Throne of the North.

Chapter 146: Legendary Knight, Earl's Father

Ryan returned to the city where he had only stayed for a few years as a child. Everything seemed so strange. After meeting Mrs. Ellie Fleming, Ryan soon met his biological mother.

As expected, with the return of the Earl, the Countess's belly bulged again.

"Ryan, you're back."

"Mother."

Clarami Sterling, Ryan's biological mother and the second wife of Earl Clayton, stroked Ryan's hair lovingly.

The Fleming family, to which the other Countess belongs, is from the Fleming family, one of the four grand dukes of the empire. She is the daughter of the grand duke, and Ryan's biological mother is also extraordinary. She is a woman from the Sterling family, a count's family. Her father is now the Earl of Sterling, a powerful... legendary warlock.

So this is also the point that the Clayton family and Ryan's brothers and sisters tease Ryan about, because he originally has a powerful father and a powerful grandfather.

If he didn't go to the North Wind Province to be a poor and cold lord, he could enjoy the resources of two great nobles. The Clayton family would give him a piece of the property, and the Sterling family would most likely give him, the second child born to Clammy, some resources.

All added together, it might be more wealth than some barons in Lingdu County.

The most important thing is that you don’t have to suffer, and you don’t have to stay in a territory with little enjoyment.

But from the moment he became a noble, Ryan would no longer be able to possess these things, so these resources would fall on the heads of other people.

He has become a nobleman, a baron, a fifth-rank noble in the empire, and is no longer a subsidiary of the Clayton family. Therefore, all resource assistance must comply with the rules of the nobility and the rules of the Clayton family.

So, Ryan is the Ryan family and Clayton is the Clayton family.

The family affection and blood relationship between the two sides is close, limited to the current one or two generations. Because of the father-son relationship between Ryan and the Earl, his children and the future Earl Clayton's children will be much more superficial. By the third generation, everyone will really be just relatives.

But within the empire, among the many nobles, who doesn’t have some kind of relationship?

At that time, the Clayton family and the Ryan family could be said to be two noble families.

But similarly, within the Clayton family, Ryan's brothers and sisters are enjoying the rights of nobles in the past few generations. But in the next few generations, things will be different. By that time, their blood relationship with Earl Clayton will be more distant. They will no longer be nobles, but members of the Clayton family.

As for Ryan's knight squire, Harrington Clayton, he is even more ancient. It is even possible that his ancestors followed a certain Earl Clayton, and thus were baptized by blood and able to practice the Flame Dragon Knight's breathing method, and have been Clayton's direct retainers and followers for generations.

Illegitimate children have a similar status.

However, it can also be seen from this that the Clayton family is so huge that it is worthy of being the bloodline that other nobles covet and envy.

This has nothing to do with Ryan. After caring about his mother, Ryan needs to meet Clayton's real master, Earl Clayton.

Although Ryan's Frozen Territory has not yet offered any tributes to the Clayton family due to blood ties, it does not mean that this relationship does not exist.

As a noble, Ryan not only has to be loyal to the royal family, but also needs to rely on the Clayton family because of his status.

He is a nobleman and a son.

This is still the same relationship, and it will take two or three generations for there to be any changes.

If Earl Clayton doesn't want it, then the Ryan Frozen Territory, which wants to rely on the great nobles, should also offer it voluntarily.

It’s just that before, the Earl didn’t care and Ryan had no idea, which led to the two sides hitting it off and no one paying attention to each other.

The place where Earl Clayton received outsiders, especially other nobles, was very large. Pushing open the ancient door, Ryan seemed to have entered the belly of a giant dragon. Surrounding it, this study or reception room was forged from a whole set of dragon bones, and the white dragon bones were exposed in many places.

This is Ryan's first time entering here. Even in today's Clayton family, not many descendants can enter here.

Ryan looked ahead, where there was a figure standing in front of the window with his hands behind his back, as if looking at the Flame Dragon Castle outside. Ryan knew that he could easily see a place from here, the training camp of the Clayton family's extraordinary legion, the Flame Dragon Knights.

He had been in that place before and tried to see here, but could only see a small window.

But now, he discovered that the window was actually not small. The crystal window, which could not be filled up by three or five people, represented the authority and power of the Clayton family.

"Father."

"According to the etiquette of the nobility, you should address me as Lord Earl Clayton."

Leon Clayton, the current Earl of Clayton, had a loud and majestic voice echoing in the study. Even if he didn't release it actively, the life pressure of the legendary knight made Ryan a little breathless.

He remained silent before speaking again.

"Lord Clayton."

"Ah."

Nodding, Earl Clayton turned around, looked at Ryan and continued:

"Now, you can call me father."

As far as I can remember, Earl Clayton had too many descendants, which resulted in the relationship between the Earl and his descendants not being so cordial but more majestic.

"Kaz said that your territory is developing well?"

Ryan was no longer as reserved as he was at the beginning. He became calm and natural, which made Earl Clayton look quite satisfied.

"The frozen land is not as bad as I imagined. It has become much more stable in more than a year. I brought some special products from the territory to my father and mother."

To the outside world, the "mother" referred to by the descendants of the Clayton family often refers to the two countesses, not just one person.

Internally, there will be close and distant relationships, but the two countesses this time seem to have a good relationship and there are no conflicts.

It is also possible that the Countess from Fleming was much older and the second one was not interested in power.

The rights of both parties are staggered, and the age difference between their offspring also means that even if the earl's eldest son dies, the second, third, and fourth sons are not considered to be Kurami's children.

It is almost impossible for the two countesses to be so serious about the issue of inheritance, so naturally there will be no conflict.

"well done."

Clayton rarely praised his child, but Ryan caught the meaning in his tone.

"Father, are you no longer going to the North?"

The army of House Crichton, including the legendary knight Lord Crichton, a dragon slayer, has rarely stayed in his own territory in the past many years.

(End of this chapter)