"Lord Buli, why are you taking that thief's side?" Flander asked indignantly.
He had suffered every humiliation in the Landon Duchy, yet Buli and Gatu, his fellow countrymen, had merely looked on coldly. So, while the delegation rested, he had come to demand answers.
"Flander, what evidence do you have to accuse the Landon Grand Duke of being a thief?" Buli did not care about Flander's attitude. After all, Lu Xingshi had already told him that Flander's mind had been altered, so it was only natural for him to be brainless.
Besides, he still needed Flander as a weapon against the Noble Faction and the Imperial Family, so he was naturally quite tolerant.
"He... I..." Flander faltered. He truly had no evidence, but he quickly found a blind spot. "He is merely a wandering knight. He is not fit to serve as an imperial grand duke at all."
"And I am the true heir of the Landon Family."
"Only I possess the legitimate bloodline of the Landon Family. He is merely from a collateral branch."
"What right does he have to serve as grand duke?" The more Flander spoke, the wider his train of thought spread, approaching the matter from lineage, inheritance, righteous cause, bloodline, and every other angle.
Buli was left speechless by what he heard.
The Noble Faction of the Empire might acknowledge everything you said, but the problem was that even they would not dare use that reason to replace the Landon Grand Duke with you.
The man had troops, grain, money, and territory. The Empire's fifty thousand Steam Soldiers had been beaten into a scattered rout by him, and Gatu, the Imperial Beast, had been captured.
You wanted him to hand over his power and status just because you opened your mouth and spouted a few