Chapter 1388: Chapter 524: Chosen One Sequence

In front of the thoroughly drained Viscount Mansion of Nan Jiu, it seemed there were still two choices.

One was to accept fate, cease struggling, halt the project here, and then gradually recuperate. By utilizing the remarkable new scientific prodigies, Sera and Vittel, combined with the existing prowess of the Augustus Academy to redevelop, and once enough assets were accumulated, plan slowly.

This was the most reasonable choice, but the problem was the Nanxiang Marquis would not wait for him.

In just a few years, the Earl assessment of Earl Red Blade, Ren Zhong, would come to an end.

The royal review officer lurking in the shadows, observing the starry sky, would suddenly jump out and deliver a final verdict on all performances of the new Imperial Earl, Ren Zhong, during the hundred-year review period.

If the unique specialty of invisible coatings from Red Blade Star is not snatched away, the rise of the Red Blade Clan will be unstoppable.

Earl Red Blade, Ren Zhong, would surely receive an unprecedented highest evaluation over hundreds of thousands of years to pass the review, starting with a hundred Planet Systems.

Setting aside the threat to life from Nanxiang Marquis, Red Blade’s sworn enemy, merely speaking of the measures Nan Jiu Viscount Mansion has taken for a hundred years as an accomplice, opposing Red Blade Star from every angle, is enough for a backhand strike from the then-ascendant Earl Red Blade, Ren Zhong, to easily obliterate Nan Jiu Viscount Mansion.

Don’t be fooled by the various reconciliations between Red Blade Star and Nan Jiu Viscount Mansion now, even selling equipment and energy at low prices. Anyone with a brain knows this is only a matter of grasping interests — the Red Blade Clan has merely spotted an opportunity to make a big profit.

But the enmity between both sides runs deep, and when Earl Red Blade comes into power, it’s impossible not to seek revenge.

So, in truth, Grune has only one choice in front of him, which is to stake it all, risk everything, succeed or die trying.

Grune first set aside his pride and proactively contacted the other eight allied families of the Augustus family, hoping to get some support.

These eight were the families that journeyed along with the Augustus family at the beginning to Source Star to establish a colony.

For years, these nine viscount allies in the Nanxiang Star Cluster have intermarried and exchanged interests, sharing weal and woe, rising together and falling together.

Although since Grune took power, the alliance had slightly distanced itself due to suspicions over Sosgate and Berkow’s deaths, later Grune gained blatant support from Nanxiang Marquis Liu An, so for nearly a century, the nine viscounts lived in peace and communicated often.

Unexpectedly, when Grune personally sought their doors for help, he was met with eight successive rounds of Tai Chi Boxing, leaving him dazed, unable to differentiate direction.

Especially the heads of the Ying, Ma, Gao, Alson, and Tang families, when communicating with him, their nostrils pointed so high they almost reached perpendicular to the ecliptic plane of the Ancient Disk Galaxy, showing no interest in deeper discourse.

It was as if overnight, the Augustus family had become isolated.

Grune was both puzzled and furious, but upon careful investigation, he discovered something terrifying.

Originally, when he took with him the other eight families’ Source Star Fleet recruits, although they returned nearly empty-handed, bringing back only a few useless ones, later Red Blade Star began accepting hires. Among these eight family forces, quite a few native colonial recruits returned to their respective families under the guise of members of the Red Blade Clan.

After a century of development, these people, though bearing the viscount noble surnames, actually loyal to the Red Blade Clan, had successively taken high positions within their viscount families, becoming powerful factions, even able to influence the decisions of the eight viscounts themselves.

Consequently, Grune found himself in a dead end once again.

Just as he was at a loss, a celestial savior arrived.

The Interstellar Consortium, which had been devouring many of the Nan Jiu Viscount Mansion’s assets like a whale sucking water, seemed to foresee that his major project had reached the final juncture, surprisingly sending a chief steward for a face-to-face talk directly.

This mysterious joint Interstellar Consortium indeed boasted abundant financial resources, appearing to possess endless wealth, able to continuously acquire the millennium wealth of the Nan Jiu Viscount Augustus family. Now, not only did they not show the slightest fatigue, but they even had the means to offer a large sum, allowing Grune to complete an emergency full loan with the title of Viscount Nan Jiu, all fiefs and immovable-fixed assets as collateral.

Such a scale, holding so much liquid capital, surpassed even seasoned viscounts, and would have required at least the collective efforts of many viscounts to achieve.

Grune had his doubts. He really couldn’t understand why a mysterious consortium suddenly emerged in the Nanxiang Star Cluster, but since the Special Service Bureau of Nanxiang’s Earldom repeatedly asserted that this Interstellar Consortium had no link with Earl Red Blade, the desperate Grune, though wary, ultimately decided to take the gamble.

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