James Williams
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Duke Nergiante looked at me with a look like he didn't understand what I was saying at first. Then when he looked closely at the groove, he noticed that this groove was shaped like the ring that he was wearing. This was the heirloom that had been passed down for generations in his family and the thing that I had asked him for earlier. Duke Nergiante couldn't help knitting his brows when he heard this. He didn't put the ring in like I told him to and instead looked at me as if he was trying to…
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Everyone just looked at the stairs that appeared with a stunned look on their faces. Well that was except for me who already knew that this would happen. I was a bit surprised to see it in real life compared to seeing it on a screen, but I walked forward and started heading down the stairs. When the rest of the group saw me like this, it was the captain of the guard that suddenly came forward to stop me. He stood there in front of me with his weapon raised, as if he wouldn't allow me to pass. The…
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In the morning, we set off for the forest. Though the Nergiante Dukedom was a small country, that didn't mean that it was small enough that we would have been able to reach the edge of the country where the forest was in a day if we traveled by horse carriage. So naturally the only way that we could reach the forest in a day was by taking the wyverns. Our group was already used to this, but it definitely was a frightening experience for the duke and his men. Though his son did look at him with an…
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After settling this matter, it wasn't as if we would be heading to the Dark Forest right away. It had taken some time to convince the duke and we had arrived in the afternoon instead of the morning. So it was decided that we would be heading to the Dark Forest in the morning rather than heading out in the middle of the night. That gave us time to get more familiar with the duke's family. The fourth prince and I both had the same idea about this Duke Nergiante, so we both knew that it would be…
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A smile crept onto my face when I heard this. This duke really didn't seem to care about being subtle at all as he said all of this to my face. Even if it was true, it wasn't something that should be said out loud since it might offend the other side. But I wasn't offended by this since I liked someone who was this frank with me. However, I also couldn't help wanting to tease the duke a bit. So I said with a smile, "Why do you think that?" It was the duke's turn to smile as he looked at me with…
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Both the fourth prince and I were surprised to hear this. The two of us just looked at the duke who had a calm look on his face with one brow raised. Then the two of us looked at each other as if we were seeing what the other person thought. But in the end, I said with a smile, "It seems like you aren't playing around." The duke just returned the smile as he said, "I don't think that I have the room to play around. It's better to make things clear so we can handle things as quickly as…
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Once the duke's son had his fun with the wyvern, we made our way through the city. The wyverns would have to wait outside the city since unlike the other kingdoms, there was no place for the wyverns to stay inside the city. The other kingdoms had the finances to afford building such a place in a hurry, but the same couldn't be said about the Nergiante Dukedom. As we rode through their capital city, it was very clear what the finances of the Nergiante Dukedom was. Even though this was supposed to…
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It took three weeks, but we were able to make our way through the four kingdoms and two more other nearby kingdoms. This was all because of the efforts of the fourth prince. If it wasn't for him giving me advice on how to avoid commitment with the nobles that tried to get closer to me, I really wouldn't have been able to avoid being swamped by them. That would have caused us to stay even longer in these kingdoms. But because the fourth prince was with me, I was able to keep each visit short and…
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We once again convened in a room where it was just the three of us. After reaching the deal with the king of the Midra Kingdom, we went back to meeting with the second prince again. The excuse that he gave was that we would finalize the details of the wyvern transfer. However... They never would have expected that we had already worked everything out. In the beginning, this was our plan. All of it had been a bait so that we could get the wyverns under the second prince since that was what he…
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The king and the ministers just looked at me as if they couldn't understand what I was saying. They even had to look at me several times as if they were making sure that they had heard the right thing. But in the end, there was no denying what they had just heard. The king narrowed his eyes to look at me before saying, "Duke Zwein, I think that I misheard something just now. Could you please repeat what you just said?" It seemed that even though they had taken all this time, they didn't believe…
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