Bechler, King of Faletis, St. James Palace.
Swoosh! Swoosh!
In the Queen's training field, two beautiful figures in shirts and trousers were fighting. The swift swords in their hands pierced through the air like snakes, making a terrifying hissing sound like pythons.
But miraculously, they never touched each other from the beginning to the end.
The seemingly beautiful and grand palace dance was full of hidden dangers, beautiful and deadly under the battle between the power of the Great Knight and the [Rose Swordsmanship].
This was especially true for the female officials who were serving around them. They were all trembling in fear and sweating profusely.
But the two of them still had energy left. Under the 100% control of the body of the Tier 3 Great Knight, the two of them really seemed to be dancing an elegant couple's dance without any accidents.
"Okay, Wella, let's stop here for today."
The whistling sword light vanished, and both sides stopped moving. Only then did the fierce wind that swirled around the two of them disperse.
In the end, Rivenna, who was still quite a distance away from her mother, returned her sword to its scabbard and sighed.
"It's a pity … No matter how strong our swordsmanship is, we will never be able to go to the battlefield."
Isabella took the towel from the maid beside her and wiped the sweat on her forehead, ignoring her daughter's childish thoughts. As a king, it was not wrong to "forget to fight and be in danger", but when it was the king's turn to fight personally, this country was almost doomed.
After becoming a Great Knight and gaining a long lifespan, she still practiced her swordsmanship. The most important thing was not to continue climbing the pyramid of Tier 4 titles, but to never forget the spirit of fighting.
This continent had been in constant disputes since ancient times, and the rulers of the countries all had a consensus: a nation that was afraid of war, closed the country, and coveted peace and pleasure would definitely decline under the attack of other warlike and adventurous nations!
At this time.
A tall middle-aged man with a noble's coat of arms embroidered on his collar came over, bowed solemnly to the two of them, and said respectfully.
"Your Majesty, the latest information has been sent over.
The drought in the Kingdom of Ilia continues to worsen, but the taxes have not been reduced, and the farmers who have lost their livelihoods have begun to flood into the cities. However, the administrative officials at all levels had long been infiltrated by the business aristocrats, and as expected, the conflict began to intensify.
The civilians, including the capital, Viana, had all fallen. These business nobles who had risen from the third-tier civilians understood human nature very well. A huge force had been completely organized. Even the religious privileges of the clergy began to be questioned. The people began to indirectly question the legitimacy of the royal family ruling the country.
However, in the past few years, in order to help the core group of Great Knights to upgrade, the Ilya Royal Family's control over the overseas colonies has declined. They have indeed gone overboard in their plundering of the domestic resources … "
The noble coat of arms on the middle-aged man's body was mainly blue, which represented loyalty and truth, red, which represented the perseverance and fortitude of a soldier, a white horse, which represented the readiness of the monarch, and a unique sunflower on the right.
This was Marquis Hansa, a staunch Knight of the Royal Faction. He was also the person in charge of the Royal Intelligence Department.
"Even now, that old fox, Enrique II, hasn't asked the Alliance for help?"
After listening to the report from the head of the Intelligence Department, Her Majesty's focus was obviously different. She sat on the chair next to her and picked up the fresh fruit juice prepared by the female officers.
"Your Majesty, the palace has been completely sealed off. There is no news at all. We don't even know what's going on with the 'Raging Tide'.
Based on the information from various sources, it should be in August. However, I think that the Ilya Royal Family and His Majesty won't just sit there and wait for their deaths.
He hasn't asked for help yet. Maybe he still has something to rely on? Or even if he wants to ask for help, it shouldn't be at this time when all the conflicts have not completely erupted. "
"Hmm, from now on, start transferring the elites from the fleets. Don't be caught off guard by Shilius like in the naval battle of Benin. Also, remember to be discreet. "
Isabella took a sip of fruit juice and gave the order to mobilize the troops.
"As you command, Your Majesty!"
Marquis Hansa bowed deeply.
In the last war against Dahomey, Faletis and Taylor had almost monopolized the slave trade in the Southern Continent. Under such circumstances, even Shilius, who had been promoted to an Empire, had no choice but to give money to the Tulip Family.
While the kingdom's finances were extremely rich, the top nobles, including him, had also made a lot of money.
The fifty-eight, no, fifty-nine members of the Parliament clustered around Her Majesty the Queen were the true masters of this country.
War was never the goal, but profit was!
.....
The Eternal White Continent.
In the cold wind, Anita and Olivia, who were dressed in female hunting attire, stared at Elvin who was looking at the sky.
It was easy for them to come to the deepest part of the Eternal White Continent, but the problem now was how to find the North Pole in this frozen world, which was the intersection of the planet's rotation axis and the ice sheet.
The bright star closest to the North Pole was called "Cynosure" in this world, which meant: the center of attention, the center of attraction. In fact, it was the North Pole Star in the understanding of normal people.
But the place facing this star was not the North Pole, it was just very close. Similarly, Elvin could clearly feel the North Pole of the geomagnetic field and the real North Pole did not coincide with each other.
In fact.
To determine where the North Pole was, the simplest and most crude method was to use a sextant to measure 90 ° North latitude, but the error of this method was about ± 0.2 ° to ± 1 °, which might correspond to tens of hundreds of kilometers in reality.
A more accurate method was to take a camera and expose it to the stars near the North Pole for a long time, and you would find that the photos were concentric circles. These concentric circles were the star orbit, which was the trajectory left by the stars in the North Pole when the planet rotated.
