Lorist calmly stood in front of a large desk, covered with a piece of snow-white paper. This was the snowflake paper produced by the papermaking workshop in the family's territory. It was named for its whiteness resembling snowflakes. Since he became a sword master, general physical training and swordsmanship training are of no great use to Lorist, it's nothing more than practice makes perfect.
The biggest difference between Lorist and other sword masters in Galintia is that he does not practice fighting qi, but uses fighting qi to practice the Jinshui Jue handed down by his family before he got to this point. Now that the four realms of Jinshuijue have been learned, all that remains is to use the daily meditation exercises to make Jinshuijue more and more perfect.
However, it was a helpless move back then to use fighting energy to run the family-inherited exercises of the previous life. There was no previous experience to learn from. He was an oriental monk who practiced esoteric techniques during the magic civilization period, but Lorist knew that he was not one of those famous geniuses in the history of Galintia, so he could create his own foundation. Therefore, in terms of cultivation, Lorist adopted the word "enlightenment" that he heard from his grandfather when he was a child in his previous life. He hoped that in this fighting spirit world, he could pass down his family skills from his previous life. back.
In his spare time in his previous life, Lorist also liked to read online novels on the Internet, especially those fairy tales. It's just that he was unlucky and traveled to the Dharma-ending world of Galintia. Not to mention Paladin, even those magicians have become legends from thousands of years ago, and the only thing that made him feel a little familiar was fighting spirit. Seriously speaking, the Galintia continent should belong to a different world with no demons and low martial arts.
Traveling to such a different world can only be regarded as Lorist's fate, let alone immortality or something, even if Lorist becomes a sword master, he will only live two or three hundred years longer than ordinary people. Sometimes when I think about it, if I live another two or three hundred years, all my relatives, friends and lovers will pass away first. Even though there are descendants, two or three generations later, in the eyes of the descendants, they will be nothing more than old immortal monsters. Thinking about this, Lorist feels uneasy Tasteless, no matter how good the power and prosperity are, it is still nothing in the end.
It has been more than twenty years since I traveled to the different world of the Galintia continent. From a small nobleman who was exiled by the family to the current Grand Duke of the Northland, the sword master of the country, the prestige and power have reached the peak of the family. The kingdom is already under one person and over ten thousand people, and any further step is to seek power and usurp the throne. Just considering the reputation of the Norton family serving the Christen royal family for three hundred years of loyalty, although Lorist was unhappy that there was His Majesty the King on his head, he had no intention of taking the initiative to take this step.
Rebellion is not the only way to become the ruler of a kingdom. The mighty Cressen Empire was devastated by wars and turmoil. Although the Second Highness managed to unify the territory of the former Krissen Empire, the current kingdom is like a person who has just recovered from a serious illness and still needs to make great efforts to recuperate slowly. Lorist didn't want to be troubled by himself, building high walls, accumulating food, and slowing down his title of king was the right thing to do. The Norton family currently controls less than a quarter of the twenty-nine provinces of the former empire. First, stabilize and prosper the provinces under their jurisdiction and gradually expand their power. People's hearts took advantage of the situation.
This is also the main reason why Lorist paid so much attention to the gossip news that the Second Highness was cuckolded by his illegitimate son. This is a big scandal for the Krissen royal family. This scandal not only concerns the reputation of the Krissen royal family, but also involves the Feisabrun family, which is second only to the Norton family in the Kingdom of Antinac. Although in the aristocratic circles of the Galintia continent, it is not uncommon for queens to have affairs with others, but like this queen from the Feisabrun family, she conceived for others before giving birth to a legitimate son. It is extremely rare, because it is related to the blood inheritance of a royal family, so it has become a scandal.
Lorist is very curious about how this scandal will be dealt with in the end. The person who had an affair with the queen is the illegitimate son of His Highness the Second Highness. Although there are suspicions of adultery, if the queen gives birth to this child, it will still belong to Krissen in terms of blood. The inheritance of the royal family is just that His Royal Highness has been promoted from father to grandfather. This relationship is really entangled, and Lorist has a headache thinking about it, so he can only put it aside and wait for the follow-up development of the matter.
