Chapter 563 You are a disgrace
The subordinates of the marquis could feel that something was off, so they immediately shut their mouths and even fell back a bit.
The fourth prince narrowed his eyes to look at the marquis before saying, "You were saying that you were from the prestigious family of the Marchchamps and that you were the famous Marquis Marchchamp, right? Then does that mean that I should show my respect to the great Marquis Marchchamp?"
When the marquis heard this, he couldn't help feeling a chill run down his spine.
Even if his men couldn't recognize this person, there was no way that he would mistake this person.
After all, he was a marquis who often went to the capital.
With his high status, naturally he had been able to come in contact with some of the higher ups of this kingdom.
That included royalty.
For nobles like this, royalty were the ones that were far above them that they couldn't reach no matter what.
Any noble that could form a relationship with royalty would without a doubt ascend to become a phoenix.
He naturally also wanted that, so he had remembered all of the faces of the members of the royal family.
That included the person in front of him.
After a moment of being stunned, the marquis finally realized the mistake that he was currently committing, so he jumped off his horse. Or rather, it could be said that he fell off his horse in his haste to get off.
But he didn't care at all, he didn't even try to pat off the dust that had gathered on his body after his fall to the ground.
Instead, all he did was fall to one knee in front of the fourth prince and said, "Your highness, I never thought that you would be in a place like this."
The moment that he said this, it was clear to everyone who this person was.
After all, there were only a handful of people that could be addressed as such by the marquis.
"Your highness."
That was a special address that could only be used for royals.
So this person in front of them had to be a royal.
He was most likely one of the princes of their kingdom.
As soon as this realization hit them, the subordinates of the marquis didn't hesitate to jump off their horses as well. However, instead of falling on one knee like the marquis did, they fell to both knees and deeply bowed their heads.
When one looked closely, they could even see that they were trembling.
There was an awkward silence that hung in the air as everyone looked at the fourth prince in shock.
The members of my town that had gathered to see the commotion now looked at the fourth prince in shock.
Anyone who wasn't a fool would be able to see who the marquis was bowing to and anyone would be able to figure out who the fourth prince was based on context clues.
So they all wanted to see what the fourth prince would do next.
The fourth prince narrowed his eyes to look at the marquis who was on one knee in front of him and said, "So you think that youcan do whatever you want just because you have the title of marquis?"
The marquis couldn't help trembling when he heard this and immediately shook his head to say, "Your highness, of course not. I was only thinking of our kingdom. You should know that we are currently at war and any resource that we can obtain will help our kingdom."
At this point, he was no longer acting arrogant.
In front of the royal, he could only put down his arrogance and try to act as humble as he could to appease him.
Seeing him act this way, the citizens of the town couldn't help looking at him in disdain.
This kind of man, it was clear what kind of personality he had.
The fourth prince was of course not fooled by this as he gave a snort and asked the same thing that the marquis had asked before, but with a twist.
He pointed at me and asked, "Who do you think he is?"
The marquis couldn't help revealing a confused and surprised look, but then he said, "This is Count Zwein, the newly titled count of this land."
"Wrong." The fourth prince immediately said in response to this.
The marquis had a confused look on his face as he repeated, "Wrong?"
He just couldn't understand what the fourth prince was saying.
After all, as far as he knew, this Count Zwein didn't have any special identities.
In fact, this marquis only had a high title and didn't really have any close connections to the important ministers. So while he was able to receive the news of the war from the other high ranking nobles, he didn't actually know anything about this Count Zwein.
He just knew that he was the one that had connected with the dwarves and brokered the cooperation agreement between their two kingdoms.
Beyond that, he didn't know anything about this Count Zwein.
Such as the fact that he was in Shadow Garden.
If he knew, he definitely wouldn't have tried to do this.
That was just how powerful Shadow Garden was.
The fourth prince continued by saying, "Not only is he a newly titled count, he is also the new fiance of my big sister."
"Big sister?" The marquis couldn't help deeply knitting his brows before a look of realization slowly appeared on his face.
"The princess!" The marquis suddenly shouted out.
When he looked closely, he found that the princess was actually standing there with Count Zwein.
His heart sank the moment that he saw this.
After all, he knew that the princess wouldn't be here for no reason.
The fourth prince didn't hold back at all as he said, "Trying to rob other nobles of their property with your title, you truly are a disgrace of a noble."
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