Dean Linde couldn't answer a single question.

Midi didn't need him to answer.

"Take it away. Midi sighed and said plainly.

In all fairness, the dean, who has always been cautious and does not dare to offend anyone, has done nothing wrong, but if he chooses the wrong position at the wrong time, then the only result is to step down. Of course, Midi wasn't really going to do anything to the head of the house, and the Hamilton family was likely to generously arrange a retirement position for him.

But at this moment, this poor guy who has just been labeled as a congressman is the best example of killing chickens and monkeys.

The head of Linde House smiled bitterly, sighed, and did not refute, just let his hands and feet be put on chains, and then under the complicated eyes of the students and lecturers, he leaned away and gradually moved away.

Fenrir was gritting his teeth.

Captain Linde is nothing, just a pawn, however, the moment he is chained, it is Fenrir who is beaten in the face, and it is the authority of the Seth family that is shaken!

How many years and how many manpower and resources, how many deals, compromises, and covert maneuvers took for the Seth family to finally gain the same influence at the Royal Academy of Magic as the Hamilton family? Now the first head of the academy to stand in line was taken away in less than five minutes? And after it was just announced that Fenrir had won the first place?

This is not just a clash between forces, this is simply a naked slap in the face!

Sensing the hostility, murderous intent and malice from Fenrir, Midi deliberately turned his back on him and sold a big flaw.

Although the Knights of the Principality were summoned in one day, and many of the councillors installed in the academy were defeated with lightning speed, and a college president who had just stood in line was ousted, in the final analysis, it was just a surprise to the Seth family. The battle between the two major factions in the principality has been going on for many years, and so far there is no result, and this raid alone is far from enough to shake the foundation of the Seth family.

But if Fenrir had taken the initiative at this moment, it would have been a different matter. Midi didn't mind a one-hit counterattack.

"Let's go!" heard only Fenrir's gloomy voice, and then, the heir to the Seth family, hurried out of the camp with three servants, without even looking back.

"After all, he is the son of a great nobleman, and he still has this ability to forbear. Midi sighed inwardly.

Although it has indeed greatly weakened Fenrir's face at this moment, Midi, who has been a person in two lives, is no longer the gentleman he was when he was the head, and even Fenrir can endure the insult, Midi will not feel so happy, his mind has already begun to consider the next series of possibilities.

"Something?" Fina's voice rang out from the side.

"Then there will be war...... No, it's a prelude to war, isn't it?" Midi glanced at the red-haired girl beside her.

Sensing the other party's gaze, the girl laughed and said, "Don't worry, we are a team, I will be on your side." ”

This sentence with full affirmation made Midi also turn out of his thoughts, and the corners of his mouth rose slightly.

But isn't it that I've been busy for so long since I was reborn, just for this sentence?

"It will take time for the Nibelungen Dragon Sealing Array to open, and it will take three days to change jobs. Do you have any plans in the meantime?" asked Fina again.

Although the two of them had already had a skin-to-skin relationship in the previous life, they had nothing to talk about, but at this moment, when the red-haired girl made a temptation, Midi's heartbeat still accelerated a lot.

"It's nothing, I just want to get some rest. Middit paused, and gave an answer with a lot of leeway.

"That's right, when the graduation ceremony of the trial is over, take a break and take care of it, and come to Hamilton's house tomorrow. Fina nodded, and in her tone, with a serious and serious tone, "Although it is an informal invitation, my grandfather wants to meet you." ”

Fina Hamilton's grandfather, the contemporary head of the Hamilton family, Heydrich Hamilton, was the Grand Duke and held the title of "Knight before the Queen".

Known as a man of the Principality of Belmar, he fought against the Bantu invasion as a young man, then went into battle alone with the Void Ancestors, finally reached a strategic agreement, and slain countless pirates in Faroe Bay, making him a legendary hero.

But at the same time, he was also the most feared nobleman of the principality.

It is said that there was once a minor nobleman who accidentally drank at a banquet and lost his words, doubting the duke's martial prowess. So the next day, without saying a word, the duke led his troops into the other party's territory, captured his whole family, and forced the nobleman and his only son to fight each other until one of them fell. Then he went into the field and cut off the winner's head with a single sword.

Tough, authoritarian, and irrefutable, for this reason, people call him the Iron and Blood Duke.

In contrast, the Senses family-led parliamentarian faction is insidious and cunning, but at least there are no such horror rumors. There is some truth to the fact that the Asrex family would rather serve as cannon fodder for the parliamentarian faction than defect to the queen's faction.

In the previous life, Midi had not had any contact with the iron-blooded duke, and his association with Fina had only begun after the destruction of the principality. In this life, although Midi predicted that he would receive the Duke's attention in the future because of his gradual deepening into Fina's life, he did not expect that the day when he would come face to face with the Duke would come so quickly.

Even Midi still felt a little caught off guard.

Perhaps, the iron-blooded duke had calculated this correctly, which is why he made such an informal invitation without warning.

