In December 2515 of the Empire's calendar, it was the arrival of the Winter Veil Festival.
Laing spent the winter in the Duke's castle in Zeon this year. He only transferred the Old Guard's halberd battalion to protect himself, but at the same time, an entire team, including Laing's entire palace, and the First Guard's Pike Cavalry Legion were also transferred to Zeon City.
Even though the Winter Veil Festival was approaching, the entire palace of the Knight King's Kingdom did not stop operating. On the contrary, Laing received a steady stream of news from all over the Old World. He held many internal meetings to deal with various matters. Due to the centralization of power, the king had to deal with a lot more matters. However, relying on the establishment of the central civil service system and the formation of the palace's bureaucratic team, Laing had fewer things to deal with personally.
In the morning, in the office of the Duke's castle.
In the morning, Laing of the Knight King sat behind his tall armchair, dealing with various internal affairs. Olica, as usual, stood behind Laing in a black-and-white maid's outfit, waiting on him. Veronica, on the other hand, was wearing a lady's suit and a straight-bottomed skirt. She sat about two meters to the left of Laing, helping him look through various documents and picking out the most important ones for him to look through personally.
It was worth mentioning that Veronica's skirt seemed to be very short, reaching more than twenty centimeters above her knees. She would subconsciously press her hand to the edge of her skirt and look around. At the same time, she would occasionally look at Olica with a little fear. Her pair of long legs wrapped in opaque black fluorescent pantyhose were always tightly clamped together, as if she was afraid of something.
Emilia did not come this year because she was pregnant. Teresa and Aurora also came to the Ice Wizard Tower in the Chalon Forest under the invitation, but they had no time to deal with Laing now. The mother and daughter seemed to be concocting some kind of secret potion, and they rarely appeared. Only Teresa would occasionally come to the castle. On one hand, she was looking for Laing, and on the other hand, she was handing over information.
The Lake Fairy was now in the kitchen, learning to cook from Morgiana. The Lake Fairy seemed to be particularly proud because she had accurately grasped Laing's taste.
Suria was wearing a gray wolf fur coat with a white button-down shirt inside. Like Veronica, she was wearing a gray skirt and black opaque fluorescent pantyhose. After receiving the blessing of Saint Giles, the Knight King was even more holy, unfortunately, it did not have any use for the time being.. The Queen was also reading a document. After reading a document, she looked up at Laing and asked, "Laing, my dear, do you think he's telling the truth? of the day?"
"He has no reason to lie to me." Ryan raised his head from the pile of documents.
After more than a month, all kinds of information came to Laing's desk from all over the Old World.
Of course, the first and most important thing was that Sylvia was pregnant. Although she was a female court official and had very little chance of being doted on, she was indeed pregnant. According to Laing's psionic appraisal, it was a girl, and Laing named it Cecilia.
This made Laing and Suria very happy, but the happiest was still Sylvia. Although the head maid tried hard not to show any flaws, she was so happy that her face was almost distorted.
Sylvia repeatedly asked not to receive any additional rewards or care, but Laing still came up with an excuse to reward Sylvia. Her father, Vincent, was conferred the title of Baron Chalon (honorary title), a manor, a mansion, and announced that Vincent would be officially promoted to Brittany's Chancellor of the Exchequer.
Before this, he was only an agent of the title, and only in the capacity of an advisor.
This guy's status had risen because of his daughter.
Now, Sylvia was sent to the Fairy Tower in the middle of the lake to prepare for delivery. Of course, when Laing did the psionic appraisal for Sylvia, he understood what Olica meant by "training completed". The proud head maid became a little ugly woman in front of Laing. She was stubborn on the surface, but her body was very honest.
The second thing was from Laun. The remnants of the Chaos near Örengrád had finally been gradually cleaned up, and the new army (referring to the later waves of the expedition) had also arrived. Laun had been attacking north and reclaiming Zoshenk until he encountered a very large monster army in the troll kingdom, and was forced to give up on continuing north. Fortunately, the monster army was preparing to elect a new "Troll King", so it was temporarily impossible for them to go south.
Kislöw had entered a terrible winter, and the army was tired and needed to rest. Laun had set up a series of sentries and lines of defense to deal with this threat, but the marshal of the north still needed help from the mainland.
Laing promised to send some troops to help Laun after spring, and Örengrád had to be controlled.
