Lin Yun and Louen's conversation had gone very well.
Although Louen wasn't in a position to directly command a duke, he offered to write a letter of recommendation for Lin Yun to take to Bordeaux and present to Duke Eboric. Unless something unexpected happened, Duke Eboric should agree to help Lin Yun.
After all, all he had to do was lend a ship, and in return, he would gain the friendship of a young man who had just killed Khorne's Chosen Champion—and who looked so young, at that.
It was hard to see how he could lose.
As for the fact that Louen, as king, wasn't entitled to command a duke...
That was a somewhat complicated matter.
Most dukes had been there at the founding of the kingdom, alongside its founding king. Well, the specifics could be found in that thing called the legend of King Arthur.
In short, the title of duke had been passed down from the original Round Table Knights.
That was why it carried such great significance in the Kingdom of Batonia.
On top of that, Duke Eboric himself was a Grail Knight. Though... he worshipped the Lady of the Lake on the one hand and Manann, God of the Sea, on the other. Yes, he really was that two-faced.
But... he was indeed a Grail Knight, and also the Grand Master of the Manann Temple's knightly order, much like the Elector Count of Averland.
That was what made the whole situation even more complicated.
In the almost exclusively devout kingdom of Batonia, the man was an heretic—and a Grail Knight, to boot. It was safe to say Batonia itself had little love for him.
And yet, Eboric's capital, Bordeaux, was one of the most prosperous cities in Batonia. That made things a little awkward.
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