Translator: Exodus Tales Editor: Exodus Tales Laurist did not care what the second prince thought. Even if the second prince had become the new Emperor of the Crisen Empire, Laurist would still do what he had to do. The best way to deal with this was to let the family develop step by step according to the plan. There was no need to change anything because of the second prince's mood.
Seriously speaking, there were many entanglements between Laurist and the second prince. Back then, Laurist organized the northbound convoy to the north to inherit the title and family territory. Although Laurist returned to the family territory early, Fatty Shi, who was in charge of the northbound convoy, was used by the second prince when they passed through the Andinac Kingdom. He helped the second prince, who was on the verge of being exiled, become the regent of the kingdom.
The second prince had used the military force of the northbound convoy to wipe out the rebellious nobles in the kingdom. He had also taken back the authority of the kingdom from his elder brother, the first prince. Finally, he had used the refugees all over the kingdom to force the northbound convoy to a dead end. He was prepared to take advantage of the opportunity to swallow the huge piece of meat that was the northbound convoy. This was also one of the reasons why Fatty Shi, Boddfinger, and the others did not have a good impression of the second prince.
When the northbound convoy had nowhere to go, Laurist returned from the north to find the convoy and reached an agreement with the second prince to cooperate. On behalf of the Norton family, Laurist swore allegiance to the legitimate inheritance of the former Crisen royal family, the current Andinac Kingdom. From the second prince, he obtained the Island of Sirovas as the family's territory.
Then, Laurist led the convoy to cross Egret Lake at night and attacked the Madras Duchy, opening a path to the north for the northbound convoy. The second prince also took this opportunity to conquer the Madras Duchy's Yungesandra province, incorporating this province into the Andinac Kingdom's territory.
In the process of conquering the Madras Duchy, the second prince had intended to let Laurist's northbound convoy stall the second prince's Iberian Kingdom army that had come as reinforcements. He had sent people to tear down the walls of Kebo City and secretly tricked Laurist. But man proposes, God disposes. In the end, Laurist led the convoy to the north without any mishaps.
In the next few years, Laurist and the second prince were busy. The second prince defeated the invading army of the Redelis Kingdom led by the eldest prince and reached a truce with the Madras Duchy. He doubled the territory of the Andinac Kingdom and earned himself the title of the new military master of the Galinthea Continent. They continued to prepare for war, preparing to unify the former Crimson Empire.
When Loriste returned to the North, he first defeated the Grand Duke of the North, Luckins. Then, he had to resist the Magical Beast Tide that swept through his family's territory every winter. In the end, he defeated the second prince who coveted the wealth of the Norton family. After that, he was assassinated by a Great Swordsman sent by the second prince and ended up in the Mountain Barbarian Tribe. After Laurist returned to his family's territory, he sent troops to attack the capital of the Iberian Kingdom, the capital city of Winderbury, and captured the second prince. Then, he established the alliance of the four families in the north. After stabilizing the situation in the north, he prepared to visit the fief of Cirvas Island and send the captured second prince to the second prince.
However, Laurist did not expect that his fief of Cirvas Island would be ruined by the tax officers sent by the second prince. Moreover, some nobles in the capital took advantage of the fact that the Norton family had no time to look after their own territory and allowed their children to forcibly occupy the Ocean View Manor on the island. In addition, some of the subordinates left by the second prince also occupied the most fertile land on the island. In short, it was a lot of trouble. Laurist cut the Gordian knot. He captured the tax officers and the regiment commanders who came to ask for money, imprisoned the children of the nobles, and took over the stubborn village of Falama before heading to the capital to meet the second prince.
At this time, the second prince was training his troops. He used all the wealth of the kingdom to gather an army of 300,000, preparing to unify the territory of the former Crimson Empire with these 300,000 soldiers. He was in high spirits and was proud of himself. After meeting Laurist, he hoped to persuade the Norton family to send troops to help him unify the empire. However, he did not expect that Laurist would place the tax officers, regiment commanders, and children of the nobles who had been captured on Cirvas Island in front of him. It was as if he had slapped him in the face.
When the second prince wanted to cover up for the tax officer who had acted recklessly, Laurist killed the tax officer on the spot. This was the first direct conflict that broke out between Laurist and the second prince. The second prince signaled for the great swordmaster to teach Laurist a lesson, but he did not expect that the great swordmaster would be taught a lesson by Laurist instead. Then, Laurist presented the captured king of the Iberian Kingdom, one of the main culprits of the empire's internal strife, the former second prince of the Crimson Empire. The second prince was overjoyed, and Laurist took the opportunity to escape and leave the capital.
However, the brother of the slain tax officer, the second prince's trusted general, regiment commander Count Aslan, dispatched 5,000 troops to attack Laurist. The second prince pretended not to know. However, he did not expect that the 5,000 troops would be defeated by Laurist and his 500 guards in one night. Even Count Aslan died on the spot. While the second prince was shocked by the Norton family's armed battle, he had no choice but to let Laurist go because the decisive battle to conquer the Redelis Kingdom was about to begin.