The third thing was from Berliat. Tsar Katarina had led her court, and two teams of Romanov Guards and a team of Brittany knights of the Empire had arrived in Brunswick. She was also working hard to participate in social activities, trying to persuade the Empire to help her "restore" her country. Many nobles of the Empire also believed that the north needed a barrier, but now the Empire did not have the energy and financial resources to help her. Tsar would not receive military and financial support from the Empire for the time being, but small scale funding had been flowing in.
Katarina seemed to have realized that there was a problem in her bureaucratic system, so she began to personally manage the finances, and at the same time continued to promote General Bagramyan, the chief of logistics, to become the Minister of Finance.
The fourth thing was from the Nymphs of the Lake and some information from Talleyrand. There seemed to be a new cult spreading among the elves, and the mysterious ones were spreading the so-called "Seventh Path" everywhere. Unfortunately, very few people responded. Soon, the high elves and dark elves immediately declared this cult as heresy, and immediately began to clean it up and kill it.
The moment the Death God Army arrived, they went around recruiting people. When Clayon heard the news, he complained, "Who would die with you guys?"
The fifth thing was from Baron Frey Harriss. After a few years of recovery and development, and with everyone's attention recently on the invasion of Chaos, the last vampire count, Count Man Frey Von Karstein, had formed an army of the undead in Sylvania. However, no one knew where the army was located, or what Man Frey wanted to do. The cunning Man Frey did not trust anyone.
There was also no news from Arkham. Ever since he learned that the Goddess of War, Archbishop Isabella, had gone missing, Arkham seemed to have disappeared.
According to Harriss' report, after Nefrata's defeat at the Gate of Valaya, the Lemia Blood Clan had suffered a fatal blow. Although a few years had passed, Nefrata had only recovered less than 20% of its army, and they were severely lacking in elites. However, Silver Peak Mountain was difficult to attack, and it had been fortified by various necromancy spells for many years. Furthermore, it was located at the other end of the Roof of the World mountain range. Not only did they have to cross hundreds of kilometers of mountains, they also had to cross a large stretch of desert. It was basically impossible for a mortal army to invade Silver Peak Mountain.
The sixth thing was news from the Empire. Zech's Chosen One, Wilic, used Zech's Demonic Fire to ignite the town of Zeskagler in the Ostermark Province. The entire town was burned to ashes, and he escaped before the Knights of Eternal Light and the Death Skull Army arrived.
The last piece of news was sent by Gail and Alfred Frey. The content was roughly the same. There seemed to be some turmoil within the Church of Justice. One of the two Grand Chanters of the Empire, Esme the Third, seemed to think that Archbishop Vikmar had been the Archbishop for too long and felt that it was time for him to 'retire'. Both sides were trying to rope in the cardinals, cardinals, regional patriarchs, and battle priests. Nur's Grand Chanter, Casmir the Ninth, remained neutral with the support of Emilia.
Laing knew that Suria was referring to the news about the vampire baron, which was the fact that Man Frey had formed a huge undead army. The Knight King complained, "He has no reason to lie to me about this, because whether he does or not, he won't be able to benefit from it. It's unlikely that we will cross the Empire's border and send an army into Sylvania to look for Man Frey. Regardless of whether the Empire allows it or not, as long as Man Frey plays hide and seek with us in Sylvania, we will definitely be dragged down by the undead."
Suria could only nod. Although Sylvania was still part of the Empire's territory, Sylvania had actually been separated from the Empire for thousands of years since Vlad von Karstein legally stole the title of Kurfürst before the Vampiric War.
After the Vampiric War, the Empire seemed to have taken back Sylvania on the surface, but in fact, no one could do anything about the undead corruption and black magic that had lasted for many years. The Grand Duke of Steyr, who had annexed Sylvania, would only think of Sylvania when it was time to collect taxes. Then, he would send an armed tax collection team consisting of demon hunters, battle priests, tax collectors, and a small number of provincial troops to collect taxes.
Even so, most of the time, such an armed tax collection team would not return.
"So we can only pretend that we don't know?" Veronica was not convinced. There were only two goals left in Speaker Garland's life. The first was to avenge the Speaker. She wanted to kill Zainaik, the champion of the Chosen of God. The second was to surpass Margarita in terms of magic and become the greatest witch. So, after the new sorceress's assembly had stabilized a little, Veronica was eager to try everything again. "We can only watch the vampire count and the undead get defeated again and again, but they will always rise again?"
