Chapter 30 Looking at each other silently

In the beginning, the land that could be inhabited and produced in the core continent was far from the large area it is now. It basically only had a part of the coast and a few peripheral islands.

Because it is difficult to expand territories in the north and west, and overseas is restricted by navigation technology and dangers at sea, there is no way to sail far.

Someone once tried to sail along the coastline, trying to bypass the endless forest, but there was also no news and disappeared directly during the voyage.

Therefore, in order to compete for resources, the nobles on the core continent and main islands fought for years, conquered, annexed, and enslaved each other, and gradually formed the three largest forces, called the Three Kings.

The three kings fought non-stop at first, but they were all about the same strength, and with the three parties checking and balancing, no one could do anything to the other.

So, the three kings who had been fighting for many years finally sat down to negotiate peace, formed the Holy Blessing Alliance, and came up with such a thing as the "Soul Subordination Contract".

But they did not directly use the "soul subordination contract" to control the nobles under their control. Instead, they generously rewarded the powerful nobles who helped them conquer the world, gave them territory, and let them use the "soul subordination contract" to establish control over their subordinates and people.

rule.

The three kings established the Holy Blessing Palace and the Punishment Knights to help maintain the entire ruling foundation established by the "Soul Subordination Contract".

Naturally, there were resistance and suppression during this period, but the chaos was not big and was quickly suppressed by absolute power. Then this management and governance system succeeded in controlling the impact of conquests among nobles to a minimum.

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Next, the Shengyou Palace began to coordinate the nobles to gather forces to develop to the north and west, wiping out those forests bit by bit.

For example, the territories around Yulang City where Kaios and the others were located were all developed from the endless forest.

Beinan, the most powerful indentured servant of the Li family, has been developing territory in the north.

The biggest workload of this kind of development is logging, then processing and transporting the wood, and finally dealing with sudden attacks by various creatures with different strengths in the forest, maintaining the progress of logging, and protecting the logging facilities.

The dangers dealt with in this process are relatively random. Most of the time, it seems that a few level 7 or 8 mid-level spiritual masters or magicians can guard them without any problem. However, sometimes when encountering a large wave of monsters or powerful giant aliens,

Beast, even a top-level strongman would have to call for reinforcements.

Moreover, the developed territory does not directly become a formal territory owned by the pioneering nobles, but more like a redeemable resource.

Basically, the "raw territories" opened up through logging and deforestation in the northern border need to pass through the Holy Blessing Palace in exchange for other areas that have been transformed by magic and have been developed relatively well, or are closer to the main city and are included in the patrols of the Punishment Knights.

"Economic territory" within the scope of protection.

Of course, the exchanges are not of equal area. Depending on the grade and value of the "economic territory", there will be different exchange ratios, but the cheapest is at least 5:1. Better "economic territories" may need to be exchanged with other nobles.

In order to put the territories together, 10:1 or even 30:1 is possible.

In comparison, the situation in the western border will be much more complicated.

Naturally, there are endless forests in the Western Realm, but besides that, there are also some people who are unwilling to join the Holy Blessing Alliance.

Among these people are the original nobles of the Western Realm, strong men from all walks of life who are unwilling to establish a soul subordination contract, and the former nobles of the Holy Blessing Alliance who broke the rules of the Holy Blessing Palace for various reasons and were killed by the Punishment Knights. They use

The terrain also uses the endless forest to continuously deal with and confront the noble alliance of the Holy Blessing Alliance and the Punishment Knights.

Therefore, it has always been difficult to open up the western border. If the territory is seized from the so-called "Western Barbarians", some can even exchange the "economic territory" in the heartland with Shengyou Palace on a 1:1 basis.

But those who can open up the Western Border are the great nobles and top lords. Baron-level people like Kaios are not qualified to open up the Western Border at all - they are neither qualified nor capable.

The book Kaios read before mentioned the north and west, mainly talking about the Endless Forest, and not much about the people and organizations in the western boundary who resisted the Holy Blessing Alliance. After taking back the captive from the western boundary today, he

Then I started looking for more relevant information.

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In the middle of the night, Kaios woke up from his desk in a daze and found that he seemed to have been reading for too long and fell asleep without realizing it.

He felt a little thirsty, so he got up and went to the living room to open the refrigerator, took out half a bottle of Coke and drank it.

But after just two sips, he suddenly felt something was wrong.

But he couldn't tell what was wrong. Apart from the lack of gas in the Coke, was it okay?

The cell phone on the table suddenly rang. He went to pick it up, but found that the caller ID showed "Dad".

His heart skipped a beat, why would his father call him in the early hours of the morning?

As soon as the phone was connected, my father's cold voice sounded: "How are your grades? Did you pass this time?"

"The results haven't come out yet, and...after passing the written test, you still have to have an interview..."

"Do you think you can pass the written test?"

"dad……"

"I know you haven't even thought about it! You never wanted to pass the exam! You just want to use this excuse not to go to work and suck my blood for the rest of your life!"

"I..." His father's words were like chisels, hitting his heart time and time again. However, the words he wanted to refute reached his throat, but he couldn't say anything.

"I won't raise you in vain anymore!" His father's voice was as cold as ice, sounding on the ground.

The phone was hung up, the door was suddenly opened, and the landlord came in with someone and started moving things.

"It's so late, what are you doing?" Kaios quickly stepped forward to stop him.

"If your father doesn't pay your rent, can you pay it yourself?" The landlord looked at him scornfully, "Go away and find a place to live by yourself!"

"Let go, don't touch my things!" Kaios panicked.

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"Sir, what's wrong with you?" A familiar voice came from beside me.

Kaios stood up suddenly and saw clearly the person next to him who was looking at him with concern. He subconsciously took her into his arms and hugged her tightly.

"master……"

"It's okay, I'll give you a hug."

Salveira wanted to say something, but she felt Kaios tightening her arm tightly. In the end, she said nothing and just put her hand gently on Kaios' back.

In the study, he fell asleep because he was fascinated by the books and information about the Western World. After having this dream that he couldn't tell whether it was a nightmare or not, Kaios couldn't fall asleep again.

He simply went to the warehouse again, stood in front of the forbidden spirit cage, and looked at the woman sitting cross-legged inside.

The woman also opened her eyes and looked at him.

When communicating with the people at the auction, Kaios once asked the woman's name and origin, but the reply he received was:

"It's best you don't know."

For those auction items from the Western Boundary, the auction descriptions deliberately omitted the specific origins and detailed names, and only introduced their objective quality, grade, effect, material, etc.

However, by reading relevant information, Kaios also understood that the fact that this captive from the Western Boundary, who may have had super-level strength before, could appear at the auction house illustrates one fact:

The power she belonged to, and everything she owned, had vanished into thin air and been completely destroyed.

Therefore, what Kaios is facing now is a troubled strong man who has lost everything, is seriously injured, and bears a blood feud, and to a certain extent, he belongs to the camp of her enemy.

Is there really a way to increase my favorability and remove the red circle?

He originally expected that this would be difficult, but now it seems that it is even more difficult than he expected.

While he was thinking this, Kaios suddenly noticed that the red halo behind the woman's head suddenly faded a little.

Kaios was a little confused. He came in now and said nothing and did nothing?
Chapter completed!