When he saw Yashan from afar, Richard realized that his father was a real big shot.

Located on the Far-Wang Peninsula, Yashan has a population of more than 100,000. The city is built in the shape of the peninsula. It has the highest terrain in the northwest and extends to the archipelago of Apennines in an archipelago. The narrow and long striped cities are quietly crawling between the water and the sky like giant beasts in rest. The houses are regular and the streets are straight. The twenty-meter-high city walls meander around, protecting the residents of the city. On the vast plain outside the city, there are rich land everywhere. The wide Ryan River passes through the city and pours into the Apennine Sea, providing an endless source of water for the endless fertile fields.

There is a small hill in Yashan City, and the famous Black Rose Castle is built on the top of the mountain. This is a majestic and huge building complex that can easily accommodate more than 3,000 warriors. On the top of the towers standing tall in every corner, there are even large permanent trenchers, overlooking the city under your feet with a arrogant attitude. However, since the Black Rose Castle was built, those trenchers have never been used. Although enemies have attacked the city of Yashan City, their steps have reached the front of the walls of Yashan at most, and then they are defeated.

The castle is a weapon of defense, and the Black Rose Castle has reached its ultimate design. Looking at the composite fortress-shaped building with the Fort as the core, it can be used to extend from the top of the city wall or arrow tower at any time. The city gate is like passing through a tunnel, and five extremely solid gates are set up at a depth of ten meters. There are many layouts that cannot be seen directly by eyes. When it was built, the Black Rose Castle was claimed to only require a thousand qualified soldiers to guard it. It is almost invincible when it is sufficient for supply.

Many travelers with different purposes have visited the city in various identities. When they witnessed this monster that occupied the commanding heights of the city, they had to agree with the almost crazy boast of the Black Rose Castle designer. An aristocratic military strategist who refused to be named was invited to visit the castle. After returning, they conducted a sand table deduction on the defense facilities he saw. The conclusion was that even if they used 50,000 troops and heavy siege equipment with complete troops, they would have to pay a heavy price to capture the castle.

But she has never really been tested by war, because the previous owners of the castle did not like defense. Even if the troops were at an absolute disadvantage, they would rather choose boundless plains or deep mountains as the background to eliminate the enemy through mobile warfare. And they would always win in the end.

Even in the entire Holy Alliance, the madness of the Archmond family is well known.

No one is willing to fight a madman, not to mention that one or even a few geniuses will always appear in this crazy family at some time. The Archmond family's biggest enemy, Duke Joseph on the Lenon Peninsula, once said with emotion that when madman and genius are combined, the damage they can cause is multiplied and not added.

When he said this, Duke Joseph's 20,000 main force was defeated by Archmond's 10,000 elite troops in a long and cruel battle, and less than two thousand people escaped. The combat power of the Iron Son Joseph is not general, and he is in the top ranks on the entire continent.

After hundreds of years of development, the members of the Archmond family now include two marquises and seven earls. Not only are the viscounts and barons as numerous as dogs, they are not much different, and their territory totals exceed 100,000 square kilometers. In the entire Holy Alliance, the Archmond family has not had a long history, but its strength is definitely not weak, and it is one of the important forces. However, it is strange that if other families have so many nobles in the field, a duke or even a grand duke would have long appeared.

The Archmond family is the highest but only the marquis. You should know that the Archmond family is the most powerful and powerful. They have both powerful magicians and high-level warriors, and more strange high-level professions, such as dragon vein warriors, hell demon knights, shadow priests, etc. The Norland continent is not peaceful, and it can even be said that the four flames of war are the norm. The human race occupies less than half of the land that is the continent, and is fighting against a large number of races to fight for survival space.

Humans may be no less warlike than demons. They not only fight against alien races, but also fight within themselves. The raging war not only burns in Norland, but also affects the depths of the ocean and many planes.

