Chapter 61 Know when to advance and when to retreat

Derrick understood what he meant from his eyes.

However... this is not the capital. Can you get a powerful noble by putting the blame on someone?

Derek laughed sarcastically. This marquis may have played too much infighting in the palace.

"Treason, then I have to ask the Holy Cross Kingdom whether it is willing to pardon my crime."

Derek is very clear about his position. Today's Viscount Derek is no longer the Knight Derek of yesterday.

From the moment the king delegated power, when Augusta repelled the attack of the Holy Cross Kingdom.

Viscount Derek is a group that everyone envied very much - a powerful noble.

Go ask the king of the Holy Cross Kingdom if he is willing to accept Derek's betrayal now.

Stay away from the capital. If you are not happy with your job, then change jobs.

At that time, not to mention the reversal of the Holy Mile Province, the northern province will be lost.

See how His Majesty the King of the Locke Kingdom chooses.

Marquis Hussein realized it later, and his face changed for a moment.

He opened his mouth, but couldn't say anything.

Derek has turned around.

"Assassin, I will beat him to death here today. I don't need to find evidence. That's what the sheriff does.

I only have the prisoner here. I feel that whoever attacked me was you.

So, I don't need a confession."

The knight of the Augusta family did not hesitate at all and started working with the whip.

The crackling sound of the whip not only silenced the kneeling soldiers of the First Legion of the Northern Expedition, but also silenced the restless nobles.

And Derek's methods are not over yet.

"Recently, the snow is heavy and the ground is slippery. One hundred soldiers of the First Legion of the Northern Expedition fell to death while walking.

And in the next week, whoever dares to leave the barracks will fall to death.

Whether it is a soldier... or the Marquis."

The knights did not show mercy, and they pressed the heads of the soldiers of the First Legion of the Northern Expedition to the ground and banged them.

Soon, all these unlucky guys fell to death while walking.

The smile on the face of Marquis Hussein was stiff. He really had never encountered such a situation. All his previous experience in court struggles was useless.

And if he thought with his toes, His Majesty the King would rather believe that he fell to death, rather than being killed by this Viscount.

The scene was silent, with only the sound of whips, and even the whipped assassins forgot to scream.

The northern nobles who had cried out for injustice in front of Count Pereira before all quietly hid back, and now they felt a little weak in their calves, fearing that they would be noticed by Viscount Derek.

In comparison, it seems that smashing their own shops is not unacceptable.

They are willing to be smashed by more people, as long as the Viscount calms down.

Perhaps it is because Derek has always been round that people don't know that he still has edges and corners.

When Wang Mang was humble and did not usurp the throne, he was just like a minion.

Now he is shaking, and speaking well is called humility, and really going berserk is called it.

Even the king, everyone is not completely a monarch and minister.

Loyalty is a mandatory requirement for the lower nobles, and everyone will make it impossible for the betrayer to get by.

But for the middle and upper nobles, loyalty is just a bargaining chip, not a necessity.

Conspiracy and betrayal are the inevitable themes for the middle and upper nobles.

If loyalty is omnipotent, there will be no war of division, and there will be no Locke Kingdom today.

If the first king can do it, can't I, Derek, do it?

It is very difficult to make a time traveler completely brainwashed by this set of knightly virtues.

Derek's loyalty can also be measured.

He will act in this way only after seeing through the relationship between the king and the nobles, and will not be bound by the rules and regulations.

On the contrary, Marquis Hussein, who is nominally higher in status, is bound by his hands and feet and dare not mess around in public.

Conspiracy can never be put on the table.

Unfortunately, most people will never understand this truth in their lifetime.

Derek stepped over the corpses on the ground, and the brains and blood were mixed together, inevitably dirtying his boots.

But he just stepped on them, and even walked to the carpet and rubbed it hard twice.

"Count Pereira, Marquis Haishan, a little accident, I'm sorry to have kept you waiting."

Looking at his appearance, if the blood under his feet hadn't dried yet, you would even feel that nothing had happened.

He had just said harsh words to Marquis Haishan, but now he smiled as if he had met an old friend.

Even his etiquette and attitude were impeccable, and every muscle on his face was just right, showing a perfect smile.

Marquis Haishan's smile was very stiff now. Even if he thought he had seen many big scenes, he couldn't adapt to this rough style for a while, and couldn't adapt to the brain and blood flowing in front of him.

It was from this moment that he really realized that the political ecology of the Northland was completely different from that of the King's Capital.

But the guy who could crawl out of the big dye vat of the King's Capital would definitely not be defeated so easily.

Everyone knows that conquering the barbarians is a good opportunity. Why did Marquis Haishan get this opportunity?

He came to the Northland this time at a great price, and he came to make achievements.

Therefore, Marquis Haishan quickly adjusted his mindset and told himself that he must never look at the Northland and the nobles of the Northland with the same eyes as before.

"At least before adapting to this place, there can be no big moves."

Knowing when to advance and when to retreat is also an advantage.

Of course, when he adapts to the rules of the Northland and figures out the skills to survive here, he will still fight for what he should fight for.

As I said, there are definitely idiots among the nobles, but they are definitely not all idiots.

Especially those guys who crawled out of the quagmire of the palace, each of them is shrewd to the bone.

After adjusting his mentality, the smile on Marquis Haishan's face softened, at least it didn't look so stiff.

He even took the initiative to turn sideways and make room for Derek to express his goodwill.

This move made people look at him twice more.

He is more difficult to deal with than those idiots because he can bend and stretch, and knows when to advance and retreat.

However, Derek never hopes that his opponent is stupid, and he even hopes that Marquis Haishan is smarter.

At least, struggle will not be the main theme of the Holy Maitreya Province.

Internal fighting is inevitable, but the biggest enemy is the Holy Cross Kingdom, followed by the Barbarian Kingdom, and finally each other.

Although loyalty can be changed, no one is willing to give up this expensive bargaining chip without sufficient rewards.

Those who can't see this clearly should get out as soon as possible to avoid dragging down their teammates.

The Marquis of Haishan may not have seen this clearly before, but now... maybe he has seen it clearly?

The details will be clear when he acts later.

Now, the atmosphere is very silent. The nobles and officers of the two places, who were originally hostile to each other, are no longer in the mood to fight for victory or defeat.

As the three big guys sat down, no one dared to speak, for fear that the slightest movement would attract the attention of the big guys.