Roland was naturally so surprised because he had just exchanged honor points for the MacDougall Family. Compared to the one-time purchase of an entire legion, a hereditary family was clearly more cost-effective and better suited to the kingdom's current needs. Of course, the price was exceptionally beautiful too! Twenty honor points was no small sum!
Among the shop's random items, Roland had incredibly luckily found the MacDougall Family, which had once stood alongside House of Antony as a Dragon Marshal family. What was more, its excellent price of twenty honor points had struck right at the heart of Roland, who possessed twenty-five honor points!
However, Roland had prepared himself for the worst from the start. After all, the MacDougall Family was explicitly recorded as a declining family. During the Empire's civil war, this eastern family had been dragged into the conflict, suffering devastating casualties. The powerful southern nobles had descended into a frenzied civil war. The survival time of Knight Orders on the battlefield was measured in minutes, while Dragon Knights who dared show themselves were immediately focused down by forbidden spells... The MacDougall Family's Dragon Knights and Guardian Dragons had nearly all perished in battle. The entire family had fallen directly from the first tier of Dragon Knight Families and never returned to its peak afterward, much less rivaled House of Antony again! (House of Antony's territory lay in the Northern Territory, while the MacDougall Family was located in the empire's east. During the imperial unrest, the Lagrange Plain and the Northern Territory were the only regions untouched by it.)
"How did you know?" Roland looked utterly astonished.
"I'm a member of the MacDougall Family! My name is Fenglin Binglan MacDougall! I'm a direct descendant of the MacDougall Family, and I just received the family's magical distress signal..." Fenglin