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Before making a move, the new king hid in an obscure corner to quietly develop. Otherwise, he might have been killed by his elder brother, the Grand Duke Lait.

However, it was the first time that a situation like the new king's brazenly turning Lait from a duchy into a kingdom had occurred.

This was obviously a challenge to the authority of the Farrand Kingdom, even though there were two small countries, Tal and Dilant, between the two.

However, it was believed that the royal family and nobles of Farrand would not let Lait off easily.

In the end, Krom added: "I heard about this from others. It is said that the number of the new king's troops is not even half that of Grand Duke Lait, and many soldiers do not have complete sets of weapons and equipment.

But despite this, the new king still easily defeated the Grand Duke Lait head-on and then carried out a bloody purge of the major nobles within Serbia.