It was only a matter of wiping out some pirates, yet he had been promoted three ranks straight to viscount? Why had we never run into such good fortune?
"Your Majesty, isn't this going a bit too far?"
"That's right. If the frontier troops learn of this, I fear there may be trouble."
For a while, the ministers protested, hoping the king would withdraw his decree.
The Second Prince was dumbfounded as well. A few days earlier, his residence had suddenly received a letter from South Australia Island. It had been sent by Kerry Raynor and said that Kerry had encountered a pirate attack on his own fief.
The pirates' ship had struck a reef and sunk near the coast, and nearly all the pirates aboard had escaped. However, after the ship was salvaged, they discovered that some pirates had still died in the wreck.
Kerry felt that the wreck and the pirate corpses could be traded for some benefits, so he used them as a token of allegiance to the Second Prince, hoping to serve under him and so on.
The Second Prince had never expected a pie to fall on him while he sat at home. Yesterday, he finally received a battle report from Little Nose Bay Port City through the Ministry of Military Affairs, and today he brought it up at the morning assembly.
The Second Prince had originally intended to take all the benefits for himself, which was why he had prepared the rhetoric about gaining fame and asking for rewards. Who could have expected the king to pull this move? Even more unexpected was that the First Prince did not oppose him taking credit.
"Then, gentlemen, I would like to ask you something. Since our last ceasefire with the Kingdom of Ford, among the more