After Sean took over, the Black Swan Castle has undergone five renovations, and although it cannot be said to be rebuilt, basically many places have been overturned and rebuilt. However, the only thing that has not been rectified is the underground structure of the Black Swan Castle.

Here, it's already Sheena. Vorster and her lair of the Crypt Spider Queen, the soldiers who guarded the Black Swan Castle, called this place the Ice Nest.

Of course, Sheena will definitely not sleep in this kind of place, she has her own room in the Black Swan Castle, and after Rena's systematic training before, after obtaining the power feedback of the Crypt Cold Spider Queen, Sheena's personal strength has been steadily improving, and now although she is only fourteen years old, she already has the strength of the lower bronze, which is also considered a genius in a way.

Moreover, this Crypt Spider Queen has also begun to lay eggs underground - since Hina signed a contract with the Crypt Spider Queen, more than a year has now passed, and it is just in time for the first egg period of the Crypt Spider Queen.

The so-called first egg stage is the first egg laying carried out by the Crypt Spider Queen. The crypt spiders hatched from these eggs have stronger combat power than the crypt spiders born later, and their duty is to be similar to the queen's guards, so in the future, in terms of finding food and the like, these crypt spider guards will not attack, they will only attack the enemies that threaten the queen of the crypt spiders.

Basically, every Crypt Spider Guardian has the strength of a sixth-level Demonic Beast, that is, the combat power of the lower gold.

Now. Ordinary people will no longer approach the "Ice Nest" at will, because even if there is the restraint and suppression of Sheena and the Crypt Spider Queen, there is no guarantee that no one will do some strange behavior. And once the Crypt Spider Guardian is judged to be a threat. Then they will attack as soon as possible, and with the strength of the sixth-level demonic beast, even if Sheena and the Crypt Cold Spider Queen want to stop it, it will definitely be too late.

So, both William and Neil gave a clear order to the people of the Black Swan Castle to forbid anyone to go to the Ice Nest.

Over time, new arrivals to the Black Swan Castle. I didn't know that there was a special place called the Ice Nest under this ancient castle.

Like the Marquis of Floris, even though his personal strength is very strong, he still does not find what is hidden under this ancient castle. In his eyes. The Black Swan Castle does not have any difficulty in capturing at all, even if it is only given to him a small army of only about 100 people, he has several different tactics to take the castle in one day, of course, provided that the castle's escort force is also about 100 people.

Come to think of this. The Marquis of Floris, who was sitting in the conference room of the Black Swan Castle, smiled helplessly: "Occupational disease." ”

There was a knock on the door.

interrupted the divergent thinking of the Marquis de Flores.

Push the door in. It was Sean, and there was no one else behind him.

"Lord Duke." Marquis of Flores hurriedly got up and spoke after seeing Sean enter the door.

"You're welcome, Lord Floris, we're all so acquainted." Sean smiled and quickened his pace to the side of the conference table, and instead of sitting opposite the Marquis of Flores, he took a seat next to him. This can indeed indicate Sean's attitude from a certain point of view.

At this very moment. He didn't want to break with the Kingdom of Ryan yet.

"His Majesty the King is very worried about what happened to you in the Finlistine clan this time, so he has sent me to express his condolences to you." Marquis Floris thought that Sean was so young that he would be angry at what happened before, and he even prepared several sets of rhetoric for this, but seeing Sean's calm appearance, Marquis Floris's heart sank.

He has dealt with Sean more than once, so he has a basic grasp of Sean's character. If Sean is angry, then at least it shows that he didn't take it to heart, and there are at least many ways to appease Sean. However, once Sean showed a calm attitude, then it proved that this matter was completely included in his priority, which proved that it was obviously impossible to simply erase this matter.

"Thank you, Your Majesty, for me." Sean replied politely, "Lord Floris, regarding the matter we mentioned in the royal capital before, I have prepared five thousand barbarians, and you can take them with you when you leave this time." I will arrange for the relevant escorts to accompany you and take care of your safety on the road. ”

Hearing Sean say this, the Marquis of Floris finally sighed a little helplessly.

