All Good Things! (Bonus Chapter for Alliance Leader Qingyangw)

Returning to Harrison Port had long been part of Ian's plan.

Whether it was pursuing deeper cooperation with Viscount Grant, negotiating major trade orders with foreign merchant guilds, or discussing all manner of future smuggling operations, these were all matters Ian needed to handle in person.

Of course, someone lacking in social awareness might ask: why wasn't Viscount Grant coming to Xiahui Territory instead?

Ian was no fool. Viscount Grant had been his former superior and former lord; by both sentiment and propriety, Ian should be the one to visit him. Not to mention that Grant was the owner of the port and the current lord of his White Folk family. What sense was there in making an elder and landlord visit a junior and business partner?

And besides, there was one even more important matter.

Viscount Grant's child was about to be born.

The reason Viscount Grant had made no major moves and sent no news lately was that he had been awaiting his child's birth. Now that things had stabilized, he had specifically written to Ian, hoping Ian could serve as the child's nominal teacher.

The viscount obviously did not truly think Ian would have time to teach his child. Even if he did, that would have to wait at least six or seven years—perhaps even ten.

But a title was a title. In essence, it was no different from becoming the child's godfather.

Moreover, Viscount Grant had immense faith in Ian's future. In his letter, he had already addressed Ian as Master... And thinking about it carefully, six or seven years from now, Ian would be an Iron Master. If he established the relationship now, then his child would become the disciple of the Empire's youngest alchemy master in the future.

An investment like that could only