Chapter 1389: Chapter 524: Chosen One Sequence_2

Just two days later, this comprehensive mortgage contract, involving numerous layers and an extraordinarily large amount, rare within the Nanxiang Star Cluster, took effect.

A massive sum of funds flooded into the account of Viscount Nan Jiu instantly.

Subsequently, Grune summoned Sera and Vittel, then had his clan uncle lead the business team to start distributing orders for equipment and industrial devices externally, as instructed by these two scientific prodigies, with extreme efficiency, and recruiting experienced industrial management personnel.

Interestingly enough, most of the orders that the Viscount Mansion of Nan Jiu placed on the public bidding website of the Empire’s Ministry of Commerce were actually taken by Red Blade Star.

At this point, the feeling inside Grune’s heart became increasingly peculiar.

It was as if every step he took forward to dig at the foundation, he could see the target, cheerfully standing ahead waiting for him, eagerly selling cheap, affordable, and functional tools like electric hammers, sledgehammers, even excavators.

Of course, doubts aside, considering the convenient transportation brought by the proximity between Red Blade Star and South Nine b Star, and the favorable offers from Red Blade Star, Grune still instructed the business team not to hesitate and let Red Blade Star take the orders.

After all, Nanxiang’s Earldom had explicitly allowed this. As long as they could seize the patent rights of the stealth coating and cripple Red Blade Star by cutting off their resources, and win the inevitable lawsuit, it didn’t matter how much money Red Blade Star made from him now.

Time passed bit by bit, and unknowingly, three years had passed. The secret factory located on South Nine b Star continuously improved its processes, optimized its configurations, and its production capacity kept rising.

Although the production route chosen by Augustus Academy wasn’t the bio-synthesis model utilizing mutated Star Annihilation Ants for mass production, resulting in extremely high production costs, even though it’s a highly profitable industry, it doesn’t work well. If the Viscount Mansion of Nan Jiu sold the self-produced coatings at the price of those from Red Blade Star, the profit would be quite thin.

But Grune thought this was not important. As long as they first cut off Ren Zhong’s patent rights and held the assets in hand, it would be up to him whether to raise prices or limit supply next.

Moreover, the current high cost was frankly because it was new technology. As long as they continued to expand scale, further improved the production line, and took their time, they could eventually reduce the cost over time.

By then, Viscount Mansion of Nan Jiu could also profit immensely from this item.

On another front, upon hearing the ongoing progress of Viscount Mansion of Nan Jiu’s plan and that the production capacity was about to reach the minimum standard for industrial mass production, Liu An, the Nanxiang Marquis, finally stopped his state of frozen sleep and began preparing to personally take charge of the matter.

With Liu An’s command, the patent enforcement agency within the Nanxiang Military and Political Center began to operate decisively, preparing for what would inevitably become a high-profile lawsuit that would captivate the world.

There were two years left until the end of Ren Zhong’s Earl review period.

Two years were enough to complete this "one with conclusive evidence" patent lawsuit.

After another two months, the production capacity on South Nine b Star finally met the standards.

Under the direct orders of Liu An, Grune immediately spent the last of the liquid funds to hire the top lawyer team from the prestigious Nanshan Law Firm that was unbeatable and unmatched within the Nanxiang Star Cluster, launching a formal lawsuit against Red Blade Star.

Since this was a well-prepared move, Grune and the Nanshan Law Firm’s preparation was very thorough, and the Chief Court on the side of the Military and Political Center had already been ready for action, completing all preliminary procedures within just three days to formally open the case.

Subsequently, since the lawsuit involved patent rights, this case began to be publicized throughout the Empire.

Nobody expected that a mere lawsuit would stir such massive waves throughout the Empire, beyond imagination.

The influence was far from being limited just to the Nanxiang Star Cluster.

Overnight, within the immense Mechanical Empire territory, countless nobles—big or small—were watching the matter with either an amused or surprised gaze.

The reason is none other: looking across the entire Mechanical Empire, though the number of Earls is in the millions, lawsuits like Viscount Nan Jiu suing Earl Red Blade, which could be considered an "inferiors challenging superiors" case, are indeed rare, seldom heard even within decades.

Moreover, while others only skimmed through this matter out of curiosity, upon opening the detailed records of this Earl Red Blade, they felt surprise after surprise.

This Earl Red Blade, in less than two hundred years, started as the lowest of non-registered colonists on a C-level trailblazing colony, emerged through sheer remarkable business acumen, scientific ability, combat capability, leadership, and military talent, breaking through on the trailblazing colony to become a so-called high-level Citizen. He even turned the tide during a crisis of annihilation faced at the departure of the colony, annihilating a Divine Level Spirit Demon Race, then, on the way back, defeated a special research-type Fourth Grade Mother Empress, acquired complete Giant Reproductive Cells, and established triumphant merits, eventually being granted the title of Earl.

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