Chapter 173: Imperial Intervention (1) (2/2)

With a bit of es and turned towards Duke Hector Sebastian

“Duke Sebastian, I will entrust you with full authority Please defeat the wicked Republic and bring peace toNicholas had passed over the authority without hesitation He had also studied abroad in the Andrews Eer and was just as pro-imperialistic as the other nobles in his country

“Please leave it to iven to hiiven to him The war between the Ee that was the Valence Kingdoht with him 100,000 troops but he was able to instantly recruit soldiers within the Valence Kingdoe ardom had lost 100,000 dom had recently lost 100,000 men, Duke Sebastian enforced coht in the capital and its surrounding territories were all drafted as they were seen Fro boys ere not yet an adult to old and frailas they were male, most of thedom were told to cooperate since the country needed military funds and their properties were requisitioned In a word, it didn’t do as ated full power to Duke Sebastian in order to protect his country, but there was so he was mistaken about Duke Sebastian hadn’t codom, the Empire had already decided to abandon it The poison of the Republic had spread too , and the nobles were corrupt Fro do Duke Sebastian command the reinforce clear to hido a threat to the Empire He believed that the Republic needed to be pushed do so that it could not expand anymore That hy he had sent 100,000 troops and four Masters Duke Sebastian’s act of squeezing the Valence Kingdoes to his own ically (coldly), from his point of view, it was correct to put his country’s interest first

If you looked just at the result alone, then Siegfried and Duke Sebastian were doing the sa the citizens of the Valence Kingdofried was using his charisma to attract people to volunteer while Duke Sebastian was forcefully conscripting people Naturally, the people stopped cooperating, which led to some unexpected problems

“Whoo…”

Duke Sebastian sighed as he looked at the two people in front of him, Marquis Hailey Maroon and Marquis Matthias Burkel The two of thehting at any ain what you just said”

Marquis Maroon continued to glare at Marquis Burkel as she replied to Duke Sebastian’s request

“I said I’d like to have a duel with that scum”

Marquis Burkel sneered at her in response to the insult

“Fine, then let’s take this opportunity and fight till one of our heads fly?”

“I’ll kill you”

Marquis Maroon’s words were as cold as her epithet as she placed a hand on her sword Seeing how the two of the their swords, Duke Sebastian shouted at them

“You’ll stop that this instant!”

When he burst out in anger, the two stopped provoking each other but continued to glare at the other Watching the two of theht to hiht one of them?’

Marquis Hailey Maroon and Marquis Matthias Burkel, it was a well-known fact throughout the Ereat relationshi+p The two of them were too different from each other

Marquis Hailey Maroon was an influential woman who had become a Master and had directly inherited the title of Marquis She was the idol of the Ehts looked up to However, because she was a woainst countless times as she reached her position Her family opposed her, the public perception, and the prejudice of men only treated her as a pretty ornament

Even alorious level of becoth and because of that, she had a slight bias against men You could tell that since she was over 40 years old, but she wasn’tShe hated the preconceived notion that woathered up all the Lady Knights in the Eroup hts of the Silver Wolf and were led by her It was a group that every Lady Knight wanted to join and was very co to protect the Lady Knights, leading to discrimination and hostility towards men As a result, there were quite a few men who looked at her unpleasantly, but even if they talked about her behind her back, no one dared to say anything to her face Well, ‘aluts to confront her

Then, there was Marquis Matthias Burkel He was soinally a mercenary but had risen to the level of a Master and received a title from the Empire In a sense, he was someone who had succeeded with his own skills in an environonistic than Marquis Hailey Maroon Since he was originally a mercenary, he was unfamiliar with the courtesies and manners of the nobles and made mistakes with his speech and behavior But, like Marquis Maroon, he was a Master and a Marquis of the Empire There was ‘almost’ no one ould dare to point out his lack of ht Both of them were in a position where few people could point out their lack of standard behavior required from the nobility… Except for each other as also a Master They had clashed fro Marquis Burkel had first seen Marquis Maroon when he became a naturalized citizen of the Ee Maybe it was because he was slightly drunk?

He saw her slender figure and sculptural face and without thinking, acted like so:

[Wow~ S to the testimony of the participants…

There had been dead silence for about 10 seconds The , and the people who had been dancing as they whispered sweet nothings all froze Everyone’s attention had been drawn to the expressionless and stiff Marquis Hailey Maroon After a deep silence, Marquis Maroon callass in her hand

[As you wish, I’ll burn you down]

The banquet ended thereThe two Masters clashed and si out and the people all scattered without even atte to stop theotten between theht until one of them died Since then, the two of them ell known in the Empire for their violent relationshi+p

In fact, it was rather unreasonable to have both of them in the same reinforce with each other, trying to participate in the war first Neither illing to withdraw In the end, both were dispatched and Duke Hector Sebastian was sent to control the two of thest the Masters, Marquis Maroon or Marquis Burkel could not ignore hiinally been proainst the Republic, the reinforceht Masters and half of the between the two of them