Virdanti Annexi quietly looked at the snow scene on the streets of Ekaria. The crystal clear snowflakes drifted down the wind to the duchess's silver hair. She seemed to be lost in some kind of thinking, so that She didn't even know that her little face was red from the cold. She was holding her hand on the railing on the terrace of the Duke's Palace, and her shining silver eyes showed a little uneasiness.
Suddenly, the door inside the terrace was pushed open, and a maid walked slowly to Nokavia's side. She respectfully saluted the duchess: "Miss, Governor Norton Vitor is here. visit."
"Ah...oh, I know." Nokavia seemed to be waking up from a dream. She shook off the snowflakes that fell on her body, and then walked slowly downstairs with light steps.
In the hall of the Duke's Palace, Vitor and Luas, who had pale snowflakes on their heads, were sitting on the sofa in the center of the hall. Judging from his red hair that was almost "dyed white", the governor might still be there. There were a lot of detours in Aikalia.
"I think I may never want to come to this place again in my life." Vitor shook the snowflakes off his body and then looked at Luas sitting next to him.
Luas was sitting quietly on the sofa wearing a black lace dress with many patterns. The tight skirt made her already excellent figure even more perfect.
At this moment, Luas lowered his head without saying a word, seeming to be deep in thought.
"Luas?"
"What's the matter? Lord Governor."
"Aren't you cold if you wear so little?"
“…..”
Just as Vitor and Luas looked at each other awkwardly, a crisp and beautiful sound suddenly came from the stairs on the right side of the hall.
"Sorry for keeping you two waiting." Verdanti slowly walked down the stairs with elegant steps. She was wearing an extremely exquisite white feather coat, and her long silver hair was scattered casually. Behind her, she was wearing a purple-gold medal with a pair of slowly opening white wings engraved on it.
The purple-gold noble medal seems to have magic power, making people unable to take their eyes away when they see it. The extremely exquisite clothes combined with Aikalia's alluring beauty make this young duchess like a noble and pure white swan, which is deeply unforgettable.
This is the Duke of Annecy, one of the twelve princes of the empire, the current patriarch of the White Swan family, one of the most powerful figures in the northern border of the empire, taking over four imperial provinces including Shivaland, and is worthy of the name. Great nobleman.
Vitor and Luas stopped looking at each other awkwardly, stood up and gave a standard aristocratic salute to Verdante who was still on the stairs.
"Governor Vitor, you don't have to be like this. You are the biological heir of Grand Duke Rogge. If you really talk about seniority, I'm afraid you can be my grandfather." Verdanti chuckled and went downstairs.
What she said is indeed true. As the son of the founding grand duke who laid the foundation of the Sky Eagle Empire together with George I, in terms of seniority alone, Vitor is probably higher than the other three grand dukes in the empire, let alone It’s said that Wei Erdandi is still young.
"As for this beautiful lady." Verdanti held up her skirt and walked to Luas' side. "If I remember correctly, you should be Miss Arthur's adjutant. My relationship with Miss Ellie is ...You should know it very well, so you don’t have to be so reserved with me, just call me Vildanti.”
Luas lowered his head without saying a word, as if he was recalling something from the past.
"Count Vitor, how are you doing in Norton?" Verdanti saw that Luas was silent, and then turned his attention to Vitor, who was dressed in costume next to him.
"It's not very good. The situation there is not optimistic." Vitor shook his head, "If we continue to let it go, I'm afraid it won't be long before it's over."
"The situation in Norton is more complicated. In addition to those troublesome guys in Beicanglan, that stupid deer with its head held high is also coveting this place and has been competing with me for control of the place." Weirdanti Sitting on the sofa in the hall, there was a hint of helplessness in her beautiful eyes.
"This time, it was because the Archduke of Belvine of the East came to mediate, so the Duke of Wobilens reluctantly took back his deer's hooves. Only then did I have the opportunity to transfer you over."
"Duke Wobilens..." Vitor frowned slightly.
