"Richard, they are not the Lion Men of the Rhine Empire." Viscount Simark patiently explained to this country bumpkin: "They are all vassals of the Wolf Tribe, Dog-Headed People of the Doug Tribe."

  "Dog-headed men?" Liu Zhen and the Panda Warriors looked at this group of sturdy men in surprise, although their malnourished faces were sallow, but they didn't look like dog-headed men at all.

  Are all the warriors of the Mongolian tribe this big? Liu Zhen thought to himself.

  "Richard, the Dog Tribe's sheep-headed people are all weak herders. These are the exceptions in the Dog Tribe, they are the strongest Mastiffs of the Dog Tribe." Helen hastily answered before Liu Zhen could ask any strange questions that might arouse her uncle's suspicion.

  "It's a Tibetan Mastiff!" Liu was shocked and suddenly enlightened. No wonder it looked like a lion.

  "The Dog Head people of the Doug tribe can only give birth to a Mastiff person if a woman has nine babies at the same time. The physique of the Mastiff person is exceptional among the Mongolian beastmen, and one Mastiff person can even knock down his own lord, Wolf Wolfman with ease." Viscount Simark also followed up to explain the mystery for this country bumpkin.

  "What crime have they all committed?" Guo asked angrily.

  "Their crime is their appearance." Viscount Simarc shrugged regretfully. "Who made our king a Rhinelander, and who made these mastiffs look just like our imperial family? They have committed no crime, only because of their unique appearance, they are guilty."

  "What bad luck." Gud looked at this group of wolf-like people with some regret.

  "They only have a chance to redeem themselves by enlisting in the Stormtroopers when war breaks out and surviving, which is a pity." Lord Simark shook his head.

  "Hurry up, Uncle..." Helen said coquettishly: "I'm really starving..."

  "Off you go......" Viscount Xima waved his hand: "My dear niece, I'll open a fine wine that's been stored for several years just for you!"

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  Liu Zhen's men ate so much that the Miguo tribe's chef, who was in charge of their meals, frowned. This group of people had consumed a large amount of food for many people with just one meal.

  Especially that snowy pika, its little belly was directly connected to the ocean, and it could eat as much as it wanted.

  Seven domesticated aurochs were slaughtered before these people's bellies were full.

  Viscount Marck also felt the terror of these people's consumption, he felt that his meager salary was almost completely destroyed by them.

  Liu Zhenhong was a clever man, he took out his curved knife and pried out the four gems on the hilt, giving them all to Viscount Xima Ke.

  "These jewels will serve as our food expenses." Liu Zhensheng said sincerely, thinking that if the other party hesitated slightly, he would reluctantly take back half of them.

  "At your service." The middle-aged Fox didn't even blink as he accepted it.

  "Ah, Obis Laichi! Liu Zhen was shocked and pinched his own thigh hard, how could he forget that this guy is the most cunning Fox!"

  "Respected Mr. Richard, are you going to participate in the temple's ritual assessment next or continue your adventure?" Viscount Simark summoned a fox tribe butler who carefully took away the gemstone.

  "Of course, it's the assessment for participating in the ritual." Helen hugged Liu Zhen's arm, with a look of admiration: "Richard will definitely become the youngest Vein Shaman in the kingdom, and maybe even the main priest!"

  "I think so too." Jingyu also nodded and smiled.

  Three people exchanged a smile, while Evie rolled her eyes on the side.

  "I'm preparing for the assessment, and Helen has naturally evolved 'Blessed Battle Hymn'. According to the rules, she should also be able to advance to War Priestess now. We're planning to go to the temple together to help Helen apply for this title and create a dedicated instrument for the ritual. Liu was overjoyed at the thought of getting a fiefdom and becoming a lord himself, his face and heart blooming with delight."

  "What?!" Viscount Simark almost jumped up: "Helen actually underwent natural evolution advancement?! This...this is impossible..."

  "Uncle..." Helen said with embarrassment: "This is all Richard's credit, he made me suddenly understand the power of the God of War."

  "Uncle really has gotten old..." Viscount-sama was taken aback for a moment, and unintentionally glanced at Liu Zhen with a hint of disdain, saying: "Heh heh, I should be happy for Helen instead, our Ford family has finally produced a true war sacrifice!"

