City of Sin: Six families
When I saw Azan from afar, Richard knew that his father was a real big man.
The Azan located in Far Gazing Peninsula has a population of more than 100,000. The city is built according to the shape of a peninsula, with the highest terrain in the northwest, extending southwards in an arc to the Apennine star-studded islands. The beast creeps quietly between the water and the sky, the house is neat, the street is rectangular, and the twenty-meter-high city wall is winding around to protect the residents of the city. On the vast plain outside the city, there are rich land everywhere. The wide Ryan river passes through the city and is injected into the Apen Ninghai, providing an inexhaustible water source for the endless fields.
There is a hill in Azan City, and the world famous Blackrose Castle is built on top of the hill. This is a majestic and huge building complex, which can easily accommodate more than three thousand Warrior. The tall towers standing on all corners are even equipped with permanent large-scale trebuchets, overlooking the city underfoot with a gaze gesture. However, since Blackrose Castle was built, those trebuchets have never been used passively. Although some enemies had attacked under Azan City, their footsteps reached the wall of Azan at most, and then they were defeated.
The castle is a defensive weapon. Blackrose Castle has reached the ultimate in design. Looking at the complex fortress-type building centered on the fort, the wooden shooting platform that can be extended from the city wall or the top of arrow tower at any time. Through the tunnel-like city gate, there are five layers of sturdy gates at a depth of ten meters, and there are many layouts that cannot be seen directly by the eyes. When it was built, Blackrose Castle claimed that it only needed a thousand qualified Warrior garrisons. With sufficient supplies, it was almost unbreakable.
Many purposeful travellers have visited the city in various identities. When they witnessed this monster that occupied the commanding heights of the city, they had to agree with the nearly crazy bragging of Blackrose Castle designers. A noble military strategist who did not want to be named was invited to enter the castle as a guest. After going back, he conducted a sand table deduction for the defensive facilities he saw. It was concluded that even with a fully equipped 50,000 army and heavy siege equipment, he wanted to capture the castle It has to pay a heavy price.
It ’s just that she has never really stood the test of war, because the previous owners of the castle do n’t like to defend. Even if the military is at an absolute disadvantage, they are more willing to choose the boundless plains or the deep mountains as the background to eliminate enemies with sports. . And they will always win.
Even in the whole Sacred Alliance, the madness of Archeron Family is well known.
No one wants to fight the lunatics, let alone one or even a few geniuses in this crazy family. The biggest enemy of Archeron Family, Duke Joseph on Lennon Peninsula, once said with emotion that when the madman and the genius are combined, the damage they can do is multiplied and not added.
At the time of saying this, the 20,000 main force of Duke Joseph had just been defeated by 10,000 elites of Archeron in a long and brutal battle. The fighting power of the Iron Son Joseph is by no means general, and it is in the top ranks on the entire continent.
After hundreds of years of development, the members of Archeron Family now include two marquises and seven Earls. Viscount and Baron are not as many as dogs, and they do not differ much. They have a total territory of more than 100,000 square kilometers. The history of Archeron Family is not long in the whole Sacred Alliance, but its strength is definitely not weak, and it is one of the important forces. However, something strange is that if other families have so many nobles on the ground, there should have been a duke, even Grand Duke, but the highest Archeron Family is only the marquis. It is important to know that Archeron Family is not lacking in force and power. They have both powerful Mage, High Rank Warrior, and more various High Rank occupations, such as Dragon Warlock, Hell Demon Mount, Shadow Shaman, etc. Norland Continent is not peaceful, and it can even be said that the flames of war are the norm. The land occupied by the human race is less than half of the mainland, and it is fighting with a large number of races to compete for survival space.
Humanity is as good as Demon. Not only did they fight against aliens, they also fought endlessly within themselves. The raging war not only burned in Norland, but also spread to the depths of the ocean, as well as many Plane.
