Almost simultaneously, on the sea, less than fifty kilometers from the coast of Beiliu, a huge fleet was heading from west to east, towards the harbor of Beiliu. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

The largest ship at the heart of the mixed fleet is not the flagship, and the flag flying on the largest ship is interesting.

There are three flags.

First of all, the flag representing nationality at the top is the blue-background and gold-edged lion flag of the Stormwind Kingdom.

Then the flag that represents the organization in the middle is the storm flag of the Marcus Chamber of Commerce.

Neither of these is a problem, but the last one that is interesting is the last flag that represents the individual - it is the royal flag of Kul Tiras. This means that on board are members of the royal family of Kul Tiras.

Generally speaking, according to international practice, the princess who marries her husband and marries out is not allowed to continue to hang her royal flag.

There is only one reason for this strange phenomenon, and sitting on the boat is Princess Gianna Proudmoor, the fiancée of Duke Marcus, Grand Duke of the Stormwind Kingdom.

According to the results of the previous talks between the bosses of the two countries, Dahlin and Ryan, Gianna was born as a member of the Duke family, and died as a ghost of the Duke family, and did not belong to Kurtilas, so Gianna's nationality is the Storm Kingdom.

This was mainly because Daillin at that time wanted Gianna to get rough quickly, so he couldn't wait for Duke to come back to get married, and kicked Gianna out first.

In fact, in the ten years since Duke's disappearance, the military and business circles of Kurtilas have really guarded Gianna strictly.

Of course, Gianna is not Kalia, or rather, she is extremely gifted and intelligent, and she was not a woman who was willing to be ordinary from the beginning.

On Gianna's 18th birthday, she began to build a fleet under the framework of the Marcus Chamber of Commerce without using a single copper coin from the Duke family. To this day, the huge fleet of 50 ships, including five battleships, is the result of her efforts.

It's not easy.

During her rise, she did not receive any preferential treatment, whether from Kul Tiras, the Stormwind Kingdom, or the Marcus family, who would theoretically be her back.

Even the shipbuilding schedule had to be arranged by her to find a way to dredge up the relationship.

She didn't understand why Marcus's lineage rejected her so much.

At first, Gianna thought it was Miss Illusia Barov, who was probably her fiancé's underground lover, stealing power from the Marcus family.

Soon she realized she was wrong.

The structure of the Marcus family is completely different from any other family or organization on the continent. It has an organizational structure that is ahead of its time.

Even if Duke is gone.

Each and every one of those in charge remains steadfast in their duties.

Illusia was in charge of the commercial part, and with her brilliant financial acumen, she was just as brilliant as her father, and every year she provided the entire Marcus family with an incredible fortune comparable to the income of the entire Lordaeron treasury.

Reginald Windsor is firmly in control of the family's vast private army, which is subject to the strictest training and regular combat training against monsters. On the surface, the Marcus family only has 30,000 soldiers, but in fact, the guys who have been disbanded and returned to their hometowns to serve as militia in the past ten years have the strength of the elite soldiers of the Scarlet Cross Legion. As long as the Marcus family is willing, they can pull out 100,000 elites at any time.

Edwin Van Cleef is a bit of a peculiar, a stonemason brotherhood who is in charge of both architecture and intelligence. What he left behind when he built castles, and how much power he had in the shadows, no one knows except him.

Casa Yulasis is in charge of the family's Knights, a vast order of more than 1,000 people, including 300 paladins. They were also responsible for defending Gianna, but unfortunately, Gianna knew full well that they would not hesitate to do their duty, but they never had the slightest loyalty to her.

Sisters Sylvanas and Lilath are in charge of a mountain group of 5,000 people, a mix of elves and humans.

Macaro, the family's chief steward, is steadfast in his pursuit of the policies Duke left behind before his disappearance, and he does many things that others can't understand. For example, tinkering with new technologies that even the wisest dwarves and gnomes can't understand. Another example is that there are a lot of things for the family that even Antonidas, a master of magic and alchemy, can't understand.

Every year on December 31, these important family members gather together to report on their work.

In many cases, there is no specific content, only the degree of completion, such as 94%, or 122%, etc. Macaro took out the progress sheet left by Duke that year, rated and rewarded each person for their work.

The basis for all rewards or punishments is a book of rewards and punishments that will be moderately increased and decreased each year. It is even accurate to the point that even when natural disasters such as droughts and floods occur, there are coefficients to be used to calculate.

Gianna was not hidden from the annual gathering, except that everyone treated Gianna as an inconsequential observer. At first, Gianna tried to take control of this incomparably powerful family as her fiancée, but she soon gave up in despair.

The whole family is a large and sophisticated machine, and unless she has the wisdom and foresight above Duke, no one will obey her, an 'outsider' who has not officially changed her surname to Marcus.

Gianna really wanted to cry without tears.

Trapped in the Marcus family, but did not get any substantial benefits of being a mother.

Of course, the benefits are not without it. For example, the annual 100,000 gold coins for the 'fiancée' and the household income increases by 10% every year. For example, before the battle against Neozu, Duke allowed Gianna to move to a large number of magic books at the Royal Spell Academy in Stormwind City.

It's a pity that compared to the amazing treasure trove of the Marcus family, these things are just small pebbles on the side of the road!

The worst thing is that Duke's plan for this is a 20-year deadline.

Unless it is confirmed that Duke is really dead, no changes are allowed for 20 years. Even if it was to be changed, it had to be unanimously approved by all the important ministers of the family.

In order to meet the money needed for her magic experiments, in order to prove her ability, the hard-pressed Gianna can only come out to run business......

However, when she was 20 years old, Gianna finally came to work.

Her luck was the High Elf advisor and butler who stood beside her now.

claims to be Magna Evans, but in fact she has an even more shocking name - Magna Evans.

Yes, she's Medivan's mother, the former Guardian Egwene!

"Duke is back, what should I do?" Gianna asked Magna in a deep voice.

"Actually, you can learn from me, the Marcus family wants an heir, and it is to help Duke Sheng. I did the same to Nalas back then, and I didn't raise it when I looked back. ”

Gianna didn't miss a mouthful of old blood spurting out. (To be continued.) )