Blue Sword

"Ah sneeze!"

Ask sneezed.

"Have you caught a cold?" Nora asked from the side.

"Maybe it's pollen allergy," Aske said.

"My flowers haven't grown yet, where did the pollen come from?" Nora was speechless.

She continued to water the soil in the flower garden, as gracefully as if she were making tea. Asik sat next to her and looked at her.

Nora was seen silently looking at the flower bed, golden patterns flashed in her pupils, and then sprouts broke out of the soil at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Two leaves sprout from the top of the bud, then a third leaf, and a fourth leaf, and gradually evolve into a slender stem, and finally a small flower bud bulges out from the top.

Then it bloomed beautifully.

Asker watched in amazement from behind, and saw that under the continued stimulation of Nora's ability, the flowers soon withered again, leaving only a dozen seeds in the end.

"What is this?" the leader asked.

"In botany, this is called 'self-crossing.'" Nora picked up the seeds one by one. "It is a method used to create homozygous genomes."

"Right now, I haven't mastered 'acquired inheritance' yet. I can only let these plants repeatedly self-cross for many generations, and then see if I can cultivate purified genetic crops with specific traits."

"Oh." Asik said nothing. Even if he didn't understand, he wouldn't put on an expression like "Yeah, I understand everything" like Hildafa did.

By the way, how's it going with Hildafa?

"The second part of Medea and Mi'er's plan is scheduled to be launched today, right?" Nora picked a seed, buried it in the soil again, and turned around, "Ask, I'm glad you can be here Accompany me on Hearth Island, but is it really okay if you don’t go to them?”

"It's okay, we must give young people a chance." Aske replied, "I believe they can handle this matter independently."

When he was in the team, he would always use this reason to comfort the young players who graduated from the youth training camp and participated in the regular professional league for the first time.

Now it's the turn of the girls of Cangqing Sword.

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The second largest city in Sicily, Catania.

Taking advantage of the Norman power being contained in the outer sea, the local guerrillas here launched a long-planned rebellion. Within a few hours, they defeated the Norman ruling forces in Catania and quickly moved towards Catania. Messages were sent to the remaining Sicilian towns, calling on Sicilians to unite and overthrow the rule of the Hauteville family.

Stand up, enslaved Sicilians! Break the yoke of the Normans upon you!

These inflammatory leaflets and notices were soon sent to the Norman court in Palermo.

"We must send troops to the east of the island to quell the riot as soon as possible. There is no time to wait for William to come back!" Robert said coldly at the family meeting, "Otherwise, once this kind of riot continues, it will greatly shake the order and stability of other towns!"

When he said this, many Normans also agreed. Obviously, everyone is quite self-aware of the "outsider" status of the Hauteville family.

As outsiders, the family's previous ruling order in Sicily was based on a lot of power, violence and killing, forcing the locals to submit to harsh oppression and exploitation.

However, as long as a spark of chaos jumps up and gives hope to these long-term oppressed people, they will not hesitate to jump up and try to fight back - this can be seen from the bandits who have been repeatedly suppressed on the edges of villages and towns in Sicily.

In this harsh and unstable internal environment, the Otterville family cannot show weakness, not even a little bit.

Whether the rebellion in the east can be put down in a short period of time will undoubtedly affect the outside world's assessment of the strength of the Hauteville family, and determine whether the subsequent situation will worsen or even spread to the entire island.

Of course, this was the demand of the Norman lords. Everyone who owned a fief or a manor in Sicily, out of an instinct to protect their own property, strongly agreed with Robert's idea of ​​suppressing bandits.

The other group of people, namely the generals of the extraordinary army directly under William, had much simpler ideas.

We only listen to the instructions of the demigod Sir William. As for you, Robert, you have no right to order us to send troops. This is a matter of scope of authority.

So the people at the family meeting naturally split into two groups. The lords' faction advocated sending troops immediately, while the officer's faction demanded that the troops stay put while reporting to Sir William outside the sea.

The problem is that there is no such thing as GPS on the Norman ships. When the messenger's boat finds the fleet in the vast open sea, and then returns to the port with William's order, how long will the precious battle time be delayed?

For a while, everyone was noisy. Robert, who was sitting on the main seat, had a frosty face, looking coldly at the family members in front of him who were yelling and criticizing each other, and even rolled up their sleeves and prepared to fight, as if they were watching a funny clown show.

"...In the final analysis, the interests of the lords lie in business, land and estates, so there is a need to quickly suppress domestic rebellions; but what the officers desire is to go further on the extraordinary road, so they must choose to follow William's orders .When encountering this kind of situation, their conflicts are naturally irreconcilable."

"Of course, if this dispute continues to drag on, the military faction will definitely have the upper hand. After all, their demand is 'no movement', and delay will be beneficial to them."

The words of the succubus flashed through his memory again:

"Therefore, if there is no decisive force to intervene in this fierce debate, then after a period of tug-of-war, some Norman lords who are tired of the quarrel will definitely choose to leave and return to their territories to start recruiting troops and preparing for arms. They even joined forces to suppress the rebellion.”

"And this is contrary to our goals, because the basis of our cooperation is to reduce the strength of the 'officer corps' loyal to William."

"Therefore, someone must come out and bring order back to the chaos in the meeting."

Thinking of this, Demigod Robert's cold gaze fell on the young man second on the right.

Roger.

The nephew of William and Robert, among the younger generation of Normans, he is the most intelligent and astute outstanding descendant. There are even rumors that William has designated Roger as the successor to the head of the Hauteville family.

With the subsequent promotion of demigods, the loss of sanity caused by law erosion will become more and more obvious, and the recurring visual and auditory hallucinations will gradually become more serious threats. Therefore, demigods will eventually choose a point in time. Withdraw from worldly affairs and begin to concentrate on combating your tendency to lose control.

Considering that William himself had just been promoted to Demigod, which was about 5-10 years away, his training for Roger had already begun. Many extraordinary officers had taken the initiative to express their kindness to Roger in private, while the lords were more cautious, hoping to understand the young man's temperament and skills as much as possible.

On the other hand, Roger is of course eager to gain enough prestige within the family as soon as possible, so as to establish his identity as the "heir" - you must know that the Normans do not have any rituals such as "establishing a prince". Who will inherit the family in the end is just a matter of William's words.

Who can guarantee that the demigod will not suddenly regret it when the time comes?

Feeling Robert's gaze, Roger just smiled and nodded, but did not rush to express his opinion.

Little Fox! Robert cursed secretly and asked:

"Roger, what do you think?"

The debate in the hall immediately fell silent, and all eyes turned to Roger.

"Of course I support quelling the riot as soon as possible." After successfully attracting everyone's attention with the help of Robert's inquiry, Roger smiled and said, "If Sir William were here, he would definitely not allow the rebellion in Catania to continue to spread. .”

Thanks to Little C for his 100 coins, thanks to Midrash for 100 coins, and thanks to Holy Shield for taunting the undead with 1000 coins~