Mythic Card Master: Start with a Knight

Chapter 206 Past and New Phenomena

Inside the collapsed church, the setting sun shone in through the broken glass windows, and the twilight rays of the evening glowed with colorful ripples.

Chu Ming's sleeves fluttered, trees and vines climbed up, moved the collapsed stones away, and cleared a path leading to the courtyard.

The two walked quietly in the desolate courtyard, feeling some subtle feelings in their hearts.

"Wait a moment."

Isabel smiled and pulled Chu Ming to a stop. She came to the courtyard and squatted down under the collapsed tree.

Chu Ming took a wait-and-see look and stepped forward to help.

He squatted beside the girl and scraped away the soil above, revealing the clay pot inside.

Seeing that the clay pot was still there, Isabel couldn't help but raise her eyebrows.

Chu Ming asked curiously, "What is this?"

The girl smiled mysteriously, "I can't tell you now, I'll tell you later."

Chu Ming shrugged, smiled helplessly, grabbed the girl's muddy hands, and washed all the mud away with witchcraft.

The two climbed up the old stairs to the attic.

It's just that after the king's capital was captured by the black wizard, the church was ransacked by the black wizard, and it was a mess inside.

Coupled with the erosion of rainwater and strong winds, the furniture inside has experienced wind and frost, and the skin has peeled off and collapsed a lot.

When Isabel saw the scene in front of her, her eyes inevitably dimmed a bit.

Chu Ming stared at her fair face, he stretched out his hand, and the dream manifested witchcraft, and three phantoms of the dream appeared behind him.

Among them, the dream belonging to the attic of the church continued to enlarge and gradually expanded to reality.

The dilapidated and collapsed furniture in the attic gradually faded away, Chu Ming's dream came to reality, and Isabel's attic temporarily restored its appearance a few years ago.

The girl turned around and scanned the entire attic, the familiar feeling returned, and she felt a sense of peace in her heart.

Her sky blue eyes swayed like pure sea water, with little ripples.

"Thank you."

Chu Ming didn't speak, just smiled and rubbed her long golden hair.

The two came to the window sill and looked at the entire royal capital as before.

Chu Ming's dream landed on the entire capital, and the streets outside the window temporarily returned to their previous appearance, but after all, something is missing in a city without people.

They just stood by the window chatting and reminiscing about the past until night fell and Chu Ming took the girl out of the attic.

After Chu Ming left, the dream subsided, and the attic room returned to its desolate appearance again. The cold moonlight shone in, and the room became quiet.

Taking Isabel out for a stroll, the girl's mood improved a lot.

After returning to the camp, Chu Ming bid farewell to the reluctant Isabel and found Edel who was busy in the camp.

"Why did you come back so early?"

A look of surprise appeared on Edel's face.

Chu Ming spread his hands, "I just came to ask, how do you plan to restore the order of the entire empire next."

Edel felt a little heavy in his heart when he heard this, "This time, the God of Storage has wreaked havoc on the empire, destroying a large number of cities and towns, and the number of people suffering from distortion has increased a lot. Cavaliers and wizards have also suffered heavy casualties."

"I plan to hold a grand funeral first, erect monuments for these dead people, and record their achievements, so as to give comfort to the people who have lost their loved ones."

"Nearly half of the empire has fallen, there are ruins everywhere, and there are dark wizards watching..."

Edel rubbed his temples with a headache.

"Hopefully this funeral will bring people out of the shadows and look forward."

Chu Ming stared into Edel's eyes and said with a smile, "This is not enough."

"If you want everyone to come out of the shadow of the past, there must be enough fresh things to wash away the haze of war."

Edel was stunned for a moment, "What you said is..."

Chu Ming said slowly, "The new king is enthroned."

After hearing this, the man's heart pounded, and he hesitated, "Nalend, you're talking about me, maybe I'm not very..."

Chu Ming patted him on the shoulder, "Edel, believe in yourself, as the world's number one witch cavalry, I believe that your title of king of witch cavalry will spread throughout the world in the future."

