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Chapter 707 - 707 18 All are Family_3

707: Chapter 18, All are Family_3 707: Chapter 18, All are Family_3 …

In Nadersenburg, Duke Torsten squinted at his family’s gathered intelligence, his teeth grinding in frustration.

Watching the Koslow Family steadily fortify its power and continue to grow, sorrow welled up in his heart.

“To provide us with convenience and to create an opportunity to sabotage Hudson’s immigration.

Has Earl Piers lost his mind?”

With these words, Duke Torsten angrily tore the letter in his hands to shreds.

If he had the power to act, he wouldn’t mind taking on a cooperative role.

In any case, the Rocknard Family and the Koslow Family were irreconcilable enemies.

No measures taken against them would be considered excessive.

Even if the Dalton Family were to betray the Koslow Family, he wouldn’t mind taking the blame.

It was laughable to even suggest that they take independent action.

If he’d had the opportunity to act, he would have done so long ago.

No need for others to remind him!

The key issue was, after all, that the Northern Noble Group was only a regional aristocratic alliance, and all its power was concentrated in the Northern Region.

Countless attempts at southern infiltration were blocked by the Southern Aristocracy, failing to establish a foothold there.

Currently, apart from a few spies in the Southeastern Province, the Rocknard Family had virtually no armed forces.

Sending forces over temporarily would likely attract the attention of all along the route, making it a futile exercise.

After pacing a few steps, Duke Torsten immediately realized the issue.

The Northern Noble Group did have armed forces in the Southeastern Province, but they were forces beyond their control.

The Northern nobles who had ventured south four years ago were either those whose ventures had failed or those who had defected to Hudson.

However, in the eyes of the outsiders, these forces, who shared a blood relationship with them, were still considered part of the Norther Noble Camp.

At least a part of them was still under their control.

With such thoughts, Duke Torsten couldn’t help smiling ruefully.

Earl Piers was placing too much confidence in them.

Even if they still had contact, why would these people risk their lives for them?

Nobles were pragmatic by nature.

Attacking Hudson’s immigrants in the Southeastern Province would lead to certain death for any participant.

If they were to give orders to Northern nobles to do so, they would most likely be sold out as soon as the message arrived.

“Directly send a message to Earl Piers and tell him that although we are willing, we are unable to act.

Let him boldly take action.

After its done, the Rocknards can take responsibility and cover for him!”

Duke Torsten grumbled.

Deep inside, he couldn’t wait to see a tumultuous mess, the bigger the upheaval, the better!

Lately, the entire Northern Noble Group hadn’t been faring well.

They were currently in a position of swallowing insults and bearing hardships in the face of the joint suppression of the kingdom’s major forces.

A sudden change in their leadership had left many families unprepared.

From top to bottom, the Northern Noble Faction found itself in a state of internal and external troubles.

What they wanted to see most was an internal discord within the kingdom’s major forces, to alleviate the external political pressure they faced.

Even with the currently hot magical beast legion project, the Northern nobles were marginalized.

Despite their nominal participation, the quota they received was entirely disproportionate to their net power.

Even though some emerging major noble families received more shares than the Rocknard Family, they were barely surpassing the intermediate aristocracy.

Knowing the unfairness of it all, they could only endure.

In political terms, they had made the least contribution to the project.

This wasn’t because Torsten lacked a sense of the bigger picture, or was unwilling to contribute to the magical beast legion project.

Rather, King Caesar III wasn’t giving them more opportunities to make greater contributions.

During the task distribution, apart from the public assignments of gathering mother-beasts, sending magic potion masters for potion research and providing experimental funds, they were left out of everything else.

Providing security for the project, handling logistics, coordinating relationships…

These tasks that anyone could do were assigned to others.

…

“Has the person arrived yet?”

Kevin couldn’t help but ask.

The speed of the immigrant group’s movement was slower than he had expected.

Hiding in the woods and being feasted upon by mosquitoes for several hours, yet there was still no sign of anyone coming.

Normally, Kevin wouldn’t need to lead such a mission himself.

But due to his lack of trust in his subordinates, he chose to come himself.

It turned out that ambushing required a professional team.

His intelligence-gathering group wasn’t exactly fit for military tasks.

If they had an experienced general present, he would have noticed something was wrong from a distance.

“Sir, the enemy’s vanguard is less than two miles away.

We should be able to sight them soon.

The only difference is, apart from the forces of the Mountain Domain, there are also guards from the nobles along the way.”

Upon hearing this, Kevin furrowed his brows.

He hadn’t foreseen the participation of nobles along the way.

An increase in enemy forces wasn’t good news for his ambushers.

“Understood.

Keep observing the enemy!”

Kevin coldly gave his orders.

It was do or die.

No matter how formidable the enemy, his team was already in hiding.

With only a small distance between them, even if they wanted to retreat, they wouldn’t have time.

Once they exposed their location, they would be waiting to be jointly strangled by the Southeastern Province, instead of planning an ambush.