Endless World: The Rise of Leonard Lawson-Chapter 238: Dock Confrontation
"Move along!"
"The Crown Prince's ship is docking. Everyone else, pause your work!"
"Quickly! You don't want to disrupt the Crown Prince's ship!"
At the eastern main dock, Leonard's ship was officially anchored.
The nearby people were swiftly removed from the premises under Curtis's order.
This was the protocol to ensure maximum security, even if they were in the capital.
While the main dock was somewhat spacious, Curtis spotted two individuals.
'Why are these two princes here?' Curtis narrowed his eyes suspiciously.
The fourth prince, Sylas Viren, and the third prince, Rowan Draymoor, were both present at the main dock.
However, they seemed to be waiting for someone else and not Leonard.
Right at this moment, Leonard walked down to the main dock and spotted his two brothers.
'These two are still colluding with each other?' Leonard didn't anticipate this situation. He thought he had created some rift between the two previously, but it seemed not to be enough.
"What brings the two of you figures here at the dock?" Leonard approached them with a smirk.
He glanced around at the dock and spotted some crates. He then gasped in disbelief. "It can't be that your allowance has shrunk so much to the point you're out here doing manual labor, right?"
"If it isn't our fifth brother." Rowan rolled his eyes. He ignored his sarcastic remarks and waved his hand. "Since you've returned from your journey, just get lost."
"Third brother, we must be cautious of our speech." Standing next to Rowan was Sylas, who promptly warned the former about his use of words.
"Our fifth brother is now the Crown Prince." He continued and greeted Leonard formally.
"Fourth Prince Sylas greets the Crown Prince."
Because they were at a public venue, Sylas wouldn't give Leonard a chance to throw accusations at him.
Similarly, Rowan was forced to greet properly after being reminded by Sylas.
"Third Prince Rowan greets the Crown Prince."
"Haha, the third and fourth brother surely knows how to jest." Leonard quickly chuckled and gestured for them to not be so polite.
"I might be the Crown Prince, but I'm still considered your younger brother. There's no need to be so formal."
'No need to be so formal? If I weren't attentive enough, then we would have been criticized at court.' Sylas cursed silently.
Ever since Leonard had gone to Velastra, almost all his informants had gone radio silent. Without any notable information or recent news, Sylas couldn't afford to confront Leonard.
Moreover, the only information he received was that Velastra had been indirectly granted to Leonard.
In what rights did Leonard deserve such a valuable economic piece of land?
'Just what in the world did this waste do in Velastra?' Sylas could only suppress his internal turmoil temporarily. After all, he and Rowan were present because of the latest information.
The princess of Xundraeth Continent was coming to their capital today.
And precisely at this moment, another ship approached the dock.
Rowan and Sylas' eyes lit up upon spotting the Xundraeth Flag.
"Let's go," Sylas ignored Leonard and urged Rowan to step forward.
Needless to say, Rowan had already made his move without needing Sylas's heads up. 𝓯𝙧𝙚𝒆𝙬𝙚𝒃𝙣𝙤𝒗𝓮𝓵.𝙘𝙤𝙢
As someone who hailed from a military family, Rowan's impression of the strategist princess was extremely deep. The only thing that was pitiful was their blindness. Otherwise, she would have been a worthy wife.
'Still, I must recruit someone like her into my faction.' Rowan resolved his determination to obtain Eleanor.
Syals stood a little bit behind Rowan and smiled amiably on the surface.
At a glance, it appeared that he was willing to let Rowan take the lead. But secretly, Sylas was using Rowan as the spearhead to tank all the negativity on his behalf.
'What a foolish third brother. Your evidence in openly disdaining the Xundraeth Blind Strategist has already been spread.' Sylas would never allow his true inner thoughts to be exposed to the public.
Meanwhile, Rowan lacked the attentive detail to mind his outspoken nature.
There had been instances where he openly called out the Xundraeth Strategy as a disabled person and got lucky in winning against the Draymoor Army.
While these two eagerly waited for Eleanor's arrival, Leonard reacted the opposite.
'I should flee now.' He barely had any intel on Eleanor. Yet it seemed like Eleanor knew a lot about him.
This kind of situation was quite uncomfortable for him, who didn't like doing things blindly.
And no pun intended!
Just when he was about to leave the main dock, Rowan sneered coldly.
"As the Crown Prince of Aldros, seeing the Xundraeth Royalty coming to the capital, Elarion. Shouldn't you be present to greet them, or do you hold the belief that the Xundaeth Continent is unworthy?" Rowan exclaimed loudly.
'Throwing dirt at me in this instance?' Leonard raised an eyebrow in confusion. He understood Rowan had been holding quite the grudge because he got his subordinate killed, but that didn't mean he could just spout nonsense like that.
'This damn idiot!' Even Sylas couldn't help but feel like strangling Rowan.
There was a time and place to undermine Leonard, but it was definitely not at this juncture.
Are you the royalty for the Valdoria Continent or the Xundraeth Continent?
Sylas truly regretted standing too close by Rowan's side. Now he might be implicated further for trying to cozy up to the Xundraeth Continent.
If news of this were spread to their other brothers, then there was bound to be another wave of onslaughts.
"You can be Xundraeth's dog if you want." Leonard snickered coolly. He resumed his pacing and was about to leave the dock until another voice interrupted.
"The Crown Prince wouldn't be addressing me as a dog owner, right?" From behind, Eleanor appeared in the wheelchair, with Albert pushing her gently.
"I don't have the habit of owning dogs. But if the Crown Prince loves them. Then I don't mind adopting a few for us to teach them personally on how to behave properly." She giggled sweetly and gestured for Albert to hasten the pace to catch up with Leonard.