"Only you can convince those earls and the people."

Edel asked suspiciously, "What about you?"

Chu Ming smiled, "I'll probably choose to visit the world outside the empire."

"That's right..." Edel sighed, "If I had the legendary power, I would choose to go out and have a look."

"Don't worry, I will clear all obstacles for the empire before going out."

……

The two chatted happily in the camp until midnight, and then called the earls who had been planning to meet Chu Ming to announce the new king.

Not only did the earls not object, but they were overjoyed. They strongly approved of Edel's ascension to the throne, and they seemed a little impatient.

In the eyes of these earls, Edel himself is the earl of the Fengyang Empire, and it is legal to take over the throne of the empire.

Secondly, compared to others, Edel is still more benevolent... er, or easier to fool.

But with Chu Ming around, they wouldn't dare to put eye drops on Edel even if they had ten guts. The legendary deterrence is not a joke.

Moreover, Edel himself is also an epic, and his age is too young compared to these old men and uncles. The future is limitless, and the empire may bloom a new glory in his hands.

After Chu Ming and the earls finalized the enthronement, they planned to announce the news of Edel's imminent enthronement on the day of the funeral, and hold the enthronement ceremony after the order of the empire was restored.

half a month later.

With the help of the wizard, the carving of the stele and the construction of the cemetery went smoothly, and it took only two weeks to complete it.

In the Heroes Cemetery next to the pass fortress, the funeral was held as scheduled.

On the day of the funeral, there was light rain in the sky, and the sound of mourning echoed throughout the cemetery.

Seeing the corpse of a famous knight, wizard or common people buried under the stele, the emotions that had been suppressed for several days were finally vented, and the scene was filled with a sad atmosphere.

After burying the past, everyone present showed worried expressions, full of confusion about the future.

At this moment, Edel and a group of earls stepped forward to announce to everyone that they were about to ascend the throne, and promised to restore order in the empire as soon as possible, severely punish the escaped Earl Dawn, and expel the black wizard who threatened the order.

Edel told the enthronement announcement and all the promises, and then looked anxiously at the people present.

Burrett wiped away the tears from the corners of his eyes in relief, and applauded with the Cavaliers and Wizard of the Tower of Knowledge.

The confused people also came to their senses at this time, their eyes gradually brightened, and they applauded to welcome the arrival of the new king.

Chu Ming looked at Edel with a serious face at the distant pass, smiled lightly and walked towards the southern border.

Three days later, Chu Ming found the Dawn family who defected to the southern border and the wizard who accompanied them.

What's ridiculous is that after seeing Chu Ming coming, the limit-breaking wizard still wanted to use the super-giant demon skeleton dragon vine that Chu Ming taught him to deal with him.

Chu Ming just waved his hand, and the nine forbidden dragon vines surrounded the wizard and his summoned demon skeletal dragon vines like a group of dragons dancing wildly. After a few seconds, only some demon skeletal dragon vines were torn apart. The sap, the wizard completely disappeared from the world.

The members of the Dawn family saw the loss of souls in this scene, and they couldn't bear to resist at all. They knelt down on the ground with Earl Dawn, begging Chu Ming to let them go.

Chu Ming withdrew the magic staff that was given to the wizard, and wiped the sky with his right hand. The huge night covered the sun, enveloped everyone in the Dawn family, and teleported towards the pass.

One day later, the news that Chu Ming had caught Earl Dawn spread throughout the camp. People who hadn’t left the camp gathered together one after another. The church has already cured their deformity disease, but more than a month of suffering from the disease made them hate Earl Dawn to the bone.

At that time, Edel personally sent Earl Dawn to the guillotine. After the switch knife fell, blood spilled all over the ground.

Seeing this, the earls remained silent, and looked at the expressionless Chu Ming and Edel on the stage. They had a new understanding of the new king who was about to ascend the throne.

After the execution, the pass camp began to be dismantled, and the leaders lined up to return to their original territory.

