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Beside him, Claire and Linse seemed to notice what Noah was focused on and immediately exchanged a glance.
"What is it?" Claire asked directly.
"Are you concerned about Velsaria?"
"If you put it that way, I suppose I am." Noah stared at the person ranked first on the leaderboard and asked, "Velsaria's surname is Fahrengart. Could she be from that Fahrengart family?"
Over the past week, while Noah had not come to fully understand this world, he had at least learned a fair amount about the family backgrounds of those close to him.
Claire was a descendant of the already fallen Elstein Dukedom.
Linse's Laurenhrost family was an old and prestigious house that had long resided along the snowy borderlands. In terms of status, it was not inferior to the Elstein Dukedom in the slightest.
As for Alice, the Fahrengart family she belonged to was a prestigious martial faction.
Not only had the Fahrengart family held an extremely lofty position in Austia Empire's military affairs for generations, but the current Duke Fahrengart was also Austia Empire's chief military adviser. He had distinguished himself greatly during the Lanbar War and was revered as an imperial hero, his standing no lower than Grayvas's.
For someone of that rank, let alone ordinary noble houses, even Claire and Linse's families at the height of their power would have had to pay their respects. Even members of the imperial family had to be utterly deferential before him and dared not show the slightest discourtesy.
One could only imagine how much power and influence the family of such a hero possessed.
It was also because she came