"Big Sister Hilda, I'm still waiting to attend your succession ceremony!"
Audrey smiled as she replied to Hilda.
Hilda held a very high status. She was the Hobarton Family's chosen successor to the earldom.
Once their support mission ended and they returned to Hobarton Manor, Draven would step down and retire as an elder, passing the title of Earl on to Hilda.
"Well done, boy!"
The Second Elder excitedly patted Medivh on the shoulder.
The Second Elder hadn't gone to the Tu River front lines. He had stayed in Kurd City to protect Medivh.
He hadn't gotten to see Rhine succeed to the earldom, but he had witnessed Rhine's son establish his own house and become Viscount Wrynn. That was a kind of legacy, too.
"Second Elder, Wrynn Territory is vast and sparsely populated. Sorry for the trouble, but could you ask the Hobarton Family to help recruit free citizens?"
Wrynn Viscount Territory stretched from the northern foothills of the Winter Mountains to the south bank of Tu River. It was a long strip, over 1,600 kilometers in length and more than 50 kilometers wide.
Wrynn Viscount Territory covered more than 84,000 square kilometers, but had only 1.2 million human subjects—far too few.
The Noble Council had already granted Medivh pioneer migrants, and the Hobarton Family had aided him by providing a million subjects.
Medivh was now fully independent, so he was too embarrassed to ask the Hobarton Family to assign him more subjects. Instead, he asked the Second Elder to contact the Hobarton Family's elders on his behalf and help recruit free citizens.
The Gewalt Federation was made up of city-states. Besides the lands belonging to noble families, each city-state also had many public lands governed by its City-State Council.
The residents of public lands weren't subjects of any