Great Nobleman

This morning, in the main building of Morning Blossom Castle.

Brand moved his body, which was a little sore from being locked up by the ladies, and came all the way to the terrace.

When he arrived, the increasingly considerate Rowling prepared breakfast here as usual and greeted him with a smile.

Next, he enjoyed his breakfast leisurely and Rowling's increasingly superb massage skills.

Brand also listened to Rowling's latest intelligence sent by Free Iris as usual, or... morning news.

"Master, the news about the joint expedition of the three continents of Fantim, Rios, and Sweetin has now spread further throughout the entire Human Alliance.

The traces of stowaways from the outer continent are also appearing more and more frequently in the Human Alliance.

Especially in some small countries with weak national strength, there are relatively chaotic and unmanaged wild areas.

Although all countries have made some responses in advance.

But the Human Alliance's business contraction and the rise in the prices of living and war materials have inevitably begun to become more and more severe.

Some small countries' cities have even directly entered a state of martial law, strictly examining all people entering and leaving."

"In contrast , our Empire is fine.

However, yesterday afternoon, in the western wilderness of Lucio Territory, the southwest border of the Empire.

The local city defense team cooperated with the Imperial Judgment Department to break into a border black market.

Killed and captured more than 50 unknown foreigners who smuggled into our Kaya Empire.

According to the preliminary interrogation, they came from the chaotic area outside the southwest of the Empire.

The reason they smuggled in, in addition to making profits, was also to seek refuge.

Under the influence of the general environment, the various forces in that chaotic area are fighting fiercely..."

While listening to Rowling's story, Brand was also thinking secretly.

Recently.

The macro situation of the Human Alliance is getting worse and worse, and all kinds of bad news can be heard every day.

In contrast, everything is normal in the Morning Flower Territory.

He has been staying at home every day recently to draw rune arrays.

Including but not limited to assisting Celine in making top magic devices that carry semi-permanent [Dusk Cross] and [Space Diamond] large magic rune arrays.

Some time ago, when the Empire announced the invasion of enemies from the outer continent.

Although the people of Morning Flower Territory were also in panic for a day or two, and all kinds of supplies in the market were looted.

But this was the limit.

After Chris issued a series of decrees to appease the explanation, and Hisali also took the army to tour the territory and demonstrated force.

Everything quickly returned to normal.

The situation in other parts of the Kaya Empire was similar to that of Morning Flower Territory. After all, they were the top countries in the Human Alliance, and the people still had a high sense of security.

But it was different abroad.

At this point in time, some countries with weak national strength have begun to show signs of chaos.

In order to avoid being affected, the Free Iris Chamber of Commerce began to orderly shrink its influence abroad under Chris's instructions.

At present, they have abandoned more than a quarter of the trade routes and strengthened their defense.

And it's not just the Human Alliance.

Judging from the feedback from the shop managers sent by Free Iris to the Forest of Elves.

Although the overall situation in the Forest of Elves is better than that of the Human Alliance, their business has also shrunk a lot.

At the shop of Free Iris in the Forest of Elves, the amount of ordinary goods sold to the outside world each week has gradually decreased.

At the same time, the sales of a few resources that are helpful for fighting have been rising all the way.

Obviously, the elves have begun to prepare for the future chaos.

Affected by this, in addition to commercial taxes.

Their Morning Flower Territory, which has been expanding for several years, has now begun to shrink.

Not only the Morning Flower Territory, but the situation of the entire empire is the same.

Of course, the extent of the contraction of trade is not large for the time being.

After all, the high profit margin is still there, and there is always no shortage of brave merchants who take risks in this world.

Panic can only scare ordinary people.

In addition, the Empire and the Forest of Elves have recently taken a series of measures to eliminate chaos, create a better business environment, and try to slow down or curb the decline of business.

In general, based on the current situation, as long as the chaos and war that may break out in the future do not pose a huge threat to both sides, the maritime trade between the two sides will at most reduce some heat.

Morning Flower Territory can still maintain a certain degree of continuous income.

When thinking about it,

Sonia, who had just gotten up, also stretched and came to the terrace.

After collecting her thoughts and greeting with a smile.

Brand asked:

"Sister Sonia, didn't you go to work today?"

Sitting next to Brand, sharing Brand's breakfast without any hesitation.

Sonia shook her head and said:

"I've been busy for so many days, I should take a break.

And the wedding is approaching, I can't ignore my fiancé, right?"

At the end, Sonia blinked her right eye at Brand, suggesting that she was free today.

Brand also immediately reached out and took Sonia's slender waist, smiling:

"Catherine and I are going to go back to Holland to meet the master. Sister Sonia, do you want to go with us?

He returned to Holland Castle yesterday afternoon."

Hearing this, Sonia quickly asked curiously:

"Is the promotion of Earl Holland over? Is it a success or a failure?"

Brand shook his head and said:

"It failed not too unexpectedly.

According to him, this time he just tried it out a little bit and stopped there.

It will accumulate experience for the subsequent real promotion."

"I see!"

Speaking of this, Sonia said with some hope:

"I really hope that Earl Holland will be promoted smoothly in the future.

This way, we will be more confident."

...

In the morning.

The garden of Holland Castle.

After glancing at Sonia and Catherine who were introducing gifts to Loreya next to him.

Master Holland turned his gaze to Brand, who was sitting opposite and leisurely eating snacks, and smiled and joked:

"I heard from Yersin that everyone is unusually busy recently.

But you look quite relaxed."

After swallowing the pastry in his mouth, Brand shrugged and said:

"It's just that I look relaxed now. I'm also quite busy recently.

Morning Flower Territory is preparing for war, and I draw rune arrays at home every day.

Today I'm just taking a short break."

Hearing this, Master Holland suggested happily:

"In that case, you can tell me about the current situation.

Yersin threw a lot of intelligence information to me this morning, and then ran out to train with the Knights."

At the end, he casually took a stack of information on the table in front of him and flipped through it.

Master Holland continued:

"I have only been practicing for a few months, and the changes during this period are really exaggerated.

I can guess that there are more and more smuggled demons.

After all, the end of the Fantim Continent is coming, and they have to find a way out for themselves.

But why are Rios, Sweetin, and even more foreign continental forces targeting us?

Do they think we are easy to bully?"

At the end, the smile on Master Holland's face was slightly restrained, and his brows frowned for a moment.

At this moment, a trace of a sharp and sharp breath like [Champion's Power] flashed in Brand's senses.

When Brand unconsciously paused, frowned slightly, wondering if he had sensed it wrong just now.

Master Holland leisurely picked up a few peppers from the plate beside him, threw them into his mouth and chewed them, and then casually reminded:

"Remember to keep it a secret for me, I don't want to reveal it to the outside world yet.

This is not in line with our family's usual low-key elegance."

After these words came out, after a short reaction.

Brand unconsciously began to widen his eyes!