After Laurist left the capital, he went to Morent City in order to obtain the formula for the glass. He accidentally found out that the Trade Alliance was preparing to implement the lordship system. Due to the lack of territory, one of the seven giants of the Trade Alliance, the Chikede Merchant Group, set their sights on Cirvas Island. In order to prevent Cirvas Island from falling into the hands of Chikede Merchant Group, Laurist used the formula for the glass to provoke a war between the Trade Alliance and the Telimbo Kingdom. This forced the Trade Alliance to turn their attention to the central and southern parts of the continent, embarking on the path of military expansion.
However, Laurist did not expect that after preventing Cirvas Island from becoming the territory of the Chikede Merchant Group, it would attract the attack of the slave kingdom. In order to take revenge, Laurist led his family's armed expedition to the Haneabada Kingdom, destroying this slave kingdom in one fell swoop. At the same time, he brought the Haneabada Archipelago under his family's jurisdiction.
While Laurist was preparing for the expedition, the second prince did not stay idle. He paid a huge price in casualties. In the harsh winter, he crossed the frozen Cloud Swamp, crossed the Broken Cloud Mountain Range, and the natural barrier of the Great Snow Mountain Range. Miraculously, he appeared at the capital of the Redelis Kingdom, Felix City. The battle was a victory. The king of the Redelis Kingdom, the eldest prince of the former Crisen Empire, was nowhere to be found, and the Redelis Kingdom was destroyed.
This battle shocked the entire Galinthia Continent. Because of this, the second prince was known as the new God of War in the North. However, the second prince was dizzy from the huge victory of this battle. Under the situation where he grasped the strategic advantage, he made a series of mistakes. He blindly used force and refused to appease the former nobles of the Redelis Kingdom. He arrogantly ordered the four dukes of the four central duchies to obey his unreasonable orders. In the end, he forced all parties to unite, causing the troops that the second prince had arranged to the frontline to be defeated one after another. He fell into a long war of resistance.
At this moment, the Visia Merchant Group, one of the seven giants of the Trade Alliance, coveted the rich mineral resources of the Podorg Province, where the capital of Felix City was located, and intervened in this war. As for the second prince, because of his anxiety and the hidden dangers of crossing the Great Snow Mountain, he fell seriously ill and was bedridden. As a result, the daughter of the deceased eldest prince, Princess Carey, united the nobles of the capital to start a rebellion, cutting off the retreat route of the army and the supply of logistics. The army at the frontline collapsed, and the second prince was besieged in the capital of Felix City.
In the face of desperation, the second prince forced himself to cut off his tail to survive. After leaving most of the troops to defend the capital of Felix City, he left the capital with thousands of elite main forces through a secret passage. He prepared to cross the Broken Cloud Mountain Range and return to the Andinac Kingdom. After cleaning up the rebels, he would regroup and make a comeback. However, his luck was not good. On the way back, he accidentally entered the territory of the eldest prince and fought with the private forces of the eldest prince, who was waiting for the opportunity to make a comeback. Both sides suffered heavy losses. Although he killed the eldest prince and his son, who had caused the civil strife in the former Christen Empire, the elite troops of the second prince also suffered heavy losses and no longer had the strength to return to the country to quell the rebellion.
While the second prince was experiencing ups and downs, Laurist, who had returned from the expedition, was vigorously developing his family's territory and reorganizing his army. He was preparing to attack the backing of the Iberian Kingdom, the Fisablon Family, and fight for the dominance of several provinces in the northeast region. However, he did not expect that the missing second prince would suddenly appear in his family's territory and ask for help from the Norton Family, asking Laurist to help him restore his country and regain the throne.
This was the third meeting between Laurist and the second prince. After scheming and scheming, Laurist obtained the authority to govern the provinces of Delemark and Winston from the second prince, making these two provinces the territory of the Norton Family. At the same time, he fought for his allies, the Kemps Family, the Filim Family, and the Shahin Family, respectively. Only then did he decide to send troops to help the second prince restore his country.
Laurist led the family's armed forces to attack the Sidrgrad Province in the winter, destroying the Madras Duchy in one fell swoop. He then sent the family's armed Flying Tiger Army to sweep through the Andinac Kingdom, arriving at the capital, and conquered the capital in one battle. He wiped out the rebellious nobles of the kingdom and helped the second prince regain the throne. At the same time, because of the Norton Family's powerful combat power and outstanding performance on the battlefield, the second prince began to fear them.
After helping the second prince restore his country, Laurist once again set his sights on the declining Iberian Kingdom. He once again led the family's armed forces to attack the capital of Wendel, defeating the God of War of the Plains, Grand Duke Fisabulon, who was preparing to rely on the capital to establish the ruling order of the Fisabulon Family, and destroying the Iberian Kingdom. Then in the southern province, the God of War of the Plains, Grand Duke Fisabulon's armed forces and more than 80,000 elite heavy armored infantry troops from the four central duchies, cutting off the communications between the Fisabulon Family and the four central duchies.
