1227 Crisis of the Royal Family
In the upper main control room of the space station, a small report was being held.
“According to the latest statistics, the total number of participants who passed the first stage of the Garden Hunting Assembly is 5,721. Among them, the total number of martial artists belonging to the empire is 1,974, and the total number of martial artists outside the empire is 3,747.”
“Among the martial artists belonging to the empire, 118 represent the royal family in the Garden Hunting Assembly.”
At this point, the royal staff in charge of the report paused and glanced at Prince Lekas who was sitting in the middle.
Prince Lekas looked at him expressionlessly.
“Cough… there are 1,856 participants representing other than the royal family. Among them, the total number of participants participating as nobles is 386…”
“Hmph, these nobles are getting more and more outrageous.” Hearing this, Prince Lekas, who had not reacted to the number of participants in the royal family, suddenly sneered and planned the staff’s report, “I remember that the last time the Garden Hunting Assembly was held, the total number of noble descendants who could pass the preliminaries exceeded 700. Now that 20 years have passed, more than half of them have disappeared. How did these guys educate the next generation?”
Sitting beside Prince Lekas, Paramel glanced at him and could not help but twitch the corners of his mouth.
Due to the preparation of the Garden Hunting Assembly, Paramel had read a lot of information about the Garden Hunting Assembly held by the royal family of the empire in the past.
If he did not remember wrongly, there were more than 500 royal descendants who could pass the preliminaries in the previous Garden Hunting Assembly.
Although this was also because there were more descendants of the previous generation of the royal family who matched the age, compared to the pass rate of the Garden Hunting Assembly this time, it was undoubtedly much stronger.
In comparison, the performance of those noble descendants was much stronger than the descendants of the royal family.
“Alright, continue.” Prince Lekas waved at the staff member, gesturing for him to continue.
“There are a total of 1,470 participants participating in the name of the common people. Among them, the most outstanding is the capital star system, the Lantis Star System. The second is the Okamp Star System, and the third is…”
These data did not attract much attention, because most of them were as people had expected.
The Declan Empire had been passed down for so many years that the strength between the various large star systems had long been basically fixed. It was very difficult for there to be an especially huge change in a short 20 years. Therefore, there would not be much change when it was reflected in a large amount of data.
However, when placed on the data of the descendants of the royal family and nobles that had fewer samples, it was not strange for a large fluctuation to appear.
However, through the previous report, everyone still clearly discovered that regardless of whether it was the royal family of the empire or the young descendants of the empire’s nobles, their performance was not satisfactory. They were much worse than the last Garden Hunting Assembly.
Although this would not affect anything for the time being, it meant that regardless of whether it was the royal family of the Empire or the nobles, there were probably some problems with the nurturing of the next generation.
It was one thing for the nobles, but if the next generation of the royal family of the empire experienced a huge decline in strength, the problem would be serious.
The royal family of the Declan Empire could rule the huge Declan Empire for tens of thousands of years because of their super personal strength that had always surpassed everyone, causing them to always remain motionless after experiencing many rebellions in history.
However, if the next generation of the royal family was not strong enough to suppress the other family forces in the empire, it would clearly affect and shake the rule of the royal family greatly. Therefore, there might be a riot.
“Report the situation of the participants from other countries.” After pondering for a moment, Prince Lekas suddenly said to the staff.
The staff was stunned. This was not part of the predetermined work process.
“What? Could it be that you want to tell me that you’re not prepared for the relevant data?” Seeing that he did not immediately answer, Prince Lekas’s expression immediately turned cold.
“Of course, of course. Your Highness, please wait a moment.”
The staff was shocked. The federation adjusted their personal terminal and pulled out another report.
“Cough… er, according to the data, the total number of martial artists outside the empire who passed the first stage of the Garden Hunting Assembly is 3,747. Among them, the total number of martial artists from the galactic center range is 2,083, and the number of martial artists from the three spiral arms is 1,564.”
“Let’s not talk about this. Just tell me how many people came from the Erehuana Military Treaty Alliance and the Noctem Chamber of Commerce.”
“Yes.” The staff hurriedly adjusted his personal terminal and pulled out the relevant data, “There are a total of 1,049 martial artists representing the Erehuana Military Treaty Alliance. The total number of martial artists representing the Noctem Chamber of Commerce is 248.”
“Oh?” Prince Lekas revealed a surprised expression, “Those guys from the Noctem Chamber of Commerce sent many people this time. Right, is there anything worth paying attention to?”
The last question was directed at Paramel.
“No one has performed especially well for the time being.”
“Really?” Prince Lekas seemed to be in disbelief, “Then how did so many people pass? How many people signed up at the beginning?”
Paramel did not use his personal terminal to check. He directly turned his head and found the data.”
“There were a total of 500 people who signed up at the beginning. Of course, they did not register in the name of the Noctem Chamber of Commerce, but in their private names. However, these spots were handed out to the Noctem Chamber of Commerce by us previously, so they can be considered to represent it.”
“Yes, I know that.” Prince Lekas touched his chin, “There are 248 left out of the 500 people. The pass rate has reached half. Not bad. It seems that these guys are not joking when they say that they want to greatly increase their investment in martial techniques in the past few years.”
“Yes. Not only did they invest a large amount of money in the Sagittarius Arm, but they also invested money in other countries. According to private information, just in the Orion Arm, they invested nearly 10 billion Denars in the previous Milky Way Standard Wheel.”
“Hmph! It seems that these guys can’t endure it anymore.” Prince Lekas sneered and said in disdain, “However, how can these guys who only have money in their eyes understand that martial techniques can’t be smashed with money? So what if they smash another ten billion? Could it be that they can produce a Star-Grade Martial Artist?”
“That’s not necessarily true…” Paramel muttered in his mind, but he did not dare to say this.
Not to mention anything else, he was certain that after this Garden Hunting Assembly ended, not only would the participating martial artists under the Declan Empire and the Erehuana Military Treaty Alliance be fine, those martial artists from other countries would definitely become the target of the Noctem Chamber of Commerce.
They might not be able to smash out a Star-Grade Martial Artist with money, but it was not impossible to use money to smash one or more future Star-Grade Martial Artists.
Take that kid called Chu Nan for example. He was only from a small country called the Earth Federation outside the Orion Arm. If the Noctem Chamber of Commerce threw a lot of money at him, could this kid resist the temptation?
Just as this thought spun in his mind, a staff member under Planet Ricardo hurriedly walked over and bowed to Prince Lekas. Then, he approached Paramel and whispered, “Commander, a participant called Chu Nan requests to see you. He…”
At this point, this staff member glanced at Prince Lekas and wanted to say something but hesitated.
Paramel immediately frowned and shouted in a low voice, “Just say what you have to say. There’s no need to hide anything in front of His Highness!”
“Yes!” The staff hurriedly replied and continued, “He’s accompanied by Princess Romanti and Princess Viennelle. They want to see you together…”
“Hmm?”
This time, not only was Paramel stunned, even Prince Lekas could not help but be stunned.
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