There are a total of 10 provinces in the northern part of the Sky Eagle Empire. The White Swan family controls 4, the Golden Elk family controls 5, plus the Norton province where the father does not love the mother.
It can be said that since Grand Duke Rogge, the Duke of Annecy and the Duke of Wobilens have the highest status in the North, and the overt and covert fights between the families behind them have been constant.
Five years ago, when Archduke Rogge had not left Sky Eagle, he was still able to control the situation in the northern realm while sitting in the main city of Nemeans in the north. But now that Archduke Rogge is not here, the White Swan family and the Golden Swan family The struggle between the Elk families became increasingly fierce, and even reached the stage where the Grand Duke of the East was required to intervene.
"I am sitting in Norton, and Duke Golden Elk dare not do anything at least openly. As for the North Canglan Kingdom, there are not many generals stationed in Norton. The only major general is Delon Riel, and he is not mine. Opponent, as long as you provide me with enough troops, I can easily defeat their station." Vitor patted his chest and said confidently.
"I have quite a lot of confidence in you." Verdanti smiled, and then continued: "By the way, have you visited Inriges?"
"We sent out scouts, and the answers we got were as expected... The fog in Inrigus has faded."
"Has the fog faded? Then...when are you going to set off to Inriges to look for that thing?"
"After clearing up Norton's troubles, we should be able to consider setting off." Vitor said slowly, "So, I think our priority is the undead left behind by the Ghost Earl in Inriges. Even himself."
"Ghost Earl..." Virdanti fiddled with the sapphire ring on her hand, and the worry hidden in the silver eyes under the slender eyelashes became even more intense.
Inrigus, the former capital of Norton, was once a metropolis comparable to Ekaria. Under the painstaking management of Earl Othelemon, the second governor of Norton, this city on the island became the center of Canglan. An important intersection for trade with Tianying, a well-known prosperous city.
It stands to reason that if this momentum continues to develop, Inriges and the entire Norton should have a bright future. However, what happened ten years ago brought devastating consequences to this emerging province of the empire. Influence.
Inriges, with a population of hundreds of thousands, all the living people disappeared overnight and turned into a ghostland eroded by the undead. On the huge island, except for the living corpses wandering in the ruins, there was no one. A living person.
And in the Governor's Mansion where the grand party was held that night, dozens of nobles with titles invited by Count Othelemon to attend the grand banquet, including the count himself and all the family members in the mansion, all disappeared in the mansion in a strange and bizarre manner. There was no one in the governor's mansion, whether alive or dead. The empty noble mansion seemed to have just been built, without any traces left behind.
Just a few days after this incident happened, the former pirate king of the West Sea, "Lord of the Hundred Abyss" Northen, was seriously injured in the abyss. He was captured and imprisoned by the then Navy Marshal of the Sky Eagle Empire and now the Grand Duke of the West. In Black Coral Prison.
Northen has been in the Western Sea for more than 70 years and is the most notorious among all the pirate kings of the West Sea. Even though the ghost ship, the inherited artifact of the West Sea, has disappeared for nearly a hundred years, Northen has been able to steadily suppress all the pirates and the Skyhawk Navy in the West Sea. This was enough to prove the great strength of this "Lord of the Hundred Abyss", but perhaps it was also because of the arrogance and confidence that her great strength brought to her that she eventually became a loser.
After Northen was arrested and imprisoned, the entire West Sea pirate world fell into chaos. Several notorious pirates fought for the position of the new pirate king, especially in the most prosperous area in the center of the West Sea. In the Golden Sea, there are naval battles between different pirate forces almost every day. There are even rumors that even Archduke Belvine and Archduke Vlad have intervened in this battle.
And just when the pirate world of the West Sea fell into a deadlock of fragmentation, a mysterious man arrived at the center of the battlefield with the inherited artifact of the West Sea that had disappeared for nearly a hundred years - the Black Emperor, known as the ghost ship, and ended everything in an understatement. He is the current pirate king of the West Sea, the pirate captain known as the Ghost Earl.