After a night's rest, healing from the wounds of the fight, and changing into the most formal dress, Midi arrived at the mansion of the Iron Lord directly from the academy in a carriage sent by the Hamilton family.

Led by the red-haired girl, the black-haired boy walked through the empty and wide corridor of the mansion to two huge oak doors.

"It's not clear what the head of the house wants to say to you, but be careful. Fina paused and gave Midi a deep look, "Remember, I'm me, and Hamilton is Hamilton, understand?"

Midi nodded, and walked forward alone.

At this point, even Fina couldn't move on, and only guests with the permission of the Duke himself could enter.

He raised his hand and knocked on the door a few times.

"Come in. A low, solemn voice came from inside the door.

Midi pushed the door open, and his whole body was immediately bathed in pale golden light.

It is an extremely spacious office, with rosewood bookcases lined to the left, stuffed with books on magic, military, humanities, canons, and even a few theories of mechanical engineering. On the right side of the office, there are war halberds, double-edged axes, giant swords and other weapons lined up, each of which has a considerable degree of wear and tear, and even blood stains that cannot be erased, which is obviously not decoration.

In the center of the office, before the half-heavy purple velvet curtain was opened, there was a large desk, behind which sat a man with his head bowed and writing something quickly.

There was no "hello", no "please be seated", only the rustle of pens and paper rubbing in the room, and Midi just stood in the room, quietly waiting.

As if forgetting that there was such a guest, the writer wrote for nearly ten minutes before finally raising his head: "Midi, Asrex, let's introduce yourself or something, let's make a long story short." ”

His face was sharply cut by a knife and axe, and his beard was neatly curled, and his hair was dyed gray by the years of wind and frost and years of war, but even so, the man was still like a mountain, and one had to look up.

This is Heydrich Hamilton, the Iron Will.

Even with a pair of eyes after life, Midi still can't see through his strength at all, which shows that the level of this grand duke is at least similar to that of Midi twenty years later, in other words, a strong man who has undergone a second awakening.

"Can you speak for the whole family?" asked the duke, straight to the point.

"Yes, Lord Duke. Midi replied at once, realizing that the exchange of words had already begun, and that any hesitation would be extremely passive for the rest of the day.

"Good. So let's be straightforward, I need the Asrex family to be our Hamilton dependents, and carve out a territory for my army to be stationed in. The Duke said, unfurling a huge map.

This map covers the entire continent of Arad, of which the Duchy of Belmar is only a part.

With the Gran Forest as the boundary, the Delos Empire and the Duchy are separated by an endless forest sea, and the territory of the Asrex family is next to the Gran Forest.

The Duke placed a heavy bookcase on the territory, meaning that this was the place he wanted, and he looked like a geographical object.

rescued the future genius heir of the Hamilton family, and the result was that the other party claimed a piece of territory?

For a moment, Midi felt anger rise in her chest.

He barely suppressed his emotions and asked in a cold voice, "May I ask Lord Duke, why do you ask me to cede territory?"

The Duke laughed, stroked his beard, and then said slowly: "There is reliable information that the Seth family is mobilizing forces, and the target is your family's territory. A small earl can't stand up to the Seth army, you need help, and I, with the strongest army in the principality, have the most powerful army. ”

"Hamilton has helped us defend ourselves against the Legislators' nobility at the cost of ceding a piece of territory. Midi replied mockingly.

"Young people, let's face the reality, there is no fairness in this world. The Duke replied coldly, and the stubborn attitude of the other party made him feel a little unhappy when he was accustomed to giving orders.

"Definitely. Midi nodded calmly, "There really is no fairness in this world. ”

"Of course, I won't treat you badly, after the transfer, I will provide you with the best resources to improve, and I will also give you the status of a guard knight, and I will serve with my granddaughter, this condition is not bad, right?

"What does Fina mean?" Midi asked again.

"I'll get her to say yes. The Duke replied directly.

Midi had fully realized the ruthlessness of the iron-blooded duke this time.

There was no gratitude, no gratitude, not even mentioning everything that happened in the Gran Forest, just because he saw the crisis that the Asrex family was about to face, he immediately offered a high-priced bargaining chip, and even his granddaughter was taken out as emotional bait, this is the Iron Earl.

Probably in this person's heart, everything has a price, everything is his pawn, right?

For a moment, Midi suddenly understood the reason why Fina was so strong and independent.

Because you have to do it, or you will become a puppet in the hands of the Iron and Blood Duke, and lose yourself forever.

If it was really for Fina, Midi would not hesitate to give up her territory, title, glory and even life. However, at this moment, there is no point in compromising with the Iron and Blood Duke.

It's like what Fina reminded him the last - Fina is Fina and Hamilton is Hamilton, the former is the woman he cares about very much, and the latter is a greedy and huge beast.

Midi still has a lot to do, and in order to meet the impending disaster and war, he has not much time, and becoming a pawn of the Iron and Blood Duke is obviously not on the list.

"Allow me to reject your offer, Lord Duke. Midi said.

His tone was calm and steady, as he had rejected Fenrir before.