Throne of the North.

Chapter 4: Servants and Divine Grace

"From today on, you are free citizens of the Frozen Territory. I pardon your slavery."

Ryan's words made the thirty or so bandits, who were originally full of resistance, open their eyes wide and look at him in shock.

They thought that Deren's words were a trick. If they couldn't win, they would never be here.

Seeing that Ryan didn't seem to be playing tricks on them, dozens of people knelt down, kowtowed and said words of mercy to the master.

After accepting the gratitude from these people, Ryan rewarded the eight trainee knights of the guard with one of the elks weighing more than 120 kilograms.

The smallest elk, weighing less than 100 kilograms, was given as a reward to more than 150 villagers in the Frozen Earth Village.

At this point, his reputation in the Tundra Village and the Tundra Territory reached its peak.

Yes, it is that simple. Thinking of this, Ryan couldn't help but criticize this strict era.

After eating and drinking, Ryan finally felt that his strength had improved significantly.

"So, where are you heading?"

【Spirituality: 27】

Ryan, who had only twenty-seven spiritual points left and had spent a hundred spiritual points, looked at a space portal the size of a room door in front of him, took a deep breath, and turned to leave.

"Dren!"

"master!"

He called Old Beard and Derren, and then Ryan's eyes fell on Derren. He said seriously:
"Will you be my knight squire?"

Strictly speaking, Deren and the seven apprentice knights were just his guards, arranged by Earl Clayton to send him to his territory.

So if the Earldom of Clayton is serious, Deren and his men are all his father's soldiers.

And if he became Ryan's knight squire, then from now on, Deren would have nothing to do with Clayton.

"I..." Deren, who had been trying to please Ryan all the way, finally lowered his head in shame and struggle at this moment.

His family in the Earldom of Clayton would definitely live better than here, and he knew clearly what the Frozen Territory was like.

"If you don't want to, go call that Rosen over."

Ryan's voice was calm, but it made Deren tremble and weaken, and he almost crawled out.

He knew that his position as the Knight Commander would probably be taken by Rosen.

"Will you be my knight squire?"

"I am willing!"

Rosen was also trembling, but he was trembling with excitement and enthusiasm.

Knight's squire is not actually a noble status. It just means that Rosen is definitely a soldier of Ryan.

But usually only after becoming an official knight would one be called a knight's squire. As an apprentice knight, Rosen felt that there were not many people like him in the entire empire who could become a knight's squire.

"I will shed my blood on sword and shield. Your will is my will, and your gift is my God's grace!"

Rosen cut his palm with the sword in his hand and clenched his fist tightly against his heart.

He was just a knight's squire, but at this moment he was willing to fulfill his duties as a guardian of the knight.

"it is good."

Ryan looked at Deren, who had a complicated expression on his face, and said, "You take people to guard here. No one is allowed to enter the house without my order."

"Yes, I will follow your will." Deren's expression was still respectful. After all, as long as he did not become a knight's squire, his relationship with Ryan would not change at all.

Moreover, as long as Earl Clayton, the baron's father, does not mind, he will spend the rest of his life in this frozen land.

The reason why he refused before was because of his family. His two sons both had knightly talents and might become official knights earlier than him and have a better future in the warm south.

Ryan also understood this, so he did not make excessive demands on Deren, and did not even take away the other party's title of knight guard captain.

"Bird, you come too."

After bringing Old Beard and Rosen into the house, they both looked at the space portal in shock.

"This door can only last a hundred hours. We have to speed up our time."

"God's grace!" Beard looked at Ryan fanatically and knelt down directly.

"I swear in the name of the knight that I will never reveal the secret of Master Ryan."

On the side, Rosen also learned from him, and then the two of them retreated to the door and arranged some measures.

Anyone who enters the house will know afterwards that someone has been there.

A few meters outside the house, Deren looked at the closed door and felt as if he had missed something.

"Let's go."

After Ryan stepped into the space door, Beard and Rosen guarded him on his left and right.

In almost the blink of an eye, the original house disappeared, and instead, a vast white world appeared in front of Ryan and the other two.

If there was still some green in the frozen land, then where they were now was an endless snowfield with no other colors except the dead white.

Everything was covered by the heavy snow and wind, without any sign of life.

Ryan looked back and found that the space portal had disappeared, but he could open it at any time within a hundred hours and return to the Frozen Territory.

There is a faint door under my feet, as if someone had walked through here not long ago.

"It's good news that there are people here." Rosen said. He was also very curious about where this place was.

"Let's go."

Without Ryan's signal, Rosen had already walked in front with a sword in hand. He was very cold in his leather armor, but at this moment he had to keep the cold wind away from the Baron.

"Bild, tell me about God's grace."

On the snowfield, three pairs of feet stepped on the snow, and there was no other sound except the squeaking, which made Ryan feel a little depressed.

"Yes, Master."

After seeing Ryan's methods, Beard became more respectful and no longer did anything beyond the limits that only elders could do.

He didn't know much about God's grace.

"The gods have started a war across the planes, and they need their followers to fight for them."

"In the middle and late stages of the war, the gods needed an urgent victory, so they personally bestowed divine grace on their believers. Using divine grace, those believers harvested faith for the gods."

"After one god started using this method, other gods had no choice but to do the same. As a result, the number of gods who were blessed by the gods increased in the war across the planes."

"Later, the war between the gods ended, and the entire North was covered by the wind of eternal winter and snow."

"The war of the gods caused the sky to spew out the flames of destruction, and the death of the gods plunged the earth into an eternal winter."

"But the God's grace did not completely disappear because of the disappearance of the gods. Every once in a while, we can hear news about the God's grace."

"Other than that..." Beard was silent, or perhaps a little scared and shocked.

"Rumor has it that after the war between gods and spirits ends, you don't necessarily need the gods to grant you grace in person to obtain it."

"Many gods died in the Pan-Plane War."

(End of this chapter)