238: Chapter 138, A Turbulent Situation_2 238: Chapter 138, A Turbulent Situation_2 In times of power and prosperity, this line of thought isn’t wrong.

Everyone is happy to add icing to the cake and fully enjoy the benefits of their interpersonal connections.

However, when power declines, that’s a different story.

Generally, having more friends certainly makes life easier than having none.

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As the star of the banquet, Hudson flitted around the hall like a busy bee.

Important guests had to be treated with priority, but ordinary guests who came to support the event couldn’t be ignored either.

After repeating the same bland speeches over and over until his throat was hoarse, he had finally managed to greet all the guests.

One must not lose their public image!

Arrogance definitely does not belong to minor nobles.

To get ahead, they must respect intellectuals and virtuous people and show kindness to everyone possible.

Compared to Hudson’s inner grumbling, Baron Redman, who was also mingling at the banquet, was brimming with confidence, impressed by the power of his spiritual strength.

It seems normal.

After spinning his wheels in place for most of his life, he finally climbed the social ladder thanks to his son.

So naturally, he feels revitalized and shows off his progress at every opportunity.

After making the rounds, he rejoined the group of power players, and the mood shifted to one of joviality.

Thankfully, the banquet was divided into two sections.

Otherwise, outsiders seeing humans and magical beasts feasting together would be a shocking scene.

Yet, they would still have to applaud and compliment — good!

This mess is all Belsden’s fault.

He started it all during the previous banquet at the Governor’s Mansion, and now he’s bearing the consequences.

Luckily, Hudson was prepared and had prepared a feast for the magical beasts in advance.

Although the feast isn’t as grand as the Governor’s Mansion banquet, the quantity is plentiful.

Whole roast lambs and cows were served, bowls of beast milk, and honey were provided.

Unfortunately, not all magical beasts enjoy this, apart from the bear monsters, the other beasts are primarily interested in the meat.

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“The continent is likely to descend into chaos.

The Orcs in the north are becoming restless again.

Many signs indicate that they are preparing for war, and an invasion to the south seems imminent.

The only uncertainty is where they will focus their main attack.

I hope it’s not the Alpha Kingdom, or we will surely be doomed.

What’s even more exasperating is that the Clergy is stirring up trouble during this crisis.

They just finished the conflict with us and now they’ve started butting heads with the Frank Kingdom.

They shamelessly declared that their king is illegitimate, do they think they’re still in the era when they ruled the continent?

What they say goes?

Just watch, as the continent’s strongest kingdom, the Franks will not give them the respect they desire.

If one day I wake up to find a bunch of new members of the Dawn Sect, I wouldn’t be surprised at all!

Now it’s just a matter of which country is willing to lead the charge.

No matter what, our Alpha Kingdom will most likely follow suit.”

Longwell sneered.

As an Earth Knight, he has personally trained on the Orc battlefield.

It was only a medium-scale raid to the south, and only two of the Top Five Orc Courts were involved.

Even so, the Alpha Kingdom suffered heavy losses.

They gave up two hundred thousand soldiers and five hundred thousand civilians before they could drive out the Orcs.

In Longwell’s view, it’s more accurate to say that they wore out the Orc Empire during the siege, resulting in the Empire’s logistical failure and forced retreat.

It’s not about being a coward, but no one really wants to face the troublesome Orc Empire.

It’s annoying enough with the Orcs raiding from the south, but the Clergy just can’t stay out of trouble and keeps stirring things up on the continent.

Last time they supported the Skeleton Society’s rebellion and accidentally revealed the “Blood Moon Horn,” which led the Alpha Kingdom right to their doorstep.

This time they interfered in the Frank Kingdom’s royal succession.

The contender they supported had some minor accidents and they accidentally blew their cover.

Undeniably, the Clergy’s investment has completely collapsed and they have lost everything.

Otherwise, the Pope wouldn’t have angrily declared the new king of the other country as illegitimate.

Unfortunately, this was meaningless.

The Nobles voted directly with their feet, all they had to do was support what the Clergy opposed.

Illegal, right?

After the Clergy announced this decision, the Human countries which were originally observing the situation and did not immediately recognize the new king of the Frank Kingdom, all expressed their stand- acknowledging its legitimacy.

As for the lack of a Pope to participate in the coronation ceremony, that was also very simple, just hold it at a lower level.

If the Pope doesn’t preside, just randomly pick a bishop to make up the number.

This was nothing new, like in the Alpha Kingdom where the King appointed the Archbishop, and the Archbishop presided over the king’s succession ceremony.

Because the Frank Kingdom was the number one powerful state of humans, it led in appearance.

Each time there was a change of kingship, the Pope personally presided it.

Now that they had completely fallen out, they just played by themselves.

In any case, the military strength of the Frank Kingdom was not far from that of the Clergy so they didn’t fear.

“Not only that, it is said that the South Coast Kingdom recently had a conflict with the Ash Dwarves, and Black Forest Kingdom started to have problems with the Mountain Dwarves.

The Dante Kingdom in the east, seems to have a problem with Elf Kingdom due to the issue of slave procurement too.

Similar minor conflicts are too numerous to count.

It feels like overnight, the human race has become an enemy to the world.”

Sorcerer Antar sighed.

“Antar, you are overly sensitive.

Since we became the overlords of the continent, when has our human race not been an enemy to the world?

Regardless of which species becomes the overlord of the continent, they will all receive this treatment.

Even peaceful elves, when they ruled the continent tens of thousands of years ago, weren’t they also enemies to the world?

As the overseer of the continent, how can we be afraid of these plots and schemes.

Let them come, let it all erupt at once and be resolved.

As long as the human countries do not fight internally, even if they join together, they are not enough for us to fight.

What is there to fear?

As long as we resist the invasion of the Orcs, the other battlefields have nothing to do with us.

Even if they want to interfere, Alpha Kingdom does not have that power.

Times are different now, with the combined strength of the three countries, we may not be unable to severely damage the Orc Empire.

If we can wound the vitality of the Orcs, we can not only recover the lost territories but also push the battle line a few hundreds of miles forward.

If we could do this repeatedly three or five times, we would similarly be able to turn the Orc Empire into history, completely resolving this big enemy that threatens our human race!”

Sorcerer Claude said with dominance.

In the mages, a hawk party is rarely seen.

Most mages are well-known for being rational, and only a very small number of mavericks are full of enthusiasm.

This Sorcerer Claude is undoubtedly a maverick among mavericks.

As far as Hudson knows, he not only clamors for war in his mouth but also actively researches various war weapons.

Without a doubt, these war weapons all have an inseparable relationship with magic.

No one knows how successful they are, but such spirit is definitely worth praising.

If more superweapons are developed by human mages, maybe the Northern Battlefield will not be constantly passive.

Watching a group of strongmen discussing enthusiastically, Hudson could only silently be a listener.

The lack of news sources has made him lose the power to speak.

Let’s not talk about the entire continent, even for events happening inside the Alpha Kingdom, the Koslow Clan source of news is always one step behind.

The speed of receiving news is slow, and the speed of conveying news is even slower.

Unless it may involve their own interests, everyone really does not have the idea to convey it to each other.

All this is caused by poverty.

If each clan branch takes the initiative to collect news separately and exchanges information regularly, at least several thousand gold coins will be added to the expenditure every year.

Hundreds of clan branches, it doesn’t seem to be much on average.

But the problem is that many of the branch clan are truly poor.

Some even couldn’t keep the noble door, let alone becoming civilians.

If it weren’t for Hudson’s invitation, the deposed civilian branch would not even participate in this event.

Maybe we should do something?

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