Chapter Twenty-Four: The Back of Eternal Glory

  "I'm afraid not. I have accepted the king's command to lead you to a destination in the eastern part of the kingdom, and it must be kept confidential. This is the rule of the kingdom. How can we let you ruin it?" Ptolemy said calmly, seemingly ignoring Buganing's impolite behavior.

  "Oh, the adults are indeed loyal to their duties." But Bugganing didn't wake up to Ptolemy's obvious tolerance of his mistakes and continued with a sarcastic tone.

  "This kid!...... is a bit too unreasonable!" Liu Yu, who had been through two lifetimes, silently cursed Bu Ga Ning for not understanding human emotions and worldly affairs. Although Tolomei looked kind and gentle, how many people who emerged from piles of dead bodies were easy to deal with?

  Furthermore, the Sobel family behind Bujaning is indeed very powerful, but Tolemmy will not be so weak as to allow a little boy like you to bully him. Besides, there is also a powerful Weilin family behind Tolemmy, how could he really fear the Sobel family?

  "Watch your words, Buganing, I am the commander and you must show respect to your superior, do you understand?!" As Liu Yu expected, no sooner had Buganing finished speaking than Tolomei's face turned cold and stern.

  But just as he uttered his last word, Buganing, who had been disdainful until then, suddenly felt the air around him become heavy, and the war horse under him seemed to have been frightened and jumped up violently, causing Buganing, who was unprepared, to fall off the horse.

  But before landing, Bu Ka Ning did a flip in the air and then supported himself with both hands on the ground, stabilizing his body. The strength of the fourth-level master was indeed not watered down at all.

  "Do you understand?" Buganing stopped one step away from Tuo Le Mi, who was again pressing closer to him, while Tuo Le Mi's severe questioning also pressed down on this young man Bi Meng.

  Bujaning's legs were sinking down, his face turned bright red and big drops of sweat appeared on his forehead. It seemed he wouldn't be able to hold on for much longer before falling over. At this time, several Bameng people not far away noticed the situation, although they didn't dare to get too close to watch, but their attention was all focused here.

  "I understand, General Dou!" Although his face was full of anger, Bu Ganing still lowered his head.

  "Hmm, respect for superiors is something every Bimon warrior must do, regardless of birth or talent. You can take a rest, just catch up with us later." Tolomei said as he urged the Warwolf to continue moving forward, ignoring Buganin who was on the verge of going berserk.

  On the other side, Liu Yu glanced at Bu Ganing and hurriedly followed him. Before he left, he found that Bu Ganing not only looked at Tolomei with hatred but also looked at him in the same way. This really made Liu Yu feel depressed, as they had no communication at ordinary times and naturally had no grievances. This time, it was a case of the city gate catching fire and the fish in the moat being affected.

  "It seems unnecessary! To have offended the Sobel family like this." Liu Yu said, catching up to Ptolemy and looking at his chubby face with a relaxed expression.

  "Offend the Sobel family?" Tolemy, riding a war wolf alongside Liu Yu, looked at him with a puzzled and slightly inquiring smile.

  "You overestimate that kid, he's just a bit more talented and has a better background, being spoiled all the time, young people don't know their place. You think the Sobel family would bother me for this little thing?" Seeing Liu Yu still didn't understand, Tolmachev explained further.

  "Even if it won't cause you trouble, this grudge is already formed, isn't that right?" However, Liu Yu didn't believe Ptolemy's explanation at all. Throughout history, both past and present, there have been many instances where a small matter led to a huge conflict.

  Liu Yu had heard that Buganing's grandfather was a powerful elder in the Beastman Kingdom, and his status was not something that Tolemmy could compare to. Even if the Weilun family protected this elder, if he deliberately wanted to make trouble for Tolemmy, this fatty would not be able to get away easily.

  "Are you afraid?" His face still wore a few degrees of smile, but Ptolemy's tone was tinged with a bit of provocation.

  "It's not that I'm afraid, it's just that I don't think it's necessary to waste energy on trivial matters." Liu Yu said, and Bu Gan Ning was naturally not intimidated by this. In terms of status, he was far superior to that young man, and in this regard, he was truly considering for Tolomei.

  "What a waste of energy! Haha...... You're still too young, you don't understand what the Sobel family is like. Do you think that relying on some geniuses, having strong martial power, and then acting arbitrarily can make a family last for tens of thousands of years, and often occupy the throne of our clan?" Liu Yu's smile of relief after seeing Tolemachev's happy smile was immediately followed by a series of rhetorical questions that left him stunned.

  "You're too naive, kid. Alright, I'll teach you a bit more today." Seeing Liu Yu stunned, he reached out to stroke his Warwolf's Tolomei smile, and his expression changed in an instant.

