Chapter 34: Rules of the Nobility
Chapter 34: The Nobleman’s Rules
Owen has been turned on the demon king aura does not look like a young boy, the whole body is shrouded in shadow, exudes cruelty and fear of the atmosphere, so that the flying dragon viscount and Kerensi can not stop shivering, this has nothing to do with the will, it is all the body’s instinctive reaction.
Big waist in the bleeding Viscount Flying Dragon in the pressure of the Demon King’s aura, suddenly saw the scythe of the god of death on his neck, suddenly two eyes rolled over, directly fainted.
Kerens was a little better, although gusts of dizziness, but the matter of whether he could live the hope, biting the back teeth grooves to hold on, but under the enormous pressure in the heart can not help but begin to regret their choice to surrender, because this how to look at it does not look like the Lord of the heart of the soft-hearted.
“I, the noble lord of the northern border, Hydra III, hereditary viscount, accept the surrender of Swan Baron Kerens and allow you to serve me.” Owen pondered for a moment before removing his helmet to reveal his true face, and then returned Swan Baron Kerens’s bayonet back to him, and this action immediately made Kerens breathe a sigh of relief.
Regarding Owen’s identity, Collens was a bit surprised at first, but on second thought he didn’t think there was any problem, after all, there were just a few of their lords in this hellhole, four of them had even joined forces, and now that two of them were dead, and one of them was about to die, there was just this one left, him and the Hedra family, so even if it was unbelievable, it would still be the only answer, and that’s the reason why Owen chose to reveal his identity.
As for whether commanding kobolds to kill humans is evil, will it become a handle, in fact, this kind of thing is not a matter at all to the nobles, even Corenth doesn’t think it’s any kind of handle, because there are only two kinds of power to the nobles, one that is used by themselves, and the other that is not used by the Viscounts, as for what the power is, and whether it’s evil or not, it’s not really important at all.
Next Owen himself killed the Flying Dragon Viscount who couldn’t even say his name, leaving Corenth behind.
As for why he killed the Flying Dragon Viscount but accepted the Swan Baron’s surrender, for one thing, there were only two alive, and in the case of having to hack one to death, he was the only one, after all, looking at the condition of the Flying Dragon Viscount’s waist, it was estimated that even if he wasn’t hacked to death on the spot, he wouldn’t be able to live for long.
At the same time the reason Owen did this was because he intended to try to find out how to raise the system progress value, that’s why he killed one and surrendered the other, but for Kerens it was different, because he was able to live and there was a good result.
Luckily the other party was also an imperial noble origin, if he had met any other nobles from the northern border, Corenth knew that he was afraid that he would have been cut down a long time ago.
The difference was mainly due to the fact that after a long period of time, the internal rules of the imperial nobles had become relatively perfect.
In fact, the struggle between the nobles in the early days was very cruel and direct, poisoning, assassination, trickery, war, everything, and even in the banquet to pull the opponent directly to the bushes to pour poison, and claimed that the other party is a case of suicide is not uncommon.
At that time, as long as the nobles could win, no one cared what means were used.
However, with the stabilization and solidification of the noble class, coupled with the continuous marriage and exchange of benefits between each other, the struggle between the nobles gradually evolved into a set of relatively mature rules, which were used to ensure that the fights would not expand and avoid affecting the overall interests.
In fact, the nobles within the empire nowadays seldom use force, war is only the last resort, even assassination, poisoning, is also regarded as unorthodox, and even rejected by the mainstream.
Nowadays, the big nobles in the empire have been accustomed to achieve their own goals through political means, this way is like using leverage, with little investment and big return, one word and action can even influence the whole empire, which is regarded as the most elegant art by the nobles, and also the ultimate goal.
As for assassination and poisoning, they are all unorthodox means only used by small nobles, as for leading soldiers to kill, it is even more barbaric behavior. Can affect the operation of the empire of the big nobles, completely do not need to use this kind of means, they say, let you die, you have to die, or send you a whole family on the road.
Even if you can fight so what, can beat the empire’s countless strong?
Even if you have a lot of elite soldiers under your hands, so what, can you beat the imperial army?
In this way, the rules of the noble class become more and more solid and deep.
Although the intention of this set of rules is to avoid attrition within the nobility as much as possible, it doesn’t mean that killing is completely abandoned, for example, there are relative rules for what kind of hatred can be used, such as the treatment after surrendering, and so on.
Like the hatred between Viscount Flying Dragon and Owen belongs to the world hatred, completely can use any means, including killing each other after surrendering, and will not be condemned.
But can kill Viscount Flying Dragon, but can not kill the other party’s family, unless the other party refused to swear to give up revenge.
Within the empire, if the defeated noble doesn’t give up revenge, the victor has the right to kill the other party, but if the other party swears to give up revenge, then they can’t be killed, and they have to let the other party’s family live.
The main purpose of this move is to retain as much as possible the noble bloodline can be inherited, but don’t think that the oath is just a casual talk, once sworn to give up hatred, then the defeated can’t be in the aftermath of the victor to carry out any form of retaliation, or else the victor has the right to take any means, and at the same time, those who violate the oath will also become the enemy of all the nobility, even if they will not be directly hit, just a variety of targeting will be enough to make the other party to want to die! The other side will be able to make the other side want to die.
This kind of rule also applies to Kerens, when he chose to surrender, it represents that he gave up his sovereignty, because of the difference in titles between the two sides, after Owen returned his sword back to him, it represents the acceptance of his defection, which also has the effect of an oath.
Of course, this set of imperial nobles for a long time due to mutual constraints arising from the tacit understanding, in the northern border nobles here can be little market, and even the vast majority of northern border nobles do not know this set of so-called rules, even if they know, I am afraid that they will also scoff, after all, for the robber habit of the northern aristocrats, to kill, rob, burn, is the most direct means, and the imperial nobility has long been through the period, able to wash their bodies clean. A period of time, to be able to wash the blood and sludge on the body, wipe the corners of the mouth to collect fangs, make an elegant gesture, despise the barbarism of the Northland nobles.
The battle was over, and Owen asked the kobold witch doctor to treat the poison of the magic horn tree on Corenth’s body, and then he heard the sound of biting and the excited noise of the kobolds from the camp not far away.
Kobolds are not vegetarians, they like human food as well, not to mention the weapons, food, tents, clothes, and even a spoon in the camp, they are all good things for them, and they are the target of each other’s fight.
“All the things in the camp are rewarded to you, don’t stay longer, bring all the kobolds back to the Magic Horn Tree Forest after dawn.” Owen knew very well what was happening where in the camp, but he had no intention of stopping it.
The Magic Horn Goblins were not summoned by him through the system, they had no loyalty to him, if he went up to stop it, even if he relied on the Goblin General to reach his goal with his own Demon King’s aura, he would still be left with hidden dangers, so it was better to pretend not to see rather than to suffer, after all, it wasn’t him who was the one who suffered.
The kobold general led the order to go to restrain those more and more scratching more and more excessive magic horn kobolds, because the battle killed too many elite kobolds, resulting in the effect is not very good, the kobold general hacked to death a number of, and only reluctantly ordered these magic horn kobolds to carry the supplies back to the forest.
(End of chapter)