Coiling Dragon, I am different and detached

It has been nearly half a year since the end of the crusade between the Temple of Light and the Frost and Snow Empire.

During this period, the people in Locke's territory have also accepted the fact that they have returned to the embrace of the Frost and Snow Empire.

Those who do not accept it have moved their families to the sphere of influence of the Temple of Light.

Locke did not stop these people.

After the war, everything is in ruins, and Locke's territory needs more people to participate in the construction.

However, Locke will never think that he can make choices for others.

In Locke's view, for the people at the bottom, there is no difference between the Temple of Light and the Frost and Snow Empire.

The fate of the people at the bottom is only related to the nobles in their territory.

If the nobles oppress less, the people's lives will be better.

If the nobles oppress more, the people's lives will be more difficult.

Whether it is the Temple of Light or the Frost and Snow Empire, there are some arrogant nobles who do not treat the people at the bottom as human beings, making the people in their territories live in dire straits.

Locke even felt that, to some extent, the Temple of Light was better than the Frost and Snow Empire.

In the Temple of Light, the search for women with pure souls was open.

The high-ranking officials of the Temple of Light proclaimed in their territory that those who could make the beads glow and heat were angels under the command of the Lord of Light, but they died while fighting for the Lord of Light and were reborn in the world.

They would use rituals to allow these women with pure souls to return to the realm of the God of Light.

As the couple who led the Lord of Angels to the world, they would also receive very generous rewards from the Temple of Light.

In the Frost and Snow Empire, in order to conceal the fact that they were collecting women with pure souls, the high-ranking officials would usually humanely destroy all the relatives and friends of this woman after discovering it.

From Locke's point of view, whether it was the Temple of Light or the high-ranking officials of the Frost and Snow Empire who were hiding in the dark to collect women with pure souls, they were not good people.

However, with Locke's current strength, he could not control such things at all.

What he could do was to guarantee some rights and interests of the people in his territory as far as he could see.

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Locke and Fyodor slowly descended from the sky to the Lord's Mansion. Because Locke and Fyodor both flew, their speed was much faster than the soldiers stationed in the original camp.

At this time, in the Lord's Mansion, in addition to some patrolling guards, there were also some servants tidying up the courtyard.

Locke and Fyodor flew into the Lord's Mansion. Not only the people in the Lord's Mansion discovered that Locke and Fyodor, but also the other four captains.

Although they did not see what the newcomers looked like, they knew with their butts that the only one who flew into the city at this time was the real owner of Locke, Grand Duke Locke.

So, the four captains left and immediately joined together, and came to Locke's Lord's Mansion to meet.

"Hello, Grand Duke."

In the hall of the Lord's Mansion, the four captains bowed to Locke.

"Well, I have seen it before. You have done a good job in the construction of Locke City. I am very satisfied."

Locke, who was sitting at the top of the hall, nodded slightly and recognized the abilities of the five captains of the Tsunami Legion.

"Grand Duke Locke is too kind. This is what we should do."

"Don't say these nonsense. Whether it is what you should do or not, I have said that if you complete this task, I will give you the title."

"Now, you have completed the task well. I can give you five people the title of Viscount in Locke Territory."

"Now that Gaske has not come back, you can discuss it yourself. Whether you want to become a noble in Locke City or a noble in Locke Territory."

"Once it is determined, it cannot be changed in the future."

There is still a big difference between the nobles in Locke City and the nobles in Locke Territory.

This is like the nobles in the imperial capital and the nobles outside the imperial capital.

If Gaske and the other five choose to become nobles in Locke City, then they will have the opportunity to fight for the two remaining earl titles in Locke Territory and gain greater power.

Many developments in Locke Territory need to be decided by the nobles in Locke City.

In other words, the nobles in Locke City have absolute power in Locke Territory.

If you choose to become a noble in Locke, you will get a fief in Locke, and in this fief, the noble is the king.

Of course, even if you are the ruler of a fief, you will be controlled by Locke, and you need to pay a large amount of taxes to Locke City every year. Moreover, under the same title, the status of the nobles outside the fief is lower than that of the nobles in Locke City.

Of course, this so-called "low" is mainly because the nobles in Locke City are close to the lord and are deeply trusted by the lord.

In this world where force is supreme, relying on the strong and using the power of the strong to bully others can also be regarded as a kind of power.

After all, if there is a conflict between the two, it is self-evident which side the lord will stand on.

If you offend a lord, he only needs to issue a few bans on your territory, and he can use high taxes to drag a noble who owns a fief to death.

After the four captains left, Locke pulled Fyodor into the training room of the capital city to continue his training.

He never forgot that in this world, only strength is the foundation of his own existence.

The title of Grand Duke of Locke Territory is Locke's compromise with Ceres. At the same time, it also fulfilled his parents' dream of becoming a noble, allowing the two old people to spend their old age happily.

Three months later, Cole, who got the news from Locke, brought his parents and the entire Luqi Chamber of Commerce to Locke City. With Locke's support, he became the real manager of Locke City.

And among the five captains, including Gasco, two of them chose to become viscounts of Locke City to assist Cole in managing the entire Locke Territory.

The other three chose to become viscounts of fiefdoms, and the three chose a connected position in Locke Territory as their territory.

In this way, the two viscounts who stayed in Locke City were supported by the three viscounts who owned fiefs, and the two viscounts who were supported would also use their power to provide some conveniences to the three viscounts outside, so that they could get more benefits.

This is almost the way of life for the nobles in the Wakanda plane.

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For the strong men in the Holy Land, time has almost no meaning.

Occasionally using the power of the soul to explore the status of his family, Cole can also manage Locke Territory well, and Locke no longer comes out of the training room, only immersed in the perception of the mysteries of the law and the study of the soul.