"If only we could just watch." Laing leaned back in the chair. Knight King could not help but sigh. "This is the power of the undead. We are in the light, and they are in the dark. As long as they are not willing to come out, most of the time, places like the Badlands, the wastelands, and Sylvania can't be controlled. I remember the Green Knight once said that Akerhan had built a huge underground military reserve in many places around the world."
"Military reserve?" Suria's interest was piqued.
"That's right. The Lich King has buried an unknown number of mass graves in many secret places, including a large number of monster skeletons and even dragon skeletons. As long as he needs them, he can pull out a huge undead army from these mass graves at any time." Laing nodded. Knight King frowned. "So, what are Man Frey and Akerhan doing now?"
"We can only send more people to investigate. Otherwise, any action will only make things worse."
… I'm sending more people to investigate the dividing line …
Just as Laing said, under the current conditions of not knowing the situation, and the Brittany had just gone through a great expedition, they could only hold back for now and figure out the undead's movements first.
Naturally, this important task fell on Aurora and Teresa's MI7.
After a fierce quarrel with Veronica, the vice-chairman of the Sorceress Assembly, Aurora, angrily returned to the Wizard Tower that she shared with Teresa.
Since Teresa had her own Wizard Tower, and Aurora lost her Wizard Tower in Sky Castle, mother and daughter now shared a Wizard Tower. In addition to the usual training and teaching of apprentices, MI7's work and intelligence gathering were also carried out in the Wizard Tower. Both mother and daughter were responsible for collecting all kinds of intelligence, and the other was responsible for sorting out and inferring, and then passing the information to Knight King and Laing.
This was also the basis for the mother and daughter to always have a place in the upper echelons of Brittany and ensure a certain sense of existence.
However, unlike Teresa, who was already satisfied, Aurora always had a very strong sense of crisis in the depths of her heart, especially with the recent series of events.
She wanted to do something immediately.
* Tap, tap, tap ~ * The sound of high heels hitting the ground sounded from outside the door.
The mature and beautiful figure of Aurora Trovic appeared at the door of the room. At this time, the sanctum witch had changed into a very conservative set of home clothes, revealing only her calves, but it still could not resist the intellectual and cold charm of a ripe peach. Her body was full of charm and exuded a mature fragrance. Her jade legs were white and flawless, her chest was tall and straight, and her waist was slender. Her hair was spread out in a ponytail and draped over her shoulders. Her every movement revealed the elegant and noble temperament of Aurora and her unique intellectual beauty.
"Teresa, are you there?" Aurora opened the door and found her daughter sitting in the study, working. Teresa was dressed in a smart small suit, straight pencil trousers, and beautiful and gorgeous black suede high heels, which set off her slender and tall figure. Her delicate jade feet were wrapped in thin gray silk stockings, hidden in the trousers, and only a little of her feet and ankles were exposed, and there was a faint fluorescent light.
"Mother? What's the matter? "Teresa raised her head strangely.
"Do you have any new information?" A few strange images suddenly appeared in her mind, and in the images appeared Olica's smiling face and some strange black magic tools.
The sanctum witch was about to say something, but her mind became chaotic. Soon she remembered the purpose of her visit, "What did the wood elves say?"
"The wood elves still have a bad attitude, and the Woodland Lord's Council flatly refused the request for a meeting. The wood elves announced that they are now in a peaceful and quiet environment, and there is no need for a meeting with the king," Teresa shook her head, "The people sent to the Steyr and Mu 'te territories have not returned yet."
"I see." Aurora sighed, but the sanctum witch did not leave immediately. Instead, she pulled a chair and sat down, complaining, "Daughter, why don't you say something for your mother? Veronica is Laing's female courtier, and you are also Laing's female courtier. You have to support me!"
Teresa was a little confused, and the sorceress said strangely, "Didn't we have a conclusion on this matter? Mother? Laing's side has already approved Veronica's proposal, so what's there to say about this matter that has already been decided? If you want to fight for it, go by yourself, I won't go. "
"But …" Aurora tried to argue with Teresa again, but Teresa ignored her, "Mother, let's not talk about this matter anymore. Is there anything else?"
"No." Aurora could only give up helplessly.
Aurora and Veronica had a core conflict in the training of witch apprentices, and both sides had a big quarrel over it.
What exactly was the conflict?
It started with the witch's bloodline.
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