After the departure of Duke Louis of Connet and Duke of Leonais, King Richard sat alone on the throne, pondering over everything.
There was no doubt that his grandnephew Angxi Desmond had failed his entrustment and teachings. It was his mistake that doomed the entire Knightly Army, and his grandnephew bore significant responsibility for this war.
Now the king had to face the aggressive dukes; the losses of the army required the kingdom's treasury to come up with a huge sum to compensate for this loss, and in the short term, the king did not know how to find such a sum.
It seemed necessary to discuss the borrowing matter again with the Duke of Marinburg, the "Lender" Van der Gubben-Schultz. At the thought of how much money the royal finances owed to Marinburg, the aged king felt a pang of physical pain; he had calculated last year that Brittania's short-term royal debt to Marinburg alone amounted to over a hundred thousand gold coins, not counting the long-term debt.
