Stanley is not a god dependent. It took decades to rise to the fourth level. He is not even a gifted believer.


    Moreover, Hades has a messenger on earth, and his God''s name has a destination on earth. A full-scale believer has obtained an artifact and eternal life, and has become Hades''s substitute on earth.


    For Hades, Stanley is just a high-level believer, which means nothing else.


    But this time, Stanley received the blessing of the gods. Hades told him that there was a treasure buried in the mountains and asked him to dig it out in three days. Stanley was so excited that he didn''t even wear clothes. He rushed into the mountain forest with a shovel.


    This is not an ordinary treasure, but a gift from God, a gift completely tailored for Stanley.


    There are stone statues promoted to the fifth level and sacrifices. I know that Stanley''s cultivation speed is very slow. Even the pure God blood stone is ready.


    Lulian was a little uneasy. She didn''t understand why the gods took such careful care of Stanley.


    Stanley thought it was not perfect because the stone statue was engraved with ciphertext.


    "I don''t know what language this is. I have to send a letter to Manda and ask Kunta to help me unlock the ciphertext."


    Stanley doesn''t want to chase the enemy anymore. Now there are a lot of four ranks on the seven star mountain. He feels his position is in danger. Nothing is more important than promotion.


    Back in bluestone City, he immediately handed the stone statue to Che Erdan and asked him to hand it over to Manda through the Styx island. Che Erdan was surprised when he got the stone statue. He reminded Stanley that he had better be careful, but he saw Stanley''s ferocious eyes.


    "Careful or not, you can teach me? What you did before when I didn''t see it?"


    Cheerdan didn''t dare to say more. He quickly handed the stone statue to Manda through the Styx island.


    Lulian also put her heart down. Manda is not an easy loser. He will help Stanley make the right decision.


    Manda had just arrived at Miaoyin city. Brayton used some soldiers to make a full momentum for Manda. Manda made a careful plan before entering the city. He repeatedly checked the documents, thought out a reasonable explanation for every detail, and made an unusually detailed idea of the whole process of the incident. He was confident that the Grand Duke''s family and courtiers would accept his status as a grand government official, But after entering the city, he found that all the preparations were in vain.


    The Archduke''s wife and children did not meet him, nor did they intend to meet him, as if Manda did not exist at all.


    Archduke''s courtiers also kept a distance from Manda. They read the documents without any comments. They gave Manda gifts such as spices and wine and went back to their homes.


    This cold treatment method was unexpected to Manda, and all the previous preparations were meaningless.


    At night, Manda lived in Brayton''s house, holding a wine pot and looking sad.


    Bored, he opened the Styx island and saw Stanley''s letters and stone statues.


    Stanley detailed the process of obtaining the stone statue in his letter, and also made a request for Kunta to translate the ciphertext.


    For this stone statue, Manda didn''t react so violently. Although it was really strange, Manda felt that he should take advantage of it and couldn''t miss it. This is a reward given by Hades to Stanley. If he refused, wouldn''t it be a face?


    Manda wrote a reply to Stanley. He agreed to Stanley''s request and asked Stanley to return to the Seven Star Mountain at the right time. Kunta personally presided over his promotion ceremony.


    He handed the statue to Kunta through another Styx island. Kunta is a family. Stanley is half a family. Things between families are easy to deal with without considering so many cumbersome details.


    Family


    Thinking of this word, Manda fell into meditation. It seems that he has simplified the concept of family.


    He always wanted to start with Dagong''s family, control his family first, then his ministers, and then control all his power.


    But the grand duke''s family relationship is probably much more complicated than he thought. If you want to find a breakthrough, you must first be familiar with the aristocratic family rules.


    Manda knows a little about the aristocracy. He was born in an aristocratic family. Although he is only an illegitimate child, he also knows the operating rules of the Claude race family. It''s just that the status of a Baron is too far from that of the Archduke, which doesn''t seem to have much reference value.


    He had seen the king, the biggest nobleman in the whole romroad country, but he had not seen the king''s wife and children, and did not understand the king''s means of dealing with family affairs.


    He met the Minister of state lesio and the general long Gesen, two nobles of high status, but their temperament was so strange that they had no family at all.


    And elmeng. Manda is also very familiar with him, but his family is too large. There are hundreds of wives and hundreds of children. It is impossible to understand the normal family life of aristocrats from him.


    Manda realized that he had not been in contact with the normal aristocratic family life, and it seemed that none of the people around him came from the aristocracy.


    Wait, there''s one


    Manda called Roma to the bedroom. Roma blushed and refused to take off her armor. She was a little afraid, but a little yearning. From the first time she saw Manda to many times later... Roma always had the same emotion.


    But she soon realized that both longing and fear were superfluous. Manda was not interested tonight. He had more important things to discuss with Roma.


    After understanding Manda''s meaning, Roma made a gesture in sign language.


    During this time, Manda and yodora learned some sign language and roughly understood Manda''s meaning.


    "How many sons are you asking? Is that important?"


    Roma: This is an important part of understanding his family until it collapses.


    Manda rubbed her forehead, shook her head and said, "I think it''s more practical to threaten with force to disintegrate his family."


    Roma struggled to use sign language. She wanted to make Manda understand it in as simple a way as possible.


    "You mean, the soldiers won''t..." after reading it several times, Manda finally understood Roma''s meaning: the soldiers may not be willing to attack their Lord.


    In Miaoyin City, more than 1000 soldiers were under the command of Breton, but these soldiers could not participate in any battle without the order of sheltai.


    Even if Brayton forced them to fight, there were more than 2000 guards in the city. These guards were under the control of Tabian, who was still too lazy to look at Manda.


    There is no doubt that he and his family share the same position, which is the most difficult problem at present.


    Dispatch troops from the southwest to directly flatten the resistance?


    Manda had thought that if he immediately sent troops to Miaoyin city at this time, it would not be very difficult to capture the city when all parties were unprepared.


    But after the capture? The nobles in the South will react quickly. They will fight to the death. Even if Manda kills sheltai and all his family, they will still resist. They will not accept the rule of an earl, which is the insurmountable limit of status.


    Moreover, it will also give Archduke bessalu in the southeast a good excuse to start a war. No matter where or at any time, reaping profits is the best choice. He first swallowed the due south in the name of upholding justice, and then swallowed the southwest in the name of punishing evil, so as to become the overlord of the whole south. The whole process is smooth and reasonable.


    This is why Manda still keeps sheltai. He knows that the Government Secretary has gone to the southeast and brought a "new king". He also knows that bessalu is eyeing the south. Whether in domestic affairs or diplomacy, the living sheltai is much more useful than his documents.


    Manda accepted Roma''s opinion and began to investigate sheltai''s family. Before the investigation was clear, bessalu, who was eyeing, sent someone to Miaoyin city.


    He sent his second son, the count of SUS, as an envoy and gave an ultimatum to sheltai.


    Either an enemy or a friend, he told sheltai to choose only one.