Chapter 172: A Lion Opens Its Mouth Wide!

"Due to Viscount Gervas's outstanding military achievements, Your Majesty has specially granted a barony-sized fiefdom."

"In view of Baron Kane's sacrifice in battle, with no blood brothers or nephews to inherit, the fiefdom will be reclaimed by the royal house before being conferred upon Viscount Gervas!"

"It actually is Baron Kane's fiefdom?" Old John heard this and was both shocked and delighted.

Delighted because a barony-sized fiefdom was certainly not a small reward in terms of area.

Shocked because Baron Kane's fiefdom was also located on the border, so it was definitely not as safe as the lands behind Storm Territory.

But regardless, it was land, so it was worth celebrating.

"Your Excellency the Scribe, you have worked hard. I will now go invite my lord Gervas, and then we will proceed together to Baron Kane's fiefdom to confirm the territorial boundaries!"

The scribe gave no clear answer, merely humming a faint "hm" indifferently.

Soon, Gervas arrived at the first floor of the castle.

Gervas had already learned the scribe's attitude from the footman.

For the moment, he did not lose his temper.

If this fellow knew when to stop, Gervas would let him have some benefits.

After all, since resolving Fario, Gervas had anticipated that dealing with Eagle City in the future would involve more difficulties.

But if this fellow did not keep his eyes open next and pulled some more tricks, then Gervas was not made of clay.

Thus, under Old John's arrangement, the group set off for Baron Kane's fiefdom.

Matters regarding boundary confirmation were previously only conducted for new fiefdoms that lacked clear borders beforehand.

Then the scribe would plan according to the description in the official document and lead the ennobled noble to confirm the boundary limits.

But at some point, because there was much profit to be made from this matter, it gradually changed its nature.

For many fiefdoms that originally had clear boundaries, these scribes would also make a pretense of touring around.

If you did not give some benefits, they would find trouble and draw the land a mile or two shorter for you,

In this way, nobles facing these difficult 'little devils' were helpless and could only pay to avoid disaster.

Especially for minor nobles; if you lacked a powerful backer, you had nowhere to lodge a complaint, because they were 'of one lineage', with great nobles above the little devils.

After spending more than three hours, they patrolled around Baron Kane's fiefdom.

During this process, Scribe Neo did not speak a word, which made Old John and others breathe a sigh of relief, thinking the scribe had been fed enough.

Subsequently, the crowd finally arrived at Baron Kane's Castle.

"Your Excellency the Scribe, you have worked hard! Now the border has been confirmed; can you sign the approval document? Of course, I understand the rules," Old John said with a beaming face, once again ordering the servant to bring out several bulging money bags.

"What do you mean confirmed? When did I say it was confirmed?"

But to Old John's utter surprise, Scribe Neo glanced at the money bags held by the servant, filled with copper and silver coins, with a face full of disdain.

He directly pushed the document scroll Old John handed over aside.

This time, Neo had brought two official document scrolls issued by Eagle City in total.

One was the ownership document for Baron Kane's fiefdom, which had already confirmed that the current Baron Kane's fiefdom belonged to Gervas.

The other was a description of the boundaries of Baron Kane's fiefdom based on the inspection just conducted.

After all, this world had no cameras or satellite coordinates.

Therefore, boundaries were defined by obvious landmarks.

Rivers, mountains, valleys, and even forests, and so on.

Then coupled with descriptions of how far from a certain village or town, this could basically confirm a boundary location.

And now, the second document already bore Gervas's seal and signature, as well as the seal of the Eagle City Civil Affairs Office.

The only thing missing was Scribe Neo's signature.

As long as he signed to confirm, the boundaries from now on would be confirmed according to this document.

"Your Excellency Neo, is it not so? Along the way just now, you did not raise any objections!" Old John frowned.

Neo smiled. "Just because I did not raise objections earlier does not mean I approve!"

"Steward John, I tell you now, I have major objections to the boundaries of Baron Kane's fiefdom; I feel several locations may not be the true boundaries of the former Baron Kane's fiefdom!"

"That is impossible, Scribe Neo. We of Storm Territory only learned of the location of this ennobled fiefdom after you announced it; it is not possible that we moved the boundary stones of Baron Kane's fiefdom in advance, is it?"

"Then I do not know. What if you guessed in advance? Or what if you bribed someone in Eagle City to learn the news early?"

"In any case, I believe there is a problem with this border, so I cannot sign to confirm! Otherwise, if the kingdom's land is encroached upon in the future, I will be held responsible!"

Neo wore a smiling face, making everyone around him wish to beat him up severely.

But at this moment, even Knight Mi Gen, usually the most impulsive, held his tongue.

Because this was a critical moment concerning his lord's fiefdom; absolutely nothing could be ruined by impulsiveness for his lord's great cause.

Otherwise, delaying the ennoblement of the fiefdom by a year or half a year would definitely be a trouble.

"Scribe Neo, speak up; how many gold coins do you want to sign?"

At this moment, a cold voice came, from Gervas, who had not spoken a word from beginning to end.

Gervas's eyes had turned cold.

This Neo had truly stepped on his bottom line.

You may be greedy, but you must know when to stop.

Moreover, you must also hold sufficient respect.

Not to play with our group like a monkey as you are doing now.

Hearing that Gervas had directly exposed the truth, Neo stopped pretending.

"Viscount Gervas is indeed sensible. One hundred gold coins, and I will sign this document immediately. How about it, Viscount Gervas?!"

Hiss!

Everyone around immediately sucked in a breath of cold air; even Neo's assistants beside him were dumbfounded.

One hundred gold coins—that's an audacious price to ask.

Besides, can Gervas even afford it?

This is the Border Storm Territory.

"No problem. One hundred gold coins, I'll give them to you, and you sign immediately!" Gervas didn't even frown.

"You agreed?" Now it was Neo's turn to be stunned.

But once he recovered, he felt he had misspoken. "Viscount Gervas, I will only sign when I see the gold coins!"

"No problem, I'll give them to you right now!"

Gervas directly pulled a money pouch from his chest and then had John hand it to Neo.

These were the gold coin reserves taken from the spatial ring.

Neo's heart pounded; after taking the money pouch, he disregarded his dignity, opened it right before everyone's eyes, and bit the gold coins inside.

After biting more than ten in a row, Neo's smile grew even broader.

Originally, the one hundred gold coins were just an exorbitant asking price.

In reality, even if there were only ten or twenty gold coins, he would have been content.

But now, this Gervas turned out to be foolish and rich.

"Well? Can we sign and seal the deal now?"

"Of course we can, hahaha, Baron Gervas, if you had shown the gold coins earlier, I wouldn't have made things so troublesome!"