Chapter 1185 Promotion to demigod is also a new beginning
Autumn of the Imperial Calendar Year 2522.
In the fountain courtyard of the Palace of Fontainebleau.
Ryan was slowly immersing himself in the bath water amid the scent of cornflowers, iris, red roses and carnations.
The original body is now starting to look a little less like a human being. Every step he takes is filled with light and shadow of ultramarine. His every move is like the ancient god of war coming to the world, or like the gods fighting in the ancient war between elves and gods.
The carriage is as majestic as patrolling the human world.
Ryan's physique became stronger, but he deliberately suppressed further expansion of his body because it was not time yet.
Under the streamlined muscles, countless spiritual torrents are surging. Among them, the silver spiritual energy is a gift from the Emperor. The Emperor's genes make up half of the Gray Knight, and those golden torrents are Malcador's last.
As a gift, the power of the palmer is actually more inclined to the abilities that evil villains should have, such as mind control, crazy torture of other people's souls, and banishing the opponent directly to the depths of subspace in one breath.
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However, the most powerful ability that Ryan gained after being promoted to demigod is called - the Shadow of Oblivion, which allows the original body to summon a spirit body of his own to fight alongside him. This spirit body has about 50% of Ryan's combat power, and will
Imitate Ryan to release various psychic skills and directly participate in the battle, but do not leave too far away from Ryan.
Despite this, the Shadow of Oblivion may be the most valuable legacy left by the Emperor and Malcador. It allows Lion to do two things at the same time, and can also change the situation of the battle at the most critical moment. When necessary, Ryan's entity can
Instantly switching places with the spirit body will cause Ryan to instantly lose half of his psychic energy and physical strength, but its flexibility and tactical effects far outweigh the cost.
For example, in the final moments of the Horus Heresy, the Emperor personally led the Custodes and Sisters of Silence. When the Mechanicus Priests fought countless Chaos Daemons in the Webway under the Imperial Palace, the original Daemon Draconion was almost killed on the spot.
Lord of Mankind, the Emperor relied on this move to switch places with the spirit body at the critical moment and avoid Draconion's fatal blow.
This is different from flashing. Flashing requires some preparation time and will be interrupted. The Shadow of Oblivion will not. At any time, including the moment when Ryan's body is seriously injured or even dies, he can calmly exchange with the Shadow of Oblivion.
Avoid death at the cost of losing half your psychic energy and physical strength.
Ryan went through six tests before finally being promoted to Demigod. After Malcador's enlightenment, he passed five of them easily. He played with a gun in front of Khorne's seat, drank soup at Nurgle's table, and drank in Tzeentch's house.
Passing stolen goods, skipping gangs in front of the emperor, passing merchants under the ancient sage's stage.
Only the test of Slaanesh took Ryan more than three months to successfully overcome.
It has to be said that Slaanesh did have many tricks, which shocked Ryan, especially some of the unique skills of his demons, which cost Ryan a lot of energy to get rid of.
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In addition to being indescribable and indescribable, Slaanesh also came up with a strange move. A group of muscular bird demons wearing leather and chains blocked Ryan, boy♂♂door and ass♂we♂.
When the forest fairy stretched out his hand and extended a royal invitation to Ryan, Ryan believed that it would be difficult for anyone to refuse.
And that song, Ryan can fucking sing it.
"I can't fly out of the colorful world~ It turns out that I am a drunk butterfly~"
Ryan sang it subconsciously, then smiled bitterly and shook his head.
It took more than three months for Ryan to finally overcome his shortcomings in this area and successfully resist the temptation of Slaanesh.
The original body began to realize that he was no longer a human being, or a complete human being. The current Ryan is a combination of "human" in the subspace concept and "human" in the mortal concept. He is still a human.
, but he is no longer completely a mortal.
Leaning comfortably next to the large, dense bathing pool, Ryan took a monocle lens from the tiles beside the pool, leaned out, and began to read the messages sent in from outside by Theresa and Veronica.