However, the God of War of the Plains, Grand Duke Fisabulon, was not someone with an undeserved reputation. Although he suffered in the southern province, he also tricked Laurist in the Muye Plains Province. Grand Duke Fisabulon colluded with the Barbarian Grass Tribe's army of 100,000 to set up an ambush in the Muye Plains Province, almost completely annihilating the Norton Family's newly formed Hunting Cavalry Corps. This was the first major defeat the Norton Family's armed forces had suffered since Laurist took over.
Just as the alliance of the four northern families, led by Laurist, was preparing to use a blockade strategy to force Grand Duke Fisabulon to admit defeat, making the two provinces of the Fisabulon Family a source of wealth for the alliance of the four northern families. The second prince interfered, using the excuse of patrolling to suddenly enter the Fisabulon Family's territory, and reached an agreement with Grand Duke Fisabulon to surrender. He announced that the Fisabulon Family would return to the Andinac Kingdom, and the second prince even married Grand Duke Fisabulon's granddaughter as his queen, causing Laurist's plan to fall short of success, giving the Fisabulon Family a path to survival.
Then, the second prince plotted to attack the four central duchies, and persuaded Laurist and Grand Duke Fisabulon to send troops to help. In the war to attack the four central duchies, the relationship between Laurist and Grand Duke Fisabulon was also eased. Both sides removed their hostile state, and friendly trade and commerce resumed. Grand Duke Fisabulon expressed that he had no intention of fighting with Laurist for dominance in the northeast, and was willing to submit to the Norton Family's new ruling order in the northeast.
After conquering the four central duchies, the second prince turned his attention to the few former provinces of the Krisen Empire occupied by the Commerce Alliance. With the condition of recognizing the Muye Plains Province as the new territory of the Norton Family, he once again obtained the support of Laurist, sending troops to help, and conquered the provinces of Andvov, Madjik, Podoorg, and Cambona. The Visia Chamber of Commerce, one of the seven giants of the Commerce Alliance, was destroyed. At the same time, the second prince led the Andinac Kingdom's allied nobles to conquer the northwest region, and met up with the Norton Family's armed forces. They gathered nearly a million troops, and the troops approached the borders of the Commerce Alliance with great momentum.
The second prince originally hoped to force the Commerce Alliance to surrender with a million troops, return the two occupied former provinces of the Krisen Empire, and reach a peace agreement. However, he did not expect the Commerce Alliance to use the negotiations to send the Storm Sword Sage to kidnap the second prince and the nobles of the kingdom to Morent City to plead guilty. On the other hand, they sent the Commerce Alliance's armed forces to launch a surprise attack, preparing to catch the Andinac Kingdom's million troops unprepared.
At the crucial moment, Laurist stepped forward and fought with the Storm Sword Sage. Both sides suffered heavy losses, and the Monolith Army of the Norton Family resisted the surprise attack of the Commerce Alliance's armed forces, buying time for the second prince to regroup his army. When the second prince made a comeback, the three field armies of the Norton Family cooperated with the second prince to annihilate the Commerce Alliance's main armed forces.
This was perhaps the closest relationship between Laurist and the second prince. The second prince maintained enough respect for Laurist, who had been promoted to a Sword Sage. Therefore, the Andinac Kingdom's allied forces under the command of the second prince fell into a bloody battle that lasted for three years in the Mana Hill Plains and suffered heavy losses. When they asked for help from Laurist and offered the barren province of Yungesandra as a reward for the Norton Family's new territory, Laurist agreed to send troops.
Then, the Norton Family's North Sea Fleet destroyed the Commerce Alliance's Invincible Fleet, attacked the Hidden Gold Bay, and landed in Morent City. They reversed the situation of the Mana Hill Plains and forced the Commerce Alliance's armed forces to retreat from the Mana Hill Plains. Laurist had saved the fate of the remaining forces of the Andinac Kingdom's Alliance Army and independently commanded the Norton Family's armed forces to defeat the Trade Alliance's armed forces in Brewia City. After three years, the Trade Alliance was torn apart, and they finally bowed their heads in defeat.
However, without the Trade Union as an external enemy, the second prince had ascended to the throne that he had always dreamed of and restored the name of the Crimson Empire. The fear of the Norton family and the four families alliance in the Northern Region had once again gained the upper hand. Even though Laurist had become the empire's Sword Sage, the second prince was still loyal to the Norton Family's strength. On the day of the ceremony, the second prince's suggestion to reduce the number of soldiers was just a test for Laurist. Laurist was sure that the second prince, who had become the emperor, would not rest. He would come up with many other methods to test the patience of Laurist and the alliance of the four families in the north.
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