  "It is the result of Helen's own efforts, and the wisdom of Mars is everywhere." Liu Zhen's performance was completely like that of a most devout worshiper.

  Evie heard Liu Zhen's nonsense about the God of War again, and she rolled her eyes in disgust, with a look of disdain on her face.

  Viscount Westmark looked at Liu Zhen for a long time, then looked at his niece and sighed after a while.

  "Dear niece, outward cleanliness is a necessary virtue for a qualified priestess. Your current attire falls short of your noble status. There are some old clothes of your aunt's in my room; go and change into them." Viscount Sima hesitated as if he had been considering it for half a day before saying this.

  "Alright, uncle." Helen looked at her uncle with a serious expression and wondered, but still stood up, nodded to Liu Zhen and left.

  As Helen's back disappeared behind the door, Viscount Simarc stared at Liu Zhensheng, and Liu Zhensheng also looked at him.

  "Mr. Richard, first of all, I want to express my most sincere gratitude for your selfless help to my niece." The middle-aged fox man carefully chose his words and asked cautiously: "It's obvious that Helen has a good impression of you, may I be so bold as to ask, what is the relationship between you two..."

  "I am deeply in love with your niece, sir." Liu Zhen felt that this middle-aged Fox had inadvertently revealed a kind of superiority, and gave the viscount a crisp answer.

  "That was a beautiful mistake, there are always such beautiful mistakes in the life of young people, I guarantee that many years later this will be one of the most valuable memories of your life." said Viscount Sima calmly.

  Liu Zhen was taken aback, narrowing his eyes as he looked at the matchmaker in front of him who clearly wanted to arrange a marriage and force him into a loveless relationship.

  He is considering whether to play a rogue, and now he has shown his true colors.

  "Can you give us a reason?" Jingyu spoke up.

  "Richard's love for Helen has long been proven with his life, perhaps you don't know that Richard once used the 'Life Chain War Song' to save Helen's life. To be able to prove one's love with each other's lives, I think this kind of love is undoubtedly great." said Jingyu.

  "Richard can actually use 'Life Chain War Song'?" Viscount was visibly surprised, but the look of surprise on his face was quickly and deliberately concealed, his expression still a hypocritical enthusiasm. "Sorry, the Piggu tribe is after all our vassal tribe, to marry a plebeian from a vassal tribe as an upper noble, this is unimaginable in our clan."

  "This is a fallacy." Liu Zhen also became impatient, staring at the annoying middle-aged Fox man with an intense gaze: "Firstly, I am not a plebeian, I am a sacrificial priest, and I will soon have my own fiefdom. Secondly... even if I were a plebeian, what's wrong with that?"

  "Mind your manners, Mr. Richard, a true noble would never deign to speak in a threatening tone." The viscount gave Liu a supremely contemptuous smile.

  "I'll marry her, no matter what." Liu was completely showing off his arrogance, with one foot on the chair and his body half-leaning, his eyes full of provocation.

  "Hula~~~" All the panda warriors stood up, surrounding them densely. Gu De pinched his nose, picked up a chair with a flourish, and lightly snapped off a thick leg; Guo Guo also jumped down from Liu Zhen's head, baring its teeth and claws, its little butt twitching back and forth.

  "Who are you people?" Viscount Sima was a bit panicked, what kind of people were they? How could they be so similar to the robbers on the wasteland, each and every one of them looked like a thug.

  "Get out!" Jingyu glared fiercely at the group of pandas with obvious violent tendencies, and then pulled Liu Zhen's arm: "You sit down too!"

  Liu Zhenhong sat down obediently, and Gu De threw away the stick in his hand with a humph.

  "Viscount, can you tell us specifically what the reason is?" Jingyu held onto Guoguo's tail and stuffed it back into Liu Zhenshen's arms.

  "Mr. Litchfield's recent behavior has proven how wise my inner judgment was." Viscount Simark's two legs were still shaking under the table, "This beautiful miss, let me explain my reasons to you."

  "I apologize for my rudeness just now. Please, you speak." Liu Zhen immediately also put on a gentle expression and bowed slightly.

