Chapter 818: Chapter 818: Still for the Flying Mount
Morna straightened her body, subtly showcasing her proudest features to Zhao Guang.
“It’s like this: my father wants to collaborate on the Floating Fish Knight project. Can we secure so slots for this? After all, we’ll be fighting the Sea Clan, and having Flying Cavalry would be much more convenient.”
Indeed, the Sea Clan mostly lacks anti-air capabilities, which is a natural disadvantage.
Unless a strong individual intervenes directly, the air force’s suppression of them is almost insurmountable.
So it’s for the air force, huh? The local lords around here have been inquiring quite a bit recently. How could Zhao Guang not be prepared? After all, in his own territory, he’s the sole noble.
If it were like other territories, where lords enfeoffed a bunch of nobles, many of them might end up being bribed.
The Xuanwu Territory has always been quite distinctive, for instance, regarding land as public property, and others can only lease it.
For example, advanced officials are often slaves, and the territory itself does not enfeoff any nobles, among other things.
However, they also know that these slaves are very capable, much more useful than enfeoffed nobles and their descendants. But they dare not do this because the resistance would be too great.
They’re not like Zhao Guang, who is not only powerful but also a pioneer of his own territory.
His territory was developed bit by bit from nothing, incomparable to others.
Watching Zhao Guang contemplate, Morna spoke again, “As compensation, we can give you one piece of these Turtle Shells, and we also prepared a gift.” Morna clapped, and then soone walked out.
When Zhao Guang saw her, it was another beautiful girl, with blonde hair that seed to glow, dressed like a gift. The woman smiled with her hands together, showing no signs of being coerced.
“Is this the gift?” Zhao Guang looked at the woman.
In terms of appearance, she’s definitely top-tier, but there’s nothing too exceptional about her.
Even though she was surely selected with great care, for a duke, she shouldn’t be the best gift he could receive. Could it be that this woman has so special ability?
Morna stood up, walked over to the woman, and gently embraced her.
“No, the gift is the both of us.” Morna showed no reluctance at being considered a gift.
After all, being with Zhao Guang is a great honor even for them. A man who beca a duke by his own efforts, and soone who is both a Great Mage and a Great Knight at such a young age, his future achievents are imasurable.
The lords already knew that Zhao Guang would not stop at the position of a duke.
Being enfeoffed as a Grand Duke to establish a principality, or even becoming a new kingdom, is not impossible.
“Then who is this?” Zhao Guang was perplexed; to be considered on par with Morna is no ordinary feat.
“This is Claire, my good friend, and the youngest daughter of Awgus.”
Awgus? So it’s their family. Zhao Guang imdiately understood. No wonder, it’s an old duke family, even if they were knocked down a peg due to rebellion issues, their foundation is still formidable.
Being able to directly reach Horace, and send their youngest daughter over.
This is sothing ordinary people couldn’t possibly achieve, but they managed to do it.
Precisely because Duke Horace’s current situation isn’t too good; for the sake of the Empire’s stability, Horace’s existence is being tolerated, and even the Royal Family tries to woo him.
But everyone knows that once the Empire stabilizes completely, Horace will have to pay a certain price.
Even if his ducal position isn’t lost, a large part of his military power will surely be divided.
It wasn’t like the two duke families had no contact before, there were even nurous intermarriages between them. So after so discussions, they combined resources to enhance the weight of the gift.
But then again, if they weren’t such great nobles, their family genes couldn’t be so excellent.
“Don’t underestimate us. We don’t rely only on our looks; we’re both recipients of the Six-Star dal from the Royal Noble Academy.” Morna looked proud, while Claire remained silent.
“The Six-Star dal? What’s that?” Zhao Guang naturally asked.
Zhao Guang knew about the Royal Noble Academy, it was a special academy established by the Royal Family, specifically for nobles, to teach them exclusive knowledge.
However, what the Six-Star dal entailed was sothing Zhao Guang was truly unaware of.
Morna was taken aback, then covered her mouth and laughed; she had just rembered that Zhao Guang reached his current status by his own efforts.
According to their original words, he is a mud-legged noble. Normally, such nobles would not be recognized or accepted into their circle unless they went through at least three generations.
Even if they are accepted in the future, they are usually considered countryside nobles.
But Zhao Guang is different; his achievents are simply too high.
Yet, no matter how high his achievents are, he doesn’t understand what the Royal Noble Academy is truly like.
“The Royal Noble Academy teaches all the essential knowledge for nobles, not magic or battle skills, but more important things. The academy is divided into six major subjects: etiquette, socializing, managent, finance, dance, and housekeeping.”
“Only by reaching the pinnacle in each subject can one add a star to their graduation dal, with the highest being the Six-Star dal.”
So that’s it, these are talents indeed, Zhao Guang imdiately understood.
His own Housekeeper, Qiao Miya, was, in fact, most skilled in housekeeping, only dabbling in the others. Finding such talent isn’t always easy.
However, Zhao Guang considered etiquette and dance utterly useless, because these are the main ans of noble socializing, which is why they are so valued. And socializing, isn’t that just networking?
His own strength and thods are what make others want to curry favor with him; he doesn’t need to proactively ingratiate himself.
But managent and finance, that would indeed be very useful, as there’s quite a shortage of talent in these areas. Finances can be bypassed using Earth’s knowledge, but managent is significantly lacking without long-term learning.
And housekeeping, that’s of little necessity, as it’s rely a way of managing household servants.
Qiao Miya is doing well, and has trained a team under him.
Wait a minute, looking at it this way, these skills seem not overly essential in his territory either.
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