Next, White turned to look at Count Munster.

"Earl of Munster, please wait here for a while, I want to write a reply to Duke Eddie."

"yes."

Then, White turned around and boarded the ship quickly, urging his servants to prepare paper, pens and other writing utensils.

White quickly wrote the letter, sealed it with lacquer, and handed the letter to the Earl of Munster, asking him to send someone to send the letter.

Afterwards, White issued new instructions to the fleet, asking all warships to turn around and return to the royal capital immediately.

Standing at the dock, Count Munster looked at the dozen or so warships turning back in the distance, and then looked at the letter in his hand, looking thoughtful.

The nobleman on the side asked cautiously: "Mr. Munster...er, Earl, do you know why your Majesty returned to the royal capital in such a hurry?"

"Who knows."

The Earl of Munster turned around and said to the nobleman before returning to the castle: "We only need to calm down and do what His Majesty has told us. Don't get too involved in other things. Let's go back."

…

Dongsheng Fortress, Lord's Castle.

Duke Eddie kept changing sitting or lying positions on the special chair, but he couldn't calm down in any way.

Having just received news from the spies, the land army that was originally marching eastward suddenly changed direction and went back.

When he learned that the troops stationed on the outskirts of Linshui City were continuing their eastward march, Duke Eddie was frightened and was in panic all day long. He thought White would never let him go?

Now that the army had withdrawn, it was most likely that White received the letter sent by Duke Eddie at a later date.

The withdrawal of troops shows that after careful consideration, White finally chose to let Dongsheng Fortress go.

It's no wonder that Duke Eddie thinks so. Since information takes time to circulate, he doesn't know yet that Duke Connie in the south has sent an army to attack the royal capital.

"This delivery speed is too slow! It makes me frightened all day long." Duke Eddie complained.

However, he still needs to wait for White's reply to finally confirm whether White has really spared him.

Of course, Duke Eddie was not idle while waiting.

He sadly spent a sum of money and entrusted a rat organization that hung out in the underworld to spread a shocking secret to the outside world.

It's the fact that Owen Eisen has royal blood and is the illegitimate son of the late King of Wells.

At that time, through the merchants who trade in various places, this secret will spread rapidly in the Kingdom of Morning Light.

Duke Eddie did this to put pressure on White so that he could not ignore the hidden danger of Owen Eisen.

"Your Majesty the Duke! There is a letter from the royal family!"

At this time, a thin man hurried into the room, holding a letter in his hand.

"Quick! Bring it to me."

Eagerly grabbing the letter from the thin man's hand, Duke Eddie quickly unwrapped the narrow belt and opened the parchment.

The general content of White's reply letter was to order Duke Eddie to go to the border town in person to bring Owen Eisen to the royal capital, requiring that he be seen before the enthronement ceremony to be held this summer.

After reading the letter, Duke Eddie's fat pig face couldn't help but squeeze out an ugly smile, revealing several gold-encrusted teeth.

Great, White finally assigned him a task, which gave Duke Eddie a chance to redeem himself.

As long as this task is successfully completed, White will never kill the meritorious people no matter what he says, right? Duke Eddie thought this way.

However, Duke Eddie did not know White's true thoughts. The reason why he asked Duke Eddie to bring the people to the royal capital in person was because he wanted to directly deal with the two of them together after confirming the royal bloodline in Owen's body.

But Duke Eddie still smugly believes that White will let him go, which is really sad.

"Come here, prepare pen and paper!"

With the idea that he must complete the task, Duke Eddie decided to write a letter to Marquis Owen Eisen first.

The servants quickly brought the table and prepared paper, pens and other utensils needed for writing letters.

Duke Eddie picked up his quill and began to write a letter, making up false content in the letter.

The letter stated that White was a benevolent new king. He heard that Marquis Owen Eisen was his half-brother, and wanted him to come over to confirm the matter. If it was true, he would be allowed to pay homage to the late king.

Please be sure to accompany Duke Eddie to the Royal Capital.

If Owen Eisen can be successfully tricked into coming to Dongsheng Fortress, Duke Eddie can also save a lot of energy.

Finally, he handed the sealed letter to the thin man, and he urged: "Send the letter to Marquis Aisen in Border Guard Town, as soon as possible."

"yes."

After taking the letter, the thin man quickly retreated.

Then, Duke Eddie sent people to contact the nobles of Border Guard Town who fled to Dongsheng Fortress last year.

He did not fully trust that the Marquis of Aisen would be deceived. He had to be prepared to assemble an army and march north to the border garrison town, and the group of small nobles who complained about the Marquis of Aisen could just take advantage of it.

In addition, last winter's conspiracy did not succeed, which is really disappointing.

Duke Eddie wanted to take this opportunity to vent to Border Guard Town all the negative emotions he had accumulated recently.

…

In the eastern section of the Trans Mountain Range, deep in the mountains, a survey team is performing an exploration mission.

It is worth mentioning that this survey team is a ten-man team composed entirely of dwarves.

The dwarves are one of the few demihuman races that have not been overly suppressed by humans.

Because some of the technologies mastered by the dwarves are of great use to humans, and the underground cities they built have little conflict with human surface cities.

The dwarves like to build cities based on large mineral veins. They have built three huge underground cities across the mountains, which are where they rely for survival.

During the war when humans were expelling other demihuman races, in order to protect themselves, the dwarves united three underground cities that were originally independent from each other to form an independent country, the Kingdom of Femit Gon, and then jointly elected a king and a capital

Set in the middle underground city of Rudore.

Although the flames of war did not reach the dwarves in the end, the form of an independent country was preserved and continues to this day.

There are rumors that the king of the dwarves at that time ordered a spacious underground passage to be dug to connect the three underground cities.

If humans suddenly launch a war against one of the underground cities, the other two underground cities will quickly send reinforcements through this underground passage.

After the Lumicale Cult (i.e., the Church) was controlled by the new sect, Pope Laev XXIII officially recognized the Femit Gon Kingdom and established national-level diplomatic relations with it in an attempt to ease the relationship between humans and demihuman races.

contradiction.

After that, the Femit Gong Kingdom began to establish formal relations with human countries and sell the sophisticated weapons and other products they manufactured to the outside world.

With their superb blacksmith skills and rich experience in exploring mineral veins, the dwarves are doing well in this human-dominated world.

For example, dwarven currency (especially gold coins) is recognized as the most sophisticated currency of all human nations.
Chapter completed!