"I was too naive. A fake earl who wasn't even a viscount in the middle court was trying to scheme against a downtrodden marquis. He really overestimated his own abilities..."
Toné Soutine, dressed in gorgeous armor, lay on the ground, staring blankly at the ceiling.
"Varean Code, you win!"
Roaring with his last bit of strength, Toné Soutine shed tears of despair, then lay motionless, allowing his victor to do as he pleased.
"I still admire you for being able to obtain such a territory as a bastard." Wodek walked forward and said. As an illegitimate child, he knew how difficult it was.
But when Tonet Sudin heard this, he just laughed bitterly and said, "Bastard, what a ridiculous name, it's just to make us illegitimate children sound better.
You will never understand what it feels like to be exiled to a deserted island, under the scorching sun and the dry sea breeze, weeding, clearing wasteland, and farming with a group of untouchables whom you desperately want to be different from!
After saying that, he turned to Varean and said, "Varean Code, you and I are no different. Although you are the legitimate son, your brother is still alive. Sometimes the distinction between the eldest and the youngest of legitimate sons is more cruel than that between legitimate and illegitimate sons. Is the White Wave Island you schemed to get me really yours?
Would the wandering members of the Code family allow their hard-earned territory to be taken over by a second son? This is the rule of this world. Bloodline rules everything. It balances everything and controls everything!
Do you know why I was able to fish out all the fish on Bailang Island for ten years? The people here have resisted and struggled, but it's useless!
Anyone who dares to challenge the rules will die, and the people around him will not be encouraged by his challenge to my authority. They will only bury their heads lower and spit on him for being ignorant of the current situation!
The same will happen to you in the future. No one will remember that you found a place for the wandering Cod family to stay. If you want something that you deserve, everyone will just curse you for not giving up the island and then go to hell!
To this day, Tone Sudin still believes that Varean is from the southern Code family and wants to drive a wedge between the two.
Varean shook his head, and his deep voice began to echo in the hall: "I did all this not for the Cod family, but something else that is different from the rules of bloodline has bound me.
Those who created it called it the Military Merit System, and the God who watches over it is the Lord of Truth. It is now as faint as a firefly, yet as blazing as the rising sun. Those who do not know its name raise its sails, those who do not know its meaning hold its flags, but I know its name and its meaning, and can only wield its blade.
"scare!"
He snatched the Call of the Wind from Frederick's hand and stabbed the sword into Tone Soutine's chest, but Varian felt something was wrong. The next second, Tone Soutine turned into a metal doll.
"Substitute life doll!"
The three of them immediately rushed out of the castle and ran to the port dock. At this time, the place had been controlled by Kanepali and Kamela. Civilians with gauze tied on their shoulders and holding sharpened wooden sticks disarmed the soldiers patrolling the port and completely occupied the place.
These were the residents of Brownsea Island who had previously wanted to rebel against Tone Soutine. After being suppressed, they lay dormant and waited for the opportunity. After Carmen pulled them back, they responded to the call.
"He should have escaped long ago."
Frederick inquired and found out that several ships had just left the port and these temporary militias did not stop them.
“Damn it!”
Wodek stamped his feet in anger, but there was nothing he could do.
"You should think about how to deal with those sea merchants." Kan Nepal stepped forward and reminded.
In the past, Tone Sudin exploited the islanders and provided welfare policies to the merchants to attract them to White Wave Island. Once the policy is changed, it is unknown whether the merchants will go to such a remote place again.
"Write to His Majesty and see what he will do.
If the mountain doesn't come to see me, I'll come to see the mountain. At worst, we can form our own fleet. Toné Soutine's men died in the castle, and he only took two ships. That leaves four, which we can use to form our own fleet," Carmenla said.
…
On the sea, Tone Soutine, who escaped by boat, looked viciously in the direction of Brownsea Island, and his fingers holding the sword turned pale from exerting too much force.
"Varean Code, I will not let you go!"
All his ten years of hard work were gone, including the team he had recruited with great effort and the territory he had developed!
He knew that the Baltic Islands were unstable, so he chose a remote location like White Wave Island. Because he served as a dog for the main island of Zilaner, he was targeted by both the Zilaner faction and the mainland faction in the Baltic Islands.
To this end, he recruited batches of civilians as consumables, giving those guys the illusion that he would not be able to do it for long, which allowed for ten years of development.
But now it's all gone...
In the Baltic Islands, the Zilaner faction that came out of the main island of Zilaner is very opposed to the Thirteenth Council. As an illegitimate child, he was recognized as a bastard. Would it be possible for him to have his own territory without paying any price?
Ten years ago, during the first Battle of Blackwater, he, who was only a Black Iron, survived a near-death experience on the city wall of Blackwater City. He and the defenders blocked several attacks from the Mad King's army and only then did he earn his first pot of gold.
After returning to Zilaner Island, he watched his mother, who had raised him, die of illness. However, he did not use the gold coins he received as a reward for participating in the war to buy her a potion that could cure her illness. Instead, he bought her a gift that looked shabby in the eyes of the mistress, asking for a glimmer of hope.
He succeeded, signed a harsh soul contract, strangled his own son to death with his own hands, adopted the second son of his eldest son's brother, and became an undercover agent known to everyone.
He thought that the arrival of the Code family was the goddess of fate blessing him again, allowing him to inherit the knowledge of a marquisate family and not have to worry about revenge from the Code family's in-laws. If he handed the captives over to Tilan or Tudor, he might be able to make another profit.
But in the eyes of the declining Code family, this was just a joke. A black water mist flying around in the Black Water Battle shattered all his delusions.
"I will definitely come back!"
Tone Soutine muttered to himself.
"Tone Soutine, fight me to the death!"
From the direction of White Wave Island, a sound attracted Tone Sudin's attention, and a lone sailboat was swaying in the waves and catching up.
Is it that nameless wizard following behind Varyan Cod who looks down on me so much? Varyan Cod.
"Shoot!"
Archers at the stern of the two ships drew their bows and shot arrows, which rained down like rain, covering the small boat that Delane was riding on.
On the boat, Delain held a wooden board and let the arrows get nailed to the planks beside him or fall into the sea, but he just stared at Tone Soutine's boat, without fear of life or death.
The first time Delane Orlan joined the army, he did not have a huge army, but only a broken brigantine. Nor did he have a million strong troops, but only a pitiful number of less than ten people.
The process is simple and you win without even realizing it.
But this was not what he wanted. He could feel that he was about to find the way to the mage. All he needed was a ritual, a ritual that intertwined death and despair, and war was the best ritual.
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