Yes, although Ryan has been in seclusion for several months, just like his father who has been sitting on the toilet for 10,000 years, Ryan is also aware of the outside world. The Fairy in the Lake and MI7, including Talleyrand, arrived on time.
Send the information into the training room for him to browse (if he is free), and his spiritual power can also learn about what is happening in the outside world.
The sequelae after the breakthrough are still there. The seven scattered forces in Ryan's body are now running around. He still needs some time to straighten everything out. Also, he has been dazzled by watching Slaanesh's carnival performance for too long. Ryan's current vision is equivalent to
People with moderate to high myopia also need some time to recover.
Furthermore, Ryan knows that even if he is the Sun King, there will always be a day when it comes to an end. Kingship is not eternal, and he cannot rule Britannia forever. The Kingdom of Knights needs to rely on its own system and beliefs to continue.
Over the years, knights, nobles and bureaucrats have formed a habit of "listening to His Majesty and doing as he says" and lack the ability to think and make decisions on their own. This incident happened to be an experience.
There is also Devon Hill. He who can generals is a talented general. He who can generals is a handsome man.
By the way, Ryan also wanted to see if the Old Guard was at risk of evolving into the Roman Praetorian Guard.
The first thing he opened was Beria's report.
Beria wrote in the report that most of Estalia's territory fell. The knightly army was slow to mobilize due to the lack of decision-making by the bureaucrats and the slow response and slow mobilization of the knights and nobles themselves in recruiting troops. Estalia's millions of refugees ended up with only about
1.1 million people, including 300,000 young people, successfully evacuated to Britannia and are currently resettled in the principalities of Beléon and Carcassonne.
Due to differences in language, culture, beliefs and living habits, several large-scale conflicts broke out between Brittanians and Estalian refugees almost immediately after contact. The Brittanians looked down on Estalian refugees.
The demi-humans and the Estalians also blamed the chivalrous patients for not supporting them as early as possible, and neither side accepted the other.
Ryan sighed slightly. Malcador was right. Conflicts between mortals due to race, country, culture, and beliefs often only require a tiny spark to detonate and form a chain of hatred.
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Fortunately, at this time, the Estalians felt extremely confused about the future. It was an extremely trance-like state in which the country was ruined and there was no hope of regaining their homeland.
It's done, no need to fight anymore.
At this time, as an orthodox descendant of the Sunwatcher family, the appearance of Juan Carlos Sunwatcher quickly conquered the hearts of all Estallians. In love, Juan is the Estalian
He has great military exploits and a reputation far and wide. The people of Estalia are proud of him and have always been proud of him.
Finally treating him as his own child, Yu Li, after the main bloodline of the Sunwatcher family was cut off, Juan was originally the legal heir of the Duke Magritte family. He had given up before. Now that most of the family's bloodline is extinct, then
Can I pick it up reluctantly?
Of course! According to the law of noble succession, the remaining more than a hundred knights of Estalia declared Juan on the spot as the orthodox heir to the title of Duke Magritte and swore allegiance to him after Juan appeared. Even Estalia
The Yadus were preparing to crown Juan the Grand Duke of Estalia, and a military organization, the "Estalia Militia", was quickly established with the support of Britannia.
For the knights, nobles and the bureaucracy, this is the result of the game, and both parties can accept it. Juan is the son-in-law of Duke Hagen. Just like Ryan married Sulia, marrying our daughter is as if we are one of our own.
The bureaucracy is naturally familiar with Juan, who is easy to communicate with and control. As for Juan's personal loyalty to Ryan, there is no problem.
The title of Duke was offered to the world, and Juan himself had no reason to refuse it.
But Ryan was still not satisfied.
His original idea was to redeem the military power from the knights and nobles by releasing the land ownership of Estalia.
