This Lord is Very Scientific

After a flash of light, Lin Ke and the others finally arrived at the final city, the Fine Iron Giant City of Iron Ring Marquis.

This giant city accommodates millions of people, with well-established facilities, unlike the foul stench Lin Ke imaged from the Western world of his previous life.

Of course, it couldn't compare to Great Wilderness City.

"This is the Fine Iron Giant City!" Lin Ke and Garoce were the first to walk out, followed by their followers and the Knight Order.

"Indeed, a giant city!" Garoce echoed, standing beside the hovering Ove.

Princess Rica, sitting behind Lin Ke, wrapped her arms around Lin Ke's waist and said, "Iron Ring Marquis is a rigid old man. I met him in the Royal Palace before, not easy to get along with."

"Alright, let's rest here a bit, and head out when we're ready!" Lin Ke nodded.

Previously, he found out that Iron Ring Marquis is a powerful level 19 [Dark Holy Hammer Soldier], rigid and indifferent, and never concerned with aristocratic assemblies, maintaining his marquis family without decline but also without ambition.

Here is a square, surrounded by other Space-Time Teleportation Arrays, leading to other cities, with some arrays seeing people leaving from them.

Lin Ke's People's Knight Order marched out, but they didn't interact much with other nobles; Azanen was located at the border, seldom in contact with the inland nobles.

As for the nobles from the past interactions, except for the Great Sword who was directly appointed Marquis by His Majesty Insomnia, it seems others were not ready to participate in this aristocratic assembly.

The majority participating in the annual aristocratic assembly are knights and barons, these noble grades change considerably, and a significant enhancement would lead them to strive.

For families above viscount, changes are minimal, which is why the Great Sword, upon being directly appointed Marquis by Insomnia, became the new military star of the Gula Kingdom.

Every newly risen marquis draws the attention of the whole Gula nobility, as a marquis signifies substantial resource allocation change.

The last person to become a marquis was the Marquis of Ice, whose rise directly monopolized all resources in the Frozen Forest.

If one were to rise further, as a duke, it would attract the attention of all major and minor forces around the Gula Kingdom.

And a Grand Duke, every Grand Duke is a legend, such a rise in power would have the name celebrated throughout Naseng, just like Ove at that time, known worldwide as the King of Electromagnetism.

Naseng People don't have the concept of a prince, the highest is a Grand Duke.

Unfortunately, Ove is not the actual controller of the family; Garoce and Lin Ke are the real controllers of the Azanen Family, or rather Lin Ke himself isn't the actual controller, he is Count Linke instead of Viscount Azanen, Garoce is.

Therefore, Ove's power can't be entirely counted as Azanen's power, it depends on the specific assembly.

In this square, as Little Azanen, naturally, nobody knows him.

However, Azanen has Lin Ke.

Many nobles have seen Lin Ke at newspaper stands, in the Great Library, and in various matters like buying and selling resources and mounts.

"Lin Ke! Lin Ke! Andrew's Leg, are you participating in this aristocratic assembly? Damn, I should have thought of that earlier!"

At that moment, there were thirty to fifty people who had just emerged from the teleportation array and spotted Lin Ke, then greeted him.

Count of Tulip—Tongde Jia Tielupi.

This is a short and stout goblin with one-sixteenth human blood, who loves cultivating exotic plants and flowers, and is a level 15 [Gardener].

Many rare plants cultivated in Great Wilderness City are sold to Tongde Jia because he is very generous.

"Princess Rica is here too? This must be Viscount Garoce, right? Oh, Andrew's Leg, greetings Lord Ove..." Tongde Jia, proud of his one-sixteenth human bloodline, walked towards Lin Ke as if rolling over like a ball.

He greeted the people over here with a chest thumping salute, Lin Ke and the others returned the gesture.

"Mr. Tongde Jia, I remember you telling me you weren't interested in noble promotion, why..." Lin Ke looked at Tongde Jia, showing doubt.

Tongde Jia's lifelong pursuit is the collection of various exotic plants and flowers, not just one kind, but similar to petting cats, where he wants to have seven or eight different patterned cats of the same breed.

He didn't have any other noble's perverse hobbies, his only hobby being flora, to the point where he had a sub-plane purely as his garden.

Of course, many other nobles also don't chase hegemony, resource acquisition, or training upgrades, instead pursuing hobbies like winemaking, gardening, painting, with passion and love.

"Lin Ke, why didn't you tell me earlier you were participating? But it's right for you to join, sigh..." Tongde Jia's face looked very remorseful, his two pointed slightly green ears trembled faintly, "I would have skipped this if I knew, better off buying that blue hemp palm from Count Wind Howl!"

Saying that, Tongde Jia signaled Lin Ke to walk forward, whispering while walking, "This aristocratic assembly, I heard it involves two parts, one part is our Gula People's own assembly, the other part competes with external races!"

"Other races?" Lin Ke raised an eyebrow, Garoce and the others turned their attention as they listened.

"You know, I often visit Green Leaf Duke, he told me this competition involves deep and large matters, the prizes will be especially rich, I was thinking there wouldn't be many competitive opponents!" Tongde Jia looked around then glanced at Lin Ke.

In a majority noble assembly below Count, if Tongde Jia joins the assembly, it would indeed be quite good.

However, with Lin Ke the Count joining...

It's not like Tongde Jia doesn't know Lord Ove, King of Electromagnetism, the Naseng People all know Lin Ke pretty much equals Ove, right?

Then what's the point of winning!

"Betting against external forces? If so, why doesn't His Majesty Insomnia initiate mobilization?"

Lin Ke first questioned in puzzlement, then realized himself.

Mobilization?

Mobilize for what?

Not a time of national crisis!

In the eyes of someone like His Majesty Insomnia, perhaps these are minor contests, better let nature take its course.

Yet if such news spreads, many people might come to participate.

Especially those prize-related news, sure to attract a large crowd.

But Lin Ke isn't foolish, if such news is spread through newspapers, it would soon be known by everyone, isn't that looking for trouble?

"Count Linke, you mustn't tell others! The more people there are, the lower our potential ranks!" Tongde Jia was very friendly towards Lin Ke, perhaps due to the abundance of rare plants in the Lava Swamp.

After saying this, Tongde Jia quickly left with his people, while Lin Ke and the others purchased various supplies then directly left the Fine Iron Giant City.

Target, Abyss!