The Knight's Journey to the Empire

Fort Meade, known as the "Blue Lake Crystal", is built on a large island in the middle of the lake.

This is an ancient castle with a heritage of more than a thousand years. The weight of history and the vicissitudes of time are fully reflected in Midburg.

Midburg is not only the main living place of the royal Granbell family, but also the location of the royal court of the Midburg Kingdom and the core of power in the country.

But His Royal Highness Prince Leo II is already an adult, so in order to avoid suspicion, he does not usually live in Midburg except on certain special holidays.

Instead, he lived in an exclusive mansion in the aristocratic district of Schindler.

At this time, in the study of His Royal Highness Prince Leo II's residence, His Royal Highness Prince Leo II was talking to another important confidant of his, Viscount Meyev Sankara.

Viscount Meyeff Sankara was a court noble who had neither hereditary territory nor hereditary title.

Now in the royal court of the Kingdom of Midburg, Viscount Mayev serves as the secretary of His Majesty the King. He is responsible for taking minutes of important meetings convened by His Majesty the King and conveying His Majesty the King's intentions.

The position of King's Secretary is somewhat special. Its position and power are not great, but it belongs to His Majesty the King's close ministers and is the most well-informed official!

At that time, His Royal Highness Prince Leo II also paid a huge price to bring Viscount Meyev to his camp.

"Meyev, you said that the eldest son of the Principality of Golia has been under house arrest in Midburg for nearly a year! Why is the Principality of Golia not in a hurry to redeem him?"

The handsome Prince Leo II, sitting in the precious chair behind the desk, asked Viscount Mayev who was also sitting next to him.

"I don't know about that!" Viscount Mayev sighed and said helplessly.

The eldest son of the Principality of Golia, the second son of General August "Silver Fox", and the eldest son of Count Alec!

Since these three people were captured by the Kingdom of Middeburg a year ago, they have been transferred to the royal capital, Schindler Castle, and placed under house arrest in Middeburg.

Among the speculations of many officials in the Kingdom of Midburg, they all agreed that:

This eldest son is the only blood descendant of Grand Duke Golia and the heir to the throne of Grand Duke of the entire Principality of Golia. Therefore, Grand Duke Golia will definitely do whatever it takes to redeem him.

Since the Kingdom of Midburg holds such an important bargaining chip, it can justifiably recover all the profits lost in the war.

Of course, what we also need is the Lorraine iron mine!

But the current situation is that, except for the initial stage of the negotiations, when the Principality of Glia showed some eagerness, their performance afterwards was obviously a bit perfunctory!

It was as if the Principality of Glia had given up on this eldest son.

"Is there any news from my father?" Prince Leo II continued to ask.

"No, I haven't heard any news from His Majesty the King!" After thinking for a while, Viscount Mayev added: "But according to the intelligence department of the kingdom, the Principality of Glia is increasing its manpower and mining the Lorraine iron ore recklessly!"

Since the end of the Western War, the Lorraine Iron Mine has been considered a sure thing by the high-ranking officials of the Kingdom of Midburg!

Therefore, theoretically speaking, this behavior of the Principality of Glia should lead to a military counterattack from the Kingdom of Midburg!

But the fact is, the Kingdom of Midburg can do nothing except criticize the actions of the Principality of Glia at the diplomatic level!

Because the old general Bill August, the "Silver Fox" of the Principality of Glia, was personally stationed in the White Stone Fortress to prevent any military action by the Kingdom of Midburg.

However, many generals of the Kingdom of Midburg were frightened after being beaten by this old general!

In addition, the Kingdom of Essex in the south has already deployed troops on the southern border of the Kingdom of Midburg in order to support the Principality of Glia!

As a result, the Kingdom of Midburg did not dare to start a war, for fear that it would have to fight on two fronts and be attacked from both the Principality of Glia and the Kingdom of Essex!

After all, judging from the geographical location of the Kingdom of Midburg, they have no place to retreat and no direct reinforcements!

Unless the Kingdom of Midburg is willing to cross the Anatolian Mountains and enter the extremely cold ice field in the north of the continent, or retreat to the sea!

But think about the severe climate of the extremely cold ice field in the north of the continent and the current navigation technology!

This is simply impossible!

The Kingdom of Midburg would rather fight to the death!

"Then do you think it is possible that the Principality of Glia has given up on this eldest son?"

"But I know that this so-called eldest son was just a bastard illegitimate child!" As he said this, a hint of disdain appeared at the corner of his mouth.

In the Knight Continent, the eldest son looks down on the second son, and the second son looks down on the illegitimate son. This is the social norm!

Viscount Mayev shook his head and denied it, and explained: "This should be unlikely!"

"After all, a year has passed, and we haven't received any news that Grand Duke Glia has any thoughts or actions on adopting an adopted son!"

"Besides, Grand Duke Gelia is just an ordinary man. He is already over 60 years old this year. He definitely can't have children now! This Grand Duke was born in his old age!"

"Besides, Your Highness, you are not unaware of the news that Grand Duke Glia has been a single-line descendant for five generations! Those so-called branches and collateral families are more than five generations old. Do you think we can still choose one of them to adopt?"

"That's true!" His Royal Highness Prince Leo II nodded in agreement.

The royal family of the Principality of Glia is really pitiful!

Not to mention the five generations of only one son, just this generation alone, if it weren’t for an illegitimate child, the family line would probably have been extinct!

Unlike the king of the Kingdom of Midburg, in addition to the eldest prince and the second prince, there are also two princesses and a little prince!

There are quite a lot of offspring!

"Then tell me, why is Grand Duke Glia not in a hurry to redeem this illegitimate child?" Prince Leo II asked unwillingly.

"I really don't know about this!" Viscount Mayev shook his head and said helplessly again.

As a result, this issue has fallen into an unsolvable deadlock!

Because they could not understand why the attitude of the Principality of Glia towards this matter had changed so drastically!

Do they want to take advantage of this free time to mine more iron ore?

But the officials of the Principality of Glia are not fools!

They must know that if they do this, the Kingdom of Midburg will definitely demand back the losses during future negotiations!

So isn't this just a waste of time?

why?

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Sorry, dear readers, I have been busy with work these days, so the update may be a little late!

I would like to apologize for delaying your reading process.

But what I want to make clear is that I will never give up!

Please rest assured!

Finally, I would like to ask for a good review from everyone, thank you Daniel Wu and Liu Yifei!!