Under such a chaotic and complicated situation, it is not difficult for Archeron Family with many geniuses to want a duke or even the founding Grand Duke. As long as they concentrate resources to expand outwards, get enough territory from aliens, and firmly occupy, establish a complete civil, economic, and judicial system, and balance the distribution of interests within the family, a maximum of two generations, a duke will produce. At least half of the Duke of Sacred Alliance was produced in this way, so in the eyes of nobles in other countries, the sacred Sacred Alliance Empire is a base for upstarts and gangsters, and the emperor is the largest upstart. It's just that everything will change qualitatively after reaching a certain level, and so will the outbreak. The outbreak of the sacred Alliance Imperial Family exceeded the critical point of people's psychological endurance, so it won the respect and respect of the vast majority of old nobles.
The outbreak of Archeron is not inferior, but the history is too short. The fatal part of the short history is that the accumulation of wealth and strength is not enough. And they are too crazy to be respected.
The current patriarch Marquis Gordon of Archeron is itself an example of an outbreak. When he first started his training fifteen years ago, he was just an Level 3 rookie Warrior. Immediately showed his personal force and political and military talents, and the elven king court who captured the Yongye Forest ten years ago shook the whole Sacred Alliance! There are not many people who dare to attack the elven territory, but only Gordon is the only one who took only 50 Rune Knight and more than a thousand miscellaneous soldiers to dare to go into the Yongye Forest, and he succeeded!
Now the 33-year-old Gordon has become a marquis, and has lived in Blackrose Castle, and has obtained Azan, the Archeron territory specially prepared for the patriarch.
Thanks to his population, the experience of Gordon is a legend, and the legend is still being written. However, in addition to Blackrose Castle, the absolute influence of Marquis Gordon is only the territory he has laid. Other members of Archeron Family usually ignored his orders at all. In Archeron, the title of patriarch is more like a simple honor, if there is no Blackrose Castle and Azan.
Heraldics and historians who specialize in the Archeron Family lineage have once concluded that the reason why this family failed to appear as a Grand Duke is because of the independence and rebellion flowing in the blood of the family. Every Archeron is unwilling to submit Under others, even if that person is his father.
This is not a rigorous exposition, and the scholars who make the judgment are not very knowledgeable, nor are they famous. In fact, if he can't use his research results to return to the nobles in Archeron Family, this scholar will even live on the streets. If he really had the ability, he would not study such a partial family. The final outcome of the scholars was precisely living on the street, and the death of illness and illness. It is said that when his research results were sent to the Archeron patriarch's desk at that time, the patriarch turned over, and he ordered that any Archeron person be prohibited from giving him any form of funding. The Archerons, which has a rebellious tradition, carried out the patriarch's order completely and surprisingly.
There is only one real reason behind it, that is, this whole article is full of gorgeous words. Although the logic is confusing, the examples are absurd, full of catching wind and childish speculation, the conclusion is **** correct.
The distance from Rutherland Village to Azan is more than 3,000 kilometers, and it took less than half a month on the road. On the way, Mordred told Richard a lot about Archeron Family, and introduced some customs and power distribution on the mainland. So when I arrived at Azan, Richard already knew a lot about the family.
Family, this is a brand new word for Richard. In the past, even his father's concept was vague. How could he know what a family is? However, judging from Mordred's attitude, this powerful knight is very important to the family. The concept of family here is much broader, including not only the bloodline of the lineage and sidelines, but also the little nobles and knights who follow the main family, they can all be regarded as people in the family. Bloodline is the link between families, but the meaning is not limited to blood. Many special blood lines will have unique abilities, and the combination of different blood lines will often produce new abilities. Some bloodlines are extremely powerful, strong enough to be chased desperately. Therefore, nobles and families have a new meaning in the Norland world. Marriage is not only for political alliances, but also for the purpose of creating powerful offspring.
When Richard stands in front of the gate of Blackrose Castle, he should already have a deep understanding of Archeron. However, Little Richard felt more chaotic. Everything that Mordred hadn't put into his mind without a system was like a broken piece of jigsaw. How could he never make a complete picture.