Black Iron Crown

"..."

The scene was silent for a while, the royal lords either looked at each other in blank dismay, or looked at each other carefully, in short, not many people stood up to support Reiner on the spot.

Although Leiner's current strength is very strong, it can only be said that it has only reached the strength of the heyday of Grand Duke Mabula.

Grand Duke Mabula did not bring all his strength to counter the rebellion at that time. Only one of the three earls and vassals went out with the army, and only half of the direct forces of Grand Duke Marula's headquarters were taken.

Reiner's strength is indeed strong enough, and he has shown enough power on the battlefield, but after all, the royal lords are seriously injured now, and the imperial capital has also begun a large-scale military expansion.

If Reiner's strength is not enough to compete with the imperial capital, then this alliance is dispensable.

"Haha, I don't think there is any problem with this proposal!" Earl Jollal said heartlessly.

Reiner glanced at him, and was very moved by his support.

Speaking of which, Reiner knew that he could not make a decision casually on this kind of matter, even if Earl Jollal couldn't support him at this time, he didn't feel surprised at all.

"Well... I am willing to support Earl Rainer!" After pondering for a while, the Earl of Preston also said slowly.

Reiner is even more grateful to him.

To be honest, although the Earl of Preston is more stable than Earl Jorral, this also makes him appear more unpredictable. It is not completely different from Earl Jorral's carefree and easy-to-get-together personality.

He was willing to stand up and support him this time, which really exceeded Reiner's expectations.

He cast his eyes on the Earl of Princeton, only to see that the other party smiled at him and nodded imperceptibly.

"Should..." Reiner thought quietly in his heart, and his trust in the Earl of Princeton gradually increased to the same level as that of Earl Jollal.

It is true that Earl Jollal initially evaluated him as an upright person, but it is difficult to get the most sincere friendship with such a person. Although Reiner admits that he is his friend, it is really difficult to fully trust him.

But the other party still supports me under the current situation, which is not something ordinary friends can do.

Reiner looked at the vacillating royal lords,

I couldn't help but smiled, and said: "It's okay, it's still a long time anyway, you can give me an answer after thinking about it!"

Leiner didn't intend to let them all support him, he knew that it might not be so easy to get everyone's support before he showed his stronger strength.

The purpose of holding this martial arts tournament is to show off one's own strength, so that everyone can see if one has the strength to be the leader of the royal family.

Although they suffered great losses on the battlefield before, the original militia system was quite successful. After several months of training, Leiner absorbed some of them into the army.

Although there are some gaps with soldiers who have actually experienced fighting on the battlefield, it is better than recruits who have not been trained at all.

And the two junior barracks in Leiner's territory were not idle either. After more than seven months, they contributed 140 Moreland sergeants to him, and the losses on the battlefield were compensated.

In addition, in this war, Leiner deeply felt the weakness of long-range power, so he absorbed a considerable number of hunters in the territory as archers for training.

And the loss on the battlefield was huge, and the Scarlet Griffin Knight Reiner, who had only ten people left, also spent a huge price to replenish them, and restored to the scale of thirty people.

Just to replenish the army, Leiner spent more than a thousand merit points, and now he only has 5,000 merit points left to use at will.

But now he has taken a fancy to a very expensive building, but the efficacy of this building is really something that Reiner cannot refuse.

It was a barracks of the Scarlet Griffin Knights, and there were two stunts brought about by the construction alone.

They are: "The radiance of the blood of the Griffin increases the attributes of the troops of the Scarlet Griffin Knights by 10%"

"Punishment of the Griffon, the Scarlet Griffon Knights are jealous of evil, and the banditry is reduced by 30% within the territory where the Scarlet Griffin Knights barracks are located."

These two stunts are not against the sky, but at least they are very practical effects, and the biggest role of this barracks is to mass-produce Scarlet Griffon Knights.

Twenty Scarlet Griffin Knights and four Scarlet Griffon followers are produced every year. Although the production efficiency is far inferior to that of Reiner's junior barracks, all the Scarlet Griffon Knights produced are sky-defying troops.

Twenty people per year, that is to say, after ten years, Reiner will have five Scarlet Griffin Squadrons with one hundred people, a powerful military unit composed of twenty knights and eighty retinues.

What's so scary about having such a powerful army in your hands?

But unfortunately, the exchange price of this Scarlet Griffin Knights barracks is 12,000 points of merit, and Reiner now has a difference of more than 7,000 points of merit.

At this time, the vicinity of the martial arts arena was already full of voices, and tens of thousands of people gathered there.

This time, the number of knights who signed up for the competition reached more than 1,500, a very terrifying number.

Among them, there are more than 800 knights from the lords of the royal family, more than 300 knights from Leiner and his vassals, and the remaining 400 or more are wandering knights from all over the world.

For this match, Leiner built a huge arena, and today is the day when the tournament officially begins.

So early on, the knights, their followers, and local residents gathered outside the arena to watch the grand match.

What Leiner is happy about is that this game cost a lot, but the return he got from selling tickets has reached more than half of the cost.

In addition to the seats in the front row for Leiner and the royal lords, there are still a lot of surplus, so those businessmen and wealthy people from all over the world spent a lot of money to buy the front row seats from Leiner's hands. seat, the ticket price for the front row has reached three gold coins each.

In addition, the vassals under Leiner's command also took advantage of this opportunity to make a small fortune. They sold the extra front row seats in their hands, but got four or five gold coins.

While waiting for the banquet to come to an end, Reiner smiled and said to the royal lords: "It's not long before the martial arts tournament starts, why don't we go directly to the martial arts arena to prepare!"

November 14th, twenty-five years of the Empire.

afternoon.

The banquet was over, and the lords followed Leiner to the huge arena outside the city.

Leiner led the crowd to the front row of the competition arena, and the seats arranged according to the realization were seated one after another.

After they entered, the spectators who bought tickets also walked into the stands to find their seats.