Ryan and Brandt explained that he has enough patience and tolerance for his Guardian Knight.
The young man who was surrounded by snowflakes grew up little by little. After coming to this world, Brandt experienced a completely different life from before.
In the old Aixnier, he only went out to find food and listened to the village elders telling stories from more than a hundred years ago, but he had never seen a different world outside of ice and snow.
Until he came to Frozen Earth Territory and came to this world, he experienced a lot and saw a lot, but it was precisely because of this that the young man became silent because he needed to adapt to a different world.
But he has never changed his heart. His original intention is still the Brandt who was discovered by Ryan in the village. He is growing and maturing, but he is still him.
Brandt is different from Brock and Eteria. Those two brothers and sisters can still talk. Of course, they are more tireless in blacksmithing.
"If it weren't for what Count Weiss did, maybe Natives in this world would have become our friend, but now that it has happened..."
Ryan pointed at the Nativess that Rosen was killing.
"They have never thought of distinguishing us. In other words, since Count Weiss captured all their clansmen, they have been dead. The only thing left is their hatred for us."
"What we can do is to strengthen ourselves so that one day we will not become like them."
"Norris Continent, which is our world, Brandt, you probably don't know much about it yet."
"I just heard Harrington say that South is very warm and West Coast is very prosperous."
Brandt truthfully said that he had been to Imperial Capital and what he saw along the way was very different, different from Aixnier, different from Frozen Earth Territory, everything was different.
"But do you know the truth?"
Ryan said:
"One thing I have only recently figured out is that the prosperity of the empire and the prosperity of the Norris Continent actually have a huge reason behind it."
"That is to support Norris Continent. The empire is never the resources of a world or a land."
"But many worlds."
"Just like Frozen Earth Territory, without Otherworld Plane, Frozen Earth Territory would be very poor and miserable."
"Count Weiss is like this, that Count Winter is like this, and the former Soron Count Family is still like this."
"Northwind Province is like this, the empire is like this, and the entire South land is like this."
"Many Otherworldly Planes have been found by powerful supernatural beings. Those Legendarys can even turn divinity into their own power. This is a world, but it is a land connected to many Otherworldly Plane resources."
"Do you think you are the only outsiders? No, the people living in this world are never just people from one world, but Natives from many worlds."
"Some of them even still exist as nobles."
"It's just that you don't know, because their arrival may be traced back a hundred years ago. Many of the people you hear and see now may be the descendants of those who came to the Norris Continent from Otherworld Plane."
"After all, this is because Pan-Planar War of Deities faces the inability to survive and the erosion of Winter's Chill. It has never been one or two worlds."
Ryan knew a lot about this Northwind Province war and heard a lot. Naturally, he also guessed a lot.
For example, Winter Count Family, as a great aristocrat from South, did he abandon all his roots in South after coming to Northwind Province?
How big would the fiefdom of an earl noble be? Count Winter gave up just for Northwind Province's position as governor?
It's impossible, but Ryan has never heard of the Winter Count Family having any industry in South.
Then the only answer is, they don't have land.
He was able to come to Northwind Province without land, because when he got here, the empire promised to grant Count Winter a fief after the war was won.
Why would a great nobleman have no land? There are two possibilities.
One is that Count Winter comes from the two-thirds of the land covered by ice and snow to the north of the Norris Continent. It is the nobles of those lands. The other one is from Otherworld Plane.
Ryan is leaning towards the second possibility, because apart from being related to some nobles in the empire, Winter Count Family has no communication with South, that is, the South nobles who are outside the empire.
The circle of nobles is very small, even the former Norris Continent. The nobles of the most the North kingdoms may be related by marriage to the most South nobles. As long as there is such a thing, it is possible to establish a relationship.
As long as the nobility is passed down long enough, it will be a huge spider web. Many corners of the spider web may not be useful, but there will always be times when spiders will crawl into those corners.
And Winter Count Family is indeed not a noble with a simple background. They have been passed down for a long time. Since it has been a long time, but it has not formed a spider web, what is the answer?
It can only be that they haven't had time to weave their own cobwebs in a new world.
A Count Winter is like this. How many nobles like Count Winter are there in the empire? There will definitely be no less.
Especially in the provinces on the northern border of the empire, I am afraid that many nobles have such origins.
As Ryan's vision and knowledge became wider and wider, he gradually realized that this kind of thing was not surprising.
He was even thinking about another thing.
That is Marquis among the fifth-class nobles.
Among the fifth-class nobles, Marquis are special because they all come from Imperial House. As many provinces as Northwind Province are in the empire, there are as many powerful Marquiss. Every Marquis is a member of the Columbus Royal Family. They are the eyes of Imperial House, staring at every province.
This also leads to the fact that among the five nobles of the empire, the Grand Duke is the highest, but the next one is the earl. This is also the reason why some earls are difficult to be promoted to Noble Title, although their strength is close to that of the Grand Duke.
Why is Columbus Royal Family so powerful? As the only surviving powerful imperial masters among War of the Deities Across Planes, is it difficult for them to make a fortune from war, Deities's fall, and Otherworld Plane's wealth?
Moreover, Imperial House is powerful, so isn't Four Grand Dukes powerful?
Grand Duke Mayers defeated the entire Northwind Province, and was sent away by baskets of Pioneer Order without falling out with the empire. Why?
Because in Grand Duke Mayers's opinion, these profit losses are not enough to cause a falling out. Simply put, it is not worth falling out with the empire and Imperial House over this matter.
In the same way, isn't Count Clayton Family, who was born in Ryan, powerful? Do you really think that Count Clayton brought thirty thousand Blaze Dragon Knights straight into Northlands and killed Mammoth-folk territory because of Legendary and Dragons?
Where did their strength and wealth come from?
This is not difficult to guess.
As the circle Ryan enters becomes larger and larger, many truths become self-evident.