  Viscount Westmark rolled his eyes at him and stared at Cong Yu: "In our world of Monds, although there are no restrictions on intermarriage between different races in the legal system, almost all races still adhere to the custom of same-race marriage. The formation of this habit is not overnight, and eliminating this habit is also not something that can be done overnight. I don't know if Mr. Richard from the Matchig tribe is aware of this point, but at present, at least among our nobles, in order to maintain the purity of bloodlines, we all do so. Perhaps there are examples of intermarriage between commoners, but this absolutely does not apply to us high-born Foxes."

  "Is there not an exception to every rule? Am I, who truly love Helen, not allowed to be with her as husband and wife?" Liu was getting a bit angry again, he saw that this viscount was clearly looking down on his humble origins, speaking of nobility with one breath and grandeur with the next.

  "Love is the most illusory thing." The viscount revealed a cunning smile typical of his fox tribe: "Allow an old man to give you this rational advice."

  Damn it! Liu Zhenhong cursed in his heart.

  "Is it true that there is no precedent for intermarriage among the nobles in the Kingdom of Bimeng?" Jingyu grasped Liu Zhenshen's hand and asked hastily.

  "No." The viscount's reply was as crisp as chewing on a piece of ice.

  "I seem to have heard that the queen and three princesses of the Kingdom of Baimon, under His Majesty King Gureiku Saru, are all Taiga tribe's tiger people. Why was this point intentionally concealed when it came out of your mouth, sir?" The cunning smile on Jingyu's face was no less than that of this middle-aged Fox.

  "You are not nobles, so you know very little about the inside story. Today, I will tell you clearly why our king, His Majesty Gerek Sal of the Rhine tribe, has a harem composed entirely of beautiful tiger women from the Taigo tribe."

  The viscount scanned the audience in front of him and said slowly: "As everyone knows, the king of Bimon is not hereditary. The world of Bimon is one where the strong survive, so each term of the king's reign lasts for ten years. After exceeding the limit, the five major nobles can select a challenger from among themselves, and then select the most excellent warrior to compete with the king. The winner will be crowned as the next king."

  "Gerek Sal ascended to the throne at the age of twenty and has been on the throne for twenty-five years, having faced two batches of challengers appointed by the gods. This great king defeated the representatives of the other four major tribes and the Taigo tribe in the battle for the throne, and also defeated the then-king, His Majesty Haimingwei of the Taigo tribe."

  "What happened after the battle was unexpected: before he could even be crowned by the High Priestess of the Holy Altar, the new king proposed to the daughter of the previous king, Princess Angier of the Tiger Tribe..."

  "How can it be so simple?" Liu Zhen was shocked and rolled his eyes.

  "Let me finish," Viscount Simarc glared at the rustic who had interrupted him, continuing to look at Jingyu: "When a Bimon beastman is born, there will be a certain rate of deformity, that is, when a Bimon woman gives birth to a child, she may give birth to a child with only simple intelligence and a wild beast shape. We call these wild beast-shaped Bimons 'beast relatives', which also belong to the family members. Some congenital beast relatives can even become their own brother's mount, go to battle together, and establish merits. But most beast relatives will spend their lives in a daze. The God of War said: There has never been a perfect Bimon. Of course, there have also been cases where individual Bimons have mated with the beast relatives of their own families, which is a despicable thing."

  Jingyu's face turned red at the mention of it, mating with a beast, this disgusting word made her brain hypoxic for a moment.

  "There are also many people in the world who like to do this kind of thing." Liu Zhen was stunned and smiled foolishly, seeing that no one paid attention to him, he quickly shut his mouth.

  "In some noble families of the Kingdom of Bimon, the crime of intermarriage with other tribes is a serious offense that ranks just below bestiality and can be punished by family law." The viscount said coldly: "And the Tago tribe is one of them."

  "What then? Can the Taego clan mete out private punishment to the newly crowned king?" asked Jing Yu.

  Although the king of Mong had the right to have three palaces and six courtyards, each tribe also had to offer beautiful women from their tribe to the king. However, in reality, offering beautiful women from each tribe was actually a decision made to balance the distribution of power among the tribes.

  The viscount shook his head with a bitter smile: "At that time, His Majesty Grek Sal was still single, so when he proposed to Princess Anguil of Tego, it meant that if they got married, Princess Anguil would become the undisputed queen. However, this would mean that the king of the Rhein tribe would have a queen from the Tego tribe.

  The direct consequence of this event was that the vassal tribes under the two tribes, the rabbit-headed people of the Loboai tribe and the cat-headed people of the Gafi tribe, engaged in a large-scale armed conflict in the royal city of Sabakur.

