Chapter 172

"Rumdrax, go set up a meeting with Count Kelpian."

"Count Kelpian?"

Something must have happened at the meeting — Cassion looked distinctly displeased by the time he returned to the Irenber mansion.

So Rumdrax would rather not have exchanged a word with him if he could avoid it, but Cassion singled him out to talk to.

"Yes. Count Kelpian. And ask Cho to look into the business he's supposedly just started, too. How's the coal business going? Is the research on converting mana stone trains to coal trains still ongoing?"

"Ah, Your Highness! One thing at a time, one thing at a time."

Rumdrax sorted through the orders and questions Cassion had poured out. That took a little while.

Cassion's fingers tapped impatiently on the desk, betraying his restlessness. Rumdrax glanced at him and sighed.

Rumdrax felt for Cassion. Cassion, who now treated sleep and meals merely as means of…