For Edel, the problem of the southern border needs to be solved urgently. They also need to take back the southern border from the black wizard and rebuild the southern border.

It is not difficult to regain the southern border, as long as the cavaliers go south, they can regain the occupied towns from the loose and unorganized black wizards.

The difficulty is how to move the population of the northern border, so that the citizens can spontaneously build the southern border, live in the southern border for a long time, and become the population of the southern border.

And after fighting the black wizard again and again, Edel found that the loose earldom knights were difficult to mobilize at critical moments, and sometimes they would oppose the king's regime.

After realizing this, Edel determined to change the previous aristocratic system and increase the attractiveness of the southern border to the people, so he immediately approached Chu Ming and asked him about other ways to govern the southern border.

In a room in the Pass Fortress, Chu Ming put down the book in his hand and looked at Edel in surprise, "You mean to strengthen the centralization of the empire?"

Edel was stunned for a moment. Although it was the first time he heard the word centralization, he couldn't help but nodded.

"Narend, I just said that it must be right to find you."

Chu Ming smiled, it is indeed a bit more difficult to achieve centralization in this other world.

The Fengyang Empire itself has a very vast territory. It takes more than a month from Earl Coutts leading the news to the king's capital. The king's ability to control the local area is relatively weak, and he can't even manage corruption. This is the reason why the aristocratic system can exist. .

However, it is not impossible to centralize power. We only need to learn from experience to establish a three-level local administrative management system in villages, towns, and provinces. Set up village chiefs in villages, city halls in towns, and provincial departments in provinces. .

It is not difficult to establish a local administrative management system from scratch in the ruins of the southern border. What is difficult is how to solve the aristocratic territories in the northern border.

Once the administrative management system is established in the southern border, the earls and grand dukes in the northern border will naturally feel the impact of the new administrative management system on the aristocratic system. By then, conflicts between the north and the south will be inevitable, and even the rule of the Coutts family will be shaken.

After Chu Ming told Edel his thinking, the man was excited for a while, and finally couldn't help but think about how to solve the problem of the northern counties.

Edel said with a worried face: "What can I do..."

Chu Ming took a sip of tea unhurriedly, "I don't know how many years it will take you to establish the southern administrative management system, and those earls will not react so quickly. To think that the system could pose a threat to their titles."

"By the time the conflicts between the North and the South really accumulate, hundreds of years will have passed, and whether you are still here or not is a problem."

As he said that, Chu Ming chuckled, "Even if it's like this, do you want to take care of it?"

Edel said with a firm gaze: "Fighting the dark wizards for these years, I have deeply realized that the so-called Northern Cavaliers are just a mess, but the opponents we met were even more loose black wizards, and we are not much better than them .”

"If a real imperial knight army can be established, I think it will definitely change the situation of the entire continent."

"But don't make changes, let alone drive away the darkness. Even whether you can catch up with the darkness is a problem."

Chu Ming looked at Edel and said with a smile, "Edel, you seem to have really grown up."

"Really, hahaha."

Edel scratched his head, a little embarrassed.

Even though he was about to ascend the throne, he was still smiling like a naive child.

"Actually, there is no way to solve it..."

Chu Ming thought for a while and said, "What you have to do is to let go of the restrictions on titles, so that members of the earl family other than the eldest son or direct descendants can also obtain titles and territories."

Edel was taken aback, and worried: "In this way, there will be more titles issued by the empire, and the number of nobles will also increase."

The corners of Chu Ming's mouth twitched slightly, "If I remember correctly, the territory of the Fengyang Empire has not changed in the past few hundred years."

Edel nodded suspiciously, not knowing what Chu Ming wanted to express.

"Since the area of ​​the territory remains the same, where do you think the extra nobles will divide their territories?"

"You mean they will divide the original territory?!"

Edel suddenly stood up and came to his senses.