  "It's like this......" Jingyu also sighed.

  The impact of this incident was far-reaching, even the Rhine tribe, which had the most vague concept of sex and family, was enraged. At that time, the chief of the Rhine tribe, who was also the father of Greck Sal, almost had a duel with his own son, our noble king. In fact, having an ambiguous relationship with a woman from another tribe is not uncommon among the nobles of the Mong Kingdom. Some powerful and influential nobles even have beautiful human and elf slaves as their concubines, let alone keeping several charming fox spirit girls as their mistresses. Middle-aged Foxes glanced at Ayr and Ningyu with ulterior motives, and continued: "But no noble dares to make this kind of thing completely public. This kind of outrageous behavior is linked to the family's honor, and no noble dare challenge their own family's honor so boldly."

  Liu Zhenhong pretended not to hear, plugging his ears.

  "The reaction of the Taigo clan was equally intense, but surprisingly, Princess Angel herself accepted the proposal of King Greyk. The matter ended with the king's persistence and the mediation of the war god festival, when many nobles, including the stubborn Lionhearted Lions of Rhein, retreated mainly because they thought this might just be a fleeting infatuation of the king, which would soon pass, after all, the reputation of the lion tribe being extremely irresponsible in love was far more famous than their bravery. Viscount Simark exclaimed with extreme reverence: "What shocked everyone was that King Greyk's devotion to love was almost comparable to that of the extinct Manduk clan's swans, he flatly rejected the requests of other tribes to offer beautiful women, and only accepted three concubines from the Taigo clan due to the law requiring the king to have four consorts, and spent twenty-five years with Queen Angel in blissful love."

  "Can you prove your loyalty is as great as His Majesty the King's?"

  "Can you have the influence of shocking the elderly court?"

  "Do you have the power to make our Fox clan retreat?"

  Viscount Xima asked a series of questions, leaving Liu stunned and speechless.

  "You didn't even have a noble title, and I know you once had a dragon pet, but what about now?" The viscount shook his head regretfully: "The identity of the altar sacrifice is closely tied to one's own magical pet. If you still had a dragon pet, even if you fell in love with the princess, neither the kingdom nor the temple would object. But your dragon pet has died, dead in the storm. Now, whether or not you can obtain the legitimate title of sacrifice is questionable to me. Tell me, do I have any reason to let my niece marry you again?"

  "Helen is a naturally gifted War Priestess! Her mentor is our kingdom's renowned Countess Nicole, the greatest Mace Priestess of all time! Helen will eventually become the kingdom's top priestess if she marries you, it would be a huge blow to her future and prospects! You should give up on this relationship if you truly love her! Helen is still young, she doesn't understand the love between you two will bring great harm to our family! Although our family has few people now, we are still the noble bloodline of the Foxes!"

  "Don't try to fool me!" Liu Zhenhong dug out his nose dirt, "Whether I'm happy or not isn't up to you to decide, and whether I can make sacrifices also isn't up to you to decide!"

  "Y-you..." The viscount pointed at Liu Zhen, unable to utter a single word for a long time.

  "Uncle..." Helen slowly walked out from behind the door, her delicate face covered with sparkling tears, and a large patch on the front of her newly changed clothes was wet.

  "Helen, did you hear everything I just said?" Lord Simmel gazed at her with a look of deep regret and pain.

  Helen nodded.

  "What do you think yourself?" The viscount looked at her with a hopeful expression.

  Helen walked up and tightly hugged Liu Zhen's arm, her head against his.

  "Ah..." Middle-aged Fox let out a long sigh and shook his head painfully.

  "Forgive my uncle..."

  "This will be the biggest joke of the year for House Fox and the Kingdom of Bimon!" said Viscount.

  "Forgive me, uncle..."

  "I have no right to order a priest who serves the war god to do anything, Helen. Uncle will go along with your wishes." Viscount Simark's face twisted: "But if you stay with this lowly Pigg, the head of the Fox clan will definitely disown you from the family. From now on, whatever hardships or grievances you have, you won't be able to come back and seek help from our clansmen again. Are you really sure you want to do this?"

  "I'm sure." Helen said proudly, raising her head high.

  Liu Zhenhong tightly hugged her.

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