  "We have a longer history than the Mongols, from the imperial era of the Central Plains to the present, it has been tens of thousands of years. In these tens of thousands of years, there are countless powerful families that have risen and fallen. Just among us, after we moved to the plateau, there were dozens of powerful families that had produced kings, each with geniuses and strongmen, but how many of them still remain powerful today?"

  "Of course, it's the Wei, Di, and Suo families." Liu Yu replied with a proud expression on his face, perhaps infected by his grandfather, parents, and cousins, his sense of family honor and pride grew stronger over time, which even he himself didn't notice.

  "Hah! You're wrong, the Sobers are the undisputed first family of our clan for millennia, a fact even acknowledged by the imperial families of Fanoed, Charle and the Elves. If not for King Otto's grave mistake a hundred years ago, which greatly reduced the Sobers' influence, they would have been the top family in our clan for nearly half the time, with the rest being the stage for your two families and those already declining ones."

  "This..." Liu Yu was speechless for a moment. He still knew about these things, but people are used to thinking that where they are is the best.

  "But there has never been absolute strength or absolute weakness in this world. The Suo family is not without its weaknesses, and they also have to face the situation of fewer clan members and lack of strong people. Can you understand that?" Tolomei smiled again, naturally understanding what Liu Yu was thinking.

  "Uh-huh, I see. Either there are too many tribesmen who died in battle or there are too few male births within the family, both of which can cause the family to weaken."

  "Just like my fourth uncle, he had two daughters under his knees and this branch was cut off. If such a situation occurs frequently, some families will even disappear." The poor fertility ability indeed makes many families face the problem of interrupted inheritance.

  Thinking of this, a tall and powerful figure in black clothes appeared in Liu Yu's mind. His fourth grandfather was a late-stage ninth-level Flame Emperor who was more powerful than Montoeruo Wielin. Because his wife died early and his two daughters were married off young, the fourth grandfather refused to remarry and lived alone. Usually, he took good care of Bern, Fit, Liu Yu and other younger generations, especially Fit.

  And every time the family gathers, the two daughters are naturally at their husbands' homes. This old man seems very lonely, and Liu Yu also feels sympathetic to this old man. However, he can't help but feel helpless about this matter.

  "This is only one aspect, no one can guarantee that this family will always have strong births, the beast god cannot forever bless a family, and the Sobel family is no exception. At their weakest, they had lost most of their family territory, with only about 100-200 people and only one or two ninth-grade Dou Zuns, just one step away from falling to a third-rate family."

  But every time they fell, they were able to rise again in a very short period of time and once again become a top-notch family. Guess why."

  Liu Yu's answer indeed only mentioned one aspect, after all, no one can guarantee that every member of a large family is a highly talented genius, which is obviously impossible. Therefore, if a family has not had any outstanding talents for a long time, it will soon decline, and this is what Ptolemy said.

  "Ah!" Liu Yu was completely stumped this time. He wasn't very familiar with the history of the Sauber family, and he had no way to answer.

  "Wisdom, family rules." As soon as Ptolemy spoke the two nouns, he suddenly jumped down from the war wolf and took big strides forward. Liu Yu naturally also dismounted his war horse and followed closely behind, but Ptolemy didn't give Liu Yu a chance to speak before starting to talk on his own initiative.

  "The ancestor of the Suo family established a set of rules for the whole family, which is actually very simple, that is, to be humble and courteous to others, loyal to the family, and to prioritize the overall situation. I think your family also has similar rules, right? And you should have seen them too."

  "Hmm! When I was very young, my father taught me to be humble and courteous to others, not to abuse power, and not to punish servants without reason. These were all part of our family rules." Liu Yu recalled that when he was six or seven years old, his father Ge Ai had indeed taken the time to teach him about their family rules.

  "You've learned well, the family rules of the Weilin family were also learned from the Suoer family, and so was the Dila family." However, Tolemy's next sentence made Liu Yu pause, he didn't expect that the family rules of these three big families had such a connection.

  "These family rules are easy to say but hard to do, but the Sobers did it. Their children are recognized as the most aristocratic among the Mongols. In private matters, they put their family first; in major events, they put the country first. Therefore, they won the respect of their servants, affiliated families, and even their old rivals, Weilin and Dila."

  When they faced a complete decline crisis several times, the other two major families pulled them through, even if it meant that the Sobel family would rise again and compete with them.

  This is also why our Beastman Kingdom has been able to overcome the crisis of facing the Fano army's invasion many times, because although the three major families have never stopped competing with each other, they have always been united in their consideration for the entire kingdom. Among them, the Sobel family is recognized as the leading family.

  To put it bluntly, true nobility is not obtained through powerful military force to gain temporary power and status, but rather through wisdom to achieve true dignity in character combined with one's own strength, even if temporarily losing power, can still rise again.

  Ptolemy seemed to pause for a moment, as if to let Liu Yu digest what he had just heard.