"However we could beco family if you join my rcenary group."
Dorian smiled in response.
"An interesting idea...but I refuse."
But Maxi still wanted to insist a little.
"Why not? You could be much happier than you are right now."
"Our rcenary group has already saved many innocent lives."
Dorian, however, shook his head.
"You don't realize the repercussions there would be if I joined your group."
As the eldest son of a Duke, Dorian's vision was much broader than Maxi's, who was currently just the leader of a rcenary group.
But Maxi was rather intelligent, and suddenly realized a few things from Dorian's words.
If a genius knight like him were to join them, it would imply that he himself was stronger than Dorian, and that he could also have knight-level rcenaries.
Duke Devron could directly link the failure of the ambush to his group of rcenaries, since until then he'd had no idea that re rcenaries could repel a group of apprentice knights led by 3 knights.
Duke Valderic might also start paying unwanted attention to them.
In short, the group's reputation would grow far too quickly.
Maxi beca pensive, his mind whirling under the avalanche of revelations and possibilities.
He set his glass down on the wooden table, his gaze fixed on Dorian.
"I see... You're not only a talented knight, you also have a brain that works pretty well."
Dorian shrugged with a mischievous smile and raised his glass to Maxi.
"So you say."
Then he drank his glass in one gulp and let out a big belch.
Clearly Dorian had left all noble superficiality behind.
Maxi, intrigued, leaned back in his chair.
"Tell about the repercussions. What exactly would happen if you joined our group?"
Dorian the alcohol rising to his brain was beginning to find it hard to think about such profound things.
"Flem to think, but believe , you don't want your group caught in the middle of a succession dispute."
Maxi sighed at Dorian's state, but it also made him laugh.
"But why help then? Why tell all this if you're not going to join our group?"
Dorian stared at Maxi, smiling.
"Because, even if I can't officially join you, that doesn't an I'm your enemy."
"Quite the contrary. You have enormous potential since you're not attached to any important family, but by the sa token you're going to beco a thorn in the side of many nobles."
"And I hate the idea of soone with your potential being crushed by the heavyweights of this kingdom."
Maxi's gaze softened; he sensed Dorian was sincere, but that didn't an he was telling all.
"So, what do you propose?"
Dorian smiled, leaning back in his chair, arms crossed behind his head.
"A discreet alliance. No official promises, no contracts."
"If you need information, access to certain networks, or even a helping hand in the shadows, I'll do what I can."
"In exchange, I want you to stay true to yourself."
All this was bound to be more than interesting for Maxi, since building an information network was one of his ideas, and he'd already begun to do so by building his secret force.
But above all, this alliance was interesting because, on the surface, he had absolutely nothing to do with it.
So he didn't understand, he felt like he was using Dorian and being of no help to him.
"I don't understand, what good would it do you?"
Dorian seed suddenly sober again as he stared at Maxi with sparkling eyes.
"Haven't you figured it out yet?" he asked with a puzzled smile.
"Maxi, I want you to change this world."
...
Silence filled the room, with only the sound of lting candles and the wind tapping lightly on the window and wooden walls.
The two n's gazes almost seed to clash, but Maxi finally shook his head.
"Your demands are too great."
"No, I feel you're capable of it, Maxi," Dorian insisted with intense eyes.
"How can you be so sure? We hardly know each other," Maxima continued, refusing.
Dorian continued to drink his wine, but this ti more moderately.
"Because I've been watching you and your n. And what I've found is more than astonishing."
At the sa ti, Dorian tapped his fingers excitedly on the table.
"How did you manage to get knights to join your ranks?"
Maxi didn't answer, and just stared at Dorian.
"Haha, to each his own."
"But a guy who cos from nowhere, who's barely co of age, he dares to challenge , Dorian Valderic one of the best geniuses in this Kingdom, and on top of that he has many strong n from nowhere including 2 knights..."
"Are you the king's illegitimate son?" Dorian finally asked, laughing.
Maxi laughed too, but he knew that Dorian was warning him by gently mocking him.
His personal strength and that of his group had beco far too powerful.
The day everyone knew his strength could be the day he died.
"No, unfortunately I'm not the king's illegitimate son and so I couldn't change the world."
"Yes you can, and you will," Dorian imdiately replied with confidence and firmness.
"How can you be so sure?" asked Maxi.
"Because you've already started doing it, without realizing it." explained Dorian in a light tone.
"aning?"
Maxi was confused, not understanding what Dorian was referring to.
"Dancing with the only princess in the kingdom, doesn't that an anything to you?"
Maxi opened his eyes wide at this.
"Are you talking about Selene?"
"Who else?" replied Dorian as if exasperated.
"You've unintentionally created a huge tsunami in the kingdom."
"No one had ever danced with the princess in public, no one had even spoken with her in private."
"But you did both these acts in the sa evening, creating rumors not to be ignored in the capital and even in the Kingdom."
"And in the process you've made many of the kingdom's young nobles jealous and attracted the attention of the 6 princes."
"So are already starting to say that the princess's heart was stolen by a commoner."
Maxi was suddenly embarrassed; he hadn't thought that a simple one-night stand would lead to so many consequences.
"The point is, the princess proved a fact without knowing it."
"People are naturally drawn to you Maxi, sohow you really do have charisma."
"Your actions are also in line with what the common people want right now."
Maxi didn't believe a word Dorian said.
In his opinion, without his talent there wouldn't be a single person who would follow him.
Without his talent, he would never have been able to accompany Aveline to the banquet, nor would he have t the princess.
Nor would he have talked and danced with her.
But ti would prove him wrong.
What had to happen would happen.
It was not for nothing that Maxi was the man who had attracted the attention of a god who was once the most powerful of gods, and the goddess who had saved the universe.
"And what do the common people want?"
Maxi genuinely wondered.
"To feel safe."
"And for that, people will be willing to follow you and fight Maxi."
In saying this, Dorian had a real conviction.
He'd always had a particular instinct, as well as a very flexible brain.
He could more or less determine a person's fate after observing and testing them for a while.
And above all, he was ambitious and decisive, allowing both talents to be exploited to their full potential.
"Right now you have to be on the lookout to notice your talent, but you'll see that little by little enemies as well as friends will approach you."
"And whether you like it or not, you'll change this world."
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"After all, nobility controls this world."
"If you want to control this world, you have to bend to its rules. That ans becoming a noble yourself."
"In the anti, I'll be your noble support in this world."
Dorian took the ti to explain a few things to Maxi.
"But how do you beco noble?" intervened Maxi suspiciously.
"You'll find a way. You could marry the princess, for example," Dorian laughed.
"That's not a bad idea," Maxi replied seriously, sipping his drink.
"Wait, you don't an it?"
But Maxi looked at him without looking like he'd been joking.
Even if he had Laura, there was nothing to stop him from having several won in this world.
And with his talent and good looks, he thought he'd have chances with all the won in the world.
"Why not?"
Dorian was speechless for a mont.
"Well, when are we going to do the face?" asked Maxi, downing his glass of wine in one gulp and holding it out to Dorian.
Dorian was taken aback for a mont by the surprising request.
Then he burst out laughing.
He also downed his glass in one gulp, then rose to grab another bottle of wine from the cupboard and uncorked it with ease, generously filling their glasses.
And so began a friendship between the sword prodigy from the Kingdom of the Frost Eagle and...
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