Faced with the emperor's furious questioning, not a single noble could speak.
Grand Duke Fleming looked toward Grand Duke Mayers. In the Imperial Capital now, only Mayers had the courage and strength to spread such dazzling rumors and provoke the emperor's wrath.
Was he not even willing to give him a few months?
Grand Duke Fleming took a deep look at Grand Duke Mayers, who was of the same generation as his father. If one were to ask who had benefited the most from these rounds of political struggle, there was no doubt it was Mayers.
He would become the "Fleming" at Emperor Columbus IV's side. The past glory of the Fleming Family would all be possessed by the future Mayers Grand Ducal Family. But you are far too impatient.
I have already shown you, through actual consequences, what such impatience will bring. Why are you still sitting by and watching bloody conflicts break out between the nobles? Grand Duke Fleming clenched his fists. He did not understand why Grand Duke Mayers was in such a hurry. Did he want to push the Mayers Family to its peak before he died?
Was he unwilling to leave even a little glory for his own children to share?
The nobles' thoughts churned endlessly, until the emperor's heavy fury descended upon them.
"Could it be that all my noble lords are mute? Was it magic that made you stop speaking, or did the Northlands freeze your tongues?" Faced with such barbed mockery, Grand Duke Mayers was, of course, still the first to step forward and support every decision the emperor made.
"Your esteemed Majesty, I swear to you on the surname of the Mayers Family that Mayers has absolutely no intention of taking the Empire's wealth for itself, nor have we ever expressed