Knights and Magic Wand
Chapter 372 - 372 179 Thunder

372: Chapter 179 Thunder 372: Chapter 179 Thunder Seated in the spacious administrative office of the main castle, the giant arched glass window was shining brightly, wiped by a cloth controlled by Kovis using the Magic Hand.

Under the afternoon sunlight, Leon carefully outlined on the letter, stating that as newly elevated nobles with insufficient military force, talent shortage, and management difficulties, they planned to establish a knight order with a future scale of no more than five hundred men, to unify the political affairs and defense…

As lords who were directly loyal to the Sealing Lord, establishing a military organization with political implications in their territory was naturally not something to be decided on a whim.

They were all, whether in terms of territory or status, within the ruling system of the Thorns Flower family, and as such, they were required to obtain authorization and permission from the Sealing Lord by rule.

Of course, Leon believed that Count Eriv would not refuse his request.

If it were other Thorny Flower vassals contacting other house servants to form such an organization, Count Eriv might need to seriously consider it, weighing its potential risks.

But for himself, there were not so many concerns.

It was not only because of the trust now established between the lord and vassal but more importantly, the three of them genuinely had thin backgrounds and no foundation in Orland.

Among the ten who were entitled as barons, excluding the subordinate title given to Count Eriv’s eldest son,

The other eight new barons, all lords of the Thorny Flower Territory, had more or less familial connections and accumulations brought about by generations of marital alliances, reaping an extensive network of kith and kin within the kingdom.

The advantages brought about by kinship and clan connections allowed them to immediately pull together people to form a base and rapidly dive into the governance and management of their territories after gaining power.

Such deeply rooted forces, if united under a practical organization, would cause even a broad-minded person like Count Eriv to feel uneasy in his sleep.

However, when Leon looked at his own situation, excluding the hard-rescued Elena, the three brothers were almost a step away from being “annihilated.”

Without banding together, let alone the vast Baron Domain, even if Azeryan and Lokhak were to manage their respective territories, they would find themselves overwhelmingly busy.

Eriv would certainly understand such practical difficulties, as he was most likely currently experiencing a similar situation at the “upgraded version” of the Earldom.

In fact, if they did not establish a formal joint organization and continued to unify their territories through personal loyalty as before, it would not have any impact.

Now, openly putting forward the idea of establishing a knight order and reporting it to the Sealing Lord was also an act of proactive honesty from the Baron Domain to the Sealing Lord.

If it were some other distrustful lords, this act might also be interpreted as a test.

Leon shook his head; fortunately, his consistent performance would definitely not lead to any such suspicion.

After all, he truly had no ambitions that would harm the Farolis Family.

…In the letter, he candidly described the management difficulties of the territory and the obligations to the Thorns Flower family after the establishment of the knight order.

Leon sealed the letter with his stamp and asked Kovis to take it to the messenger in the city’s military camp.

Watching Kovis’s hurrying figure leaving, Leon put down his quill pen and stretched, feeling somewhat expectant.

Not just expecting a reply, but also looking forward to the upcoming ceremony.

Now that he had been elevated to baron, Leon finally had the capital to formally recognize his “knights.”

He had waited a long time for this day,

The first to be recognized were always the ones by his side, Olivia and Kovis.

Despite nominally, according to the ancient traditions of Felu, any knight was qualified to recognize another as a knight.

However, in this era when the noble system was reaching perfection, knights without true titles who recognized others would not be entered into the noble registry, nor would they be recognized by their own nation, let alone that the status of a knight also implied tax burdens and military obligations difficult for ordinary commoners to bear, and over time, that old tradition had become virtually obsolete.

Thinking about how to repay these two great contributors, Leon stood up, pushed open the room door, and headed to the “Treasury” where important properties were stored inside the main castle.

Descending the stairs, passing through the residential floor, he paused for a moment when he passed by a door with an “In Use” sign hanging and locked from the inside.

Behind this door was a large bathroom inside the main castle.

Avalon City was replete with sanitation facilities, magnificent aqueducts, reservoirs, fountains, bathrooms, bathhouses, public bathhouses, toilets, large sewers…

and thanks to the disrupted time characteristics of the Spirit-like Field, the excellent water supply system of this ancient fortress, built a thousand years ago, could still function normally.

Leon had repeatedly confirmed with Lola that the pipes supplying upstream and underground clean water to the fortress were not harmful materials like lead pipes; it seemed the ancient Lorelettians had not made the same mistake as the Romans, which reassured him as he returned to a long-missed convenient water usage life.

The main castle where he now resided, second only to the Mage Tower in terms of the completeness of facilities, also housed a bathroom that could be described as exquisitely luxurious.

Regrettably, as the main castle had mostly housed Galron’s Mage Guard, those rough gentlemen living here in ancient times naturally did not specifically differentiate between male and female bathhouses, forcing the current residents of the fortress to arrange staggered times for men and women if they wanted to enjoy this facility.