The news of Grand Duke Annan's reappearance, together with the information that he had been successfully promoted, quickly spread throughout Frostwhisper Province.
The transcendent existence of the golden level has the oppressive power of a natural disaster in any country in the world.
Because through conventional means, those who do not have the power of a gold-level transcendent are completely unable to resist the absolute suppression of the power of gold-level elements, which is reflected in all aspects.
It's quite common for Bronze to defeat Silver, for mortals to defeat Bronze, and even for mortals to defeat Silver... Take Dove, for example, when she first entered the game, and the shape-shaping wizard named Jude.
However, silver beats gold differently.
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Even if the dimension of time is pushed forward to the second era, there are only a handful of silver-level people like Annan who can leapfrog and defeat gold. They themselves can be called "legends".
Their deeds will be praised from generation to generation, and the Golden Order who were defeated by them will also be famous together with them.
And generally speaking... these people will become great people. Those who do not die young will 100% become gold-level existences or above.
Either they are the favorites of a certain righteous god who are very likely to become the pope, and they can defeat the weaker gold through the power of divine magic, such as Noah's silver knight captain Alexander; or they are the ones from the Fragment of Truth.
The holder is the future god...such as the Marquis of Iris back then and Annan today.
And Salvatore is a special case among special cases.
So far, he is the only one who can rub the Philosopher's Stone at the Silver level... Apart from the Philosopher's Stone, there is nothing that can allow people to enter gold in advance. After all, this is the same level as the power of elements.
Even a higher being.
If you want to fight against the Golden Order, you must send out the rest of the Golden Order; otherwise, with the power of the whole country, the most you can do is expel them.
When gods, especially true gods, cannot take direct action against mortals, the golden level is the pinnacle of arbitrary behavior in this world.
And if this transcendent existence has special rights and status, so that the country cannot unite to resist him... and even loves him instead, then this is a perfect incomprehension.
We can only wait until the end of his life.
Until then, whatever he says is what he says.
Those nobles who were originally hesitant immediately turned to Annan and Dmitri without hesitation. On the first day Annan returned to the cold winter, he had already declined the "celebration banquet" and "meeting" of more than a dozen nobles.
"Request" Of course, my heartfelt wishes and congratulatory gifts were still accepted.
After all, they don't have anything important... and they can't possibly have anything important.
As we all know, it is Dmitri who actually does the work in the Principality of Winter. The Duke of Winter is only responsible for providing opinions on the general direction and serving as Dmitri's "solid backing".
These people are just here to flatter you and show their loyalty.
If Annan doesn't even accept the gift, they must be thinking wildly about whether the Grand Duke wants to kill them? Is it too late for them to defect to the Grand Duke now?
In order to prevent them from getting scared and jumping over the wall... Annan still asked the Winter Hands who entertained the guests to collect their gifts and letters.
After they asked each other, they found that although Annan did not accept their meeting invitation...but Grand Duke Annan did not accept any meeting invitation. This way they can feel at ease.
However, Annan never even looked at the gifts sent by those people.
He directly asked the players who served in the Hand of Winter to divide the gifts among themselves and take whatever they wanted.
If it were the traditional Hand of Winter, it would be called a selfless person when faced with this kind of thing. It would be easy to drive these relatively peaceful people into the hostile camp... This kind of thing can only make people who have not been cursed by the Hand of Winter
Deal with it by tying up and depriving players of some of their emotions.
Of course, Annan actually has a list.
In other words...a small book.
Those who have caused trouble for Dmitry before, or who did some shameful things when Annan left the Principality of Winter, Annan will directly send the real Hands of Winter to them, and directly contact these Hands of Winter
Explain, "Don't accept anything, don't agree to anything."
The Hand of Winter is only loyal to Grand Duke Annan, and Annan's orders are true.
Without Annan's permission, they would send people away without hesitation and would not accept any gifts they saw.
Of course, this move itself is meaningless.
Those families will not immediately change their past and become good people just because Annan rejected the gift. In fact, this is to appease those available talents who are still honest... and at the same time, do not let these possible people compare with each other.
Players who are soft and "not professional enough" will fight with those professional lobbyists.
To prevent them from listening, they would feel that what the other person said was quite reasonable and pitiful... and they would accept the gift with a soft heart.
This is entirely possible.
But just two days later, noble officials from various places in the cold winter roughly understood their next fate through Annan's attitude.
Some people are pretty decent.
Either all of their adult members committed suicide, and the remaining children were adopted to distant relatives and changed their surnames; or they dispersed the family property and asked the family elders to go to their grandmother's church to accept the sin; or the whole family went directly to the church.
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All in all, it is to disintegrate your own surname on your own.
No matter what the cost, even shamelessness, just want a life... I just hope that the child can survive and the bloodline can be continued.
For these more respectable gentlemen, Annan was also willing to show his "mercy". He did not directly forgive their sins, but just treated them as if their family no longer existed.
In other words, a case record is kept but no further investigation is carried out.
If their descendants continue to do evil in the future, it is not impossible to overturn the old score, postpone the old case to more than 20 years, and investigate it after 40 years; if they can become the pillars of the country, they can also pretend that this does not exist.
If it were a low-magic fantasy world, Annan might have to worry about issues such as "Thirty years east of Hedong and thirty years west of Hexi", or the concierge's son risking his life to get revenge...
But the old grandmother has woken up, and Annan is about to be promoted to a righteous god, so the repentance of these people becomes acceptable.
Not completely surrounding people is also to prevent dogs from jumping over the wall.
Although Annan is not afraid of them, it does not mean that ordinary people in the cold winter are not afraid. If they really want to take revenge on society, they don't know how many people will suffer because of it.
But there do exist players who are dissatisfied... and try to resist in the face of their upcoming fate. They don't admit their mistakes or their cowardice, but secretly accumulate strength.
Take the Melvin family for example.
Their nominal patriarch was detained by Annan, but they acted as if he no longer existed and never came to ask for him.
After all, the Melvin family is essentially an inherited family with the "God on Earth" as its core. The "God on Earth" passed down from generation to generation is their backbone and true leader of opinions.
This clan leader is just a puppet.
"Those people in your family just don't want it to end with dignity."
Annan sighed at the Melvin clan leader who was sweating profusely and had lost a lot of weight in two days.
He did not torture the patriarch, nor even imprison him. He gave Annan whatever he wanted to eat.
Just having him watch everything Annan did made the patriarch become more and more nervous, fearful, and in awe of Annan.
This is completely different from the fearless and even contemptuous attitude when facing Dmitri.
"Do you understand what I mean?"
After lunch, Annan wiped his hands.
He asked calmly: "Earl Melvin?"
"...Do you want to find Gryaznuha?"
"That will happen later. Of course, it's not that we can't complete it together."
Annan showed a gentle smile: "If they are not decent, I will help them be decent."
After saying that, Annan picked up the three sirens that were placed on the table, symbolizing the power of the Duke of Winter.
"Jacob."
Annan Road.
Behind him, a thin and short man emerged in the light.
That was the "magic skill" granted to him by Annan.
"I am here, Your Majesty."
"Open the door," Annan said briskly, "Send Chief Melvin home. I'll go with him."
"Do you need me to follow?"
"That's okay," Annan smiled, "It's not that I can't protect you, but it's still painful to die once.
"After the matter is settled, I will fly back by myself."