After a moment of silence, the marquis spoke: "Your Excellency Sean, I am indeed a little sorry for you in the previous situation, but His Majesty the King did not expect that the people of the Finlistine family would do such a crazy thing. By the time we knew the situation, we were already trying to stop it as quickly as possible. …… At present, all those involved, as long as there is tangible evidence, have been arrested. ”

Hearing Floris's words, Sean glanced at the other party deeply, and then sighed: "I also know that His Majesty the King is difficult to do. In fact, I don't blame His Majesty the King, or the Kingdom of Lane. I was indeed relieved to learn of His Majesty's actions, and for whatever reason, I must be grateful, otherwise I would not have been able to leave the Finlistine family's domain. ”

Sean himself also had a guess afterwards, a perfect control of his own territory for hundreds of years, and even the surrounding territories had been infiltrated and controlled, he didn't think that he could really break through the encirclement so easily. Even if there is a full dispatch and tacit cooperation of the Void Realm, this is destined to be a tragic and bloody road, if there is no infiltration and assistance from a larger force behind it, Sean will not believe it anyway.

Therefore, the only explanation is that the Marquis of Flores got the nod of King Lane, so he spared no effort to help.

"His Majesty's decision has been made." The Marquis of Flores whispered, and then took a paperwork from his bosom. Handed it to Sean, "The Fenlistin family will be cut down and retain the title of hereditary viscount." The fiefdom will be moved to the north. The House of Dovigo will be stripped of their titles of nobility, become commoners altogether, and will be forbidden to receive titles for three generations. As for the Sebarox family, the fiefdom will remain the same, but the title will be reduced to hereditary count. ”

For an aristocratic family, being demoted is not a terrible punishment, anyway, as long as there is war. Then there will always be a chance to move forward. However, if you are forced to ask for a change in the fiefdom, then this punishment can be very severe - of course, it may also be in a private war because of the indemnity for defeat. And you need to pay for the fiefdom that you have worked hard to operate for many years.

The revocation of the title of nobility and the relegation of the Dovigo family to commoners was indeed a great punishment, even more severe than the Finlistine family being forced to demand a change of fiefdom. There are even conditions where three generations of descendants cannot receive a knighthood. This is tantamount to announcing that the Dovigo family will never want to mix in the kingdom of Lane again. It's basically the same as banishing the Dovigo family, but it's only a little bit better in name.

As for why the punishment of the Sebarox family is so light, Sean is also understandable, after all, there are still 40,000 people in the Silent Mountains, and with such a solid team, it will take some time to train another Silent Mountain Range, of course, the title of "Lane's strongest heavy infantry legion" will definitely not be kept. And when he thought of this, Sean was a little envious of these nobles with a solid background.

"I see." Sean nodded slightly. Expressing acceptance of such an outcome, in fact, the punishment for these hostile families is severe. It had long been expected by Sean, but it was likely that he would need to protest before he discussed with Hela and others, but he didn't expect that he hadn't said anything yet, and the wise king who was known as the second only king to the first King of Ryan in history made such a move.

When it comes to reassuring people's hearts, there is really no equal.

But the next moment, Sean's gaze fell on the text pushed over by the Marquis of Flores.

"It's another gift for you." Floris emphasized the word "you" in addressing Sean, which made Sean's face appear a little surprised.

For a long time, the communication between Sean and Floris, although they were polite to each other, had never been polite to the point where they were now. So Sean tore open the fire paint on Wen Jiàn's file bag with some doubts, and took out a few pieces of paper inside.

This is a contract document in duplicate, or a standard magical contract, that is, an official document recognized by the contract god. Once you sign this letter, it means that both parties will act in accordance with this letter in the future.

But what really stunned Sean was the words printed on the front of the contract document.

The Void Duchy was established.

"This is ......" Sean looked down, and sure enough, he found that on the contract document, the King of Lane, Ingus. Ryan has signed his name.

"This is another compensation that His Majesty has given you." Marquis Flores smiled, "Congratulations, Lord Sean, I will call you the Grand Duke of the Void in the future." ”

"Grand Duke of the Void ......" Sean looked at the contract document in his hand with some astonishment, he never thought that the King of Ryan would actually give himself such a big gift, which is equivalent to saying that all Sean is completely allowed to act independently in the territory, including the construction and size of the army, the issuance of currency, the adjustment of taxes, the adjustment of import and export of trade, and various laws that can be completely determined by themselves.

As long as Sean signs this contract document, then in addition to paying a certain amount of tribute to the Ryan Kingdom every year, he can do whatever he wants, even if it is to launch a military operation against the Ryan nobles, and from now on, he will not be subject to the command and orders of the Ryan Kingdom at all!

Void Principality.

This development seems to be much faster than Sean expected. (To be continued......)

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