【Hadrata】In the royal capital, in a luxurious council hall, the handsome second prince suddenly swept the flower pots and oak wine glasses on the table to the ground in a rage after listening to the report of his subordinates, and scolded angrily.

"Damn...... Damn it! Damn Harold, damn William! ”

All the attendants present lowered their heads tremblingly, and did not dare to respond at all, only an old man with white hair and beard was still calm, looking at the glass in his hand, waiting for the prince's anger to be almost vented, and then he said indifferently.

"Don't worry so much, Khattar, things aren't as bad as you think."

"But, Master Anthony, Harold won the favor of almost all the nobles at that banquet, and, of course, my good father, King Bazel......"

At this point, Khattar's face distorted.

In order to overpower his brother Harold at this birthday party, he took great pains to find a very rare crystal stone, and asked a master carver to engrave his father's most glorious exploits in the conquest of the enemy country into a vivid picture of the person.

However, just when he thought he would be able to shine at the banquet, that damned Harold actually presented a rare treasure called the glass mirror, which attracted everyone's attention almost instantly.

So much so that throughout the banquet, he was like a funny clown, who was left to hang out and no one cared about him.

How this does not humiliate him!

"Khattar, you need to remember what those who support you are for, and they will not turn their backs on their interests because of a so-called rare treasure." Anthony said, resting the glass in his hand lightly on the table.

"As for your father, King Bazel, I think Harold will only have the opposite effect by offering that round mirror......"

Hatar looked at Anthony in confusion.

"Because Harold did something stupid, and he couldn't wait to give another round mirror to the cardinal of the kingdom long before the feast, what do you think your good father will think?" Anthony reminded calmly.

Khattar paused for a moment, and soon understood what Anthony meant, his father, King Bazel, had devoted his life to consolidating royal power.

Harold's dedication of the mirror to Cardinal Lossac undoubtedly provoked the thorn in King Bazel's heart once again.

There are also those nobles, who are nominally the controllers of various territories, but in fact, the words of the major bishops are far more effective than their decrees, which makes many of the great nobles extremely angry, but they also dare not speak.

However, his brother Harold ensured that he could take the throne for himself, which was the ultimate flattery to the cardinal, and he could see that if Harold became king, the power of the Holy See would only be greater than before.

The nobles who supported themselves were nothing more than counting on him to be able to limit the privileges of the clergy to a certain extent after he became king.

Thinking of this, Khattar calmed down again, but there was still some worry on his face. "Master Anthony, what if that cardinal really stands out for Harold?"

This was also his biggest concern, relying on the royal bloodline, although they were born with extraordinary power, even his father, King Bazel, could not compete with a cardinal.

The only person who can really match the cardinal in the entire king is Antony, who is the archwizard, but he obviously can't take action easily, otherwise it will only attract the encirclement and suppression of the Holy See......

"That's the worst-case scenario." Anthony's expression also became a little more solemn.

Although there has always been a saying in the Holy See that the spirit and faith are attributed to God, and the world and the flesh are attributed to the king, they are only words to comfort those nobles.

"So what do we do now?" Khattar asked, rather bored.

"I've heard that the two round mirrors and the glass products that have recently appeared on the market are the handiwork of Viscount William, and we may be able to start here and find out where the other party got this rare ore." Anthony said with a deep groan.

He was also very interested in this kind of glass products, and in the process of research, he accidentally discovered that these things can enlarge or shrink an object under a specific curved structure, and can be used to make many useful alchemy instruments.

"Okay, I'll send someone to investigate right away." Khattar nodded in reply.

Although William was only a viscount, he had a large fleet at his disposal, and he was also a well-known wealthy merchant in the kingdom, and was one of the staunchest supporters of the eldest prince Harold.

If he can be cut off, then Harold will naturally have an important help missing.

……

At the same moment, in the dean's office of Iyeta Academy, Lynn tapped her index finger on the table and said slowly after listening to the report of the shipwright sent by Lauder.

"In other words, that William hasn't been very settled lately, and even wants to redivide the share of interests?"

"Yes, William said that these novelty glassworks are easily coveted by others, and that he needs to spend a lot of thought and energy dealing with the nobility of the Holy See and the Kingdom, and that the benefits we give him are not enough, and he wants to be able to ...... half of them," the laborer reported truthfully.

Lynn sneered, William is simply a lion's mouth, completely unclear about the situation.

Although the other party needs to face some additional pressure, but relatively, the most dangerous shipping work is now completely carried out by them, and there is no need for William to intervene, all the other party has to do is to use his own power to cover up, bribe his superiors, and give thirty percent of the benefits, which is completely extremely rich.

According to the investigation of Lauder and others, William perfectly implemented his hunger marketing and product grading system, and sold those glass products at a sky-high price, and in just two or three days, he earned thousands of imperial gold coins, which was enough to catch up with the trade volume of the previous year!

However, there is obviously no limit to human greed, and it seems that after learning of Helram's death, William has become a little inflated.

"Let Lauder drag him first and talk slowly, my bottom line is to give up a layer of interests to appease those clergy and nobles." Lynn thought about it for a moment, then made a decision.

William is now the viscount of the [Hadratta] Kingdom, and Lauder has only been in the royal capital for a week, and the news has not yet been discovered, so it is difficult to take over all the forces of the other party in a short time.

What he needed now was a variety of ore resources and scarce alchemy materials, and simple gold coins didn't mean much to Lynn......

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