Thundercloud County, Count Weiss's castle is built on the highest mountain in the county.
When an army of ten thousand arrived, Count Weiss couldn't resist even if he wanted to.
Why are there only ten thousand left in the army?
Of course it's because it's spring plowing time now, and the extra soldiers have gone back to their homes to farm.
Among the ten thousand people, there are more than two thousand Zero Crossing Prefecture soldiers.
Wyvern Knight Order and Dragonblood Warrior Legion, plus hundreds of Knight Retainer from Ryan, are an army of 10,000 people who boarded Thundercloud Mountain.
The imaginary resistance did not appear. Count Weiss accepted his failure and waited for the arrival of the nobles on this mountain peak.
Also waiting are the nobles of Thundercloud County. Their faces are very ugly, but they have to come, because only by clarifying the matter here will they not bear the serious crime of colluding with the Church.
Of course, the reason why he looks ugly is because he will pay a lot of benefits.
After losing the war, losing his wife and losing troops, of course it was impossible to smile.
Ryan feels that these nobles hate Count Weiss now.
"Love·Count Weiss, as a noble of the empire, secretly colluded with the Church, what else do you have to say?"
The first time they met, Count Winter already pointed out that he was the governor of Northwind Province, and only he could question a count.
Count Weiss looked at the nobles who appeared with a sneer.
"Which noble law in the empire says that you cannot trade with the Church?"
Count Weiss killed something, and the collusion between the nobles and the Church cannot be said openly.
After all, this is a war between theocracy and Royal Authority. Even the nobles of the empire may openly oppose the Church's beliefs, because they are also devout believers of Lord of Dawn.
This is the change brought about by the real existence of Deities. The nobles can only oppose the Church in certain matters, not the belief itself.
Naturally, the so-called collusion with the Church cannot be used as a reason to convict.
Even if a war breaks out between the two sides, it must be justified and cannot directly oppose the other side's existence.
"Haha, Count Weiss, you'd better leave this to Council of Elders and Imperial Court. My mission is just to send all of you Weiss Family there."
Count Winter smiled proudly, he was the winner of the war. No matter how Count Weiss argued, it could not change the fact that the war failed and the Church colluded.
The nobles have many ways to arrange various responsibilities on Count Weiss, so that he can "reasonably" plead guilty.
Sure enough, after hearing this, Count Weiss's expression inevitably changed.
According to what Count Winter said, Count Weiss is bound to have several endings, that is, the death of some people, especially direct descendants. With the current tense relationship between the empire and the Church, the empire must kill chickens to scare monkeys, and Weiss Ducal Family will shed blood into a river.
The remaining part will be exiled, exiled in those worlds without any life, which have been completely covered by Dead Silence and Winter's Chill because of War of the Deities Across Planes, and die alone. Among them, Count Weiss himself should be included.
There are still some who will survive and inherit the honor of the Weiss Family and become Wandering Nobles, or continue to inherit Noble Title without a territory.
but! Regardless of whether it is Wandering Nobles or the short-selling Noble Title or Count Weiss, there is no guarantee that it will not be his descendant.
There is a 90% chance that that person has the blood of the Weiss Family, but has no relationship with the current Weiss Ducal Family.
Why? Because everyone is a noble, more or less related to each other.
For example, Count Winter and Count Weiss, a boy from Count Winter's family stood up and said that his ancestor so-and-so came from the Weiss Family. Then after checking, it was indeed like this, so does he also contain the blood of the Weiss Family?
Since it is, is there such a one-in-a-ten thousand chance of inheritance? Especially when people in the Weiss Ducal Family are dying and disappearing, is this probability getting bigger and bigger?
At that time, that boy decided to restore the glory of his ancestors and have the courage to assume the responsibilities of the nobility and the noble qualities of the nobility. Then Count Winter expressed his appreciation for this and strongly supported it. Then the boy changed his name and became the new Count Weiss, or Viscount.
Weiss Family is still there, but has anything to do with the current Weiss Family?
The inheritance of bloodline, Count Weiss will never allow Weiss Family's bloodline to be tarnished.
He stood up and walked towards the study behind him.
"You come with me."
Of course, it was not just Count Winter who followed, but also Count Soron and Baron Ryan.
Not because of the promotion of status in this war, but because Ryan represents Zero Crossing Prefecture and is the spokesperson of many nobles.
In the study, there were only four nobles and a short Catfolk.
"Noble Lord, please spare your life. I did everything. It was I who assassinated Viscount Dragoon and Viscount Dragoon's eldest son. It was also me..."
Catfolk knelt on the ground and cried bitterly, taking everything that Count Weiss had done into his own hands, but none of the three nobles present would care about this.
Count Weiss doesn't care either.
After they listened quietly, Count Weiss spoke.
"Hector has taken some people to West Coast, where he will live as the heir of the Weiss Family and will never come back."
The count's eldest son did not appear in the subsequent war. As the bloodline fire of the Weiss Family, he lived as the loser Descendant, waiting for the long future to find an opportunity to restore the glory of the nobility and the glory of the family.
Count Weiss said it outright, because it cannot be hidden, the nobles who live in the sun are nobles, and those in the shadows are just mice.
Since he wants to inherit Weiss Family, there is absolutely no way he can hide it.
"Haha."
Count Winter just smiled and said nothing.
Count Weiss doesn't care either, he knows that this is not what these nobles want.
"As a reward, everything in Earldom belongs to you, and I will share the wealth of the Weiss Family with you."
"They would have been ours."
Count Soron's old face showed the greed of a hungry wolf.
"Without me, those things would always be marked with the Ves mark."
Count Weiss is not polite either, but what he said is indeed true.
The relationship between nobility and inheritance is destined to be inseparable. As a result, in this world, hundreds of years later, someone will often jump out and point out that the illegitimate wealth in the hands of some nobles actually belongs to another bloodline.
All in all, it's not fair.
"Victory in war requires fruits. The entrance to the Otherworldly Plane I control is on this mountain. I will hand over Divine Key to you."
As he spoke, Count Weiss moved the huge fang over from the bookcase behind him.
Ryan was surprised, I thought it was a decoration just now.
"In addition, I will also help you identify those nobles who were also involved in the transaction with the Church."
This sentence completely blocked the hope of the Weiss Family's bloodline returning to Thundercloud County in the future, and finally made the eyes of several nobles light up.