[Chapter 293 Europa Universalis]

Laura, Helen, Sophia, and Gwen who was resting on the bed, the women were talking about something, and they were chatting enthusiastically.

“Oh, you’re back? Have you finished your business?” Laura saw David coming in and greeted him with a smile: “I heard that the capital sent an envoy?”

“Yes, His Majesty the King summoned the lords to the capital. The border doesn’t seem to be very peaceful.”

After briefly explaining the situation, Laura also realized that David might be away for a while.

“Do you want to go together?”

“This…” Gwen wanted to go, but she had to go to school, which was too embarrassing: “I may not be able to go.”

“Of course I will go!” Laura said without thinking that she would go to the capital with David. She missed the last time she went to the capital because of something, and she must go this time.

“I can also go back to see my father and mother.” Sophia also wanted to go back. After she came to Winter City, she wandered around all day and quickly learned about the various rare things in Winter City.

She knew very well how convenient and fast the planes in Winter City were, and it was not a big deal for her to go back to the capital.

Similarly, it would be no trouble to go back to the capital and then back to Winter City, and she would not suffer on the way.

After living there for a while, Sophia felt that Winter City was indeed her ideal place. She felt that everything was convenient here. Even when she missed her parents, she could go back to the capital to visit them in a short time, so Sophia did not consider choosing anyone else at all.

The only question was, how could David be willing to marry her? It might be a good idea to talk more with the women around David and understand David’s preferences.

“By the way, can I wear a set of power armor back?”

“Of course!”

This time when they go to the capital, all members of the Winter Knights will wear blizzard power armor, and this set of equipment will soon be known to the high-level officials of the Kingdom of Tilan. It

is likely that it will be seen by the Holy Kingdom of Gaunt, so there is no need to hide it.

As for whether the Royal Alchemy Workshop of the Kingdom of Tilan will “steal” the technology of power armor? If they can copy it, David will even give these alchemists a thumbs up.

“Is Helen going?”

Gwen couldn’t go, and Laura and Sophia would go with him. David looked at Helen again. After thinking for a while, Helen decided to stay in Winter City.

She was not very interested in going out to see other cultures. She felt that even if she stayed in Winter City, she could still understand various civilizations.

Moreover, David specifically mentioned that this trip to the capital would not affect his original plan. David would still go to Sparta before leaving Winter City for the capital.

She was already very happy that David was willing to take care of her family and country. She would not add to the trouble on this trip to the capital.

Helen felt that if David brought Princess Sophia back to the capital, it would not be a good thing if there were too many women around him. It would be bad if it triggered the conflict between David and the King of the Kingdom of Tiran.

After asking a few people if they wanted to go to the capital together, David asked them what they were talking about just now, but no one was willing to tell him. Instead, they said good night to him one after another and went their separate ways.

In the next few days, David took a group of people to the Kingdom of Sparta and discussed the plan to unify the Balkan Peninsula with the Spartan King Tyndareus.

Tyndareus attached great importance to this mission given by the “God”, but he was worried that the strength of the Kingdom of Sparta was not enough to complete this task. It

was not until he learned that David would give them crop seeds that could produce a large amount of food, teach them more advanced planting knowledge, and provide various advanced weapons that Tyndareus realized that the Kingdom of Sparta was about to reach a new peak.

After looking at the map brought by David, Tyndareus even said that he would not only let the entire Balkan Peninsula bathe in David’s holy light, but also turn all the fertile land on the northern coast of the Mediterranean into a place illuminated by holy light.

As for how long it would take to achieve this goal?

Tyndareus didn’t care at all. Even if he couldn’t achieve the goal in his lifetime, he still had two very good sons who would definitely be able to achieve this goal.

As for David’s mention of “giving slaves a hope of hard work”, although Tyndareus didn’t quite understand it, he also tried hard to figure out what to do.

For this reason, Helen began to popularize various “advanced knowledge” to her father during this period, and Tyndareus began to realize that simple oppression and exploitation were creating greater hidden dangers.

The Spartan helot system was pure oppression and exploitation. As slaves, helots did all kinds of dirty and heavy work without any survival guarantee.

Their existence guaranteed the comfortable life of the upper class of Sparta, but also brought countless wars to the Kingdom of Sparta.

