Resurrection Empire

Chapter 1399: Chapter 528: Struggle [5200 Words]

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Suddenly, Grue Augustus seemed to awaken from a dream, realizing something.

Back when Grue recognized the situation was grim, he decisively killed his father and brother to forge his own path. He endured hardship and turned the extinction crisis of his family into an opportunity for prominence, proving he was not truly foolish.

Now, at the courtroom, he suffered a final, fatal blow, rapidly falling from a promising, rising Viscount to a broken man from a decayed family. Grue’s mind quickly flashed through the bits and pieces from the past decade, and he could no longer fail to understand the connection.

He roared toward the heavens in the court, "You bastard! Earl Red Blade is utterly sinister, treacherous, and vile, truly damaging the honor of the Empire’s noble class! This is a trap, a setup from start to finish! Sera! Vittel! I’ll kill you..."

Standing directly opposite Grue, Jin Simin, under Ren Zhong’s instructions, faced Grue’s futile, struggling roars without concealing it. Instead, he casually shrugged and replied honestly, "Indeed, but if you hadn’t had the desire to covet our Red Blade Clan’s private assets first, why would you have fallen into this pit? Don’t get the cause and effect reversed. Also, have you considered the possibility that the esteemed Nanxiang Marquis already saw everything clearly but had long reached an understanding with our Earl in exchange for the lifetime honor of your Augustus family? Otherwise, given Nanxiang Marquis’s control over the Military and Political Center, how could he fail to uncover the ties between the Red Blade Consortium and Red Blade Star?"

Speaking to this point, even Liu An, who was watching the trial remotely, wanted to angrily rebuke Jin Simin’s outrageous eavesdropping on high nobility matters, and his far-fetched speculation about Nanxiang Marquis.

But the truth is universally understood, everything is judged solely by the result. Judging by the result, it indeed seemed like Liu An was collaborating with Earl Red Blade, Ren Zhong, to play and trap the humble Viscount Nan Jiu’s family.

Yet, interestingly, despite Jin Simin plainly stating it, true outsiders would think Jin Simin was spouting nonsense, mentally sympathizing with Nanxiang Marquis. However, they knew Jin Simin’s intention was just to punish Grue Augustus, delivering a final blow to him.

For most people in the Nanxiang Star Cluster, it’s well known that Liu An personally excluded the Shattered Star Ring from Nanxiang’s economic system, only for the ease of exploiting pirate black assets. Not tracing back to the Red Blade Consortium’s fund sources, relying on former pirate assets, is only logical.

Yet, at this moment, Grue Augustus, right in front of them, could not possibly see things as clearly as those outside. He actually believed it, being first enraged, then suddenly realizing, and finally turning pale, with beads of sweat forming rapidly on his forehead, an endless resentment surged from his heart, blocking his throat, and he gasped while struggling to breathe, slipping to the ground weakly.

Pity, Grue originally intended to remotely order the family guard on South Nine B Star, instructing them to promptly execute Sera and Vittel, the two super moles. But he didn’t even manage to formally issue the command before being overwhelmed with anger and fainting.

Grue ultimately was not angered to death.

With his nature that values life, trying to anger himself to death would be difficult; instead, he excelled in using fainting to avoid pain.

When he awoke, he was already lying in a rundown inn in a small border town on the administrative main star.

Grue immediately grasped the hand of the last loyal servant by his side, repeatedly questioning about the situation in the Southern Nine Star System, asking if Sera Augustus and Vittel Haddon, the two internal threats, had been executed.

Unexpectedly, this loyal servant tearfully told him that right when the trial began, Sera herself, Vittel Haddon, and the entire Haddon family had already been taken by a powerful group of unknown professionals to South Nine D Star for protection.

As for the Viscount Mansion’s Guard on South Nine D Star, many had been thoroughly infiltrated over the years, so much so that one by one, they neither listened to orders nor acted upon commands, not going to besiege the mansion where Sera and the Haddon family temporarily resided. Instead, they established an additional defensive perimeter outside the circle of mysterious Guardians.

The Commander of the Viscount Mansion’s Guard explained externally that these mysterious Guardians were all formidable, at least elite warriors of the Imperial Army, commonly known as advanced professionals. If a battle truly ensued, forget the city where the mansion was; the surface environment of South Nine D Star could hardly bear it, inevitably leading to massive casualties.