The late Earl House—whether father or son, it doesn’t matter, the word “deceased” can be used anyway—didn’t know that a very small part of their bloodline came from a famous hero. figure.
A tragic hero.
This hero was born in a small, declining country, next to a powerful country, and on the other side was a powerful alien race.
It was the early stage of the era of great expansion of mankind. Along with the expansion of territories under the leadership of human gods, the war within mankind was also quite fierce. Many large and small countries - in that era, the aristocratic system had not yet been established, and many territories that could only be regarded as viscounts or even barons to later generations also claimed to be independent kingdoms - appeared and then died, and the war was not burning even for a day. , steel and blood raged across the earth.
In that era, weakness was a sin, and the strong were as greedy and ferocious as hungry wolves, and were then devoured by stronger ones like hungry tigers. Even civilians had to learn some fighting skills. Once a knight was left alone, those seemingly honest farmers would turn into vicious gangsters in a blink of an eye, killing them and plundering all their wealth.
And that hero's country committed exactly this "crime".
Since his birth, his country has been in turmoil. Before he came of age, his father, the king at the time, was forced to fight in a war that was of no benefit to them. Although the war was won, the king died during the war. It was said that the cause of death was very suspicious. There was an 80% chance that the fatal poison-quenched arrow came from a friendly army.
After the king's death, another king paid them a "friendly" visit and expressed his willingness to marry the king's widow and unite the two countries peacefully.
The young prince seemed to be calm on the surface, but suddenly he got into trouble at the dinner party for the guests. He poisoned the food and cooperated with a surprise attack by elite soldiers, killing the king who wanted to take advantage of the situation and all the knights under his command. And he acted very quickly, setting off to his neighbor's territory overnight. On the third day, he had announced his marriage to the king's daughter, completing the merger of the two territories.
As for the king's son... there has been no record of him in the history books since then, as if he had been forgotten.
The following decades were years of conspiracy and war, intertwined with blood and lamentation. To later generations, it was just a page in a history book, a few epic poems, or even a few chapters in an epic poem, but to that young king, it was his whole life.
He worked hard and unscrupulously, in order to protect and strengthen his country, he exhausted all his efforts, and displayed countless ingenious skills and vicious strategies that were praised and learned by later generations. In the end, when he was old, his country was already quite powerful. From the beginning, it was roughly equivalent to a barony, and it developed to a point where it was better than many marquises.
However, at this moment, fate played a little joke on him. A war broke out between several powerful legendary monsters in his capital. The once prosperous capital was reduced to ruins in just a few hours. The king who tried to negotiate with the monsters died on the roadside like a wild dog. He was loyal. The knights were left lying in a mess with their bodies scattered all over the ground.
As the news spread, the country collapsed without any further consequences.
If it were on earth, the story would almost end here. However, in a world with gods and demons, souls and the underworld, there is still a little more continuation of the story.
The dead king became the holy spirit of the god of kingship, and later also became the holy spirit of the god of nobility when the god of nobility replaced the god of kingship.
The continuation of the story ends here. As for how future generations will study the life of this king, how future generations of nobles will use his deeds to educate their children, and how future generations of careerists will use his name and descendants to make trouble, these are all. It's no longer important.
The only thing worth noting is that among his descendants, there is a bloodline that has gone through many twists and turns, and finally took advantage of the opportunity of mankind's western expansion to climb to a high position again and became one of the nine earls, the founding nobles of the Gold Coin Federation.
This descendant named House is good at training horses, and the territory produces high-quality war horses. He himself likes to compete on horseback, so he got the title "Good Horse".
The Holy Spirit is different from the envoys of God. They are very close to the gods in nature. If they want to enter the human world, they must suppress their power to almost nothing. In this form, the only thing left to use is wisdom. However, wisdom often does not work, or is not that effective. Without power, it is still inconvenient after all. In this case, the Holy Spirits often choose to possess their own bloodline descendants, thus bypassing the limitations imposed by the main plane and being able to exert some power.
Just like the founding monarch of the Chiyue Dynasty chose to possess Sophie Chiyue, the "Flower of Iroh", that ancient king chose to possess the contemporary Earl of "Good Horse", Deken House.
At the time of his possession, Deken House was only the son of the previous Earl and had not yet succeeded to the Earl's position. This young man's talents are only mediocre, he has always been honest and honest, and there is nothing special about him except that he likes equestrian competitions. But after being possessed by the ancient Holy Spirit, he immediately underwent earth-shaking changes... Everything that followed was due to this change.
This change caused many things, and among these things, the changes in the House family and the possible decline in the future are nothing more than trivial matters.
Early the next morning, before dawn, the troops set off.
The initial team of more than two hundred people now only has about one hundred and twenty people left. The rest of the people were naturally dead. Some of them were executed by Count House because they could not carry out the massacre, and the other part were killed in the fierce battle not long ago.
That battle was extremely dangerous. Even if an ambush was created with clever means, it was not an easy task for less than 200 people to fight against more than 300 people. So as soon as the battle began, Earl House showed his legendary strength, killing the opponent's leader, a high-level ranger, several officers and a dozen of the best warriors with just one blow.
Although he was suppressed from the main plane after this blow, in order to ensure victory, he still used the ingenuity and determination of dancing on the tip of a knife to strike several times in a row, not only completely defeating the merchant faction The high-speed mobile troops also preserved their own combat power as much as possible.
For this, the price he paid was to suffer divine punishment—the punishment power from the main plane barrier. Although it was not serious enough to cause thunder to fall, the power of heavenly punishment was definitely not something he could bear. Even though he was still walking and talking as usual, he was actually in severe pain all the time. The most terrifying thing is that the soul is constantly being weakened. If this continues, it won't be long before it completely dissipates and no longer exists.
But he didn't care. From the era of great development to the present, he had lived for too long, and he was a little impatient. Complete death and annihilation may be scary to others, but to him, it is actually nothing.
Even the great God of Kingship has fallen, so what does a mere Holy Spirit mean
He felt it was worth it to die for the great cause of the human gods.
What's more... he has already arranged a plan, and even his "death" itself is part of the plan and can be used.
Of course, this bloody, high-speed mobile force had also been arranged by him long ago and would die with him at the right time.
After all... they are all "necessary prices".
But he didn't know that his various plans had already been seen by the war gods.
Whether his plan will succeed or not is still unknown.