad, some are dignified, and the state seems to be worse than when the black mist just ended.

But this is actually understandable, because the things mentioned in this letter are really shaken to the "fundamental" things for these lords:

The letter stated that the invasion of the abyss has affected the core of the Holy Blessed Alliance - the soul subordination contract, and all connections based on the soul subordination contract, such as the soul imprint will, etc., may become invalid.

what does this mean?
Once the soul subordination contract expires, once the lord loses the control over life and death over the contracted servants, let alone go to the holy capital to seize the power of the Holy Blessing Palace, it is their own safety, and whether they can guarantee it will be a question mark.

Since their birth, contract servants have established an indestructible master-servant relationship with the lord through the soul subordination contract, which has been an "objective condition" that exists as a matter of course like magic and aura.

Although the contracted servants under these lords, whether they are top-level, super-level, middle-level, elementary-level or even the most ordinary servants, usually seem to be loyal and loyal to all orders, even if they let They gave their lives to protect their lord, and most will do the same.

But if there is no soul subordination contract, will these contract servants still be so loyal and obedient?No lord can be sure.

"Could you be lying to us?" said a duke.

"Or...is this actually a threat?" Another duke guessed.

Instinctively, the two great lords who had already stood at the top of the nobles of the Holy Blessed Alliance were unwilling to believe the information revealed in the letter.

"Probably not. Even if you want to coerce you, you won't use this method. The soul subordination contract is the cornerstone of the Holy Blessed Alliance... If Pender really wants to threaten us with this, he might as well threaten Lord Wally directly." Sa Altman shook his head, crushing their hopes.

Marquis Nasri thought about it: "So... Master Wally didn't do anything before, let us reach the holy capital all the way, because he no longer has the ability to control the core operations involving the soul."

"It could also be that he didn't feel the need to stop us," Saltman said.

The lords all understood what he meant. Yes, if the soul subordination contract is at risk of becoming invalid, then the struggle for power, the position of elders, and the authority of Shengyou Palace will all become less important all of a sudden.

According to the letter, the Holy Blessing Palace was originally considering calling all the grand dukes, even the great lords at the level of the marquis, to the Holy Capital Holy Blessing Palace to discuss, and to report that the Holy Blessing Palace and the entire Blessing Union have never been seen before. most serious crisis.

So the letter also lightly skipped their behavior of "arriving the army at the Holy Capital" this time, and only asked them to enter the Holy Capital before sunset tomorrow, and Pender and Wally would wait for them at the Holy Blessing Palace.

The letter clearly stipulates that each lord can only bring at most one contracted servant of the top level or above into the city. In addition, if the magic circle attendant wants to enter the city together, then the magic circle costume must be removed and cannot be worn on the body. .

The letter didn't say what would happen if he didn't comply with the requirements of the higher authorities, didn't follow the rules of the higher authorities, and didn't go to the Holy Capital to meet Pender and Wally at the Holy Blessed Palace before the sun went down tomorrow.

But from the posture of the disciplinary knight who delivered the letter just now, he didn't wait for a reply immediately, and he just left, we can guess a thing or two.

In the end, after some deliberation, the forty or so great lords chose to follow the requirements of the letter, and only brought one contracted servant, none of the magic circle demon servants, and even only one or two servants. name.

In order to ensure that they could reach the holy capital before the sun went down the next day, they did not stop until late at night to rest.

But even if they are all light and simple, they are still a convoy of more than 40 luxury carriages, and they are still very eye-catching when they enter the holy capital the next day.

When they were three or four kilometers away from the city, a team of more than 20 disciplinary knights came out to pick them up, clear the way and guard them.

To some extent, it also avoids some troubles.

After entering the city, the disciplinary knights didn't take them to settle down first, so they directly led the convoy all the way to Shengyou Palace.

Saltman watched the situation on the side of the road through the car window all the way, frowning.

Judging from the situation in the city, it seems that everything is as usual, and the shops and pedestrians on the road are not much different from the last time he went to the Holy Capital.

But faintly, he could feel a sense of panic in the whole city.

When they arrived at Shengyou Palace, no matter whether they were the Marquis or the Duke, they naturally had to get out of the car and walk.Whether they were servants or contracted servants, they were all led by the discipline knight to the other side, waiting for a rest.

