Chapter 5.2 - Adrian Empire’s Suzerain Firesale Convention Part 2 (1/2)
In a border town of Adrian Empire called Bell Town, a territory firesale convention was being held by Adrian Empire due to the fiscal pressure of being forced to pay a huge sum for war reparations to Augusta Empire after their defeat. Desperate, Adrian Empire’s imperial family had come up with this idea of selling these ownerless territories for money. This was a common way to raise funds in the “Victor Alliance.” Comparatively speaking, the “Clark Alliance” sold slaves for money.
Originally, Clyde had not been interested in participating in this, but his sister Lucifer had become fond of a territory. The area of that territory was very big, and the price was just ten gold coins. It was cheap beyond imagination. Upon seeing that someone was fond of this territory, Adrian Empire’s officials, who were furiously promoting various land sales, looked somewhat uncomfortable as if that territory had a painful past.
“Little girl, you are still young. Why don’t you consider another territory?”
“Miss, to tell you the truth, this territory had already been abandoned for a long period of time.”
Upon seeing that the person who wanted to purchase the territory was Lucifer, a beautiful silver-haired Lolita, the Adrian Empire’s officials’ tender and protective feelings for the fairer sex were aroused, and they told Lucifer the shameful secrets of that territory. It turned out that this Steinbeck Fief was an uninhabited, deserted territory. In addition, it was rumored to be a cursed area. No one dared to live there, and there was not a single living resident in that territory.
In the vicinity of Steinbeck Fief were many empires, kingdoms and principalities belonging to the “Clark Alliance.” As for the members of the “Victor Alliance,” very few bordered this territory. If it were not for its having neither practical nor strategic value, it would have already been annexed by other parties. It had already been more than a year since this hot potato had been placed in the hands of Adrian Empire, but no one had wanted to take over it, giving the emperor of Adrian Empire a headache. The price of this territory had been reduced, again and again, but even at the insanely low price of ten gold coins, no one wanted to take over it.
“That doesn’t matter. My family’s Miss just want to purchase it; she might not necessarily go there.”
“If that is the case, then there are no problem. Since you family’s Miss wants to purchase this place, we can immediately finish the procedures.”
“You have to remember to tell your family’s Miss to never go there. It is fine to purchase it for fun, but you must absolutely not go there.”
Under the arrangements of Lucifer, Clyde bought Steinbeck Fief with the owner being a certain Miss Sera. He and Lucifer wished to hide behind the scenes; thus, Princess Saras was named owner of this territory. Princess Saras used the alias Sera to obtain the suzerain position of Steinbeck Fief.
Adrian Empire’s officials were impatient to sell the territory. After all, they’d been trying to sell it for far too long. They didn’t even do a symbolic investigation of their identities and simply received the money. Furthermore, they didn’t even check the identity of Miss Sera; thus, they didn’t discovered that Miss Sera was actually Princess Seras of the just perished Owles Kingdom. After the completion of the handover procedure, Clyde’s carriage left Bell Town and proceeded to Steinbeck Fief. Now, Clyde had become poor once more. The ten gold coins he had earned had been spent so quickly.
Clyde sat in the carriage with Lucifer and Princess Saras. Lounging inside, the group waited as their carriage followed the pre-set route. These horses were trained and could follow the road on their own. There was no need to hold their reins and continuously direct them. Unless it was necessary to make a turn or sudden decision, there was no need to command these horses most of the time.