The Suddenly Appearing Demon (2)

Half a month after the tram line from Amnath City to Fortress of Will officially opened, Ang wasted no time launching another grand project: laying a new line connecting Fortress of Will to northern Volgograd.

This time, he chose a route along the edge of the Fett Mountains—a line that bypassed the Litchfield Plains and skirted the territories of nobles hostile to him.

At first, the nobles of the Litchfield Plains treated it as entertainment, and some even secretly tried to hinder Ang's plans.

Some mocked him for overestimating himself. They claimed that daring to lay a tram line around the mountains was no different from courting death—after all, it was a place where Lizardmen were highly active.

However, when they truly saw the route map, their expressions changed instantly.

Ang's line did indeed avoid their fiefs, but it cut straight into the Lizardmen hunting grounds on the outskirts of the Fett Mountains.

Immediately, some nobles began drafting impeachment documents, claiming that Ang had undermined the fragile Truce Agreement between the Empire and the Lizardmen and would surely provoke conflict.

These secret letters and memorials were sent one after another to Fortress of Will, and Putt's desk was soon piled into a complete mess.

He stared at the fiercely worded letters of accusation, his brow tightly furrowed and fatigue etched between his eyebrows.

"I didn't expect so many people to be waiting to laugh at Count Ang," he murmured.

"Should we inform Count Ang?" the clerk beside him asked cautiously.

"No need." Putt rubbed the bridge of his nose, his voice low but resolute. "He anticipated all this long ago. Leave the documents there. Do not respond."

Meanwhile, Ang personally oversaw the construction site, monitoring the progress of the tram line from beginning to end.

The route built along the