In such a chaotic and complex situation, it is not difficult for the Archmond family, who have many geniuses, to produce a duke or even a founding grand duke. As long as they concentrate their resources to expand outward, obtain enough territory from the foreign races, and to firmly occupy it, establish a complete civil affairs, economics, and judicial system, and coordinate and balance the distribution of interests within the family. At most two generations, a duke will be produced. At least half of the dukes of the Holy Alliance were born in this way, so in the eyes of the nobles in other countries, the Holy Alliance Empire is the base camp of nouveau riche and country bumpkins, and the imperial emperor is the largest nouveau riche. However, everything will undergo qualitative changes after reaching a certain level, and the same is true for outbreaks. The outbreak of the Holy Alliance royal family exceeds the critical point that people have psychological endurance, so it has won the respect and respect of most old nobles.

Archmond's outbreak is not inferior, but history is too short. The fatality of short history is that it does not accumulate enough wealth and strength. Moreover, they are too crazy, so they fail to win respect.

Archmond's current patriarch Marquis Gorton himself is an example of the outbreak. When he just started his training fifteen years ago, he was just a third-level rookie warrior. He then showed his personal force and political and military talent. He captured the Elf King Court of Eternal Night Forest in one fell swoop ten years ago, shocking the entire sacred alliance! There were not many people who dared to attack the Eternal Night Territory, but only Gorton dared to go deep into Eternal Night Forest with only fifty knights and more than a thousand miscellaneous soldiers, and he succeeded!

Now only thirty-three years old, Gotton has become a marquis and moved into the Black Rose Castle and obtained Yashan, a territory specially prepared by Archmond for the patriarch.

Among the people who appreciate him, Gordon's experience is a legend, and the legend is still written. However, the absolute influence of Marquis Gordon is the only territory he has captured. Other members of the Archmond family usually ignore his orders. In Archmond, the title of the patriarch is more like a simple honor, if there were no Black Rose Castle and Asan.

Heraldry and historians who specialize in the Archmond family genealogy once concluded that the reason why this family failed to have a grand duke was the independence and rebellion flowing in the family blood. Every Archmond was unwilling to surrender to others, even if that person was his own father.

This is not a rigorous discussion, and scholars who make the arguments cannot be said to be profound, nor have they any reputation. In fact, if they cannot exchange their research results for the funding of any noble in the Archmond family, the scholar would even be left on the street. If he had really had the ability, he would not have studied such a non-spoken family. The final outcome of the scholar was to live on the streets and die of illness. It is said that when his research results were sent to the desk of the Archmond patriarch at that time, the patriarch flipped through it and ordered that any Archmond patriarch was forbidden to give him any form of funding. The Archmonds, who had rebellious traditions, unexpectedly obediently and thoroughly executed the patriarch's orders.

There is only one real reason behind it, that is, this article is full of gorgeous words. Although the logic is chaotic, the examples are ridiculous, and the conjectures are full of speculations and childish speculations, the conclusion is damn correct.

The distance from Rutherland Village to Yashan is more than 3,000 kilometers, and it took less than half a month to go on the road. During the journey, Mordred told Richard a lot about the Archmond family, and introduced some customs and power distribution on several continents. So when he arrived at Yashan, Richard already knew a lot about the family.

Family, for Richard, is a brand new word. In the past, he even had a vague concept of his father. How could he know what a family is? But from Mordred's attitude, this knight with powerful power attaches great importance to the family. The concept of family here is much broader, not only the bloodlines of the direct and sidelines, but also the small nobles and knights who follow the main family. They can all be regarded as people in the family. Bloodlines are the bonds that connect the family, but the meaning is not limited to blood ties. Many special bloodlines will have unique abilities, and the combination of different bloodlines often produces new abilities. The abilities of some bloodlines are extremely powerful, powerful enough to make people pursue them desperately. Therefore, nobles and families have a brand new meaning in the world of Noland. Marriage is not only for political alliances, but also for the creation of powerful descendants.
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