Chapter 1171 - 185: Troops at Marle Castle · The Appalled Nobles (Part 4)

Chapter 1171: Chapter 185: Troops at Marle Castle · The Appalled Nobles (Part 4)

And beneath that terrifying array of Air Cavalry is a ground force arranged as neatly as a steel torrent! Elite soldiers with gleaming armor, lances like a forest, Heavy Armored Knights like moving fortresses, far exceeding the scale expected for a "Pioneer Knight"! Not to mention the continuous stream of massive merchant caravan wagons loaded with goods, how could they be here to cause trouble? This is clearly a display of power, a... call to account!

Panic spread like a cold tide, instantly flooding the entire committee office.

"What... what have we done?" a committee member’s voice trembled, "We forcibly stuck a lord with the military power of a Count, or even stronger, at the stage of a ’Pioneer Knight’? Not even a Kingdom Knight?!"

"Fool! Helmut! You damned fool!" Another committee member pointed at the colorless-faced Helmut and cursed, "You only saw him refusing to bribe, but why couldn’t you see the confidence behind his refusal?! Ten thousand Golden Crowns mean nothing to him! He can casually sell some Purple Crystal Gold Brandy and earn it back! He simply disdains bribing us!"

"It’s over... all over..." An elderly committee member collapsed onto his chair, muttering, "He brought such power to the city’s doorstep, not to do business... he came to call to account! What will the lords of the Council think of us? Pushing such a power, enough to change the landscape of the Border Prince’s Territory, to the opposing side just because we sought that little bribe?!"

"The documents?! Where is the document rejecting the application?!" Baron von Kleist suddenly shouted as if grabbing at a lifeline, "Quick! Find it! Burn it! Just say... just say we are still reviewing it! Yes! Still reviewing! Never officially rejected!" He knows that inside the Empire, bribery is not the issue, corruption is not the issue, but causing trouble is definitely an issue! If the trouble can’t be resolved, the Empire’s higher-ups will resolve the troublemaker.

Helmut cried miserably: "Ch... Chairman... the document... the document was filed and sent to the Electorate Council last week... unless... unless we immediately send someone to chase down the team transporting the document within the Empire." The bureaucracy’s procedures have become a noose tightening around their necks.

"What should we do then? Helmut, you tell us! What should we do! Solve the mess you made yourself."

"How could I solve it... This decision was signed unanimously by the committee!"

Seeing Helmut trying to drag everyone down with him, Baron von Kleist’s gaze became as predatory as a beast, as resentful as the Undead.

He’s a waste, first to shirk responsibility when things go wrong, completely incapable of coming up with solutions.

Helmut quickly said, "Perhaps... I have a way to solve this."

While the committee was in chaos, like ants on a hot pan, the merchant caravan from Hesse Territory had already arrived outside the east gate. Minister of Foreign Affairs Hartskline von Stoica, accompanied by impeccable manners and a formally phrased ultimatum requesting entry into the city and an audience with the City Lord, arrived in Marle Castle.

This time, Su Li would not simply walk the undercurrents of Marle Castle like an unknown small character.

He was going to use formal channels for an official visit, grandly entering under the welcome of Marle Castle’s elite, walking into the City Lord’s Mansion.

Though his title was low, his powerful military force was his greatest confidence.

And it was this huge contrast he intended to use, entering the City Lord’s Mansion, to give all the elites of Marle Castle a fierce psychological impact.

Of course, this was also the fastest and most effective way for him to meet Lady Bayonetta.