Chapter 1067 Fate

Chapter 1067 Fate

"What? They have been defeated?"

"How come they are defeated so quickly?"

The king, Duke Raymond, and several nobles held a private meeting, discussing the trade ban.

"It's not important. The most important problem will be their current condition." Duke Raymond bit his lips. "They are in dire need of support. It's going to be hard to help them because the nobles around them will take action."

"Shouldn't we use the royal army? They won't be able to act that way."The source of this content nov(el)bi((n))

"The royal army can't be used in this case. People will just think the royal family is abusing their power."

"Then, are we going to abandon them? There will be a lot of nobles that will think we'll do the same to them in the future."

Duke Raymond bit his lips. "I could think of several plans, but we have to wait for the winter.

"There's no way they can last that long. Some citizens are even reported to have fled to Marquis Ardagan's territory."

"Does that mean we can't do anything?"

The people were concerned. Even the king didn't say anything as if he were waiting for an answer from his retainers.

Due to how swiftly Noel finished it, they didn't have enough time to react. To get enough money to support them, they would have to gather them for a long period of time so that there wouldn't be any inflation or deflation. That was why Duke Raymond was confident in helping them after the winter.

But in this situation, they simply had no choice.

...

Their atmosphere was similar to the one in President Matthew's office. After getting hit by Maxwell, Theressa, and Zephyr, he was doing his best to stop his company from going out of the top ten.

However, people had become a bit skeptical about trading with them, afraid that they would anger Marquis Ardagan.

In addition to the promotion that the three presidents had done, they became even more popular.

President Maxwell bit his lips, recalling how he threatened Noel. At this point, he might be the one to beg for forgiveness.

...

The four nobles had the most stress.

Earl Canmond coughed a few times while looking at the report. He looked exhausted as if he had aged a few years in just a week. "We are already losing three thousand people from this territory. And more will probably come. I need to station the soldiers near the border... but will I still have enough soldiers to stop any revolt that might occur after that?"

Count Caulbot was bedridden because of the stress. His son was screaming at him, "This is your fault! If you didn't provoke the Marquis, we wouldn't have to suffer like this. How am I supposed to take care of all this?!"

"They are making anything they can right now and will probably assemble it after the winter before transporting it to their destinations." Noel nodded, satisfied. "And two months after that, we will officially open the main city."

"Yep!" Anna smiled. "I'm looking forward to our opening."

"I'm more looking forward to reaching the Spirit Transcendence level. We have to hide that strength, but it's better to become one as quickly as possible."

"According to the scouts, they have found three Superior Demons in the north, a lot of demon nests, and numerous ruins." Anna explained.

"Is that so? I'm expecting more than that to be honest. I guess we've cleaned up a lot of them in the previous battle."

"Hahaha." Anna chuckled. "We can still find more while we're on site. You and I can find them, right?"

"That's true. We'll be going after it starts snowing."

"Sounds good enough. We will have plenty of time to gather enough demon crystals. Then, the last problem would be how to become a Spirit Transcendence."

"Yeah. I've been asking around. Even though a lot of people have quality above their ranks, they are stuck at the peak grandmaster. Most of the time, it's because of their lower absorption rate, which ends up forcing them to get Superior Demon Crystals or even Ancient Demon Crystals to level up.

"However, there is also another barrier that we need to cross. Commander Oscar has promised to send me the book about it. My grandfather and Duke Lorelei seem to have some advice as well. So, we wait until they arrive."

"Fair enough. And once we become a Spirit Transcendence, I'm afraid that the situation will change again."

"Yeah. The Supreme Devil Organization... If a Demon King is involved, I'm afraid they have a way to force those humans to become Spirit Transcendence. It also means that the Demon King has finally begun to take this matter seriously." Noel nodded with a serious expression.

"We need to prepare for it."

"Yeah. But rushing won't help, so I'll just do everything one step at a time." Noel shrugged. "Anyway, I'm going to the office now."

"Alright." Anna waved her hand.

When Noel just exited the room, Dimitri seemed to have been waiting for him. Even though he had asked that they didn't need anyone to wait for them outside, the fact that he was here meant there was an important matter.

Dimitri whispered to him about the news.

Noel looked surprised before nodding his head. "Alright. I'll take care of it."

Noel turned back and opened the door again while saying playfully, "Anna. Take care of the city today. I have to visit Laivaen City."

"Is there something wrong?"

"Well, one noble seems to be more rational than I originally thought." Noel chuckled.

"Alright. I'll take care of the work for today."

Noel nodded and walked away. "Time to meet Count Lesen, I guess."