"Nn~ That was the message Jenny asked me to bring. I've delivered it." Back in the room, Totapara flopped down beside Landen and let him groom her fur, recounting everything that had just happened along the way.
"I understand. Tomorrow, have someone tell her that I agree to meet with her, at Iowa Pass. Abadi should have a caravan arriving in Iowa Town afterward; she can travel with them." Landen nodded, wondering what Jenny intended to discuss with him.
"Lord Landen? Do you truly believe the Fiat Family doesn't want to replace you?" Sangji asked tentatively. As a Beast God's Favored from a great family, she knew well the alliances, rivalries, and schemes between clans. And having been delivered by Rosef and lived in Xingtian City for a time, she was quite familiar with the factions within the Gallop Family as well.
"The Fiat Family definitely wants to replace me. Perhaps they once intended to act directly, but now they may have settled for the next best thing—hoping that I become a Legendary National Pillar, marry into their family, and have my descendants become Kings," Landen said with a smile.
"But wanting to replace me doesn't mean they want to collude with the Beastmen Royal Court to overthrow me. And even if they did want to collude, they could do it quietly. Making such a spectacle that the entire Basin has heard about it only shows that the Royal Court is trying to poison my name, because they don't want Fiat and me to mend our relationship."
Simply put, what Fiat wanted were all sorts of positions in Night-Kirin City to nurture their own Bloodline. They had the possibility of marrying into Landen's family. But the Beastmen Royal Court could never form a marriage alliance with Landen. Fiat could pull