The center of the concentric circles was the "North Pole".
Then, stand on the sea near the North Pole and measure the altitude angle of the "North Pole". When the altitude angle reached 90 degrees, the position of the measuring station was the North Pole of the planet under their feet.
But now, the polar circle was in the polar period, and they avoided the cold of -70 ° in winter, the polar night, the stars in the sky, and the ultimate romance in the eyes of many — the aurora.
However.
For Elvin, who had the "Data Vision", things were not that troublesome. He just looked up at the sun and determined the position of the North Pole.
He held his sister with one hand and Olivia with the other and activated [King Chariot Translocation].
Whoosh —
In the blink of an eye, they had arrived at a place twenty kilometers away in a straight line.
"Elvin, is this the North Pole you mentioned?"
Olivia looked at the ice sheet that was no different from any other place, and she could not feel the slightest difference.
"Well, at least for now."
Because the ice sheet was always moving, this big ice block might no longer be the North Pole after a few days. This place was almost meaningless, like carving a boat to find a sword.
However, Elvin did not have any other thoughts, he just wanted to verify what Jeros' words meant. In his mind, no matter who it was, there would always be some kind of driving force to do something.
To the adventurers funded by the country, overseas interests and the king's orders were the driving force, but what about a powerful great wizard like Jeros? It could not be purely for hobby, right?
That "unexpected gain" might be one of the driving forces.
Boom —
Elvin took out a stone tablet carved with the words "Tree of Life" from the [Sorcerer's Garden] and placed it on the ground. "Placing a stone tablet to record the achievement" was a common practice for all adventurers, and it was also a ritual for conquering unknown areas.
Suddenly, Elvin patted his head as he thought of something.
He gently raised his hand, and a big hole silently opened up in the five-meter-thick ice block beside him. Then, he threw a stone ball that weighed a ton and was carved with the words "I'm here, I'm here to witness!" and three names into the sea.
Then, Elvin clapped his hands and turned to look at Anita and Olivia. Just as he was about to ask them if they noticed anything unusual, his body suddenly froze.
Because.
At this moment, with the [True Name], the "secret key" that was deeply connected to the origin of the world, he suddenly felt that there was something around his body that was indescribable and illusory, but the spirituality in his body was crazily yearning for something.
Elvin, who had come into contact with many high-end energy "authorities," spiritual origins, and titles, knew very well that this was not some higher-level origin of the world, but a power that was closer to the "destroyer" that all living beings feared.
It was just that the target had changed. It was the attention of the "world's will", and it could even be described as the "world's favor" in Eastern terms!
This was the unexpected gain that Jeros had mentioned.
"There's such a good thing? Is this because of the trend of the great voyage? Great voyage! Great expansion! Great geographical discovery! "
Elvin's expression was very interesting, and many thoughts flashed in his mind.
The meaning behind Jeros' words was not only to explore the barren land that was completely devoid of humans, but also to expand the concept of humans as a whole, so that matter and spirit could be merged together.
For example, in the original understanding of everyone in the Old Continent, the entire world was made up of the Nimansterians and the Peacock Islanders.
Then, with the start of the great voyage era, the geographical territory and the concept of humans were expanded to the Anumar of the Southern Continent and the Atreans of the New Continent.
And in this process, it seemed that the overlord of the sea, Shilius, was at the forefront of every expansion.
"Supreme Knight," "Steel Furnace," "Fire of Thorns," and "Bone Crusher." Except for the Supreme Knight, the ancestor of the Shilius royal family who created the supreme swordsmanship, the other three rose like comets after the start of the great voyage era.
It was because of the unique characteristic of 'Conferred Knights' being able to gain power from their titles. This caused them, or the officials behind them, to not be stingy with the great achievements of 'Conferred Knights' in the past.
It wasn't hard to discover that "Fire of Thorns" and "Steel Furnace" both had great seafarers' backgrounds. Even "Bone Shattering Hammer", who was the most unrefined of the titled Sea Hunters, had traversed the four seas.
Even if he was beaten to death, Elvin would never believe that there was no relationship between the two.
Since they were all Nimansterians, their innate talents should be about the same. Why were the Shilius known to be invincible in close combat and become the overlords of the great voyage era?
In the past, Elvin, like most people, believed that apart from their advanced training methods and management concepts, the most important reason was that they plundered the world's resources to support their own troops.
With sufficient resources, even if the Shilius did not have an advantage in terms of population, they could still cultivate Extraordinary individuals of all levels that far exceeded the number of other families.
However, it was indeed appropriate to use resources to accumulate those below grade 3. However, with such a small population, they were able to produce four Titled Knight. This could not be explained by resources.
From the perspective of this "world's favor", the greatest benefit of the great geographical discovery had already been taken by the Shilius!
Elvin also knew that during the last trend, the "Renaissance."
When the Church and the wizards were at war, a group of demigods in their own backyard sprung up like bamboo shoots after a spring rain due to the human's desire for the "Renaissance" and the "Emancipation of the Mind."
Some of them were directly born from the faith of the humans, while others were promoted from the peak of the Extraordinary. In the short two hundred years, there were more demigods than in the past few thousand years.
Of course, the faith of the humans was one aspect, but the more fundamental explanation was: "Driving the trend, the world's favor!"
Iven glanced at Anita and Olivia beside him, who had sensed the same thing but were not as perceptive as him. He murmured, "Looks like we'll have to become adventurers in the future!"
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