novelpro #669 - Chapter 669: The Iron-Blooded Duke
#669 - Chapter 669: The Iron-Blooded Duke
“Iron-Blooded Archduke, huh....”
Hearing this name, Wu Wei couldn't help but furrow his brows.
He had heard this name a few times from Su Yingxue and Li Sinuo, and if he remembered correctly, the Iron-Blooded Archduke's descendants should also be members of the War College, just like him.
PS: Chapter 286.
“Never really heard of him.”
“How strong is this person, or rather, this lord?”
Faced with Wu Wei's ignorance, Carlos couldn't help but sigh.
Although Carlos Yang was a vampire, he was located in the special city of 【Eternal Night City】, so his understanding of the human empire was far greater than Wu Wei's.
Thus, this vampire explained the Iron-Blooded Archduke's information within the human empire to the human lord, Wu Wei.
“Lord, the Iron-Blooded Archduke is one of the top lords in the current human empire.”
“To be precise, the top meaning here is top three!”
“What does his title mean?”
Wu Wei was more curious about the other party's title than their strength.
“Is the so-called Iron-Blooded Archduke a title?”
“No.”
Carlos shook his head, denying Wu Wei's statement.
“The human empire has no so-called titles.”
“From the very first emperor of humanity, the human empire has never had any formal titles.”
“The so-called Iron-Blooded Archduke is essentially a 【nickname】.”
“A nickname used by lords to address each other.”
“And the nickname Iron-Blooded Archduke is actually the oldest nickname in the human empire.”
“This nickname originated from the founder of the original royal family, the empire's first prime minister, the right-hand man of the First Emperor, Wang Yuan!”
“Because the human empire was initially unstable and faced internal and external troubles when it was first established.”
“Therefore, in order to solve the human empire's problems, Wang Yuan, as the empire's prime minister, directly used the most cruel and terrifying means to personally eliminate the human empire's rebels.”
“Because the Wang family head's methods were too cold-blooded, people generally called Wang Yuan the Iron-Blooded Archduke.”
After listening to Carlos's explanation, Wu Wei nodded.
“Not bad, you explained it much better than my teachers back in school.”
“However, I still don't quite understand.”
“If Wang Yuan possessed the title of Iron-Blooded Archduke, then that would have been thousands of years ago, right?”
“Why is it that now, the current head of the Wang family can still inherit this title?”
“Isn't that a case of being unworthy of the name?”
Faced with this question, Carlos smiled helplessly.
“Lord, you should understand the human empire better than I do.”
“Humans are creatures that value fame and vanity, of course, except for you.”
“So in human society, titles can be seen as proof of hard power.”
“Because the Wang family's strength has been maintained from the founding of the country to the present, under the blessing of the Wang family's powerful family power, this title has been inherited intentionally or unintentionally.”
“In addition, since successive heads of the Wang family have served as prime ministers of the empire, the title of Iron-Blooded Archduke has not been cut off from inheritance.”
“Oh right, Lord, I forgot to tell you.”
“Currently, the wife of the empire's Emperor Shi Wushuang is the Iron-Blooded Archduke's younger sister.”
“Shi Wushuang's wife?”
“I remember he has many wives, which wife are you talking about?”
Like countless emperors in history, the human empire's emperor has many wives.
Although the human empire's higher-ups have always promoted to the outside world that the human empire's emperor has always been devoted to restoring the human empire.
But people always have emotions and desires.
Moreover, Shi Wushuang's children are not all born from stones. Looking at the number of princes and princesses in the human empire, you can tell that the human empire's emperor cannot only have one wife.
Although Wu Wei's history wasn't very good, he liked to read these gossip news.
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“The Iron-Blooded Archduke's younger sister, although not the human empire's empress, is, as far as I know, relatively favored by Shi Wushuang.”
“Moreover, the Seventh Princess, Shi Xuan, is her daughter.”
“In short, the Iron-Blooded Archduke's connection with the royal family is still very close.”
“After all, the Iron-Blooded Archduke's sister is one of the few who, after marrying into the royal family, is still qualified to contact her family.”
“Other women who marry into the royal family must sever ties with their original families.”
After listening to Carlos's explanation, Wu Wei understood everything.
“Okay, I understand.”
“So, you're saying that I need to be careful of revenge from the Iron-Blooded Archduke in the near future, right?”
“No, no, no!”
“Lord, you're taking it too lightly.”
Seeing Wu Wei's relaxed expression, Carlos was about to die of anxiety.
“Although I know your strength is very powerful, the Iron-Blooded Archduke's strength is a terrifying existence far above you!”
“On the other hand, the current Iron-Blooded Archduke...”
Deep worry was revealed in Carlos's red eyes.
“Besides being very irritable, he is very vengeful!”
“Once he finds out that the blood elf Sophia's disappearance is related to you, he will definitely take revenge on you.”
“Alright, alright, I got it.”
“It's just killing one of his mistresses, is it worth it to take revenge?”
Although Carlos had tried his best to inform Wu Wei of the Iron-Blooded Archduke's terror.
But Wu Wei still didn't take it to heart.
After all, in his opinion, no matter how powerful the Iron-Blooded Archduke himself was, it would still be difficult for the other party to take revenge on him.
Anyway, the other party hasn't found out about him yet, right?
And more importantly, Wu Wei himself didn't care about the Iron-Blooded Archduke's revenge from the bottom of his heart.
Because he firmly believed that even if the Iron-Blooded Archduke came to take revenge on him, he would have the ability to make this self-proclaimed fellow pay a sufficient price.
However....
What Wu Wei didn't expect was that the Iron-Blooded Archduke's investigation was nearing its end.
And the relationship between the other party and the blood elf Sophia was more important than he thought.
More importantly, the other party's revenge was about to arrive.
Wu Wei himself was completely unaware of this.
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After finishing the affairs with Carlos, Wu Wei quickly left Eternal Night City and returned to the Abyss Throne.
However, after returning to the Endless Abyss, Wu Wei didn't stay in the Endless Abyss for long.
After just instructing his subordinates on the things they needed to pay attention to, he went directly to the War College.
And in the War College, Principal Han Xuan had been waiting for him for a long time!
Because a war involving the enemies of the empire was waiting for Wu Wei's arrival to officially launch.
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