Apart from this matter, Lorist has nothing important to do in Morente City. All planning and daily administrative affairs are handled by his retainers and family knights. His only role here is to deter the business alliance. The last time he was a step slower and allowed the Storm Sword Master to escape, Lorist was sure that in a year or two, he would fight another battle with the Storm Sword Master who had returned from injury. Therefore, besides teaching the eldest disciple Reddy and the third disciple Genorio, Lorist, in addition to meditating and performing exercises every day, is looking for various opportunities, hoping to gain some experience in swordsmanship and domain, so as to make his cultivation more refined. .
Lorist chose calligraphy and painting, which may be influenced by his grandfather in his previous life. He remembers very clearly that when he was a child, he often saw his grandfather writing with a brush and splashing ink and drawing. Although he didn't understand, he still remembered what his grandfather once said, Writing and drawing can calm one's mind, and one's writing can be said to be like a human being, so Lorist also chose to write and draw.
It's just that Lorist forgot one thing, the Galintia continent also has painting art, but this painting art is more in line with the Western painting school of the previous life. Pretty much, it's all about canvas inks and brush scrapers. So when Lorist said that he wanted to paint, the servants brought these things over.
Fortunately, the snowflake paper produced in the family's territory was still usable, so Lorist took a paintbrush and drew a picture of the sea and mountains, which was the scene of Zangjin Bay. When Fatty Shi heard that Lorist was painting with great interest, he ran over to appreciate it carefully, and thought that it was really rare that Lorist's paintings were ingenious and unique. After the compliment, I resigned, and when I went out, I complained to Reddy, who informed me, that it was also called painting. I thought His Highness, as a Juggernaut, should be unique in painting, but I didn’t expect it to be worse than my youngest son. Those paintings are so dark The ink group is also called the mountain? I thought it was piled up ****...
Poor Fatty Shi forgot that Lorist, as a sword master, has good hearing and eyesight, and every move in the villa can be sensed by him. Fatty Shi complained too early, so his suffering began. Two days later, Fatty Shi The affairs he was in charge of finally came to an end, and he had some free time, but he was immediately taken to the villa on the top of Brin Mountain by Reddy. Lorist used the excuse that Fatty Shi was busy with the family's administrative affairs after being promoted to the golden rank and neglected to practice swordsmanship. unspeakable...
"Your Highness, please forgive me. As the chief executive of the family, I have guards around me when I go out. It's not my turn to play..." Fatty Shi begged for mercy with a bitter face.
"No." Lorist said with a serious face, "As the family's Golden Knight, I have not improved my swordsmanship and fighting spirit for so many years. It is really embarrassing to our family. While you are free these few days, I, the Juggernaut, will personally If you don’t appreciate it and complain about it, you really don’t know how to be blessed! Get up quickly and practice for three more rounds.”
"You let me die, it's my life if you come for three more rounds!" Fatty Shi lay on the ground lazily and refused to get up. At this moment, he finally figured out what was wrong: "Wait, Your Highness, you Just tell me, did I offend you?"
"No." Lorist replied solemnly: "I'm just worried about your safety. If you run into a gold-ranked assassin anytime, you have to resist a few moves first before the guards rescue you. As a family You have offended a lot of people. I am afraid that the business alliance will be angry with you and send assassins to deal with you, so I kindly help you to train... "
"Impossible..." Fatty Shi looked at Lorist suspiciously: "Even if the business alliance has no limit, they would not be able to send someone to assassinate me at the risk of offending you, the Juggernaut, and it would be too much for them to assassinate me It's not good, I'm just an administrator, and I'm not the head of the Norton family, is it worth paying such a high price to assassinate me?"
"Didn't I say in case? Do you know if you are prepared?" Lorist argued.
Lei Di, who was standing aside, couldn't help but secretly made a gesture of drawing with a brush. Fatty Shi Lima understood why he had suffered this crime, and sighed. Fatty Shi apologized and said, "Sorry, Your Highness, I shouldn't have commented on your paintings the day before yesterday. But to be honest, the paintings you drew are really real. Not as good as my eight-year-old son, who can draw much better than you."
Lorist nodded: "Thank you for your evaluation, but you don't need to apologize, I won't blame you for such a trivial matter. Get up, let's continue to practice, and strive to practice your protruding belly in the next few days." Smaller."