With David’s “identity”, he could completely force the Kingdom of Sparta to abolish slavery, but he did not do so. He did not think that directly abolishing slavery was a good choice, and the vested interests of the Kingdom of Sparta would definitely be dissatisfied.

Besides, the Kingdom of Sparta was not a system where the king had the final say. If the basic system was changed at will, the entire kingdom would fall into turmoil.

At the same time, he was also very curious about how Tyndareus, who had received some hints from him, would solve the crisis brought about by the helot system?

As a result, the day after David left Sparta, Helen asked him if he could send some of the Pyrias and helots to Winter City for training.

“Spartan IV?”

“No.”

Helen shook her head. The members of the Spartan Heavy Infantry Regiment were all Spartans. In the Kingdom of Sparta, they were all superior people. After all, in the eyes of Tyndareus, only the great Spartans were qualified to serve the gods, and the lowly inferiors and slaves did not have such qualifications.

“It’s just a relatively basic training. My father is going to form a new legion as the main force for unifying the Balkan Peninsula.”

The number of elite warriors who had received training from David and were eliminated and returned to Sparta was not large enough. Even if they were reused, they could not conquer such a large land with so few people.

Therefore, Tyndareus was preparing to establish a larger legion. In addition, he also wanted to use this method to open a small loophole: Soldiers who joined this legion and made meritorious contributions would obtain the status of “Spartans”, instead of being Pyrias and Helots, giving the lower class a channel to move up.

“Of course there is no problem.”

David didn’t think it was a big deal. If he found excellent soldiers among this group of people, Winter City could still keep them. If Winter City

wanted to keep people, would Sparta refuse? Of course not, they would even be happier!

It happened that Helen would stay in Winter City, and she could follow up on this matter throughout the process.

At this time, David had almost arranged all the things at hand, and Baron Sorken began to use a relatively friendly and obscure way to remind the Earl of Glamorgan whether he should set off?

“It has been arranged almost. We will set off in the next two days. The specific time can be determined today or tomorrow.”

Hearing David’s answer, Baron Sorken was also very satisfied. As long as David-Earl of Glamorgan responded to the call of His Majesty the King, his mission would be completed.

He was a little worried that Baron Glamorgan didn’t want to go to the capital at all. If that happened, who knows what would happen, and he, as an envoy, would probably not have a good ending.

Now, he can put half of his heart back, and the other half can only be put down when he really sets off.

Watching Baron Thorken leave, David looked at Edwin Van Cleef, who had been silent the whole time. The intelligence chief of Winter City sat in the corner, looking very invisible.

“What has Baron Sorken been doing recently?”

“Touring around Winter City.” Ever since Baron Sorken brought the envoys to Winter City, everyone has been closely watched by Edwin Van Cleef and his men: “The military camps and the docks are the places he goes to most. This Baron Willy Sorken should not be a professional intelligence officer, but he has received some military training, so he pays more attention to military things.”

“Hmm!” This is not surprising. It would be strange if people in this world did not look around curiously after coming to Winter City: “Where are his men?”

“Most of them are normal, except for one person.” Edwin Van Cleef tapped the frame of his glasses with his hand, and then a ray of light was emitted from the legs of the glasses, forming a clear holographic image in front of David: “This person is a very ordinary guard of the envoy group. After arriving in Winter City, he frequently contacted Missionary Raines.”

“Someone from the Temple?”

“Possibly!”

“Do you know the specific content of their conversation?”

“Here.”

Edwin Van Cleef took out a pen, fiddled with it for a few times and played the sound directly. After the simple conversation was over, he explained that the sound intelligence was obtained by someone lurking around Raines – to be precise, there were eavesdropping devices in every area of the building where Raines lived.

Even Raines had them on his body, and Raines was completely unaware of this. Even though he used magic props to isolate the surrounding sounds to prevent being eavesdropped, the content of the conversation was still recorded by the eavesdropping device on his body.

“Heh~” After hearing Raines’ situation, David couldn’t help laughing, and then discussed this part of the intelligence information with Edwin, who was also smiling: “What do you think of the conversation between the two people?”

On the surface, the two people seemed to be just chatting simply, but Van Cleef, who had undergone professional training, had already interpreted several possibilities from it.

After careful analysis, Van Cleef believed that Raines should be saying that his development in Winter City was not going well, and hoped that the Temple would provide more support.

(End of this chapter)