With a dull thud, Fan Ent seized the seal cast from pure gold and stamped it viciously onto Hu Xinzhu's new passport.
And so, a freshly minted White Stone Viscount was born. Bambu Hart White Stone—the Vias Commercial Federation's White Stone Family had been a viscount family for over two hundred years, and at the height of its prosperity, it had once held two medium-sized cities as fiefs. But the White Stone Family, which had risen swiftly and declined just as swiftly, now had only one manor, one residence, and one shop left for Hu Xinzhu to inherit.
However, Hu Xinzhu did not care about that. This was merely one part of the many suggestions he had made to Lin Qi.
Thanks to Princess Qingli's presence, the many people around Lin Qi could all come to the Noble Council and purchase noble titles suited to their identities, appearing across the Western Continent under all manner of guises. Moreover, every one of Lin Qi's people was immensely powerful; each of them could simultaneously control several divine puppets and have them move freely outside.
An invisible net, vast enough to swallow anyone, spread open.
Hu Xinzhu smiled smugly as he put all the contractual documents and passport belonging to the White Stone Viscount into his spatial ring. Then he carefully searched through the Noble Council's catalogue of titles for sale. He had already decided to give Granta a knightly title. Even if it was merely thrown in as an extra, he still had to pick one with a pleasing name, didn't he?
Knights, the lowest yet critically important tier in the Western Continent's noble hierarchy, formed the foundation of the great nobles and their most crucial military strength. In every continental war, the knightly class had shone with boundless brilliance.
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