It was Genorio who rescued Fatty Shi. He came in and reported: "Your Highness, a large ocean-going merchant ship has arrived in the Golden Bay. The owner of the ship is one of the private owners of the transport fleet last time. In order to buy goods again, the second is to carry several distinguished guests on board, the head of which is the Duchess Fausta of the Kingdom of Chigda. She claims to be Windsor Bilina, and like her highness, she is from the Dawn Academy of Morente City. A student, who is also a friend of His Highness, she asked to meet you by name... "
Fatty Shi got up from the ground in a jerk, and now it was his turn to watch Lorist's show.
See you, or not? Lorist pondered...
This was his first love in two lifetimes, and he was once his favorite person, but in the end he left him and fell into someone else's arms, leaving him with sour, sweet and painful memories. As luck would have it, after more than 20 years, the two people from all over the world have intersected again. The person she married, the Grand Duke Fausta who took her away from her, has become her captive, and she came here this time The purpose is very clear, that is to redeem Grand Duke Fausta...
"Your Highness should meet her. After all, we are old friends. It's time to catch up with each other after more than 20 years of separation." Fatty Shi said with a playful smile. He was watching the fun, but he really hoped to see Lorist and his old lover. The old love is revived, and by the way, I also give Duke Fausta a green hat...
"Forget it, I'm not going to see her anymore, it's better to miss her when we meet, Baron Shredder, just go and meet her and bring this sentence to her." Lorist said, and then suddenly remembered something strange. Asked: "Why didn't Earl Kate negotiate with you to redeem Grand Duke Fausta and his family's armed Firebird Legion when the Business Alliance came to redeem people last time? Aren't they allies?"
"I asked. Earl Kate said that although Grand Duke Fausta was invited by the Commercial Alliance to lead the Firebird Legion to the Fali Hill Plain to assist in the battle, they surrendered the entire army during the sea transport and did not do their best for the Commercial Alliance. The responsibility of an ally. The Business Alliance will not pay ransom for these useless waste, so the life and death of Grand Duke Fausta and his family's armed Firebird Legion has nothing to do with the Business Alliance..." Fatty Shi replied.
However, Fatty Shi still knows some inside information: "It is mainly because the top management of the business alliance pushed the responsibility for the annihilation of the Armada to Grand Duke Fausta, because Fausta learned of Lorist's name after encountering Lorist. The Grand Duke was the first to abandon his sword and surrender, causing Viscount Penelope and the other high-end forces of the Armada to lose their fighting spirit, and they all dropped their weapons, forcing the Armada to raise the white flag to surrender."
Therefore, the top management of the business alliance refused to admit that the Grand Duke Fausta and the Firebird Legion were their allies, and deliberately turned a blind eye to the Grand Duke Fausta and the Firebird Legion when Earl Kate came to Morant City to redeem people. Fatty Shi felt strange and asked Earl Kate if he also redeemed Duke Fausta and the Firebird Legion, but he got this answer from Earl Kate. It was Viscount Penelope who secretly told Fatty Shi the real reason.
I really don't know whether to say whether the top management of the business alliance is crossing the river and tearing down the bridge, or whether they are ungrateful for profit. This should also be said to be the short-sightedness of the businessmen. They probably regard their allies as servants who can be called around. They think that Duke Fausta and the Firebird Legion surrendered instead of a deadly battle, which means they have abandoned the alliance, so they can also abandon the alliance. But he didn't know that letting a first-level great swordsman like Grand Duke Fausta fight a sword master was almost tantamount to asking for death, and no one with a clear mind would do such a stupid thing.
"Then the Duke of Fausta and his family's armed Firebird Legion are staying on Hilovas Island now?" Lorist asked.
"Yes, Your Highness." Fatty Shi said, "Grand Duke Fausta should have known that he might have offended the Business Alliance, so he invited himself to stay on Hilovas Island with the Firebird Legion when those private merchant ships returned to the southern seas. Grand Duke Fausta wrote a letter to the family and sent a messenger there, but he did not expect his wife to come so soon. I think Wen Na came to you this time to intercede with you or ask for a reduction of the ransom... "
"Go and meet her, and bring them directly to Shirowas Island to reunite her husband and wife. If you discuss the ransom, everything is up to you. The enemy of the enemy is our friend. Since the business alliance has abandoned and Qigeda The kingdom's alliance relationship, then we should take advantage of the situation to expand the differences and contradictions between them, it is best to let them change from allies to enemies..." Lorist said.
"Okay, I'll do my best." Fatty Shi replied.
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