Great Nobleman

"Welcome home, Lord Marquis!"

"I'll help the Marquis undress!"

"I'll wipe the sweat off the Marquis!"

"I have prepared some juice from the Elf Forest. Please enjoy it, Marquis!"

"Would you like a shoulder massage, Lord Marquis?"

"Lord Marquis, lift your legs. I will change your shoes..."

At this moment, it is already afternoon.

The knighthood promotion ceremony was completed in the morning, and then he had lunch in the palace with Burnham, as well as Lord Holland, Patrick, Edmund and others who were invited to witness it.

Brand and Sonia returned all the way to Morningflower Castle.

As soon as the transmission was completed, many ladies, including Brand's wives, came up to ask about his well-being.

After a lot of fun, Brand happily said goodbye to the many enthusiastic ladies on the grounds of being busy with official business.

In other words, since Brand was promoted to Marquis, the North Hollander family has left the "middle nobility" and truly entered the class of "great nobility"!

Of course, this is more of a change in name and scope of procedure.

In fact, the nobles of the Kaya Empire had long felt that the title of earl was not worthy of the great things Brand had done.

This is actually the important reason why Bernhard directly defined this reward as a promotion to the title.

As it was only a matter of time, Brand felt it would be good to arrive earlier.

When Brand happily took the new version of the lord's seal and stamped the various documents handed over by Chris and Ivy with a new seal.

Catherine suddenly knocked on the door and came in, then explained to him:

"Master, several masters came to visit. I think they want to celebrate with you."

Hearing this, Brand said seriously without even raising his head:

"I'm busy, let them come directly."

Hearing this, Catherine also smiled and nodded.

Soon, under Catherine's guidance, Master Holland took the lead and pushed the door open, followed by several other masters.

Seeing that Brand was handling official business, which was a rare occasion, everyone couldn't help but walk up to him and surround him to tease and joke with him.

Then, Brand, who couldn't stand these guys anymore, simply ended his work for the day and walked around the castle with several masters.

During this process, Master Mesa asked curiously:

"When will the celebration banquet for the promotion to the title be held? My gifts are already prepared."

Brand smiled and responded:

"It will be held in the Imperial Capital in two weeks, a few days before the next regular noble meeting. I plan to canvass votes for the proposal of the noble meeting."

Master Holander nodded and said:

"That's good. Every noble in the empire shares weal and woe with the empire.

The minor nobles developed safely under the protection of the empire.

The middle-class nobles contributed to the empire's accumulation of heritage and foundation.

The great nobles were more likely to move forward with the empire in search of a bigger piece of the pie.

You have done a great job on this.”

Brand waved his hand and said:

"It's just a coincidence. If the continent and the human alliance are in trouble, our empire will definitely be affected as well.

By the way, when the nobles meet later, the master and a few uncles have to support me.

The moderate guys have been negotiating with the Orc Empire for so long without any progress.

I think it's time for them to step aside and let the war faction of our human alliance take the stage.

In my opinion, the only way to negotiate with the Orc Empire is to use fists."

Hearing this, Master Romien smiled and said:

"Don't worry, we are doing our best to make this happen. Just wait patiently for the results."

…

This afternoon.

Due north-east of the Human Alliance, the northern border of the Minoan Kingdom.

On a vast grassland that serves as a buffer zone and borders the Orc Empire.

The fully armed armies of the Human Alliance and the Orc Empire faced each other across a grassland area of ​​hundreds of meters.

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And in the center of this area, there is a conference building built using magic.

After another day of negotiations with the diplomats of the Orc Empire.

Wayne Braso, the highest person in charge of the negotiations on the Human Alliance side, a veteran diplomat of the Caesar Empire with nearly fifty years of diplomatic experience, rubbed his forehead helplessly.

——They still didn’t make any progress in today’s negotiations.

Next, they said goodbye to the orc negotiation team in front of them, left the temporary building with their negotiation team, and headed south to join the main army.

Then they went south together and returned to a border city of the Minoan Kingdom further south.

At this moment, although the sky has darkened slightly, evening is approaching.

But they didn't have time to rest.

Next, they will review the meeting with the assistance of diplomatic elites from various countries in the Human Alliance and prepare for tomorrow's meeting.

I walked all the way to the large conference hall that is usually used and activated the magic device here.

Soon, one human-shaped shadow after another appeared in the conference room.

After a brief greeting with everyone, the review of the response and preparations for tomorrow's negotiations officially began.

And when all this was declared completed, the moon outside the window was already high in the sky.

Normally, a day's work is over here.

What is different from usual is:

A diplomat from the Kaya Empire suddenly told a story:

"Oh, there is one thing I need to tell you in advance.

You may not have much free time to pay attention to other international affairs these days.

In fact, at the regular noble meeting of our Kaya Empire held yesterday.

The proposal put forward again by our Marquis of Morning Flower has been discussed and passed by the meeting.

Since this morning, the foreign affairs departments of our Kaya Empire and the Moon Empire have begun contacting various countries, preparing to take the lead in convening a joint meeting of all countries.

The plans and proposals regarding our human alliance's "War of Rectification" against the Orc Empire have now been placed on the desks of foreign affairs departments of various countries.

You should be able to guess the specific content by listening to the name.

Although many people believe that the content of this plan is somewhat radical and may not be passed by all national conferences.

But if the negotiations here don't make any progress... at least another war between us and the Orc Empire is inevitable.

So please be mentally prepared in advance.

By that time, your tasks should be adjusted.

There should be pro-war negotiators, including those from our Kaya Empire’s Foreign Affairs Department, who will lead the subsequent negotiations with the Orc Empire.”