"..."
Wolf paid no attention whatsoever to the little disturbance caused by the young Count West.
As the Empire's prime minister, holding the Empire's administrative power in his hands,
if he truly wanted to deal with such a brat, a single glance would be enough to leave him dead without a burial place.
What he needed to focus on now was Emperor William's attitude.
Because it would determine whether the Old Guard Party would launch that regrettable coup against Emperor William, who was trying to break the oath he had secretly made with their ancestors when Perus I ascended the throne.
To be honest, this was not something Wolf wanted to see.
Although Emperor William had once tried to reclaim power and suppress the great nobles,
aside from that, he could be considered a wise ruler.
Whether it was his schemes, foresight, decisiveness, or ruthlessness, he bore far too many similarities to Perus I, the ruler praised as the "enlightened founder of an age."
Wolf had also considered that if he had not been born into the Caster Family, but had instead been a newly risen bourgeois or even a commoner,
then after witnessing Emperor William's methods, he might have unconsciously submitted to the monarch's charisma and sworn to offer him all his loyalty.
But unfortunately, there were no ifs.
As the head of the Caster Family and a descendant of a great noble house with a legacy spanning over a thousand years, his position could never be changed.
In Wolf's eyes,
the Norman Empire could exist without an emperor, but it absolutely could not exist without nobles.
Moreover, throughout history, while a wise ruler's centralization of power could bring unprecedented prosperity in a short time, it took only one foolish successor to destroy the foundation built over a thousand