Chu Ming nodded, "For the empire, it is only those powerful earls that are difficult to solve, but as long as the restrictions on titles can be relaxed, the members of the earl family will inevitably divide some of their territories. In the long run, the noble territories will return to fragmented situation At this time, as long as the empire makes a move, those scattered nobles will definitely not be able to resist the iron fist of the empire."

"Wonderful, wonderful, Narende, how did you come up with such a genius plan?!"

Edel's tone became excited, and his eyes on Chu Ming became more and more burning.

Chu Ming shook his head and said, "I just learned from the experience of my predecessors."

"It will take at least a hundred years to fully implement this plan. If you don't want the plan to be suspended, you'd better choose a more reliable successor."

"Speaking of which, you're not young anymore, when will you get married?"

"Ah?" Edel said with a confused expression, "I told you, don't object."

Chu Ming scratched his head, who the hell would make him object.

Edel glanced at him secretly, and slowly said: "Actually, I've taken a fancy to Suraya."

"puff!"

Just as Chu Ming put down his teacup, he sprayed out the tea in shock.

Suraya was the half-faced scarred witch who ran from the south to the north to join him after hearing Rebecca's recommendation when the wizard tower was about to open.

After several years of cultivation by Chu Ming, Suraya has already become an epic wizard, and also followed him to participate in the war with the Northern Cavaliers in the Flowing Channel.

As an epic wizard, her most powerful thing is not her combat power, but her ability to make rune equipment. The production ability is second only to his existence in the wizard tower, and she can independently manufacture rune equipment for extreme witchcraft.

After Isabel's treatment, the scars on Suraya's face have long since disappeared, and she has regained her youthful and beautiful appearance.

Chu Ming coughed a few times, and said badly, "Okay, Edel, when did you pry away the wizard from my wizard tower?"

Edel glanced at him carefully, scratched his head, and said embarrassedly: "Didn't I ask you to help create the rune equipment for the Witch Cavalry a few years ago? You sent Suraya to our family, and I talked to her Just chatting..."

As he spoke, Edel quickly added: "Suraya is really gentle and considerate, and she mended my knight uniform..."

"Okay, okay..." Chu Ming waved his hand to stop Edel, "Are you sure you are related?"

Edel blushed instantly when he heard the words, and it took him a long time to say, "No."

Chu Ming couldn't help giving him a blank look, "I don't object to this, you work hard, but don't let me hear Suraya say you bullied her."

Edel wiped off his cold sweat and said with a dry smile, "Narend, you know me well."

"Okay, go back and discuss with Burrett what to do, I have other things to do."

After hearing this, Edel bid farewell to Chu Ming and walked out of the room.

After Chu Ming was left alone in the room, he took out a crystal box shining with mysterious light from the drawer.

Chu Ming touched his chin, and mentally awakened Carlos inside, "Hey, wake up."

Carlos woke up instantly, "What happened?!"

"Narend, what do you want?"

Chu Ming thought for a while and said, "Are you going to sleep like this?"

"I don't have a hobby of collecting old men's souls. I might throw you away one day."

"Don't, don't, it's not that the spirit is still recovering."

Carlos smiled and suggested, "Why don't you create a body for me so that I can move by myself."

"Do you want to deform your body?"

"No."

Carlos refused very decisively.

Just kidding, he just got rid of the pollution of taboo knowledge, how could he be willing to be manipulated by taboo knowledge again.

Chu Ming spread his hands, "That's it. I will create a deformed body. You have to think about what kind of body you want, otherwise I will throw you away, or put you in the exhibition room to hang up."

"A lich wizard is still very rare, and you can find a job by the way and explain yourself."

Carlos heard the words and yelled: "Narend, don't, what do I have to do with you... Wait, I have it, help me find a puppet body, it's okay if it's broken, as long as it can move."

"Is it the body of the puppet..." Chu Ming thought for a while, "The empire has indeed left a lot of puppet from the magic era, but those are old antiques."

Carlos smiled wryly and said, "It's fine if you can move. At worst, I'll teach myself the knowledge of puppets and build myself a puppet body."

(End of this chapter)