The Conqueror from a Dying Kingdom: Volume 7 [Parts 1 to 3] by Fudeorca

Author:Fudeorca
Language: eng
Format: epub

“Lord Yuri! Lord Yuri!”

Sunlight had already begun to enter the room from outside when a grating voice woke me up.

I felt like I’d slept for a long time. Looking at the office clock through my sleepy eyes, I saw that it was 7 am. Given that I’d gone to sleep around sunset, I must’ve slept for about ten hours.

With bleary eyes, I went over to the front door where the voice was coming from and tried to open it, but it was locked. Starsha must’ve closed up during the night.

Once I’d gotten the door unlocked, I opened it to find Jano Ek prostrating himself on the ground. Long ago, his uncle Rakunu Ek had caused a lot of trouble while Gok’s successor was being chosen. His family had since been reformed with him as its representative, and he was currently Suomi’s acting governor.

“What’s going on?” I could guess, but I asked anyway.

“Please allow me to aid you in your fight against the witches! I beg you!” Jano’s head was pressed against the stone cobbles outside.

“Sorry, but no.”

“I beg you!”

No matter how hard he pushed his forehead to the ground, I wasn’t even going to consider the possibility. I’d gotten a fairly good understanding of what went on here in Suomi through my involvement with trade, so I knew how awful of a governor he was.

The region had once been a fief belonging to the Ek family, but control had reverted back to the Ho family after the Eks were disgraced. As an acting governor, Jano was essentially here to represent the Ho family.

Jano failed to understand the economy, he engaged in nepotism by directing the courts to find in favor of his friends and family, he showed preferable treatment to whoever would give him bribes, and everything considered, he was an all-around good-for-nothing. He was an amalgamation of all the bad habits someone could pick up at the Knight Academy, and he had no idea how much damage he was causing.

Jano was also tyrannical toward the people. At times, the townsfolk had submitted petitions to Ho Company, appealing to me as the Ho family’s heir, but there hadn’t been anything I could’ve done.

During Rook’s time, I’d made multiple requests for Jano to be disciplined in some way, but to no avail. Jano had gotten lucky because a certain company had decided to use Suomi as its base of operations, which had caused explosive growth in the local economy and created the false impression that the region was being well-managed.

No good would come of restoring this cretin to his former power. The existence of idiots like him was the biggest flaw in the knighthood system. I was even less willing to let him take charge of Suomi now that I’d turned it into an economic center.

“It’s no use asking when the war’s already beginning. As I’m sure you’re aware, you won’t be able to command effectively unless you’re in charge of your own knights who you’ve trained yourself. I could restore your authority, but you wouldn’t be able to head into battle until you’d raised an army.

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