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Chapter 895: Former Viscount Landon Flanders in the Imperial Academy of Arts is no longer free

"Landon... Grand Duke???"

"Is it the Landon family in the Kingdom of Voss?" Flanders, who was at the Imperial Academy of Arts, felt a sense of absurdity.

He abandoned his surname of Landon and became a free artist.

In his imagination, his art would spread among the countries. As for the original Landon family? It was just a small noble family in a remote area of ​​the Kingdom of Voss.

Perhaps one day, he would be able to receive a little attention because of his fame.

Unexpectedly, today I got a piece of news from my classmates, that is, a Grand Duke appeared in the Empire, called Grand Duke Landon, and his principality was the original Kingdom of Voss.

As for the situation of the Kingdom of Voss, Flanders naturally knew about it. In his opinion, it should have perished.

It was such a feudal and corrupt country that it could survive to this day. It was a miracle. Even his hometown, in his opinion, was not as good as the remote small villages in the Orei Empire.

"Yes, it's the Landon family guarding the Everfrost Mountains." The classmate gave a confirmed answer.

Flanders felt like the sky was falling. What did his successor, the wandering knight cousin he had never met, do?

In fact, he didn't think much of this cousin he had never met.

Wandering knights sounded romantic, but in fact, he knew that they were just a group of mercenaries and beggars.

How could they be compared with him? He was even ready for the Black Soil Territory to be reclaimed by the Voss Royal Family.

Unexpectedly, the Black Soil Territory not only still existed, but also became the Principality of Landon.

"Then... how did he do it?" Flanders asked.

"The Empire was moved by the loyalty of Grand Duke Lanton. He is a true knight."

"Whether the Kingdom of Voss was trampled by the undead army of the false king or faced our attack, Grand Duke Lanton never retreated."

"Not only that, he also had to resist the winter wolves on the Everfrost Mountains."

"In such a bad situation, he still insisted on the last inheritance of the Kingdom of Voss. Such a loyal talent is naturally wanted by the Empire."

"So this is why he surrendered."

"At the beginning, Grand Duke Lanton naturally vowed to never surrender."

"In the end, forced by the lives of the survivors of Voss, he finally chose to surrender and was forced to become a duke of the Orei Empire."

"The Empire knew about Grand Duke Lanton's persistence and loyalty, so it granted the original Kingdom of Voss to Grand Duke Lanton as a dukedom and made it his duchy."

Flanders felt dizzy when listening to this story. It was so legendary...

What's more important is that the other party was so lucky that he directly became a duke from a viscount.

If it was the Duke of the Kingdom of Voss, Flanders would have disdained it, but this was the Duke of the Orei Empire, a position of power that most people could never achieve in their lifetime.

There were only three dukes in the entire Orei Empire, and they only had noble titles, but no duchy.

But his cousin, a wandering knight, had become a powerful noble.

Nowadays, basically no one in the noble faction has a territory, as they have all been stripped away.

If he had not given the title to the other party, wouldn't it mean that he would be the one to become the Duke of Orei?

"By the way, Flanders, I remember that before you became a noble of the Kingdom of Voss and entered the academy to study art, you seemed to be a noble of the Kingdom of Voss? Do you know this Grand Duke Landon?" his classmate asked.

It would be nothing if it was someone else, but it was Flanders who heard this, which was no less than killing someone.

Flanders' face almost turned black. How could he not know that the surname he abandoned was Landon.

Even this position should have been his.

But now, everything is gone.

Even if Lu Xingshi died suddenly, it would not be his turn. He gave up the surname of Landon, which was equivalent to leaving the Landon family and had no right of inheritance.

"I don't know..." Flanders said in a muffled voice, obviously in a bad mood.

"That's a pity." His classmate said regretfully: "But I also heard that the imperial family is going to let Princess Lina go to the Principality of Landon and let the Grand Duke of Landon become Princess Lina's knight teacher."

As soon as this sentence came out, Flanders' expression suddenly changed: "How is this possible!"

"He is just a wandering knight, how can he be Princess Lina's knight teacher!!!"

Flanders cursed without hesitation.

"Eh? How do you know that Grand Duke Landon was born a wandering knight? I don't think I have said it yet." The classmate was a little confused, but soon stopped dwelling on the question: "But you are wrong."

"Even if Grand Duke Landon was born a wandering knight, he has condensed the seed of life and is a registered great knight of the empire."

"According to rumors, Grand Duke Landon always rushed to the front every time he fought against the undead and the army of the empire."

"His bravery is recognized by the empire." The classmate corrected him.

