Although Harvest City is a large city in the Principality of Kamai, in the Holy Continent, this city is an extremely ordinary city. In this city, except for the teleportation circle of the Blacksmith Guild, there are no other teleportation array.
This morning, the Blacksmith Guild had already started cleaning before dawn. The director of the guild, Senior Blacksmith Jules, received a notice from the General Guild yesterday. Important personnel from the Blacksmith Guild will come to Harvest City through the teleportation circle. They must do a good job. Reception preparation.
Therefore, he directed the entire Blacksmith Guild, whether they were servants or blacksmiths, to clean up very early on, making every corner of the Blacksmith Guild as spotless as possible.
In the morning, the lord of Harvest City, Viscount Dickens, was already standing in the yard of the Blacksmith Guild with four senior knights. Their only purpose of coming here was to wait for the new owner of the city, a Earl.
Of course, the notice was issued directly by Duke Ernest of the Kingdom of St. Alice. Viscount Dickens did not know which earl it was, but from the previous news, he could know that it would definitely not be any earl from the Principality of Carmel. .
There are very few earls in the Principality of Kamai, and they are basically members of the royal family, and such fiefdoms do not seem to be the tradition of the Principality of Kamai, because the tradition of the Principality of Kamai is stingy, extremely stingy, and it seems that every title and fiefdom is It's like digging out the king's flesh and blood.
In particular, this notification was issued directly by Duke Ernest of the Kingdom of St. Alice. According to Viscount Dickens's estimate, it was likely that some important figure was punished and exiled here.
So today is the time for the new earl to come to take over the fief. The city lord, Viscount Dickens, has long decided to take his family and leave the city after handing over the city lord's seal. This is his choice.
If Viscount Dickens stays in Harvest City, then his family will become a subsidiary of the new earl and a subsidiary of an exiled earl from the Kingdom of St. Ellis. This is not what he wants to see. This is also the case for almost all inherited nobles. Things you don’t want to happen.
Therefore, after hearing that Harvest City was bestowed upon a count, almost most of the inherited nobles chose the Kingdom of St. Ellis's method of exchanging their territories to other cities.
Although there will be losses due to various reasons, this time the Kingdom of St. Alice rarely used all its strength to minimize this loss. Therefore, after seeing this situation, more inherited nobles chose to leave. Harvest City.
A territory without special products can only produce grain, and the grain produced has to be forcibly purchased by the Principality of Kamai. The profit is extremely low. This is one of the reasons why the inherited nobles want to replace the territory. Although it is called a granary, it is very difficult to leave this territory. Barren land.
Of course, there are also some stubborn inherited nobles. They hold the inherited land and are unwilling to leave. Soon, an undercurrent surges, and the terrifying St. Ellis Kingdom intelligence organization begins to take action.
The families of the remaining inherited nobles were warned by the Kingdom of St. Alice, and some dirty things in the past were dug out one after another. Various methods were used to make these inherited nobles understand one thing, that is, if they choose to stay, their families will not be able to survive. Got it!
The Kingdom of St. Ellis seemed to be doing a loss-making business. After the empire replaced the land, all the land in Harvest City belonged to Earl Abel. After Abel granted the fiefdom, he stayed in Liant City. In ten days, Harvest City has lost its inherited nobles.
Yes, this is Abel's final choice, a territory without inherited nobles, a clean territory, a fiefdom completely controlled by him. He doesn't like that there are so many subordinate nobles in his own territory. Although these subordinate nobles have to hand over a certain amount of output and provide him with force.
But as a wizard, how could Abel see these armies that were at most intermediate knights and would not go beyond senior knights? If he wanted an army of knights, there were plenty of ways.
Therefore, the Kingdom of St. Ellis hid Abel's identity. When notifying the Principality of Camais and Harvest City, it only used the title Earl and did not mention his name. This also made all the nobles in Harvest City think that, The new owner of the city is a count who was abandoned by the Kingdom of St. Elis.
Although the nobles of Harvest City didn't know why the earl was exiled to the southernmost tip of the entire Holy Continent. Apart from the good food production, there are almost no decent minerals and special products in the city, but from what they thought, it was nothing more than some The losers in the struggle between nobles were placed in a place where the victors did not even want to see them.
This kind of nobleman with the title of earl may not worry about life for a day, but he will never get ahead. And if the winner uses some small tricks from time to time, then in a small country like the Principality of Kamai, it is impossible to Which noble can withstand the calculations from the great nobles of the suzerain Kingdom of Saint Ellis.
This is also the most important reason why many nobles fled here. The nobles do not like to tie their families to a fallen count. Fortunately, the Kingdom of St. Ellis is very humane, or according to the understanding of the nobles of Harvest City, it is completely Isolated the exiled earl.
The Kingdom of St. Ellis is willing to help the inherited nobles who want to leave Harvest City to replace their fiefdoms. Viscount Dickens was the first inherited nobleman to agree to the replacement. His fiefdom was exchanged to another city with very good output. Of course, the premise is to stay here forever. He regarded the elite group of Harvest City knights as his private army.
The four senior knights he brought today were the four deputy commanders of the Harvest City Knights' elite brigade. But when he was about to welcome the new count, his mind began to wake up.
Did the Kingdom of St. Ellis spend such a price just to isolate an exiled earl? This kind of sacrifice is really too much!
Could it be that my choice was wrong? For the first time, this question arose in Viscount Dickens's mind, but soon his attention was attracted by the white light on the blacksmith's guild's teleportation circle, and he temporarily forgot about it.
"We're home!" Although Abel's body was still shining with the white light of the teleportation circle, it did not affect him from taking a deep breath of the air here.
"Is this the master's home?" Bartoli, who was wearing a burqa, felt the same way about everything here. If there were no accidents, this would also be her home, maybe her residence for the next ten thousand years!
"Yes, this is our future home. I will build this place into the most powerful territory in the entire continent. I will not let anyone bully me again!" The air here seems to be filled with a feeling of anger. The fragrance of grain made Abel nostalgic for it, and he murmured in an affirmative tone.
He and Bartoli all walked out of the teleportation circle. Black Wind and Chocobo were both taken into the Space Beast Ring, and of course Baiyun and Feiyan were also among them.
Viscount Dickens's eyes widened. He did not expect that the person who walked out of the teleportation circle would be Abel. Abel walked out of Harvest City, and his name was known to all women and children in Harvest City.
Viscount Dickens glanced at Abel's chest, where there were three badges shining with eye-catching light in the rising sun. Although he had never seen the badge of the master blacksmith, he had only seen it from Jules, the senior blacksmith beside him. Just by looking at that badge, you can tell that it is the legendary blacksmith master badge.
Next to the blacksmith master badge is a single staff badge. This is a wizard badge, and it is the badge of an official wizard. If you are an ordinary noble, especially in such a remote area, you may have never seen it. Never even heard of the wizard's badge.
But Viscount Dickens is different. As one of the rare high-ranking nobles in the Principality of Kamai, he knows the wizard badge. This is the most powerful combat force of the Principality of Kamai and the force that protects the Principality of Kamai.
As far as he knew, there were only three such protective powers, and the Abel in front of him had actually become that kind of existence.
Next to the wizard's badge is a noble badge, which is an earl's badge with a dragon-shaped coat of arms, but this earl's badge is the most inconspicuous among the three badges.
Viscount Dickens felt a little dizzy because he saw the earl's badge. This badge meant that the earl he was waiting for today was Earl Abel, and Earl Abel would also become the new owner of this land.