Internal Struggles

Right now, Ancestor Dian Alstreim felt that he needed young talents to strengthen the family, and joining or cooperating with an external power might help them, but it might also completely swallow them. 

It was a risk, a gamble.

"Who is Conferred Queen Isabella and her Protector?" He couldn't help but muse with his knowledge of the Fifty-Two Territories but eventually shook his head.

"Sigh... According to the previous reports made by Havle Alstreim, the Conferred Queen's Protector once said that his Young Mistress would visit the Alstreim Family in due time..."

"Should I wait? Or pay them a visit myself, inadvertently lowering my status in the process?"

Ancestor Dian Alstreim ruefully laughed as his expression possessed ounces of self-mockery.

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