However, Flanders' face became more and more ugly.

"I know you love Princess Lina, but I still want to persuade you to give up." The classmate patted Flanders on the shoulder and said.

"Wait...what do you mean?" Flanders didn't quite understand. He looked ugly because his goddess was going to learn the way of knights from a wandering knight. This was too absurd.

But from his classmate's mouth, he heard a different meaning.

When he pursued Princess Lina before, she was very supportive of him and never said anything cold.

However, his goddess would accept every gift from him, and then keep a distance, and said that she was just slow to warm up, and they could start as friends.

Princess Lina would also come to the Imperial Academy of Arts to study on weekdays, so many people, like Flanders, were fanatical pursuers of Princess Lina, and these people believed that they could pursue Princess Lina.

"Of course it's a marriage." This classmate was not a pursuer of Princess Lina, so he naturally saw it very clearly: "Grand Duke Lanton is very young, powerful and loyal enough."

"But he is from the Kingdom of Voss. If you want him to be completely loyal to the empire, paying a princess is just the smallest price."

"And Princess Lina is very suitable, otherwise why would the royal family let Grand Duke Lanton become Princess Lina's knight teacher?"

"In fact, it is to cultivate feelings in advance, and when the time is right, the marriage will be granted." The classmate briefly analyzed it for Flanders.

But Flanders could not accept it at all, which simply shocked his three views.

"Impossible, this is impossible..." Flanders now wished that he could go back and take back his dukedom.

"Do you think that the wandering knight forced Princess Lina!" Flanders suddenly said: "Yes, that's right, he must have coveted Princess Lina's beauty."

"This is not free!" Flanders' voice became louder when he said this.

"Calm down." His classmates were also shocked by Flanders' appearance. This behavior was indeed beyond his expectations.

As for Flanders' statement, he could only express his speechlessness. Grand Duke Lanton did not know Princess Lina at all, and he might not be able to look down on the so-called princess.

If the nobles were in power and the royal family had real power, Princess Lina would still be valuable and might be worth Grand Duke Lanton's covetousness.

But now the royal princess is not an exaggeration to say that she is a vase. Why would she want to be a vase for no reason?

However, his comfort did not calm Flanders down, but made him more crazy.

In the end, he couldn't persuade her anymore and could only stay away.

"I didn't expect Flanders to be so obsessed with Princess Lina. I don't know what kind of magic it is." After leaving, he couldn't help but curl his lips. He would stay away from Flanders in the future.

Princess Lina has many suitors, but there is probably no one as crazy as Flanders.

This matter is basically confirmed, without any discussion, unless Flanders can get the Grand Duke Lanton to refuse, but this possibility is not great.

Only Flanders was left muttering absentmindedly: "No, I must go to see Princess Lina and prevent her from becoming the apprentice of the wandering knight!"

"Only I can be worthy of Princess Lina."

…

"No, what do they mean? Why did they raise the price for me temporarily?" Lu Xingshi also looked at the letter in his hand in a daze.

He was conducting research on winter wolves, and as a result, he received an urgent letter from the Orei Empire.

It said that a princess of the empire wanted him to be her knight teacher.

"Why are you still pushing your nose to the face, you are crazy." Lu Xingshi's face was full of disgust.

This is obviously a letter from the noble faction, not the overall strategy of the empire.

The reason is very simple. The noble faction does not want to be suppressed by the steam faction, and the royal family does not want to continue to be a puppet, so they want to use Lu Xingshi's power to regain their former power and glory.

So they sent a princess to serve as a bridge of communication, saying that she is a knight apprentice, but if Lu Xingshi uses her as a RBQ, the other party will not mind, and will even be very happy.

But Lu Xingshi is not a sucker. How could he not see such an obvious loss-making project?

He has done things like borrowing chickens to lay eggs.

"Do you really think that sending a woman here can control me? There is no such good thing in the world."

"The noble faction and the royal family of the empire cannot be so naive."

"Either this so-called princess is so beautiful."

"Or the princess is not the focus, there are other plans." Lu Xingshi narrowed his eyes. There will be no pie in the sky, only traps.

As for using the princess to win him over, this is a bit too childish.

Using benefits to win over is the real way to win over. Even if it is to give the princess, it can only be a subsidiary of delivering benefits, not the main body.

The empire's top leaders must know what kind of character Lu Xingshi is, so there must be some unknown plan hidden in it.

"If the enemy comes, the general will stop it, and if the water comes, the earth will cover it. Anyway, if she dares to come, I dare to return the goods to her."