That is to say, let go and let the knights and nobles get enough benefits in the process of regaining Estalia. In exchange, they can completely take away the military power and troops from the hands of the knights and nobles, so that these military nobles can completely become
A simple landowner.
Don't underestimate this step. This step is very important and is the key to further centralization. Why did Lane implement the military rank system before? Isn't it because the military rank system is a symbol of the nationalization of the army?
Like when Lane was a baron, he could just ignore the duke. I'm not your vassal. How about changing this relationship to Lane being a lieutenant colonel and the opposite being a general?
It is a pity that the reform has entered deep water. How can the knights and nobles give up the military power they have held for thousands of years? They do not resist Ryan's command of their army for the time being. Firstly, they have interests, and secondly, Ryan's prestige is too high and their strength is too high.
Strong, the knight nobles don't want to go against Ryan.
But I don't have to cooperate. This method of relying on Ryan's personal prestige is not thorough, it is not easy to unite the command, it is not easy to cooperate, and it cannot exert the maximum combat effectiveness.
Even the empire on the other side of the mountain actually took advantage of the opportunity of the Great Holy War to destroy the country. After starting over, Ludwig only took back part of the military power from the military nobles.
"One generation can only do what it does for one generation." Ryan said with a wry smile, and that was all he could do for the time being.
Then came the second piece of information, about the war against Chaos in the north of the empire.
The city of Kislev had fallen under the attack of Velich-The Curse. The Chosen One of Tzeentch was obviously not satisfied with this achievement, and he immediately ordered to attack the Empire.
Hundreds of thousands of Chaos troops marched southward, while the Empire only had less than 30,000 Northern Allied Forces. The 60,000 Imperial troops organized by Emperor Karl-Franz were racing against time at all costs to reinforce the border. Many of the troops who set out could never make it.
We've arrived at our destination, beast
Humans and greenskins, eager to kill, frequently hindered the advance. Entire regiments were wiped out by the spreading plague. Some soldiers died of exhaustion and were abandoned on the roadside by their comrades who were desperate to advance regardless. Others left the troops without permission.
, fleeing their homes to protect their loved ones.
At this time in the north, the commander in charge of protecting the empire was the Great Baron and Elector of Hawkland Edbrand Ludenhoff. He carefully planned a series of powerful counterattacks and flexible tactics to delay enough time.
, and then finally waited for the emperor's reinforcements, Ludenhoff soon discovered that he had become the successor.
The leader of nearly one-third of the Reik Guards and a quarter of the emperor's direct army. After receiving strong reinforcements, Ludenhoff finally had the capital. In the Battle of Rupert, Ludenhoff led the empire
The army defeated the Legion of the Cursed, and personally used the iconic Hawk Chief's fire blunderbuss to blow off Velich's head.
Of course, Velic would not die from a bullet to the head, but the mercury in his skull still forced the Chaos Warlock to retreat. Without the guidance of his master, the World Curse army collapsed in the wind, and the empire once gained hope.
It's autumn now, at least this year is over.
Everyone knows that this is not over yet. The hundreds of thousands of people in the World Cursed Legion are not even the vanguard of Archaon's world-destroying army. They are just the reconnaissance team, the real vanguard, and the eternal god's chosen lieutenant Kurgan.
The 300,000-strong Kurgan army of the great warlord and Holy Domain strongman Kron-Conqueror is still gathering across the mountain pass... It will arrive at the northern border of the empire as early as next spring. The 60,000 people in Ludenhoff's hands
(There were losses in the war) The number was only a fraction of that of this vanguard army.
Ryan was noncommittal, and then looked at the next piece of news, which was sent jointly by Aurora and Teresa from MI7.
This is the news about the sudden emergence of the "Reincarnation of the Human Emperor" Wo Teng.
His appearance brought huge turmoil to the entire empire's political situation.
What kind of great upheaval?
Thinking of Karl Franz, Emilia and Frederick, Ryan showed an interested expression and continued to read.