Originally, several lords were still hesitant. After all, they had completely given up the purpose of coming to the holy capital before, and even handed over their own life and death to Pan De.

However, seeing that Saltman calmly let his contract servants and punishment knights leave, those lords finally chose to obey.

Saltman looked at their hesitant and apprehensive expressions, feeling a little disdainful in his heart.

Those who are still hesitant at this time obviously haven't figured out the situation—from reading the content of the letter sent by Shengyou Palace, knowing that the soul subordinate contract may be threatened by the Dao and may become invalid, they have not understood the situation. It should be understood that, as nobles of the Holy Blessed Alliance, they have no choice.

The 45 great lords were led by five disciplinary knights, passing through the corridors and aisles in the Holy Blessing Palace, passing through the buildings, and going straight to the depths.

To the surprise of these great lords, they even passed a building ruin, and their destination was at the end of the ruins, the only relatively well-preserved main hall.

It is the "Holy Alchemy Hall".

After the great lords stepped into the "Sacred Alchemy Hall", they saw two lords appearing here, which surprised them a little.

One is Steelheart Marquis Joy Steele of Yulang City, and the other is Earl Kaios Lee of Valley City.

But what surprised the lords even more was that both of them just nodded their heads indifferently to them, and didn't say hello much.

The lords are a little puzzled, why are the two of them here?And, aren't they deadly rivals?
Saltman pays more attention to Kaios, and has been looking at him from the corner of his eyes. There is an inexplicable feeling that Earl Kaios seems a little careless, as if the 45 great lords who walked into the "Sacred Hall" , not a group of marquises and dukes with higher titles than him, but just a group of servants who came in to arrange the hall.

Saltman was hesitating whether to ask Marquis Nasri to test Kaios, Lord Wally and Pande Bocano, the only elder of the Holy Blessing Palace, walked into the "Sacred Alchemy Hall" at once. The attention of all the lords is attracted to the past.

However, Saltman glanced around and found that Kaios was still in a lazy and even absent-minded state.

It seems that it is not carelessness, but loss of soul?

Saltman guessed that Kaios probably also got the impact of the soul subordination contract, so he fell into worry and panic, so that he didn't care about them, the big lords.

The marquises and dukes in the Holy Palace are all the top lords, most of them have been to the holy capital, and they have friendship with at least one elder.

Especially the duke, the duke must come to the holy capital, and basically he has stayed in the holy city for a while, and has seen Wally Frederica, the No. The "leader" of the alliance.

But in the past, the great lords knew more about the elders of Shengyou Palace and had more contact with them.Everyone's so-called factions basically revolve around the elders.

Regardless of whether it is Wally or the previous "Leader", although the nominal power is the highest, but because they basically do not participate in daily affairs, it is difficult for these great lords to have the opportunity to establish a relationship with the "Leader". are relatively unfamiliar.

"The Holy Bless Alliance has reached a critical moment of life and death."

As soon as Wally opened his mouth, the entire atmosphere in the Sacred Alchemy Hall became tense.

But then he didn't say anything else, but glanced at Pan De, who nodded respectfully to him, stepped forward, and first briefly explained to all the great lords the "Abyss" incident that happened in the Holy King's Hall. coming".

Although there is not much difference between these passages and the news that the lords inquired before, and the situation reported by the Shengyou Palace, the lords have just passed the ruins of the Holy King Palace and stood at the place where the incident happened. The core, listening to these words again, the feeling is different.

What's more, they just encountered a black mist yesterday, an abyss descended, and saw with their own eyes the terrifying demon god who almost wiped out the world with one step.

And after talking about what happened in the Holy King's Palace that day, Pan De continued to mention the several "falling abyss" around the holy capital after that.

Seeing the strange expressions of the great lords, Pan De said again: "I know that you all have news channels from the Holy Capital, but the location where the abyss descended a few times was not in the Holy Capital, and we have blocked the specific situation, so you No news was received."

Several great lords were shocked. This sounded an understatement and seemed very normal, but they all understood that this was telling them that Shengyou Palace still had a strong control over the Holy Capital, and even they were in the Holy Capital. The news channels and sources are all under the full control of Shengyou Palace. Whether they can get news and what kind of news they can get is up to Shengyou Palace.

On the other hand, these words are also telling them that the threat posed by the coming of the abyss is much more serious and urgent than they thought before.

