1514 If you want to secure the throne, you must first win over most people
As soon as the crown fell on Angela's head, the Golden Palace instantly burst into cheers and regrets.
What surprised William was that he thought that there were so many people opposed to Angela's ascension, and the sarcastic voices would definitely be loud because the law does not punish the public.
Unexpectedly, although these sounds existed, they were quickly covered up by the huge sound of joy.
After scanning the Golden Palace with his mental power, William could easily conclude that at least people on the seventh level had accepted the fact that Odin had passed the throne to Angela.
After thinking about it for a moment, I quickly realized that Odin had ruled Asgard for too long. Thousands of years of being unchanged, many of the Asgardians who could also live for a long time might have been looking forward to it.
Some changes.
At the very least, all battles are hand-to-hand combat, which has long made Asgardians who have contact with various races and forces in the universe feel unwilling to make progress.
Moreover, Angela’s husband is a being that even Odin cannot defeat.
In addition, because of William, Angela truly ruled the Frost Giants that Odin had never conquered, replacing Laufey, the previous king of Jotunheim, and became the true king of Jotunheim.
There were also dark elves who had been hiding for 5,000 years a few years ago. They only attacked Asgard once and were directly wiped out by William on the earth.
These facts make the Asgardians believe that the combination of William and Angela has marked Asgard as truly having no rivals in the Nine Realms.
Longer peace can be expected. The two divine realms are united, and they are not afraid of challenges outside the Nine Realms.
Angela, who officially put on the crown of King of Asgard, suddenly changed her wedding dress. The white skirt and long white tail gathered little by little, converging on her body, turning into a full-body armor with gold rim and silver base.
Then Angela was led by Odin himself and sat on the throne that symbolized Asgard's royal power, accepting the praise and kneeling of everyone present.
Of course, Odin and Frigga would definitely not use it, and William would not even kneel down on one knee, he would not even bend down or even lower his head.
On the contrary, Angela looked at him from time to time, looking for support and relieving her inner tension.
It wasn't until William comforted her with another message for a while that Angela calmed down and allowed the Asgardian who was kneeling on the ground to get up.
After everyone stood up and the entire Æsir realm officially recognized the legitimacy of Angela's throne, William looked at Odin who was standing under the throne with Frigga, looking a little tired and decadent.
Then after thinking about it, he decided to go ahead with the plan, stood up and said to everyone, "As the King of Olympus, Angela's husband, and the Prince of Asgard, I have a gift for the Asgardians.
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Under everyone's curious eyes, William waved his hands and hundreds of sets of Paladin-specific armors and swords appeared in the open space between the throne and the gate of the Golden Palace.
Then, amid the joy and excitement of the Asgardians, William nodded to Strauss, who was standing in the front row of the ceremony, wearing a paladin armor and a red heraldic robe.
They look only 40 or 50 years old? Are there actually 80-year-old Paladins? Strauss, the actual manager, stepped out from more than a dozen Paladin members who were qualified to watch the ceremony.
Immediately, many Asgardians who had cooperated with the Holy Knights and knew Strauss because of the war in Vanaheim, looked at Strauss who was decades younger than him in disbelief.
Then I saw Strauss walking to the steps of the throne, kneeling on the ground to salute William? Then he stood up and bowed to salute Angela?
Before the Asgardians, who were dissatisfied with kneeling and bending to salute, could speak, Strauss clasped his hands together as if praying, and a ray of holy light soon emerged from his body.
After five or six seconds, some people were so dazzled by the holy light that they could not open their eyes.
When Odin and the others saw William suddenly nodding to Strauss, the holy light shining outwards shrank inward violently, as if receiving permission.
After the Holy Light enters the body, many people can easily feel Strauss's strength, and it becomes exponentially stronger in just a few seconds.
Then he saw Strauss, whose holy light was restrained all over his body and his knight armor was shining brightly. He lowered his head and said, "This is the 'prayer technique' newly bestowed upon the Paladins by His Majesty the Great Devon Hill.
The purer the soul, the greater the increase in the Holy Light received. As the bishop of the non-combatant members of the Holy Knights, my strength at this time is about three times as strong as before."
"This is impossible".
As soon as Strauss finished speaking, the entire Golden Palace was filled with unbelievable noises.
If I learn that 'prayer technique', does that mean I can get a threefold increase in strength?
Once this happens, won't people like the Four Warriors of Asgard be directly comparable to or even surpass Thor?
As for a thoughtful person like Odin, he guessed from what Strauss said about "non-combatants" and "pure souls" that pure warriors may not be able to achieve a threefold increase.
But even if it is doubled, or even just a fifth-level increase in strength, the new hundred-member new Paladin Order composed of Asgardian elite warriors,
They will crush the other hundred or even three hundred elite warrior squadrons in Asgard.
Paladins can fight, defend, and heal. They are not outstanding individually, but once formed into a formation, they are absolutely powerful in defense and can wear down the enemy's troops just by consumption.
William waved to Strauss, and the old man quickly returned to the queue of Paladins. Then William pointed to the hundreds of knight suits on the ground and said,
"These one hundred sets of armor and the Holy Knight's training secrets are all gifts from me to my wife Angela. From now on, there will only be two Holy Knight groups in the two major gods.
One belongs to me, and the other belongs to Angela, who was the deputy leader of the Holy Knights.
Any Asgardian who is loyal to Angela and is selected into Angela's direct bodyguards will be qualified to practice the Holy Light."
"Long live Her Majesty Angela".
In an instant, the Golden Palace was filled with exclamations and cheers.
Ordinary, even middle- and upper-class Asgardians don't care that William's standard for cultivating the Holy Light is to be loyal to Angela and join Angela's guard.
They only know that as soon as Angela becomes the new king, she will give all Asgardians a channel to become stronger and rise.
Although there are only a hundred formally awarded paladins, it is just like the formal knights having three to five knight retinues.
There must be a large number of ordinary knights under the Paladins who can cultivate the Holy Light, but whose cultivation level is not high.
From an ordinary soldier and civilian to a member of the new king's personal guard, this change in identity has a very strong appeal to the middle and lower classes.
After all, given the current situation in the Asa Domain, apart from military exploits and outstanding management skills, there is no faster or more direct way to advance to the next level than joining the king's team.
And William may be too happy to notice, or simply pretend not to notice, as the practice of Holy Light spreads among Angela's guards, there is a 100% chance that the practice methods will spread.
Only Odin was secretly happy, but at the same time worried that the craze in Holy Light cultivation would greatly enhance William's influence in Asgard.
No one knows better than him how William, the bastard, pushed Angela to the throne.
And as the trend of Paladins penetrates into Asgard's military force little by little, Angela can easily gain the support of a large group of people and gain the strength to fight against him, the former God King, and is no longer just a person suppressed by her father.