When a group of nobles arrived with their troops, there was no one around the corpse.
The nobles looked at the corpse on the ground with extremely ugly expressions. Their atmosphere, which should have been angry, dropped to the extreme at this moment.
"Now... what should I do?"
Baron Freeman said, he swallowed and did not dare to speak loudly at this moment.
They were not sure of the cause of the missionary's death, because the Catfolk assassin only appeared in a few places, Zero Crossing Prefecture, and the original battlefield of Crimsonwing Plains. No nobles from Iron Mountain County were involved in these places.
The reason they were silenced was because the missionary was dead, not by suicide, to be sure, but by murder.
His murderer, no matter who he is, cannot be the Church himself, so the answer can only be the nobles of the empire.
The nobility of Northwind Province.
Are they Iron Mountain County their own people?
No, who could it be?
No matter who it is, they are in big trouble.
"Throw his body as far away as possible."
Viscount Walter gritted his teeth and said, he didn't want this body to be on the edge of his territory.
The soldiers took action, but after moving the body, a line of carved writing appeared on the stone on the ground. There were traces of Divine Art on it, which could not be copied by outsiders.
"Blasphemers of the Lord, heretics who call themselves light."
"Damn it!"
Viscount Walter asked the soldiers to leave the body behind and then return to their castle without looking back.
One day later.
The Church Archbishop, Adriana and the remaining missionaries broke into Thundercloud County again. This time it was no longer a visit. As the Church messengers, they began to question the Marquis of Northwind.
At the same time, in the Northwind County mountain range, in the count's mansion that was easy to defend and difficult to attack, Count Winter looked at the letter in his hand and the news from the distance.
"Count Soron? How could that old guy Miao Ya do such a thing? It was a play directed and acted by that little guy Baron Ryan."
"It doesn't look like it, so the most likely one is the old guy Miao Ya."
"Why?"
Only the three of them knew about the existence of Catfolk assassins. After all, this method was not in line with the image of a noble, and as assassins, if others knew you had assassins, what's the use of them, so they initially told the outside world that all the Catfolk assassins had been killed.
To this end, many corpses of Catfolk were brought out as evidence.
Count Winter is not very suspicious of Ryan, because the body was found in Frozen Earth Territory, which is not a good thing for Frozen Earth Territory.
"Miao Ya This old guy isn't here for me, is he?"
No matter who did it, on the surface it triggered the struggle between Marquis of Northwind and the Church, but under this situation, the political struggle between the nobles was not monolithic.
Marquis of Northwind Since he did not do these things, of course he will be angry with the murderer who did these things.
No matter how you look at him, Count Winter is the one with the greatest motive for murder.
After all, he loses so many Gold Coin every year.
Bang!
Thinking of this, Count Winter couldn't help but hit the table hard.
"No, I have to fight back."
Dragon Mountain County.
Count Soron naturally received the letter from Ryan, and because of the distance, it was earlier than Count Winter.
"Ryan, this little guy is really smart."
"It seems like he is asking, but in fact, he is telling me that he may tell the truth at any time. Anyway, the target is on us two great nobles and counts."
"The storm is already brewing, but he always finds a way to divert the center of the storm."
"It depends on whether we can gain the most from this political struggle."
Count Soron put down the letter. He knew that this was a game, and the nobles in the game were the three of them, plus Marquis of Northwind, who had not yet reacted to participate.
"The Church There are only so many people here, and I don't know what they are thinking."
Count Soron was looking forward to the Church's methods, but at that time Ryan was thinking about the empire.
"Faith requires believers. Marquis of Northwind is not really going to preach in Northwind Province and then cultivate believers."
"This is too slow."
He knew very well that what the empire needed was not a brand new the Church, but God of Light. The biggest effect was still on Royal Authority.
The combination of divine power and Royal Authority, the so-called belief of God of Light, is not the most important. What is important is that people understand that Columbus Royal Family is the spokesperson of Deities. They have secular rights and the right to believe.
All light is for the Royal Authority of the empire.
Therefore, they don't need true believers and beliefs at all, they just need to be superficial.
This is why the Church's hatred is so great. If his faith is not pure, he has absolutely no faith.
But they are showing off in the name of the Lord.
The Church's Archbishop broke into Thundercloud Mountain, and an alarming movement finally broke out on that mountain peak. Someone saw Divine Art covering the sky within a hundred meters, turning into a snow-white sharp blade and falling down, but it was stopped by a strong Great Knight on Thundercloud Mountain.
Archbishop withdrew from Marquis, and Marquis of Northwind finally did the second thing after coming to Northwind Province.
To be precise, we have to wait until this time.
Because just half a day ago, South had a huge team crossing Winged Gorge to Northwind Province.
They come from various provinces and noble families in South.
The team was huge, more than ten thousand people one after another, but the key was only a hundred people.
Their status is extraordinary, they are the heirs, second sons or favored children of nobles, and some are the descendants of some powerful extraordinary people. They came to Northwind Province together.
Without exception, they entered Thundercloud County, and under the witness of Marquis of Northwind, they took out their own Pioneer Order.
Baronet System finally took shape.
The sons of these nobles had no right to inherit, but their father gave them a better future than before, becoming Lordship and becoming true nobles.
Before Baronet System, they became Pioneer Knight at best.
But after Baronet System, the status and voice of the fifth-class nobles behind them increased, and they could become Lordship.
But as a compromise, these people are also devout believers of God of Light, who are... bright Pioneers.
Although every pioneering noble is what the empire calls Light Pioneer, it is obvious that other nobles are different from these true "believers of light". They must fulfill their duties as believers, whether it is sincerely or superficially.
When these people arrived, all Northwind Province's remaining Ownerless Lands had owners. Of course, this number was too many, so more than half of the pioneering Lordships really wanted to become real Pioneerss in the wasteland.
At the same time, the first thing Marquis of Northwind did also had results, that is, he spread the belief of God of Light, which also had bottom-level effects.
He gave those people to twenty-three Lordship who had a noble background.
The source of these people is, of course, Thundercloud County's former Count Weiss's people, as well as the population that Thundercloud County other nobles had to pinch their noses to bring out.
"Light is the Creator of all things, and we are believers in the light and devout servers."
"The great Columbus Royal Family is the incarnation of God of Light in the world, and is the absolute ruler of the empire."
These Lordships speak of Faith of Light and also swear loyalty to the great walking light, the Columbus Emperor.
The combination of Royal Authority and divine power also began to unfold at this time.
On the third day after this incident spread, Ryan of Frozen Earth Territory received two messages.
The first one, the familiar Glimmer Territory, the Baron collar of Thundercloud County without a lord, was given to a Lordship, a Lordship from the Mayers Grand Ducal Family - Valente Meyers.
Second, he died on the way to take office.
Also dead with him was a member of the Winter Count Family, the count's nephew, Sky Knight Lord Horla's second son, who originally represented the attitude of Count Winter.