"What we can be sure of now is that the coming of the abyss will interfere with or even completely destroy the existence basis of the soul subordination contract. Although the soul subordination contract has not been destroyed yet, as the frequency of the abyss coming is getting higher and higher, the passage of the abyss may sooner or later It will be established, and the invasion of gods, demons and monsters from the abyss is difficult to avoid. Therefore, in order to avoid the termination of the soul subordination contract after that moment comes and bring chaos, we need to make preparations in advance." Pan De said slowly.

His voice was not loud, but every word hit their hearts like a heavy hammer.

"Abyss... Can't it be enough if we don't let the abyss invade? We can't just give up, we have to fight, we have to fight!" a marquis couldn't help shouting.

Immediately, many marquises echoed their voices. For them, even if they had experienced the abyss in the black mist just now, and had been "educated" by the incomparably shocking big feet, if they had a choice, they would still prefer it. She is willing to face the powerful invasion of the abyss, but does not want to face the situation where the soul subordination contract is completely invalidated.

But Pan De said very directly: "How to fight? How to fight? We don't know how the abyss descends, or where the source of the black mist is. who."

"Then what should we do now, we can't just sit and wait for death?" asked a lord.

Saltman looked past Pender, looked at Wally behind him, and said, "Have there been a solution for Shengyou Palace?"

Wally didn't speak, and it was still Pender who answered them:
"Originally, Master Wally and I were thinking about how to tell the lords about this matter. It just so happened that you came to the holy capital this time, but it saved a lot of time. We are going to take the initiative to terminate the soul subordination contract. In the future, the Holy Blessed Alliance will no longer have any Soul affiliation."

As soon as these words came out, the lords of the Holy Refining Hall immediately "exploded".

Looking at the anxious and angry lords in the Holy Alchemy Hall, Keos stood in the corner, but felt a little sleepy.

After completely controlling the "Soul Well" and the spirit body world supported by the "Soul Well", and completely erasing the consciousness of the Holy King Fabianti from it, Kaios has pinched the entire Holy Spirit in a sense. Heart of Woo League.

He definitely wants to change the social structure of the Holy Blessed Alliance based on the soul subordination contract. It is necessary to liberate the power potential, production potential, and creative potential of human beings in this magical world.

But how to do it specifically, the way to release the soul subordination contract, is what he focuses on.

Directly rescinding the soul subordination contract in a simple and rude way will inevitably plunge the entire Holy Blessed Alliance into chaos.

It is conceivable that after the soul subordination contract expires, some contract servants will continue to serve the lord because of inertia or long-standing thinking patterns;

Some contracted servants will kill because of enmity with the lord or other contracted servants or nobles;
Some contracted servants may not necessarily harm their original lords, but whether for ambition, ideals or various other reasons, they will break away from the lord's control, gather other contracted servants and leaders, and try to establish new forces.

And the chaos will be contagious, and more and more powerful contract servants will join the chaos until a new balance is formed, or there are enough powerful forces to smooth out all the chaos and maintain a new order.

The management of the Holy Blessing Alliance by the Holy Blessing Palace has always relied on the self-restraint of the lords at all levels. Although the Punishment Knights are very strong as a single force, if they are used to deal with and control all magicians and auras within their jurisdiction, they will be far away. Not enough anymore.

Kaios is now able to defeat all forces, including the Holy Blessing Palace, but it is not yet possible to manage the entire Holy Blessing Alliance.

Although Kaios himself was a noble lord, he became a baron when he crossed over, and now he is also an earl, and he has always been a great lord, but he has no nostalgia or affection for the nobles and lords, and he disappears as soon as he disappears.

Anyway, those noble lords who have a good relationship with him can definitely protect themselves in the chaos.

But in this kind of chaos, what the nobles lost would not only be titles, territories, assets, and contracted servants, but also their lives.

Those who are harmed will never be just the nobles, there will also be a large number of ordinary citizens who have no magic and no aura, ordinary civilians, and even the contracted servants themselves.

Chaos, always bloody.

Therefore, Kaios decided to use a gentler, step-by-step method to end the soul subordination contract.

Replace it with a new system.

He wasn't going to turn the table over, he was just going to reshuffle the cards and change the whole deck when no one was looking.

The game seems to continue, but both the method of playing the cards and the cards themselves are completely different.

(End of this chapter)