Chapter 177: Secrets of the Wugarian Duchy

Chapter 177: Secrets of the Wugarian Duchy

**BANG**

"A mere Duke!? A mere insignificant someone who does not even live in my Kingdom dares to disrespect me!?" Prince Baltazar Dandridge of the Dandridge Household slammed his palm on the small coffee table inside his carriage, spilling all its contents including some hot bitter tea that he quite liked. The maid inside the carriage immediately started cleaning it up.

"Out!" Baltazar kicked the older maid's body. "Out of my face!"

"Please spare me, Your Highness. Please"

"I said get out of the carriage!"

After the maid scurried away, Baltazar immediately turned his attention to Loyd. "Say it again! Tell me what happened!"

After a few minutes of Loyd telling him what happened, the Prince once again slammed his hand on the table, this time breaking it into smithereens. One would immediately wonder why the Prince, who looked skinny and weak, could easily break a table, but not Loyd.

As someone who had been serving the prince for years, he knew the reason behind the prince's strength. He also knew not to anger the prince, especially when he was already not in the mood after being sent to this place by the King himself.

Loyd lowered his head.

"He said, if you wanted to greet him, there was no need for you to send this servant first," Loyd added.

How could a father abandon his child because of someone else's child?

Until now, he could not answer that question. The two of them felt the carriage start moving.

For years, Baltazar hated the Duke of Wugari. It wasn't simply because of jealousy but rather because he felt that the Duke was deliberately going out of his way to make Baltazar feel inferior. Since they were younger, Baltazar could only be second when it came to swordsmanship and military strategy. He grew up hearing people compare him to the Duke of Wugari.

But this comparison would soon stop.

Once he became King, he would immediately cut ties with Wugari and leave that Kingdom on their own. Once he was strong enough he would come back and show the Duke and everyone else a new him.

"Count Caldarera is clearly dying," his wife's words interrupted his stupor.

"What?"

"The poison from the arrow was deadly. The fact that the arrow was a cursed object is another thing all together. And now, the needle should be enough to end his life. That Duke is not foolish. He must have known that the Count is dying, and yet he is still insisting to stay and heal him? How could he heal someone infected by a dark curse?"

The Crown Princess had a point. The Duke was a cold-blooded man, he would not hesitate to cut off his own tail to escape scotch free. "That Count must know something," Prince Baltazar said. He frowned before his face brightened. "The secrets of the Duke. That man must have known the secrets of the Wugarian Duchy!"

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