Volume 4 Chapter 138 - Just become a king (1/2)

As soon as the hottest part of summer passed, the battle between Count Wein and Duke Stantine became even more intense.

Duke Stantine had sent someone at the level of Great Magician Runa to assassinate Xu Yi, which made the Frestech Chamber of Commerce support Count Wein even more. Not only did they provide a steady stream of military magic machines to Count Wein, they also bought a large amount of resources from the Lampuri Kingdom, the Rudson Kingdom, and the other countries they were cooperating with to solve Count Wein’s worries, allowing him to fully focus on fighting Duke Stantine.

The Frestech Chamber of Commerce even interfered in the fight between lords for the first time. In the battle between Count Wein and Duke Stantine, they sent out the most elite guards of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to join the battle.

With the powerful firepower of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce’s guards that even surpassed Count Wein’s soldiers, Duke Stantine stood no chance.

In just two months, Count Wein had led the invasion into the Stantine Duchy’s capital of Faraday City.

Seeing that there was no hope of resistance, Duke Stantine had burnt the duke manor that had taken several decades to build and he was burnt in the ashes.

After that, the lords of the Stantine Duchy surrendered to Count Wein, electing him as the new Duke Stantine, naming him Duke Wein.

After Duke Wein became a duke, he requested all the other lords in the duchy to give up their arms and accept the appointment of the duke’s manor.

Most of the lords agreed, there were only a few lords who refused.

Among them included Viscount Anklo who was currently famous in the south of the Stantine Duchy.

If it was a normal lord who resisted Duke Wein, they would have been beaten down without any mercy.

Actually, Duke Wein’s soldiers had done this.

One week after he gave the order to disarm, Duke Wein immediately sent out his troops to conquer the lords that had resisted his order. He easily defeated those lords and took all their territory for himself.

However, for Viscount Anklo who had also resisted his order, Duke Wein acted differently and didn’t take any actions against him. Both sides showed great restraint, as if there would be no conflict between them.

Actually, everyone in the Stantine Duchy knew that whether it was Viscount Anklo or Duke Wein, their biggest supporter was the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, or rather Xu Yi.

Don’t think that those two lords could summon storms in the Stantine Duchy. If they wanted to do something, one had to look at how the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, or rather Xu Yi felt.

This was a fact that no one could deny.

The Frestech Chamber of Commerce’s support was important for either side. If the Frestech Chamber of Commerce stopped supporting one side, the fate of that side would be to be defeated by the other side.

To put it more bluntly, only the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, or rather Xu Yi could truly decide the situation of the Stantine Duchy.

What everyone was confused about was that since the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was this strong, why didn’t they send out their troops and conquer all the lords? Why would they choose to support the forces of Viscount Anklo and Duke Wein?

Perhaps he could just choose to support one side and help them rule the entire Stantine Duchy, would he receive more benefits that way?

“Actually I can do this.” Xu Yi looked at Anklo sitting on the left and Duke Wein sitting on the right in front of him with a serious look.

If one didn’t see it, no one in the Stantine Duchy would believe that Viscount Anklo and Duke Wein who were fighting over control of the Stantine Duchy right now would be peacefully sitting across from each other. Both of them had a faint smile on their faces, like they weren’t enemies, but rather friends.

“The reason why I haven’t done this is because I feel that this would cause too much damage to the Stantine Duchy, it wouldn’t benefit our Frestech Chamber of Commerce’s development in the Stantine Duchy.” Xu Yi continued.

Ankolo took a sip of tea before looking at Duke Wein who had a smile, but also had a fierce look in his eyes. He said with a faint smile, “Chairman Xu, let me guess. Your biggest worry is that the Stantine Duchy being in a civil war would affect the population?”

“That’s right.” Xu Yi nodded, “Our company lacks people the most. The Stantine Duchy’s population is very important to me, I don’t want to lose them because of the war.”

Anklo’s face sunk a bit, “Chairman Xu, with all due respect, if it wasn’t for your support of Count Wein, Count Wein wouldn’t have had the guts to attack the other lords. Not to mention challenging Duke Stantine in the end.”

Duke Wein on the opposite side knit his brows and angrily glared at Anklo, “What? Viscount Anko, are you looking down on me? Do you want to see who would be better right now?”

Anklo looked at Duke Wein in disdain and said with a cold snort, “If it wasn’t for chairman Xu stopping me, I would have already beaten your motley crew to tears.”

Duke Wein flew into a rage. He suddenly stood up and pointed at Anklo, “Alright, we’ll start fighting immediately! We’ll see who has the motley crew!”

When Anklo was about to speak, Xu Yi suddenly gave a cold snort and the two stopped as they turned back to Xu Yi.

“I don’t care if you hate each other, but since I’m here, we’ll sit and talk!” Xu Yi coldly looked over and after the two glared at each other, they sat back down.

Seeing the angry appearance of the two, Xu Yi slightly knit his brows.