Chapter 1250.
Within the elegant room, Wang Chen and Zhao Rongcheng sat across from each other across the tea table.
The hustle and bustle of the grand banquet hall was completely shut out.
Zhao Rongcheng, the son of a duke, was undoubtedly the most magnanimous and charismatic young man Wang Chuan had ever seen among the sons of nobles.
His stature and appearance were almost impeccable, his temperament was calm, modest and introverted, and his speech and demeanor were full of style, which could easily make people have a strong feeling of goodwill.
Such a character was bound to be a leader that had been carefully cultivated from a young age by a powerful family!
Zhao Rongcheng’s purpose of inviting Wang Chen to this fellowship was not complicated, it was to invite him to join his own club.
It was similar in nature to the Twin Lions Brotherhood, but with a much smaller number of members, the Taiwu Alliance!
This group, however, was entirely dominated by Zhao Rongcheng, and its members could be said to be deployed by the son of this duke.
It was the squad that he had organized to compete for the position of the future Duke!
With regards to his attempts, Zhao Rongcheng did not hide anything and was completely open and honest with Wang Chen.
The attitude he displayed was sincere and equal, and his persuasive power was not generally strong.
Unfortunately, Zhao Rongcheng was facing Wang Duan!
To be honest, Wang Dust was a little moved by the conditions Zhao Rongcheng offered.
Including but not limited to the resources invested in each school year, the supply of high-level materials, and assistance in every aspect, and so on.
Zhao Rongcheng even said that he could help Wang Dust cancel the commissioning agreement with the Azure Star Group Garrison, so that Wang Dust would not need to fulfill his obligation to join the military after graduation.
In other words, as long as Wang Chuan joined Zhao Rongcheng, he would be on his way to the top!
The problem was that no matter how strong Zhao Rongcheng’s charisma was, and no matter how tempting the conditions offered were, they couldn’t impress Wang Dust.
“Senior Zhao, thank you for valuing me.”
Wang Dust weighed his words and said, “I don’t know if you’ve sensed that war is coming soon?”
Zhao Rongcheng and Justice were both noble sons, but they were simply different, Wang Dust didn’t care about disliking Justice, but he didn’t want to cross paths with Zhao Rongcheng if he didn’t have to.
So Wang Dust changed a way of refusal.
“War?”
Zhao Rongcheng froze, “Do you mean our war with the Alliance, or the foreign races?”
The Sacred Light Empire was undoubtedly the most powerful force in the Star Ocean World, ruling over sixty-five star clusters and trillions of its subjects, and holding tens of thousands of light-years of galactic territory.
But the Holy Light Empire also had enemies.
That was the Alliance and the alien races.
The Alliance refers to the Cluster Star Alliance, a force with forty-four star clusters, which has a certain gap with the Holy Light Empire in terms of both technological level and military strength.
As a matter of fact, the Cluster Star Alliance was a force that split from the Holy Light Empire, and the feud between the two sides could make a TV series with tens of thousands of episodes.
For hundreds of years, the Holy Light Empire had spared no effort in trying to eliminate the Ultramarine Alliance, but it had never been able to do so.
Especially after the emergence of the foreign races and their invasion of the empire’s starfield, completely destroying the Ultramarine Alliance had become a luxury.
Nonetheless, the war between the Holy Light Empire and the Ultramarine Alliance has never been interrupted.
As for the foreign races, the Holy Light Empire had no less than ten large-scale wars with the foreign races, and although it had curbed the latter’s expansion within the galaxy, it was unable to expel the foreign races out of the Ancient Galaxy due to the involvement of the Ultramarine Alliance.
On the whole, the Holy Light Empire had been facing both the Ultramarine Alliance and the alien forces, and had been taking a defensive stance in recent decades.
Despite the constant friction, it had also been a long time since a large-scale war had broken out.
“Both are possible.”
Wang Dust said, “Although I’m not sure if the empire is going to raid the alliance or the alien race, the scale of this war will definitely be very large, and it’s possible that we’ll all be involved at that time.”
What Wang Dust wanted to tell Zhao Rongcheng was that in the case of the Empire waging an interstellar war, his preparatory plans were just like a child’s playground, they were simply worthless.
And once the war broke out, as a student of the First Military Academy, Wang Dust would most likely receive a conscription from the Ministry of the Army as well.
It was a tradition for the Imperial Army to recruit outstanding students from the First Military Academy, and many of the outstanding generals and pilots from generation to generation had joined the military during their studies.
Because the First Military Academy was the Imperial Army’s reserve pool of officers!
“War is merciless, after going to war, no one can guarantee that they will definitely come back alive.”
Wang Chen said blandly, “So I can only accept your sincerity, senior.”
Zhao Rongcheng was silent for a moment, then asked, “How did you tell?”
As the son of a duke, he hadn’t even gotten any intelligence news about this, so how did Wang Chen, as a commoner’s son, obtain confidential information?
“Just go shopping online.”
Wang Dust smiled and said, “In the last year, the price of energy blocks has been going up, the price of mutated biological products is also going up, and the materials used to produce battleships and mechs have been raised by 10% this year.”
The Empire’s technology was extremely developed, and there were many different ways to source energy, besides the traditional wind energy, stellar energy, chemical energy, geothermal energy, nuclear energy, and so on, the most important one was mineral energy.
Mineral energy mainly refers to energy blocks, the latter being an industrial product of the former!
Energy blocks were extremely stable in nature, storing an extremely high energy density, much stronger than any battery, and thus became the main power source for fighter mechs as well as some battleships.
Although energy blocks were considered strategic materials, they also circulated in large quantities in the civilian market, so the fluctuations in their prices could reflect the changes in the situation within the empire.
Wang Dust had paid some attention to this aspect, and coupled with his keen intuitive judgment, he had come to such a conclusion.
Zhao Rongcheng was dumbfounded.
Although the Empire’s First Higher Military Academy was part of the Empire’s war system, because it was located at the back of the Empire’s boundaries and far away from the frontline, the Taiwu Star in which it was located had never been invaded by a foreign enemy, and had always been very peaceful and tranquil.
Coupled with the fact that the Empire hadn’t had any major fights with the Alliance and the foreign races in recent years, the friction in the localized area passed over to this side, and had already become marginal news that not many people cared about.
Even Zhao Rongcheng himself didn’t realize in the slightest that a new war was coming.
Having gotten used to a life of ease and extravagance, one loses one’s acumen!
Zhao Rongcheng wasn’t an ordinary person after all, he didn’t get annoyed or take it out on Wang Dust because of this, but instead nodded his head and said, “Senior Wang Dust, I’ve understood what you meant, it was an oversight on my part.”
“Don’t worry, in the future, the Twin Lions Brotherhood and people like Jaster won’t harass you again, I promise!”
Wang Dust laughed, “That’s best, thank you.”
With Zhao Rongcheng’s identity, there was no possibility of taking him at his word, and saying guarantee would inevitably lead to a guarantee.
Wang Dust also didn’t want to get entangled with these people like Justice, so he accepted this favor from Zhao Rongcheng.
In the future, there will be an opportunity to return it.